CBS Evening News - 2001-10-18
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[0:02] available at Fred
[0:04] Meyer. Diane Sawyer, true Barammore, and
[0:07] friends
[0:11] XDT. The anthrax drag net. Investigators
[0:15] say they're closing in on the location
[0:17] where two anthrax letters may have been
[0:19] mailed. And there two new cases of the
[0:22] disease at a New Jersey post office and
[0:24] at CBS News in New York. US forces say
[0:27] they're hitting their targets in
[0:29] Afghanistan. But can they break up the
[0:31] Taliban and Eye on America? A new
[0:34] challenge for the postal service,
[0:36] protecting their workers and
[0:41] [Music]
[0:43] you. This is the CBS Evening News with
[0:47] Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:50] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:53] Two more cases of anthrax were confirmed
[0:55] today. both of them women. One works at
[0:57] a New Jersey post office that handled
[0:59] two letters containing anthrax. The
[1:02] other works in my office as my assistant
[1:04] here at CBS News in New York. Both women
[1:07] contracted skin anthrax. Both are being
[1:10] treated and doing well. The source of
[1:12] the anthrax at CBS has not been
[1:14] determined, but we are now the third
[1:16] major television network news
[1:18] organization to be targeted, and it
[1:20] brings to six the number of people
[1:22] diagnosed with anthrax this month. As
[1:25] for who may be behind all this, CBS's
[1:27] Jim Stewart has the latest tonight on
[1:29] the investigation.
[1:31] More and more, all of the recent anthrax
[1:33] outbreaks are starting to look like the
[1:35] work of the same person or persons.
[1:38] Investigators now say the same type of
[1:40] anthrax 4 seen in the first case
[1:42] discovered in Florida was also in the
[1:44] letter sent to NBC headquarters and the
[1:47] one sent to Senator