NBC Nightly News - 2001-08-21
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[0:00] Now, um
[0:01] a 50% greater risk of heart attack.
[0:04] In-depth Big Mac attack, stunning news
[0:07] tonight about that popular McDonald's
[0:08] Monopoly game. The FBI says it has
[0:11] stopped a multi-million dollar ring that
[0:13] rigged the big money giveaway.
[0:15] And the investigation, the final report
[0:17] out tonight on Dale Earnhardt's death.
[0:19] Will it make racing safer? Plus, when
[0:22] work means driving 200 miles an hour,
[0:24] how NASCAR families deal with the danger
[0:26] that could take away so much, so fast.
[0:32] From NBC News world headquarters in New
[0:35] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:38] Brokaw. Substituting tonight, Brian
[0:42] Williams.
[0:43] Good evening. He is the only man alive
[0:45] tonight with an artificial heart beating
[0:47] inside him, and tonight we get to hear
[0:49] from him about how his life was saved.
[0:52] Back in 1982, Barney Clark became a
[0:55] household name when he received the very
[0:57] first artificial heart. Now, 59-year-old
[1:00] Robert Tools, the recipient of the first
[1:03] totally self-contained artificial heart,
[1:05] has spoken and from the heart and with
[1:08] great emotion after walking in under his
[1:10] own power to take questions from the
[1:12] media. Our report tonight from NBC News
[1:14] correspondent Fred Francis in
[1:16] Louisville.
[1:18] In a dramatic moment for medicine, the
[1:19] world met Robert Tools today.
[1:23] His identity a mystery for 50 days, his
[1:26] survival in doubt, too. Greeted as a
[1:28] hero at the Jewish Hospital at the
[1:30] University of Louisville.
[1:32] Tools delighted with his 2-lb titanium
[1:35] and plastic heart. He said, "Dying was
[1:38] not an option." I have a choice. I can
[1:40] sit at home and die, or come h