CBS Evening News - 2001-10-22
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[0:00] [Applause]
[0:01] Diane Sawyer and Dr. Phil and the stars
[0:03] wedding next.
[0:08] Casualties on the home warf front. Two
[0:11] postal workers are dead. US officials
[0:14] say anthrax almost certainly the cause.
[0:17] Did more tainted letters enter the
[0:19] postal system? The US commando raid.
[0:22] What it was? and a frontline exclusive
[0:25] report on the Allied air attack that
[0:28] apparently hit the wrong side.
[0:30] A warning about the risks of fighting a
[0:33] ground war in Afghanistan. And the
[0:36] military casualty count begins in the
[0:39] war against
[0:40] [Music]
[0:45] terror. This is the CBS Evening News
[0:48] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:51] headquarters in New York.
[0:53] Good evening. The number of deaths in
[0:56] America from inhaled anthrax has most
[0:58] likely risen to three. Besides the
[1:01] previously known death of a Florida
[1:03] newspaper employee, US health officials
[1:05] now say all signs indicate two
[1:08] Washington DC area postal workers have
[1:11] died of the disease. Both worked at a
[1:14] postal facility that services Capitol
[1:16] Hill. And there are questions now about
[1:18] whether the government has in fact moved
[1:21] wisely, aggressively, and quickly to
[1:23] protect postal workers and the public
[1:26] from anthrax assassination attempts.
[1:29] CBS's Bob Schiffer begins our coverage.
[1:31] Bob. Well, Dan, the news here just seems
[1:34] to get worse as you report. Two workers
[1:36] at the postal facility that receives
[1:39] congressional mail have died. Two others
[1:42] there have confirmed inhalation anthrax
[1:45] and nine others at that facility are
[1:47] suspected of having it.
[1:50] At the White House, the new director of
[1:51] Homeland Security said anthrax almost