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[1:00] >> NBC News in depth tonight. More on our

[1:02] top story. That confrontation with Cuba

[1:04] over the downing of those two light

[1:06] planes this weekend. Planes carrying car

[1:08] carrying members of the Cuban exile

[1:10] group called Brothers to the Rescue.

[1:13] Who are these people? How did this

[1:15] obscure group cause such a major

[1:17] international incident? We begin our

[1:19] in-depth reporting tonight with NBC's

[1:21] Carrie Sanders.

[1:26] In Miami today, a moment of silence for

[1:28] the four missing pilots from Brothers to

[1:30] the Rescue. They are the newest heroes

[1:33] in the exile community.

[1:34] >> He was the head in the position.

[1:35] >> They flew for the six-year-old Miami

[1:37] exile group. Its mission, they say, was

[1:40] simple and non-political.

[1:42] >> Apparently, they were very thirsty.

[1:43] They've been

[1:44] >> spot rafters fleeing Cuba, dropped them

[1:46] water and supplies to stay alive, then

[1:49] direct the US Coast Guard to pick them

[1:51] up. We threw him the no saying, "Welcome

[1:53] to the land of liberty. God is with

[1:56] you."

[1:56] >> For years, Brothers to the Rescue kept

[1:58] itself above the CubanAmerican political

[2:00] debate. Theirs was a humanitarian

[2:03] mission. The pilot who escaped in the

[2:05] third plane on Saturday is Jose Basulto.

[2:08] He's a founding member of the group, a

[2:10] veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs

[2:12] invasion.

[2:13] >> They fear our nonviolence. They have

[2:16] nothing to respond to it. Brothers is

[2:19] credited with saving more than 10,000

[2:21] lives. In 1994, when Fidel Castro threw

[2:24] open his country's doors, letting any

[2:26] Cuban with an inner tube off the island,

[2:28] Brothers increased their 3-day a week

[2:30] flights to a roundthe-clock operation.

[2:33] The US Coast Guard even thanked them for

[2:34] their work. But in September of 1995,

[2:37] President Clinton changed the rules and

[2:40] closed the US to the rafters. That ended

[2:42] the exodus. After that policy change,

[2:45] pilots with brothers to the rescue

[2:46] realized their mission no longer had

[2:49] much of a purpose. That's when Brothers

[2:52] changed its mission, becoming more

[2:53] political. On at least two occasions,

[2:55] pilots penetrated Cuban airspace,

[2:58] dropping pro-democracy leaflets on the

[3:00] communist island. During this daring

[3:02] flight over Havana, they papered

[3:04] downtown streets with a message that

[3:06] read on one side, "Freedom now." The

[3:08] other side, "A list of human rights."

[3:11] Today, Brothers to the Rescue produced

[3:12] these old flight records to show

[3:14] Saturday's disastrous flight south of

[3:16] the 24th parallel was not the first.

[3:19] >> The going below 24 would not be

[3:20] unprecedented is what you're talking.

[3:22] >> No, no, it's it's a routine. It's a

[3:24] routine.

[3:24] >> Routine perhaps, but always dangerous.

[3:27] Leader Jose Basulto was on the radio

[3:29] with fellow pilot Mario de La just

[3:31] moments before the missiles were

[3:32] launched on Saturday.

[3:34] >> Mike, are you with us?

[3:36] >> Do you see that smoke to my uh left?

[3:40] I don't see anything now. I did see

[3:42] smoke.

[3:44] >> He never heard from either pilot again.

[3:47] Tonight, as the United States Air Force

[3:48] is on alert, Brothers to the Rescue says

[3:50] it will keep up the pressure on Cuba as

[3:53] long as Castro is in power. Carrie

[3:55] Sanders, NBC News, Miami.

[3:59] >> And of course, this Cuban confrontation

[4:01] caused a stir out of the presidential

[4:02] campaign trail. The Republicans battling

[4:05] to take on President Clinton in November

[4:07] today took on his response to Cuba.

[4:09] Senator Dole, for his part, said, "I

[4:11] think it's a shame that President

[4:13] Clinton's weak actions today did not

[4:15] match his tough rhetoric." Steve Forbes

[4:18] released a statement saying, "Castro is

[4:20] a despicable desperate, the scourge of

[4:23] the Western Hemisphere. There must be no

[4:25] toleration and appeasement towards

[4:27] Castro." Pat Buchanan, for his part,

[4:29] however, praised the president, saying

[4:31] he's taken some very good steps because

[4:33] they seem to be directed against the

[4:35] Castro government rather than against

[4:37] the Cuban people. Lamar Alexander's

[4:40] campaign said he was not available for

[4:42] comment. When we come back, the

[4:44] breakaway satellite that has NASA at the

[4:47] end of its rope. And still ahead

[4:49] tonight, Healthw Watch, mysteries of the

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[7:19] Tonight at 6 on News Channel 8,

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[7:30] When it goes bad for NASA, it can be

[7:32] very expensive and a big mystery as

[7:34] well. Just what did happen to that

[7:36] satellite that got away from the shuttle

[7:38] and is a drift? Tonight, a half billion

[7:40] dollar satellite. Here's NBC's Robert

[7:42] Hager. way.

[7:44] >> Tonight, NASA scientists have no idea

[7:47] what went wrong as astronauts reeled in

[7:49] what's left of the 13-m long

[7:51] shoelacesized tether dangling from the

[7:54] base of a small tower extending from the

[7:56] shuttle. Some said the line might have

[7:57] broken from tension. Others said it

[7:59] might have been burned through by

[8:01] electric current or even that it could

[8:03] have been cut by a microscopic meteor.

[8:05] What they do know is that last night the

[8:07] astronauts had let out the tether and

[8:09] satellite attached to the end of it. An

[8:11] experimental effort to generate power in

[8:13] space when suddenly

[8:15] >> the tether has broken at the uh at the

[8:19] boom. The tether has broken. It is going

[8:22] away from us.

[8:23] >> Today from space commander Andrew Allen

[8:25] and his crew recalled it had been tense.

[8:28] >> The first few milliseconds was an

[8:31] adrenaline rush. The worry was that the

[8:33] broken cord might entangle the shuttle,

[8:35] maybe cause the satellite to collide

[8:37] with it. But instead,

[8:38] >> we did see this big uh huge jumble of

[8:41] tether moving away from us with no end

[8:43] on it. And that's basically after a few

[8:46] minutes, it disappeared into the sunset,

[8:48] and that's the last we saw of it.

[8:49] >> Hours later, what happened hit hard.

[8:52] Astronaut Scott Harowitz.

[8:53] >> It was kind of like one of those really

[8:55] bad sinking feelings.

[8:57] >> NASA officials say they're disappointed,

[8:59] but say those are the risks. Tonight,

[9:01] the separated satellite is drifting far

[9:03] behind the shuttle. In a month, we'll

[9:05] sink to the atmosphere and burn up and a

[9:07] half billion dollar experiment will have

[9:09] been lost. Robert Hager, NBC News,

[9:12] Washington.

[9:14] Now to NBC News online. Beyond the day's

[9:16] headlines, calm seas off Wales tonight.

[9:19] That means there is a failure to

[9:20] disperse last week's huge oil spill in

[9:22] that area. Cleanup continues after a

[9:25] grounded tanker leaked almost a half a

[9:27] million barrels, one of the worst such

[9:29] disasters ever. And who's responsible

[9:31] here? Well, take your pick. Follow this.

[9:34] The tanker was built in Spain,

[9:36] registered in Liberia. It was managed by

[9:39] the Scotland office of a firm based in

[9:41] Switzerland. The tanker's owner is a

[9:43] company in Cyprus run by a Norwegian. A

[9:46] French company had chartered the tanker

[9:48] whose crew was mostly Russian. The cargo

[9:50] oil from Britain's North Sea headed for

[9:53] a refinery in Wales run by an American

[9:56] oil company.

[9:58] I'll be back with more, including our

[10:00] Healthw Watch report, The Brain, in a

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[12:04] Date Tuesday. If you get hit by one of

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[12:16] on Healthwatch tonight? The brain when

[12:19] it is injured, how is it healed? Well,

[12:21] it turns out that some of the best

[12:23] brains in medical science have been

[12:24] working on just that problem and making

[12:27] remarkable progress. NBC science

[12:29] correspondent Robert Bazelle tonight

[12:30] with Healthw Watch.

[12:34] Noah Guy, an accomplished composer, can

[12:36] now only play tapes of her music.

[12:44] Severe brain injury in a coma from an

[12:46] auto accident three years ago left her

[12:48] unable to compose or play music. Since

[12:51] regaining consciousness, she has been

[12:53] recovering steadily, but even simple

[12:55] tasks remain difficult.

[12:57] >> If I do not watch out when I prepare a

[13:01] cup of tea, I might put the cup upside

[13:03] down. At any one time about 15,000

[13:06] Americans are in a coma, unconscious and

[13:09] unaware of their surroundings.

[13:11] >> The majority of people who are in coma

[13:13] do wake up.

[13:14] >> Doctors now understand that the coma

[13:16] state is caused by damage to a part of

[13:18] the brain called the reticular

[13:19] formation. It connects basic life

[13:21] functions such as breathing with the

[13:23] more complicated brain processes such as

[13:26] speech, memory, and thought. There are

[13:28] new drugs that act on this part of the

[13:29] brain to help awaken patients in a coma.

[13:32] In recent years, rehabilitation

[13:34] techniques such as these at the Hospital

[13:36] for Joint Diseases and the Rusk

[13:38] Institute of New York University have

[13:40] enabled patients who awake from comas to

[13:43] recover more and more of their lost

[13:44] brain function. Dr. David Duncan has

[13:47] patients at various stages of recovery.

[13:50] One man whose family does not want him

[13:52] identified worked as an engineer in

[13:54] Nigeria. Thugs beat him severely on the

[13:57] head. He had been in a coma state for 6

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