World News Tonight (ABC) - 2005-10-11

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[1:18] >> On World News Tonight, the death toll in

[1:21] Pakistan could hit 40,000 after the

[1:23] earthquake.

[1:24] >> There's no food and water. There are

[1:27] miraculous rescues, but help is not

[1:29] getting to the millions who need it. In

[1:32] other news, a painful prediction. It

[1:34] could cost 70% more to heat your home

[1:36] this winter. The difficult decisions for

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[2:00] >> From ABC News, this is World News

[2:03] Tonight.

[2:05] Reporting from ABC News headquarters,

[2:08] Elizabeth Vargas.

[2:09] >> Good evening. There's no such thing as

[2:11] FEMA in Pakistan, but after Hurricane

[2:14] Katrina, most Americans recognize the

[2:17] frustration and despair that comes when

[2:19] disaster strikes and the government

[2:21] cannot cope. In Pakistan today, millions

[2:24] of people who survived the earthquake 3

[2:26] days ago are desperate and frustrated.

[2:29] The vast majority of them are not

[2:30] getting the help they need. Aid workers

[2:33] in Pakistan now estimate the death toll

[2:35] there could hit 40,000.

[2:37] They cannot reach large parts of the

[2:39] region hardest hit. Tonight, throughout

[2:42] the quake zone, nature is compounding

[2:44] the misery. ABC's David Wright is there.

[2:49] As if it's not miserable enough to lose

[2:51] your home, lose family members and

[2:54] friends, to have just about nothing

[2:56] left. Today, it started to rain. It

[3:00] soaked the dead still lying in the

[3:02] streets and the living still waiting for

[3:05] proper medical care. It soaked

[3:08] everything. The lucky few have plastic

[3:10] sheets. Not much shelter at all.

[3:13] >> Everything we need, we want. There's

[3:16] nothing.

[3:18] >> Today, many burned what was left of

[3:20] their homes trying to keep warm.

[3:24] The relief effort is gearing up. Today,

[3:26] US helicopters dispatched from

[3:28] Afghanistan brought in loads of tents,

[3:30] but the people here need thousands more.

[3:33] >> Not only are many roads impassible, but

[3:36] unpredictable weather has made it

[3:37] difficult for aircraft as well. This

[3:40] afternoon, they had to cancel all the

[3:41] aid flights because the helicopters

[3:43] can't make it over the mountain.

[3:45] >> It's frustrating. We tried to go back

[3:46] out just now and the weather was an

[3:49] issue. So, that was really frustrating.

[3:53] >> And the people are desperate today.

[3:55] Looters took whatever they could grab

[3:57] from the aid trucks. In one case, at

[3:59] gunpoint.

[4:01] Miracles are still possible today. A

[4:03] French search and rescue team snaked a

[4:05] periscope camera into the rubble of a

[4:08] boy's school. A face peered back at

[4:10] them. The father reassured his

[4:13] four-year-old son. Three hours later,

[4:17] they pulled him to safety.

[4:23] This father carried his 8-year-old

[4:25] daughter all the way down from a remote

[4:27] mountain village. She too was pulled

[4:29] from the rubble. Maniba has a head

[4:31] injury and a broken arm. Her father

[4:33] managed to get her all the way to the

[4:35] front of the evacuation line.

[4:38] >> I'm hopeful. Hopeful and happy, he said.

[4:42] But at the last moment, the army turned

[4:45] them away. The helicopter was already

[4:48] full. David Wright, ABC News, Raul

[4:51] Pendi, Pakistan.

[4:53] >> As we said, officials in Pakistan

[4:54] believe that thousands of people

[4:56] affected by this quake have still not

[4:58] received help of any kind. Today,

[5:00] cameras did make it to one of the places

[5:02] where relief has not. Here's ABC's

[5:05] Gretchen Peters.

[5:07] >> Perched high in the Kashmir mountains,

[5:09] tiny villages such as Dal Kazi were hard

[5:11] to reach before the earthquake. Now they

[5:14] are almost impossible to reach. There

[5:17] are no telephones here to call for aid,

[5:19] no roads to bring in heavy equipment, no

[5:22] place on these slopes to land a rescue

[5:24] helicopter. This Pakistani television

[5:27] crew climbed for more than 2 hours up

[5:29] steep mountain paths to document

[5:31] conditions here. Along the way, they

[5:33] came across this family which had

[5:35] already traveled 7 hours by foot in

[5:38] search of medical attention. "Our house

[5:40] fell on us," says the husband. "We don't

[5:43] know where to go for help." Nobody knows

[5:45] just how many families like this one are

[5:47] stranded in remote areas in desperate

[5:50] need of assistance. This is the most

[5:52] challenging aspect of the rescue effort

[5:54] here. And 4 days after the earthquake,

[5:57] rescue workers say they have really no

[5:59] idea how they'll reach people trapped

[6:01] high in the mountains.

[6:02] >> There are probably going to be some

[6:04] villages that that don't receive help or

[6:06] certainly don't receive it for weeks.

[6:07] >> Along the main street of Dalcazi, utter

[6:10] devastation. 2,000 people died here.

[6:13] Villagers say more than half the town's

[6:15] population.

[6:17] But no one has come to help them collect

[6:19] and bury the dead. Families are living

[6:21] in these tents, afraid to enter their

[6:24] crumbling homes. And there's no sign

[6:26] life will get easier anytime soon.

[6:29] Gretchen Peters, ABC News, Islamabad,

[6:32] Pakistan.

[6:34] >> And now to the disaster zone in this

[6:36] country, the Gulf Coast region

[6:38] devastated by the hurricanes. President

[6:40] Bush made his eighth visit there today.

[6:42] He stopped at an elementary school that

[6:44] just reopened in Mississippi and a home

[6:47] building site near New Orleans. The

[6:49] president said, quote, "Out of this

[6:50] rubble will come some good." He also

[6:53] said that Washington should not dictate

[6:55] how New Orleans rebuilds. The recovery

[6:58] effort in New Orleans reached a

[6:59] milestone today. 43 days after Hurricane

[7:02] Katrina ravaged the city, the Army Corps

[7:05] of Engineer declared that New Orleans

[7:07] finally is dry, drained of more than 200

[7:10] billion gallons of flood water. And that

[7:13] is not the only sign of progress. ABC's

[7:15] Steve Osansami is in New Orleans.

[7:19] >> In New Orleans, the city's university

[7:21] reopened this week. 7,000 students are

[7:24] now attending classes.

[7:25] >> We offered about half of the classes

[7:27] that we ordinarily offer. We wanted to

[7:29] make sure the graduating seniors were

[7:31] accommodated, so we offered those

[7:33] classes.

[7:34] >> Children's Hospital opened yesterday.

[7:37] Today, they had 14 surgeries.

[7:39] >> Things are are getting back to normal.

[7:41] It'll be slow, but the good thing is

[7:43] that that we're here and that we're

[7:45] open.

[7:46] >> Linda Heftlin, a resident who lost her

[7:48] home, just found a job. She can now move

[7:50] out of this shelter.

[7:51] >> It pays enough money where it's going to

[7:53] help me get back on my feet a little

[7:55] bit, maybe. Across the Gulf region,

[7:57] there are signs of progress every day,

[7:59] something that is cleaned up or rebuilt,

[8:02] signs of recovery. In Louisiana, there

[8:05] are 16,000 people living in shelters,

[8:07] down from 66,000. Every oil pipeline in

[8:10] the region is now flowing. There is

[8:12] still plenty of work to do, but for a

[8:14] moment, the simple things bring hope.

[8:16] The high school football team that's

[8:18] practicing. Classes start on Monday. The

[8:20] barber shop that reopened. Every now and

[8:22] again they pass by a mirror and realize

[8:23] that uh they need a haircut.

[8:27] >> This popular shoe store,

[8:29] >> it's very emotional.

[8:32] I have a hard time sometimes really just

[8:35] getting through it. Like I like I said,

[8:37] you know, sometimes I wake up and I just

[8:39] say this is all just a bad dream.

[8:42] >> He says like most people in this region,

[8:44] he will pick himself up and start all

[8:46] over again.

[8:48] >> Steo Sansami, ABC News, New Orleans.

[8:51] I'll be here.

[8:51] >> That's the spirit. There was startling

[8:53] news today about what it may cost to

[8:55] heat your home this winter. The American

[8:57] Gas Association said people who heat

[8:58] their homes with natural gas should

[9:00] expect a 50 to 70% increase in their

[9:03] bills. Heating oil is up almost as much.

[9:06] ABC's Lisa Stark joins us. And Lisa,

[9:08] homeowners are facing even higher costs

[9:10] if it's a cold winter.

[9:12] >> Absolutely, Elizabeth. You know, the

[9:14] good news, if there's any, is we don't

[9:16] expect a shortage of natural gas this

[9:17] winter, but we're going to be paying a

[9:19] lot more for it. Those who follow the

[9:21] industry say they've never seen prices

[9:23] so high or increasing so quickly. In

[9:27] Colorado, winter arrived with a

[9:29] vengeance.

[9:31] As the weather turns colder, families

[9:33] are going to be struggling to pay the

[9:35] skyrocketing heating bills.

[9:38] Last year, natural gas customers spent

[9:40] an average of $700 for heat during the

[9:43] winter. This year,

[9:44] >> you're up there uh over $1,000. So, a

[9:48] very significant increase is projected

[9:50] uh for this winter.

[9:51] >> The Midwest is especially dependent on

[9:54] natural gas. If it's a cold winter,

[9:56] families could spend $1,600

[9:59] heating their homes. 83-year-old Lillian

[10:02] Drummond lives in Chicago. She is

[10:04] worried about staying warm. I can hardly

[10:07] pay for the gas bill now, including

[10:09] electricity, too. They've gone up so

[10:11] high, and if they go up anymore, I don't

[10:13] know what we'll do.

[10:14] >> It won't just be tough for those who

[10:15] rely on natural gas. In the Northeast,

[10:18] where heating oil is common, prices are

[10:20] expected to rise 50%. In the South, half

[10:24] the homes rely on electric heat. Their

[10:27] prices could jump 11%.

[10:29] >> The basic prices being faced by American

[10:32] this Americans this year is really quite

[10:34] frightening. Energy prices are higher

[10:36] partly because of the recent hurricanes,

[10:38] but mostly because demand is outpacing

[10:40] supply. The federal government spent

[10:43] $2.2 billion last year to help lowincome

[10:46] families pay heating bills. There's now

[10:48] a call to increase the funds to 5.1

[10:51] billion because this year they're

[10:53] expecting 6 million families to apply

[10:56] for help.

[10:57] >> We're little people out here and we are

[10:59] suffering right now.

[11:02] In the past, price hikes were often

[11:04] temporary. The prices would go up one

[11:06] year, come down the next. But this is

[11:07] the fourth year in a row for increases

[11:09] in natural gas and home heating oil

[11:11] prices. And some energy experts say the

[11:14] days of cheap energy may in fact be

[11:17] over, Elizabeth.

[11:18] >> All right, Lisa Stark, thank you so

[11:20] much. When we return, hunting for dirty

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[14:33] We have an exclusive report tonight

[14:35] about the secret government SWAT teams

[14:37] that are trained to hunt nuclear devices

[14:39] planted by terrorists. It's part of our

[14:42] ABC News series on loose nukes. The

[14:44] undercover teams consist of nearly 1,000

[14:47] members based at 29 locations. They

[14:50] deploy dozens of times a year for

[14:52] drills, random searches, and the

[14:54] occasional real life emergency. But

[14:56] would they be able to find a real

[14:58] nuclear weapon? Here's ABC's Cynthia

[15:01] McFaten.

[15:04] >> On a recent morning at Andrews Air Force

[15:06] Base in Maryland,

[15:07] >> this is a deployment. We have a

[15:08] deployment time of 1300. A call is

[15:11] placed that sends out an electronic

[15:13] alert.

[15:15] >> Somebody's beeper goes off and they know

[15:18] they're being called in and they know

[15:19] they have a job to do. They know it will

[15:20] involve radiation because that's our

[15:22] specialty.

[15:23] >> This is a drill. This is a drill.

[15:25] >> These anonymous members of the nuclear

[15:27] emergency support team or NEST are

[15:30] nuclear physicists and scientists by

[15:32] day. But when their beepers go off, they

[15:34] go undercover to find a terrorist

[15:37] nuclear weapon or dirty bomb before it

[15:41] explodes. In this drill, the team is

[15:43] told that a nuclear device may be hidden

[15:45] in an undisclosed location. They must

[15:47] show that they can be briefed, packed,

[15:49] and on their way to the site within just

[15:52] 4 hours.

[15:53] >> People will be taking protective vests.

[15:55] Um they've got some Chem Bio gear just

[15:57] to exit an area uh in case they get

[16:00] caught in that. There's detection gear.

[16:01] There's communications gear. There's

[16:03] encryption gear.

[16:04] >> Everything the team will need to do its

[16:06] job.

[16:07] >> All secure. Ready to roll.

[16:09] >> The team is out the door in less than an

[16:12] hour. But just how hard would it be for

[16:14] them to find a real bomb? The first

[16:16] thing they look for is radiation, which

[16:18] all nuclear material gives off. But

[16:21] scientists admit it would be

[16:22] surprisingly easy for terrorists to

[16:24] block the radiation emitted from most

[16:27] nuclear bombs. Uranium 235, the bomb

[16:31] stuff is a very low emission material

[16:36] and you can stop it with a piece of tin

[16:37] foil or less.

[16:39] >> A piece of tin foil.

[16:40] >> Oh yes.

[16:41] >> The man who oversees Nest remains

[16:43] confident, saying his team employs a

[16:46] range of other techniques that remain

[16:48] classified and they depend on more than

[16:51] just technology.

[16:52] >> None of our techniques in

[16:54] counterterrorism work alone. It depends

[16:57] on intelligence. It depends on

[16:59] cooperation with law enforcement. That's

[17:01] why this is such a a complex problem.

[17:06] >> How sensitive is the equipment the Nest

[17:08] team uses? Well, when intelligence

[17:10] suggested terrorists had planted a

[17:12] nuclear device in Las Vegas a couple of

[17:14] years ago, Nest searched the city and

[17:16] discovered a cylinder like this one.

[17:18] Elizabeth, it was nothing more than a

[17:21] harmless but radioactive medical

[17:24] treatment for cancer. That tiny device

[17:27] they were able to track down and locate

[17:28] in the entire city of Las Vegas.

[17:30] >> Think about it. A needle in a hay stack

[17:32] of needles.

[17:33] >> Well, that is reassuring. All right,

[17:34] Cynthy McFaten, thanks so much. Our

[17:36] series continues later this evening on

[17:38] Night Line, which will have more on the

[17:39] nuclear SWAT team. And tomorrow, World

[17:42] News Tonight will examine how close

[17:43] al-Qaeda may be to building a nuclear

[17:45] weapon. You can find all of our reports

[17:48] on this series at abcnews.com.

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[20:49] Overseas tonight, two items of hopeful

[20:51] news. In Iraq, there are reports of a

[20:53] breakthrough deal on the new

[20:54] constitution. 4 days ahead of a national

[20:57] vote. Large numbers of Sunni Muslims

[21:00] have been threatening to boycott that

[21:01] vote. Well, tonight a major Sunni

[21:03] political party says it may call in its

[21:05] supporters to vote and vote yes. In the

[21:08] West African nation of Liberia, today's

[21:10] presidential elections are being called

[21:12] the dawn of a new era. After 14 years of

[21:15] civil war, voters lined up for hours

[21:18] under the hot tropical sun to cast their

[21:20] ballots. 22 candidates are running. One

[21:23] man waiting in line said, "I'm voting

[21:25] for a leader that can bring peace." Back

[21:28] in this country, the talk show host

[21:30] Oprah Winfrey is getting a lot of

[21:31] attention for a new campaign she has

[21:33] undertaken. This time, it's against

[21:36] people who prey on children. The Senate

[21:38] is about to take up legislation designed

[21:40] to crack down on sex offenders who move

[21:42] from place to place without registering

[21:44] with law enforcement. But Oprah isn't

[21:46] waiting for Congress to act. Here's

[21:48] ABC's David Mure.

[21:51] More than 100,000 sex offenders are

[21:53] unaccounted for and on the loose in the

[21:55] United States, eluding investigators.

[21:58] But no investigator has the kind of

[22:00] weapon Oprah Winfrey has, her audience.

[22:03] >> We need to capture these criminals.

[22:05] >> Last week, Oprah began showing photos of

[22:06] fugitive sex offenders, offering

[22:08] $100,000 to anyone whose tip leads to an

[22:11] arrest. It did not take long.

[22:13] >> Two of those wanted men were captured.

[22:16] >> Hers is not the first television program

[22:18] to hunt criminals. There's America's

[22:20] Most Wanted.

[22:21] >> John Walsh managed to capture a lot of

[22:23] people with his show. Uh Oprah Winfrey

[22:25] is like John Walsh squared. John Walsh

[22:28] cubed. Just 2 days after Oprah first

[22:31] showed photos, two arrests, including

[22:33] William Davis. Authorities say he got

[22:35] out of prison and allegedly abused three

[22:37] more boys and then left Indiana. It was

[22:40] his neighbor in Fargo, North Dakota, who

[22:42] turned him in. He phoned her and was

[22:44] stunned. I can't believe you guys helped

[22:48] them get me.

[22:50] >> I said you were on national television.

[22:52] >> I thought we were friends. I said, so

[22:54] did I. You've watched my children.

[22:56] >> 500,000 sex offenders in this country

[22:59] are required by law to register with

[23:01] authorities. More than a quarter of them

[23:03] have not.

[23:04] >> Child advocates say it is those

[23:05] fugitives who slip away, often moving to

[23:07] another state, knowing full well how to

[23:10] beat the system. laws are weaker in

[23:12] another state that I could move to where

[23:14] perhaps there is not the same online

[23:16] registration, same public notification

[23:18] requirement and I could in essence

[23:20] become an offender again in that state

[23:22] more easily.

[23:23] >> Authorities welcome Winfreyy's efforts

[23:25] with one concern.

[23:26] >> It creates a vigilance that's needed. If

[23:29] it becomes vigilanteism, it's bad.

[23:31] >> But with two arrests already and 9

[23:33] million viewers now looking, no one is

[23:35] about to turn this kind of help away.

[23:38] David Mure, ABC News, New York.

[23:41] >> Oprah Winfreyy's latest cause. In a

[23:43] world of electronic communication

[23:45] tonight that arrives instantly, a

[23:47] reminder that it's not always so fast.

[23:50] In Iowa, a woman named Evelyn Greenald

[23:53] just received a postcard from her

[23:55] daughter in Germany. 27 years ago, it

[23:58] was mailed. Ms. Greenald is 97 now. Her

[24:01] daughter was writing to her to tell her

[24:03] mother that she'd fallen in love.

[24:07] When we come back, looking for family

[24:08] values in the animal kingdom. Do the

[24:10] penguins have a message about monogamy?

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[25:22] Aandia is not right for everyone. Talk

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[25:49] you use over-the-counter drops several

[25:51] times a day, you may have chronic dry

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[25:55] Ask your eye doctor about Restasis. With

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[25:59] your natural ability to produce tears,

[26:01] which may be suppressed by inflammation

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[27:02] Central, only on ABC. Tomorrow, GMA

[27:05] takes you inside a rare and powerful

[27:07] love story. A journalist taken hostage

[27:09] in Iraq. A promise from the woman he

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[27:17] Only on Good Morning America.

[27:21] Finally tonight, what do penguins and

[27:23] conservatives have in common? Well, it

[27:25] depends on whom you ask, of course, and

[27:27] it may never even have occurred to you

[27:28] to ask. But after the hugely successful

[27:31] documentary March of the Penguins, some

[27:33] people in the country are asking. Here's

[27:35] ABC's Jake Tapper.

[27:38] >> The arduous mating ritual featured in

[27:39] March of the Penguins now has these

[27:41] Antarctic birds waddling right into the

[27:44] culture wars. and every year they embark

[27:48] on a nearly impossible journey to find a

[27:51] mate.

[27:51] >> Conservative activists are blessing the

[27:53] journey as a celebration of traditional

[27:56] family values.

[27:57] >> The last time I remember something like

[27:59] that was of course The Passion of the

[28:01] Christ, a very different movie. And this

[28:04] is sort of the passion of the penguins.

[28:06] Conservatives have praised the penguins

[28:08] for being an ideal example of monogamy

[28:11] and held up the unborn chicks as an

[28:14] argument against abortion,

[28:15] >> of a family's journey to bring life into

[28:17] the world.

[28:18] >> Some even argue the film presents a case

[28:21] against evolution and for intelligent

[28:24] design.

[28:24] >> What you see is an equilibrium, this

[28:26] incredible picture of order and

[28:29] complexity.

[28:31] >> But nature and penguins don't always fit

[28:33] cleanly into political agendas. Penguins

[28:36] Roy and Silo, both males, are a samesex

[28:39] penguin couple here at the Central Park

[28:40] Zoo. Roy and Syo, adopted, hatched, and

[28:45] raised a chick together, becoming

[28:47] Tango's foster penguins. So, in response

[28:50] to conservatives, the New York Times

[28:52] liberal editorial board asked, "If

[28:54] Emperor penguins are sending us a

[28:56] message about heterosexual marriage,

[28:58] then what are Roy and Silo doing?" To

[29:01] me, in my, you know, 17 years of dealing

[29:03] with penguins, I hadn't seen any

[29:05] different behavior between them and any

[29:06] other pair raising a check.

[29:08] >> Advocates of same-sex marriage extol a

[29:10] children's book about this samesex

[29:12] penguin family. And Tango makes three.

[29:16] Except after 6 years, Silo has ditched

[29:19] Roy. This mating season, he's with a

[29:21] female. Scrappy. When you apply politics

[29:25] to nature, arguments can become pretty

[29:28] slippery. Jake Tapper, ABC News, New

[29:30] York.

[29:32] >> Politics and penguins. That's World News

[29:35] Tonight. I'm Elizabeth Vargas. For all

[29:37] of us here at ABC News, good night.

[29:45] >> 26 million people have made

[29:47] Commanderin-Chief Tuesday night's number

[29:49] one show.

[29:50] >> She's a woman.

[29:50] >> She isn't a woman. She is a president.

[29:52] This is not politics as usual.