World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-12
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[0:00] Temperatures across the Pacific
[0:01] Northwest. 55 in Seattle at this hour,
[0:03] 63 in the Dallas, 61 in Pendleton, and
[0:06] 62 currently in the Rose
[0:10] [Music]
[0:18] City. On World News Tonight, there has
[0:21] been a case of anthrax in New York City.
[0:23] It has scared a lot of people. We'll
[0:25] take a closer look at the threat. The
[0:27] president says the nation is still in
[0:29] danger. So does the attorney general.
[0:32] The US says the bombing in Afghanistan
[0:34] may have killed some Taliban officials.
[0:37] The White House urges millions of
[0:39] children to say the pledge of allegiance
[0:46] and give a dollar to the children of
[0:49] Afghanistan. and the individual ways
[0:51] that people deal with anxiety, prayer
[0:55] and eating, and looking for
[1:01] love. From ABC News World Headquarters
[1:04] in New York, this is World News Tonight
[1:08] with Peter Jennings. Good evening
[1:09] everyone. We don't mean to be glib about
[1:11] it, but when is there not a lot going on
[1:13] these days? The bombing campaign against
[1:15] Afghanistan continued today and there
[1:18] has been another case of anthrax. We
[1:21] learned early this morning that a woman
[1:22] at NBC's headquarters here in New York
[1:24] City had been infected by anthrax and
[1:26] there has been at least a scare at the
[1:28] New York Times not far away. The
[1:31] attorney general said today that there
[1:32] have been hundreds of anthrax hoaxes,
[1:35] but another real event frightened a lot
[1:37] of people. So, our first report tonight
[1:39] is from ABC's John Miller. John, we know
[1:41] that an assistant to Tom Brokhaw got a
[1:43] letter on the 25th of September. Take it
[1:46] from there. Well, that letter, Peter,
[1:47] written in broke