World News (ABC) - 2006-11-22
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[0:28] Welcome to World News. Americans begin a
[0:31] record setting travel season as law
[0:33] enforcement sets its own record. An
[0:36] officer every 10 miles coast to coast.
[0:39] Stress factor. The Marine Commandant
[0:41] says his troops are being pushed too far
[0:43] in Iraq, putting at risk the Marine
[0:45] Corps's central mission. Ground rules.
[0:48] The decision to ground top-notch pilots
[0:51] in the US, pulling them from the skies
[0:53] in the prime of their lives. We'll take
[0:55] a closer look. And Polar Plunge, an
[0:59] unsolved mystery. What pulled two
[1:01] experienced Coast Guard divers hundreds
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[1:09] >> From ABC News headquarters, this is
[1:12] World News with Charles Gibson. Good
[1:16] evening. If you are watching this
[1:17] broadcast, you have one thing to be
[1:19] thankful for. That you are not traveling
[1:21] on this Thanksgiving eve. And if you are
[1:24] watching, well then someone is probably
[1:26] traveling to see you for the holiday.
[1:28] And chances are they'll be late. 38.3
[1:31] million Americans will travel more than
[1:33] 50 miles to spend Thanksgiving with
[1:35] friends or relatives. That's a million
[1:37] more than last year. And the critical
[1:39] thing to pack is patience. ABC's David
[1:43] Mure is caught up in the crowds at New
[1:45] York's Grand Central Terminal. David,
[1:48] >> Charlie, you talk about being late for
[1:49] Thanksgiving. Look at that line here at
[1:51] Grand Central and you know on highways
[1:52] and at airports across the country
[1:54] tonight considerable congestion because
[1:56] of the record number of travelers partly
[1:58] fueled by the lower gas prices and many
[2:01] of the travelers we heard from today say
[2:03] they feel as though they've experienced
[2:04] a record number of headaches
[2:07] in Los Angeles. A truck carrying
[2:09] hazardous chemicals overturned just a
[2:12] few miles from one of the country's
[2:13] busiest airports backing up holiday
[2:15] traffic on Interstate 405. In
[2:18] Minneapolis, baggage handlers for
[2:19] Northwest Airlines stopped working in
[2:22] the middle of the rush because of a
[2:23] labor dispute. And it's the weather in
[2:26] the Mid-Atlantic states. Rain and winds
[2:28] up to 60 mph are delaying flights up and
[2:31] down the East Coast.
[2:32] >> Let me see the uh registration and
[2:34] insurance real quick.
[2:35] >> On the roads, state troopers are
[2:37] stringing their own lights this holiday
[2:39] across eight states tonight from
[2:41] California to the Carolinas. For 10
[2:43] hours, you're going to have a trooper
[2:45] every 10 miles across the entire United
[2:47] States. And that's ever been done
[2:48] before.
[2:49] >> 31.7 million drivers are expected this
[2:52] year, a record. Why? Lower gas prices.
[2:55] >> This summer, it was really a murder. It
[2:57] had a deep impact.
[2:58] >> There's a lot of pent up demand. Because
[3:00] over this summer, the high gas prices
[3:02] and people's confidence level with their
[3:04] own personal financing economy may have
[3:06] prevented some people from traveling.
[3:08] >> Also up, air travel, 5 million
[3:10] passengers. But with airlines reducing
[3:12] flights and offering fewer seats, you
[3:15] get this. All day, TSA workers were
[3:18] pushing what they called a 311 rule for
[3:20] carryons. No liquids more than 3 ounces.
[3:23] Seal them in a 1 quart plastic bag and
[3:26] only one bag per person. And if you have
[3:28] loved ones traveling this Thanksgiving,
[3:30] there are now a number of websites where
[3:32] you can actually track their flight in
[3:34] real time. This flight is headed from
[3:35] San Francisco to JFK here in New York.
[3:38] And this is where it is right now over
[3:40] the Great Lakes.
[3:41] >> And once they get where they're going,
[3:42] if they need a rental car or hotel,
[3:45] they're going to need some extra money.
[3:46] >> It's a supply and demand situation. And
[3:49] so we have been seeing that prices are
[3:51] higher this year.
[3:53] >> And tonight, the New York Port Authority
[3:54] tells us they expect 5 million
[3:56] passengers to pass through Grand Central
[3:58] and the airports throughout the region
[3:59] here. But this is just one small part of
[4:02] the country trying to get home for the
[4:03] holiday tonight. Happy Thanksgiving,
[4:05] Charlie.
[4:06] >> And to you too, David. David Mureer
[4:07] reporting from Grand Central Station.
[4:08] The travelers will get there sooner or
[4:11] later. There was an unsettling warning
[4:13] from the head of the Marine Corps today.
[4:15] General James Conway said deployments in
[4:17] Iraq are coming so frequently and
[4:19] lasting so long that to maintain the
[4:21] readiness of Marines, they need to start
[4:23] coming home from Iraq or he needs more
[4:26] Marines. Here's our national security
[4:28] correspondent, Jonathan Carl.
[4:32] The warning from the Marines top general
[4:34] is blunt. The Iraq war is taking its
[4:36] toll on the core. There is stress on the
[4:39] individual Marine, General James Conway
[4:41] told reporters. And there is stress on
[4:43] the institution.
[4:46] Some 50,000 Marines rolled into Iraq in
[4:48] March 2003, a major part of the force
[4:51] that toppled Saddam Hussein. Marines
[4:54] were also among the first in
[4:55] Afghanistan. But General Conway warns
[4:58] that if there were another major
[4:59] conflict, we are not as capable today as
[5:02] we were in 2001. The Marines could win
[5:05] another conflict, he said, but the
[5:07] deployment would not be as fast. The
[5:09] fight would take longer. You could see
[5:11] more casualties as a result.
[5:13] >> He could do the job in Iraq, but his
[5:15] other his flexibility to take on other
[5:18] missions is limited, and there would be
[5:20] a lot of juggling if major contingencies
[5:23] had to be met elsewhere.
[5:24] >> The Marines are designed to be an
[5:26] invading force. They were never supposed
[5:28] to occupy Iraq. In fact, after the
[5:30] initial invasion, most of the Marines
[5:32] went home. It was only after the
[5:34] insurgency took root that the Marines
[5:36] were asked to come back in February
[5:38] 2004. Now there are 20,000 Marines in
[5:42] Iraq. In August, we met with some of
[5:44] them in Fallujah. As tough as it is,
[5:46] they just don't complain.
[5:48] >> Still got a lot of stuff to do and
[5:51] probably won't get out of here for a
[5:52] while. But there's no there's no telling
[5:54] when.
[5:54] >> Of course, there's frustration. Um,
[5:58] being away from home, being here for,
[6:00] you know, a 12-month deployment, it gets
[6:01] frustrating, but uh, it's mission
[6:04] accomplishment and we're we're going to
[6:05] do it.
[6:06] >> Many Marines spend less than a year at
[6:08] home between deployments in Iraq, adding
[6:10] personal strain and taking time away
[6:13] from training.
[6:14] >> Moving. Despite the strain, General
[6:17] Conway said it is possible to send some
[6:19] additional troops to Iraq if needed, but
[6:22] that it would be extremely difficult and
[6:24] that increase could only last about 60
[6:26] days without doing even more damage to
[6:29] the force. Charlie,
[6:30] >> our national security correspondent,
[6:32] Jonathan Carl. As for what's going on
[6:34] inside Iraq, the United Nations
[6:36] published some horrific numbers today.
[6:38] It says last month was the deadliest for
[6:41] civilians there since the war began.
[6:43] More than 3,700
[6:45] men, women, and children were killed.
[6:48] Almost half of them still unidentified.
[6:51] The Iraqi government disputes the
[6:52] figures, but the United Nations says the
[6:54] numbers came from Iraq's health
[6:57] ministry. ABC's Hillary Brown reports
[6:59] tonight from Baghdad.
[7:02] >> The report paints a picture of a country
[7:04] drenched in blood, a people living in a
[7:07] constant state of fear.
[7:10] The civilian death toll now averages
[7:12] more than 120 a day. During September
[7:16] and October, more than 3,253
[7:20] unidentified bodies were found in
[7:22] Baghdad alone. According to the UN
[7:25] report, the increase is due to the
[7:27] growing power and influence of the
[7:30] sectarian militias here, whose death
[7:32] squads often operate in police or army
[7:35] uniform.
[7:37] >> The people know this. A man can't trust
[7:39] his brother now if he's in the security
[7:41] forces, says this Baghdad worker.
[7:45] The militias terrorize civilians,
[7:47] kidnapping innocent people, dumping
[7:49] their mutilated bodies by the dozen. The
[7:53] victims have been as young as this
[7:54] child, Han Alawi, found tortured and
[7:57] murdered at age 12.
[8:00] This has led to an exodus mainly from
[8:02] Baghdad. The report estimates that more
[8:05] than 2 million people have fled Iraq
[8:07] since the war. That's 8% of the
[8:10] population.
[8:12] >> "I don't want to live in Iraq," says
[8:14] this man. "I want to go to Syria or
[8:16] anywhere away from here." And the report
[8:19] says that a staggering number have
[8:21] become refugees inside the country.
[8:24] Almost half a million.
[8:27] The report says the slide into sectarian
[8:30] violence started with the attack on this
[8:32] Shiite shrine in Samara by Sunni
[8:34] militants in February. A deliberate
[8:37] attempt to stir up religious hatred. It
[8:40] seems to have done just that. Hillary
[8:43] Brown, ABC News, Baghdad.
[8:47] >> Back in this country and some still
[8:49] unfinished political business two weeks
[8:51] after the election. In one congressional
[8:53] race, there are charges that thousands
[8:55] of votes were cast but not counted. And
[8:58] the results were close enough that those
[9:00] votes could well have made the
[9:01] difference. And where is this
[9:03] congressional district? In Florida, the
[9:06] state that had a problem with hanging
[9:07] chads now has a problem with electronic
[9:10] voting. ABC's Jeffrey Kaufman reports
[9:12] tonight from Sarasota.
[9:15] In Florida's 13th Congressional
[9:17] District, the signs are still on the
[9:19] lawns because for many here, the
[9:20] election isn't over.
[9:22] >> This is not about Democrats. This is not
[9:25] about Republicans.
[9:27] It's about fixing a voting system that
[9:31] appears to be broken.
[9:33] >> A voting system that produced results so
[9:35] close it has taken two weeks to certify
[9:38] a victor. Republican Vern Buchanan by a
[9:41] mere 369 votes. WE WON.
[9:46] >> Not so fast, says Democrat Christine
[9:48] Jennings, who couldn't help noticing
[9:50] that in the Democraticleaning Sarasota
[9:52] County part of the district, 18,000
[9:55] people or 13% of voters who cast ballots
[9:58] in other races had no recorded vote in
[10:01] this race. In other counties in the
[10:03] district, the so-called undervote, two
[10:05] two and 6%. The difference this Sarasota
[10:10] County uses a controversial electronic
[10:13] voting machine that gives no paper
[10:15] record and so there is no way to know
[10:18] what really happened. Because of
[10:20] problems with the machines in early
[10:22] voting, Martha Hafner was warned to make
[10:24] sure her congressional vote was
[10:26] recorded.
[10:26] >> I took my time, went through it very
[10:29] slowly, and still had the problem.
[10:31] >> Go Chris, go.
[10:33] >> Jennings says the voting machines stole
[10:35] her victory. At her request, a Florida
[10:37] court will look at those machines to see
[10:39] if they malfunctioned.
[10:41] >> I think she's got a lot of high-priced
[10:43] lawyers that have been in here, four or
[10:44] five different groups from around the
[10:46] country and are trying to hijack this
[10:48] election.
[10:49] >> Sour grapes or flawed technology? It
[10:52] won't be a problem here next election
[10:54] because two weeks ago, Sarasota voters
[10:57] opted to throw out their $4.7 million
[10:59] voting machines and go back to paper
[11:02] ballots.
[11:02] >> And there was clear indication of voter
[11:04] intent. Jeffrey Kaufman, ABC News,
[11:07] Sarasota.
[11:09] Which brings us to the race for mayor in
[11:12] Edgewood, New Mexico. The 2004 race for
[11:16] mayor until yesterday. That election
[11:18] from two years ago hadn't been decided.
[11:20] Howard Caulkins and Bob Sterling were
[11:22] the candidates. They finished in a dead
[11:24] heat and for 2 years they've battled it
[11:26] out in court. The judge finally said in
[11:28] essence, enough already. It's a tie.
[11:30] Draw cards.
[11:37] Hawkins drew the 10 of hearts, steerly
[11:39] the seven of diamonds. Hawkins wins.
[11:42] Still ahead on this broadcast, airline
[11:44] pilots at the top of their game, but
[11:46] forced to retire from the skies. That's
[11:48] tonight's closer look. Mystery at the
[11:51] top of the world, what happened to the
[11:52] Coast Guard divers deep beneath the
[11:54] Arctic ice? and surviving Thanksgiving
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[14:51] We're going to take a closer look at the
[14:53] pilots. An international regulation
[14:55] takes effect tomorrow allowing airline
[14:57] pilots to fly until the age of 65.
[15:00] However, the United States and three
[15:02] other nations mandate that pilots retire
[15:05] at 60. In a time when people are living
[15:07] longer, when 60 is said to be the new
[15:10] 40, does forcing the most experienced
[15:12] pilots from the cockpit make any sense.
[15:14] Here's ABC's Lisa Stark.
[15:17] >> A's off. B's on.
[15:20] >> He may not look it, but Captain Ken
[15:22] Cooper is over the hill
[15:24] all washed up.
[15:26] >> Thank you very much.
[15:27] >> And about to be put out to pasture. It's
[15:30] purely age discrimination.
[15:31] >> Cooper will be forced to retire in
[15:33] midFebruary when he turns 60.
[15:36] >> The day before I retire, I can take a
[15:39] fully loaded airplane, uh, fly safely
[15:42] around terrible weather, land in a
[15:45] snowstorm, get these people safely to
[15:48] the gate, and the next day I'm not good
[15:51] enough to do that.
[15:52] >> The government has conducted at least
[15:53] five studies looking at pilot retirement
[15:56] age and air safety. The concern as
[15:59] pilots get older, is their ability to do
[16:02] this demanding job compromised?
[16:05] >> We don't want to change a rule unless we
[16:08] know we can at least maintain the
[16:09] current level of safety or improve it.
[16:11] >> The largest pilots union wants the
[16:14] retirement age to remain at 60.
[16:16] >> What we know is this is a number and
[16:19] this number has worked. That's probably
[16:21] the greatest argument to keep it there.
[16:23] >> Younger pilots, too, want to keep the
[16:25] current rule. They'll advance more
[16:27] quickly if older pilots retire. A report
[16:30] by the Aerospace Medical Association
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[16:35] retirement on age alone because everyone
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[16:43] weed out high-risisk pilots. Senator
[16:45] James Inhof is a private pilot still
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[16:51] raise the retirement age. I know that
[16:53] these pilots are safe and there's a lot
[16:55] of experience out there that is uh is
[16:58] going to leave us.
[16:59] >> A view shared by many Thanksgiving
[17:01] travelers.
[17:01] >> I think I would be more concerned to
[17:03] have a pilot who's 25 than 65.
[17:06] >> Wait, is this your last flight?
[17:07] >> No, not close.
[17:08] >> Unless something changes soon. Captain
[17:11] Cooper will be grounded this February
[17:13] after 27 years in the cockpit. Lisa
[17:17] Stark, ABC News, Washington. Our closer
[17:20] look for tonight. And when we come back,
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[20:26] >> General Motors is putting the brakes on
[20:28] what was once a successful sector of the
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[20:31] minivans. This is the last year for its
[20:34] Pontiac and Saturn minivans. Buick and
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[20:48] of SUVs and cars. We turn next to a
[20:52] mystery. What caused the death of two
[20:54] experienced Coast Guard divers in the
[20:56] Arctic Ocean? The divers were part of a
[20:59] scientific expedition collecting data
[21:01] 500 miles north of Alaska. And something
[21:04] went very wrong after the two plunged
[21:06] into the icy waters last summer. But
[21:08] what? Today, there are new clues and new
[21:11] questions. But the mystery gets deeper.
[21:14] Here's ABC's Neil Carlinsky.
[21:17] >> A little over a year ago, Coastg Guard
[21:19] divers Jessica Hill and Steven Duket
[21:21] were on top of the world. Literally,
[21:25] an ABC News crew met them following a
[21:27] dive beneath the polar ice.
[21:29] >> Visibility is incredible. The ice looks
[21:31] like clouds underneath.
[21:32] >> In August, Hill and Duket were back to
[21:35] the Arctic aboard the giant Coast Guard
[21:37] cutter Healey. It was a crystalclear day
[21:39] when the Elite dive team went on a
[21:41] training mission through a hole in the
[21:43] ice. What happened next is a mystery
[21:46] that's left two families and the Coast
[21:48] Guard baffled.
[21:50] >> Nobody understands what happened, what
[21:52] went wrong. Dukay's family traveled to
[21:54] Seattle to visit the ship's crew and
[21:57] look for answers.
[21:58] >> We're very anxious to find out more
[22:01] information.
[22:03] We're anxious for the Coast Guard to
[22:06] give us more of an idea of a clue.
[22:09] >> Crew members here aboard the Healey have
[22:11] been told not to speak about the
[22:12] incident. The ship itself has now been
[22:14] stripped of its diving gear and its
[22:16] captain. He has now been relieved of his
[22:18] command. The Coast Guard will only say
[22:21] that two separate investigations are
[22:23] ongoing.
[22:24] >> This will take some time. Uh, but we
[22:26] want to get to the truth.
[22:27] >> Today, some of the story is beginning to
[22:29] surface. The families say investigators
[22:31] have told them something pulled the two
[22:34] divers down and no one can explain it.
[22:37] Months after the deaths, autopsy reports
[22:39] reveal the pair were at 20 feet below
[22:41] the ice when they suddenly descended to
[22:44] nearly 200 feet in a matter of minutes.
[22:46] A depth that would normally take a half
[22:48] hour to reach. Relatives say a crewman
[22:51] on the surface told them Douet descended
[22:53] so forcefully they couldn't hold his
[22:56] safety line to keep him from dropping.
[22:58] When the two were finally pulled up,
[23:00] their tanks were near empty. They both
[23:02] died despite efforts to revive them.
[23:06] Whatever happened beneath the ice marks
[23:08] the first Coast Guard diving deaths in
[23:10] 30 years. Was it an unusual current or
[23:13] something else that pulled the two
[23:14] under? The case remains a mystery that's
[23:17] left two families shattered. Neil
[23:20] Carlinsky, ABC News, Seattle
[23:24] >> and we'll be right back.
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[25:59] I'm Steve Dunn. Next to the Northwest
[26:00] only all local newscast from car
[26:02] accidents to rough weather. Everything
[26:05] tie-ups all over the place today. Where
[26:07] you should avoid. Plus, how the cars of
[26:09] several homeowners were used against
[26:10] them by burglars trying to break into
[26:12] the house.
[26:15] We saw this father and son when they
[26:17] went off to war. The tears, the hugs,
[26:20] the pride. Now, months later, miles away
[26:23] from their loved ones, we share
[26:24] Thanksgiving dinner in Iraq with them.
[26:27] Tomorrow on World News with Charles
[26:29] Gibson.
[26:31] Finally, from us tonight, somewhere
[26:33] around 45 million turkeys are going to
[26:35] take center stage on American tables
[26:37] tomorrow afternoon. But getting them
[26:39] there isn't always easy. That's why on
[26:42] this Thanksgiving Eve, we thought we'd
[26:44] remind you that you don't have to be
[26:46] alone in the kitchen tomorrow. Here's
[26:48] ABC's Dan Harris.
[26:50] >> You know how it goes. You buy your
[26:52] turkey, you get it home, and then uh
[26:55] what happens then? Well, when culinary
[26:58] catastrophe strikes, call Coach Carol.
[27:01] Okay, let's talk turkey.
[27:03] >> I'm Carol Miller. I'm one of the
[27:05] supervisors at the busiest place in the
[27:08] world today. Carol Miller is the
[27:10] supervisor of the butterball turkey talk
[27:13] line. She and about 50 other turkey
[27:15] experts will field at least 10,000 calls
[27:18] on Thanksgiving. What is the single
[27:21] craziest phone call you've received?
[27:24] >> I had a wonderful young man who his idea
[27:28] was to take his engagement ring, put it
[27:31] in the stuffing, put it in the turkey,
[27:34] and then presented a bad idea.
[27:36] >> I've got a little bit of a strange
[27:38] situation. I'm sitting in my office and
[27:40] I have a turkey sort of unceremoniously
[27:42] perched on my desk. Uh, and I have no
[27:44] oven. How do I cook this turkey?
[27:48] >> That is a dilemma. You do need heat.
[27:51] >> You need heat. What? My computer gets
[27:53] hot occasionally.
[27:54] >> Not hot enough.
[27:55] >> Carol and her colleagues are sometimes
[27:57] cooking coaches and sometimes shrinks.
[28:00] >> Do people ever pour out personal family
[28:04] type of problems to you on the phone? We
[28:06] have had the the uh the new
[28:08] daughter-in-law standing in the closet
[28:10] uh whis whispering. Sometimes we we have
[28:13] to settle disputes, you know, and and we
[28:15] get to judge the situation and give them
[28:17] the verdicts.
[28:18] >> After Carol is done talking turkey
[28:20] tomorrow, she'll go home and make
[28:22] Thanksgiving dinner for her entire
[28:24] family.
[28:25] >> And you're sure that I cannot cook this
[28:27] turkey in my office?
[28:29] >> I am absolutely sure.
[28:31] >> Dan Harris, ABC News, in my office. the
[28:35] somewhat naive Dan Harris, at least
[28:37] about cooking. That is World News for
[28:39] this Wednesday. I'm Charlie Gibson, and
[28:41] I hope you had a good day. For all of us
[28:43] at ABC News, have a good night and a
[28:45] very happy Thanksgiving.
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[29:15] Now on K2 News at 6:30, from car
[29:18] accidents to rough weather conditions,
[29:20] drivers face major traffic tie-ups. What
[29:23] you need to watch out for and where you
[29:25] should avoid. Plus, how the cars of
[29:28] several homeowners were used against
[29:30] them by burglars trying to break into
[29:32] the house. And don't come up empty at
[29:34] the baggage claim this holiday. Six
[29:36] things you can do to reduce your risk of
[29:39] losing your luggage at the airport.
[29:42] >> Live at 6:30, K2 News, the spirit of the
[29:46] Northwest.
[29:47] >> Good evening. Thank you very much for
[29:48] being with us on this Thanksgiving eve
[29:50] everybody. I'm Steve Dunn
[29:51] >> and I'm Deborah Nap. Our top story, the
[29:53] rush to get home and the traffic
[29:54] tie-ups. Let's take a live look as you
[29:56] are seeing on I 205 and Columbia. You
[29:58] can see a lot of brake lights at this
[30:00] hour. I 205 airport way.