NBC Nightly News - 1979-06-11
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[0:00] SMTV Nashville.
[0:02] >> This is NBC Nightly News
[0:05] with David Brinkley in Washington,
[0:08] John Chancellor in New York, and
[0:10] tonight's segment three, the first of a
[0:13] five-part series, Salt and the Arms
[0:15] Race.
[0:17] >> Good evening. The Federal Aviation
[0:19] Administration was accused today of
[0:21] risking the lives of thousands of
[0:22] passengers by allowing possibly
[0:25] defective DC10s to fly. The charge was
[0:28] based on the FAA decision to let the
[0:30] DCT10s fly for a few days after the
[0:32] crash in Chicago which killed 275
[0:35] people. The FAA and the person of
[0:37] Langghorn Bond the administrator denied
[0:39] the charge made it a hearing of a house
[0:41] subcommittee. Bob Kerr has the story
[0:43] from Washington.
[0:48] FAA administrator Langghorn Bond
[0:50] insisted that his agency acted
[0:52] responsibly and promptly after the
[0:54] recent Chicago crash, but subcommittee
[0:56] chairman John Burton charged that the
[0:58] FAA waited too long before grounding
[1:01] DC10s. Burton referring to FAA documents
[1:04] from 1975
[1:06] indicating possible structural problems
[1:09] in DC10 engine mounts.
[1:11] >> That accident was caused and Mr. Bond
[1:13] didn't revoke any certificates. The
[1:16] action made you look at at what you
[1:18] hadn't looked at before. You found
[1:20] things that you would have found if you
[1:22] looked at them before and you didn't. I
[1:25] must say that I didn't see the memo
[1:26] you're talking about and it's been
[1:27] >> I must say, Mr. Bond, if your staff
[1:30] doesn't show you things that exposes you
[1:33] to, you know, taking the heat for
[1:36] something, they ought to be gotten rid
[1:38] of. Bon showed pictures of how bent part
[1:41] of the engine assembly was on another
[1:43] DCT10 inspected after the recent crash.
[1:46] Also, how cracked it was. The
[1:49] subcommittee demanded to know why Bond
[1:51] kept other DC10s flying after similar
[1:53] problems turned up. There is a growing
[1:57] suspicion out there that nobody's
[1:58] protecting the public. FAA is tasked
[2:01] with protecting the public and we do so.
[2:04] >> Did you put unsafe airplanes back into
[2:06] the sky?
[2:07] All we can do when we when we search
[2:10] through a tragedy of this kind is act on
[2:12] the best information that we have in
[2:14] hand. It
[2:14] >> is it appears to be totally obvious the
[2:16] APA had adequate justification to sue
[2:19] you and in an effort to try to get a
[2:21] restraining order to make you take the
[2:22] action that you were supposed to be
[2:24] taking. The APA, Airline Passengers
[2:26] Association, joined the subcommittee in
[2:28] urging Bond to broaden the investigation
[2:30] to include more than engine assemblies,
[2:33] suggesting that a possible design
[2:34] problem there could mean there are
[2:36] others elsewhere. The Airline Passengers
[2:39] Association, which got the DCT10s
[2:41] grounded by going to court last week,
[2:44] also wants President Carter to
[2:45] investigate the FAA and fire Langghorn
[2:48] Bond. Bob Kerr, NBC News, Washington. A
[2:53] Forest Service DC3 crashed in rugged
[2:55] country north of Boise this afternoon. A
[2:58] dozen people aboard. No word on their
[3:00] condition. Rescue teams are on the way
[3:02] and a plane flying overhead spotted one
[3:04] survivor. David, from the annals of
[3:07] bureaucracy, one federal agency told
[3:10] Congress today it couldn't find out
[3:11] anything about the gasoline shortage
[3:13] because another federal agency has all
[3:15] the information and won't hand it over.
[3:18] And a third federal agency could but
[3:20] won't do anything about it. The Federal
[3:23] Trade Commission wanted to see if
[3:25] gasoline was being held back. But the
[3:28] Federal Energy Agency gets the figures
[3:30] and keeps them. And the Justice
[3:32] Department treated all this as if there
[3:34] were all the time in the world. Here's
[3:36] Andrea Mitchell.
[3:38] >> The views I expressed.
[3:39] >> The FTC officials said more crude oil
[3:42] arrived here this winter, but the
[3:43] refineries produced less gasoline. That
[3:46] made them suspicious. But they said they
[3:48] can't investigate because the Department
[3:50] of Energy won't share information and
[3:53] the Department of Justice won't give its
[3:54] permission. The subcommittee chairman
[3:57] questioned the FTC's Alfred Doherty. The
[3:59] country was was tearing itself apart. We
[4:01] were having rationing by aggravation and
[4:04] you were having a leisurely negotiation
[4:06] with the Justice Department.
[4:07] >> Well, I would hardly call it leisurely.
[4:09] We were
[4:10] >> Why didn't you tell them I can't think
[4:11] of a good word to use in public? Why
[4:13] didn't you tell them to just beat it? I
[4:15] believe that if Congress requests
[4:17] information from an executive branch
[4:20] agency and from the American Petroleum
[4:23] Institute and from the oil companies
[4:25] that a congressional committee or a
[4:27] number of congressional committees are
[4:28] more likely to get that information
[4:30] quickly than we are.
[4:32] >> Your negotiation that's been going on
[4:34] for 5 years now has been to say the
[4:37] least not fruitful. It's
[4:39] >> been not fruitful and and somewhat
[4:41] unsatisfying.
[4:42] >> It's been pitiful.
[4:43] >> That's correct.
[4:45] It's been a total major disaster.
[4:48] >> The congressman were told that the
[4:50] energy department cooperates less than
[4:52] any other agency. The department says it
[4:54] can't share information that belongs
[4:56] legally to the oil companies. Several
[4:58] congressional committees with more power
[5:00] than the FTC intend to change that.
[5:03] Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, the capital.
[5:06] Senator Jackson of Washington and 18
[5:08] others put in today a big fat bill
[5:11] offering several ideas for producing
[5:13] more energy and saving more. It would
[5:16] require that by 1981 all gasoline
[5:19] contains some degree of some percentage
[5:22] of alcohol. That government red tape be
[5:24] cut so people in the energy field can do
[5:27] something. And that greater emphasis be
[5:29] put on solar power, wind power, taking
[5:32] oil from shale and turning coal into
[5:35] liquid.
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[6:38] The Supreme Court heard an appeal from a
[6:40] woman who was nearly deaf but who could
[6:43] read lips who applied to enroll in a
[6:46] college school of nursing. They turned
[6:48] her down, saying a nurse who was hard of
[6:51] hearing could not be left alone with
[6:53] patients. The court upheld the school.
[6:56] It said the law against discriminating
[6:58] against the handicapped has been applied
[7:00] much too broadly. Here's our legal
[7:02] correspondent, Carl Stern, at the
[7:04] Supreme Court.
[7:07] >> The revolution in rights for the
[7:08] handicapped was severely set back by
[7:10] today's ruling. The court said a 1973
[7:14] law prohibiting discrimination against
[7:15] the handicapped should not have been
[7:17] transformed by the government into an
[7:19] affirmative action program requiring all
[7:22] sorts of special provisions for the
[7:24] handicapped. The case began in
[7:26] Whiteville, North Carolina, where the
[7:28] nursing school at Southeastern Community
[7:30] College refused to accept a woman who
[7:32] was partially deaf. Francis Davis does
[7:35] work as a practical nurse, but can hear
[7:37] only when someone gets her attention and
[7:39] faces her so she can read lips. The
[7:42] school said she couldn't be left alone
[7:44] with patients during training and might
[7:45] need too much individual instruction.
[7:48] Today, the Supreme Court ruled
[7:50] unanimously that the school did not have
[7:52] to admit Mrs. Davis. Justice Powell, who
[7:54] wrote the opinion, said the school's
[7:56] unwillingness to make major adjustments
[7:58] to accommodate the handicapped was not
[8:00] discrimination. And the court expressed
[8:02] doubt that Mrs. Davis could deal safely
[8:04] with patients.
[8:06] About one out of 11 Americans is
[8:08] handicapped. Government mandated
[8:10] provisions for the handicapped are seen
[8:12] everywhere since the 1973 law. Just last
[8:16] month, the government issued new
[8:17] regulations for special ramps and
[8:19] elevators at airports and subways.
[8:22] Now, officials acknowledge all those
[8:24] requirements are in question after
[8:26] today's ruling that recipients of
[8:27] federal aid don't have to make
[8:29] substantial changes to accommodate the
[8:31] handicapped. Carl Stern, NBC News,
[8:35] Washington.
[8:36] In Nicaragua, the battle for the city of
[8:39] Managua is in its third day. Government
[8:41] troops and Sandinista rebels have been
[8:43] fighting street to street, barricade to
[8:45] barricade. The gunfire kept about 60
[8:47] Americans from reaching the airport
[8:49] where a plane has been waiting to bring
[8:50] them out. We have a report from Ike
[8:52] Seammens inside Monagua.
[8:57] >> The streets of Managua are almost
[8:59] deserted. Some businesses originally
[9:02] closed in protests against the
[9:03] government, but they are now closed
[9:05] because gunfire erupts constantly in the
[9:08] city.
[9:10] Public transportation is scarce and
[9:12] what's available is quickly filled both
[9:14] inside and out. In the poorer sections
[9:17] of the capital, barricades block many
[9:19] streets in an attempt to stop government
[9:21] troops. Rifle, machine gun, and mortar
[9:24] fire is heard sporadically all over
[9:26] Managua. Most people carry white flags
[9:30] as they go about the city, and troops
[9:32] are moving all over, chasing elusive
[9:34] bands of gorillas. This is the first
[9:37] time the Sandenistas have brought the
[9:38] fighting to the capital. At a news
[9:41] conference today, Nicaraguan President
[9:43] Anastasio Samoza said, "This new
[9:45] strategy is supposed to isolate Managa
[9:47] from the rest of the country." Let me
[9:50] say that the sandistas
[9:53] are
[9:56] decided to shoot their last guns here.
[10:02] Uh but uh they're not becoming stronger.
[10:06] If they were becoming stronger, we would
[10:08] have public demonstrations here. If they
[10:12] had the support of the people, I
[10:15] wouldn't be here. Samosa says his troops
[10:18] will win, but it may take another two
[10:20] weeks before they end the latest
[10:22] uprising by the Sandinistas.
[10:25] Meanwhile, United States citizens here
[10:27] are trying to get out. At the embassy in
[10:30] Managua, wives and children of
[10:32] government employees and those who work
[10:33] for private business gathered. They want
[10:36] to leave now, but because of heavy
[10:38] fighting, roads to the airport have been
[10:40] cut off. There is talk that a military
[10:42] transport plane will come in to take
[10:44] these people back home. Ike Seamans, NBC
[10:48] News, Managua.
[10:50] Egypt and Israel open another round of
[10:52] meetings on how to deal with the
[10:53] Palestinians. And there was anger on
[10:56] both sides because a Cairo newspaper
[10:59] bitterly attacked Prime Minister Bean
[11:01] for placing more settlements in the West
[11:03] Bank and Bean responded angrily saying
[11:06] the settlements were not illegal and not
[11:08] an obstacle to peace. A report from
[11:11] Egypt and James Compton.
[11:14] The Israelis arrived mad. An influential
[11:17] Cairo paper had called their tactics
[11:19] snake poison and accused Prime Minister
[11:21] Bean of trying to deadlock the talks
[11:23] before they start. Most Egyptians
[11:25] believe only President Sedat could have
[11:27] ordered that editorial attack.
[11:29] >> Our negotiation.
[11:31] >> Israel's chief negotiator Yosef Borg
[11:33] minced no words saying he was very very
[11:36] angry. We should not talk neither about
[11:40] snakes nor about venom because this talk
[11:45] can be poisonous.
[11:47] >> Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil
[11:49] said that remark hurt him personally and
[11:52] moreover the newspaper editorial
[11:54] couldn't compare with what some Israeli
[11:56] officials were saying. Some of these
[11:59] statements have been mentioned in
[12:00] newspapers which we have no control over
[12:03] them. But it becomes more detrimental
[12:06] when it comes from official responsible
[12:09] ministers. The Americans are in the
[12:11] middle. Ambassador James Leonard said
[12:13] there was no choice but to start talking
[12:16] behind closed doors immediately. It
[12:18] seems certain the Americans would once
[12:20] again have to unravel the sharp
[12:22] differences between Egypt and Israel.
[12:25] The blunt exchange as these talks begin
[12:28] speaks a hard reality. It must be
[12:30] decided how much control Arabs in
[12:33] Israeli occupied lands are going to have
[12:35] over their own lives. The tough part
[12:37] lies ahead. James Compton, NBC News,
[12:41] Alexandria, Egypt.
[12:43] The new Israeli settlement called Elan
[12:46] Mor in the occupied West Bank district
[12:48] is causing much of this trouble. The
[12:50] United States says such settlements are
[12:52] illegal. Prime Minister Bean issued a
[12:54] very sharply worded statement today
[12:56] defending himself. Some Israelis are
[12:58] against the new settlement and the Arabs
[13:00] whose land was forcibly requisitioned
[13:02] have hired an Israeli lawyer to get the
[13:04] project stopped by a judge. Lee McCarthy
[13:06] has more on that story.
[13:11] >> Despite the dispute, work continues at
[13:13] Alone Morray. Temporary housing is being
[13:15] moved in. Families plan to build
[13:18] permanent homes. Zev Safer, once a New
[13:21] Yorker, has brought his wife and two
[13:22] children. Safer belongs to Guushe Munin,
[13:25] the Orthodox Jewish group which believes
[13:27] the Bible gives Jews the right to settle
[13:29] on the West Bank. Safer is confident
[13:31] that political pressure both outside and
[13:34] inside of Israel will not stop the
[13:36] development.
[13:37] >> This will be a major city right next to
[13:40] the air of Nablus.
[13:42] And we hope to have in our first stage
[13:44] in the next coming months a thousand
[13:46] people living here.
[13:50] But the Arabs who live in the village of
[13:51] Rajie have a different idea. Some people
[13:54] in the village have received letters
[13:56] from the Israeli government telling them
[13:57] that their land has been taken for the
[13:59] new settlement.
[14:04] >> Yseph Sleman says he supported 50 family
[14:06] members with the land he has lost.
[14:12] Mustafa says he supported his wife and
[14:14] eight children with his land that was
[14:16] taken. Mustafa also says the people who
[14:19] have lost land have hired an Israeli
[14:21] lawyer will challenge the settlement in
[14:23] court and hope that Israel has a sense
[14:25] of justice. All of the land owners in
[14:28] Rujie say the land was there for their
[14:30] children and they don't know how they'll
[14:32] care for them if they don't get it back.
[14:35] The letters telling these people their
[14:37] land has been taken order them to go to
[14:39] the Israeli government for compensation.
[14:41] But they say they don't want to sell or
[14:43] rent the land. They want to keep it, to
[14:46] work it, and live on it in peace. Lee
[14:49] McCarthy, NBC News. On the Israeli
[14:52] occupied West Bank
[14:54] in the Washington Zoo, the prize animals
[14:56] are a pair of pandas, a gift from China.
[14:59] The zoo keeps hoping they will produce
[15:01] offspring since they are extremely rare.
[15:04] Another spring mating season has come
[15:06] and gone. There was a certain amount of
[15:09] amorous behavior between them with no
[15:11] result. The zoo experts think they just
[15:13] don't know how. So they say today
[15:16] they'll give them one more chance next
[15:18] spring. And if that that doesn't work,
[15:20] the zoo will resort to artificial
[15:22] insemination.
[15:30] Nobody can do it like McDonald's.
[15:34] Nobody. Nobody else in this whole land.
[15:38] Nobody can do it like
[15:43] always. Nobody can do it.
[15:56] Heat.
[16:01] Heat.
[16:33] Who offers more kinds of tires than
[16:35] Goodyear?
[16:36] >> Nobody.
[16:37] >> Who sells more tires than Goodyear?
[16:39] Nobody. Who has more values than
[16:42] Goodyear? Nobody. Especially now. While
[16:44] Goody Year is offering super summer
[16:46] savings on the custom poly steel radio.
[16:49] We put over 20 million of these gas
[16:50] savers on the road in just 4 years. Now
[16:52] we're putting them on sale till June
[16:54] 16th. Now that's value. Okay. Who
[16:57] satisfies more than Goodyear?
[16:59] >> Nobody.
[17:00] >> Nobody offers more than Goodyear.
[17:03] >> State Farm agent Ray Bernard.
[17:05] >> As I say, the only thing we sell is
[17:06] service.
[17:08] The least thing I can give is to be nice
[17:11] along with that service. And when it
[17:13] gets to where I can't be just as nice to
[17:15] someone when they come in with a problem
[17:17] or with a claim as when they as as when
[17:20] they come in to buy insurance, then I
[17:22] better get out of the business or take a
[17:23] few days off.
[17:28] >> State Farm is there.
[17:32] >> Tonight we begin a series of segment
[17:34] three reports on salt 2. SALT stands for
[17:37] strategic arms limitation talks. Two
[17:41] designates the second SALT treaty with
[17:42] the Soviet Union which President Carter
[17:44] is scheduled to sign a week from today.
[17:47] During this week, we'll be looking at
[17:48] various aspects of our nuclear
[17:50] relationship with the Russians. It is
[17:52] very important the survival of the
[17:54] United States is at the heart of Salt.
[17:56] Our first report is by John Hart.
[17:59] On a normal day in St. Louis breezes
[18:02] play and 5-year-old Jodie Holmes is
[18:04] outside at her grandmother's house. On a
[18:07] normal day, the traffic hour goes slowly
[18:10] in St. Louis. And on a normal day in St.
[18:13] Louis's largest hospital, almost all the
[18:16] 1,000 beds are full. In a nuclear
[18:19] attack, those three things, the wind
[18:22] which would carry fallout, the traffic
[18:24] which would jam escape roads, and the
[18:27] limits to medical help would make Jod's
[18:29] survival doubtful. Even in a limited
[18:33] attack, which would spare the cities and
[18:35] aim only at military targets, the
[18:38] nearest military target to St. Louis is
[18:40] over the horizon, a missile field 200 m
[18:43] west at Whiteitman Air Force Base. A
[18:46] recent Defense Department study using
[18:48] representative March winds estimates
[18:50] heavy fallout arriving in St. Louis 4 to
[18:53] 6 hours after an attack 200 m away. Not
[18:57] the ground winds, the ones 12 mi up
[19:00] where the nuclear cloud is formed. They
[19:02] would bring as much as 10,000 rentans of
[19:05] gamma radiation to St. Louis. 1,000 when
[19:09] absorbed brings death. If Jod hid in
[19:13] grandma's house, it would be wildly
[19:14] optimistic to expect the roof to reduce
[19:16] the radiation to even 1,000 rentans. And
[19:20] within two days to two weeks, the blood
[19:23] in Jod's body would begin to leak away
[19:26] or infection would take her. The study
[19:29] estimates that almost half the people in
[19:32] Missouri would die from an attack on one
[19:34] missile field, even if they were given
[19:36] 24 hours notice. And this in a limited
[19:39] nuclear war. How likely is nuclear war?
[19:43] >> Who knows? I think it's quite likely.
[19:45] >> Dr. Philip Morrison, who helped assemble
[19:47] the Nagasaki bomb?
[19:49] >> I have to admit, I think I think we're
[19:50] luckier than I expected. I didn't think
[19:52] it would go 30 years.
[19:53] >> We sort of go along thinking that there
[19:55] is not going to be a nuclear war because
[19:57] there hasn't been a nuclear war.
[19:59] >> Dr. Daniel Jurgen, diplomatic historian.
[20:02] >> The ugly fact is that we cannot have
[20:05] absolute security. you your children
[20:08] cannot have absolute security in the
[20:10] nuclear age.
[20:11] >> So the question is does the nuclear arms
[20:13] treaty is now negotiated make nuclear
[20:16] war more likely or less likely?
[20:18] >> Having salt reduces the chances of war.
[20:22] >> Speaking for the White House security
[20:24] adviser Zabignf Bjinski.
[20:26] >> It gives us more stability in the
[20:29] strategic relationship.
[20:31] It gives us greater symmetry in the
[20:36] strategic relationship
[20:38] and it enhances predictability
[20:42] of the strategic relationship.
[20:44] Stability, symmetry, predictability
[20:48] together clearly they make for a better
[20:51] situation,
[20:53] more enduring situation than if we don't
[20:56] have these three things.
[20:57] >> But there is strong disagreement.
[20:59] Critics saying that salt allows too many
[21:01] weapons, limits the wrong weapons, and
[21:04] will end up with Russia number one in
[21:06] the arms race. Former Salt negotiator
[21:08] Paul Nitsie,
[21:09] >> they limit launchers. They don't limit
[21:11] the number of missiles or the number of
[21:13] warheads or the size and power and
[21:16] accuracy of those. There's an attempt to
[21:18] get at those things indirectly, but it's
[21:20] a very ineffective attempt. And it is
[21:23] for that reason that the end position as
[21:26] a result of the treaty will be so
[21:28] one-sided.
[21:30] >> All of the arguments are rooted in the
[21:32] one question. Will the treaty make
[21:33] nuclear war less likely or more likely?
[21:37] In our next four reports, NBC News will
[21:39] examine what is in the treaty, how it
[21:41] will be enforced, new weapons it allows,
[21:45] and the politics of ratifying it. John
[21:48] Hart, NBC News, Washington.
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[22:27] recommended daily allowance of these
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[22:31] Carol, what cereal did you have for
[22:33] breakfast?
[22:33] >> Um, I had corn flakes.
[22:35] >> How do you think 1 oz of corn flakes
[22:37] will compare with total?
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[22:40] >> Let's compare.
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[23:16] >> I never heard it. Even if you've got a
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[23:21] >> Friendly skies, I'm coming home.
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[23:26] >> You really did miss me.
[23:30] >> Briefly today in Alaska, at a time when
[23:32] oil is short, the pipeline sprang a leak
[23:35] and had to be shut down. That cuts the
[23:38] US oil supply by 1,200,000
[23:41] barrels a day. Workmen are out in 75 mph
[23:45] winds at the Arctic Circle in sleet and
[23:47] snow looking for the leak. In Boston,
[23:50] the Boston Globe said Senator Kennedy
[23:53] told them he probably would run for
[23:55] president in 1980 if President Carter
[23:58] withdrew. In Brussels, the results of
[24:01] the Common Market Country's election of
[24:03] a European Parliament showed the voters
[24:06] chose candidates mainly from the center
[24:08] and the right. In London, the price of
[24:11] gold rose to a new record, $282
[24:15] an ounce. John, Americans have been
[24:18] fighting air and water water pollution
[24:21] for many years out of their concern for
[24:22] the environment and because they worry
[24:24] that pollutants may shorten their lives.
[24:27] But for some people, the threat from
[24:28] pollution is immediate and can be quite
[24:30] dangerous. Those are the victims of
[24:32] allergies. Rick Davis has a report on
[24:34] one, a man who was allergic to almost
[24:36] everything around him.
[24:40] This is one of many injections Scott
[24:42] Jablin must give himself each day to
[24:44] stop throat choking spasms,
[24:46] hallucinations, seizures. For much of
[24:49] each day, he exists on oxygen. He cannot
[24:51] breathe the air of Oakland or drink the
[24:53] water. He is allergic to plastics,
[24:55] pesticides, chemicals, food additives.
[24:57] When he eats, he becomes ill. He can't
[25:00] enter his small apartment. For weeks,
[25:02] he's been sleeping on a cot outside. His
[25:04] first major attack came 3 months ago.
[25:07] Doctors say he is a victim of the 20th
[25:09] century.
[25:11] >> If we don't stop polluting our
[25:14] atmosphere, our water supplies,
[25:17] uh, our streets,
[25:20] and we are going to see that I am not
[25:23] going to be that unusual in 10 years.
[25:27] >> Your friends talk to me about your sense
[25:29] of humor. How can you have a sense of
[25:31] humor in the kind of shape you're in
[25:32] right now? If you lose your sense of
[25:34] humor with what has been happening to
[25:36] me,
[25:38] you may as well be dead. It's the only
[25:40] thing that you've got left.
[25:43] >> One of Jablin's doctors says he is an
[25:45] extreme case, but he is not alone.
[25:48] >> Uh I don't know if it could happen to
[25:50] all of us. I'm sure some people have
[25:51] resistance. It's just that it seems to
[25:53] me that I'm seeing more and more people
[25:54] coming in at younger and younger ages
[25:57] with uh diseases that are induced by
[25:59] chemicals. And we prove it. We take them
[26:01] away. They get better. We bring them
[26:03] back, they get worse.
[26:05] >> Jablin has now said goodbye to Oakland
[26:07] and old friends, searching for a place
[26:08] his body can tolerate. He was much
[26:11] better living in a porcelain trailer at
[26:12] a Dallas allergy clinic. But he can't
[26:14] afford that again and can't afford to
[26:16] buy the trailer. So he came here to the
[26:19] highlands under Mount Shasta at the
[26:21] northern edge of California trying to
[26:23] escape some of the pollution. He still
[26:26] lives outside. His body cannot tolerate
[26:28] the plastics and other synthetics inside
[26:31] the house.
[26:33] Scott, if this doesn't work, what next?
[26:37] >> Uh, well, I'll try the coastal areas. If
[26:41] that doesn't work, I'll try the desert.
[26:44] If that doesn't work, I don't know.
[26:47] >> Rick Davis, NBC News, Mount Shasta,
[26:50] California.
[26:52] >> And from New York, good night.
[26:55] >> From Washington, thank you. And good
[26:57] night for all of us at NBC News.
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[28:05] >> Tomorrow morning on the Today Show, a
[28:07] debate on cancer insurance. A boon or a
[28:10] ripoff
[28:25] >> on Little House on the Prairie.
[28:27] >> Mary's getting married.
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[28:30] spoil her future happiness. Then Rock
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