CBS Evening News - 1999-12-21
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[0:00] about spring play and music.
[0:02] >> John Travolta's new movie and Oscar de
[0:04] la Hoya singing on ET.
[0:10] >> Preparing for the worst. The CIA
[0:12] believes of Bin Laden terror attack for
[0:14] New Year's is now likely. The US
[0:17] tightens security and prepares to
[0:19] respond. A Caribbean catastrophe.
[0:23] Devastating floods and mudslides take
[0:25] the lives and homes of thousands in
[0:27] Venezuela. And is it the end of the
[0:30] millennium or the end of time? Bob Simon
[0:34] tonight from the Holy Land.
[0:40] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:44] Rather.
[0:46] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm
[0:48] John Roberts. Amid new fears the
[0:50] millennium could end with a bang,
[0:52] security is being tightened at US
[0:54] airports and border crossings. Tonight,
[0:56] a few suspects are already under arrest,
[0:59] including a dozen associates of
[1:01] terrorist financeier Osama bin Laden in
[1:04] Jordan. But CBS News national security
[1:06] correspondent David Martin has exclusive
[1:09] word tonight that US intelligence
[1:11] believes many more terrorists are still
[1:13] out there and dangerous.
[1:16] Despite all the arrests of suspected
[1:18] members of Osama bin Laden's terror
[1:20] network, the latest CIA assessment still
[1:23] says a terrorist attack by bin Laden
[1:25] over New Year's is quote likely. Another
[1:28] intelligence agency, the Pentagon's
[1:30] Defense Intelligence Agency, rates the
[1:33] overall terrorist threat as high.
[1:35] Military units trained to deal with
[1:37] chemical and biological attacks have
[1:39] been told to be prepared to move on
[1:41] short notice, and military aircraft have
[1:43] been set aside to fly FBI agents to the
[1:46] scene of any terrorist attack. Right
[1:48] no