CBS Evening News - 1999-05-17
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[0:00] place.
[0:03] Change and a new day in the Middle East.
[0:06] Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu falls
[0:08] in an election landslide for Ahood
[0:11] Barack. New data and crash test indicate
[0:14] a possible airbag safety hazard in
[0:17] millions of minivans. And will you get
[0:21] the retirement income you're counting
[0:23] on? Tonight, what this man learned about
[0:26] the new cash balance pensions.
[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:35] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:38] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:41] Israel has chosen a new leader and a new
[0:43] direction. Prime Minister Netanyahu is
[0:45] out swept away in a big victory for the
[0:48] less conservative Labor Party challenger
[0:50] Ahood Barack. Barack is a war hero who
[0:53] has pledged to revive the peace process
[0:55] sponsored by President Clinton. CBS's
[0:57] Richard Roth in Tel Aviv begins our
[0:59] coverage of this major international
[1:01] story.
[1:02] >> Israel TV called him prime minister the
[1:05] moment the polls closed. 57year-old
[1:07] Labor Party leader Ahoud Barack, the
[1:10] country's most decorated soldier
[1:12] sweeping to victory on a simple promise
[1:14] that electing him would be a vote for
[1:16] change.
[1:17] >> I hope that we are at the first step for
[1:21] unity, change, and new hope for Israel.
[1:24] With exit polls predicting he lost by as
[1:27] much as 17% of the vote, Benjamin
[1:29] Netanyahu didn't just quickly concede.
[1:31] He announced he's quitting leadership of
[1:33] his lood party.
[1:36] >> It's time to sew together, he said. What
[1:38] the bitter election campaign is torn
[1:40] apart and time for him to take a break
[1:42] from Israel's tumultuous politics. The
[1:46] weekend withdrawal of three marginal
[1:47] contenders had turned the race into a
[1:49] twoman contest, spoiling Netanyahu's
[1:52] hope of keeping his campaign alive
[1:54] another two weeks for a runoff. But it
[1:57] wasn't only time that ran out. It was
[2:00] also trust. He'd stalled the peace
[2:02] process in the name of security. But
[2:05] many Israelis felt his prime minister,
[2:06] Netanyahu, was more a fox than a hawk,
[2:10] more crafty than charismatic. Political
[2:12] allies abandoned him and support from
[2:15] the ultraorththodox became a mixed
[2:17] blessing with the majority of Israel's
[2:19] voters in an anti-clerical mood. The
[2:22] mood tonight was champagne popping
[2:24] pandemonium on Tel Aviv's main square
[2:27] named for the assassinated prime
[2:29] minister Yitsak Rabbine whose legacy
[2:31] Barack now inherits. His campaign called
[2:34] for Israelis to unite, not something
[2:36] they're known for, but they've given him
[2:39] something unusual in return. more than a
[2:42] victory, what looks like a mandate.
[2:46] >> And though it wasn't part and it though
[2:48] it wasn't the issue on which the
[2:50] election turned, there's no doubt here
[2:52] tonight that jumpstarting the peace
[2:54] process will be right at the top of the
[2:56] new prime minister's agenda. Dan
[2:58] >> Richard Roth in Tel Aviv. Ahood Barack
[3:01] is 57, born in Israel. He has a graduate
[3:04] degree from Stanford University. Barack
[3:06] was a tank soldier in the Israeli
[3:08] Defense Force and rose to become chief
[3:09] of staff for defense. He entered
[3:11] politics in 1995 as interior minister
[3:14] under the late Yachak Rabine. The United
[3:16] States was officially neutral in the
[3:18] Israeli campaign, but it's no secret
[3:20] that President Clinton was frustrated
[3:21] with Netanyahu's role in the peace
[3:23] process. CBS's Scott P has the White
[3:25] House reaction. Scott. Dan. The
[3:27] president expects Barack to breathe life
[3:30] into the peace process. Earlier this
[3:32] evening, he telephoned both men and
[3:34] afterward he released a statement in
[3:36] which he said Barack now has a strong
[3:38] mandate. Mr. Mr. Clinton said he looked
[3:40] forward to a comprehensive peace that
[3:42] strengthens Israel's security. Mr.
[3:45] Clinton has been frustrated by
[3:46] Netanyahu's reluctance to implement the
[3:48] peace accord signed here last October.
[3:51] Barack says he will meet the terms of
[3:53] the deal, which include Israeli troop
[3:55] withdrawals in return for a Palestinian
[3:57] crackdown on terrorism. It's no secret
[4:00] that Mr. Clinton and Netanyahu didn't
[4:02] like each other very much. And it's
[4:04] interesting to note that some of Mr.
[4:06] Clinton's top campaign strategist went
[4:08] to work for Barack and guided his
[4:10] campaign in Israel. Dan
[4:12] >> Scott Py at the White House. Also in
[4:15] Washington, CBS News has new information
[4:17] tonight about a potentially deadly
[4:19] airbag safety problem for some people in
[4:21] millions of minivans. A dozen different
[4:24] rounds of collision tests and a review
[4:26] of actual highway crashes indicate the
[4:29] possible danger exists in minivans made
[4:31] by Chrysler. The automaker disputes the
[4:34] findings and says CBS News is making a
[4:36] mistake by broadcasting this. CBS News
[4:39] correspondent Bob our has the maximum
[4:41] facts on the minivan story.
[4:44] >> This is the crash test that stunned
[4:45] federal regulators. The passenger dummy
[4:48] in this 1997 Chrysler minivan sustained
[4:50] life-threatening injuries. Injuries
[4:52] caused by the vehicle's airbag. Now, CBS
[4:55] News has learned the National Highway
[4:57] Traffic Safety Administration has
[4:59] completed 11 additional tests of the
[5:00] Chrysler minivan airbags. And in more
[5:03] than half of those tests, the passenger
[5:05] side airbag caused what would be
[5:07] catastrophic injuries. Chrysler
[5:09] challenges the government's testing
[5:11] method, claiming the small dummy used
[5:13] isn't yet perfected. And Chrysler claims
[5:15] its own tests show the airbag is safe.
[5:18] Susan Syski, Chrysler's vice president
[5:20] of safety, says, quote, "We don't
[5:21] believe there is anything wrong with the
[5:23] airbag system." But also troubling to
[5:26] regulators is what they found when they
[5:27] took a second look at actual accidents.
[5:30] The government's special crash
[5:31] investigation has found of the 22 airbag
[5:34] related deaths and serious injuries of
[5:35] passengers in minivans, 20 of them have
[5:38] been in Chrysler models built between
[5:40] 1994 and 1996.
[5:42] >> The bag is too aggressive. It's too big.
[5:44] It's not tethered. Two and a half years
[5:46] ago, Clarence Ditllo, an auto safety
[5:48] advocate, asked the National Highway
[5:50] Traffic Safety Administration to
[5:51] investigate the Chrysler airbag. At the
[5:54] time, there had been nine passenger
[5:55] fatalities. The request was turned down.
[5:58] >> The government now has the deaths they
[6:00] want. The government should order
[6:01] Chrysler to do a recall if Chrysler
[6:03] won't do it itself.
[6:04] >> Rob Sanders also wants Chrysler to make
[6:06] changes. His daughter, Allison, was
[6:08] killed in 1995 in a low-speed collision
[6:11] involving the family's Chrysler minivan.
[6:13] The seven-year-old had slipped off her
[6:15] shoulder harness to reach for the radio
[6:17] when the crash happened. The airbag
[6:19] exploded in Allison's face.
[6:21] >> And then I uh turned over uh and looked
[6:23] at Allison and I saw that she was
[6:25] unconscious.
[6:26] And I was uh I was just shocked and
[6:29] horrified. I couldn't understand why she
[6:31] would be in that kind of condition uh in
[6:33] such a minor fender bender accident.
[6:36] >> Sanders is now suing Chrysler, alleging
[6:38] that a defective airbag system caused
[6:40] his daughter's death. But Chrysler says
[6:43] like Allison Sanders, nearly all of
[6:44] those killed were unbted or improperly
[6:47] belted. Chrysler also points out it has
[6:49] 2/3 of all minivans on America's
[6:51] highways and therefore faces a
[6:53] statistically higher probability of
[6:55] accidental deaths. Also, Chrysler
[6:58] switched to a less forceful passenger
[6:59] side airbag during the 1997 model year
[7:02] and with other automakers in 1998 began
[7:05] using an even lower powered airbag. But
[7:07] nearly two million older Chrysler
[7:09] minivans with the original, more
[7:11] powerful airbags remain on the road. At
[7:14] this point, Chrysler says there is no
[7:15] need for a voluntary recall. But sources
[7:18] say the government is close to deciding
[7:19] whether to launch a formal defects
[7:21] investigation that may ultimately force
[7:23] the issue. Bob or CBS News, Washington.
[7:27] >> The vehicles in question are Chrysler,
[7:29] Dodge, and Plymouth minivans, model
[7:31] years 1974 through 1996.
[7:35] should say 1994 and 1996 and part of
[7:39] model year 1997.
[7:41] Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[7:43] News, tension at a middle school after
[7:45] police uncover an alleged murder plot.
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[9:22] America's
[9:32] problem with children and violence in
[9:33] the schools has surfaced again. The
[9:35] focus today is a middle school, a junior
[9:37] high school in Michigan just reopened
[9:39] under tight security. Four young
[9:41] suspects were arrested for allegedly
[9:44] plotting a mass killing spree arrested
[9:46] before it was carried out. But as CBS's
[9:49] Cynthia Bowers reports from the scene,
[9:50] the worry there is far from over.
[9:53] >> Classes resumed today at Holland Woods
[9:56] Middle School under heavy guard with
[9:58] anxious parents hovering nearby.
[10:00] >> I don't feel the school's safe at all. I
[10:02] don't think they should have even had it
[10:03] open.
[10:04] >> Many parents agree. Late last week, four
[10:07] boys were charged. These two 14year-olds
[10:09] as adults, a 12 and 13year-old as
[10:11] juveniles in a plot to kill classmates
[10:14] and then bomb their school. Prosecutors
[10:16] say the details came directly from one
[10:18] of the suspects.
[10:20] >> Mr. Schnep by his own admission, your
[10:24] honor, indicated that they had planned
[10:26] on carrying out a Colorado style
[10:29] killing.
[10:29] >> Police credit a 14-year-old girl with
[10:31] coming forward after she reportedly
[10:33] overheard the boys plotting to open fire
[10:36] on students at a gym assembly.
[10:38] >> She's a hero. She saved the lives of
[10:42] students. But there are still concerns
[10:44] and those fears were heightened when a
[10:46] bomb was found on campus after the
[10:48] students were arrested.
[10:50] >> Our concern is is that we know that the
[10:52] four students that we have in custody
[10:53] did not place the bomb there because
[10:55] they were in custody at the time the
[10:57] bomb was placed.
[10:58] >> What's scary is they were convincing us
[11:00] that everything was fine to come back
[11:01] Friday
[11:02] >> and there was a pen and then there was a
[11:03] bomb found.
[11:04] >> A bomb police say was designed to damage
[11:07] people, not property. If the bomb would
[11:09] have went off, it certainly would have
[11:10] caused serious injury or death to anyone
[11:13] in the near vicinity.
[11:14] >> In court last Friday, the prosecutor
[11:16] said these kids set out to top last
[11:18] month's Littleton massacre.
[11:20] >> They wanted to kill more individuals
[11:22] than were killed in Colorado. What is
[11:25] most frightening to parents in this
[11:27] community is the realization that
[11:29] despite all the beefed up security,
[11:31] until the person who put the bomb on
[11:33] school grounds is apprehended, the
[11:35] absolute safety of their children cannot
[11:37] be guaranteed. Cynthia Bowers, CBS News,
[11:40] Port Hiron, Michigan.
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[13:40] 11 powerful state lawmakers treated to a
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[13:49] The story at 6.
[13:52] >> Bad weather has forced NATO to cancel
[13:54] most of its bombing runs over Yugoslavia
[13:56] tonight. While the pace picked up at
[13:58] least a little on the diplomatic front.
[14:00] A UN delegation is in Belgrade preparing
[14:02] to make the first trip to Kosovo by
[14:04] international authorities since the
[14:06] bombing began nearly two months ago.
[14:08] CBS's war correspondent in Belgrade is
[14:11] John Roberts.
[14:13] A tour of the bombed out Chinese embassy
[14:15] was the UN team's first introduction to
[14:17] the destruction in Yugoslavia. But the
[14:20] real work will come later this week when
[14:21] it surveys the humanitarian disaster in
[14:24] Kosovo. The mission is overdue.
[14:27] We have been saying for weeks that
[14:30] priority number one is access to Kosovo,
[14:34] access to victims who remain inside the
[14:37] territory. And depending on what it
[14:39] finds, the team hasn't ruled out trying
[14:41] to bring in aid to Kosovo before a
[14:43] ceasefire is declared.
[14:46] And even as NATO bombers were seen
[14:48] attacking targets near the Albanian
[14:49] border, there was some optimism today
[14:51] that a ceasefire may not be far off.
[14:54] Melvich is increasingly eager to cut a
[14:57] deal, says an independent analyst here,
[14:59] but any breakthrough may depend on how
[15:01] NATO responds.
[15:03] They would like Milos to come out of
[15:05] this crisis as somebody who is a clear
[15:07] loser and who capitulate.
[15:09] >> Still time is growing short on both
[15:12] sides. NATO wants the refugees to return
[15:15] before winter. And while his army
[15:17] remains strong, Malloich's battered
[15:19] economy is at risk of total collapse.
[15:22] Today, for the first time, Western
[15:23] journalists were taken to the Zasta
[15:25] plant wrecked by NATO bombs in April.
[15:28] The alliance claims the factory produced
[15:30] military vehicles as well as Yugo cars.
[15:33] 36,000 people are now out of work and
[15:36] could be for years. Any peace deal will
[15:39] no doubt include some sort of Marshall
[15:41] plan for the Balkans to rebuild the
[15:43] shattered infrastructure here. With each
[15:45] day that Malloich continues to defy NATO
[15:48] demands, the damage and the price tag
[15:50] continue to mount. John Roberts, CBS
[15:53] News, Gregoyovich. We remind you that
[15:56] all reports broadcast out of Belgrade
[15:58] are subject to Yugoslav government
[15:59] censorship. Looking ahead, NATO has come
[16:02] up with a new plan for a peacekeeping
[16:03] force to go into Kasifo when the
[16:06] fighting ends. It's a lot bigger than
[16:07] the original plan, as CBS's David Martin
[16:10] reports from the US Defense Department.
[16:12] David,
[16:13] >> Dan, under the new plan, between 45 and
[16:15] 50,000 troops, about 7,000 of them
[16:18] American, would go into Kosovo once
[16:20] Mallich agrees to NATO's terms. The
[16:24] original plan had called for a force of
[16:26] 28,000 and US officials say much of the
[16:29] increase is due to engineering units
[16:31] which will have to repair the damage
[16:34] done to Kosovo by Serb ethnic cleansing
[16:36] and NATO bombing. This is not an
[16:39] invasion force. It assumes Mallosvich
[16:42] has agreed to pull his troops out and
[16:44] let NATO in. And that of course is
[16:46] exactly what he's been opposed to from
[16:48] the start. Dan David Martin at the
[16:50] Pentagon. Up next here on CBS Eye on
[16:53] America investigates the cash balance
[16:56] pension. What's with these new pension
[16:58] plans?
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[17:35] >> Mornings.
[17:37] >> Well, that's my time to be dad.
[17:40] >> By the time I get home at night, my kids
[17:41] are asleep.
[17:43] And breakfast?
[17:45] >> Hey, I can I can do that on my way out
[17:48] the door. The hard part though. Well,
[17:51] the hard part's getting that far.
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[17:56] >> Let me out. Come on. Okay. Okay.
[17:58] Bye-bye.
[18:03] >> There are certain things your body is
[18:05] going through that the chemo is doing to
[18:08] you.
[18:12] I was tired. Very, very tired.
[18:15] One time. My grandchildren were all over
[18:19] and they all went out and got ice cream
[18:21] and they're all lined up on the porch
[18:23] all with ice cream. They start from the
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[19:03] >> Wednesday, how does a con artist know
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[19:11] Wednesday.
[19:14] >> Tonight's IO America is a hard news look
[19:17] at pension plans. A CBS News poll finds
[19:20] more than half of Americans are in a
[19:22] pension plan and about 3/4 of them
[19:25] expect the money to be there for them at
[19:27] retirement. But it may not be nearly as
[19:30] much as they thought. In this guarding
[19:32] your money report, Ray Brady finds that
[19:34] more and more companies are switching
[19:36] from traditional pensions to what are
[19:37] called cash balance plans.
[19:40] Climbing utility polls, it's tough,
[19:43] backbreaking work, which is why
[19:45] 40-year-old Mike Murphy was hoping to
[19:47] hang up his tool belt and retire by the
[19:50] age of 58.
[19:52] >> We work all all our lives to to to
[19:54] retire, to kick back, and do what you
[19:56] what you enjoy. But dreams of a life
[19:58] beyond Niagara Falls, came to an end
[20:01] when Murphy's employer, Niagara Mohawk
[20:03] Power, took away the traditional pension
[20:06] plan that he'd been counting on. In came
[20:08] a new plan. In 10 years on the job,
[20:11] Murphy never got shocked.
[20:13] >> Dear Niagara Mohawk pension plan
[20:15] participant until he did the math. I
[20:18] planned on retiring when I was 58.
[20:21] And at age 58, under the old plan that I
[20:24] no longer participate in, my pension
[20:27] would have been worth $372,000.
[20:30] Under the new plan, it's $216,000.
[20:35] >> If my math is right, that's a loss to
[20:37] you of $150,000.
[20:39] >> Correct. Come on, bud.
[20:40] >> Mike and his wife Carmel couldn't
[20:42] believe it. under Niagara Mohawk's
[20:44] rules, which his union agreed to. Murphy
[20:47] missed the age and time of service
[20:49] requirements by just 11 weeks. $150,000
[20:56] gone.
[20:57] >> It's just appalling to think that that
[20:59] one day you can be worth this much money
[21:01] and the next day it's right out the
[21:03] window.
[21:04] >> Mike Murphy is just one of thousands of
[21:06] workers in their 40s and 50s caught in
[21:09] the middle of two pension plans. The old
[21:11] plan builds up credits near the end of
[21:13] your career and that's when salaries
[21:15] usually are the highest. Under the new
[21:17] plan called cash balance, the credits
[21:20] come early, but that's when salaries are
[21:23] at their lowest. And for those with time
[21:25] on the job, that difference can cost big
[21:29] money.
[21:30] >> Well, how much money do I need to start
[21:32] retirement with?
[21:33] >> But not all workers are complaining. At
[21:36] another company, Kodak, everyone gets a
[21:39] choice. Stick with the old plan or go
[21:42] with the new program, the cash balance
[21:44] plan.
[21:45] >> Lots of companies have made this
[21:47] transition to cash balance.
[21:49] >> Lots of young workers like what they
[21:51] see.
[21:52] >> You're 34 years old. How many companies
[21:54] have you worked for?
[21:55] >> I've worked for two companies prior to
[21:57] this.
[21:58] >> For 30somes like Kodak manager Mike
[22:00] Miller, the new plan has one big
[22:02] advantage. If they change companies,
[22:05] they can take their pension with them.
[22:07] that it's not likely we're going to
[22:09] spend 30 35 years at one company and
[22:12] retire retire from the same company that
[22:14] we joined on with at the start of our
[22:16] career. Critics say companies are out to
[22:19] save a buck, big bucks. But for Miller,
[22:22] cash balance may mean money in the bank.
[22:26] Now
[22:26] >> that's an incredible difference for you.
[22:29] >> For Mike Murphy though, the difference
[22:31] may mean more years on the job.
[22:33] Remember, he was planning to call it
[22:36] quits at 58.
[22:38] >> When you're that age, you're broke up,
[22:41] busted up, your elbows are shot, your
[22:43] shoulders are shot, your back's shot,
[22:44] your knees are shot. Now, Mike Murphy
[22:47] says to retire with the pension he'd
[22:49] been planning on, he'll have to keep
[22:51] climbing those poles until he's 65. In
[22:56] Niagara Falls, New York, I'm Ray Brady
[22:59] for Eye on America. For those planning
[23:02] to relocate at retirement, a new book
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[23:26] years after it was sent by a British
[23:28] soldier going off to fight World War I.
[23:30] Private Thomas Hughes wrote a love note
[23:32] to his wife and dropped it in the
[23:34] English Channel. Today, his daughter
[23:36] received that note courtesy of a
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[23:40] off the English coast and located her in
[23:43] New Zealand. She was just 2 years old
[23:46] when her father was killed in the war.
[23:49] Next up on the CBS Evening News, a very
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[24:58] Even though you might not know Deli
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[25:06] You see, chances are we're in your
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[25:28] That meeting is going to start whether I
[25:30] get rid of this headache or not. So, I
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[25:43] the first part did not intend for the
[25:45] party of the second.
[25:46] >> I should have used preparation H.
[25:48] >> If you had, you wouldn't be suffering
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[25:51] further irritation with a soothing layer
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[25:54] >> I should have used preparation H.
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[25:59] >> One of the traditions of Native
[26:01] Americans in the Pacific Northwest was
[26:03] revived today with US approval and much
[26:05] to the dismay of Save the Whale groups.
[26:08] CBS's Bill Whitaker has the clash of
[26:10] culture and the harpoon death of a
[26:13] beautiful titan of the sea.
[26:16] >> It was the moment the Maca Indians had
[26:18] waited 70 years for this encounter with
[26:21] a gay whale. This thrust of the harpoon
[26:23] and going in for the kill.
[26:27] It was a stab at reviving an ancient
[26:29] tradition by a tiny tribe on the tip of
[26:31] Washington. After years fighting
[26:33] environmentalists and convincing the
[26:34] government that whaling is central to
[26:36] their culture, today they broke with
[26:38] tradition and finished off the mighty
[26:40] creature with high-powered rifles, tribe
[26:42] members watched the controversial hunt
[26:44] live on TV.
[26:45] >> That is why some people say it's a
[26:49] non-traditional hunt, but with
[26:51] technology today, what our grandfathers
[26:54] have used it then, I'm sure they would.
[26:57] And as the the whale gave himself up, it
[27:01] was just um it was just awesome.
[27:03] >> But what the Macau call tradition, angry
[27:06] opponents call tragic. Anti-whailing
[27:08] groups tried to run interference. But
[27:10] last week, the Coast Guard called this
[27:13] dangerous and negligent and confiscated
[27:15] four of their vessels.
[27:17] >> Mothers, children, kids were watching
[27:19] that this morning and nobody is
[27:20] impressed. And I hope to God we never
[27:23] see it again. The Macau stopped whaling
[27:25] this century after commercial hunters
[27:27] depleted the grey whale population. But
[27:29] with it now off the endangered species
[27:31] list, the Macau dusted off an old treaty
[27:34] guaranteeing them hunting rights and
[27:36] trained for this day.
[27:38] >> I'm really happy for our macaw. I'm I'm
[27:41] happy. I'm happy to be a macaw.
[27:44] >> There are just a couple of things the
[27:45] hunters and protesters agree on. That
[27:48] these are magnificent mammals and that
[27:50] today is a day for tears. Bill Whitaker,
[27:54] CBS News, Los Angeles.
[27:56] >> And that's part of our world tonight.
[27:58] For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather
[28:00] reporting. We hope you'll join us again
[28:02] tomorrow night, same time, same station.
[28:05] Good night.
[28:07] >> This is CBS.
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