CBS Evening News - 2006-11-24 (no intro)

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[0:00] early.

[0:00] >> Two suicide bombers and three car bombs

[0:03] detonated minutes apart, followed by

[0:06] mortar attacks. The armed Shiite

[0:08] militia, the Madi army, vowed revenge

[0:11] against the Sunnis they believe

[0:13] responsible.

[0:14] >> Last night, Iraqi politicians

[0:16] representing all ethnic groups called

[0:18] for restraint and unity. But today, the

[0:22] man whose word could do more than any

[0:24] other to prevent reprisal killings

[0:26] didn't deliver.

[0:28] At Friday prayers, Mktara al-Sader did

[0:31] not forbid his followers to take

[0:33] revenge. Instead, he made a series of

[0:36] hardline demands that a fatwa, a

[0:39] religious edict, be issued requiring

[0:41] Sunnis to stop attacking Shiites, a firm

[0:45] timetable for the withdrawal of US

[0:47] forces. He also demanded that Sunnis pay

[0:51] for the rebuilding of bombed Shiite

[0:53] shrines and insisted that Sunni leaders

[0:56] break all ties with al-Qaeda. Tonight,

[0:59] still under curfew, Baghdad is a dark

[1:01] and eerie city. People terrified have

[1:05] locked themselves in, but invisible in

[1:07] the night, the telephone lines are

[1:09] buzzing with rumors of more violence to

[1:12] come that is fueling their fear.

[1:15] At this point, Iraqis are looking for

[1:17] signs that high level political talks

[1:19] might help avert an all-out civil war.

[1:22] Vice President Dick Cheney will be in

[1:24] Saudi Arabia over the weekend for talks

[1:26] with the king. And next week, President

[1:28] George Bush is due to meet the Iraqi

[1:30] Prime Minister Nuriel Maliki in Jordan.

[1:33] Russ,

[1:33] >> Elizabeth, as we continue to hear about

[1:35] these staggering numbers of Iraqi

[1:37] casualties, a lot of Americans are

[1:39] wondering where are US forces in all

[1:41] this?

[1:42] They're keeping a very low profile. Uh

[1:45] but they do respond to big acts of

[1:47] violence. For example, the mosque

[1:49] burning as I mentioned earlier. Uh the

[1:51] US forces did respond along with the

[1:53] Iraqi army and it was due to their

[1:55] intervention that the gunman ran away.

[1:58] Uh but they are definitely being used as

[2:00] a force of last resort and they're

[2:02] nowhere visible on Baghdad streets. Russ

[2:05] >> Elizabeth Palmer in Baghdad. Thank you.

[2:08] Chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan

[2:10] recently interviewed the head of US

[2:11] Central Command, John Abisade, for 60

[2:13] Minutes and she joins us now with a

[2:14] preview. Good evening, Larara.

[2:15] >> Good evening, Russ. Well, what was very

[2:17] interesting listening to the general is

[2:19] that it's clear he sees this as a

[2:21] decisive period in Iraq. He is as

[2:23] concerned as everybody else about um

[2:26] sectarian violence and the danger, if

[2:28] that is not contained, of Iraq spiraling

[2:30] out of control.

[2:32] >> This sectarian violence is worrisome. Uh

[2:35] it can be fatal to Iraq if it's not

[2:37] checked. The Iraqis know that better

[2:39] than anybody. And there's no solution uh

[2:42] to a divided Iraq. There's no good

[2:44] solution to a divided Iraq. It's got to

[2:46] come together. It's got to stabilize.

[2:48] And it's going to require Iraqi

[2:50] sacrifice and courage and responsibility

[2:53] along with that of the United States and

[2:55] our allies.

[2:56] >> What's your greatest fear for Iraq? My

[2:58] greatest fear is that neighboring

[3:00] countries like Iran and Syria decide

[3:03] that they will destabilize the country

[3:07] more as opposed to help it come

[3:09] together.

[3:10] >> So what we took away from the general

[3:12] after speaking to him is that after more

[3:14] than 3 years and close to 3,000 American

[3:17] soldiers killed, it is still possible

[3:19] that there is even worse to come.

[3:21] >> Of course, you spent a lot of time in

[3:22] Iraq. As far as the Iraqi people are

[3:24] concerned in their mind, is this the

[3:26] worst case scenario coming true?

[3:29] >> Quite possibly. I mean, it's hard to

[3:30] imagine that for Iraqi people, it can

[3:32] get worse than it has already been. But

[3:34] this attack is an example of of what can

[3:36] happen. And many people there are saying

[3:39] what is long been denied here is that

[3:41] this is the start of all out war.

[3:42] >> And you say you believe there is more to

[3:44] come. This is not some temporary uptick

[3:46] we're seeing.

[3:46] >> Well, it's not just what I believe. As

[3:48] the general said, his greatest fear for

[3:49] Iraq is that if this violence isn't

[3:51] contained, it spirals out of control

[3:53] into the region as a whole. And that's

[3:55] the real threat here. What is Iran

[3:56] doing? What's Syria doing? What are

[3:58] Iraq's neighbors doing in all of this?

[3:59] >> Laura Logan, thanks a lot. And you can

[4:02] see Laura's complete interview with

[4:03] General Abbizade Sunday night on 60

[4:05] Minutes right here on CBS. Meanwhile,

[4:08] some just released footage of Saddam

[4:09] Hussein from just before the US invasion

[4:12] has historians and military experts

[4:14] shaking their heads. This shot was taken

[4:16] from videotapes seized by US forces. It

[4:18] shows Saddam firing a crossbow and other

[4:20] primitive weapons. He then tells an aid

[4:22] to start mass production of them. Now,

[4:24] it is not clear if he really expected to

[4:26] use them against the US military or

[4:28] simply to rally Iraqis for an insurgent

[4:30] campaign. Here at home, the holiday

[4:32] shopping season got off to a bang and a

[4:34] kick and a punch as well. Here's one

[4:36] reason why. 137 million people are

[4:39] expected to elbow their way into a mall

[4:41] between now and Sunday. Cheryl Foni

[4:44] reports on what we've come to know as

[4:46] Black Friday.

[4:49] >> They might want to change the name to

[4:51] Black and Blue Friday.

[4:53] From Boston to Chicago, full contact

[4:57] shopping started before sunrise.

[5:00] Near Charlotte, the crowds were too much

[5:02] for one woman. She left the store on a

[5:04] stretcher. All of it proof that a good

[5:07] flat panel TV sale

[5:11] >> can shatter common sense.

[5:13] >> It's worth it. It's worth it. Definitely

[5:15] save a lot of money.

[5:16] >> This year, analysts say shoppers will

[5:18] each spend about $790 on gifts compared

[5:22] to about 740 last year. And that would

[5:26] increase holiday sales to about $457

[5:29] billion. More than 23 billion of it

[5:33] spent this weekend alone. But some

[5:36] retailers may not be ready for the rush.

[5:38] >> It's almost like the store sabotage

[5:40] themselves.

[5:41] >> Uncertainty about home heating prices

[5:43] and the war worried some analysts so

[5:46] much some stores waited to place orders.

[5:49] >> They waited too long. They didn't have

[5:52] enough product in the United States to

[5:54] stock the shelves. So now there's a real

[5:56] shortage in the stores from coast to

[5:57] coast. discount.

[6:00] >> Even retailers with enough stock are

[6:02] offering deeper discounts earlier than

[6:05] ever.

[6:05] >> I think retailers are really concerned

[6:07] that when people are cautious about

[6:09] their money that you need to get them

[6:11] out early and you need to get them to

[6:13] spend now because you don't know what'll

[6:14] happen tomorrow.

[6:15] >> But analysts say shoppers might break

[6:17] sales records today just based on

[6:19] traffic. Not on the mall parking lot,

[6:22] but on the web. There was so much

[6:24] traffic on the Walmart website today, it

[6:26] stalled. A company spokesman said they

[6:29] had more visitors than they expected.

[6:31] Fortunately, none of them ended up on a

[6:33] stretcher.

[6:34] >> I see. That is good. Only the day after

[6:36] Thanksgiving, online shopping. As far as

[6:38] that goes, is this the biggest day of

[6:39] the year?

[6:40] >> It isn't. That's still to come. That's

[6:41] actually on Monday when everybody goes

[6:43] back to work and then does all their

[6:45] online shopping on the company on the

[6:47] company computer.

[6:48] >> Cyber Monday.

[6:49] >> Exactly.

[6:50] >> All right, Cheryl Fazi, thanks. So,

[6:52] given all this power shopping, what's

[6:53] left in your wallet? The Federal Reserve

[6:55] reports that Americans owe more than a

[6:57] trillion dollars and that is not

[6:58] counting mortgages. So, how did we dig

[7:00] ourselves into a hole that deep? Sandra

[7:03] Hughes has the answer.

[7:06] >> At the LEGO store in Glendale,

[7:08] California, it's easy to see how

[7:09] Americans are building up debt to

[7:11] themselves.

[7:12] >> A lot of money going on those credit

[7:14] cards.

[7:14] >> Daisy Garcia was loaded down after

[7:16] loading up her credit card.

[7:18] >> I have a secret credit card which my

[7:22] husband doesn't have. It's an American

[7:24] tradition, buying on credit. But some

[7:26] economists are warning it has gotten too

[7:29] easy. Over the past two years, Americans

[7:32] personal savings rate has gone down,

[7:34] down, down. In 2006, it averaged a

[7:38] negative.6%.

[7:40] Which means we're spending more than we

[7:42] make. In fact, in 2005, we spent 41.6

[7:46] billion more than we brought home. The

[7:48] personal savings rate hasn't dipped so

[7:50] low since the Great Depression. At Kelly

[7:53] Rogers Credit Counseling Agency,

[7:55] December is like a ghost town because no

[7:58] one wants to worry about today.

[8:00] >> Consumer debt in December gets out of

[8:02] control. Because consumers carry that

[8:04] credit card, they want to get a gift for

[8:06] everyone.

[8:07] >> Economists are split as to what the lack

[8:09] of personal savings means for the

[8:11] economy as a whole. Despite the negative

[8:13] savings rate, the American economy has

[8:16] been going strong. But there are many

[8:18] baby boomers who have not been saving

[8:20] enough for retirement. 401k

[8:22] contributions on the whole have dropped

[8:24] from 80% in 1999 to 70% in 2005 and the

[8:29] amount being contributed has dropped

[8:31] too.

[8:32] >> But it's one of the very biggest

[8:33] problems that this nation faces when we

[8:35] think about what we're going to be like

[8:36] in 20 years.

[8:38] >> We did talk to some Christmas shoppers

[8:40] who said they had fought off the urge to

[8:43] charge it. I'm using my debit card.

[8:44] That's I think that's the best thing

[8:45] everybody could do. I think we need to

[8:47] have a national holiday in which we give

[8:49] each other savings accounts. Not

[8:51] spending accounts, but savings accounts

[8:53] >> because too many Americans have been

[8:55] living and spending like there's no

[8:58] tomorrow. Sandra Hughes, CBS News,

[9:00] Glendale, California.

[9:02] >> And from out of control spending to

[9:03] outer space, there may be no tomorrow

[9:05] for the Mars Global Surveyor, the

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[9:08] planet for NASA. For 10 years, it sent

[9:11] images of Mars back to Earth. But three

[9:13] weeks ago, it signal fell silent. NASA

[9:15] has tried several times to get it to

[9:17] respond, but to no avail. And its

[9:19] mission may have come to an end. There

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[9:24] murder mystery in London. Who poisoned a

[9:26] former Russian spy? A deathbed

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[11:24] >> Wow, you guys sound pretty cool.

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[11:30] guys?

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[11:43] The mystery is deepening over the death

[11:45] in London last night of a former KGB spy

[11:48] who was an outspoken critic of Russian

[11:49] President Putin. British officials said

[11:51] he was poisoned by an extremely rare

[11:53] radioactive substance and they pressed

[11:55] their hunt for the killer. But as

[11:57] Richard Roth reports, the victim died

[11:58] believing he knew who did it.

[12:01] >> The finding that Alexander Lit Vignenko

[12:04] was poisoned by a major dose of

[12:05] radiation sent British authorities

[12:07] searching for more of the substance that

[12:10] killed him. They found traces of the

[12:12] radioactive isotope palonium 210 at the

[12:15] former Russian spies North London home,

[12:18] at a hotel in fashionable Mayfair he

[12:20] visited early this month and at the

[12:23] downtown sushi bar where Lit Vignenko

[12:25] met a contact just hours before he fell

[12:28] ill. They insisted there's no public

[12:30] health risk, but officials called this

[12:32] poisoning case unprecedented. For

[12:35] somebody to have this level of

[12:37] radiation, they would have had to have

[12:39] either eaten it, inhaled it, or taken it

[12:42] in through a wound.

[12:43] >> Pelonium 210 has industrial use, and

[12:46] minute amounts occur naturally. But its

[12:48] radiation can't penetrate the skin. It's

[12:51] only deadly if it gets inside the body.

[12:54] Whoever killed the former spy say poison

[12:57] experts needed special knowledge and

[12:59] skill to deliver the fatal dose.

[13:02] A harsh Kremlin critic, Lit Vanenko

[13:04] claimed his poisoning had been ordered

[13:06] by Russia's president. The accusation

[13:09] was in a deathbed statement read out by

[13:11] a friend.

[13:12] >> You may succeed in silencing one man,

[13:16] but the howl of protest from around the

[13:18] world will reverberate, Mr. Putin, in

[13:22] your ears for the rest of your life.

[13:25] Putin certainly heard the charge at a

[13:27] summit of European leaders and he

[13:30] shrugged it off.

[13:32] >> "It's regrettable that such a tragic

[13:34] event as death is being used," he said,

[13:36] for political provocation. But the

[13:39] Russians and the British both know this

[13:40] wasn't just a routine death. And with

[13:43] its Cold War echoes, now it's anything

[13:46] but an ordinary crime. Richard Roth, CBS

[13:49] News, London. Russia, meanwhile,

[13:51] announced today it has begun delivering

[13:52] sophisticated missile systems to Iran

[13:55] despite US opposition. Iran reportedly

[13:57] bought 29 of the air defense systems for

[13:59] $700 million. The US has called for a

[14:02] ban on arms sales to Iran over its

[14:04] nuclear program. In Gaza today, burial

[14:07] for a grandmother turned suicide bomber.

[14:10] The 64 year old woman made a traditional

[14:11] suicide video and yesterday she walked

[14:14] up to Israeli troops and blew herself

[14:16] up. She was the only one who died. One

[14:19] family member says she turned into a

[14:20] killer after an Israeli shelling killed

[14:23] 19 Palestinians, including one of her 38

[14:26] grandchildren.

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[17:34] Well, even though it was just yesterday,

[17:36] for many Americans, Thanksgiving is

[17:38] becoming a distant memory as they plunge

[17:40] headlong into the holiday shopping

[17:42] season. But are we forgetting anyone as

[17:44] we race to and from the mall? In

[17:47] tonight's free speech, we hear from

[17:48] Elizabeth Edwards, a breast cancer

[17:50] survivor and the wife of former vice

[17:52] presidential candidate John Edwards. Her

[17:54] message, the gift of decency.

[17:58] >> Did you buy groceries today? If so, who

[18:00] was your cashier? who bagged your soda?

[18:03] They have names, you know, and chances

[18:05] are they were even wearing their names

[18:07] on their shirts. But did you notice?

[18:10] Sadly, as a country, Americans have

[18:12] gotten used to treating those in service

[18:14] positions as if they were part of the

[18:16] cash register, part of the conveyor

[18:18] belt. They aren't. They are mothers,

[18:21] fathers, daughters, and sons working

[18:23] hard to provide for their families. And

[18:25] they're working harder and earning less

[18:27] than most Americans who work behind a

[18:29] desk. Everyone in America who works hard

[18:32] deserves our respect. But too often we

[18:35] fail to realize that each of us is

[18:36] connected to the other. Too often we

[18:38] fail to realize that each of us has a

[18:40] name, a life, a dream. It is the first

[18:44] step in civility to acknowledge our

[18:46] fellow citizens, to use their names, to

[18:48] look them in the face, and to thank them

[18:51] for making your life not just easier but

[18:53] possible. The second step, which is also

[18:56] too rare, is to treat each other with

[18:58] respect and even tenderness. I have had

[19:01] hard times, but my life has been easier,

[19:04] not just because of my splendid family

[19:06] or my incredible friends, but because I

[19:08] had support from unexpected places, from

[19:11] Edward, my mailman, from Drew, who works

[19:13] at my children's school, from Sam, who

[19:16] bags groceries at my supermarket. My

[19:18] life has been easier because the people

[19:20] I have treated tenderly have returned

[19:22] the gift.

[19:24] Decency, it turns out, costs nothing.

[19:28] >> Elizabeth Edwards. And just ahead, the

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[22:34] As we have been reporting, this has been

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[22:56] >> Hurry up. Hurry up. Hurry up.

[22:57] >> Staff Sergeant Reyes Sanchez has a way

[23:00] with words.

[23:01] >> What you shooting at? which is to say

[23:02] most soldiers

[23:03] >> What the heck?

[23:04] >> want to get away from them.

[23:05] >> Why you running out of breath? Don't get

[23:07] too stiff. Drink water.

[23:09] >> Sanchez spent the summer here at Fort

[23:10] Hood, Texas, preparing his troops for

[23:13] Iraq.

[23:13] >> Get your together, man. You going to be

[23:15] out there helping us out?

[23:16] >> Overpreparing, some might say.

[23:18] >> Let's back up. Hey, Denny.

[23:19] >> And yet they all know why he drills them

[23:21] as hard as he does.

[23:23] >> I said, hey,

[23:25] you do not know how hard it feels to

[23:27] lose somebody to learn what I'm teaching

[23:29] you. The somebody Sanchez lost, lost to

[23:33] a roadside bomb, was his best friend and

[23:36] little brother, Leiddesma.

[23:39] >> When he passed away, everybody who knew

[23:41] him were calling me like, "Jesus, man,

[23:43] you got we're on Super Bowl. Now you got

[23:45] separated."

[23:47] >> Growing up, the boys did everything

[23:48] together. And once grown up, they did

[23:51] everything together. Still, the two men

[23:54] worked in the same auto shop. And when

[23:56] the younger brother eventually decided

[23:57] to join the military, the older brother

[23:59] says he basically had no choice.

[24:02] >> I say, "Well, he's going in. I can't let

[24:05] him go by himself."

[24:06] >> Sanchez says he basically joined to

[24:08] protect his little brother.

[24:11] >> But they ended up in different platoon.

[24:13] And now Leiddasma's gone anyway. So why

[24:17] is Sanchez still here?

[24:19] >> We never quit each other. We're

[24:22] finishing what we started

[24:24] >> and finishing it together as together as

[24:27] possible.

[24:28] >> I wear everything he he owns. Boots to

[24:31] the to the cap. I'm wearing his boots

[24:33] right now.

[24:34] >> Those are the boots that your brother

[24:35] wore.

[24:36] >> YEAH.

[24:37] >> LOCK AND LOAD.

[24:38] >> Sanchez also got permission to take over

[24:40] his brother's old job in his brother's

[24:43] old unit.

[24:44] >> There you go. He looked at me and he

[24:45] said, "If my brother served with these

[24:47] men, I want to carry on my brother's

[24:49] legacy." Captain Lexi Gibbs is the

[24:51] commanding officer.

[24:53] >> You can't lose pull. He's my private

[24:54] Ryan and I got to keep I do keep an

[24:57] extra eye out on him.

[24:59] >> Tonight, the unit is in Iraq just

[25:01] shipped out a few weeks ago. And

[25:03] although I'm sure they're all missing

[25:04] their families this holiday weekend, I

[25:07] know one soldier who's never completely

[25:09] alone.

[25:10] >> It's like when I wear his uniform, he's

[25:13] there. He's my right-hand man.

[25:16] Steve Hartman, CBS News, Fort Hood,

[25:18] Texas.

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[26:12] >> And finally, this Friday evening, we'd

[26:14] like to make mention of one man's

[26:15] generosity. Frank Garcia owns a

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[26:20] every year he and his army of volunteers

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[26:34] I'm Russ Mitchell in New York. Thanks

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