NBC Nightly News - 1992-03-15
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[0:02] In the Midwest, Democratic candidates
[0:04] face what may be the decisive primaries
[0:06] in their quest for the White House.
[0:11] This is NBC Nightly News reported by
[0:14] Garrett Utley.
[0:16] Good evening. Officially, the
[0:18] presidential primary trail has more than
[0:20] two months to run. But in fact, the race
[0:22] for the Democratic nomination could be
[0:24] all but over after the voting on Tuesday
[0:26] in Illinois and Michigan if and the name
[0:29] of that big if is Bill Clinton. If he
[0:31] wins in both states, it'll be hard for
[0:33] his opponents to stop him. In Chicago,
[0:35] Andrea Mitchell is following the
[0:37] campaign. Andrea
[0:38] >> Garrick boosted by his Super Tuesday
[0:40] victories. Bill Clinton is far ahead in
[0:42] the Midwest. Paul Sus is faltering and
[0:44] Jerry Brown might produce a big
[0:46] surprise.
[0:47] >> Running a campaign for president to
[0:49] challenge
[0:50] >> Brown proved again tonight that he is
[0:51] the campaign's gorilla warrior in the
[0:53] last debate before Tuesday's voting.
[0:55] >> He he is funneling money to his wife's
[0:57] law firm for state business and it's the
[1:00] kind of conflict of interest that is
[1:01] incompatible in the kind of public
[1:03] servant we expect.
[1:04] >> It doesn't sound like you could run as
[1:06] vice president.
[1:06] >> But you ought to be ashamed of yourself
[1:08] for jumping on my wife. You're not worth
[1:09] being on the same platform.
[1:10] >> I'll tell you something, Mr. Clinton.
[1:12] trying to escape it. Ralph Nater told me
[1:14] this afternoon. He read me the article
[1:16] from the Washington Post. I was shocked
[1:18] by it. I was shocked by it. I never
[1:21] funnel any money to my wife's law firm.
[1:23] Never.
[1:23] >> Could I get a word in edgewise here in
[1:25] this today?
[1:29] >> It was a day for ethnic politics Chicago
[1:32] style. The candidates courted so many
[1:34] different ethnic groups. It's a wonder
[1:35] they didn't try to eat their shamrocks
[1:37] and wear their bagels.
[1:39] >> I'm a bagel freak. The giant bagel was
[1:41] squeezed between visits to black
[1:43] churches, target of opportunity for all
[1:45] three candidates.
[1:46] >> You're very kind to have me here on such
[1:48] a wonderful day. And if I don't become
[1:51] president, I'm going to run for bishop.
[1:52] >> I need your help on Tuesday. God bless
[1:55] you and thank you.
[1:57] >> So far this year, black turnout has been
[1:59] low, but those who have voted have
[2:01] chosen Clinton. Brown went after Clinton
[2:03] today on civil rights and his labor
[2:05] record. You can hug all the ministers
[2:08] you want and they can hug you back, but
[2:11] as long as you're encouraging the fast
[2:14] track to move jobs to Mexico, it's not
[2:17] going to do anything for the people of
[2:18] this community.
[2:19] >> Brown has been tapping into the anger of
[2:21] frightened auto workers in Michigan.
[2:23] Labor is suspicious of SA won't change
[2:25] its pro business message even when
[2:27] meeting with laidoff workers.
[2:29] >> We need something to solve the problem
[2:30] now, not four, five, or 6 years down the
[2:33] road. Well, let me tell you, there are
[2:34] no magic bullets.
[2:36] >> Sus also opposes one of Labour's top
[2:38] priorities in Congress, legislation to
[2:40] stop strikers from being replaced. It's
[2:42] one reason why Sus could flip behind
[2:44] Brown in Michigan.
[2:46] >> Even though I had a 90% labor record,
[2:48] it's what have you done to me lately?
[2:49] >> Clinton has some union endorsements, but
[2:51] others are suspicious of his record in
[2:53] Arkansas, a right to work state, giving
[2:55] Brown an opening. They call me Governor
[2:57] Moon Bean,
[3:02] but if that's all they call me, I'm much
[3:06] more electable
[3:08] than Mr. Bill Clinton will ever be. Some
[3:10] >> powerful Michigan leaders are trying to
[3:12] stop Clinton by supporting Brown or
[3:14] remaining uncommitted. But so far,
[3:16] Clinton seems headed for big victories
[3:18] in Michigan and Illinois. Garrick.
[3:20] >> Thanks, Andrew Mitchell. So, what
[3:22] determines a winning campaign? Well,
[3:24] there is of course the candidate. Issues
[3:26] may play a role. Who knows? And then
[3:28] there is money. In an effort to limit
[3:30] influence over candidates, individual
[3:32] contributions are limited to $1,000.
[3:34] Lisa Myers looks at who's giving and
[3:37] who's getting.
[3:41] In politics, money follows power. When
[3:43] George Bush decided it was time to build
[3:45] his campaign war chest last year, he
[3:47] raised a whopping $10 million in only
[3:50] two months. a big chunk of it at this
[3:52] dinner in Houston. An analysis by NBC
[3:55] News and USA Today shows that Bush, like
[3:58] many presidents, is raising lots of
[4:00] money from fat cats. Last year, 76% of
[4:04] Bush's money came in $1,000
[4:06] contributions, while challenger Pat
[4:08] Buchanan got only 26% of his money from
[4:11] big givers. On the Democratic side, the
[4:14] favorite of fat cats was Bill Clinton,
[4:16] who got 41% of his war chest and $1,000
[4:19] contributions, compared to 31% for Paul
[4:23] Song. A close look at the campaign
[4:25] records of all the candidates also
[4:27] reveals that more than half the
[4:29] contributors are not disclosing their
[4:31] occupations or employers as required by
[4:34] law.
[4:35] >> The key tenant of campaign finance law
[4:38] is disclosure of who pays for campaigns
[4:40] and how much. And without the employer
[4:43] identification information, we really
[4:45] don't know who the individuals are who
[4:48] are supporting particular campaigns.
[4:50] >> Still, we can conclude one thing. With
[4:52] the possible exception of Jerry Brown,
[4:54] everyone is receiving money from special
[4:56] interests.
[4:57] >> Certainly troubling to the American
[4:59] public who sense that elected officials
[5:01] are more responsive to those who pay for
[5:03] their campaigns.
[5:04] >> Clinton, in particular, has reason to be
[5:06] grateful. He already has raised twice as
[5:09] much money as Songus. And now that he
[5:11] looks like a winner, the money is
[5:13] pouring in.
[5:13] >> A lot of the traditional people uh have
[5:16] offered their services now and want to
[5:18] be involved in the winning campaigns.
[5:20] >> Anyone who says money isn't everything
[5:22] should talk to Paul Sonis, who has
[5:24] little of it. Money enabled Bill Clinton
[5:26] to pay for the organization and TV ads
[5:28] that helped do heavy damage to Songus
[5:31] last week and may all but put him away
[5:33] on Tuesday. Lisa Meyers, NBC News,
[5:36] Washington. Of course, the big money
[5:39] story in politics right now is the case
[5:41] of those bouncing checks in Congress.
[5:43] Members of the House are explaining or
[5:45] trying to explain to their voters just
[5:46] how it happened. And with us now is
[5:48] Representative Edward Fen, Democrat from
[5:50] Ohio. Congressman, thanks for coming in
[5:52] this evening. You have on record, you're
[5:55] high on the list of those with overdrawn
[5:57] checks, 397 uh by the count that we have
[6:00] received. How do you explain that to
[6:01] your constituents? Well, actually uh as
[6:04] you'll see from subsequent lists that uh
[6:07] will be put out in the next few weeks
[6:08] that there are uh probably dozens of
[6:10] members with that or more in overdrawn
[6:13] checks. And what I think that uh we have
[6:16] to do uh across the country is explain
[6:18] that uh the characterization of these
[6:20] checks as bounce checks or bad checks is
[6:23] simply an inaccuracy except in a very
[6:26] limited number of circumstances. And I
[6:28] think that my circumstances are typical
[6:30] of uh what a lot of members are going
[6:32] through. In the 10 years that I had an
[6:33] account at that so-called bank, I never
[6:35] once had a bad check. I never once had a
[6:38] bounce check. And I never once had any
[6:40] type of notification from the House Bank
[6:42] or any of its officials that I was
[6:44] beyond the overdraft allowance of the uh
[6:47] of the account.
[6:47] >> Well, Congressman, where did these 397
[6:49] checks come from? That's the
[6:52] >> given those are in each instance uh
[6:54] overdrawn checks against an allowable
[6:57] overdraft uh in the account. Each member
[7:00] who was uh in the house bank was told
[7:02] that when they deposited their check
[7:04] they would not receive interest on that
[7:06] account. There would be no tax dollars
[7:08] involved that there would be no
[7:09] insurance of that account and that they
[7:11] had an overdraft allowance up to the
[7:14] value of their next paycheck because
[7:15] that was automatically deposited into
[7:17] the account. These numbers that we're
[7:19] seeing by and large are are simply a
[7:22] catalog of the number of checks written
[7:24] against an overdraft allowance on a
[7:26] month-by-month basis.
[7:27] >> All right, Congress, you've given a very
[7:29] detailed technical explanation, but
[7:31] given the tenor, the mood of so many of
[7:33] the constituents, the anger that is out
[7:35] there, what's that going to mean for you
[7:37] come November and election day? Well, I
[7:39] think it means a lot of difficulty in in
[7:41] going through the process of, as you
[7:43] say, a long technical um laborious
[7:46] explanation which has to be done because
[7:48] the uh frenzy that has developed over
[7:51] this issue has been a frenzy created
[7:53] because of inaccuracies, because of
[7:55] calling uh overdraft checks, checks that
[7:58] are bounced or bad checks. You know what
[8:00] is at the heart of it though is clearly
[8:02] a voter frustration and anger with the
[8:04] Congress. A feeling that it is a
[8:06] privileged class, a group of people who
[8:08] do not have to face reality or the
[8:10] problems of a real daily life.
[8:12] >> Would you say would you say that's a
[8:14] fair assessment?
[8:15] >> That is a fair assessment in in a large
[8:17] respect. I mean certainly no average
[8:18] American could have a bank account where
[8:21] they would have an overdraft that was
[8:23] without penalty. An overdraft that did
[8:25] not have a monthly fee attached. Now,
[8:27] some would argue that that's not a large
[8:29] perk, but nevertheless, it does separate
[8:31] the Congress and has for 150 years
[8:34] actually in this case from the
[8:35] mainstream of the American people.
[8:37] >> The congressman coming back to this
[8:38] basic issue and that is public
[8:40] perceptions. Do you feel that you
[8:42] congressman Finn have been victimized in
[8:44] this?
[8:45] >> Very much so. Uh although I I have to
[8:47] say that I feel very much a sense of
[8:49] responsibility uh for handling my own
[8:52] accounts. But clearly where we have a
[8:54] management of an institution, the
[8:55] so-called house bank, where members
[8:57] deposits were not recorded in some
[8:59] instances for up to 10 days, well, it
[9:02] would be predictable then that members
[9:04] would find themselves in very
[9:05] embarrassing situations. Uh, I think
[9:07] that I have to address that. I have to
[9:09] to deal frankly with that with my
[9:11] constituency. They're a fair-minded
[9:13] group of people, as I believe Americans
[9:15] are, and as they hear the details of
[9:17] this story over the next few weeks, I
[9:19] think that they'll be able to come to
[9:21] honest and uh valid judgments about it.
[9:23] >> Well, Congressman, thank you for being
[9:24] with us. We noted you won the last
[9:25] election. I think by with 70% of the
[9:27] vote, you do have a strong base there.
[9:29] Again, we will see what happens come
[9:30] November. And again, thanks for being
[9:32] with us this evening,
[9:33] >> Congressman Edward Fen. And as we cover
[9:35] our world this Sunday, we'll go next to
[9:37] Turkey where another earthquake has
[9:39] struck.
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[11:43] >> It happened yet again today in eastern
[11:45] Turkey. A second earthquake, a big one,
[11:47] the second in three days. As many as 800
[11:50] people were killed in the first quake.
[11:51] In Anchor, we have this report from our
[11:53] correspondent Dennis Murphy.
[11:56] The second earthquake tonight was a big
[11:57] one. Six point on the RTOR scale. People
[12:00] wrote it out in the safety of the open
[12:02] streets. The buildings in Aerys and John
[12:04] are cracked and leaning. Anything over
[12:06] three stories flattened. Today, 2 days
[12:09] after the first jolt, volunteers picked
[12:11] through the rubble, looking for
[12:13] survivors pinned beneath the debris.
[12:15] Sniffer dogs led by Swiss experts are
[12:17] searching for victims. Now, more are
[12:19] found dead than alive. Hundreds are
[12:22] missing. A British team put their own
[12:24] lives on the line, tunneling through
[12:25] broken buildings. A false move could
[12:28] bring it all down.
[12:29] >> Working here are going up in through the
[12:31] ceiling.
[12:32] >> You can see there one one man of the
[12:35] family here.
[12:36] >> Temperatures have been below freezing
[12:38] and virtually everyone is living outside
[12:40] in fear of more aftershocks like the one
[12:42] that hit tonight. Tonight's earthquake
[12:44] was felt through hundreds of miles of
[12:46] eastern Turkey. Morning's light will
[12:48] reveal the damage and suffering it
[12:50] caused. Dennis Murphy, NBC News,
[12:52] Anchora.
[12:54] >> And not far from there, in what used to
[12:55] be the southern Soviet Union, the
[12:57] fighting continues between Armenia and
[12:59] Azerbaijan. Today, a tentative ceasefire
[13:01] agreement was signed. And what is
[13:03] interesting here is that it was signed
[13:04] in Thran. Iran has been a mediator in
[13:07] the dispute over the region in
[13:09] Azerbaijan known as Morno Carabach. Jima
[13:12] has the report.
[13:15] >> The hatred is centuries old, but the
[13:17] weapons ultramodern. The conflict
[13:20] between Christian Armenia and Muslim
[13:21] Azerbaijan is no longer just an ethnic
[13:24] or religious feud. It is allout war and
[13:27] it is spreading across the Commonwealth
[13:29] southwestern rim. Not only in Armenia
[13:32] and Azerbaijan, but in Malddova as well.
[13:34] Conflict has turned to chaos and death.
[13:37] Thousands have been killed or wounded,
[13:39] often women and children. Tens of
[13:41] thousands on both sides homeless. Many
[13:44] see here the collapse of a commonwealth
[13:46] few ever believed would work. If
[13:48] conflicts like this cannot be resolved,
[13:50] it look it makes the whole structure
[13:53] weak. I mean it makes the whole
[13:55] structure look very superficial.
[13:57] >> Between Armenians and Azeris, no
[13:59] ceasefire has held. The battle over this
[14:01] land, Negorno Carabach, an enclave
[14:04] claimed by both its inhabitants,
[14:05] Armenians, and its ruler by law,
[14:07] Azerbaijan. But that was Soviet law.
[14:10] Since the break up of the Soviet Union,
[14:12] fighting between these two newly
[14:13] independent states has raged on. Under
[14:16] an ironfisted Kremlin, these people were
[14:18] forced to get along. The Red Army kept
[14:20] the peace. Today, with no central
[14:22] government giving orders, the
[14:23] Commonwealth forces are helpless and
[14:25] isolated.
[14:27] >> The army has pledged allegiance to Boris
[14:29] Yelen, president of Russia. We defend
[14:32] only Russian interests, so we are trying
[14:34] to be neutral here.
[14:36] >> But since January, hundreds of
[14:37] Commonwealth soldiers have been killed
[14:39] or wounded, their weapons bought or
[14:41] stolen. What's at stake is more than the
[14:43] Commonwealth. Though free, all of the
[14:45] former Soviet republics are still
[14:46] closely bound economically. And troubles
[14:49] in the south could stiny Yeltson's
[14:51] reforms here at home.
[14:54] >> Defenders of a strong Russia like Vice
[14:56] President Alexander Rutskoy say it's
[14:58] high time to cut losses. And that scares
[15:00] millions of Russians living in former
[15:02] republics like Muldova. Here, a minority
[15:05] fearing discrimination. Russians have
[15:07] formed their own breakaway republic.
[15:09] More bloodshed. And again, the former
[15:11] Soviet army just watches. Independence
[15:14] has unleashed nationalist fervor bottled
[15:16] up for decades under communism. Many
[15:18] fear it will soon spread to mother
[15:20] Russia itself. A patchwork of ethnic
[15:22] groups tasting freedom for the first
[15:24] time. Freedom that has a heavy price.
[15:28] Jim Mada, NBC News, Moscow.
[15:31] >> And we now have a Soviet spy story that
[15:34] can be finally told. The former head of
[15:36] the KGB in Italy says he had a spy
[15:38] working inside the Vatican. General
[15:41] Boris Salomatin says it wasn't easy to
[15:43] penetrate the church and adds that the
[15:45] spy was never discovered and he or she
[15:48] may still be working there.
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[18:01] of the heart of politics in Jamaica. For
[18:03] many years, he irritated American
[18:04] administrations and presidents for his
[18:06] friendship with Fidel Castro. And today,
[18:08] Prime Minister Michael Manley said he
[18:10] will retire at the end of this month
[18:12] because of poor health. Turning to South
[18:15] Africa, and a major decision is coming
[18:16] there on Tuesday. Whites will vote on
[18:19] whether to continue reforms, which could
[18:21] cost them their political power over
[18:23] blacks. Blacks are not allowed to vote
[18:24] in this referendum. In South Africa,
[18:27] Charles Mlan shows us what is at stake.
[18:30] >> With just days to go before the
[18:32] referendum, blacks are killing each
[18:34] other in the townships. The African
[18:36] National Congress claims conservative
[18:38] whites in the security forces are
[18:40] inciting violence to discredit reform
[18:43] and panic whites into voting no on
[18:45] Tuesday's referendum.
[18:48] A spectator at a Suto soccer match today
[18:50] thought the strategy might be working.
[18:52] There's a lot of a sense of insecurity
[18:55] among the white people that if blacks
[18:57] take over, there's going to be anarchy.
[19:01] >> But at a local Shabine, an informal bar,
[19:03] blacks threatened civil war if whites
[19:06] vote to turn back the clock on reform.
[19:08] Danley Mcclair isn't preparing for war.
[19:11] She's just trying to hang on to what
[19:12] she's got. The repeal of some apartheid
[19:15] laws by the declerk government made it
[19:17] possible for Danley to move to a mixed
[19:19] race neighborhood and for her daughters
[19:21] to go to a multi-racial school. What
[19:24] white voters decide on Tuesday will
[19:26] affect her future
[19:28] >> because if it's if it's no then we have
[19:30] to move out and our kids have to go out
[19:33] from the schools. You see, that's the
[19:36] thing that makes us to panic
[19:38] and cross our fingers that, "Oh my god,
[19:41] it must be yes."
[19:42] >> At a breakfast meeting in Johannesburg,
[19:45] Nelson Mandela told reporters that
[19:47] whatever the results of the referendum,
[19:48] there would be no going back to
[19:50] apartheid.
[19:51] >> We will reject any attempt
[19:55] to invest the white minority with the
[19:59] power of deciding the future of this
[20:01] country. If whites vote yes on the
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[20:17] And now to this country and assignment
[20:19] earth. The federal government has a
[20:20] multi-billion dollar fund to clean up
[20:22] the environment. No problem. Everyone
[20:24] agrees it's a job worth doing. But a
[20:27] government study has found that the
[20:28] money is being used for more than just
[20:30] cleaning up. Although you might say
[20:32] someone is cleaning up. Here's Henry
[20:35] Champ in Washington. The Super Fund has
[20:38] $15 billion, but in the last 10 years,
[20:41] fewer than 70 sites from a list of,200
[20:43] have been cleaned up. CH2M Hill of
[20:46] Denver has hundreds of millions of
[20:48] dollars of super fun contracts. Buried
[20:51] in its buildings are $147,000
[20:54] for parties and picnics, $6,800 for
[20:57] alcohol, $29,000 for coffee. Thousands
[21:01] are spent at sporting events, a trip to
[21:03] Egypt, and an estimated $16 million on
[21:07] employee bonuses.
[21:09] >> It's an incentive for good performance.
[21:11] So, we think that by doing that, the
[21:13] clients that we have, and that includes
[21:15] the government, will receive better
[21:17] work. Those bonus charges are criticized
[21:20] in this EPA report and in Congress.
[21:23] >> They have also structured a rather
[21:25] creative way of I think double billing
[21:28] the taxpayers for personnel cost.
[21:31] >> Among Hills projects is the Stringfellow
[21:34] chemical dump cleanup in California. 14
[21:37] years of studies and still nearby
[21:39] residents can't use local water. Their
[21:42] school may be closed and farmers
[21:44] mysteriously lose animals.
[21:46] The EPA doesn't even know what's going
[21:48] on here except from what CH2M Hill tells
[21:52] them.
[21:52] >> Private contractors charge enormous
[21:55] overhead. Hills charge is $1.70 for
[21:58] every dollar that's spent in actual
[22:00] cleanup.
[22:01] >> EPA admits to poor accounting, but says
[22:04] that will change.
[22:05] >> If we have wasted millions of dollars,
[22:07] and if it's due to contractors being
[22:08] greedy, then we go after it and get it.
[22:11] >> Congress believes EPA's super fund
[22:13] abuses are widespread. Hill is the first
[22:16] contractor to be investigated, but there
[22:18] will be more. Henry Champ, NBC News,
[22:22] Washington.
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[24:57] And time now to look at some of the
[24:58] stories that'll be making news this
[25:00] coming week. Friday is President Bush's
[25:02] deadline for Congress to pass an
[25:03] economic stimulation bill that he wants.
[25:05] But don't hold your breath. Passage of
[25:07] that is unlikely. In California, the
[25:10] prosecution expects to rest its case in
[25:12] the Los Angeles police brutality trial
[25:14] beating victim Rodney King may testify.
[25:17] And the search group, which claims to
[25:18] have solved the mystery over the
[25:20] disappearance of aviator Amelia Heheart,
[25:22] says it will offer proof at a Washington
[25:24] news conference tomorrow. And its
[25:26] evidence points to a small island lost
[25:28] in the vastness of the South Pacific.
[25:32] It is one of the most remote places on
[25:34] Earth, a tiny atal in the Pacific, just
[25:37] south of the equator. It is brutally hot
[25:40] here. There is no fresh water. There are
[25:43] giant land crabs on shore and in the
[25:46] water, barracuda and sharks. No one
[25:50] lives here today, and no one lived here
[25:53] 54 years ago when it is believed Amelia
[25:56] Heheart ditched her plane on the reef
[25:58] off Gardener Island. Amelia Heheart was
[26:01] the first woman to fly solo across the
[26:03] Atlantic, the first woman to fly across
[26:06] the United States, and the first person
[26:08] to fly from Hawaii to the American
[26:10] mainland. She was given two ticker tape
[26:13] parades in New York City. But for
[26:15] Hehart, one final challenge remained.
[26:17] She wanted to fly around the world at
[26:19] the equator. It had never been done
[26:21] before. She and navigator Fred Nan made
[26:24] it all the way to New Guinea and then
[26:25] set off for the longest non-stop leg of
[26:28] the flight. Their target was Howland
[26:30] Island, a speck of land in the South
[26:32] Pacific. Rick Gillespie has been
[26:34] investigating the mystery for years and
[26:37] has traced the final hours of Airheart's
[26:39] flight. This leg of the flight from New
[26:42] Guinea across the Pacific was the most
[26:44] dangerous one
[26:45] >> because of distance and because of the
[26:47] target they had to hit. It's daylight.
[26:50] It's daylight. She's got maybe a half an
[26:53] hour, 45 minutes of fuel left. She sees
[26:56] an island, Gardener Island. she has to
[26:59] land. There is a reef flat. We think she
[27:02] did land the airplane with the wheels
[27:03] down and that the airplane remained on
[27:06] that reefflat for at least 3 days. Navy
[27:09] ships, including the battleship
[27:11] Colorado, were sent on what was called
[27:13] then the biggest air sea search ever.
[27:16] Three catapult planes did fly over
[27:18] Gardener Island one week after Hehheart
[27:20] and Nunan had disappeared. The pilots
[27:23] were looking for a down plane, which
[27:25] Gillespie believes had been swept off
[27:27] the reef days earlier by high tides. And
[27:29] it's likely that after a week without
[27:31] water, Airheart and Nunan would have
[27:33] been too weak to signal. Perhaps they
[27:35] were already dead.
[27:38] Well, tomorrow Rick Gillespie and his
[27:40] team will present their new evidence
[27:42] found on that uninhabited island in the
[27:44] Pacific. There are two parts to it.
[27:46] piece of the fuselot from what they have
[27:47] now determined was the planeheart's
[27:49] plane and also a woman's lace up shoe
[27:52] from the 1930s size nine complete with
[27:55] eyelets Amelia Heheart wore lace up
[27:58] shoes on her flight they were size nine
[28:02] and that is our look at our world this
[28:04] Sunday Tom Broke I'll be reporting here
[28:05] tomorrow night I'm Garrett Utley good
[28:08] night for all of us at NBC News