World News Tonight (ABC) - 2006-07-12

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[0:04] >> News 2 at wkrn.com.

[0:12] Tonight, out of control. A new surge of

[0:15] violence engulfs the Middle East. Fears

[0:17] of a wider war. How far will it spread?

[0:20] What does it mean for the US?

[0:23] Offtarget. Why does Homeland Security

[0:26] consider petting zoos, popcorn

[0:28] factories, and forests terrorist

[0:30] targets? We'll take a closer look.

[0:34] Sunken treasures. We go 1,000 ft under

[0:36] the sea in search of the next medical

[0:38] miracle. It's medicine on the cutting

[0:41] edge.

[0:42] And sorry, sort of. The soccer star who

[0:46] threw that infamous headbutt reveals

[0:48] what set him off as the world has fun at

[0:51] his expense.

[0:55] From ABC News, this is World News

[0:59] Tonight with Charles Gibson. Reporting

[1:02] tonight, Kate Snow.

[1:04] >> Good evening. The Middle East is

[1:06] approaching a state of war. Tonight, a

[1:08] conflict that's been simmering for weeks

[1:10] between Israel and Palestinians in the

[1:12] Gaza Strip exploded on a new front.

[1:15] Today, Israeli forces swept into Lebanon

[1:18] after two of their soldiers were

[1:20] kidnapped by the militant group

[1:22] Hezbollah. Eight Israeli soldiers were

[1:25] killed in the fighting. Tonight, the

[1:26] White House is demanding the immediate

[1:28] and unconditional release of those

[1:30] Israeli soldiers. The Bush

[1:32] administration is also blaming Iran and

[1:34] Syria, which support Hezbollah. We have

[1:37] coverage on several fronts tonight,

[1:39] beginning with ABC's Wolf Denick in

[1:41] northern Israel.

[1:45] The border between Israel and Lebanon

[1:47] has erupted

[1:50] in a conflict that is threatening to

[1:52] spiral out of control.

[1:54] The fighting started early this morning.

[1:57] Lebanese militants fired rockets into

[1:59] Israel and two Israeli soldiers were

[2:01] kidnapped in an ambush. Hezbollah said

[2:04] it had the soldiers.

[2:07] The group's leader claimed they were in

[2:09] a safe and far away place, and he said

[2:12] they won't be freed unless 9,000

[2:15] Palestinian prisoners are freed as well.

[2:19] >> Israel's prime minister rejected any

[2:21] exchange, calling the kidnapping an act

[2:24] of war.

[2:26] The battle raged all day as Israel

[2:29] blasted Lebanese bridges and bombed a

[2:31] militant camp just 10 miles south of

[2:34] Beirut. Both sides have been exchanging

[2:37] fire all day and now Israeli troops are

[2:39] into southern Lebanon to try to get

[2:41] those two Israeli soldiers back.

[2:45] Today's kidnapping and the Israeli

[2:47] reaction are a major escalation of a

[2:50] conflict that began more than two weeks

[2:51] ago when Palestinian militants kidnapped

[2:54] another Israeli soldier. Now Israel is

[2:57] fighting on two fronts, to the north and

[3:00] the south. It's hard to see how this uh

[3:05] situation is going to uh be resolved

[3:08] short of a greater escalation and

[3:11] intervention by the international

[3:13] community. And now the fighting has

[3:16] intensified in Gaza too.

[3:19] Israeli warplanes dropped a quarterton

[3:21] bomb apparently targeting a Palestinian

[3:24] bomb maker. The militants survived but

[3:27] the explosion killed nine members of the

[3:29] same family.

[3:31] Tonight, Israel has sent several hundred

[3:33] army reservists to its northern border

[3:36] and ordered its citizens living in the

[3:38] area into bomb shelters. Wilfick, ABC

[3:41] News, along the Israeli Lebanese border.

[3:44] The Israeli army's chief of staff says

[3:46] Israel will intensify its assault if the

[3:49] soldiers aren't returned safely. He

[3:51] threatened to quote turn back the clock

[3:53] in Lebanon by 20 years, referring to the

[3:56] war that engulfed that country two

[3:58] decades ago. In the capital, Beirut

[4:00] tonight, here's ABC's David Wright.

[4:04] >> On the streets of southern Lebanon

[4:06] today, fireworks and gunfire in

[4:09] celebration.

[4:11] Supporters of Hezbollah handed out

[4:13] candy, a sign of good news. Here, the

[4:16] capture of Israeli soldiers is

[4:18] considered a brave act of defiance and a

[4:21] chance to free Lebanese and Palestinian

[4:23] prisoners. The Hezbollah action ac

[4:26] across the Lebanese Israeli border opens

[4:28] up another military front and escalates

[4:31] the whole crisis. This is very dangerous

[4:33] in the Middle East. What makes this

[4:35] conflict so dangerous is that it

[4:37] involves so many other players. Syria to

[4:40] the north, Iran to the east. Both

[4:42] countries actively support Hezbollah.

[4:44] Both are sworn enemies of Israel.

[4:47] >> All the cards are in the hands of Syria

[4:50] and Iran. But in the meantime, uh, the

[4:54] violence on the on the ground can spiral

[4:56] out of control, and it's not in

[4:58] anybody's interest.

[5:00] >> Lebanon has long been stuck in the

[5:02] middle. Syria had tens of thousands of

[5:04] troops here until just last year. Israel

[5:06] withdrew its troops from southern

[5:08] Lebanon 6 years ago.

[5:11] How did it get to this point? In Israel,

[5:13] there's broad public support for the

[5:15] heavy military response after those

[5:18] soldiers were kidnapped. Almost every

[5:20] Israeli family has a son or daughter in

[5:22] the military.

[5:23] >> When one of their fighters falls,

[5:26] they turn him into a martyr. When one of

[5:30] our fighters falls, we turn him into a

[5:33] child. And that's the emotional response

[5:35] that's happening in Israeli society.

[5:37] It's very much of a parental embrace.

[5:40] But what Israel views as an appropriate

[5:42] response to hostage taking, targeting

[5:44] civilian infrastructure like bridges and

[5:46] power plants, is seen here as

[5:49] unnecessary and heavy-handed, punishing

[5:51] an entire people. Here on the Arab

[5:54] street, people view the capture of these

[5:55] soldiers not as an act of terrorism, but

[5:58] war. These are prisoners of war. That's

[6:00] why they're demanding prisoner

[6:01] exchanges. But Israel won't see it that

[6:04] way. Kate

[6:05] >> David Wright in Beirut. President Bush

[6:07] is in Germany tonight in route to an

[6:09] international summit. Aboard Air Force

[6:12] One today, reporters pressed his

[6:13] spokesman with questions on no less than

[6:16] three international hotspots. Our chief

[6:18] Washington correspondent, George

[6:20] Stephanopoulos, joins us now. So many

[6:22] hot spots on the radar. Is this crisis

[6:25] overload for the White House?

[6:26] >> It sure looks like it. All crisis all

[6:28] the time. Look at this map of all the

[6:30] hot spots we prepared. US troops in Iraq

[6:34] and Afghanistan. a nuclear standoff with

[6:36] North Korea and Iran and now a war

[6:39] between Israel and the Palestinians that

[6:40] could spread to Syria and Lebanon. It's

[6:43] hard to think of a time since World War

[6:45] II where a US president faced so many

[6:47] dangerous challenges on so many

[6:49] different fronts.

[6:50] >> And the Iraqi prime minister today said,

[6:52] "We're at a real point here. We have to

[6:54] reconcile or things could be over.

[6:57] Things could move towards civil war."

[6:58] >> And General Casey said, "We might need

[7:00] more troops." while the president is

[7:02] facing critics who say because we're

[7:04] pinned down there, he hasn't had as much

[7:06] room to maneuver on these other

[7:07] challenges.

[7:08] >> And what do they do? You've been in this

[7:10] situation in a White House facing

[7:12] international crisis. What do you do?

[7:14] >> You just deal. Uh White House aids

[7:16] concede that this is no ordinary time,

[7:18] but what they're trying to do is buy

[7:20] time and bring our allies in. That's why

[7:23] they think this this summit this weekend

[7:25] is a real opportunity to unify the

[7:27] Europeans and get Russian President

[7:29] Vladimir Putin on board.

[7:31] >> George Stephanopoulos, thank you. Two

[7:33] more items from Iraq. Defense Secretary

[7:35] Donald Rumsfeld made an unannounced

[7:37] visit. He said it is still too early to

[7:39] talk about reducing US troop levels. And

[7:42] the US military announced Saddam Hussein

[7:44] has been on a hunger strike for 5 days

[7:46] now to protest procedures at his war

[7:49] crimes trial. The trains are running

[7:52] again in India's largest city, Mumbai,

[7:54] after yesterday's devastating terror

[7:56] bombings. An Indian official tells ABC

[7:59] News a radical Islamic group with links

[8:01] to al-Qaeda was behind that attack. The

[8:04] group, which wants independence for the

[8:06] region of Kashmir, allegedly provided

[8:08] student radicals in Mumbai with the

[8:10] explosives. At least 200 people died,

[8:13] more than 700 injured. And now to news

[8:16] in this country and a ferocious wildfire

[8:19] in Southern California. Flames have

[8:21] scorched more than 26,000 acres and

[8:24] forced evacuations in San Bernardino

[8:26] County. Among the affected communities

[8:28] is one familiar to fans of Hollywood

[8:31] westerns. ABC's Miguel Marquez is near

[8:33] the fire lines tonight.

[8:36] >> Flames whipped by wind raced through the

[8:39] hills east of Los Angeles today.

[8:41] Overnight, the fire caused by lightning

[8:43] destroyed dozens of homes and chased

[8:45] thousands of people from their

[8:47] residences. Frank and Shirley Zambrano

[8:49] looked over what's left of their house

[8:51] for the first time today.

[8:53] >> We don't have any pictures.

[8:56] My husband's artwork's gone.

[8:59] >> Catastrophe. I figure we'll just have to

[9:01] start all over again. And that's the

[9:03] only thing we can do is start all over

[9:05] again.

[9:07] Firefighters are struggling with

[9:08] shifting winds and gusts up to 40 mph.

[9:12] So far, the fire is nowhere near

[9:14] contained. This is a backfire that

[9:16] firefighters are burning in some of the

[9:17] dry brush here. It is incredibly dry,

[9:19] incredibly steep, and incredibly rocky

[9:21] territory. They're trying to protect

[9:23] houses like this. They're dotted

[9:25] throughout the landscape. It is a very

[9:27] tough place to fight a fire. Margot

[9:29] Guthrie was stopped at a roadblock near

[9:31] her home. She's looking for her husband,

[9:33] Jerry, who's been missing since the fire

[9:35] began.

[9:36] >> I last time I talked to him, I was in

[9:38] town. He was at the house. He says, "Get

[9:39] back here cuz there fires coming back

[9:42] again."

[9:44] >> The hardest hit place, Pioneer Town,

[9:46] where at least five homes have been

[9:48] destroyed. It has seen drama before, but

[9:50] that was on the silver screen, the

[9:52] location for countless Hollywood

[9:54] westerns, including many of Gene Autri

[9:56] among others. The fire is moving closer

[9:59] to the vast wilderness of the San

[10:01] Bernardino National Forest. That was the

[10:03] area where a massive forest fire

[10:05] destroyed almost a thousand homes in

[10:07] 2003.

[10:10] And what you're looking at is uh that

[10:12] eerie color is the color of the sun

[10:14] trying to shine through very heavy smoke

[10:16] here. And this is just one of the homes,

[10:19] the many homes that were destroyed here

[10:21] in Pioneer Town. And it may not be the

[10:23] last of the homes that get destroyed.

[10:25] The forecast is for more unpredictable

[10:27] weather, winds, and dry weather ahead.

[10:30] Kate

[10:31] >> Miguel Marquez in California. Thank you.

[10:33] And now, some welcome medical news. A

[10:35] milestone in the treatment of AIDS. The

[10:38] government said today they would approve

[10:40] the first one a day pill for people with

[10:43] HIV. It's called a tripleta, and it

[10:45] combines three drugs now taken by many

[10:48] AIDS patients. The new pill won't reduce

[10:50] the cost more than $1,100 a month. But

[10:54] doctors say it's important to take all

[10:56] three drugs regularly, and the new pill

[10:59] combining them will make it all that

[11:01] much easier. Still ahead, the

[11:03] government's bizarre database of

[11:05] possible terror targets, petting zoos, a

[11:07] bourbon festival, even a popcorn

[11:10] factory. We'll take a closer look. A

[11:12] different kind of treasure hunt seeking

[11:14] the next miracle drug. undersea medicine

[11:17] on the cutting edge and the superstar

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[14:03] We're going to take a closer look at a

[14:05] story that we couldn't stop talking

[14:07] about here today. A new controversy

[14:09] about how the government is trying to

[14:11] thwart terrorists. The Homeland

[14:13] Security's Inspector General revealed

[14:15] that the department's database of

[14:17] possible terror targets includes

[14:20] everything from a groundhog zoo and a

[14:22] frontier fun park to a kangaroo

[14:25] conservation center and an apple and

[14:28] pork festival. The department is using

[14:30] the database to help allocate hundreds

[14:32] of millions of dollars in anti-terror

[14:34] funds. ABC's Dean Reynolds takes a

[14:37] closer look.

[14:39] >> The Homeland Security database includes

[14:41] more than 77,000 potential targets

[14:43] nationwide. Predictable places like

[14:46] skyscrapers, shopping centers, bridges,

[14:49] dams, and power plants. But the

[14:51] government audit of the data criticized

[14:53] what it called an abundance of unusual

[14:56] or outofplace assets whose criticality

[14:58] is not readily apparent. A Midwestern

[15:01] Elks Club or a Kentucky bourbon

[15:04] festival. Brian Layman's popcorn company

[15:06] in Burn, Indiana is on the list, much to

[15:09] his astonishment.

[15:10] >> I think it's funny. I think it's some

[15:12] kind of mistake. Where I'm at is a

[15:14] gravel road about 2 and a half miles

[15:16] from the closest town of 4,000. Indiana

[15:20] officials insist they have 8,500 sites

[15:22] worth noting, more than any other state,

[15:25] including New York and California.

[15:28] >> I don't think there was a clarification

[15:29] of what assets were. So, every state had

[15:31] a different version of what they were

[15:33] supposed to submit.

[15:34] >> Indeed, New Hampshire and Vermont didn't

[15:36] even break a hundred. This is no game,

[15:39] though. Federal funding is an issue, and

[15:41] states may be motivated to pad their

[15:43] lists. Here in Illinois, officials came

[15:46] up with more than 2,000 sites. the

[15:49] federal government and DHS should have

[15:51] compli compiled a list themselves and

[15:54] not ask the localities uh for what they

[15:57] thought was a terrorist target. Others

[15:59] said the results were predictable.

[16:01] >> Human nature being what it was, they

[16:02] were not going to to simply say, you

[16:05] know, we have nothing of importance.

[16:07] >> But the Mule Day parade in Columbia,

[16:09] Tennessee, or the petting zoo in

[16:11] Woodville, Alabama,

[16:13] >> we've never even had to call 911. uh

[16:16] except when my husband broke his wrist.

[16:18] >> The Homeland Security folks are

[16:20] undeterred.

[16:21] >> What has actual meaning is whether you

[16:23] pass the criticality litmus test based

[16:26] upon threat consequences and

[16:28] vulnerability.

[16:29] >> So the Groundhog Zoo in Punksatonyi,

[16:31] Pennsylvania will be put to the test.

[16:33] But then they have spotted some pretty

[16:35] shady characters there from time to

[16:38] time. Dean Reynolds, ABC News, Chicago.

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[19:35] >> Off the coast of Florida, scientists are

[19:37] digging deep under the sea for the next

[19:39] big medical breakthrough. Many of the

[19:42] drugs that keep us healthy are found in

[19:44] nature. And researchers believe the seas

[19:46] are still holding secrets. The keys to

[19:49] treating cancer, cures for Alzheimer's,

[19:51] perhaps AIDS or other diseases could be

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[19:56] found. ABC's Jeffrey Kaufman got deep

[19:59] into the story. Off the coast of Fort

[20:00] Lauderdale, it is medicine on the

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[20:05] >> Deep in the ocean, in places human

[20:07] beings have never ventured, lie scores

[20:10] of unidentified plants and unknown

[20:12] creatures. Researchers believe that one

[20:14] of these could hold the secret to the

[20:16] next miracle drug.

[20:18] >> Somewhere down there, there's a cure for

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[20:21] >> On this mission, Amy Wright, the

[20:23] director of biomedical Marine Research,

[20:25] is riding in the sub's rear compartment.

[20:27] >> We're all set back here. How do we look?

[20:29] >> For a month, this submersible from the

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[20:33] has been scouring the seafloor daily.

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[20:40] The destination, an underwater mountain

[20:42] range just 15 miles off the coast of

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[20:51] submersibles like this, and there are

[20:53] only a handful, have opened up a whole

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[20:59] >> We are on the bottom, 1,63 ft.

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[22:36] When we come back, that infamous hud

[22:39] head headbutt explained. A superstar

[22:42] tells the world why he lost his head.

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[25:53] >> finally tonight, it's been three days

[25:55] since the French soccer great Zinedine

[25:58] Zadon achieved sports infamy. We're

[26:00] talking, of course, about that headbutt.

[26:03] Zidane was ejected. Italy went on to win

[26:05] the World Cup and ever since the whole

[26:07] world has been asking why did he do it.

[26:10] Today he tried to explain himself.

[26:13] Here's ABC's Nancy Weiner.

[26:16] Zidane's explanation for this now

[26:19] infamous headbutt. Insults about his

[26:22] mother drove him to it. He told French

[26:24] television Canal Plus.

[26:28] >> They were words that touched the

[26:29] innermost parts of me. He said very

[26:32] personal things. My mother, my sister. I

[26:34] would rather have taken a punch in the

[26:36] jaw than have heard that.

[26:39] Some lip readers swear the Italian

[26:41] defender Morazzi called Zedan quote the

[26:44] son of a terrorist [ __ ] His mother is

[26:47] Algerian. Morazzi denies saying anything

[26:50] of the sort. I'm not cultured. The

[26:52] 32-year-old protested. I don't even know

[26:54] what an Islamic terrorist is. If the

[26:57] insult was truly just something horrible

[26:59] about his mother or his sister, then he

[27:02] should have turned the other way, gone

[27:04] and won the World Cup, and shoved it

[27:05] back in his face. If it was truly a

[27:08] racist kind of thing, he made the

[27:10] ultimate sacrifice. Unfortunately, he

[27:12] brought the rest of his teammates with

[27:14] him. Even heads of state are weighing

[27:16] in. The French president jumped to

[27:18] Zidane's defense, calling him a genius

[27:20] of world football. The incident has also

[27:24] inspired international mockery. Fact,

[27:27] >> that's the closest anyone in French

[27:29] uniform has come to combat in 60 years.

[27:35] >> Zidane the hitman. They chant in a new

[27:38] diddy catching fire in France.

[27:41] >> Zidan apologized to children around the

[27:43] world today for setting a bad example.

[27:46] But he says he doesn't regret what he

[27:47] did. The guilty one, he argued, is the

[27:50] one who provokes. Nancy Weiner, ABC

[27:53] News, New York. Ah, but he lost the

[27:56] World Cup. And that is World News

[27:58] Tonight for this Wednesday. I'm Kate

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