CBS Evening News - 2006-11-21 (no intro)

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[0:00] Where's the guys with the machine guns?

[0:01] Where's

[0:01] >> They are what counterinsurgency warfare

[0:04] is all about, training local forces to

[0:06] take over the fighting. And that is the

[0:09] linchpin of the American exit strategy.

[0:11] But in reports recording their

[0:13] experiences in Iraq, advisers like

[0:15] Colonel Nicholas De Maas said the

[0:17] training he received before leaving the

[0:19] US was a phenomenal waste of time,

[0:22] nearly irrelevant to the current

[0:24] situation in Iraq.

[0:26] Lieutenant Colonel Paul Zizinski said

[0:28] counterinsurgency was our most important

[0:30] mission in Iraq,

[0:31] but there was zero training provided on

[0:33] it. Because of complaints like that, the

[0:36] army opened a new school at Fort Riley,

[0:38] Kansas to train the trainers.

[0:40] So far, 500 have graduated with another

[0:42] 550 there now.

[0:45] A fraction of what's needed. The

[0:46] institutional army has not caught up

[0:49] with the challenges of

[0:50] counterinsurgency, said Lieutenant

[0:51] Colonel Paul Yingling after he returned

[0:54] from Iraq last March.

[0:56] Yingling took part in one of the

[0:57] highlights of the war, the retaking of

[1:00] the city of Tal Afar by 3,000 American

[1:03] and 8,000 Iraqi troops, a model for what

[1:06] commanders hoped would happen in other

[1:08] violent cities.

[1:09] >> And at the end,

[1:11] the Iraqi police will be the senior

[1:12] partner,

[1:14] and the Iraqi army will be the junior

[1:15] partner, and the US and the coalition

[1:18] forces will be out of here.

[1:20] >> Tal Afar proved the most important thing

[1:22] we do in counterinsurgency is building

[1:24] Iraqi security forces, Yingling said.

[1:27] Yet the army is designed around the

[1:29] least important line of operations,

[1:32] combat operations.

[1:34] And it's not just the army.

[1:36] Colonel Joseph De Salvo said when he

[1:38] asked State Department officers to teach

[1:40] Iraqis the basics of city management,

[1:42] they brought nothing to the fight. They

[1:45] were vastly inexperienced.

[1:48] >> Army officers say they can double the

[1:49] number of students going through the

[1:51] school at Fort Riley, but admit they'll

[1:53] still be playing catch-up. And

[1:54] commanders in Iraq are calling for even

[1:57] more trainers, Katie.

[1:58] >> David Martin at the Pentagon tonight.

[2:00] Meanwhile, a joint US Iraqi force, just

[2:03] the type the Pentagon is trying to

[2:04] build, raided a neighborhood in Baghdad

[2:07] today, capturing seven suspected

[2:09] militiamen. But the raid had some

[2:11] unintended victims. From Baghdad

[2:13] tonight, here's Elizabeth Palmer.

[2:16] It was dawn in the Shiite slum of Sadr

[2:19] City when calamity struck from the sky.

[2:22] An American airstrike had accidentally

[2:24] killed a baby boy in his family home.

[2:27] His father was injured, so was his

[2:29] mother, says the neighbor. Who will

[2:31] protect us?

[2:34] US and Iraqi forces smashed through

[2:36] houses here looking for criminals they

[2:38] believed kidnapped an American soldier

[2:41] last month.

[2:42] The dead child's uncle is a member of

[2:44] Iraq's parliament. Now he says there's

[2:47] no way he's going back to help govern

[2:49] this broken country.

[2:51] Coalition forces in Iraq are at full

[2:53] stretch, searching for citizens

[2:56] kidnapped from the education ministry

[2:57] last week, and for American truckers

[3:00] abducted from a convoy in the south.

[3:03] Ordinary Iraqis are in despair.

[3:06] So news of high-level overtures on the

[3:08] diplomatic front are being eagerly

[3:10] embraced. They're coming from Iraq's

[3:13] neighbors. Syria to the north has

[3:15] reinstated diplomatic relations and is

[3:18] vowing to help restore stability to

[3:21] Iraq.

[3:22] And Iran on the eastern border sent its

[3:24] oil minister to Baghdad today. Iran's

[3:27] president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has

[3:29] invited Iraq's president to Tehran for

[3:32] talks this weekend. Neither Iran nor

[3:35] Syria could be described as friends of

[3:37] either Iraq or of America, and both have

[3:40] selfish agendas. But with Western

[3:42] interests at stake in a region steeped

[3:45] in blood and misery and lurching toward

[3:47] chaos, they look less like part of the

[3:50] problem and may now have become part of

[3:52] the solution. Elizabeth Palmer, CBS

[3:55] News, Baghdad.

[3:57] >> The White House believes Syria and Iran

[3:59] are still causing trouble in Lebanon,

[4:01] where today assassins killed a

[4:03] government official. Mark Phillips

[4:05] begins tonight's news briefing.

[4:08] >> Another political assassination in

[4:10] Lebanon has the country once again

[4:12] teetering on the brink of chaos.

[4:15] Just 4 months after the Israeli-Lebanese

[4:17] conflict. This time the victim was one

[4:20] of Lebanon's leading Christian

[4:21] anti-Syrian cabinet ministers, Pierre

[4:24] Gemayel, the son of a former president.

[4:27] Gunmen rammed their car into his and

[4:29] then sprayed it with bullets. There's

[4:31] been widespread international

[4:33] condemnation of the attack, including

[4:35] from President Bush, and widespread fear

[4:37] of reprisal political killings, and even

[4:40] a slide into civil war.

[4:43] >> I'm Mark Strassmann. Sorrow deepens

[4:45] today in Huntsville, Alabama's school

[4:47] bus tragedy. A fourth student on board,

[4:50] 17-year-old Crystal McCrary, died today.

[4:53] The bus plunged 30 ft off a highway

[4:55] overpass yesterday. Still no official

[4:58] cause, but witnesses report a compact

[5:00] car driven by another teen from the same

[5:03] school bumped the bus before it crashed.

[5:06] Just last week, the National

[5:07] Transportation Safety Board put school

[5:10] buses on its list of most wanted safety

[5:12] improvements.

[5:14] >> I'm Sandra Hughes in Hollywood, where

[5:16] maverick director Robert Altman is being

[5:19] mourned.

[5:20] >> Brave men wanted me to quit.

[5:22] >> It was the dark 1970 anti-war comedy

[5:24] MASH that propelled Altman out of the

[5:26] pack. He made the movies he wanted,

[5:29] ensembles of characters colliding as

[5:31] their paths crossed. He'd write an

[5:33] outline, and then let his stars

[5:35] improvise.

[5:36] >> I make them do what they became actors

[5:39] to do in the first place, and that is

[5:40] create.

[5:41] >> Altman was nominated for Oscars five

[5:43] times, but only this year he won his

[5:45] first, a lifetime achievement award, at

[5:48] 81.

[5:51] >> It was only after getting that Oscar

[5:53] that Robert Altman revealed he had a

[5:54] heart transplant 10 years ago. He said

[5:57] he was afraid that if the studios knew,

[6:00] he would never work again. Now to the

[6:02] coming attractions for the economy. The

[6:05] White House predicted today that

[6:06] economic growth will slow next year to

[6:08] below 3% thanks to the slump in the

[6:11] housing market. And inflation will tick

[6:14] up a bit. Prices are expected to rise

[6:16] just over 2 and 1/2%. Right now big

[6:19] retailers are cutting prices just as the

[6:21] holiday shopping season begins. Sharon

[6:24] Alfonsi reports tonight on store wars.

[6:29] >> In the RETAIL PRICE WARS,

[6:32] THIS is the furry front line, the toy

[6:35] department.

[6:37] And it's here that stores are waging

[6:39] their fiercest battles. Analysts say

[6:41] whoever wins toy shoppers this season

[6:44] wins the year.

[6:45] >> It's the old days of the price war,

[6:47] Walmart versus Target, and everyone else

[6:50] gets caught in the crossfire. The last

[6:52] time this happened in the 1990s, five of

[6:54] the top 10 toy retailers either went

[6:57] into bankruptcy and or liquidation. It's

[6:59] great for consumers, it's bad for

[7:01] competitors.

[7:04] >> The holiday season typically accounts

[7:06] for nearly half of a retailer's annual

[7:08] revenue. $457

[7:10] billion are up for grabs. So what

[7:13] Walmart battle plans for this season

[7:16] were made months ago.

[7:17] >> A bow doll.

[7:18] >> We actually started preparing for this

[7:20] holiday season in the springtime.

[7:22] >> And at Target, they're firing back.

[7:25] >> How closely are you watching Walmart to

[7:27] see how

[7:28] >> watch Walmart and

[7:29] >> Dropping prices up to 40% just to get

[7:32] shoppers in the store.

[7:33] >> We make sure that our pricing is in line

[7:35] with theirs.

[7:35] >> Early demand has surprised some

[7:37] retailers. So discounts are easy to

[7:39] find, but other things are a bit

[7:41] tougher.

[7:42] >> Where would Elmo normally be?

[7:44] >> Elmo would be on the front end cap, and

[7:46] we're sold out right now.

[7:47] >> We went looking for Elmo Extreme. Turns

[7:50] out, he's extremely hard to find. Target

[7:53] sells them for 40 bucks, but was sold

[7:55] out. Walmart for a bit less, but no

[7:58] luck. Toys R Us said they were about $40

[8:01] and in stock. So, CBS producer Jack Reno

[8:05] went in for the elusive capture.

[8:08] >> This was the last one, and he only

[8:09] speaks Spanish.

[8:13] >> How do you say, "Make my kid stop

[8:15] crying" in Spanish? Sharon Alfonsi, CBS

[8:19] News, New York.

[8:22] >> A couple of other business notes

[8:23] tonight. Alcoa says it's cutting 6,700

[8:27] jobs worldwide, 5% of its workforce, to

[8:30] try to boost profits. And then, there's

[8:32] Google. Just over 2 years ago, it went

[8:35] public at $85 a share. Should have

[8:38] bought it. It closed today at more than

[8:40] $500.

[8:42] There is much more CBS News straight

[8:44] ahead, and when we come back, your back

[8:47] if you're one of the many people with an

[8:49] aching one. We have important news

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[10:25] Coreg reduces your heart's workload to

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[10:33] >> Coreg is not for everyone, including

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[10:55] >> Ask your doctor if Coreg is right for

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[11:34] >> Some surprising news tonight about an

[11:36] ailment that is almost as common as the

[11:38] common cold, back pain. If you haven't

[11:41] had it, chances are you will because

[11:43] four out of five of us experience back

[11:46] pain at one time or another and many

[11:48] consider surgery. But before you do, we

[11:51] have the findings of an important new

[11:52] study in tonight's I on Medicine.

[11:58] >> Noah Hayno has no trouble pulling his

[12:00] daughter in a sled now, but it would

[12:03] have been impossible a year ago. His

[12:06] back pain was excruciating.

[12:08] >> It got to the point where I was

[12:09] absolutely desperate. I mean, I'd go in

[12:11] the yard,

[12:12] spend 5 minutes in the yard uh raking

[12:14] leaves and and have to either sit down

[12:16] or lay down.

[12:18] >> Susan Filskov can still remember the

[12:20] pain she felt after hurting her back

[12:23] shoveling snow 5 years ago.

[12:25] >> It's just miserable. It's like a numbing

[12:27] pain that doesn't go away.

[12:29] >> Both Susan and Noah went to see a

[12:31] leading back surgeon, Dr. James

[12:33] Weinstein of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical

[12:35] Center. Both got the same diagnosis,

[12:39] herniated discs.

[12:40] What causes the disc to herniate in the

[12:42] first place?

[12:43] >> The disc is made up of of mostly water

[12:47] and it gets tears in it. If you get a

[12:50] tear in your tire of your car, you would

[12:52] get a bulge.

[12:53] >> That herniated disc or bulge can press

[12:56] on nerves in the spine causing pain.

[12:59] Some people can tolerate the pain with

[13:01] physical therapy, medications, and

[13:03] steroid injections.

[13:05] But others choose surgery to remove the

[13:07] bulge that causes the pain.

[13:10] In an effort to determine which approach

[13:12] is best, Dr. Weinstein launched a major

[13:15] study of over 1,200 patients with back

[13:18] pain. Do you think people are too quick

[13:21] to have back surgery?

[13:23] >> Sometimes I do, Katie, and I think that

[13:25] it'd be important for people to have

[13:27] good information.

[13:28] >> Whether you have surgery often depends

[13:31] on where you live and what doctor you

[13:32] see. Earlier studies show that a patient

[13:35] is 20 times more likely to have surgery

[13:38] in Idaho Falls, Missoula, and Mason City

[13:41] as compared to Newark, Bangor, and Terre

[13:44] Haute. What is that about?

[13:47] >> It's so interesting that that geography

[13:49] is destiny. And it's it's not rational.

[13:52] >> But no matter where you live, surgery is

[13:54] not necessarily the best or only option.

[13:57] In fact, Dr. Weinstein's findings

[13:59] released today in the Journal of the

[14:00] American Medical Association conclude

[14:03] that surgery is only slightly more

[14:05] effective in some cases than a

[14:08] non-surgical approach.

[14:09] >> We basically found that people who had

[14:11] very significant symptoms that surgery

[14:13] in fact was better.

[14:15] However, what is really interesting is

[14:16] the patient who decided not to have

[14:18] surgery who could wait also did really

[14:20] well.

[14:21] >> Critics claim Weinstein studies are

[14:23] flawed because some patients, like Susan

[14:26] Filskov, decided to have surgery even

[14:29] though she had been in the group that

[14:30] wasn't going to be operated on.

[14:33] The operation was a success and she's

[14:35] been pain-free for 4 years.

[14:38] As for Noah, he did just as well by

[14:41] exercising and taking a wait-and-see

[14:44] approach. Why is the study so

[14:46] controversial?

[14:47] >> I guess some of my colleagues were

[14:48] worried that I might find the wrong

[14:50] thing. I'm not sure.

[14:51] >> That you'd put some orthopedic surgeons

[14:53] out of business?

[14:54] >> That never was the intent. It was just

[14:56] to find the truth for our patients.

[14:59] >> But the bottom line, Dr. Weinstein says,

[15:01] is knowledge is power and a patient

[15:03] needs to be fully aware of his or her

[15:05] options in order to make the right

[15:07] decision.

[15:09] When we come back, grief counseling for

[15:11] the families of soldiers killed in

[15:12] action. The Army admits it hasn't been

[15:15] up to the job. We'll tell you who has.

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[16:23] >> Keeping control of a busy emergency

[16:24] room, Janet is a formidable woman, but

[16:27] she was no match for something smaller

[16:29] than the tip of a pen. It KO'd Janet so

[16:31] fast, she didn't know what hit her. It

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[16:39] what doctors call ACS, chances are

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[16:55] medicines alone by helping keep blood

[16:57] platelets from sticking together and

[16:58] forming clots.

[16:59] >> If you have a stomach ulcer or other

[17:01] condition that causes bleeding, you

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[17:55] >> Today's Army is far different from any

[17:57] the Pentagon has dealt with before. More

[18:00] than half of the soldiers sent to war

[18:02] are married. More than 40% have

[18:04] children. Those are higher percentages

[18:07] than ever before. And with more than

[18:09] 3200 killed in action, the Army today

[18:12] admitted it has to do a better job of

[18:14] caring for grieving families. But Kelly

[18:17] Kahlberg has found some military

[18:19] families taking matters of the heart

[18:22] into their own hands.

[18:25] >> Order, home.

[18:27] >> For Natalie Craver and her children, the

[18:28] hardest day wasn't when they buried

[18:31] Second Lieutenant Johnny Craver. It was

[18:33] the day they got the news.

[18:34] >> One of the first things that hit me when

[18:36] they told me he wasn't coming home, I

[18:38] realized that, you know, I wasn't just

[18:40] grieving for him, but I was grieving for

[18:42] my life.

[18:43] >> In an instant, Natalie lost her true

[18:45] love, the father of her children, and

[18:47] the military lifestyle she'd lived for

[18:49] 12 years.

[18:50] >> My son, Caylin,

[18:52] that night came to me and said,

[18:55] "You know, Mama, I'm going to make sure

[18:56] you never lose anything else again."

[18:59] You know,

[19:00] and he's not really dealing with it

[19:03] right now because he's afraid for me.

[19:05] >> Caylin is 8 years old. He and his two

[19:08] sisters join a growing list of more than

[19:10] 1200 children who've lost a parent in

[19:13] Iraq or Afghanistan. Once the memorials

[19:15] are over and the paperwork signed, many

[19:18] military families say they feel

[19:19] forgotten, left to deal with their grief

[19:22] and their children's on their own.

[19:25] A recent government audit of the

[19:26] military's casualty assistance program

[19:28] found inconsistent training and a lack

[19:31] of standards for casualty officers

[19:33] across all branches of the military.

[19:36] That's no surprise to Army wife and

[19:38] volunteer Debbie Bush.

[19:40] >> We looked at what their training was and

[19:42] it was a 3-hour course and a video

[19:44] to do the hardest duty they've ever ever

[19:46] going to have to do.

[19:47] >> She started pushing the Army for more

[19:49] training more than a year ago and

[19:50] convinced the commander at Fort Hood to

[19:52] give her a building for a grief

[19:54] counseling center.

[19:55] >> We want it to be a warm place for the

[19:56] children.

[19:58] We should be the first one standing up

[19:59] to take care of these families.

[20:01] >> Now the entire Army is overhauling its

[20:04] training, teaching casualty officers how

[20:06] to show more compassion and play bigger

[20:09] roles in the grief and bereavement

[20:10] process. Even the Department of Defense

[20:13] has a new 24-hour hotline and a website

[20:16] for families.

[20:18] Tomorrow would have been Natalie

[20:19] Craver's wedding anniversary.

[20:21] >> I wonder

[20:27] I wonder if he's some place with people

[20:31] he loves

[20:32] and

[20:33] I wonder if he can see me and if he's

[20:35] proud of me.

[20:37] >> She knows she'll need her military

[20:39] family to help lift her back on her

[20:41] feet.

[20:42] Kelly Cobiella, CBS News, Killeen,

[20:44] Texas.

[20:46] >> And coming up next, celebrating Ed

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[23:53] >> The Ebony Ecumenical Choir singing today

[23:55] at Riverside Church here in New York

[23:57] City, where friends of Ed Bradley

[23:59] gathered today to sing his praises and

[24:03] remember a life well lived.

[24:05] Here's Byron Pitts.

[24:10] >> It's rare when a memorial service can

[24:12] actually match the man. But, in the

[24:14] world of broadcast journalism, Ed

[24:16] Bradley was a king.

[24:18] And today he was treated like royalty.

[24:23] A whisper of gossip,

[24:27] a jolt of jazz,

[24:29] and teardrops of emotion.

[24:32] >> I've always felt

[24:34] that his greatest achievement

[24:37] was the artistry with which he lived his

[24:39] own life.

[24:41] If he had any regrets,

[24:44] I never heard them.

[24:45] >> Even humor.

[24:46] >> Everybody feels that Ed was so cool.

[24:52] We're both from the same hometown.

[24:56] I'm cool, too.

[25:04] >> Like the song, Ed Bradley was a

[25:06] complicated melody.

[25:08] For all the tributes to his career,

[25:10] Vietnam, the White House, his 500 60

[25:13] Minutes stories about the famous and the

[25:15] infamous, today was not about his

[25:17] career,

[25:18] but his character.

[25:23] The sixth-grade math teacher from

[25:25] Philadelphia who went on to educate a

[25:27] nation.

[25:28] >> On the street, he affectionately became

[25:30] that news dude. For his friends, our

[25:34] extended family, and me, that kind of

[25:37] exposure never changed the Ed we knew.

[25:41] Work,

[25:43] family,

[25:44] friends, music, and philanthropy were

[25:48] always at the core of his soul.

[25:51] Always.

[25:53] >> Tributes from those he touched,

[25:55] and those he covered.

[25:56] >> I knew I had arrived in national

[25:58] politics

[26:01] when Ed Bradley wanted to interview me.

[26:04] >> Ed Bradley loved music almost as much as

[26:06] he loved his friends, his family, and

[26:08] above all, his wife, Patricia.

[26:12] >> With open arms,

[26:13] she would rub his head,

[26:15] then she would kiss his head,

[26:17] and whisper the words I heard her say

[26:19] every day while he was in the hospital,

[26:22] "Anything for you."

[26:30] >> Edward R. Bradley covered the world for

[26:33] 30-plus years.

[26:38] Today, the world came to him and said

[26:41] goodbye.

[26:44] And a New Orleans brass band let his

[26:47] spirit home.

[26:49] Byron Pitts, CBS News, New York.

[26:54] >> I was privileged to attend Ed's

[26:56] extraordinarily moving memorial. He left

[26:59] everyone in this profession wanting to

[27:01] be better journalists and all of us

[27:04] wanting to be better people.

[27:06] That's the CBS Evening News. I'm Katie

[27:08] Couric. Good night.

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