World News (ABC) - 2006-07-29

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[0:14] >> from ABC News headquarters. This is

[0:18] World News.

[0:20] Good evening. I'm Jim Abala. Deep into a

[0:23] third week of war, there is no public

[0:25] sign of even a short ceasefire.

[0:28] Secretary of State Condisa Rice is back

[0:30] in the Middle East tonight, pressing for

[0:32] peace. But the White House tells ABC

[0:34] News to expect at least another week of

[0:37] battle. That's our top story. Other

[0:39] headlines tonight. On edge, America's

[0:42] synagogues on alert under police

[0:44] protection today after a deadly Seattle

[0:46] shooting. Hard cell. Dream houses turn

[0:50] into nightmares as home sales drop and

[0:52] mortgage rates rise. How this couple and

[0:55] so many others are trapped in the real

[0:57] estate bubble. And Mad Mel, ugly

[1:00] allegations of anti-semitism as police

[1:03] in Malibu arrest Mel Gibson for drunk

[1:05] driving.

[1:08] But we begin tonight with the latest

[1:09] from the Middle East. Secretary of State

[1:11] Condelisa Rice is back in Israel pushing

[1:14] a plan to put international forces on

[1:16] the ground in southern Lebanon. From

[1:18] Beirut today, the head of Hezbollah

[1:20] unleashes a barrage of new threats

[1:22] against Israel, saying rockets will rain

[1:25] down on even more cities. From

[1:27] Jerusalem, Israel rejects a United

[1:29] Nations plea for a 3-day ceasefire to

[1:32] get civilians out and humanitarian aid

[1:34] into South Lebanon. We begin in the

[1:37] Lebanese city of Ty with ABC's Wolf

[1:39] Dick.

[1:41] Jim, tonight Israel refuses to let up,

[1:44] pounding the hills of southern Lebanon

[1:46] behind me and rejecting the calls for a

[1:49] ceasefire. They didn't allow the

[1:50] Lebanese to collect the dead or allow

[1:52] much needed aid into the surrounding

[1:54] towns and villages in desperate need of

[1:57] help. Israeli warplanes continue to

[1:59] blast targets, hitting the town of

[2:02] Nabatia. An air strike flattening a

[2:04] home, killing a woman and her five

[2:06] children. They are the latest to be

[2:08] caught in the crossfire in a fight now

[2:10] in its 18th day.

[2:13] This man just learned his nephew was

[2:15] killed, but he is unable to get back to

[2:17] his village to get the body. The

[2:20] bombings have forced about 750,000

[2:22] people from their homes. It's a

[2:24] humanitarian crisis the Lebanese

[2:26] government says it cannot handle. Calls

[2:29] for help at the Red Cross in southern

[2:31] Lebanon flood in, but the medics cannot

[2:34] go out.

[2:37] It is too dangerous, says the

[2:39] dispatcher, to leave the city. Six

[2:41] workers have already been injured. The

[2:43] bombings are just too heavy.

[2:47] >> I am burning inside, says the mayor of

[2:49] Ty because some of the nearby villages

[2:51] have been completely wiped out. He was

[2:53] attending the burial of 32 victims of

[2:56] the bombings in this temporary mass

[2:58] grave. These are the bodies they were

[3:00] able to get to, but it's believed there

[3:02] are scores more still buried under the

[3:04] rubble in surrounding towns and villages

[3:07] where it's just too dangerous to get to.

[3:10] Today, Israel pulled back from the town

[3:12] of Binabil, the scene of some of the

[3:14] bloodiest fighting. Israeli troops went

[3:17] house to house targeting Hezbollah

[3:19] fighters, but failed to push the

[3:21] militants back. In fact, Hezbollah

[3:23] intensified its attacks on Israeli

[3:25] cities today once again launching its

[3:28] long range missiles deep inside Israel.

[3:32] So tonight, although Condisa Rice is in

[3:34] the region to present a plan for a

[3:36] ceasefire, it appears neither side is

[3:38] ready to listen. Jim Wilkick in Lebanon

[3:42] tonight. And not only is neither side

[3:44] talking ceasefire, 18 days into the

[3:46] fighting, the leader of Hezbollah is

[3:48] threatening to attack cities in central

[3:50] Israel that have to this point been

[3:52] spared. Shik Hassan Nalla went on TV

[3:55] today taunting Israel and warning of new

[3:58] attacks. It is the latest public display

[4:00] from the 46-year-old Nzalla who after 14

[4:03] years at the helm of Hezbollah is now

[4:05] Israel's Osama bin Laden. ABC's Dean

[4:08] Reynolds in Jerusalem has more on the

[4:10] man and how his violent message is

[4:12] resonating in much of the Arab world.

[4:15] >> The longer the conflict goes on,

[4:19] >> the greater becomes his legend. She

[4:22] Hassan Nasra, leader of Hezbala, the man

[4:25] of the moment in the Arab world and

[4:27] enemy number one in Israel.

[4:29] >> Nasallah is seen as one of the most

[4:31] popular Arab and Muslim hero in in the

[4:34] Arab and Muslim world. It is quite a

[4:36] transformation. Remember just a couple

[4:38] of weeks ago, moderate Arab allies of

[4:41] the United States were highly critical

[4:42] of Hezbollah for picking this fight with

[4:45] the Jewish state. Saudi Arabia called it

[4:47] unexpected, inappropriate, and

[4:49] irresponsible. Something that will pull

[4:51] the whole region back years. But two

[4:55] things have happened since. The first is

[4:57] that Hezbollah fighters on the ground

[4:58] have shocked the Israelis with their

[5:00] tenacity. Rockets are still falling on

[5:03] northern Israel, dozens just today.

[5:06] And second, Israel's offensive, which

[5:08] has killed hundreds of Lebanese

[5:10] civilians, has inflamed the Arab world.

[5:14] Arab television has provided a steady

[5:16] diet of displaced refugees, wounded, and

[5:19] dying Lebanese victims. Now, America's

[5:22] friends in places like Cairo and Aman

[5:25] are shifting their allegiance, at least

[5:27] publicly. They've dropped the complaints

[5:29] about Hezbollah in favor of criticizing

[5:32] Israel. A much safer tactic for them,

[5:35] but a diplomatic nightmare for the

[5:36] United States, which needs public

[5:38] support from friendly Arab nations to

[5:41] have any legitimacy in the region.

[5:43] >> The huge popularity of Hezbollah and his

[5:46] leader within the Arab uh public has

[5:49] made it difficult for anybody to

[5:51] criticize them or their acts. Come on.

[5:55] >> And when even your friends are afraid to

[5:57] speak out, who needs enemies?

[5:59] >> Dean Reynolds, ABC News, Jerusalem.

[6:02] >> Anger over fighting in the Middle East

[6:04] has hit home, and the FBI is warning

[6:06] police across the country to watch for

[6:08] hate crimes. The concern comes a day

[6:11] after a deadly shooting at a Jewish

[6:13] center in Seattle. ABC's Neil Carlinsky

[6:15] is there.

[6:17] Today at synagogues across the country,

[6:20] Jews prayed for peace in the Middle

[6:21] East, protected by police here at home.

[6:24] >> Now it's a moment that you you do start

[6:27] to get panic even though you don't want

[6:28] to be overreacting to anything.

[6:31] >> From New York to Seattle, if someone

[6:33] wants to do us harm, I'm I'm sadly sad

[6:36] to say security probably won't make a

[6:39] difference.

[6:39] >> Police are under orders to look out for

[6:41] lone radicals who may act on their anger

[6:44] about the conflict in Israel and

[6:45] Lebanon. Investigators say that's what

[6:48] 30-year-old Navidivid Azal Hawk was

[6:50] doing when he burst into Seattle's

[6:52] Jewish Federation building Friday

[6:54] afternoon and shot six women, killing

[6:56] one. According to witnesses, he said,

[6:59] "I'm a Muslim American and I'm angry

[7:01] with Israel." before opening fire. After

[7:04] a standoff with authorities, he called

[7:05] 911 himself and surrendered. Police say

[7:09] Hawk is not a part of Hezbollah or any

[7:11] other terror group, but was acting alone

[7:14] and has a history of mental illness.

[7:16] Still, with the ongoing violence in the

[7:18] Middle East, the FBI had warned of

[7:20] potential violence here at home. This

[7:22] was the FBI director just 2 days before

[7:25] the shooting. We are making certain that

[7:27] we are alert to the possibility of

[7:29] individuals who might want to undertake

[7:32] terrorist attacks in the United States.

[7:33] Following Friday's shooting, the FBI

[7:35] today issued a news statement saying in

[7:37] part, "They have no information

[7:39] indicating an imminent threat of attack

[7:41] in the US, but we urge vigilance during

[7:44] this heightened state of tension in the

[7:45] Middle East." So today, across the

[7:48] country, synagogues and mosques are on a

[7:51] heightened state of alert. So in the

[7:53] short term, we have to be extra vigilant

[7:55] about the possibility that this guy is

[7:57] seen as a hero by uh Lebanese

[8:01] sympathizers and those who are hostile

[8:04] to Israel. Police caution that homegrown

[8:07] extremists can be hard to identify.

[8:09] Aside from reportedly telling his

[8:11] victims he hates Israel, the only other

[8:13] known quote from Hawk is this one from a

[8:15] 1994 yearbook photo. It simply says,

[8:19] "Peace be unto you." Neil Carlinsky, ABC

[8:22] News, Seattle.

[8:24] >> Now, back overseas and to Iraq. At least

[8:27] 18 people were killed in a series of

[8:29] attacks across the country today. The US

[8:31] military announced the deaths of three

[8:33] Marines in the western Alanbar province.

[8:36] And it's clear to top US commanders in

[8:38] Iraq at the plan to put Baghdad security

[8:40] in the hands of Iraqi forces is not

[8:43] working well. 3,700 American troops are

[8:46] now being moved from other parts of Iraq

[8:48] to the capital, putting Americans in the

[8:50] middle again. ABC's Terry McCarthy in

[8:53] Baghdad tonight.

[8:55] In Baghdad this weekend, more signs that

[8:57] a religious war and not the insurgency

[9:00] may be the greatest threat. Two mosques

[9:03] attacked in Baghdad in two days, six

[9:05] dead. In the south of the city, 12

[9:08] bodies found tortured to death.

[9:11] By now, the Iraqis were supposed to be

[9:13] taking care of their own security so

[9:16] Americans could begin heading home. But

[9:18] far from being a solution, the Iraqi

[9:21] security forces may be contributing to

[9:23] the violence.

[9:26] They are mostly Shiite and there are

[9:28] allegations that some of them have

[9:29] formed death squads to kill Sunnis.

[9:33] Across the city, families live in fear

[9:35] every night of a knock on the door by

[9:37] armed men warning them to get out or

[9:39] worse.

[9:41] This Sunni woman's family was kicked out

[9:43] of their house by six carloads of armed

[9:46] Shiite militia men.

[9:48] They were shouting out, out, she says.

[9:50] Out of the house now. Then they burnt it

[9:53] down. This Shiite woman told us they

[9:56] find two to three dead bodies every day

[9:58] in her neighborhood.

[10:01] So, one year after the US began reducing

[10:04] its presence on Baghdad streets, several

[10:06] thousand more American troops are headed

[10:09] back into the city. We will do whatever

[10:11] it takes to bring down the level of

[10:12] violence here in Baghdad.

[10:15] >> The US troops will join Iraqi units on

[10:17] patrol to ensure they protect all Iraqis

[10:20] regardless of their religious sect.

[10:22] >> Nobody has trained for this mission. No

[10:24] one's done this before. So this is a

[10:27] major challenge and it probably will

[10:30] determine whether we win or lose in

[10:32] Iraq.

[10:33] >> So American troops are now being drawn

[10:35] back into the very center of the

[10:37] conflict. To succeed, they must bridge a

[10:40] sectarian divide that is getting wider

[10:43] every day.

[10:45] Terry McCarthy, ABC News, Faghdad.

[10:49] And we learned today that the son of war

[10:51] hero and Arizona Senator John McCain

[10:53] could well end up in Iraq soon. While

[10:56] McCain way weighs a run at the

[10:57] presidency, his 18-year-old son, Jimmy,

[10:59] reports for duty with the Marines in

[11:01] September. If he goes to Iraq, McCain

[11:04] would join FDR in becoming one of the

[11:05] few presidential candidates ever to have

[11:08] had a son in a war zone. Still ahead on

[11:11] World News this Saturday, Mel Gibson

[11:13] driving drunk, losing his cool, then

[11:16] apologizing for saying what he calls

[11:18] despicable things.

[11:21] Why this couple is so desperate to dump

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[14:36] Actor Mel Gibson is known for his fiery

[14:38] performances on the big screen, but

[14:40] tonight he stands accused of some very

[14:42] nasty behavior offscreen. Gibson was

[14:44] arrested early Friday morning for drunk

[14:46] driving. And that's when things may have

[14:48] gotten ugly. Here's ABC's Miguel Marquez

[14:51] in Los Angeles. When Mel Gibson's

[14:53] Passion of the Christ hit the screens in

[14:55] 2004, there were protests. The film and

[14:58] its passionate producer were accused of

[15:00] being anti-semitic. Gibson denied the

[15:03] charges, but they are back with a

[15:05] vengeance after he was arrested for

[15:07] drunk driving two nights ago. The

[15:09] website tmz.com says it obtained four

[15:12] pages of the original eight-page arrest

[15:14] report allegedly written by the

[15:16] arresting officer. The handwritten pages

[15:19] posted on TMZ's website accused Gibson

[15:22] of an anti-semitic tie raid.

[15:24] >> The sheriff's department tried to cover

[15:25] this up. They tried to make it look like

[15:28] nothing happened and they told the media

[15:29] that that everything was without

[15:31] incident. That was the quote. It could

[15:33] not have been further from the truth.

[15:35] The document also alleges Gibson made

[15:38] threats, used profanity, and tried to

[15:40] escape arrest. The Los Angeles County

[15:42] Sheriff's Department has not confirmed

[15:44] the authenticity of the document. But in

[15:46] a statement late today, Gibson said, "I

[15:48] acted like a person completely out of

[15:50] control when I was arrested and said

[15:52] things I do not believe to be true and

[15:54] which are despicable. I am deeply

[15:57] ashamed of everything I said." Gibson

[15:59] goes on to say that I have battled with

[16:01] the disease of alcoholism for all my

[16:03] adult life and profoundly regret my

[16:06] horrific relapse.

[16:08] Jim, I just spoke to an official with

[16:10] the Los Angeles County Sheriff's

[16:11] Department a short time ago and he

[16:13] insists that Gibson was treated just

[16:15] like everybody else. He says that this

[16:17] entire thing is under investigation and

[16:19] that abuse of language alone does not

[16:21] amount to an incident. Jim

[16:24] >> Miguel Marquez in Los Angeles. Thank

[16:25] you. A sports note tonight. One of the

[16:28] fastest men in the world, American

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[19:37] The crisis in the Middle East, the

[19:39] casualties and the stakes are rising. Is

[19:41] Israel ramping up for an even bigger

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[19:54] Drive around almost any wealthy suburb

[19:56] these days and you'll see a lot of these

[19:58] very big houses, so-called McMansions,

[20:01] under construction everywhere. In fact,

[20:03] in the last 50 years, the average size

[20:05] of new American homes has more than

[20:07] doubled. But the once red-hot housing

[20:09] market has cooled off. And as ABC's Bob

[20:12] Jameson reports from New York's

[20:14] Westchester County, these big homes are

[20:16] starting to give a lot of people some

[20:17] serious headaches. It's tonight's open

[20:19] house.

[20:21] Doctors Patricia Shiner and Michael

[20:23] Silver and their three young children

[20:26] loved their $2.5 million dream house. It

[20:29] has now become a nightmare. They put

[20:31] their 7,000q ft home up for sale and

[20:34] moved to a smaller house in December to

[20:37] save on their mortgage payments,

[20:38] utilities, and taxes. Now it's an

[20:41] albatross they can't sell despite

[20:43] dropping the price.

[20:44] >> We bought another house feeling that our

[20:46] house would sell quickly. And then the

[20:48] market suddenly died.

[20:50] >> It's tough on a daily basis, especially

[20:53] around the 15th of the month.

[20:54] >> It's a hardship for anybody to pay do

[20:55] mortgages. They didn't believe one of

[20:58] the hottest real estate markets in the

[21:00] country would cool off so quickly.

[21:02] >> I I'm completely blown away by it. Oh,

[21:04] >> we're totally surprised. I mean, we

[21:06] think this is a beautiful house.

[21:08] >> In almost every region of the country,

[21:10] rising interest rates have made big

[21:12] houses hard to sell. Over the last year,

[21:14] interest rates on a 30-year fixed

[21:16] mortgage have risen more than a full

[21:18] percent. So, for every $100,000

[21:21] borrowed, that's an extra $80 a month.

[21:24] It's the worst market in a decade.

[21:26] >> A year and a half ago, I could list it,

[21:28] hit enter, and I'd have three showings

[21:31] within 10 to 15 minutes. Now, I hit

[21:34] enter and I wait.

[21:36] >> There is one bright spot in the real

[21:38] estate market. With big houses now out

[21:41] of the reach of many buyers, there is a

[21:43] growing demand for small houses.

[21:45] >> Hello,

[21:46] >> Patrick and Barbara Connelly with a

[21:48] floating rate mortgage. Today, we're

[21:50] looking for a smaller house. lower

[21:52] operating costs, lower maintenance,

[21:54] >> lower taxes,

[21:55] >> lower taxes,

[21:57] um lower price.

[21:59] >> There are now more people trying to sell

[22:01] houses 5,000 square ft or bigger than

[22:04] there are buyers.

[22:05] >> Reality is coming back. So, they are

[22:07] looking for smaller homes and that's

[22:09] what they're focusing on. I certainly

[22:11] see a little bit more of an increase in

[22:12] inventory and that might continue.

[22:14] >> As for Dr. Shiner and silver. Realtors

[22:17] say their empty house may be on the

[22:19] market for months more, even if they

[22:21] drop the price again. Bob Jameson, ABC

[22:24] News, Irvington, New York. The heat wave

[22:27] being blamed for as many as 141 deaths

[22:29] in California over the last two weeks is

[22:32] moving east this weekend. Heat

[22:34] advisories are in effect across the

[22:35] Great Plains and Mississippi Valley all

[22:37] the way to Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

[22:39] Forecasters say the triple-digit

[22:41] temperatures could continue through the

[22:42] middle of next week. When we come back,

[22:46] full-time pay for part-time work.

[22:48] Lawmakers getting paid for getting

[22:50] almost nothing done on Capitol Hill. And

[22:52] it's your money.

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[23:50] >> Ask your doctor about ambient CR.

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[23:56] >> Some things men don't want to talk

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[23:58] >> like prostate problems. But I learned

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[24:42] >> Have 50,000 going once, twice, sold to

[24:45] the gentleman in the center.

[24:47] >> You I want to go ahead and sell it now.

[24:50] >> Constantly buying and selling stocks

[24:51] doesn't make much sense either. That's

[24:53] why Edward Jones advises clients to buy

[24:55] long-term investments.

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[25:37] >> It's very soft. All Wednesday at 10:00,

[25:38] mind-bending medical mysteries that

[25:40] leave even the best doctors baffled.

[25:43] >> The Emmy nominations are in, and every

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[25:50] morning till night, 24/7, more Americans

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[25:56] credible, and once again, honored.

[26:00] Finally tonight, how hard is your

[26:02] representative in Congress really

[26:03] working? As lawmakers race to get out of

[26:06] Washington for the rest of the summer,

[26:07] the math shows the current Congress

[26:09] convenes an average of just 6 days a

[26:12] month. Members take long weekends and

[26:14] even longer vacations. ABC's John

[26:16] Cochran looks at just how hard they are

[26:18] working for your money.

[26:22] Members of Congress know the Washington

[26:24] airports very well. Most, including

[26:26] Tennessee Representative Jim Cooper, fly

[26:28] in for work on Tuesdays.

[26:30] >> They call it the Tuesday Thursday club.

[26:32] And that means that you get here Tuesday

[26:34] night, you have a few uh easy votes,

[26:38] you'll vote on Wednesday, and then

[26:39] you'll go back home Thursday afternoon.

[26:41] And that, believe it or not, is

[26:42] considered a work week in Washington DC.

[26:45] >> Congress will meet on fewer days this

[26:47] year than any Congress since 1948, the

[26:50] year Harry Truman campaigned against

[26:52] what he called the Do Nothing Congress.

[26:55] Texas Democrat Jean Green says voters

[26:57] wonder why he spends so much time in

[26:59] Houston instead of Washington.

[27:01] >> I've been hearing from people saying

[27:03] they see me more than they do their city

[27:04] council member.

[27:05] >> Even members from Hawaii jet home for

[27:08] long weekends. In the 1960s and 70s,

[27:12] Congress met on average 162 days a year.

[27:16] In the 80s and 90s, 139 days. This year,

[27:21] the House is scheduled to meet only 76

[27:24] days. That's not entirely a bad thing,

[27:27] says Arizona Conservative Jeff Flake.

[27:29] >> For those who who really believe in in

[27:31] limited government, uh, then there's

[27:34] virtue to being away from Washington.

[27:36] >> But even Flake says Congress has failed

[27:38] to spend the time needed for oversight

[27:40] of important federal agencies from FEMA

[27:43] to Homeland Security. And Congress in

[27:46] its rush to get out of town often

[27:48] hurriedly passes legislation that

[27:50] critics say is flawed, such as a

[27:53] bankruptcy bill that hurt victims wiped

[27:55] out financially by Hurricane Katrina. A

[27:57] part-time Congress doesn't mean a

[28:00] smaller government or a less uh

[28:03] obtrusive government. A part-time

[28:06] Congress means a government that does

[28:08] just as much but does it less well.

[28:10] >> They're paying us full-time salaries,

[28:12] but we're not working full-time. How

[28:14] much does the lowest paid member of

[28:16] Congress make a year? $165,200.

[28:22] That's your money. John Cochran, ABC

[28:24] News, Capitol Hill.

[28:26] >> Nice work if you can get it. That is

[28:28] World News for this Saturday. Tomorrow

[28:30] on this broadcast, women priests,

[28:32] they're being ordained in this country

[28:34] in defiance of the Vatican. I'm

[28:36] Jamavala. For all of us at ABC News,

[28:38] have a good weekend and good night.

[28:53] Don't try to be a hero, man. This will

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[29:15] When glass gets mixed in with other

[29:16] recyclables, it can cause all sorts of

[29:19] problems.

[29:20] And no self-respecting recyclable wants

[29:23] to be labeled a troublemaker.

[29:38] I'm K2's Natalie Marian. And when it

[29:40] comes to water activities this summer,

[29:42] Family Matters wants you to play it

[29:44] safe. Remember these important safety

[29:46] measures to prevent accidents and

[29:48] drownings in the water. Never swim

[29:51] alone. Always remember to swim in areas

[29:53] supervised by a lifeguard. Designate an

[29:55] adult to wash the kids in the