CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2004-10-01

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[0:00] Hello, I'm Dan Rather. Welcome to the

[0:02] CBS Evening News online edition. Just

[0:05] ahead, a CBS News exclusive. Highly

[0:07] classified intelligence reveals new

[0:10] al-Qaeda leaders. Also, who won the

[0:13] debate? We take a high-tech survey of

[0:15] those allimportant uncommitted voters

[0:18] and possibly the most spectacular car

[0:20] chase and shootout ever caught on tape.

[0:23] It's all starting now on the CBS Evening

[0:26] News online edition.

[0:29] A top al-Qaeda terrorist aimed new

[0:31] threats at America and its allies today

[0:33] in a message carried by an Arabic news

[0:36] channel. US intelligence suspects Osama

[0:39] bin Laden's original network may no

[0:42] longer be capable of a major attack on

[0:44] the US, but a new and even more

[0:46] threatening al-Qaeda may be emerging.

[0:49] CBS's David Martin has the exclusive

[0:51] inside story.

[0:54] The audio tape from Iman al- Zawahhiri

[0:57] is almost certainly authentic and

[0:58] entirely predictable, calling on Muslims

[1:01] everywhere to attack Americans and

[1:03] anyone else supporting the war in Iraq.

[1:06] At one point, Osama bin Laden's

[1:08] right-hand man says, "We cannot wait or

[1:10] we will be eaten up country by country."

[1:13] Some analysts heard that as a note of

[1:15] desperation from the number two man in

[1:17] an organization that has been under

[1:19] relentless attack for 3 years. The

[1:22] terrorist organization which carried out

[1:24] the 9/11 attacks has been badly damaged.

[1:27] But a just completed and highly

[1:29] classified intelligence report

[1:30] identifies 16 new al-Qaeda leaders who

[1:34] have emerged to run a network that looks

[1:36] very different from the one America went

[1:38] to war against. Bin Laden and Zamahiri

[1:40] are still at the top, but virtually the

[1:42] entire second tier of the leaders on

[1:44] 9/11 has been captured or killed. US

[1:48] intelligence has identified a new second

[1:50] tier of eight men. One of them is Abu

[1:53] Musa al- Zarqawi, who is behind many of

[1:55] the beheadings and suicide bombings in

[1:58] Iraq. Although Zarqawi's group operates

[2:00] under a different name, the CIA has

[2:03] identified nine other members of

[2:05] al-Qaeda working with him in Iraq and

[2:07] now considers him an al-Qaeda leader.

[2:10] But al-Qaeda stretches far beyond Iraq.

[2:13] The 21 leaders in al-Qaeda's third tier

[2:15] are spread from Pakistan to South

[2:17] Africa. As for Bin Laden, he is believed

[2:20] to be somewhere along Pakistan's border

[2:22] with Afghanistan. Some US officials

[2:25] expect him to release an audio or

[2:26] videotape before the November elections

[2:29] if he's still alive and in good health.

[2:32] >> David Martin, CBS News. The Pentagon.

[2:34] >> An estimated 62 million television

[2:37] viewers watched all or part of the Bush

[2:39] Ky joint appearance. about 16 million

[2:41] more than saw the first Bush Gore face

[2:44] off four years ago. Among those tuning

[2:46] in last night, uncommitted voters, a key

[2:49] group that could help swing the

[2:50] election. Some of them took part in a

[2:53] high-tech CBS News poll. CBS's Anthony

[2:56] Mason has the findings for you. From

[2:58] Costa Mesa, California to Cami, Indiana

[3:01] to Green Bay, Wisconsin, more than 200

[3:04] uncommitted voters watched the debate

[3:06] and moment by moment registered their

[3:09] reactions on a sliding scale. 43% scored

[3:12] John Kerry the winner. Merrila Hannannah

[3:15] was among them. I

[3:16] >> I was really impressed with John Ky and

[3:20] I had not necessarily been that

[3:22] impressed with him.

[3:23] >> She wasn't alone. More than half of the

[3:25] fence sitting voters we surveyed said

[3:28] their opinion of Carrie changed for the

[3:30] better last night. Before the debate,

[3:32] only 14% thought Kerry had a clear plan

[3:35] for Iraq. Now 52% think so.

[3:38] >> And I believe our troops need other

[3:40] allies helping.

[3:42] >> As the meter showed, Car's approval

[3:43] ratings rose the most when he attacked

[3:46] the Bush administration's planning of

[3:47] the war.

[3:48] >> But we didn't need to rush to war

[3:50] without a plan to win the peace. Those

[3:52] words resonated with Richard Edwards in

[3:54] Cami, Indiana.

[3:56] >> I have to kind of agree that we rushed

[3:58] the war and that's why I was kind of

[4:00] negative about President Bush.

[4:02] >> What I won't do is change my core

[4:04] values.

[4:05] >> President Bush moved the meter highest

[4:07] when he reiterated his resolve.

[4:09] >> The world is safer without Saddam

[4:11] Hussein.

[4:12] >> Women voters found Carrie more likable.

[4:14] Watch the meters as they respond far

[4:16] more positively than men to carry here.

[4:19] This president thought it was more

[4:20] important to give the wealthiest people

[4:22] in America a tax cut rather than invest

[4:24] in homeland security.

[4:26] >> Still, more women think President Bush

[4:28] can be trusted to protect the country

[4:30] from a terrorist attack by 62 to 52%.

[4:34] >> And that ends tonight's debate.

[4:35] >> When it was over and our uncommitted

[4:37] were asked to make a choice, by 38 to

[4:40] 31% they chose Carrie, but nearly a

[4:43] third were like John Lutz. and I still

[4:46] haven't really made a full commitment on

[4:48] where I am.

[4:49] >> This was a scientific example of swing

[4:51] voters, the very voters who could sway

[4:53] this election. Last night, most did not

[4:55] change their opinion of President Bush.

[4:57] But while the president may not have

[4:59] lost any ground, it appears John Kerry

[5:01] gained some.

[5:02] >> A court in western Montana has just

[5:04] released dramatic police camera video of

[5:06] a highway chase that ended with the

[5:09] capture of a murderer now serving life

[5:11] in prison. As CBS's Bill Whitaker shows

[5:13] you, the climax of the chase was as wild

[5:16] as anything dreamed up in Hollywood.

[5:19] You almost can't believe your eyes. A

[5:22] Montana Highway Patrolman's dashboard

[5:24] camera catches the heartpounding

[5:26] conclusion of a deadly rampage and

[5:28] high-speed chase. Look again, the

[5:31] perpetrator firing away right up to the

[5:33] end. You even see his gun fly into the

[5:36] air. It all began when 46-year-old

[5:39] George Davis sped away after killing a

[5:41] man and wounding six others outside a

[5:43] western Montana saloon. He then wounded

[5:46] an officer who tried to pull him over.

[5:48] With police right on his tail, Davis ran

[5:51] for 6 hours across three counties,

[5:53] reaching 100 mph. At one point, slamming

[5:57] on his brakes to stop a pursuing deputy.

[6:07] He then jumped out of his car and opened

[6:09] fire.

[6:11] >> Get on the ground.

[6:17] >> Officers fired back, but in the smoke

[6:19] and confusion, Davis took off again. Up

[6:22] the road, other officers laid out a

[6:24] spike strip.

[6:25] >> Watch out.

[6:26] >> Davis blew out his tires, spun around,

[6:29] then opened fire again. That's when the

[6:32] deputy broadsided him. This week, Davis

[6:34] was sentenced to life in prison for

[6:36] shooting the deputy sheriff. The

[6:38] >> guy deliberately tried to kill him.

[6:40] >> His 11th life sentence for this crime

[6:43] spree, convicted by the courts, caught

[6:45] by the videotape. Bill Whitaker, CBS

[6:48] News, Los Angeles.

[6:50] >> More stories are just a click away, but

[6:52] don't forget to join me on television

[6:54] for the onair edition of the CBS Evening

[6:56] News. On Monday, the Patriot Act. It's

[6:59] meant to help law enforcement fight the

[7:01] war on terror. And in some ways it does.

[7:04] But does it go too far? Where the

[7:06] presidential candidates stand on this in

[7:08] the CBS election series? What does it

[7:11] mean to you? For cbsnews.com,

[7:14] I'm Dan Rather.