World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-16

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-16
Uploaded: 2025-12-27
Duration: 1726 s
Channel: malgent
Description: Read a transcript preview of “World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-16” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-12-27.

Channel: malgent

Uploaded: 2025-12-27

Duration: PT1726S

Read a transcript preview of “World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-16” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-12-27.

Transcript preview

Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Oregon's ultimate high school football

[0:02] show is channel 2 sports extra.

[0:10] On World News tonight the Tuesday the

[0:12] [music] bodyguard who survived the crash

[0:14] that killed the Princess of Wales. He

[0:16] says he does not remember.

[0:18] A new report on the nation's roads. We

[0:20] spend four times as much money fixing

[0:23] cars damaged by potholes as we do fixing

[0:27] potholes. [music]

[0:30] And in our series about managed health

[0:32] care, what about the HMO that will not

[0:34] cover the cost of an emergency room

[0:37] visit even if you are convinced it's an

[0:39] emergency.

[0:45] From ABC, [music]

[0:46] this is World News tonight with Peter

[0:49] Jennings. Good evening. We're going to

[0:50] begin in Paris tonight where there is an

[0:52] important development in the condition

[0:53] of the bodyguard who survived the crash

[0:55] with the Princess of Wales. Trevor

[0:57] Rees-Jones is now conscious and able to

[0:59] talk.

[1:00] And everyone, especially investigators,

[1:02] has been anxious to know whether he

[1:03] remembers anything about the fateful

[1:05] accident.

[1:06] As ABC's Richard Gizbert reports from

[1:08] Paris tonight, the answer tonight is he

[1:11] does not.

[1:14] The hospital spokesman would only say

[1:16] that bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones'

[1:18] condition has markedly improved, that he

[1:20] is conscious, able to communicate, but

[1:22] tires easily.

[1:24] But a source at the same hospital has

[1:25] told ABC News that Rees-Jones says he

[1:28] remembers nothing of the accident or the

[1:30] events preceding it. That the last thing

[1:32] he does remember is leaving the Ritz

[1:34] Hotel a few minutes before the crash.

[1:37] Police are expected to interview

[1:38] Rees-Jones within days, but it remains

[1:41] to be