CBS Evening News - 1999-08-06

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[0:06] terrorist at large. American

[0:08] intelligence believes Osama bin Laden

[0:11] now has the resources to strike inside

[0:14] the United States. Why the worsening

[0:17] drought in the Northeast is a disaster

[0:19] for man and beast. And a big jury award

[0:24] for a woman who says the fenfan diet

[0:26] drug combination damaged her health.

[0:33] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:37] Rather.

[0:39] >> Good evening. Dan is on assignment

[0:40] tonight. I'm John Roberts. We begin with

[0:42] a chilling picture of the threat of

[0:44] terrorism at our own front door.

[0:46] Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of

[0:48] the deadly US embassy bombings in East

[0:51] Africa. Now, as CBS's Jim Stewart

[0:53] reports, the fugitive allegedly

[0:56] responsible for the attack is considered

[0:58] a greater threat to America than ever

[1:00] before.

[1:02] US intelligence sources say they have

[1:04] made a fundamental shift in their

[1:06] assessment of terrorist leader Osama bin

[1:08] Laden. Once confident that bin Laden had

[1:11] only enough resources to strike at

[1:13] targets overseas like the East African

[1:15] embassies which are still under repair,

[1:17] they now believe he has the money and

[1:20] people in place to strike within the

[1:22] continental United States as well. The

[1:24] sources say Bin Laden has also

[1:26] accelerated a cat and mouse game with US

[1:28] intelligence in recent weeks. First, by

[1:31] leaking false targeting information to

[1:33] see how and who reports it back to the

[1:35] United States, and by taking advantage

[1:38] of eavesdropping American spy satellites

[1:41] by having his lieutenants use code

[1:43] language during recent phone

[1:44] conversations that is identical to the

[1:46] code they used in the weeks preceding

[1:48] last year's African bombings. That bin

[1:51] Laden would draw up a lengthy target

[1:53] list in the United States does not

[1:54] surprise Ken Katsman, a terrorist expert

[1:57] for Congress. I believe he has a very

[1:59] substantial capability to strike inside

[2:02] the United States. Virtually the entire

[2:04] network that conducted the trade center

[2:07] bombing in 93 is now reporting to or

[2:10] looking to Bin Laden for leadership. He

[2:12] could try to strike the New York Stock

[2:14] Exchange, the Federal Reserve, the

[2:16] Capital, the White House, uh anywhere he

[2:19] thinks it would be high-profile. And it

[2:22] was by adding Bin Laden to the FBI's 10

[2:24] most wanted list that the US may have

[2:27] actually increased the terrorist leader

[2:29] own profile within the Arab world. How

[2:31] much money does he have left?

[2:33] >> Uh, still approximately $300 million and

[2:35] possibly growing. He's got some

[2:37] donations from Persian Gulf countries.

[2:40] >> Still, it would be inaccurate to say

[2:42] that Osama bin Laden is stronger today

[2:44] than he was before the East African

[2:46] bombings. He's a marked man. The United

[2:49] States has already tried to kill him

[2:51] once with a cruise missile and given the

[2:53] opportunity would do so again. The

[2:55] question now is who will drop their

[2:57] guard first, the terrorist millionaire

[2:59] leader or the country that he's declared

[3:01] a holy war on. Jim Stewart, CBS News,

[3:04] Washington.

[3:05] >> Bin Laden is believed to be hiding in

[3:07] Afghanistan. President Clinton vowed

[3:09] today that the United States will

[3:11] prevail against terrorists. 12 Americans

[3:14] were among the 224 people killed in the

[3:16] embassy bombings. On the eve of the

[3:19] anniversary, security has been tightened

[3:20] at US embassies around the world. The

[3:23] State Department has issued a warning to

[3:25] Americans overseas to guard against

[3:27] possible attacks tied to the

[3:28] anniversary. On the CBS weather watch

[3:31] tonight, the Northeast Mid-Atlantic

[3:33] drought has left all previous dry spell

[3:35] records in the dust. In four states, the

[3:38] drought is now the worst of the century

[3:40] with the yearly rain total up to a foot

[3:43] and a half below normal. CBS's Wyatt

[3:46] Anders has the dry facts on a season of

[3:48] misery down on the farm.

[3:52] In the dust dry Mid-Atlantic, the August

[3:54] corn has withered into weeds. Not in 40

[3:57] years of working here has Maryland

[3:59] farmer Mike Wilm seen it like this.

[4:02] >> Your highest plant right now is about

[4:03] knee high,

[4:04] >> right?

[4:04] >> How high should it It should be up about

[4:07] like this right now.

[4:07] >> It should be over our heads,

[4:08] >> right?

[4:09] >> But corn is not Mike Wilham's chief

[4:11] concern.

[4:14] >> He is a dairy farmer and that withered

[4:16] corn was supposed to be food for his 200

[4:19] cows. The drought, he says, is not a

[4:21] crop crisis. It's a livestock crisis.

[4:24] >> I got to have the corn to feed my

[4:27] cattle, and I don't have half enough

[4:30] corn right now to feed my cattle this

[4:32] winter. The impact of this drought on

[4:34] the livestock and dairy industries is

[4:36] about to hit hard because well over 90%

[4:39] of the corn and soybeans grown in

[4:41] America is fed to animals. A

[4:43] droughtcaused shortage of grain will

[4:45] mean a shortage of animal feed. And the

[4:47] reach of this drought is spreading. 10

[4:50] states have now requested or are getting

[4:52] federal disaster relief. Most of that in

[4:54] lowterest loans. But the president today

[4:57] signaled loans won't be enough. He

[4:59] appointed a cabinet level task force for

[5:01] more ideas.

[5:03] >> We must do more. It is our duty as a

[5:05] national community.

[5:06] >> The Secretary of Agriculture today also

[5:09] urged Congress to add drought relief to

[5:11] the massive farm aid bill that's passed

[5:13] the Senate.

[5:14] >> Any bill that finally emerges from

[5:16] Congress and is sent to the president

[5:18] must include a significant drought and

[5:20] disaster assistance component. Back on

[5:23] Mike Wilham's farm, he's already feeding

[5:25] his cows the winter supply of hay, a

[5:28] sign of why some farmers say loans won't

[5:30] do. They argue this time it will take

[5:33] cash to feed the livestock and recover

[5:35] from the worst mid-Atlantic drought in

[5:37] history. Wyatt Andrews, CBS News,

[5:40] Frederick County, Maryland. While there

[5:42] is drought in the east, there are huge

[5:44] wildfires in the west. Nevada is seeing

[5:46] some of the worst of them, mostly

[5:48] ignited by lightning strikes. The Nevada

[5:50] fires have burned an area almost as big

[5:52] as Rhode Island, some 600,000 acres so

[5:56] far. The way some of the nation's top

[5:58] climate forecasters tell it today, it'll

[6:00] take tropical storms, even a hurricane

[6:02] to provide enough drenching rains to put

[6:04] a dent in the drought. And they say

[6:06] despite the almost dead calm in the

[6:09] hurricane season so far this year, just

[6:11] you wait. The nation's foremost

[6:14] predictor of hurricanes is out with his

[6:16] latest forecast today, and the news

[6:18] isn't good. We can expect 14 named

[6:21] tropical storms this year, the same as

[6:23] in 1998, nine of which will grow to

[6:25] become hurricanes. And four of those

[6:28] storms are predicted to become intense,

[6:31] dangerous hurricanes of category 3 or

[6:33] above. This above average season is due

[6:36] in part to the leninia weather making

[6:38] phenomenon, which continues to cool the

[6:40] waters of the eastern Pacific and

[6:42] creates fertile ground in the Atlantic

[6:44] for sustained and powerful tropical

[6:47] storms. And this year may be just a hint

[6:49] of what lies ahead. According to William

[6:51] Gray of Colorado State University, who

[6:54] makes the annual hurricane predictions,

[6:56] Bill, what's going on out there that has

[6:58] prompted this prediction of a more

[6:59] active than than average hurricane

[7:01] season?

[7:02] >> Well, there's just favorable a

[7:04] combination of a number of favorable

[7:06] atmospheric ocean factors that in past

[7:10] years have when they've come together

[7:12] like they have this year have shown that

[7:14] we have very active seasons. So far, the

[7:17] season has been pretty inactive. We've

[7:19] only seen one named storm, Arlene. It

[7:21] was a tropical storm. But you're

[7:23] cautioning against people being

[7:24] complacent just because there hasn't

[7:25] been much activity yet.

[7:27] >> Oh, yes, absolutely.

[7:29] So, yes, the seasons don't really crank

[7:32] themselves up, get started the middle of

[7:34] August or the 20th of August.

[7:37] >> Are we entering a new era here, Bill,

[7:38] where we're going to see more storms and

[7:40] more intense hurricanes? We think we're

[7:42] in this new era and with it, we're

[7:45] likely to see hurricane uh spawn damage

[7:50] like we'd never previously seen it. Not

[7:52] so much that we'll have more landfalling

[7:54] storms than we had in the 40s and 50s,

[7:57] but because there's so much more in

[8:00] harm's way now. Bill Gray at Colorado

[8:02] State University. Thanks for being with

[8:04] us. Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[8:07] News, Fenfan, a big product liability

[8:10] judgment against the makers of the diet

[8:11] drug combo. Inside Coline High after a

[8:15] facelift, the scars still run deep. And

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[9:58] On the CBS Market Watch, unemployment

[10:00] held steady in July, even as the red-hot

[10:03] US economy turned out 310,000 new jobs

[10:07] and average hourly earnings shot up

[10:09] 3.8%. That had Wall Street worrying

[10:12] again about inflation and higher

[10:14] interest rates. The Dow closed down 79

[10:16] points. The Nasdaq fell 17. And which

[10:20] flavor do you favor after 65 years with

[10:23] the same five lifesavers is thinking

[10:26] about replacing pineapple either with

[10:29] watermelon or strawberry. A big money

[10:32] loss today in a Texas court for one of

[10:34] the nation's largest drug manufacturers.

[10:36] It's the case of a woman who claimed

[10:38] heart damage after using the so-called

[10:40] Fenfen diet drug combination. CBS's

[10:43] Elizabeth Kaledan is here with the diet

[10:45] drug verdict, the first of its kind and

[10:47] the legal and medical impact. Elizabeth

[10:49] >> John, a Texas jury awarded a woman named

[10:52] Debbie Lovevet $23 million today and

[10:55] found the drug company 100% liable for

[10:58] her health problems.

[11:00] >> Attorneys for Debbie Lovevet say their

[11:02] best evidence supported the argument

[11:04] that American Home Products spent its

[11:06] energy trying to suppress evidence that

[11:08] the diet drug Pondaman, half of the

[11:10] combination known as Fenfen, could cause

[11:13] heart valve damage. They had teams of

[11:16] people whose sole job it was was to try

[11:18] to minimize the warnings, resist

[11:21] strengthening the warnings at all costs,

[11:24] do whatever they could to convince the

[11:25] FDA that the warnings didn't need to be

[11:27] strengthened.

[11:28] >> The drug was pulled from the market in

[11:30] September of 1997. Like millions of

[11:33] other women, Debbie Lovevet took it for

[11:35] 6 months to lose weight. Her attorneys

[11:38] site three studies from medical

[11:39] institutions to support her claim that

[11:42] the drug made her sick. But American

[11:44] Home Products today issued a statement

[11:47] saying there is simply no scientific

[11:49] study that has established a causal link

[11:51] between the use of pondamine and the

[11:53] heart problems claimed by Mrs. Lovevet.

[11:56] But the jury sided with Lovevet

[11:58] completely and agreed with her charge

[12:00] that the company had put profits before

[12:02] the health of its customers. There's one

[12:05] thing that American Home Products did

[12:07] well, and that was marketing surveys and

[12:09] trying to see how they could market this

[12:11] product and sell as much as possible. If

[12:14] they had put the same efforts into the

[12:15] safety studies, I don't think we'd be

[12:17] here today.

[12:18] >> The case is likely to have far-reaching

[12:21] implications. While American Home

[12:23] Products says it will appeal, the

[12:25] company still faces more than 3,000

[12:27] other lawsuits, including a class action

[12:30] case in New Jersey involving more than

[12:32] 90,000 women who took the diet drug.

[12:35] John

[12:35] >> Elizabeth Kaledan, thanks. A new

[12:37] congressional study finds the United

[12:39] States is still the world's largest

[12:41] supplier of weapons ahead of Germany and

[12:44] France. The US sold seven billion

[12:46] dollars worth last year. The biggest

[12:48] buyers of arms are developing nations

[12:50] such as Saudi Arabia and Malaysia. Up

[12:53] next on the CBS Evening News, the truck

[12:55] stops here. New rules of the road on

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[15:05] We're learning more about yesterday's

[15:07] Alabama office shootings and a possible

[15:09] motive. Prosecutors say Alan Miller

[15:11] exchanged words with the first victim

[15:13] before killing him and another co-orker.

[15:16] He then allegedly went to another

[15:18] company that had laid him off and told

[15:20] the worker, quote, "I'm tired of your

[15:22] rumors about me before killing him." A

[15:25] judge today ordered Miller held without

[15:27] bond. The US government is signaling the

[15:29] first turn in decades in rules of the

[15:32] road for truck drivers. As CBS's Jim

[15:34] Axelrod reports, it's not about speed

[15:36] limits. It's about drivers in their

[15:38] semis driving semi asleep. In an

[15:43] absolutely positively has to be their

[15:45] overnight world. These are the sites

[15:47] drivers fear most. Last year, 5,300

[15:50] people were killed in accidents

[15:52] involving trucks.

[15:54] To cut that number, the federal

[15:56] government is now targeting sleepy

[15:58] truckers. As soon as next month, they'll

[16:00] unveil a plan to set new limits on daily

[16:03] driving hours.

[16:04] >> I know that you can go to sleep behind

[16:06] the wheel cuz I've I've nodded off and

[16:08] then woke up and then I I get off the

[16:09] road. You know, it happens.

[16:11] >> Current rules allow truckers to drive 10

[16:14] hours, take 8 hours off to rest, and

[16:16] then drive another 10, up to 60 hours

[16:19] behind the wheel in any 7-day period.

[16:22] Outdated and dangerous, says the

[16:24] government.

[16:25] >> We're trying to work within the 24-hour

[16:27] clock and what the body tells us to come

[16:29] up with the right solution.

[16:30] >> You watch. They're going to give us less

[16:32] time to drive and we're going to be

[16:34] screwed.

[16:35] >> At truck stops where the answer to

[16:36] fatigue is often simply more coffee.

[16:39] They like change about as much as they

[16:41] like the government telling them what to

[16:42] do.

[16:42] >> Can you cut our work hours and then all

[16:45] you're doing is instead of me making

[16:47] $150 a day, I'll be lucky if I make $50

[16:50] a day. The trucking industry says only

[16:53] about 2% of truck accident deaths are

[16:56] due to drowsy drivers, but agrees just 8

[16:59] hours off isn't enough to be rescued.

[17:01] >> I'd say if I was picking a number and

[17:04] and there was a magic number for hours

[17:07] off, I'd say it would be 10 hours off.

[17:10] >> But several reports suggest that

[17:11] wouldn't be enough for the government,

[17:13] that 14 hours a day would be more like

[17:15] it. The debate will be nothing, if not

[17:17] new. Truck drivers haven't seen a single

[17:20] federal work rule change in more than 60

[17:23] years. Jim Axelrod, CBS News, Dallas.

[17:27] >> After a four years sleep break,

[17:29] Nicaragua's most active volcano chain

[17:31] about 40 miles from Managa is letting

[17:34] loose again, spewing fire, ash, lava,

[17:36] and gases up to 5 miles away. With 15

[17:39] nearby communities at risk, more than a

[17:41] thousand people were evacuated today.

[17:44] Coming up on the CBS Evening News, the

[17:46] new Coline High cleansing a crime scene

[17:49] in time for the new school year.

[17:55] While paramedic Dave Mloud checked the

[17:57] equipment before the day's first call,

[17:59] someone else was on realtor.com helping

[18:02] Dave's family search for their first

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[18:06] sixth call, someone else was at the bank

[18:09] reviewing Dave's mortgage. And while

[18:11] Dave was helping deliver a healthy set

[18:13] of twins who couldn't wait for the

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[18:17] his cashier's check to the title

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[19:56] He admitted to slaying four women near

[19:58] Yusede National Park, but today Carrie

[20:00] Stainer pleaded not guilty to federal

[20:02] charges in one of the killings. Stainer

[20:04] has been charged with beheading a Yusede

[20:07] Naturalist last month. During

[20:09] questioning, police say he confessed to

[20:10] the crime and also admitted killing

[20:12] three tourists last February who were

[20:15] guests at the motel where he worked.

[20:17] Students at Colorado's Coline High are

[20:19] getting ready to go back to school, back

[20:21] to the place where they watched their

[20:23] friends die and then ran for their own

[20:25] lives. While those horrible memories

[20:27] will never go away, school officials

[20:29] have tried to erase all physical signs

[20:32] of the tragedy. As Bob McNamera reports,

[20:35] >> all new floor, all new painting on the

[20:37] wall.

[20:38] >> Today, Coline looks nothing like the

[20:40] crime scene it was even 2 months ago.

[20:42] >> I felt right back at home again, like I

[20:44] hadn't even left the building. and it

[20:46] just looks better than it did before it.

[20:48] >> The security cameras and self-locking

[20:50] doors are as new as the color scheme.

[20:52] All the bullet holes are gone.

[20:54] >> This is the staircase that is entirely

[20:56] new.

[20:57] >> Even the staircase where students ran

[20:59] from the mayhem and several were found

[21:01] dead last April has been replaced.

[21:04] >> All evidences of anything that took

[21:06] place on that date is gone. And if it

[21:09] isn't gone and we find it today, it'll

[21:11] be gone tomorrow. But the library where

[21:14] 10 students were murdered and Patrick

[21:16] Ireland fell to the arms of rescuers is

[21:18] now walled off by lockers.

[21:20] >> We have not made a final decision at

[21:22] this time what will happen to the

[21:23] library.

[21:24] >> Though the lockers of killers Eric

[21:25] Harris and Dylan Clebold are still here.

[21:28] They will not be used and students

[21:30] anxious for school to start say they're

[21:32] wary.

[21:34] >> I'm nervous just because I don't know

[21:35] how everyone's going to react. You know,

[21:37] everyone's going to react differently.

[21:38] So

[21:39] >> if any educator was naive enough to

[21:41] believe that school shootings were the

[21:42] isolated problems of states like

[21:45] Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas, and

[21:47] Georgia, then the lesson of Littleton is

[21:50] no American school is immune.

[21:52] >> I think it's a reality of the 21st

[21:54] century that schools are different.

[21:56] >> After a series of threats ended the

[21:58] Allen, Texas school year early last

[22:01] spring, metal detectors are in doorways

[22:03] now. Backpacks are searched if they're

[22:06] not see-through backpacks. And what more

[22:08] security guards don't see, hidden

[22:10] cameras do.

[22:12] >> We believe the lives of students and

[22:13] staff are of tantamount of importance.

[22:16] You cannot react, overreact when it

[22:18] comes to their lives.

[22:19] >> Well, if they're going to come home

[22:20] breathing the next day, I don't have no

[22:22] problem with it.

[22:23] >> It will cost more than $3 million to

[22:25] repair and restore Coline High. It's an

[22:28] investment not in locks or in labor, but

[22:32] in life. Bob McNamera, CBS News,

[22:35] Littleton, Colorado.

[22:37] In Oregon, the spent nuclear reactor of

[22:39] the largest US atomic power plant ever

[22:41] to be shut down was loaded onto a barge

[22:44] today, encased in concrete and steel.

[22:46] It's headed right through the heart of

[22:48] Portland. The first time a commercial

[22:50] reactor this big and this radioactive is

[22:52] passing through a major US city. Final

[22:55] resting place, burial at the Hanford

[22:57] nuclear facility in Washington State.

[23:00] Still ahead on the CBS Evening News.

[23:03] Monkey see, monkey do? We'll see in a

[23:06] minute or two.

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[23:11] >> Five things to consider about the Chevy

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[23:38] >> Let's go for a drive.

[23:41] >> Courage. Something shared by countless

[23:44] Americans.

[23:46] Those who risk their lives,

[23:48] those who battle serious illness. When I

[23:50] was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I

[23:53] was primarily concerned with ridding

[23:54] myself of the cancer. But secondly, I

[23:57] was concerned about possible

[23:58] post-operative side effects like

[24:00] erectile dysfunction, ED,

[24:03] often called impetence. You know, it's a

[24:05] little embarrassing to talk about ED,

[24:07] but it's so important to millions of men

[24:09] and their partners that I decided to

[24:11] talk about it publicly. And after all,

[24:13] it can be associated with many

[24:15] conditions, including prostate surgery,

[24:18] high blood pressure, diabetes, or even

[24:21] smoking. The point I want to make is

[24:23] there are many treatments available for

[24:25] ED. So my advice is get a medical

[24:27] checkup. It's the best way to get

[24:29] educated about ED and what can be done

[24:31] to treat it. It may take a little

[24:33] courage, but I've always found that

[24:35] everything worthwhile does.

[24:41] >> Mom, the dog.

[24:43] >> It's just lying on the bun.

[24:45] >> Even that dog needs a new trick.

[24:47] >> Beat the cold bun blues with Pillsbury

[24:49] Crescent Dogs. Just wrap them and bake

[24:51] them.

[24:52] >> Aren't these dogs fun?

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[24:56] >> Got heartburn caused by acid reflux?

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[25:12] There are few things more beautiful this

[25:14] time of year than the sight of a small

[25:16] white sphere streaking across the night

[25:18] sky. here. Then a thing of beauty.

[25:22] >> Maguire pops one.

[25:23] >> That of course the big red star known as

[25:25] Mark Maguire launching his 500th home

[25:28] run, reaching that milestone faster than

[25:30] anyone before in just 5,487

[25:34] at bats. If you've ever tried to learn a

[25:37] foreign language, you know how difficult

[25:39] it can be. Tonight, Byron Pittz

[25:41] introduces you to a couple of students

[25:42] who once knew not a word of English.

[25:45] Now, thanks to modern technology and

[25:47] old-fashioned hard work, they're

[25:48] conversing. Well, almost like natives.

[25:52] >> Hello

[25:54] to the visitors. Would you go say hello

[25:58] to the visitors? Go say hello.

[26:00] >> They are neither shy nor quiet.

[26:03] >> Oh, that's very nice. Thank you. We have

[26:06] Kzi and Pamishia, two bonobos, chimps

[26:09] with an attitude and a vocabulary. Well,

[26:12] that's a woo woo woo. It It's a kind of

[26:15] an announcement that something exciting

[26:17] is going to happen.

[26:18] >> It's a language linked to a computer

[26:20] keyboard with symbols and a synthetic

[26:22] voice.

[26:23] >> This is good. This is peas. This is

[26:26] later. This is soap. This is give.

[26:30] >> Good. Good.

[26:33] >> Is it good? Their

[26:37] facial expressions and gestures and

[26:39] glances are more humanlike than those of

[26:41] common chimpanzees.

[26:42] >> Researcher Sue Savage Rumba has been

[26:44] with Kenzie almost since birth.

[26:46] >> Part of a revolutionary 19-year

[26:48] experiment to teach these animals to

[26:51] understand language and communicate.

[26:53] >> Could you carry the television outdoors,

[26:56] please?

[26:59] Now they've learned to recognize symbols

[27:01] and then construct sentences by pressing

[27:03] keys in the right order.

[27:07] >> M&M's are at flat rock outdoors. THAT'S

[27:09] WHERE WE FIND THEM.

[27:11] >> Kenzie and Pampenicia clearly can't

[27:13] talk, at least not yet. But Rumba is

[27:15] convinced they are communicating each

[27:18] with language and cognitive skills equal

[27:20] to a 4year-old child. We've now given

[27:24] them with this new panel and we intend

[27:26] to add more words the ability to

[27:28] actually structure longer sentences

[27:30] themselves. It will take time. They do

[27:34] have that cognitive capacity and they

[27:36] can learn to do that. Is the car fine?

[27:38] Sit down.

[27:39] >> Keys.

[27:41] >> You need a key.

[27:43] >> Car

[27:43] >> for the car. I have the car keys.

[27:47] I think they're out there in the car.

[27:48] All right, let's go.

[27:50] Now that they've unlocked the keys to

[27:52] language, researchers hope to take these

[27:54] chimps down a road where no animal has

[27:57] been before.

[27:59] >> And turn those grunts into real words.

[28:03] Byron Pittz, CBS News Atlanta.

[28:07] >> And that's the CBS Evening News. For Dan

[28:09] Rather, I'm John Roberts in New York.

[28:10] Have a great weekend. Good night.

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[28:31] >> What are these kids at camp in Maine

[28:33] doing that their parents never could?

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[28:47] ever investigation on the CBS Evening

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[28:58] >> Coming up on News Channel 5 at 6, Bill

[29:00] Purcell will soon be Nashville's mayor.

[29:02] And today, he got the first look at his

[29:04] new home. We'll take you on the grand

[29:06] tour.

[29:07] >> Plus, it's the only way for her

[29:09] handicapped son to get around. Tonight,

[29:11] we'll show you why this woman is

[29:13] fighting to keep this van.

[29:15] >> And a construction accident at the

[29:17] Saturn plant sends three people to the

[29:19] hospital. We'll tell you what happened

[29:20] when the news begins in 30 seconds.

[29:26] >> Hey there, this is your colonel talking.

[29:29] Now, I got something here that's

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