CBS Evening News - 2009-05-07

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[0:00] Madam,

[0:00] >> awesome. We've got a shower or two,

[0:02] literally a shower or two in the valley.

[0:03] Other than that, we're drying out. 67

[0:05] tomorrow after patchy morning fog, lots

[0:07] of sun. And let's do it again on

[0:09] Saturday, except warmer. 70°.

[0:12] >> Very nice. CBS News coming your way

[0:14] next.

[0:14] >> We'll see you back here at 11. Good

[0:16] night.

[0:24] Tonight, more than 20,000 people urged

[0:27] to leave their homes near Santa Barbara

[0:29] by a fastmoving wildfire. Dozens of

[0:32] houses have been destroyed and the fire

[0:34] is still out of control. I'm Harry

[0:37] Smith. Also tonight, the stress test

[0:39] results are in. The government says half

[0:42] of America's biggest banks will need to

[0:44] raise billions.

[0:47] Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Manny

[0:49] Ramirez suspended for 50 games. The

[0:52] latest pro alete caught up in a drug

[0:54] scandal and a wounded warrior and the

[0:58] miraculous moment that started him on

[1:00] the road to recovery.

[1:03] [music]

[1:06] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:09] Kurig. [music]

[1:12] Good evening. Katie is on assignment.

[1:14] California's wildfire season is off to

[1:16] an early and very dangerous start.

[1:19] Whipped up by high winds and summerlike

[1:21] temperatures, flames are leaping through

[1:23] the hills near Santa Barbara. 12,000

[1:26] people have been ordered to evacuate.

[1:28] 12,000 more are being urged to leave.

[1:31] Dozens of houses have been destroyed.

[1:33] 1,400 firefighters are trying

[1:36] desperately to get the fire under

[1:38] control. 10 have been injured, at least

[1:40] three seriously. Ben Tracy is on the

[1:43] scene. Ben.

[1:45] >> Harry, take a look at this. Just a day

[1:47] ago, this was somebody's home. And now

[1:49] all you can make out here is this burnt

[1:51] out patio furniture. And this is just

[1:53] some of the damage from a fire they once

[1:55] thought was under control. But if you

[1:56] take a look at the hilltop up there, it

[1:59] clearly isn't anymore.

[2:01] >> A terrible fire emergency here in Santa

[2:04] Barbara County. California's wildfires

[2:07] are back with a vengeance. Windhip

[2:09] flames went roaring through the Santa

[2:11] Barbara foothills, hollowing out dozens

[2:13] of homes. What was it like last night?

[2:17] It was a firestorm.

[2:18] >> Richard Martin saved his house last

[2:20] night while his neighbors were

[2:22] destroyed.

[2:23] >> It's made of 6-in thick concrete walls.

[2:26] >> He and his wife hid out in their fire

[2:28] bunker, periodically braving the

[2:30] scorching sky, using hoses to douse

[2:33] their property.

[2:34] >> And the fire was right there.

[2:35] >> Oh yeah.

[2:36] >> Just yesterday morning, firefighters

[2:38] thought they had a handle on the blaze.

[2:40] But then their worst enemy, Sundowner

[2:42] winds, blew into town. With the wind and

[2:45] the high temperatures, it really blew

[2:46] up. Sundowners arrive late in the day.

[2:50] Super hot and dry high pressure air

[2:52] churns down from the mountains and slams

[2:54] through passes and canyons, overwhelming

[2:56] the cool, damp air near the coast.

[2:58] Sundowner gust can reach hurricane

[3:00] force, a blowtorrch spreading the

[3:03] flames.

[3:04] >> We actually have uh some crews that were

[3:06] out on the line that recorded gusts of

[3:08] up to 70. And there's not a lot you can

[3:10] do with a 70 mph wind. Two Ventura

[3:13] County firefighters were hospitalized

[3:15] for first and secondderee burns. They

[3:17] were rescued after the area around them

[3:19] suddenly burst into flames. Their fire

[3:21] truck even began to melt. Today,

[3:24] firefighters used a brief window of calm

[3:26] winds to try to contain the fire. This

[3:29] house will likely be a total loss, but

[3:30] the firefighters keep fighting it so the

[3:32] embers from this house don't start

[3:34] another house on fire. None of this is

[3:37] cheap. Cashstrap California has spent

[3:39] $388 million fighting wildfires in just

[3:43] the past nine months. Tonight, even

[3:46] those who still have a home are shocked

[3:48] by what's been lost.

[3:49] >> This is absolutely beautiful place

[3:52] >> and it looks like a wasteland now.

[3:55] >> It's already heating up here again. It's

[3:56] about 100° right now and those forecast

[3:59] calls for those sundowner winds to

[4:01] continue. And Harry, if they whip up

[4:03] those flames again tonight, it's going

[4:05] to be a long night for the folks in this

[4:06] neighborhood.

[4:07] >> For sir, Ben Tracy, thank you so much.

[4:10] Now to those so-called stress tests the

[4:12] government's been giving the country's

[4:13] biggest banks to see if they could

[4:15] survive if the recession got worse. Some

[4:18] of the results have been leaking out,

[4:20] but today we got the official findings

[4:22] and our business correspondent Anthony

[4:24] Mason has them. Anthony.

[4:25] >> Harry, 150 examiners have been looking

[4:28] at these 19 major banks for the past few

[4:30] months. While the government says none

[4:32] are insolvent, some do need an extra

[4:35] cushion as insurance against a deeper

[4:37] recession.

[4:39] In all, 10 of the country's largest

[4:41] banks were told they need to raise more

[4:43] capital, led by Bank of America, which

[4:45] must come up with nearly $34 billion.

[4:48] Wells Fargo, nearly 14 billion. GAC, the

[4:51] financing arm of General Motors, 11.5

[4:54] billion. And Croup, 5.5 billion. The

[4:57] nine banks that have sufficient buffers

[4:59] and don't need more money include

[5:01] American Express and JP Morgan Chase.

[5:04] >> Our hope is that with these actions

[5:06] today, banks are going to be able to get

[5:08] back to the business of banking.

[5:09] >> The banks have until November to raise

[5:11] more capital, either by selling assets

[5:14] or issuing more common stock. Wells

[5:16] Fargo and Morgan Stanley immediately

[5:18] announced new stock offerings, and

[5:20] analysts believe most won't need to go

[5:22] back to the government for help.

[5:24] >> I believe they can raise money today.

[5:26] Yes. But Paul Miller worries the

[5:28] government's test wasn't stressful

[5:29] enough. The severe scenario simulated

[5:32] unemployment hitting 10%. Miller

[5:35] believes that should have been 12%.

[5:37] >> But if it stays at 10%. The economy is

[5:40] much better than we thought. They won't

[5:42] have to come back to the market anymore

[5:43] and we will start getting digging

[5:45] ourselves out of this recession.

[5:46] >> Wall Street has regained confidence in

[5:48] the banks. Bank of America and Wells

[5:50] Fargo stock have rallied more than 300%

[5:53] since March. City Croup has rebounded

[5:55] more than 200%. Analyst Colin Gilbert

[5:58] called the stress tests a turning point

[6:01] >> because it's finally giving some clarity

[6:02] into the capital structures of the

[6:04] banks, which has been what's dragged

[6:06] these banks um into the ground for the

[6:09] last 6 to 12 months.

[6:11] >> The economy is still fragile, but the

[6:13] Treasury believes there'll be far less

[6:15] risk of a deep recession if confidence

[6:17] can be restored to the banking system.

[6:20] >> Harry Anthony Mason, thanks. With the

[6:22] billions the government has spent to

[6:24] bail out banks and car makers and

[6:26] stimulate the economy, the president is

[6:28] under pressure to rein in spending. So

[6:30] today he removed about 17 billion from

[6:34] his proposed $3.5 trillion budget for

[6:37] next year.

[6:39] The 121 budget cuts we are announcing

[6:41] today will save taxpayers nearly $17

[6:45] billion next year alone. And even by

[6:48] Washington standards, that should be

[6:50] considered real money.

[6:52] Republican critics don't, noting 17

[6:54] billion amounts to only 1/ half of 1% of

[6:58] the proposed budget. Topping the CBS

[7:00] News Money Watch tonight, what passes

[7:02] for good news in this recession, while

[7:04] 601,000 more laid-off workers got in

[7:07] line for unemployment benefits last

[7:09] week. It was the lowest number in 14

[7:12] weeks. They joined the record more than

[7:14] 6.3 million people already collecting.

[7:17] And business is picking up at the mall.

[7:19] Same store sales were up in April for

[7:22] the first time in six months. But more

[7:24] bad news for General Motors today.

[7:26] Another huge quarterly loss. Here's

[7:29] Cynthia Bowers.

[7:31] >> Today's bad news is more evidence GM's

[7:34] fate is still up in the air. Today, the

[7:36] company said it lost $6 billion for the

[7:39] first quarter. Vehicle sales plunged

[7:41] nearly 50% from the same period last

[7:43] year. Nearly 400,000 fewer sold.

[7:48] and their latest attempt to sell more

[7:50] cars caused a new PR nightmare. The

[7:52] alien automaker is entertaining 500 of

[7:55] its biggest customers at an Arizona

[7:57] resort, corporate, and rental car

[7:59] companies who purchased 27% of all GM

[8:03] vehicles sold last year.

[8:04] >> They need to convince fleet buyers that

[8:07] they will be around. Meanwhile, GM is

[8:09] going ahead with plans to cut 42% of its

[8:12] dealerships. First, targeting those who

[8:14] sell discarded brands like Hummer, Saab,

[8:17] Saturn, and Pontiac. But in all, 2600

[8:21] dealers will get a letter telling them

[8:23] they're done.

[8:23] >> I think everybody's already been graded.

[8:25] I think that the the letters are due to

[8:27] come out. I think you're around the 10th

[8:28] or the 11th of May. At Breedman

[8:31] Chevrolet in Park Ridge, Illinois, John

[8:33] Breedman says he was told GM considered

[8:35] everything from location to sales

[8:37] figures to customer satisfaction, even

[8:40] debt load.

[8:41] >> I think that we're in in good shape, but

[8:43] uh that doesn't mean that uh you know,

[8:45] your heart doesn't go out to somebody

[8:47] who may not be meeting all those

[8:48] criteria. What is not known is how many

[8:51] of the 2600 dealers and their tens of

[8:54] thousands of employees will go quietly.

[8:56] Because dealerships are so vital to

[8:59] local economies, generating billions in

[9:01] sales revenue, nearly every state has

[9:04] some sort of franchise protection, which

[9:06] could prove costly to GM.

[9:08] >> A manufacturer can't just come and say,

[9:10] you know what, thanks for the all the

[9:11] years of service. Thanks for the

[9:12] investment you've made in your facility,

[9:14] etc. We're done with you. They have to

[9:16] pay. For GM, it's a no-win situation.

[9:20] Everything they do to save money in the

[9:22] long run costs money in the short term,

[9:24] and the government says they have until

[9:26] June 1st to prove themselves or go into

[9:29] bankruptcy. Cynthia Bowers, CBS News,

[9:32] Chicago.

[9:33] >> Another baseball slugger has struck out

[9:35] on a drug test. Dodger superstar Manny

[9:38] Ramirez was suspended today for nearly

[9:40] onethird of the season. Chief

[9:42] investigative correspondent Armen Kayan

[9:44] has the story.

[9:47] Long one of baseball's best and yet most

[9:49] inigmatic stars, Manny Ramirez preferred

[9:52] to let his booming bat do the talking.

[9:54] >> THIS BALL IS GONE for a threerun home

[9:58] run.

[9:58] >> Now that bat has been silenced until at

[10:00] least early July. The Los Angeles

[10:03] Dodgers outfielder suspended for 50

[10:05] games after testing positive for the use

[10:07] of a banned performance-enhancing

[10:09] substance. Reportedly a drug used to

[10:12] stimulate the production of

[10:14] testosterone. It will cost Ramirez

[10:16] nearly $8 million, about onethird of his

[10:19] $25 million salary this season.

[10:22] >> It hurts me because I think he made a

[10:23] personal choice and I think it was a

[10:25] wrong one. I think it sends a terrible

[10:26] message.

[10:27] >> In a statement, Ramirez said he recently

[10:29] saw a physician for a personal health

[10:31] issue. He gave me a medication, not a

[10:33] steroid, which he, the doctor, thought

[10:35] was okay to give me. "That mistake is

[10:38] now my responsibility," said Ramirez,

[10:40] adding, "I'm sorry about this whole

[10:42] situation. He won't appeal the

[10:44] suspension.

[10:45] >> The truth of the matter is he did, by

[10:47] his own admission, take a

[10:48] performance-enhancing drug.

[10:50] >> Ramirez led the Boston Red Sox to two

[10:52] World Series titles before a stormy exit

[10:54] to Los Angeles last summer. This season,

[10:57] he was hitting a team leading 348 with

[10:59] six home runs, sparking the Dodgers to

[11:02] the best record in baseball. Over the

[11:04] years, his hairraising antics like being

[11:06] spotted in a bar after claiming he was

[11:09] too sick to play or refusing to pinch

[11:11] hit in a game prompted their own

[11:13] catchphrase. Manny being Manny. A shake

[11:16] of the head reputation Ramirez

[11:19] positively added to today. Armen Kate in

[11:22] CBS News New York.

[11:24] >> Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

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[14:24] More than 34,000 US servicemen and women

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[14:29] Afghanistan. David Martin has the story

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[14:34] the power of one special word.

[14:37] >> Lieutenant Brian Brennan is a walking

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[14:45] his legs to a roadside bomb in

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[14:52] >> It's the first time we saw Brian run.

[14:54] >> The 44 lb of explosives which tore off

[14:56] his legs and killed three fellow

[14:58] soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division

[15:01] also left Brennan with a brain injury so

[15:03] traumatic there seemed little hope for

[15:05] recovery.

[15:06] >> He didn't wake up and that's when the

[15:08] real terror struck us all. Oh my, he may

[15:12] never wake up. They said on a scale of 1

[15:14] to 10, one being the worst, he was a

[15:16] one.

[15:17] >> Then one day last June, he had a

[15:19] visitor. It was a very, very grim

[15:21] situation. Very tough one. General David

[15:23] Petraeus, who once commanded the 101st

[15:26] Airborne, tried the usual words of

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[15:33] his four stars carried no weight.

[15:35] >> There was absolutely no response

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[15:37] >> Did you think there was any hope?

[15:39] >> Not really. I see his beautiful blue

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[15:43] and he doesn't know who I am, and he

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[15:46] >> Petraeus turned to leave, then decided

[15:49] to give it one last try. I just decided

[15:52] to to shout out Kurhei.

[15:55] >> That's right. Kurhei. It's a Cherokee

[15:57] Indian word. That's the motto for the

[15:59] famous Band of Brothers Regiment in the

[16:01] 101st.

[16:03] >> We counted 1, 2, 3. Kur. That's when he

[16:08] kind of sat up in the bed as best as he

[16:10] could,

[16:11] >> like saying, "I'm in here. I'm in here."

[16:13] >> All of a sudden, uh, the lieutenant, his

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[16:19] the sheets. Uh, his head is moving

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[16:25] uh, his unit's nickname.

[16:27] >> Everybody in the facility was clapping

[16:29] and crying. The doctors who had been

[16:31] working on them and giving us all that

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[16:35] heard. We heard.

[16:37] >> For three weeks, he had not responded to

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[16:45] >> just so awesome to be part of that

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[16:49] of my head.

[16:50] >> And then it came to the front.

[16:51] >> Yes, it did.

[16:52] >> After that, he just it every day got a

[16:55] little bit better. A little bit better.

[16:56] A little bit better.

[16:57] >> Last weekend, the general and the

[16:59] lieutenant met up again.

[17:00] >> How are you doing there, big guy?

[17:02] >> Sir, how you doing? He introduced

[17:04] Brennan as the unsung hero of the New

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[17:09] the stage brought the house down and

[17:12] overwhelmed his father.

[17:15] I know how tough he is.

[17:19] And uh if there's anybody in this world

[17:22] that could do it, it was he was the one.

[17:24] >> Less than a year after being comeosse

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[17:34] >> And guess what happened?

[17:36] >> One, two, three. Curry.

[17:41] >> Do you know what curhe means? It means

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[17:49] Martin, CBS News, Walter Reed, Army

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[21:01] that if the virus spreads worldwide, as

[21:04] many as two billion people could be

[21:06] infected, but scientists admit they

[21:08] don't know what the virus will do next.

[21:10] Here's our medical correspondent, Dr.

[21:12] John Leuk.

[21:14] While officials offer reassurance about

[21:16] the H1N1 virus, researchers around the

[21:19] world are racing to understand its inner

[21:21] workings because it could evolve into a

[21:23] deadlier strain.

[21:25] Scientists at the La Hoya Institute for

[21:27] Allergy and Immunology are comparing

[21:29] hundreds of different flu strains dating

[21:31] back to 1918 to the current one. Our

[21:34] specific interest is to understand

[21:37] whether there is already a pre-existing

[21:40] immune memory and immune response

[21:43] against this particular virus.

[21:45] >> The research could offer clues as to who

[21:47] might have some immunity during a

[21:48] pandemic.

[21:49] >> If you got infected with one kind of

[21:52] virus, would you be protected against

[21:54] another kind? And how closely related

[21:57] would they have to be? H1 and N1 are two

[21:59] proteins that sit on the surface of this

[22:01] new flu virus and help it infect cells.

[22:04] The body fights the flu by blocking

[22:07] those proteins. But a virus can change

[22:09] in a matter of hours, often by

[22:11] reshuffleling its genetic material with

[22:13] another flu virus after they've infected

[22:15] the same cell. If that happens, the

[22:18] virus can develop a new coat containing

[22:20] new proteins, disguising it from the

[22:23] immune system. The body can't fight what

[22:25] it can't see. Flu viruses thrive in

[22:28] cold, dry air. So, while this current

[22:30] H1N1 may die out here during the summer,

[22:33] it could thrive in the southern

[22:34] hemisphere where it's winter. If you

[22:36] have a lot of uh the H1N1 virus

[22:39] circulating south of the equator in

[22:41] their winter and it combines with

[22:44] regular or other influenza viruses, they

[22:47] can share genes and it might conceivably

[22:50] pick up a gene that makes it resistant

[22:52] to Tamlu. Also,

[22:54] researchers are going full speed ahead

[22:56] to decode this virus before the fall.

[22:58] Harry

[22:59] >> John, there's this sort of crazy thing

[23:01] going around in the internet. We've

[23:02] heard some reports on the radio even of

[23:04] people saying, "I want to go get

[23:06] infected with this virus and thinking

[23:08] it's going to protect them or immunize

[23:11] them if this virus comes back later in

[23:13] the year." Is there any sense to that?

[23:15] Well, Harry, where that's coming from is

[23:17] that during the 1918 flu epidemic, the

[23:19] people who got the milder form of the

[23:21] virus in the spring were actually

[23:22] protected from the more deadly version

[23:24] that came in the second wave in the

[23:26] fall. But this virus is way too

[23:28] unpredictable to recommend this as

[23:30] something that you should go out and do.

[23:31] It seems to be mild right now, but you

[23:33] could be one of those unlucky people who

[23:35] gets very sick and actually even dies.

[23:37] So, we can't recommend that right now.

[23:38] >> Not a good idea. Dr. John Leuk, thanks

[23:40] so much. We'll be right back.

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[26:45] Some do so much you could write a book.

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[26:54] >> [laughter]

[26:55] >> Kelly Corrian is mom, wife, daughter,

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[26:59] >> In honor of Mother's Day and children,

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[27:08] >> You are the voice of our generation.

[27:11] >> Her mother had her doubts.

[27:13] >> Well, Kelly, I love it, but I mean,

[27:15] who's going to want to read about us?

[27:17] We're not rich. We're not poor. We're

[27:20] not successful. We're not unsuccessful.

[27:22] But it's now been 15 weeks on the New

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[27:27] Mary

[27:27] >> of that book called The Middleplace

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[27:30] >> And for a year and two months, my mother

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[27:51] >> and puts them in a better place

[27:54] cuz that's WHAT A GOOD MOTHER DOES.

[27:56] RIGHT.

[27:57] >> And a good mother also is the glue

[28:00] holding the family together when first

[28:02] Kelly then her father were diagnosed

[28:04] with cancer.

[28:05] >> I can't even imagine what that year when

[28:08] both her daughter and her husband had

[28:10] cancer. I mean, she's a rock. Kelly

[28:13] calls her mother's parenting style no

[28:15] tears, no nonsense.

[28:17] >> She doesn't do a lot of the superficial

[28:19] stuff. She's not always telling you how

[28:21] lovely you are or what a good job you

[28:23] did, but she's behind the scenes making

[28:25] your life better.

[28:27] >> Much better. Now, look where Borders has

[28:29] Kelly Corrian's book downstairs, front

[28:32] and center.

[28:33] >> It worked. It worked.

[28:35] >> Both Kelly and her father are healthy

[28:37] today.

[28:38] >> Excuse me. Have you ever Have you read

[28:40] this book? And Mary keeps on plugging

[28:43] because that's what a good mother does.

[28:46] >> Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[28:49] >> That's the CBS Evening News for Katie

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