World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-07

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[0:05] On World News Tonight this Monday, Mark

[0:08] Maguire one swing now away from history.

[0:12] The home run for 61.

[0:16] He has tied me.

[0:22] Investigating the crash of Swiss Air

[0:24] Flight 111. What happened at 10,000 ft?

[0:28] and a new approach to saving America's

[0:30] cities.

[0:33] Light up the dynamite and bring on the

[0:35] wrecking ball. We'll take a closer look

[0:45] from ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:48] York. This is World News Tonight with

[0:51] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:54] Charles Gibson.

[0:55] >> Good evening. What could be better on a

[0:57] holiday weekend to steal the attention

[0:59] of the entire nation? What could be

[1:02] better than a race for one of the most

[1:03] majestic records in sport? With one

[1:06] powerful swing this afternoon, Mark

[1:09] David Maguire tied Roger Maris's

[1:12] 37year-old record for most home runs in

[1:14] a single season, 61. The Chicago Cubs

[1:17] Sammy Sosa, who was in the other dugout

[1:19] today, still has 58. In St. Louis, it is

[1:24] electric. And we go right away to ABC's

[1:26] Don John Frankle. Who is there, John?

[1:29] >> Well, Charlie, years from now, I don't

[1:31] know how many people will claim they

[1:32] were here at Bush Stadium today. But I

[1:35] do know those who were here won't

[1:37] remember a game. They will remember a

[1:39] moment.

[1:43] Bush Stadium was decorated in

[1:45] anticipation of an event everyone, it

[1:47] seemed, knew would happen today. In the

[1:50] stands, Maguire's family, including his

[1:53] dad, who turned 61 today. In the dugout,

[1:57] Mark's 10-year-old son, Matt, a

[1:59] Cardinals bat boy. And Pat Marris,

[2:02] Roger's widow, here with her children.

[2:05] Sammy Sosa watched from the outfield as

[2:07] Maguire came to bat in the bottom of the

[2:10] first inning. Two out, bases empty. Mike

[2:13] Morgan on the mound.

[2:15] >> A strike. The fans waited.

[2:18] a ball

[2:20] >> then time caught up with Roger Maris.

[2:24] >> Every American father's dream and

[2:27] generous to the man whose record he now

[2:29] shares.

[2:30] >> I looked over to the left saw the

[2:32] Marises over there pointed upstairs and

[2:36] pointed to my heart said Roger's with

[2:37] me.

[2:38] >> Sosa was there but losing ground. He

[2:40] popped up to Meuire struck out three

[2:42] times but after this single got a chance

[2:45] to congratulate his friend.

[2:49] The cheers came from everywhere. A Blue

[2:51] Angels flyby for the man baseball calls

[2:54] big red. Maguire tied the record but

[2:57] could not break it today. In three more

[2:59] at bats and with everyone looking

[3:01] forward to looking back on this game,

[3:04] nothing came close. But in fact, Mark

[3:06] Maguire is so close and it's just a

[3:10] matter of time.

[3:12] And it didn't take long for the St.

[3:14] Louis Post Dispatch to come out with a

[3:15] little extra section here. 61 one for

[3:19] history and we are waiting. Charlie

[3:22] >> John, what happened to the ball? We saw

[3:24] the swing, saw the home run. It hit the

[3:27] facing of the luxury boxes uh up in the

[3:30] in the stands. There's the swing. And as

[3:32] the ball went out, it did seem to hit

[3:35] those luxury boxes and then it caramemed

[3:38] down to what looked like about the third

[3:40] or fourth row of stands. There was sort

[3:41] of a scramble in the stands. There's the

[3:44] ball hitting this the facing and you can

[3:46] see the fans grabbing for it. Who got

[3:48] it?

[3:49] >> Well, it was a 28-year-old man named

[3:51] Mike Davidson who was from St. Louis

[3:53] here. The only reason he was at the

[3:54] game, his brother-in-law season tickets,

[3:57] his brother-in-law couldn't make it. So,

[3:58] Mike Davidson, a happy guy, but he did

[4:01] say he would return the ball to Mark

[4:02] Magguire. He wants nothing in return.

[4:05] >> All right, John Frankle in St. Louis.

[4:07] Thanks very much. There are a couple of

[4:08] facts that are almost unbelievable for

[4:11] modern fans that we should tell you

[4:12] about. When Roger Maris hit his record

[4:14] setting 61st home run in 1961, there

[4:17] were 40,000 empty seats that day in

[4:20] Yankee Stadium. When Babe Ruth hit

[4:22] number 60 in 1927, there were only

[4:25] 10,000 people there watching in the

[4:27] house that Ruth built. And the story of

[4:30] his 60th home run was only on page 12 of

[4:32] the New York Times. Needless to say,

[4:34] there were no empty seats in St. Louis

[4:37] today. And as ABC's Dean Reynolds

[4:38] reports, St. Louis is a city obsessed

[4:41] with the record chase.

[4:49] >> This Labor Day was a serious

[4:50] understatement. Everybody seemed to be

[4:52] here, including the Clutters of

[4:54] Springfield, Illinois.

[4:55] >> Get two hats and two shirts.

[4:57] >> Cub fans, the Clutters came here to see

[5:00] their hero, Sammy Sosa. Get the salsa.

[5:03] Fold through the essence.

[5:04] >> Dressed in the proper colors, they

[5:05] ventured inside spots of blue in a sea

[5:08] of cardinal roots.

[5:09] >> This is the most important game we've

[5:11] ever been to.

[5:12] >> History.

[5:13] >> As so many other out oftowners have

[5:15] learned this year, batting practice at

[5:16] Bush Stadium can be impressive,

[5:19] especially when Mark Maguire is right

[5:20] there taking his cuts.

[5:27] >> There's just something about those home

[5:29] runs. It's like the slam dunk of

[5:31] baseball, you know? I mean, that's what

[5:33] fans come to see. It's a home run, the

[5:35] big one.

[5:35] >> That's exactly what drew firefighter

[5:37] Vera O'Keefe and her husband Shawn to

[5:39] the stadium 30 minutes before game time.

[5:42] >> Do you have the Fredbird hats?

[5:44] >> Oh, man.

[5:45] >> She wore her allegiance proudly.

[5:47] >> Oh, yeah. That's the one I want. I want

[5:48] that hat.

[5:49] >> Sure, it cost 10 bucks, but it looked

[5:51] great.

[5:52] >> For the day of reckoning with Magguire,

[5:54] >> the O'keefe aren't really rabid fans,

[5:56] but the home run race has captivated

[5:58] them. They say

[5:59] >> you can't live in St. Louis in the

[6:00] season of 1998 and not be a baseball

[6:02] fan. I think we're all rejuvenated

[6:04] baseball fans.

[6:05] >> There are about 47,000 others with them

[6:07] here today. And believe me, if you're a

[6:10] baseball fan in America, this is the

[6:13] place to be today. And so it was for

[6:16] Maguire fans this afternoon. Vera got to

[6:19] see what she came for.

[6:20] >> We just witnessed an athletic machine

[6:23] make history.

[6:24] >> That after all is why everyone was here.

[6:27] Dean Reynolds, ABC News, St. Louis.

[6:30] >> Mark Maguire has 61 home runs and 19

[6:34] more games to go. There will be more

[6:37] about the record chase later this

[6:38] evening on Night Line. Still to come

[6:40] here, some of the day's other news in

[6:42] Russia, no new government and no idea

[6:45] what happens next. And deadbeat parents

[6:48] who don't support their kids but have

[6:50] the nerve to use them as a tax

[6:52] deduction. It's your money.

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[8:21] >> Off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia,

[8:23] the search for pieces of Swiss Air

[8:25] Flight 111 continues. And there was news

[8:28] today about information from the plane's

[8:30] so-called black boxes, which may help

[8:32] explain why it went down. ABC's Bill

[8:35] Blakemore is at Peggy's Cove.

[8:38] Investigators announced today that

[8:40] search teams have picked up the signal

[8:42] of the cockpit voice recorder and hope

[8:44] to recover it soon. As for the flight

[8:46] data recorder recovered yesterday, they

[8:48] have already found out that it stopped

[8:50] working completely before the plane hit

[8:52] the water.

[8:53] >> There is no information on the flight

[8:56] data recorder

[8:58] for the portion of the flight below

[9:01] 10,000 ft.

[9:02] >> They say they do not know why yet. One

[9:05] possibility investigators are taking

[9:06] seriously is that there was a complete

[9:08] power failure. The flight data recorder

[9:11] is designed to record as many as 250

[9:14] functions of the plane's operation.

[9:16] Investigators still hope to learn vital

[9:17] information recorded above 10,000 ft.

[9:20] How much fuel was dumped? Did any of the

[9:23] plane's electrical systems fail and

[9:25] when? Near the spot where they found the

[9:27] flight data recorder, divers also came

[9:30] across three pieces of 111's fuselage,

[9:32] the largest about 40 or 50 feet long.

[9:35] They will be lifted to the surface and

[9:37] along with these other pieces already

[9:39] recovered, transferred to hangers on a

[9:41] nearby base to help in reconstructing

[9:43] the accident.

[9:45] There have already been several memorial

[9:47] services in big churches

[9:51] and in this fishing village where family

[9:54] members were still arriving today to

[9:56] look out to where the recovery ships are

[9:58] working.

[9:58] >> My father would have wanted me to be

[10:00] here.

[10:03] I need to be here. They continue to make

[10:06] their way out past the lighthouse and

[10:07] onto this promontory that for many

[10:10] family members is now the loneliest

[10:11] place on earth.

[10:14] Bill Blakemore, ABC News, Peggy's Cove,

[10:16] Nova Scotia.

[10:18] In Russia today, no government and no

[10:21] chance that they'll have one for another

[10:23] week at least. The parliament has

[10:25] rejected Boris Yeltson's nominee for

[10:27] Prime Minister Victor Chernameiran for

[10:29] the second time, setting up a showdown,

[10:31] a third and final vote sometime next

[10:34] week. So no government in a country that

[10:37] desperately needs one. ABC's Jim Wooten

[10:40] is in Moscow.

[10:41] >> Strike two for Mr. Turner Murden. More

[10:44] votes today than last week, but nowhere

[10:46] near enough to make him the prime

[10:48] minister in a country that's run out of

[10:50] money and is running out of time.

[10:54] Mr. Churn, nobody trusts you, said

[10:57] Communist Gennady Jaganov, leading an

[11:00] opposition unconvinced by economic

[11:03] strategies Chernen tried to sell over

[11:05] the weekend. Now, President Yelen has to

[11:08] decide whether to try again or try

[11:11] somebody new. On the streets, the ruble

[11:14] continued its freef fall today. Two

[11:16] weeks ago, six to the dollar. Now, it's

[11:19] 20. And millions of Russians are broke

[11:21] or soon will be.

[11:23] >> These people have lost their savings

[11:25] overnight. We have, you know, hundreds

[11:27] of people working here that had accounts

[11:30] in banks and just lost their money.

[11:32] >> Dirk Sauer publishes nine magazines

[11:35] here, including local versions of

[11:37] Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and

[11:40] Playboy. 400 employees, but not for long

[11:43] since half his advertisers have already

[11:46] bailed out. Obviously, we have to scale

[11:48] down our operations like everyone else

[11:50] in Russia has to do. I mean, we are not

[11:53] unique in this. You know, what happens

[11:55] to us happens to every business

[11:58] >> and to his readers as well, the new

[12:00] middle class yuppies who hope for much

[12:03] more from the new Russia. those hopes

[12:06] have vanished and you know that is maybe

[12:08] even more serious than the the economic

[12:12] damage that's done now.

[12:14] >> And after the damage done him today,

[12:17] Chernen told the parliament much the

[12:19] same. We're not just approaching a

[12:22] crisis. He said, "We have cross the

[12:24] danger line." That's always hard to

[12:27] measure here, but Yeltson has done

[12:29] almost everything to persuade this

[12:31] parliament except stand on his head in

[12:33] Red Square. And if he should strike out

[12:36] again, then perhaps Russia will have

[12:38] crossed a dangerous line. Jim Wooten,

[12:41] ABC News, Moscow.

[12:43] Investigators looking into the US

[12:45] embassy bombing in Dar Salam, Tanzania,

[12:48] say they have definitively determined

[12:50] what the bomb was made of and who

[12:52] carried it to the embassy. They have

[12:54] also arrested two more suspects. The FBI

[12:58] is still investigating the possibility

[12:59] of links between Osama bin Laden and an

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[13:05] there is another charity with a similar

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[15:00] >> She wants a baseball glove. Tim,

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[15:24] >> Now, a story about work, family, and

[15:26] money on this Labor Day. The hard work

[15:29] of raising children as a single parent

[15:30] is often compounded when the other

[15:33] parent doesn't pay what is owed in child

[15:35] support. And some deadbeat parents take

[15:38] it a gling step further at a big cost to

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[15:44] Chang.

[15:46] Donna Calendo is a single mother.

[15:48] >> That looks good.

[15:49] >> She's raised Lisa often without child

[15:51] support. Over the years, her ex-husband

[15:54] has been more than a deadbeat dad. He's

[15:56] taken annual tax deductions for a child

[15:58] he did not raise.

[16:00] >> He left when Lisa was 18 months old.

[16:04] And as far as I know, he's been taking a

[16:06] deduction

[16:08] the whole time.

[16:09] >> But it's not just the Calendos who pay

[16:11] the price. The taxpayers should be

[16:13] furious here because the taxpayers are

[16:14] the one that are being cheated.

[16:16] >> Deadbeat parents who claim tax

[16:18] deductions for children they do not

[16:19] support cheat the treasury out of $212

[16:22] million every year. It's a simple crime

[16:26] to commit. All it takes is checking off

[16:28] a box. In fact, one government

[16:30] investigation found this type of fraud

[16:32] in one out of every three tax returns

[16:35] they sampled from deadbeat parents. So,

[16:38] how do you stop it? The child support

[16:40] information gathered here could be

[16:42] matched with IRS records. It sounds like

[16:44] an easy way to crack down on deadbeat

[16:46] parents who are also cheating on their

[16:48] taxes. Unfortunately, it's been anything

[16:51] but easy. The federal government has

[16:54] tried to fix the problem. It has already

[16:56] poured 2 billion dollars into setting up

[16:59] a national clearing house. It's a system

[17:01] that's supposed to track deadbeat

[17:03] parents. But government inspectors say

[17:06] more than half the states have

[17:07] repeatedly failed to comply.

[17:10] >> Why can't we just get the job done? Why

[17:12] are these deadlines slipping? Why aren't

[17:14] we there yet? What's going to be done

[17:15] about it?

[17:16] >> Good afternoon, child support. Mr.

[17:17] Speaking, how can I help you?

[17:18] >> While the government searches for

[17:20] answers to such questions, Donna Calendo

[17:22] has been paying a stiff price. She's

[17:24] been audited four times by the IRS while

[17:27] her ex-husband still profits from

[17:29] illegal tax deductions. But when you

[17:31] don't even see your kids, it's like

[17:33] you're making money off of something

[17:35] that you don't even have anything to do

[17:37] with.

[17:37] >> Making money in a way that takes an

[17:39] emotional toll on families and a

[17:41] financial toll on taxpayers. Juju Chang,

[17:44] ABC News, Arlington Heights, Illinois.

[17:48] >> There was a reminder today that for many

[17:50] Americans, a secure job is still not a

[17:53] sure thing. In Danville, Virginia, the

[17:55] Durham Hosery Company closed its doors

[17:57] after a hundred years of making mostly

[18:00] socks. 350 employees lost their jobs.

[18:03] Many of them said the factory could have

[18:05] found a more appropriate day to close

[18:07] down. When we come back, is blowing up

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[18:12] Tonight's closer look.

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[20:40] tonight at a dramatic change in the way

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[20:47] Throughout the country, aging industrial

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[21:09] 26,000 buildings in Philadelphia,

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[21:39] Cities like Philadelphia have decided to

[21:41] get rid of them and give the people who

[21:43] have stayed more space.

[21:45] >> Sometimes bigger isn't better. I mean,

[21:47] we're taking advantage of having the

[21:49] need for less dense housing. There was a

[21:52] time when cities hoped they could stop

[21:53] inner city decay by offering financial

[21:56] incentives to lure people back to

[21:58] restore the neighborhoods. Now they're

[22:01] dropping those programs because they

[22:02] were simply too expensive and almost

[22:04] always a failure. It is a dramatic

[22:07] change in urban policy. What officials

[22:09] in many cities have realized is that to

[22:11] save certain neighborhoods, they may

[22:13] have to destroy all or part of them.

[22:17] revitalizing by reducing a

[22:19] neighborhood's size. The theory, tear

[22:22] down abandoned properties and give the

[22:24] empty lots to community groups or sell

[22:27] them, in some cases for as little as a

[22:29] dollar, to adjacent homeowners so they

[22:31] can fix them up as gardens or garages.

[22:34] In the most devastated areas, though,

[22:36] more drastic action is needed.

[22:38] >> People just moved out and they just let

[22:40] the houses go. The younger ones didn't

[22:42] want to stay. You know,

[22:43] >> there is little left of the neighborhood

[22:45] where five generations of Barbara

[22:47] Blanding's family have lived. So,

[22:49] Philadelphia decided to demolish all of

[22:51] it. The city will give Barbara a home

[22:53] elsewhere and then we'll build a much

[22:56] lower density development like this in

[22:58] the old neighborhood's place. What you

[23:00] see here,

[23:01] >> that's what the city did to create

[23:02] Nehemiah West, a low-income housing

[23:05] development that looks like a slice of

[23:07] suburbia, even though it's downtown in

[23:10] the shadow of Philly's skyscrapers.

[23:12] >> Many of the problems, the social

[23:14] problems that have uh we have in cities

[23:16] are caused just by the sheer density of

[23:18] population. This is a much better

[23:19] approach to to developing neighborhoods.

[23:21] >> With its open spaces, Nehemiah West is a

[23:24] far cry from the nearby projects. The

[23:27] improved living conditions make a huge

[23:29] difference for Kevin Brooks and his

[23:31] family.

[23:31] >> The way I grew up, it was pretty

[23:32] crowded. So, it's very comfortable for

[23:34] my son and my daughter. And it looks

[23:36] nothing like where I live. So, they

[23:38] think they're growing up with uh better

[23:40] chances.

[23:41] >> And that's the point. Better chances for

[23:44] a better life in a better and much

[23:46] smaller neighborhood. Antonio Mora, ABC

[23:49] News, Philadelphia.

[23:51] Just to give you an idea of why there

[23:54] are so many empty buildings. In 1950,

[23:56] Philadelphia had a population of about 2

[23:58] million people. Today, it's about 1.5

[24:01] million. Detroit had 1.8 million people.

[24:04] Recent estimates put the population now

[24:07] at about a million. St. Louis in 1950

[24:10] had 850,000 residents. Today, it's about

[24:13] 350,000, less than half. As the

[24:16] populations plummet, the buildings, as

[24:19] you might figure, are largely left

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[26:19] The Patriots meet the Broncos live

[26:22] tonight at 8 Eastern.

[26:24] >> A quick review of tonight's lead story.

[26:26] Mark Maguire has tied the record 61 home

[26:29] runs in a single season.

[26:32] >> Had to be hospitalized upon arrival.

[26:34] That ball is GONE AND IT'S FAIR. IT IS A

[26:38] HOME RUN for number 61.

[26:40] >> He hit number 61 in the first inning. A

[26:42] line drive off the glass of a luxury box

[26:45] high up in Bush Stadium's left field.

[26:48] And what makes it so much fun watching

[26:50] Maguire go for and inevitably break the

[26:53] home run mark and Sammy Sosa go for the

[26:55] record as well is how much fun the two

[26:58] of them seem to be having. You could see

[27:00] before today's game in a joint news

[27:02] conference, the two are enjoying making

[27:05] sport history.

[27:07] >> Would you clear up one thing? Which one

[27:08] of you is the man?

[27:12] >> He is the man in United States. I am the

[27:14] man in Dominican Republic.

[27:18] >> Baseball being very very good to me.

[27:24] >> Sammy said you would hit 70 by the end

[27:25] of the year. Mark, how many do you think

[27:27] he'll hit? Wouldn't it be great if we

[27:30] just ended up tied? I think it would be

[27:34] beautiful.

[27:36] >> 70 is a good round number.

[27:41] >> Right. That'd be cool.

[27:43] >> I'll take it. Yeah.

[27:45] >> And those two guys are very, very good

[27:47] for baseball as well. That is our report

[27:49] on World News Tonight. There will be

[27:51] much more on the record chase later this

[27:53] evening on Night Line. They'll be

[27:54] talking to Tommy Lorta and the splendid

[27:57] splinter Ted Williams. I'm Charles

[27:59] Gibson for all of us at ABC News. Good

[28:01] night.

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