World News (ABC) - 2009-03-15

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[0:00] Tonight on World News outrageous, that's

[0:02] what the president's top economic

[0:04] adviser calls the news that AIG is doing

[0:07] out $165 million in bonuses after taking

[0:12] that gargantuan taxpayer bailout. How

[0:15] can these bonuses be justified? While

[0:17] the AIG folks rake it in, we take a look

[0:20] at the new homeless. Entire families

[0:22] living in cheap motel. Four, five, six

[0:26] people to a room. Also tonight, allergic

[0:28] reaction, a breakthrough in eliminating

[0:31] deadly peanut allergies. How doctors

[0:34] retrained a child's immune system. And

[0:37] busting the bullies, how one school is

[0:40] eliminating an age-old problem. And even

[0:43] the bullies are happier.

[0:48] >> From ABC News headquarters in New York,

[0:51] this is World News.

[0:53] >> Good evening. At a time when the country

[0:55] is a flame with resentment and anger at

[0:57] Wall Street, here comes an incendiary

[1:00] piece of news from the American

[1:01] International Group, AIG, the company at

[1:04] the heart of the financial collapse. AIG

[1:06] is paying $165 million in bonuses to its

[1:10] executives by today, despite the fact

[1:13] that the company received $170 billion

[1:16] in a taxpayer-f funed bailout. and AIG

[1:19] and the Obama administration say there

[1:22] is nothing they can do to stop it. We're

[1:24] going to start tonight with ABC's John

[1:25] Hendren who is at the White House.

[1:27] >> The Obama administration has a word for

[1:30] the AIG bonuses.

[1:31] >> Outrageous. Outrageous.

[1:33] >> Outrageous. It's outrageous. Outrageous.

[1:36] >> An angry Treasury Secretary Timothy

[1:37] Gitener called AIG Chief Executive

[1:39] Edward Litty Wednesday demanding he

[1:41] slash the bombshell bonuses. Littyy's

[1:44] response, AIG's hands are tied. In a

[1:47] letter to Gitener yesterday, Litty said

[1:48] he found the bonuses distasteful, but he

[1:50] said they were contractually promised

[1:52] before the collapse and we must proceed

[1:54] with them. Despite his outrage,

[1:56] President Obama's top economic adviser

[1:58] agrees.

[1:59] >> The government cannot just abregate

[2:03] contracts.

[2:04] >> Lawmakers are particularly furious that

[2:06] the bonuses are going to the very unit

[2:07] at AIG whose risky behavior nearly

[2:10] brought down the company and the US

[2:11] economy. The message here, I'm afraid,

[2:13] is let's enter into a bunch of contracts

[2:16] real quick and we'll have the taxpayers

[2:18] pay bonuses uh to our employees. This is

[2:21] an outrage.

[2:22] >> This is an example of people at the

[2:24] commanding heights to the economy

[2:26] misbehaving.

[2:26] >> Ly was recruited by the Bush

[2:28] administration to run AIG and the

[2:30] bonuses were negotiated before he

[2:32] arrived. But Congressman Elijah Cummings

[2:34] cites the lavish corporate parties AIG

[2:36] has held since the bailout and the huge

[2:38] losses the company has had of late. He

[2:40] says Ly should step down.

[2:42] >> It's like, "Okay, you got to help me.

[2:45] Screw you. And by the way, I'm going to

[2:47] take your money and I'm going to slap

[2:48] you with it."

[2:49] >> He has trouble swallowing AIG's claim

[2:51] that the bonuses are to retain

[2:52] executives.

[2:53] >> Where are they going to go? I mean,

[2:56] think about it. Where are they going to

[2:58] go?

[2:59] >> Ly has only heard the beginning of the

[3:01] bonus backlash. Dan, he'll be on the hot

[3:03] seat this Wednesday at a congressional

[3:04] hearing explaining why taxpayers are

[3:06] footing the bill for millions more to

[3:09] executives who've already cost them

[3:10] billions. Dan

[3:12] >> John Hendren at the White House tonight.

[3:13] Thank you. For more on this story that

[3:15] has a lot of people very angry. We have

[3:16] with us tonight William Cohan, the

[3:18] author of the new book on the financial

[3:20] meltdown called House of Cards. Thanks

[3:21] for coming in.

[3:22] >> Thank you, Dan. Despite the professions

[3:24] of outrage we're hearing from government

[3:25] officials like Larry Summers and the

[3:27] professions of regret from the people at

[3:29] the top of AIG, you say you suspect that

[3:32] somewhere in the back of their minds,

[3:34] they're actually happy that these guys

[3:35] are getting the money and staying in

[3:36] their jobs.

[3:37] >> Well, unfortunately, I think what

[3:38] they're not saying is that they need

[3:40] these people. They need the very people

[3:42] who got us into this mess to help us get

[3:44] it get us out of it because I suspect

[3:46] that they know this is so complicated

[3:48] that without the people who helped

[3:50] create these securities that have now

[3:52] gotten us into so much trouble and

[3:53] helped us unwind them, they won't be

[3:55] able to figure it out. As we discussed

[3:57] before the show, they need the people

[3:58] who planted the bomb to diffuse the

[4:00] bomb. Let me let me ask you another

[4:02] question about uh about your book. Your

[4:04] book is about how we got into this mess

[4:06] in the first place, the collapse on Wall

[4:08] Street. You talk about the greed and

[4:10] hubris that got us to this point. Do you

[4:12] see anything today from what we're

[4:14] seeing from hi aig that suggests that

[4:17] the greed and hubris still persists on

[4:19] Wall Street?

[4:20] >> Well, I think we need to, you know, come

[4:22] clean on all of what's happening here.

[4:24] You're beginning to see some sort of

[4:25] clarity, some little bits and pieces of

[4:28] information coming out, but still the

[4:30] executives who are behind all of this

[4:32] have not yet fessed up to what they did

[4:34] and why. And it's very clear in my book

[4:36] I lay out what exactly happened at Bear

[4:38] Sterns over any number of years that put

[4:39] them in such a precarious position. And

[4:41] I think the time has come for everyone

[4:43] to say what really happened here instead

[4:44] of hiding behind the myths that have

[4:46] been created.

[4:47] >> Very quickly late tonight, uh, AIG is

[4:49] releasing some information on how it

[4:51] spent the billions it got from the

[4:53] government. Good sign or bad sign?

[4:55] >> Well, what it shows is there's more

[4:57] bailout money going to firms like

[4:58] Goldman Sachs and Meil Lynch than people

[5:00] originally thought.

[5:02] >> William Cohan, thank you very much.

[5:03] Thank you for appreciate it.

[5:04] >> Tomorrow we are going to get a better

[5:06] idea if the recent rally on Wall Street

[5:08] was a real turnaround or just a blip.

[5:11] The Dow was up nearly 600 points last

[5:13] week, 9%. So what might move markets

[5:16] this week?

[5:19] The AIG bonus uproar, will it make it

[5:21] tougher for the government to pass

[5:23] future bailouts, which many economists

[5:25] say we may need? How will markets

[5:27] respond to the refusal by European

[5:30] nations this weekend to increase

[5:32] spending on their own economies?

[5:34] President Obama announces a new plan to

[5:36] help small businesses tomorrow and the

[5:38] Federal Reserve meets Tuesday,

[5:40] Wednesday. Both could have an effect on

[5:42] the market. And finally, several key

[5:44] companies will report earnings this

[5:46] week, including FedEx. Considered a key

[5:49] barometer because when businesses are

[5:51] busy, they ship more stuff. Bottom line,

[5:54] last week's rally was encouraging, but

[5:56] most experts say until the economy

[5:58] really turns around and the banks deal

[6:00] with their toxic assets. We are not

[6:03] likely to see a rally that really lasts.

[6:06] >> And we turn now overseas to Pakistan

[6:08] where today there was talk of

[6:09] revolution. But tonight the government

[6:11] appears to be caving in to demands from

[6:13] protesters agreeing to agreeing tonight

[6:16] to reinstate the Supreme Court chief

[6:18] justice whose ouster had enraged the

[6:20] opposition. Tonight's announcement

[6:22] follows a day of unrest and chaos that

[6:24] included violent clashes raising fears

[6:27] about the stability of this nuclear

[6:29] armed nation. At one point, the police

[6:31] let the violent escalate the violence

[6:33] escalate and spread. All this has

[6:35] potentially serious implications for

[6:37] American national security. So, let's go

[6:38] now to our senior foreign affairs

[6:40] correspondent, Martha Ratitz. Martha,

[6:42] what are your sources in the American

[6:44] government telling you about how worried

[6:46] they are about this situation?

[6:49] Uh well they were certainly worried and

[6:50] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had

[6:52] been in touch with President Zardari in

[6:55] Pakistan. This has now been diffused.

[6:57] They believe this was an enormous rally

[7:00] Dan and it was supposed to be bigger

[7:02] tomorrow. The opposition leader had

[7:04] actually been put under house arrest. He

[7:06] escaped. He had been in a convoy. He was

[7:08] headed for Islamabad. So I think it's

[7:11] exactly as you said. The government has

[7:13] caved in. They did not want this massive

[7:16] opposition. The US did not want this.

[7:18] The US wants the Pakistani government to

[7:21] concentrate on going after terrorists.

[7:24] >> And now, as we said, the government

[7:25] appears to have caved in by agreeing to

[7:27] reinstate the Supreme Court chief

[7:29] justice. Do we think that will be enough

[7:32] for these protesters?

[7:34] >> Well, so far I think it will be, Dan. I

[7:36] mean, I think what you might see

[7:37] tomorrow is a party, but they will have

[7:40] more power now. They will definitely

[7:42] have more power, but I think you will

[7:44] see again the US pushing back and trying

[7:46] to tamp this down.

[7:47] >> Continuing instability in a country on

[7:49] the front lines in the war on terror.

[7:51] Martha Ratitz, thank you very much. It

[7:53] was six years ago this week that the US

[7:56] and its allies invaded Iraq. And all

[7:58] this week, ABC News will be taking a

[8:00] look at what life is like in Iraq right

[8:02] now in our series Iraq, Where Things

[8:04] Stand. ABC's Terry McCarthy has been

[8:06] traveling all over the country, and this

[8:08] time he found something new. optimism.

[8:14] >> Markets without bombs.

[8:18] >> Hummers without guns.

[8:21] Ice cream after dark.

[8:25] Busy streets without fear.

[8:29] Six years after the war started, more

[8:31] Iraqis now say the economy rather than

[8:33] security is the biggest concern in their

[8:36] lives. 32% against 20%. 60% expect

[8:40] things to get better next year, almost

[8:42] three times as many as a year and a half

[8:44] ago. Iraqis are slowly discovering they

[8:47] have a future.

[8:50] We flew south to Basra where 94% say

[8:53] their lives are going well. Oil is

[8:55] plentiful here.

[8:57] So is money which they like to spend on

[9:00] expensive imports.

[9:01] >> You have many people buying cell phones

[9:02] for $600.

[9:03] >> Yes, welcome.

[9:04] >> At the port, shipping has increased

[9:07] threefold since last year. But we didn't

[9:09] realize quite how quickly Iraq was

[9:11] returning to normal until we visited the

[9:13] new modern Al-Musawi Hospital.

[9:17] >> How much you pay for that machine?

[9:18] >> Uh $80,000

[9:21] US.

[9:22] >> 80,000.

[9:24] >> What surprised us most was that 8% of

[9:26] their patients come from overseas.

[9:30] But as Iraq rejoins the world, it is not

[9:33] immune to the global recession. Iraq's

[9:35] economy is almost entirely dependent on

[9:37] oil. So with oil prices down this year,

[9:40] they have less money to spend on

[9:42] everything else.

[9:44] >> The private sector may be booming, but

[9:47] stateowned factories like this

[9:48] prochemical plant cannot get the spare

[9:51] parts they need. It was idle the day we

[9:53] visited.

[9:54] >> Very important for the technology, the

[9:56] assistance in the technology side.

[10:00] Much of the country is still stuck in

[10:02] the past. But now violence has gone

[10:04] down. Iraqis have a chance to start

[10:07] building a future that until recently

[10:09] they couldn't even imagine. Terry

[10:12] McCarthy, ABC News, Basra.

[10:14] >> And there will be more of Terry's

[10:16] reporting on where things stand in Iraq

[10:18] all week here on ABC News. The war in

[10:21] Afghanistan has not been going as well

[10:23] for the US. Today, four American troops

[10:25] were killed in a roadside bombing in

[10:26] eastern Afghanistan. one of the

[10:28] deadliest attacks against foreign troops

[10:30] in weeks. And back in this country, NASA

[10:33] says that repairs have been made, the

[10:34] weather is looking good, and the space

[10:36] shuttle Discovery is on track for an

[10:38] evening liftoff. NASA says there is no

[10:41] sign of the fuel leak that forced the

[10:43] launch to be postponed last week. And

[10:46] the latest newspaper on the brink, the

[10:48] San Francisco Chronicle, is still

[10:50] publishing tonight after workers agreed

[10:52] to massive concessions. Union members

[10:55] voted to work longer days, cut vacation

[10:57] time, and allow layoffs without regard

[10:59] to seniority. The Newspaper Guild is

[11:02] bracing for the elimination of 150 jobs.

[11:05] And coming up here on World News this

[11:07] Sunday, saving children from deadly

[11:09] peanut allergies with a daily dose of

[11:12] peanuts. Middle class families checking

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[14:11] allergy. 3.3 million Americans are

[14:14] allergic to nuts. For some children,

[14:16] even peanut dust can be fatal, and that

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[14:28] 8-year-old Daniel Klouse is so allergic

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[14:33] life-threatening reaction. And

[14:35] >> my son asked his 5-year-old friend,

[14:37] "Does this have peanuts in it?" And his

[14:38] friend said, "No, and it certainly did."

[14:40] And we ended up in the emergency room.

[14:42] >> Now, promising results from a new study

[14:44] suggest that some children can conquer

[14:46] their peanut allergy.

[14:47] >> Children that have been in the study for

[14:49] longer than two and a half years, that

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[14:53] peanuts in their diet. They're eating

[14:55] peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

[14:56] because they're eating a peanut

[14:57] containing candy and not have any

[14:58] allergic reactions. And we really

[14:59] anticipate that it'll be that way for

[15:01] the rest of their life.

[15:02] >> The premise is simple. Fight fire with

[15:05] fire.

[15:06] >> One, two.

[15:07] >> In the study, 33 children with severe

[15:09] peanut allergies were actually given

[15:11] peanuts in incremental doses. Starting

[15:14] from just 1,000th of a peanut.

[15:16] >> Put your arms up for me.

[15:17] >> After 3 years, 10-year-old Alyssa

[15:20] Miller, a study participant, had built

[15:22] up a tolerance. I take six peanuts and

[15:24] it's very cool because I never thought

[15:28] I'd ever be able to even eat one.

[15:30] >> Some say studies like this prove that

[15:32] complete nut bands in places like

[15:34] schools and on airplanes can actually

[15:37] prevent children from building their

[15:39] tolerance.

[15:40] >> So what we do with nut bands is actually

[15:41] we make the problem worse. We increase

[15:43] anxiety. We uh decrease exposure to nuts

[15:47] which might increase the uh the actual

[15:50] uh epidemic that we're trying to fight.

[15:52] Okay, let's count them again.

[15:53] >> Doctors hope this study will lead to

[15:55] cures for peanut and possibly other food

[15:57] allergies, but they stress parents

[15:59] should not try the treatment at home.

[16:02] Stephanie Sai, ABC News, New York.

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[19:47] last resort, a lowcost motel. It's

[19:50] particularly noticeable in Orange

[19:51] County, California, where rents are high

[19:54] and there are plenty of old motel. When

[19:56] school lets out, the children start

[19:58] trickling back in through the

[20:00] courtyards.

[20:00] >> We're seeing more families. We're seeing

[20:02] more intact families uh that are

[20:05] suffering from the economy

[20:07] >> and the motel can be dangerous. Friday

[20:10] in Anaheim, police shot and wounded a

[20:12] man while trying to arrest him on drug

[20:14] charges.

[20:14] >> You never know when you're going to have

[20:15] a gang gangs come in. You never know

[20:18] when there's going to be a pedophile.

[20:19] >> Jonathan Emerson and his girlfriend were

[20:21] moved from a motel to a subsidized

[20:24] apartment, but there's little of that

[20:26] kind of help, so most go to motel. Aid

[20:29] agencies say it's not ideal, but better

[20:31] than living in the family car.

[20:33] >> Make no mistake about it, we're still in

[20:34] a motel. It's a transient population in

[20:37] and out. It's not the most optimal place

[20:39] for a family to be for any length of

[20:41] time.

[20:42] >> The Garzas hope to move to an apartment

[20:44] within a few months.

[20:45] >> And then last month, I was blessed with

[20:46] a job in the hospital.

[20:48] >> Are you eating those M&M's?

[20:50] >> If they leave, they will be immediately

[20:52] replaced. There's a list of homeless

[20:55] families waiting to move in to a motel.

[20:58] Brian Rooney, ABC News, Anaheim,

[21:00] California.

[21:02] >> And when we come back, naming names,

[21:04] getting kids to point out the bullies,

[21:06] but not to punish them.

[21:11] >> For many with arthritis pain, not

[21:13] treating is not an option. All

[21:16] prescription NSAID pain relievers like

[21:18] Celre, ibuprofen, and neproxin help

[21:20] treat arthritis pain and have some of

[21:22] the same warnings. But since individual

[21:25] results may vary, having options is

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[21:32] 10 straight years. Just one 200 mgram

[21:35] Celre can provide dependable 24-hour

[21:38] relief for many with arthritis pain,

[21:40] stiffness, and inflammation. Based on

[21:42] the available data, the FDA stated that

[21:44] for certain patients, Celre's benefits

[21:47] outweigh the risks.

[21:49] If you're worried about stomach upset,

[21:51] you should know in clinical studies, a

[21:53] lower percentage of patients taking

[21:55] Celre reported stomach discomfort versus

[21:58] prescription ibuprofen and neproxin. And

[22:00] if you are taking lowdose aspirin for

[22:02] your heart and need an NSAID pain

[22:03] reliever, Celre can be used because it

[22:07] doesn't interfere with the effects of

[22:08] lowdose aspirin. But when it comes to

[22:10] relieving your arthritis pain, you and

[22:12] your doctor need to balance the benefits

[22:14] with the risks. The FDA requires all

[22:17] prescription NSAIDs, including Celrex,

[22:19] ibuprofen, neproxin, and Moxyam, to have

[22:22] the same cardiovascular warning.

[22:26] They all may increase the chance of

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[22:58] aspirin or sulfonomides.

[23:00] Ask your doctor if you could benefit

[23:02] from Celre.

[23:05] Understand the risks, feel the benefits.

[23:12] >> Finally, from us tonight, for as long as

[23:14] there have been schools, there have been

[23:16] school bullies. It's a real problem.

[23:18] Bullying can interrupt a student's

[23:20] ability to learn and a school's ability

[23:22] to educate. Tonight, a radical new

[23:24] approach to this problem, helping the

[23:27] bullies. Neil Carlinsky is on that

[23:29] story.

[23:31] White Pine is a tiny middle school

[23:33] grappling with a huge bullying problem.

[23:36] A problem that plagues schools across

[23:37] the country and which can be

[23:39] devastating. 14-year-old Ally Bby was

[23:41] teased and physically abused to the

[23:43] point she couldn't take it anymore.

[23:46] >> It was pretty hard. Just a bunch of

[23:48] being scared and not even wanting to

[23:51] leave my house every morning.

[23:52] >> It got so bad that Bby and other

[23:54] students fled to another school 40 miles

[23:57] away. The problem is huge. The Centers

[24:00] for Disease Control estimates that every

[24:02] day 160,000 kids stay home from school

[24:05] nationwide because they're afraid of

[24:08] being bullied. In some cases, kids have

[24:10] even made their own videos posted online

[24:13] as a cry for help because they felt no

[24:15] one was listening. White Pine's new

[24:17] principal, Aaron Hansen, was fed up. He

[24:20] came up with an innovative plan. The

[24:22] first step was virtually unheard of.

[24:24] this confidential bully survey where

[24:27] every student was asked to write down

[24:29] the names of the school's bullies. Over

[24:31] and over again, the same eight names

[24:33] popped up. 13-year-old Jonathan Simmons

[24:36] was one of them.

[24:37] >> Last year, I threw a kid into the wall.

[24:39] It didn't turn out too pretty.

[24:41] >> Henson didn't out the bullies. He used

[24:43] the surveys to identify the problem kids

[24:45] and then meet with each of them

[24:47] individually. He worked on solving their

[24:49] problems, often trouble at home. and he

[24:52] got them involved with extracurricular

[24:54] activities as a reward for good

[24:56] behavior.

[24:57] >> At lunch, teachers now assign seating to

[25:00] make sure no one is left out. And

[25:02] instead of a school bell, there

[25:06] >> songs play over the PA to send kids off

[25:08] to class in a light-hearted mood.

[25:11] Students and staff alike say the school

[25:14] has been transformed.

[25:16] >> Raise your hand if you think there is

[25:17] now less bullying in the school than

[25:19] there used to be.

[25:20] >> Oh, yeah.

[25:22] This year, Ali Bibby is back and she's

[25:25] not scared anymore.

[25:26] >> Now that they're taking care of it, I

[25:28] feel so much happier.

[25:30] >> Even the bullies are happier and part of

[25:32] a school where getting along is the most

[25:35] important lesson. Neil Kolinsky, ABC

[25:37] News, Elely, Nevada.

[25:39] >> And that does it for World News on this

[25:41] Sunday. Tomorrow on Good Morning

[25:42] America, an exclusive interview with

[25:44] Levi Johnston, the former fiance of

[25:46] Bristol Palin, daughter of Governor

[25:48] Sarah Palin. Also, this reminder, if you

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