NBC Nightly News - 2002-01-12

Name: NBC Nightly News - 2002-01-12
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[0:00] One Saturday night news, Northwest News

[0:03] Channel 8, where the news comes first.

[0:13] The Enron collapse. The investigation

[0:16] heats up. Were Enron employees and

[0:18] investors misled?

[0:20] >> Some very serious things happen with

[0:22] Enron.

[0:24] >> War on terror. The Marines recover and

[0:26] honor those killed this week. While

[0:28] Afghanistan asked for $45 billion to

[0:31] rebuild

[0:33] in depth, the testing debate, the

[0:35] superintendent who targeted the youngest

[0:37] kids to make the grade.

[0:39] >> I chose to do what I call educational

[0:41] triage. I had three dying patients. I

[0:44] concentrated on the youngest.

[0:46] >> Home of the brave, a forgotten hero, and

[0:48] the battle to honor him. Almost 75 years

[0:51] after his death,

[0:52] >> there has been a great wrong done in

[0:56] history.

[0:59] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[1:02] York, this is NBC Nightly News with John

[1:06] Seanthaler. Substituting tonight, Lester

[1:10] Hol. And good evening everyone. Congress

[1:13] tonight is arming itself with new

[1:14] evidence in the Enron investigation. A

[1:17] five-month-old email from the company's

[1:18] chairman has tonight become central to

[1:20] the question of whether company

[1:22] executives misled employees about

[1:25] Enron's true financial shape. Employees

[1:27] may have lost billions in retirement

[1:29] savings when Enron collapsed. NBC's Nora

[1:32] O'Donnell is at the White House now with

[1:34] more. Nora, good evening, Lester.

[1:36] Tonight, as Congress prepares to launch

[1:38] a full-scale investigation into the

[1:40] largest bankruptcy in US history, they

[1:42] are asking new questions about Enron's

[1:45] activities as it spiraled toward

[1:47] collapse.

[1:50] On Capitol Hill, investigators