World News (ABC) - 2008-06-13
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[0:00] News and video at myabc7.com.
[0:06] >> Welcome to World News. Tonight, Tim
[0:08] Russard, the political journalist and
[0:11] moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, has
[0:13] died. He was 58. River City boats
[0:17] replace cars in Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
[0:19] where much of the city, including a
[0:20] hospital, is underwater.
[0:23] War and famine. The people of
[0:25] Afghanistan have suffered for years from
[0:27] falling bombs. Now they are starving
[0:30] because of rising global food prices.
[0:33] And Father's Days, more and more dads
[0:36] are staying home as moms become the
[0:38] breadwinners and finding out it's not
[0:40] easy being a man in a woman's world.
[0:49] >> From ABC News headquarters, this is
[0:52] World News with Charles Gibson.
[0:55] >> Good evening. Nowhere do politics and
[0:57] journalism intersect more than in
[0:59] Washington. And no one personified the
[1:02] combination of those two worlds more
[1:04] than Tim Russard. Once a political
[1:06] operative himself, he became a broadcast
[1:08] journalist. And for 17 years, he hosted
[1:10] Meet the Press on NBC. Today, as he was
[1:13] preparing for this week's program, Russ
[1:15] collapsed and died. Here's our chief
[1:18] White House correspondent, Martha
[1:19] Ratitz.
[1:22] It was NBC's Tom Brokoff who delivered
[1:25] the news.
[1:26] >> It is my sad duty to report this
[1:28] afternoon that my friend and colleague
[1:30] Tim Russert, the moderator of Meet the
[1:33] Press and NBC's Washington Bureau Chief
[1:36] collapsed and died early this afternoon
[1:39] while at work at the NBC News Bureau in
[1:42] Washington.
[1:42] >> It was 1:40 when the 58-year-old Russ
[1:45] was stricken. Paramedics rushed to NBC's
[1:48] Washington Bureau, but were unable to
[1:51] revive him. Russ