CBS Evening News - 1999-08-17

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[0:03] A race against time. Rescue workers in

[0:05] Turkey search frantically for survivors

[0:08] of a massive earthquake that has taken

[0:10] thousands of lives. New questions

[0:13] tonight about a possible link between

[0:15] breast cancer and a common virus. And

[0:18] eye on America. The government gets

[0:20] ready for the Y2K dash for cash.

[0:27] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:32] Rather.

[0:34] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:35] Bob Schaefer. There is utter devastation

[0:38] in western Turkey tonight after one of

[0:40] the most powerful earthquakes anywhere

[0:42] in the past 20 years. Magnitude possibly

[0:45] as high as 7.8 on the RTER scale. A

[0:49] forensic digging for buried survivors

[0:51] goes on at this hour. The quake centered

[0:53] east of Istanbul and it struck before

[0:56] dawn as most people were sleeping. More

[0:58] than 2,000 are dead. At least many

[1:02] thousands are missing. CBS News

[1:04] correspondent Alan Pizzy is on the

[1:06] scene.

[1:08] >> Within minutes of the massive shock,

[1:10] survivors were desperately scrambling to

[1:12] save those trapped.

[1:15] >> Entire buildings were reduced to pancake

[1:17] slabs of concrete with little more than

[1:19] sheer willpower to move them.

[1:22] From one building, a sign of life and a

[1:24] glass of water to keep it going. And

[1:27] what seemed to be miracles. This woman

[1:29] appeared dead. Then she blinked.

[1:33] A teenage girl managed to make herself

[1:36] small enough not to be crushed and was

[1:38] saved. So many more were not. When dawn

[1:42] broke, the massive extent of the quake

[1:44] became evident. In the town of Gchuk,

[1:46] entire neighborhoods were destroyed. The

[1:49] mayor claimed as many as 500 buildings

[1:51] have collapsed and feared as many as

[1:53] 10,000 dead and missing. Bulldozers work

[1:56] non-stop, but there were simply not

[1:58] enough to do the job. Doctors were

[2:00] overwhelmed. Streets became emergency

[2:03] clinics. And throughout the horror of

[2:05] the day, more miracles. This man, unable

[2:08] to move, waited to be rescued.

[2:12] Dusty but alive, a tiny baby was

[2:14] reunited with his father.

[2:18] Among the lucky ones was US energy

[2:19] secretary Bill Richardson.

[2:21] >> That it was a terrifying feeling. 45

[2:24] seconds dramatic shaking, but we feel

[2:27] for the people of Turkey. There's a huge

[2:30] tragedy here.

[2:32] >> American tourists agreed with that.

[2:34] >> And we were scared, very scared, but we

[2:36] didn't know what to do or where to go.

[2:39] So, we just hung on to each other and it

[2:42] was over with.

[2:43] >> And some knew nothing at all. This baby

[2:46] was born an hour and a half before the

[2:47] quake struck. Her family fled the

[2:49] hospital with her. And this is the scene

[2:52] in Istanbul tonight. In every available

[2:54] open park and open space, tens of

[2:57] thousands of people are camping out.

[2:59] They fled here after the big quake. And

[3:01] over the course of the day, there have

[3:02] been at least six aftershocks. What they

[3:05] fear is another big one tonight. Alan

[3:07] Pizzy, CBS News, Istanbul.

[3:11] President Clinton offered American aid

[3:13] to Turkey, who is a NATO ally, of

[3:15] course, and ordered the US military in

[3:16] Europe to help any way that it can. Also

[3:19] rushing to the disaster scene to help

[3:21] find survivors, an elite Virginiaiabased

[3:24] 70 member search and rescue team with

[3:27] five specially trained dogs. In

[3:30] earthquakeprone California, scientists

[3:32] are now using ground sensors and

[3:34] satellites in hope that someday they'll

[3:36] be able to predict where and when major

[3:39] earthquakes may strike next. CBS News

[3:42] correspondent Sandra Hughes has that

[3:44] part of the story.

[3:46] >> The images strike fear into anyone who

[3:49] lives near an earthquake fault zone. But

[3:51] what's even more terrifying is that

[3:53] scientists don't know when the next big

[3:55] one will hit. We still don't know how to

[3:57] predict earthquakes and most of the

[3:59] recent theories seem to indicate that it

[4:02] may be a long time or perhaps never.

[4:05] >> But scientists in Southern California

[4:07] leading the way in earthquake study are

[4:10] closer to predicting where the next

[4:12] major quake will strike. Using global

[4:14] satellites that read information from

[4:16] some 600 ground sensors, it's possible

[4:19] to gauge even the smallest shifts in the

[4:21] earth, detecting where pressure builds

[4:23] along a fault line, eventually setting

[4:26] off an earthquake. So, if we know the

[4:29] where, but we don't know the when, what

[4:31] does that do for us?

[4:33] >> Well, it allows us to uh focus our

[4:36] long-term preparedness. If you live with

[4:39] earthquakes, you got to be ready for

[4:40] them at any instance. And right now,

[4:43] getting ready means making stronger

[4:45] buildings. Coobe, Japan, where a

[4:47] devastating 7.2 quake hit in 1995, now

[4:51] has some of the strictest building codes

[4:53] in the world. So does Los Angeles, where

[4:55] they're spending hundreds of millions of

[4:57] dollars to retrofit buildings. A

[4:59] previously unknown fault line was

[5:01] discovered recently that runs right

[5:03] under Dodger Stadium through to downtown

[5:05] and could produce a quake almost as

[5:07] strong as the one in Turkey. City Hall

[5:10] is literally being raised up and placed

[5:12] on rubber rollers.

[5:13] >> If you put your hands on a slinky and

[5:15] you could slide the bottom of the slinky

[5:18] out in any direction, this will what the

[5:22] ground motion can do underneath this

[5:23] building.

[5:24] >> And then the building stays put.

[5:26] >> The building does not move vertically.

[5:28] >> And in about 5 years, Southern

[5:30] California will test an alarm system. It

[5:32] would sound when an earthquake hits,

[5:34] giving residents in the path of the

[5:36] shock waves about a minute's notice to

[5:38] take cover. It may not be much, but it

[5:40] could be enough to save some lives.

[5:43] Sandra Hughes, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[5:46] >> In Colorado today, school officials

[5:48] confirmed that the first day of classes

[5:50] at Coline High since the April shooting

[5:53] spree included a chilling reminder of

[5:55] hate. Three swastikas were found

[5:58] yesterday, scrolled in bathrooms and

[6:00] scratched into the school's outside

[6:02] brick work. The school is investigating.

[6:05] President Clinton launched a new effort

[6:07] against school violence today. The

[6:09] strategy includes an ad campaign aimed

[6:11] at parents. CBS News chief White House

[6:13] correspondent John Roberts now with that

[6:15] report. John. Bob. Saying that today's

[6:18] children are exposed to a volume and

[6:19] intensity of violence not seen by

[6:21] previous generations. is a coalition of

[6:23] groups led by the president rolled out a

[6:26] new advertising campaign today. One

[6:28] aimed at turning back the tide of

[6:30] violence in today's schools.

[6:32] >> It was one against I don't know probably

[6:34] 10.

[6:35] >> The new PSAs which encourage parents to

[6:37] talk to their children about violence

[6:39] will be aired in tomorrow night's family

[6:41] hour by every major broadcast and cable

[6:44] network. The campaign's creators call it

[6:46] an unprecedented acknowledgement of how

[6:48] serious the problem has become. The

[6:50] adult world has to rethink how we

[6:53] include and embrace our children if

[6:54] we're going to make a difference.

[6:56] >> But in a day of cander over what is and

[6:58] isn't possible, the president said no

[7:00] one program or piece of legislation can

[7:02] solve the problem. Even as he called on

[7:05] House Republicans to pass new gun

[7:07] control laws.

[7:08] >> Will they stop every act of violence?

[7:10] No. Will they prevent every madman? No.

[7:12] If we use that kind of excuse, we would

[7:14] all stay in bed every day. We would

[7:16] never get out of bed.

[7:17] >> So Mr. Clinton also announced more

[7:19] funding to attack the problem before it

[7:21] begins, giving another $15 million to

[7:24] community policing programs like this

[7:26] one in Miami Dade County.

[7:28] >> If we eliminate drugs, we eliminate the

[7:32] majority of our crimes.

[7:33] >> Since police started talking to young

[7:35] people in Carol City about everything

[7:37] from drugs to conflict resolution, they

[7:40] claim juvenile crime there has gone down

[7:42] 65%.

[7:44] We want to make sure that our community

[7:46] remains safe and free from crime.

[7:50] >> In the wake of Coline and more recent

[7:52] shootings, the White House has been

[7:53] under tremendous pressure to come up

[7:54] with something concrete. Today's event

[7:56] gives the president a chance to say that

[7:58] he's doing more than just talking about

[8:00] it. Bob,

[8:01] >> thank you very much, John. Still ahead

[8:03] on tonight's CBS Evening News, breast

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[8:10] an escaped convict whose case was the

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[9:57] cancer may involve a link to a common

[9:59] virus. Well, we have a report from

[10:02] Elizabeth Kalan.

[10:04] >> It's so common at least 90% of the

[10:07] world's population has been infected

[10:09] with the Epstein bar virus. Generally

[10:11] harmless, it most often leads to

[10:13] monucleiosis. But now, researchers have

[10:16] determined the Epstein bar virus may

[10:18] also be linked to breast cancer. In a

[10:20] study published in tomorrow's journal of

[10:22] the National Cancer Institute, in 100

[10:24] breast cancer tissue samples, the

[10:26] Epstein bar virus was found in 51 cases

[10:30] in the most aggressive tumors.

[10:32] >> Potentially, a virus might turn on some

[10:34] of the reproductive machinery of a cell.

[10:37] So that the cell grows in a in an

[10:40] unregulated or uncontrolled fashion.

[10:42] >> The study did not determine that Epstein

[10:44] bar virus can cause breast cancer. And

[10:46] Dr. Clifford Huttis believes that

[10:48] connection is far off.

[10:50] >> There's got to be more to the story. If

[10:53] Epstein bar virus has any role in breast

[10:55] cancer, it may be as one of many

[10:58] co-actors.

[10:59] >> On the whole, doctors say the discovery

[11:01] raises more questions than provides

[11:03] answers. The most important one being,

[11:05] could some breast cancers be caused by a

[11:08] virus? And if so, could the disease one

[11:10] day be prevented by vaccine?

[11:13] >> This is the first time I think there's

[11:14] such a strong link.

[11:16] >> Dr. But Robert Garry's research has led

[11:18] him to a virus that causes breast cancer

[11:20] 95% of the time in mice. In a small

[11:23] number of human samples, the rate was

[11:25] almost as high. Gary believes locating

[11:28] cancer-causing viruses is the next

[11:30] frontier in tackling the disease.

[11:32] >> For many cancers, certainly uh targeting

[11:34] the virus is the next wave of uh not

[11:37] only detection but perhaps prevention

[11:40] and therapy too. For now though, until a

[11:42] stronger link can be made between breast

[11:44] cancer and any virus, doctors believe

[11:46] the best tools remain early detection

[11:49] and good treatment. Elizabeth Kaledan,

[11:51] CBS News, New York.

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[15:15] A US weapons lab scientist who says he

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[15:31] >> new doubts are being cast on the

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[15:35] the only person accused in the spy

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[15:49] Roman, who headed counter intelligence

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[15:53] there's not a shred of evidence that Lee

[15:55] passed secrets to China and that race

[15:58] was a major factor in naming Lee the

[16:00] prime suspect.

[16:02] >> In an exclusive interview with 60

[16:04] Minutes Mike Wallace, Lee also claimed

[16:06] investigators unfairly targeted him

[16:09] because of his heritage. I am the only

[16:13] one

[16:14] oriental or Chinese people working on

[16:16] the top secret for last 18 years.

[16:20] >> Henry Tang, head of an advocacy group

[16:22] for Chinese Americans, recently sent a

[16:25] letter to the Justice Department saying

[16:27] Dr. Lee and the nation deserve a case

[16:29] made on the merits of a thorough and

[16:31] professional investigation, not a racist

[16:34] witch hunt.

[16:35] >> Scientists like uh like Dr. Lee are

[16:38] really our rocket scientists of this

[16:40] country and are working at the leading

[16:43] edge of American technology and helping

[16:46] to maintain America's uh scientific

[16:48] superiority.

[16:50] >> Sources are disputing whether or not Lee

[16:52] will ever be charged with any crime.

[16:54] Today, the White House and the Energy

[16:55] Department would only say the

[16:57] investigation is being conducted

[16:58] appropriately, but the issue of race is

[17:01] clearly making an already difficult spy

[17:03] case even more sensitive. Cheryl

[17:06] Atkinson, CBS News, Washington.

[17:09] >> As we reported last night, the public

[17:11] defenders agency in Oklahoma said it did

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[17:15] Nichols against state murder charges in

[17:17] the Oklahoma City bombing trial. Well,

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[19:57] 36,000 inmates remaining in Pennsylvania

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[20:02] tonight after two more convicts escaped

[20:04] yesterday. And police are still trying

[20:07] to find the notorious multiple murderer

[20:09] who broke out of a maximum security

[20:11] prison over two weeks ago. We have more

[20:14] details now from Jacqueline Adams.

[20:17] >> Most of the sightings have been within

[20:18] the three state, 3count area.

[20:20] >> The massive manhunt has so far been

[20:22] feudal. For 15 days, Pennsylvania State

[20:25] Police have followed scores of leads

[20:27] last night just over the Delaware

[20:28] border, but dangerous escaped convict

[20:31] Norman Johnston remains at large. They

[20:33] searched all around my house and I was

[20:35] afraid. I live alone and I was really

[20:38] afraid.

[20:39] >> In 1980, Johnston was convicted of

[20:41] murdering four teenage associates, the

[20:43] so-called Kitty Gang to cover up his

[20:46] family's multi-million dollar vehicle

[20:47] burglary ring. In the rural neighborhood

[20:50] where Johnston's family members still

[20:52] live, residents are nervous with good

[20:54] reason.

[20:55] >> Take extra precautions. Making sure my

[20:57] house is locked a little more thoroughly

[20:58] than perhaps I normally would.

[21:00] Johnston's prison break was carefully

[21:02] planned.

[21:03] >> He had fashioned a dummy using some hair

[21:06] and some other uh things he was able to

[21:08] gather and covered it up pretty well.

[21:10] >> The network crime show, America's Most

[21:12] Wanted, chronicled the daring escape.

[21:14] >> It's obvious he received some

[21:15] assistance, was able to saw through a

[21:17] bar and was able to uh get out uh skinny

[21:21] under a barb wire and then we believe

[21:24] stole a truck uh once he was able to cut

[21:26] a fence and get out. This is just the

[21:28] latest chapter in a longunning drama

[21:30] which inspired the film At Close Range.

[21:32] >> Is that a real gun?

[21:34] >> Johnston's gang has a history of

[21:36] taunting police, deliberately throwing

[21:38] them off the scent with misinformation.

[21:41] And the drought hasn't helped. Without

[21:43] moisture in the ground, police say their

[21:45] dogs have a hard time following any

[21:47] smells. 4 days after he escaped from

[21:49] prison, Johnston was here in Nottingham

[21:52] County Park. Rangers spotted him at this

[21:54] pay phone trying to contact a relative.

[21:56] >> Yet even when they had him in their

[21:58] sights, Johnston still managed to get

[22:00] away. Locals think he may have hidden

[22:02] millions of dollars somewhere in this

[22:04] park.

[22:05] >> I really feel he has money around here

[22:07] and he wants to get his money.

[22:10] >> That's why despite hundreds of police,

[22:12] rumor has it that Johnston may still be

[22:14] close by. Jacqueline Adams, CBS News,

[22:17] Nottingham, Pennsylvania.

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[24:33] In tonight's Eye on America, planning

[24:35] for the arrival of the year 2000. For

[24:38] many, it means spending a lot of money

[24:39] New Year's Eve, but for others, it means

[24:42] hoarding a lot of money. So, as Jim

[24:44] Stewart tells us tonight, the government

[24:46] is printing a lot of money in

[24:48] anticipation of Y2K phobia.

[24:51] >> 80 100 20 40 60.

[24:55] >> If you're one of those people planning

[24:56] to squirrel away a lot of cash for Y2K

[24:59] day,

[25:00] >> 300,

[25:00] >> then you're partly to blame for this.

[25:03] The US Treasury has begun printing an

[25:04] extra $50 billion for Y2K emergencies.

[25:08] 40 55 56

[25:11] >> and it's now being cut, counted, and

[25:13] bundled for delivery to every branch

[25:15] bank in America, plus several secret

[25:17] storage sites in the event even more is

[25:20] needed.

[25:21] Alarmed by doomsday books urging

[25:23] everyone to sock away thousands in cash

[25:26] and maybe even bury it in the backyard,

[25:28] the Federal Reserve and banks are

[25:30] planning for the worst.

[25:33] Every armored car company in America was

[25:35] booked months ago for New Year's weekend

[25:37] cash deliveries. Banks have canled

[25:39] holiday vacations. Extra guards have

[25:42] been laid on and already there are signs

[25:44] of some panic withdrawals.

[25:46] >> I had one financial institution tell me

[25:48] that a little old lady came in withdrew

[25:50] $90,000

[25:52] uh which closing her account out and she

[25:54] was going to keep it at home with her.

[25:56] >> Everybody, here you are.

[25:58] >> And it's 10. And it's not just the

[26:00] elderly, says former Texas banking

[26:01] commissioner Katherine Galleri.

[26:03] >> I was told that a group of companies was

[26:05] going to pull one month's worth of cash

[26:08] out of their bank. And I said, "Where

[26:10] are you going to put that? And why are

[26:12] you going to do that?"

[26:13] >> The problem isn't computers. Banks

[26:15] worked the bugs out of those a long time

[26:17] ago. The problem now say bankers is

[26:20] people. Despite reassurances, some

[26:22] people believe that come the millennium,

[26:24] everything, including their bank

[26:25] account, will simply shut down.

[26:29] And what bankers really fear is that for

[26:31] some reason, any reason, an ATM machine

[26:33] somewhere might not work on Saturday,

[26:36] New Year's Day, and start a panic run on

[26:38] the banks reminiscent of the Great

[26:40] Depression. Hence the extra cash.

[26:42] Alexander Bole is vice chairman of Chvy

[26:44] Chase Bank in Maryland.

[26:45] >> If the unthinkable did happen and

[26:47] suddenly you had a line of people

[26:48] snaking out the front door of this bank

[26:50] and they all wanted a,000 or $5,000 in

[26:52] cash, I mean, what would you do?

[26:54] >> We would have extra deliver. We have our

[26:56] our armored car service prepared to

[26:58] deliver uh additional amounts of cash to

[27:01] each branch if necessary. But with that

[27:03] much money in the system come other

[27:05] problems.

[27:06] >> We've been working with our local police

[27:08] forces. Every branch has been in touch

[27:10] with their local police force.

[27:11] >> The FBI and banks are already briefing

[27:14] senior citizens especially on the danger

[27:16] of being robbed at year's end. The year

[27:18] 2000 is not a holiday for criminals. And

[27:21] I'm concerned about personal security

[27:23] for the citizens of this state.

[27:25] >> And that's not to mention the pain in

[27:27] the neck it will be next January to

[27:29] count and return that $50 billion to the

[27:31] Federal Reserve. All 11,879,699

[27:37] pounds of it. In Washington, this is Jim

[27:40] Stewart for Eye on America.

[27:43] And that's the news. Here's Bob Simon

[27:45] now with a look at what's coming up

[27:46] later tonight on 60 Minutes 2.

[27:50] Why would this teenager go on a shooting

[27:52] spree in his school? There's only one

[27:54] way to know. Ask him. So he did. And Dan

[27:57] Rather investigates what some call a

[28:00] serious flaw in one of America's most

[28:02] popular cars.

[28:05] 60 Minutes 2 tonight at 9 8 Central time

[28:08] right here on CBS. For Dan Rather, this

[28:10] is Bob Schaefer, CBS News in New York.

[28:13] Good night

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