NBC Nightly News - 2000-08-22

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[0:04] >> closing in. Hurricane Debbie bears down

[0:07] on land tonight. Plus, new questions

[0:09] about how to fight those raging

[0:10] wildfires and the drought getting worse.

[0:14] Case closed. The final report on the

[0:17] disaster of TWWA 800. But what's missing

[0:20] in depth? New worries about the

[0:22] Firestone tire recall. Plus, damage

[0:25] control as Ford fights to save its name.

[0:28] and the town that's fighting to save a

[0:30] helpless baby whale keeping summer

[0:33] alive.

[0:37] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:40] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:44] Brokoff. Substituting tonight, Brian

[0:47] Williams.

[0:48] >> Good evening. The season has just

[0:50] arrived. Tonight, for the first time in

[0:52] this year 2000, we begin with a

[0:54] hurricane churning in the Atlantic,

[0:56] already causing damage and threatening

[0:59] even more. The good news tonight appears

[1:01] to be Puerto Rico has been spared the

[1:04] very worst of this storm named Debbie.

[1:06] However, forecasters expect a

[1:08] strengthening storm to stay on a track

[1:10] aimed at Florida by week's end. We want

[1:13] to begin tonight with NBC's Frederria

[1:15] Whitfield in San Juan.

[1:17] Today in San Juan, stocking up for an

[1:20] unwelcome visitor expected tonight.

[1:23] Debbie, the Atlantic season's fourth

[1:25] named storm. A category 1 hurricane

[1:28] brushing the northeastern coast of

[1:29] Puerto Rico. After skipping through

[1:31] nearby smaller islands, packing up to 75

[1:35] mileph winds, Debbie is a smallcale

[1:38] system, but big enough to send shoppers

[1:40] here scrambling for supplies. plywood, a

[1:43] lot of plywood, lumber, batteries,

[1:45] flashlights, propane lanterns, propane

[1:47] stoves, uh propane fuel, also uh some

[1:52] tarps.

[1:52] >> Where will we'll take care of the their

[1:54] problems on time? We've learned from

[1:57] previous um incidents.

[2:00] >> Still trying to recover from the $2

[2:02] billion damage left by Hurricane George

[2:05] two years ago, many in this US territory

[2:08] of 4 million residents prefer to play it

[2:10] safe. everything no matter how what

[2:13] category what category is it

[2:17] >> from boarding up businesses lining up

[2:19] for gas to cancelling flights

[2:22] >> precautions leaving thousands mostly

[2:24] tourists fed up it's not our fault you

[2:27] know I spoke with my mom you said that

[2:29] >> and stranded like Alejandro Rivera

[2:32] trying to get back home

[2:33] >> I've been uh cancelled three flights

[2:36] trying to get to Newark and here I am I

[2:39] tried a couple hotels and everything is

[2:41] full. So, I have no choice just to wait

[2:44] over here.

[2:45] >> Officials at the National Hurricane

[2:47] Center say it's too early to gauge

[2:49] Debbie's next move.

[2:50] >> We think it will slow down. That buys us

[2:52] a little more time before we have to

[2:54] worry about watching warnings, but

[2:55] people need to monitor this very

[2:57] closely.

[2:57] >> Forecasters don't expect much wind

[2:59] damage, but say up to 6 in of rain on

[3:02] parts of the island could cause flash

[3:04] floods and mudslides. Fria Whitfield,

[3:07] NBC News, San Juan. Now to the raging

[3:11] troubles of a different kind tonight.

[3:12] The drought and the drought-fed

[3:14] wildfires that are marching across the

[3:16] American West. On one side, those trying

[3:19] to put them out. On the other, those who

[3:21] say forests need to burn. Now, what to

[3:24] do about it? We have two reports

[3:25] tonight, beginning with NBC's Kelly

[3:27] O'Donnell.

[3:29] >> Tonight, Montana's fires throwing off

[3:31] new heat and new urgency over a

[3:34] controversial debate. How the government

[3:36] can best manage fires like these. The US

[3:39] Forest Service working on a proposal.

[3:41] Their expected recommendation over 15

[3:44] years spending an estimated 12 billion

[3:47] dollar to thin dense forests.

[3:49] >> There guys, watch this. You don't come

[3:51] up.

[3:51] >> One method backfires intentionally set

[3:54] to clear brush. Jack Ward Thomas, former

[3:57] chief of the Forest Service. There may

[4:00] be preparing a new draft of it, but it's

[4:02] been prepared over and over several

[4:04] times, but people simply weren't ready

[4:07] to to fund it, ready to go for it.

[4:09] >> Why now? Some say the worst fire season

[4:12] in decades, forcing the issue. A vivid,

[4:15] dangerous example predicted in a general

[4:17] accounting office report one year ago

[4:19] that claimed 39 million acres on

[4:22] national forests in the West at high

[4:24] risk of catastrophic wildfire. Why so

[4:27] much land at risk? Experts say a

[4:29] government policy preventing fire

[4:31] eliminated what they call the natural

[4:34] process of thinning, leaving too much

[4:36] fuel for fire. This Montana stand of

[4:39] trees in 1909, open enough to be

[4:41] considered fireresistant. The same spot

[4:44] 80 years later, overgrown, choked with

[4:47] brush, ripe for burning.

[4:48] >> If there's not thinning, the fire will

[4:50] burn hot. And uh by that I mean it will

[4:54] kill everything in the stand. and it

[4:57] could burn hot enough to even do damage

[4:59] to the soil.

[5:00] >> The theory behind thinning, in an open

[5:03] forest, fires burn low to the ground

[5:05] with less heat, kicking off fewer embers

[5:08] that could ignite taller, older trees,

[5:10] which means they have a better chance to

[5:12] survive. But some environmentalists say

[5:15] the government must be careful about

[5:17] intervention. We should not use this

[5:20] current fire scare to be punching roads

[5:24] into our last remaining roadless areas.

[5:27] >> However, hop the debate. Tonight,

[5:29] Montana's governor prepares to declare

[5:31] more recreation areas off limits as

[5:34] early as tomorrow. Kelly O'Donnell, NBC

[5:37] News, Hamilton, Montana.

[5:40] >> This is Jim Cumins in Dallas where

[5:42] tonight signs of the drought are

[5:44] everywhere. Cracked earth, swirling dust

[5:46] on the plains, boat marinas high and

[5:48] dry, empty creek beds, wildfires

[5:51] devouring grasslands at the rate of 180

[5:54] ft a minute. Sheriff's deputies rounding

[5:56] up cattle with their squad cars to get

[5:58] the animals out of harm's way. Eric

[6:00] Odell doesn't have to worry about that

[6:02] anymore. This third generation rancher

[6:04] sold his herd after the water ponds

[6:06] dried up.

[6:07] >> They got so expensive

[6:10] uh we had to liquidate. This official

[6:12] weather map shows more than half of

[6:14] Texas, 166,600

[6:17] square miles, is suffering extreme or

[6:19] severe drought. There hasn't been rain

[6:21] around here for 53 days. The record

[6:24] number is 58, and that's almost certain

[6:26] to be broken.

[6:28] >> But this drought began long before this

[6:30] year, according to Barrett Clark,

[6:31] another rancher.

[6:32] >> This is essentially our fifth year in

[6:34] this drought. 94 was our last year with

[6:37] average annual rainfall here in this

[6:40] area. Ranchers and farmers are losing up

[6:42] to 30% of their crops. The misery has

[6:44] spread to cities and towns, too. The

[6:46] lake that supplies Abalene with drinking

[6:48] water is 15 ft below normal. That's why

[6:51] a growing number of homeowners like

[6:53] Daryl Zeer are drilling for water in

[6:55] their backyards.

[6:56] >> We don't feel like we should be using

[6:57] our city water to be putting on the

[6:59] grass. And if this is available, that's

[7:00] why we're doing it.

[7:03] >> The drilling company has never been this

[7:05] busy. The domestic market has probably

[7:07] tripled

[7:09] in the last year. I would say

[7:11] >> the reservoir for the tiny town of

[7:13] ThrockMorton will be dry in only 19

[7:15] days.

[7:16] >> 100 plus degrees every day. The wind's

[7:18] been blowing. That increases evaporation

[7:21] rate. So yeah, it's it's dwindling

[7:23] pretty fast.

[7:24] >> Hundreds of volunteers from all over the

[7:26] country have pitched in to help this

[7:27] town lay a new pipeline to another water

[7:29] supply 21 miles away. Adding to the

[7:32] misery, grasshoppers. Billions of them

[7:34] chomping on the few plants that have

[7:36] survived the drought.

[7:37] >> Probably about half of everything that

[7:38] people plant around here is very tasty

[7:41] to grasshoppers.

[7:42] >> There is no rain in the forecast, but

[7:44] even Eric Odell, who lost almost

[7:46] everything in the drought, isn't giving

[7:48] up.

[7:48] >> It'll take several years to get back to

[7:50] where I was, but it'll be hard to do,

[7:53] but I'm going to try.

[7:55] >> For now, Odell says he's simply praying

[7:57] for rain. Jim Cumins, NBC News Dallas.

[8:02] >> And still to come as we continue this

[8:03] Tuesday night damage control. NBC News

[8:06] in depth, the Ford Motor Company reeling

[8:08] from this tire recall on its biggest

[8:11] selling SUV and a potential drop in

[8:13] consumer confidence.

[8:15] >> Ford's level of honesty, helpfulness,

[8:17] and speed of response to this situation

[8:19] is rated fair or poor by large

[8:22] percentages of consumers.

[8:25] The fallout from the Firestone debacle

[8:27] and how Ford is fighting back. That's

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[11:00] >> Now to the final report on the crash of

[11:02] TWWA 800. It's been years in the making.

[11:06] It has come at a staggering cost. And

[11:08] tonight it's what the report doesn't say

[11:10] that's attracting attention. More

[11:12] tonight from NBC's Robert Hager.

[11:15] >> Today, NTSB shows the result of four

[11:18] long years of investigation. Test

[11:20] explosions of model fuel tanks,

[11:23] shortcircuiting airplane wiring, and the

[11:25] result. Tomorrow, NTSB will make it

[11:28] official in a final report for certain

[11:30] TWWA800's fuel tank caused the accident.

[11:34] the inescapable conclusion that the

[11:37] cause of the in-flight breakup of TWWA

[11:41] Flight 800 was a fuel air explosion in

[11:44] the center wing tank. Not a missile or a

[11:47] bomb, the board finds after test firing

[11:49] missiles like this one. Not the faintest

[11:51] sign of anything like that from the

[11:53] wreckage. And talk of covering up

[11:55] evidence angers NTSB's chairman. It is

[11:58] unfortunate

[11:59] that a small number of people pursuing

[12:02] their own agendas have persisted in

[12:05] making unfounded charges of a government

[12:08] cover up in this investigation. The key

[12:11] investigators say the fuel tank, that

[12:13] small model of it built especially for

[12:15] this investigation, demonstrates how

[12:17] easily fuel vapors explode. And the wire

[12:20] test suggests a short circuit could have

[12:23] set it off, although there's no proof of

[12:24] that. So, what does all this

[12:26] investigative work mean for the flying

[12:28] public? Means airplane fuel tanks and

[12:30] wiring, never considered much of a

[12:32] problem until this accident, are now

[12:34] getting a lot of attention. Already, the

[12:36] FAA has ordered changes in wiring on

[12:39] most planes. And at a government lab in

[12:41] New Mexico is meticulously examining

[12:44] more to look for problems. The agency's

[12:46] Chris Smith.

[12:47] >> So, we would look at things like the

[12:49] clamps and we would look for

[12:51] deterioration of that clamping material.

[12:54] We would uh and you can see there that

[12:55] there's some of that has been deposited

[12:58] on the wire. We've got a wire bundle

[12:59] down here and you can see the all the

[13:01] the dust and lint accumulation on the on

[13:03] that wire there.

[13:04] >> Special attention to insulation around

[13:06] wires, nylon, and other wraps.

[13:08] >> We'd look for chafing situations. And

[13:10] right here you've got a set of wires

[13:12] where it looks like the outer layer, not

[13:14] necessarily a breach all the way to the

[13:15] inner layer, but it looks like the outer

[13:17] nylon coating on this PVC nylon is

[13:19] beginning is beginning to give out. The

[13:21] FAA is also looking at ways to make fuel

[13:24] tanks safer. Maybe even one day filling

[13:26] empty spaces with non-exlosive nitrogen

[13:29] gas. Relatives of this accident's

[13:32] victims watching today, hoping lessons

[13:35] can be learned from all this to make

[13:37] flying safer for all of us. Robert

[13:40] Hager, NBC News, Washington.

[13:43] In Russia, it is now Wednesday, an

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[14:01] Some encouraging news about the United

[14:03] States economy today. At the White

[14:05] House, President Clinton said the number

[14:06] of Americans on welfare has now dropped

[14:09] by fully half in the last four years to

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[14:14] Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve did as

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[14:18] unchanged, a sign that they consider

[14:20] inflation under control, at least for

[14:22] now. That was good news on Wall Street.

[14:24] The Dow gained over 59. The Nasdaq was

[14:27] up just over five points. Still ahead as

[14:30] we continue tonight, the remarkable

[14:32] story, the baby whale beating the odds

[14:34] and NBC News in depth this evening. The

[14:37] fallout from that huge tire recall. What

[14:40] Ford is doing to avoid a public

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[17:45] >> NBC News in depth tonight. Damage

[17:47] control. The fallout from the recall of

[17:49] millions of Firestone tires. The Ford

[17:52] Motor Company taking an especially big

[17:54] hit because so many of the tires are on

[17:56] its bestselling SUV, the Explorer. It

[17:59] was almost two weeks ago Firestone

[18:01] announced a recall of more than 6

[18:03] million tires. As of this past weekend,

[18:05] more than a half a million have been

[18:07] replaced. Now, Ford is pulling out all

[18:09] the stops, fighting back against what

[18:11] could be a business disaster. But is it

[18:14] too little too late? NBC's Anne Thompson

[18:17] reports tonight in depth.

[18:20] Ford today charting its own course of

[18:22] damage control. CEO Jack Nasser on TV in

[18:26] a multi-million dollar ad campaign

[18:28] trying to reassure anxious Explorer

[18:30] drivers riding on Firestone tires. I

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[18:35] there are two things that we never take

[18:38] lightly. Your safety and your trust.

[18:42] Next Monday, Ford will stop production

[18:44] at three truck and SUV plants to make

[18:46] 70,000 new tires available to consumers

[18:49] looking to replace the ones being

[18:51] recalled. This move, the right step,

[18:54] according to one crisis management

[18:55] expert.

[18:56] >> This is not about spin. It's about

[18:58] substance. PR flacking won't cut it.

[19:01] Ford estimates the shutdown will reduce

[19:03] its production by $25,000 vehicles. A

[19:06] move that one analyst says could cost

[19:07] the company $100 million, but University

[19:10] of Chicago law professor Saul Levmore

[19:13] calls it clever because it could help

[19:15] reduce Ford's liability in lawsuits to

[19:17] come.

[19:18] >> Ford will say, "Look, we did everything

[19:20] we could. We lost a lot of money

[19:21] shutting down our plans for 10 days or

[19:23] more in order to send all the available

[19:25] good tires we had to you." However, an

[19:27] automotive news nationwide survey finds

[19:30] Ford is taking a hit with consumers.

[19:32] >> Ford's level of honesty, helpfulness,

[19:34] and speed of response to this situation

[19:36] is rated fair or poor by large

[19:39] percentages of consumers.

[19:41] >> That number close to half in Kenny's

[19:44] survey, giving Ford, he says, a black

[19:46] eye almost as big as Fire Stones. The

[19:49] challenge now for Ford, according to one

[19:50] crisis management expert, to separate

[19:53] itself from the tire maker. So consumers

[19:56] don't blame the auto company for what

[19:58] may just be a tire problem. The

[20:00] relationship between the two firms goes

[20:02] back to their founders. Henry Ford on

[20:04] the far left, Harvey Firestone on the

[20:06] right. Over the decades, the

[20:08] professional and personal intermingled.

[20:10] So much so that a 1947 wedding between a

[20:13] Ford and a Firestone produced Ford's

[20:16] current chairman, Bill Ford Jr. Still on

[20:19] the line for Ford, the Explorer,

[20:21] America's most popular SUV. Last year,

[20:24] more than 400,000 sold. A new version to

[20:27] hit showrooms early next year.

[20:30] >> The Explorer really isn't Ford's bread

[20:32] and butter be vehicle. It's Ford's stake

[20:34] vehicle because of the profit it brings

[20:35] to the company.

[20:36] >> An estimated 5 to7,000 per vehicle,

[20:39] driving Ford to record profits last

[20:42] year. Over 7 billion reasons why Ford is

[20:45] trying everything to save the vehicle

[20:47] and the company's reputation. Anne

[20:49] Thompson, NBC News, Chicago. And one

[20:53] more note about this recall here

[20:54] tonight. Firestone says it will begin

[20:56] flying tires in from Japan to try and

[20:59] meet the demand for replacements here.

[21:01] The company says it has scheduled at

[21:03] least 11 cargo flights between tomorrow

[21:05] and Sunday and will keep flying in tires

[21:08] for as long as is necessary. An outofc

[21:11] court settlement was announced today in

[21:12] a legal fight involving the publishers

[21:14] clearing house sweep stakes. 23

[21:17] different states in the District of

[21:18] Columbia alleged the company used

[21:20] deceptive promotions to convince people

[21:23] falsely that they improved their chances

[21:25] of winning a prize by buying more

[21:27] magazines. Publishers Clearing House,

[21:30] whose grand sweep stakes, by the way,

[21:32] the winners are announced in a live

[21:34] commercial here on NBC Nightly News,

[21:36] admitted to no wrongdoing in the

[21:37] settlement, but the company did agree to

[21:39] change its promotions as well as paying

[21:41] $18 million in refunds to consumers.

[21:45] When we come back here tonight, an

[21:46] update on the position of Hurricane

[21:48] Debbie and later on, the story of a

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[24:37] >> Just ahead at 6, after a construction

[24:39] ditch collapsed and buried two workers

[24:41] alive, OSHA is now looking for answers.

[24:44] Were all safety precautions taken to

[24:46] keep the workers safe? And hog calling

[24:48] may be a common sight at a county fair,

[24:50] but for some it is more than just a

[24:53] game. It's a way of life. We'll have the

[24:55] story just ahead on the scene at 6.

[24:59] >> An update now on our top story this

[25:00] evening. Hurricane Debbie now a category

[25:03] 1 hurricane, but menacing Puerto Rico

[25:05] and the Bahamas. This is what it looks

[25:07] like. San Juan Beach tonight. Beautiful

[25:09] beach night belies the fact that just

[25:11] off to the north there's a storm blowing

[25:13] at 75 m an hour. Forecasters say it's

[25:16] still too early to predict if the US

[25:18] mainland will take a direct hit. But if

[25:21] the storm stays on its present path,

[25:23] Florida will begin to feel the effects

[25:24] of this by Friday morning. In the

[25:27] Florida Keys, not far from the area

[25:30] threatened by this storm, there is

[25:32] another story of a very close call. This

[25:34] one involves a baby whale separated from

[25:37] its mother in a town that refused to

[25:39] allow its almost certain death. Our

[25:41] report tonight from NBC's Carrie

[25:43] Sanders.

[25:45] When a passing boater spotted this pygmy

[25:48] sperm whale beached on the sand in the

[25:50] Florida Keys two months ago, the experts

[25:52] feared she'd end up like 1456 other

[25:55] whales that washed up last year.

[25:57] >> Dead. Where's the baby?

[26:00] >> But much to everyone's surprise, this

[26:02] whale, named Summer because she was

[26:04] found on the first day of the season, is

[26:06] not only alive, but she's beginning to

[26:09] thrive.

[26:10] >> You do the best you can and you hope for

[26:12] the best. and she's surprised us all.

[26:15] >> How did it happen? Key West, Florida

[26:18] came together, refusing to believe the

[26:20] statistics.

[26:21] >> Summer's odds are definitely against

[26:23] her. She is a very young animal. She's a

[26:25] dependent calf.

[26:27] >> What happened to Summer's mother?

[26:28] Experts believe her mother may have died

[26:30] due to sickness or was attacked and

[26:32] killed by a shark. It's only happened

[26:36] once before. A pygmy sperm whale

[26:38] recovered and then returned to the wild.

[26:41] But that slim hope enough.

[26:43] >> The 26,000 full-time residents that we

[26:45] have here really do have a very strong

[26:48] sense of community. They really pull

[26:50] together when the when the need arises.

[26:52] >> And volunteers used to making fancy

[26:55] foods like chocolatecovered

[26:56] strawberries. Now mixing up a new recipe

[26:59] in a cramped kitchen.

[27:00] >> Fresh squid

[27:02] >> with baby formula and cod liver oil. In

[27:05] the beginning, a nagging fear this

[27:07] substitute for a mother's milk would

[27:09] fail. girl.

[27:11] >> But with roundthe-c clock vigils, even

[27:13] as she sleeps, Summer gaining strength,

[27:16] eating every 2 hours, 8 lbs of squid a

[27:20] day.

[27:26] >> A bar using its offbeat cable TV show to

[27:28] raise the $150 a day needed to feed her

[27:31] squid habit and pay for the daily blood

[27:34] tests. The plan now, take it day by day

[27:38] and with good luck, summer could go home

[27:40] by winter. Kerry Sanders, NBC News

[27:44] Miami.

[27:46] We want to let you know about a special

[27:47] lifeline report tomorrow night here on

[27:49] NBC Nightly News. Diabetes, millions

[27:52] have it, but so many don't even know it.

[27:54] New information on the growing threat of

[27:56] the disease. Again, that's tomorrow

[27:58] night here on NBC Nightly News. And that

[28:01] is our broadcast for this Tuesday

[28:02] evening. Don't forget Dline at 109 9

[28:05] central. I hope to see you later this

[28:07] evening for the news on MSNBC on cable.

[28:10] That's at 9:00 and again on CNBC each

[28:13] evening at 10. I'm Brian Williams

[28:15] reporting tonight from New York. Good

[28:17] night.

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