NBC Nightly News - 2006-11-25

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[0:21] >> Is this civil war? More violence at the

[0:24] end of one of Iraq's bloodiest weeks as

[0:26] leaders scramble to stop the fighting.

[0:30] The numbers are in with holiday shopping

[0:32] in high gear. Was this Black Friday

[0:35] better than ever?

[0:37] Spy Trail, tracking down the source of

[0:39] the poison that killed an XKGB agent.

[0:43] And for the birds, the big business of

[0:46] watching our feathered friends.

[0:52] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:55] York, this is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:59] Seanthaler.

[1:00] >> Good evening everyone. We begin tonight

[1:02] with the war in Iraq and new violence

[1:04] there despite a curfew. An American

[1:06] soldier was killed today along with at

[1:08] least 24 Iraqis. This has been a bloody

[1:11] week and the latest attacks have put new

[1:13] pressure on Iraq's leaders to come up

[1:14] with a way to solve their security

[1:16] problems. But a new troubling report out

[1:19] tonight indicates that insurgents now

[1:21] have the money to continue their fight

[1:23] against the US and Iraqi forces. We have

[1:25] two reports tonight, beginning with

[1:27] NBC's Tom Aspel in Baghdad.

[1:32] Baghdad under strict curfew today. All

[1:35] traffic banned from the streets. Only

[1:37] Iraqi security patrols to stop Sunnile

[1:40] insurgents from attacking Shiites and

[1:42] Shiite militia men taking revenge on

[1:44] Sunni civilians. Many fear the militias

[1:47] are getting ready for allout civil war.

[1:49] >> If they're not absolutely ready at the

[1:52] moment, one fears that they're going to

[1:54] be ready in a few weeks time.

[1:56] >> In Diala Province today, Iraqi police

[1:59] said they'd recovered the bodies of 21

[2:01] Shiite men from one extended family,

[2:04] dragged from their homes and shot by

[2:06] Sunnis dressed in Iraqi army uniforms.

[2:10] Nearly 4,000 Iraqis are killed in

[2:13] sectarian violence here every month. A

[2:15] murderous trend which escalated

[2:17] dramatically in February after Sunnile

[2:20] led insurgents bombed a sacred Shiite

[2:22] mosque in Samara.

[2:25] In Sard City in East Baghdad on

[2:27] Thursday, car bombs and mortars ripped

[2:30] through crowds, killing more than 200.

[2:32] It was Baghdad's worst ever terror

[2:35] attack. Many Iraqis blame American

[2:37] troops for not stopping the violence.

[2:40] Some Shiite members of parliament,

[2:42] followers of radical cleric Mcktard

[2:44] al-Sada, say they'll quit if Prime

[2:47] Minister Nuriel Maliki meets President

[2:49] Bush in Jordan next week, threatening to

[2:51] bring down Iraq's fragile coalition

[2:54] government. Some Iraqis say a change in

[2:56] government might be a good thing. A US

[2:59] government report obtained by the New

[3:00] York Times says corruption along with

[3:03] oil smuggling and kidnapping for ransom

[3:05] may be sustaining insurgents fighting

[3:07] American soldiers. providing up to $200

[3:10] million a year. Tonight, the government

[3:13] says the curfew will be lifted on Monday

[3:15] morning. Many Iraqis are afraid the

[3:17] violence here will resume soon after

[3:19] that. Tom Asfel, NBC News, Baghdad.

[3:23] >> There's also this question, has the

[3:25] conflict in Iraq now become a

[3:27] full-fledged civil war? NBC's Kevin Cork

[3:30] joins us tonight from the White House

[3:31] with the latest. Good evening, Kevin.

[3:33] >> John, good evening to you. as the

[3:34] president prepares for his trip to Aman

[3:36] next week. Today, the vice president

[3:38] traveled all the way to Saudi Arabia for

[3:40] a meeting that lasted just a few hours.

[3:43] A clear sign of the growing concerns

[3:45] among some leaders in that part of the

[3:46] world and here in Washington as well.

[3:50] The vice president's brief trip to Saudi

[3:52] Arabia to meet with King Abdullah

[3:54] underscores the administration's urgent

[3:56] efforts to get help stemming the

[3:58] violence in Iraq. Mr. Cheni's trek comes

[4:00] just days before the president's own

[4:02] meeting in Jordan with Iraqi Prime

[4:04] Minister Maliki.

[4:05] >> That's an opportunity for the United

[4:07] States if we are able to embrace it. It

[4:10] does involve talking to some people that

[4:11] we don't like very much, but the reality

[4:13] is that at this moment we all have a

[4:16] common interest in working together to

[4:19] find a solution. Against that backdrop,

[4:21] the president will likely pressure

[4:23] Iraq's leaders to do more to end the

[4:25] sectarian killing. But is it a civil

[4:27] war? The term is now used with

[4:29] increasing frequency, including today's

[4:31] LA Times, and by politicians and pundits

[4:34] alike.

[4:35] >> Iraq has devolved into a civil war. Make

[4:37] no mistake about it, there is a civil

[4:39] war ongoing right now in Iraq.

[4:42] >> But it's an expression you won't hear

[4:43] used at the White House.

[4:45] >> Sectarian violence, chaos, and havoc,

[4:47] national sectarian incidents.

[4:48] >> The president has emphatically rejected

[4:50] the term. You

[4:51] >> hear all the time, well, this is maybe a

[4:52] civil war. Well, I don't believe it is,

[4:54] and the Malake government doesn't

[4:56] believe it is. Experts say there's a

[4:58] reason for the administration stance.

[5:00] >> If they end up being the referee in a

[5:03] civil war, it looks like the kind of

[5:05] situation that is precisely what they

[5:07] didn't want to be in. When you say that

[5:09] there's a civil war, it indicates that

[5:12] you have lost control of the security

[5:13] situation. And neither the White House

[5:16] nor in fact the central government of

[5:18] Iraq wants to admit that they've lost

[5:20] control of the security situation. The

[5:23] Bush administration says there's no

[5:24] civil war in Iraq because the waring

[5:27] factions are killing indiscriminately,

[5:29] not with a clearly stated political

[5:31] goal, such as leading the country. But

[5:33] as the semantic debate continues, so

[5:35] does the violence and the efforts to

[5:37] find solutions.

[5:40] Prime Minister El Maliki not the only

[5:42] one facing increasing pressure to show

[5:44] progress in Iraq. President Bush facing

[5:46] pressure here at home, especially from

[5:48] an increasingly impatient Democratic

[5:50] Congress. Today in their Democratic

[5:52] response to his radio address, Stenny

[5:53] Hoyer said, "America's commitment, while

[5:55] great in Iraq, is not unending." John

[5:59] >> NBC's Kevin Cork at the White House

[6:00] tonight. Kevin, thank you. And tomorrow

[6:02] on Meet the Press, Tim Russard will

[6:04] discuss the very latest with the leaders

[6:05] of the House Armed Services Committee

[6:07] and retired generals Barry McAffrey and

[6:10] Wayne Downing. Plus, an exclusive

[6:12] interview with newly reelected

[6:13] Republican Governor Arnold

[6:14] Schwarzenegger of California. Two more

[6:17] items of note from the Middle East

[6:19] tonight. Israeli and Palestinians agreed

[6:21] today to a ceasefire in Gaza that will

[6:24] go into effect tomorrow morning.

[6:26] Palestinian President Makmoud Abbas said

[6:28] he received assurances from various

[6:30] factions that they would stop firing

[6:32] rockets into Israel. Those rocket

[6:34] attacks prompted a fivemonlong military

[6:37] offensive by Israel. And in Lebanon, the

[6:40] government has decided on a

[6:42] controversial plan for a special

[6:43] tribunal. The Lebanese cabinet today

[6:46] approved a court to try suspects in the

[6:48] assassination two years ago of former

[6:51] Prime Minister Rafi Al- Harreri. The

[6:53] move comes despite warnings from the

[6:55] pro-Syrian Hezbollah opposition

[6:57] threatening mass protests and new

[6:59] violence.

[7:01] >> Here at home, this is known as the

[7:02] biggest shopping weekend of the year.

[7:05] And if you're counting, there are 30

[7:06] days left until Christmas. Tonight,

[7:08] we're getting the first real signs of

[7:10] how much shoppers are spending this

[7:11] year, what it means for retailers. NBC's

[7:14] Rahea Alice joins us tonight from New

[7:16] York City with that story. Good evening,

[7:17] Raheima.

[7:18] >> Good evening, John. The numbers do

[7:20] suggest that retailers may be getting

[7:22] ahead of the game, which plays to what

[7:24] one analyst told us, and that is holiday

[7:27] shopping has turned into a kind of

[7:28] national sport for some

[7:32] dashing through the doors in an anxious

[7:34] frenzy.

[7:37] On Black Friday across the country,

[7:39] bargain hunters falling for pre-dawn

[7:42] doorbuster sales. Now the early results

[7:44] are in and retailers efforts seem to

[7:47] have paid off. Spending was up a solid

[7:50] 6% over Black Friday last year.

[7:53] Estimates show more than $ 8.9 billion

[7:56] were spent in one day.

[7:57] >> Then you have the flashlights in the

[7:59] back. important for the retail industry

[8:02] which counts on holiday shoppers for up

[8:04] to 40% of its annual sales.

[8:07] >> I think we're feeling very happy right

[8:08] now.

[8:10] >> What boosted the numbers for retailers?

[8:13] >> We saw more quantity of product

[8:15] advertised the use of circulars,

[8:17] television, and all kinds of media.

[8:19] >> TVs must go. Flat screen TVs, digital

[8:23] cameras, MP3 players,

[8:27] and TMX Elmo are hot items.

[8:30] >> I've made two trips to the car already

[8:32] to put bags in the car. Yeah.

[8:34] >> This year, analysts forecast big numbers

[8:37] for online shopping, too. Incentives

[8:39] like sales and free shipping are

[8:42] expected to attract 115 million people

[8:45] to spend 27 billion, a 23% increase from

[8:49] last year. The question now, will the

[8:52] sales numbers spike on Cyber Monday when

[8:55] people go back to work and shop online

[8:58] from their desks?

[8:59] >> Cyber Monday hasn't lived up to the hype

[9:00] in the past, but this year it could be

[9:02] even better. A lot of these retailers

[9:04] are targeting at work shoppers hoping to

[9:06] lure them with all sorts of deals,

[9:08] promotions.

[9:09] >> So far, early numbers suggest buyers and

[9:11] retailers may both get something they

[9:13] want.

[9:15] Another hot item, gift cards. Analysts

[9:17] say over 50% of consumers plan on

[9:20] purchasing gift cards this season, which

[9:23] may ensure more people will actually get

[9:25] what they want. John,

[9:27] >> NBC's Rahea Alice in New York tonight.

[9:29] Raheima, thanks. One of the hottest

[9:31] items this year is the flat screen HD

[9:33] TV. Prices have fallen dramatically just

[9:36] in the past few years. In 2005, 6

[9:39] million American households own them.

[9:42] This year, more than 10 million

[9:43] households are projected to have them.

[9:45] So, if you're buying a new flat screen

[9:48] HD TV, what do you need to know? We

[9:50] asked Joe Lazio, a senior analyst for

[9:52] Jupiter Research for guidance in his own

[9:54] words.

[9:57] We've seen dramatic declines in the cost

[9:59] of flat screen TVs, high definitionition

[10:01] TVs in the last few years. Nowadays,

[10:04] they're much better at at at making

[10:05] them. So that the supply has gone up and

[10:07] as a result, prices have come down.

[10:09] >> Click on the icon like your computer and

[10:11] it goes to it.

[10:12] >> You have two very different

[10:13] technologies, plasma TVs and LCD TVs

[10:16] available to you.

[10:17] >> Go larger if you want.

[10:18] >> I would say let size decide which

[10:20] technology you want. If you're in the

[10:22] market for a smaller TV for a small

[10:24] living room or the bedroom, then an LCD

[10:26] TV is probably the most cost effective

[10:28] choice. Whereas, if you're looking for

[10:29] the biggest screen possible, then

[10:31] plasmas are really still the way to go.

[10:33] Make sure that you can get good

[10:34] programming for your HD TV. Give your

[10:37] cable operator a call. Find out what the

[10:39] highdeinition channel lineup is and and

[10:41] where you can find it. When you're

[10:42] talking to the salesperson in the store,

[10:44] you get the cables and any other

[10:46] accessories you might need to make sure

[10:48] that the minute you get it home, you can

[10:49] set your HD TV up. We're definitely a

[10:52] long way from the day when the only

[10:53] thing you needed to think about when

[10:54] you're buying a TV is color or black and

[10:57] white and and how big it is. It's a

[10:58] little more complicated than that these

[11:00] days.

[11:02] >> Now, from London, security officials are

[11:04] still trying to unravel the mystery of

[11:06] who poisoned a former Russian spy. Part

[11:09] of the complex puzzle, the poison used

[11:12] was a radioactive element so deadly

[11:15] investigators don't know how it could

[11:16] have been obtained or even handled to

[11:18] carry out a murder in public. NBC's

[11:21] Michelle Kosinski has the latest from

[11:23] London.

[11:26] >> British investigators spend all day in

[11:28] three key locations around London. A

[11:31] house, a hotel, and a restaurant looking

[11:33] for more clues in the mysterious

[11:35] poisoning of former KGB agent Alexander

[11:38] Lipenko. Earlier this month, as health

[11:40] officials urged anyone who was in those

[11:42] places then to call a special hotline,

[11:45] Belinda Kent Lemon realized she was at

[11:47] the same restaurant on the same day as

[11:49] Lithenko.

[11:50] >> Because I hadn't got any symptoms, there

[11:52] really wasn't anything they could do for

[11:54] me.

[11:54] >> Symptoms of poisoning from the extremely

[11:57] rare and radioactive isotope palonium

[12:00] 210. To the public, it's disturbing that

[12:03] this highly radioactive material somehow

[12:05] got into London. It may have been used

[12:07] on Lithenko at this popular Piccadilly

[12:09] sushi restaurant. Radioactivity was

[12:11] detected inside yesterday, 3 weeks after

[12:15] Litman Yenko was here. It would have

[12:17] taken only a microscopic speck of

[12:20] palonium 210 to ravage and kill him.

[12:23] >> Palonium is an incredibly potent poison.

[12:26] It is uh 100,000 million times more

[12:31] toxic than cyanide.

[12:33] >> But investigators say for someone to

[12:35] obtain even that amount would have

[12:36] required access to a nuclear facility.

[12:39] Palonium is so radioactive, scientists

[12:41] say if you were able to gather enough to

[12:43] be able to see it, it would glow blue. A

[12:47] gram on its own produces enough energy

[12:49] to top 900°. Under an electron

[12:52] microscope, you can see the charged

[12:54] particles it emits. We've got no idea

[12:56] what the chemical form was that that was

[12:59] used in this in this instance.

[13:01] Obviously, all all chemicals can have a

[13:02] huge variety of chemical forms. British

[13:05] tabloids speculate about pelonium

[13:07] possibly sprayed on sushi or slipped

[13:09] into a cup of tea. A real life spy drama

[13:13] playing out on London streets. Michelle

[13:15] Kosinski, NBC News, London.

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[16:06] >> NBC News in depth tonight. A new player

[16:08] in international news. Al Jazzer

[16:11] English. It made its debut earlier this

[16:13] month with the intention of bringing a

[16:15] different perspective to an

[16:16] English-speaking audience. But this

[16:19] version of the controversial network

[16:20] Alazer is already facing a challenge

[16:22] finding a broadcast home and viewers

[16:25] here in the states.

[16:28] This is Al Jazer's new English language

[16:30] channel with the face of American

[16:32] journalist Dave Merrick. Six explosive

[16:35] devices thrown inside the

[16:37] >> but this is the alazer most Americans

[16:39] are familiar with a network widely

[16:41] viewed as a mouthpiece for Osama bin

[16:44] Laden often first to broadcast al-Qaeda

[16:47] threats and anti-American propaganda

[16:50] it's frequently denounced by the US

[16:53] government

[16:53] >> what El Jazera is doing is vicious

[16:57] inaccurate and inexcusable

[17:00] >> so polarizing that one conservative

[17:03] watchdog group called Accuracy and Media

[17:06] has even launched this website dedicated

[17:08] to shutting Alazer down with its new

[17:11] English language channel. Alazer hopes

[17:14] to change that negative perception in

[17:16] the US. Wada Kanfar is the network's

[17:20] director general based at its

[17:21] headquarters in Doha.

[17:23] >> Alazer is an institution of journalism

[17:26] that has started to go beyond the Arab

[17:31] region. The new channel debuted 10 days

[17:34] ago, but you'd be hardressed to find it

[17:36] on cable in the US. No major American

[17:40] cable companies carry it. It's only

[17:42] available on one satellite network,

[17:44] although it is streamed live on the

[17:46] internet. Alazer's perception problem is

[17:49] one that former Secretary of Defense

[17:51] William Cohen thinks will be difficult

[17:53] for American viewers to overcome. I

[17:56] think it'll face the question of bias as

[17:58] to whether they're presenting the news

[18:00] or whether they're slanting the news.

[18:02] >> And that is Canfar's biggest challenge

[18:04] as he tries to fill what he calls a void

[18:06] in Arab news in the US.

[18:09] >> It is a matter of vacuum, a gap in the

[18:12] market that we are trying to fill. The

[18:14] the gap that I see is is another

[18:17] perspective about news. That other

[18:21] perspective will come from journalists

[18:23] like Dave Marish, one of a handful of

[18:25] Americans working for the new network.

[18:28] >> I earnestly hope that Americans will

[18:30] have the curiosity to find out and I'm

[18:33] pretty convinced

[18:34] um that they're going to be very

[18:37] interested um and very pleased by what

[18:40] they see.

[18:42] >> The combined networks of Alazer reach 80

[18:44] million households around the world.

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[21:13] looking at immigration in this country.

[21:15] Who's America? Tonight, a look at how

[21:17] one immigrant community is working

[21:19] together to find economic success and is

[21:22] thriving. Here's NBC's Kevin Tibbles.

[21:26] In this nation of immigrants, each new

[21:28] wave leaves its indelible mark. Today,

[21:31] more than 50% of America's immigrant

[21:34] population is Hispanic,

[21:36] a dynamic economic force.

[21:38] >> We discovered that the Hispanic

[21:41] community was growing really fast.

[21:43] That's why we decided

[21:45] >> just 3 months ago, Joanne Elmansar and

[21:47] her partners pulled their savings and

[21:49] moved from New Jersey to Denver, where

[21:51] Hispanics now make up 35% of the

[21:54] population. They're wholesale food

[21:56] distributors. Hispanic specialties sold

[21:58] to small family-owned markets whose

[22:01] owners pay in cash and speak Spanish.

[22:03] >> The money is there to make and a lot of

[22:05] products. We have a lot of product to

[22:07] sell.

[22:08] >> New Hispanic businesses like Bandaraas

[22:10] Unidas are growing at three times the

[22:12] national rate.

[22:13] >> They're very entrepreneurial and start

[22:15] businesses. It's not just the cleaning

[22:16] businesses and the uh restaurants. It's

[22:20] it's far more than that. Now,

[22:23] >> last year, advertisers spent more than

[22:25] $3 billion catering to a market expected

[22:28] to pump a trillion dollars a year into

[22:31] the economy by the end of the decade.

[22:33] Even the banks have caught on to this

[22:34] growth in Hispanic commerce. Here in

[22:37] Chicago's Little Village neighborhood,

[22:38] there used to be just one bank. Today,

[22:41] there are eight. Mario and his family,

[22:43] who don't want their real names used,

[22:46] came illegally from Mexico a decade ago.

[22:48] And even though they remain

[22:49] undocumented, they were able to buy a

[22:52] home.

[22:54] >> It's very important for us as Latinos to

[22:56] provide a safe place for our families.

[22:58] It's in our culture.

[23:00] >> With a steady job, good credit history,

[23:02] and an IRS issued tax ID number, Mario

[23:05] was able to qualify for a mortgage. In

[23:08] just four years, Chicago's second

[23:10] federal savings has loaned more than $90

[23:12] million to undocumented home buyers.

[23:15] >> They take care of their home. go to the

[23:17] churches, the schools. I mean, it it

[23:19] just solidifies the uh the community.

[23:22] >> A community that is fast becoming a

[23:24] significant contributor to the American

[23:27] economy.

[23:28] >> Kevin Tibbles, NBC News, Chicago.

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[23:35] One passenger on a helicopter flight

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[23:48] When NBC Nightly News returns this

[23:50] Saturday, birds of a feather, how more

[23:52] and more Americans are turning to bird

[23:54] watching and turning it into a big

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[26:28] Monday.

[26:30] Finally tonight, it's not your parents

[26:32] bird watching. Birding is now big

[26:35] business. A passion for millions hoping

[26:37] to c catch a glimpse or a snap of

[26:40] picture of something fleeting and rare.

[26:42] Here's CNBC's Jim Goldman.

[26:46] We saw it in the film Winged Migration.

[26:48] A bird's eyee view into a world

[26:50] captivating mankind through the ages. A

[26:53] fascination with a life form that does

[26:55] something the rest of us simply can't.

[26:57] Fly.

[26:59] These tiny creatures that weigh a few

[27:00] ounces and they travel halfway around

[27:02] the world every year.

[27:03] >> And the birding business, well, it's

[27:05] soaring. The government identifies 46

[27:07] million Americans as burers, spending

[27:09] more than $40 billion annually on

[27:12] everything from travel and equipment to

[27:14] backyard bird seed. While some burers

[27:17] are famous, Treasury Secretary Hank

[27:19] Pollson, First Lady Laura Bush, even pop

[27:22] music queen Britney Spears, many are

[27:24] just urban baby boomers dying to get out

[27:26] of the office. And I love taking

[27:28] pictures of birds doing different

[27:30] things. To me, that's it's fun.

[27:32] >> From coast to coast, the beauty of these

[27:34] creatures draws bird lovers to beaches,

[27:36] forests, urban parks like this one. All

[27:39] of them hoping to catch a glimpse of a

[27:40] bird they've never seen before. Look up.

[27:43] I mean, there's there's birds

[27:44] everywhere. Um there's red tail hawks

[27:46] overhead right now. Cooper hawks, red

[27:47] shouldered hawks.

[27:49] >> Fanatic burers spend big bucks. Stanford

[27:52] University law professor Tom Gray at

[27:54] least sheld out $12,000 on photographic

[27:57] equipment alone.

[27:58] >> Oh, it's a thrill. It's a real thrill.

[28:00] It's a thrill to the moment you kick the

[28:02] camera cuz you're pretty sure you got a

[28:03] good one. I can um post it on the

[28:07] internet

[28:08] >> or compare his images to the birding

[28:10] world's gold standard, the intricate

[28:12] illustrations from author David Allen

[28:14] Sibi.

[28:15] >> One of the great things about bird

[28:16] watching is that you can really do it

[28:18] anywhere. Venture capitalist Wden Curry

[28:21] travels the world looking for rare

[28:22] birds. The toad in Cuba, laughing cucur

[28:26] in Australia, and the roller in India.

[28:29] >> Now I'm trying to see a representative

[28:32] of every family of birds in the world.

[28:36] >> And with over 200 bird families around

[28:38] the world from up there or down here, he

[28:41] and millions of birders have their work

[28:43] cut out for them. Jim Goldman for NBC

[28:46] News, PaloAlto, California.

[28:49] And that's NBC Nightly News for this

[28:50] Saturday. Thanks for watching. I'm John

[28:52] Sigenthaler reporting from New York.

[28:54] I'll see you back here tomorrow night.

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