NBC Nightly News - 1999-05-05 - 2 of 2

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[0:00] I [clears throat]

[0:01] didn't really have expectations about

[0:03] the timing

[0:04] because I think the timing

[0:06] depends upon things that are to some

[0:08] extent beyond our control. That is

[0:11] the timing depends upon the weather even

[0:12] though we've now flown 15,000 sorties.

[0:15] Not all of them could deliver their

[0:16] payload because of the weather. The

[0:17] timing depends upon

[0:20] the extent to which Mr. Milosevic is

[0:22] willing to

[0:23] see his country and his military

[0:26] broken and taken into the ground in

[0:28] order to

[0:29] maintain this campaign of ethnic

[0:31] cleansing.

[0:32] I was just convinced that we had a

[0:35] strategy that would work,

[0:37] that we could do it at an acceptable

[0:39] cost,

[0:40] and that we had to stay with it until it

[0:41] did work. And I still feel that way. I

[0:43] feel quite good about it. Your critics

[0:45] say the Clinton doctrine is we bomb the

[0:47] smaller countries, Iraq and Kosovo,

[0:50] but when the big countries begin to give

[0:51] us trouble, we turn the other way. China

[0:53] and nuclear secrets is the most recent

[0:55] example of that. Isn't that a bigger

[0:57] risk related to the long-term history of

[0:59] the United States than Kosovo? Well,

[1:01] first of all, I think that's apples and

[1:02] oranges.

[1:05] The Soviet Union spied on us all during

[1:07] the Cold War and

[1:09] I don't recall President Truman or

[1:11] President Eisenhower or President

[1:13] Kennedy or President Johnson or

[1:14] President Nixon ever considering bombing

[1:17] Russia

[1:19] because of espionage. We didn't break

[1:22] off relationships with Israel when

[1:23] Israel was involved in espionage in ways

[1:25] that could have been quite damaging to

[1:27] us.

[1:28] So, I just I think that's a

[1:31] that's a foolish thing. If if we should

[1:33] handle this espionage case the way we've

[1:35] handled every other espionage case

[1:37] since spying began. Based on what we're

[1:39] seeing on Capitol Hill and other signs

[1:41] of it as well,

[1:43] 1998, your job approval rating remained

[1:46] very high, but there were real questions

[1:48] about trustworthiness and credibility

[1:50] and so on even in the public. Has that

[1:52] made running this kind of operation more

[1:55] complicated for you? No.

[1:58] No.

[1:59] You know, the people on Capitol Hill

[2:01] will have to decide how they respond

[2:04] as Americans to their obligations here.

[2:07] But it hasn't been a problem. And

[2:10] the American people made clear in the

[2:12] election in 1998

[2:14] who they trusted and for what reason.

[2:17] And what their priorities are.

[2:20] And they hired us all to do their work.

[2:24] And they want they want their lives and

[2:27] their children and their future and

[2:29] their national interests put first.

[2:30] After his short stay at Spangdahlem, it

[2:33] was back to Air Force One. We're now

[2:35] about 16 hours into the trip, our second

[2:38] country of the day, and our second

[2:39] military base. This one is Ramstein Air

[2:42] Force Base. At Ramstein, the president

[2:44] went to a nearby hangar for a dinner

[2:47] with a mess hall full of troops.

[2:50] The president returns to Washington

[2:52] tomorrow night, and he is expected to

[2:54] visit the Oklahoma tornado disaster over

[2:56] the weekend.

[2:58] Now back to Brian Williams in New York.

[3:00] Brian. Tom, thanks. When we come back, 3

[3:03] billion tax dollars either blown up, off

[3:05] course, or thrown away.

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[5:38] Where in [clears throat] the world is

[5:40] Batman?

[5:42] Nobody knows, but he's off again. Five

[5:44] more days, five more secret destinations

[5:46] starting Monday.

[5:49] Lots of questions this evening about

[5:51] last night's launch of a Delta rocket

[5:53] with a communications satellite on

[5:54] board. The rocket didn't make its orbit.

[5:56] The satellite is now space junk. This

[5:58] makes the sixth time in the past 9

[6:01] months that a rocket launch has been

[6:02] botched, and your tax dollars are

[6:04] picking up a lot of the cost. What's

[6:06] going on here? Here with that, NBC's

[6:08] Robert Hager.

[6:11] A million pounds of thrust as a Delta

[6:13] III rocket thunders into the night sky

[6:15] over Cape Canaveral. But just out of

[6:18] camera range, the second stage of this

[6:20] rocket fails. Today, the TV and

[6:22] telephone satellite it was supposed to

[6:24] put in orbit over Asia is lost, as well

[6:26] as a military spy satellite lost just

[6:29] last Friday. And these are only the

[6:31] latest in an incredible string of six US

[6:34] rocket launches that have now ended in

[6:36] failure since last August when this

[6:38] Titan IV with a spy satellite exploded,

[6:41] and 2 weeks later this Delta exploded

[6:44] taking with it a broadcast satellite.

[6:47] The worst series of failures since the

[6:49] space shuttle Challenger accident in the

[6:50] 1980s. But this time, instead of lives

[6:53] lost, it's satellites. A setback for the

[6:55] US aerospace industry. And for the

[6:57] military satellites lost, a cost to the

[7:00] taxpayers of $3 billion.

[7:03] Rockets are like glorified Roman

[7:05] candles, inherently more risky than a

[7:07] spaceship built for people like the

[7:09] shuttle. But no one expected this many

[7:11] problems. Congressional researcher and

[7:13] space expert Marcia Smith. I think that

[7:15] the companies who build these launch

[7:16] vehicles are asking themselves right now

[7:18] what they need to do to improve their

[7:19] performance and increase their

[7:21] reliability. I think it's amazing to

[7:23] everyone that you could have so many

[7:24] failures in a row. The military

[7:26] satellites lost mean less capacity for

[7:28] secret communications just as US forces

[7:31] are in the Balkans. And the commercial

[7:33] losses could drive future launches to

[7:34] European rocket makers. Professor John

[7:37] Logsdon. I think it it it's a pretty

[7:39] strong wake-up call that says there may

[7:41] be something systemically wrong here.

[7:44] Tonight, the string of failures leaves

[7:46] the future of the commercial space

[7:47] program with the lost satellites up in

[7:50] the air. Robert Hager, NBC News,

[7:52] Washington.

[7:53] On Wall Street, after being down for

[7:55] most of the day, stocks rallied late.

[7:57] The Dow finished up over 69 points, and

[7:59] a strong finish for the Nasdaq up over

[8:02] 49. I'll be right back as we continue

[8:04] with the tale from the tornado zone in

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[10:41] A city digs out from a disaster. It's

[10:43] not the first time for Oklahoma City.

[10:45] Join [music] us for continuing coverage

[10:47] of this unfolding story. Hawk and Berry

[10:49] tonight on MSNBC.

[11:02] When disaster strikes as it did in

[11:04] Oklahoma and Kansas this week, there

[11:06] always seem to be amazing stories of

[11:07] courage and survival. Well, tonight the

[11:09] story of one man from a rural town north

[11:12] of Oklahoma City who had a very close

[11:14] encounter with a twister. Here with that

[11:16] NBC's Anne Thompson.

[11:19] Nature's most powerful force. Imagine

[11:22] being swept away by these winds,

[11:24] helpless, out of control. It happened to

[11:26] Paul Kஸ்ப I mean it took me out of

[11:29] there. It just

[11:30] I don't know how it done it, you know,

[11:33] but

[11:34] I mean you're helpless. It took less

[11:36] than 4 seconds. With the storm fast

[11:38] approaching, K took cover lying on the

[11:41] hallway floor of his house in Crescent,

[11:43] Oklahoma. In a flash, the tornado ripped

[11:45] the 98-year-old home off its foundation.

[11:49] It pushed it to the left, twisted to the

[11:51] right, and 3 or 4 seconds after that it

[11:53] was all over with.

[11:54] And then exploded. I remember when when

[11:57] I started to move, I

[11:59] told myself I bought the farm tonight.

[12:02] Caught up in a funnel cloud like this,

[12:04] spinning with all sorts of debris

[12:06] including two barbed wire fences and a

[12:08] mulberry tree. K says he flew through

[12:11] the air landing over 1/4 of a mile from

[12:14] where he started. I just bruised up,

[12:17] banged up

[12:19] beat up

[12:21] took a pretty good woman.

[12:24] Finally, rescuers arrived. Paramedic

[12:26] Teresa Steinberg cut off his clothes to

[12:28] treat his wounds. Inside his overalls

[12:32] was lot of weeds and dirt that were all

[12:34] inside and inside his boots and it was

[12:38] it was shocking.

[12:40] The paramedics brought K here to Logan

[12:42] Hospital. So caked with mud and blood,

[12:44] his wife Linda says you couldn't even

[12:46] see his skin.

[12:48] Three broken ribs, stitches in his head

[12:51] and hand, and too many cuts and bruises

[12:53] to count. The former Marine knows he's

[12:56] lucky.

[12:57] You know, the good Lord's looking after

[12:58] somebody.

[13:00] As he survived nature's most powerful

[13:02] force, winds that took his home but

[13:05] spared his life. Anne Thompson, NBC

[13:08] News, Guthrie, Oklahoma.

[13:11] And now to wrap things up, back to Tom

[13:12] Brokaw at Ramstein Air Force Base in

[13:14] Germany tonight, Tom. Brian, here at

[13:16] Ramstein Air Base in Germany, this plane

[13:18] behind me is a sizable reminder of the

[13:21] other work of this war, the constant

[13:23] shuttle of supplies to the ever larger

[13:25] refugee camps in Albania and Macedonia.

[13:28] 8,400 more into Macedonia in the last 24

[13:32] hours alone.

[13:33] Those refugees are symbolic of what can

[13:35] go so terribly wrong in a war

[13:38] or even on the road to peace. It would

[13:40] be welcome news if the Russians could

[13:43] persuade Milosevic to come to terms and

[13:45] there could be an effective peacekeeping

[13:47] force and the refugees could go safely

[13:50] home. Maybe all of that will happen.

[13:53] But it's worth remembering that so far

[13:55] in this war, almost nothing has gone as

[13:58] predicted. Tonight, the war does

[14:01] continue and somewhere in Yugoslavia,

[14:04] Milosevic is plotting his next move.

[14:07] I'm Tom Brokaw and I'll see you tomorrow

[14:09] night from Tirana, Albania.

[14:14] >> [music]

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