CBS Evening News (Western) - 1994-10-31
Channel: malgent
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Language: English (original, Whisper AI)
[0:01] With Dan Rather and Connie Chung.
[0:05] Good evening. The commuter flight American Eagle 4184 from Indianapolis to Chicago crashed this evening in stormy weather in Newton County, Indiana.
[0:14] The plane was filled to capacity. Almost 70 passengers and crew, no known survivors.
[0:21] CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason has late details.
[0:25] The blinking lights of emergency crews lit the darkness around the crash site, a cornfield in Newton County in northwestern Indiana.
[0:34] American Eagle commuter flight 4184 had been filled to capacity, carrying 64 passengers and four crew from Indianapolis to Chicago,
[0:44] when it disappeared off the radar screen about 23 miles south of Chicago.
[0:49] Major John Hill of the Indiana State Police reported,
[0:52] Our preliminary indication is that we do not see survivors at the scene.
[0:57] Local officials said a torrential downpour was making any search all but impossible.
[1:03] Right now the weather is so bad, the rain and the wind, and from what I understand a wreckage is three quarters of a mile into a field,
[1:11] and they're going to wait until the conditions get better before they go ahead and examine all the wreckage,
[1:18] and they're waiting also, from what I understand, for the FAA.
[1:22] Flight 4184 had been in a holding pattern, waiting to land at O'Hare when it went down.
[1:28] Tonight, a spokesman for American Eagle would not speculate on what could have caused the crash.
[1:33] Anthony Mason, CBS News, New York.
[1:36] The final full week of Campaign 94 is overshadowed tonight by a frightening gun attack at the White House over the weekend.
[1:43] The gunman sprayed the White House with an assault weapon Saturday.
[1:47] Today, he was ordered to undergo psychiatric testing.
[1:50] President Clinton campaigned in Pennsylvania today amid new concern for his security on the road and inside the White House.
[1:57] Correspondent Jim Stewart begins our coverage.
[2:00] Francisco Duran, the ex-convict accused of shooting up the White House, made his first court appearance today,
[2:06] and promptly heard U.S. attorneys tack on two more charges to the list against him.
[2:11] In addition to illegally possessing a firearm and destroying government property,
[2:15] the 26-year-old Colorado Springs man now faces new charges of assaulting a federal officer and the unlawful use of a firearm.
[2:22] The total time he could spend in jail, 35 years.
[2:27] Mr. Duran appeared totally befuddled by his brief court appearance.
[2:30] The only words he spoke were his name.
[2:32] His only actions were to silently re-read a rambling four-page letter he'd earlier written,
[2:37] which has been described as part suicide note and part will.
[2:41] Duran was ordered held without bond and must undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
[2:45] We thought that it was our duty, based on what we saw in that letter and also based on the nature of the offense,
[2:51] to at least have that preliminary screening done.
[2:54] It is not an indication, however, that we believe he is incompetent.
[2:57] Prosecutors who say Duran left two letters behind suggested they don't think he was trying to kill the president
[3:03] or that he had any accomplices.
[3:05] Based on the evidence as we now know it, we feel pretty confident that this is the only person who was involved in the incident.
[3:11] From the moment tourists subdued him in front of the White House, Duran hasn't given a clue as to why he opened fire.
[3:17] Ken Davis, a prison guard trainee from Hagerstown, Maryland, was one of the first to tackle him.
[3:21] He never said a word.
[3:22] Even after he was down on the ground, I didn't even hear him grunt when he hit the ground or anything.
[3:26] He just was laying there.
[3:28] A search warrant issued on Duran's car, meanwhile, turned up a Mossberg model shotgun,
[3:33] assorted ammunition, and 23 used gun targets.
[3:36] One agent who studied the target said Mr. Duran appeared to be an average shot at best.
[3:42] Jim Stewart, CBS News, Washington.
[3:45] Just who is Francisco Duran and just what was on his mind when he came to the White House?
[3:51] As CBS News correspondent Bob McNamara reports, even Duran's family would like some answers.
[3:58] Francisco Duran's mother, Celia, was in shock today.
[4:00] I thank God that nothing else happened to him, like got shot and killed or something.
[4:07] He could be worse.
[4:09] It was gun dealer Jim Ware who sold Duran the rifle apparently used to fire on the White House.
[4:15] Can I alter your business because of some idiot who does not act?
[4:21] It's not our fault.
[4:22] Ware said Duran falsified a firearms purchase form by saying he was not a convicted felon.
[4:28] There was nothing illegal at all about the sale or obtaining the gun except for the fact that Mr. Duran apparently lied on the 4473 form.
[4:39] A week later, this nearby Walmart sold Duran a shotgun when he apparently lied about his criminal record again.
[4:46] In 1991, Duran was convicted of aggravated assault while serving with the U.S. Army.
[4:51] He did time in a Kansas military prison before being given a dishonorable discharge.
[4:57] It was a year ago Duran rented this house in suburban Colorado Springs with his wife and son, but neighbors never knew him.
[5:04] It can happen.
[5:05] You can be your next-door neighbor.
[5:06] At the Broadmoor Hotel, Duran worked as a furniture upholsterer until one day a month ago when he left work and at home told his wife he was going out for target shooting supplies, but never returned.
[5:18] Sometime in the last month, Duran reportedly phoned his wife saying he was never coming back.
[5:24] But what his mission was is one of the biggest mysteries yet to be solved.
[5:28] Bob McNamara, CBS News, Colorado Springs.
[5:31] For his part, President Clinton stuck to his schedule of campaign appearances today out of town, the first of many he's planning in the run-up to election day.
[5:40] Back at the White House, a lot of unscheduled huddles about what's wrong and how to beef up White House security.
[5:46] More from our White House correspondent, Rita Braver.
[5:50] Safety worries did not keep President Clinton from working a campaign crowd in Pennsylvania, where he was stumping for Democratic candidates.
[5:58] But at the White House, security was the major concern of the day, as crime scene technicians studied the trajectory of the bullets that hit the White House press room and removed a bullet lodged in the wall.
[6:09] Privately concerned about the delay by Secret Service guards in reaching the attacker, some senior White House officials have begun to question the hodgepodge chain of responsibility for White House security.
[6:22] Inside the White House, plainclothes Secret Service agents are charged with guarding the president and his family.
[6:27] But the uniformed Secret Service has responsibility for protecting the compound, up to the fence.
[6:33] The sidewalk is the jurisdiction of the park police.
[6:36] The street is patrolled by D.C. police, and the park police take over again in Lafayette Park.
[6:42] There are no police from any jurisdiction permanently stationed here along the fence in front of the White House.
[6:48] And some senior officials say it may be time to change that, or even to erect plexiglass screens right in front of the mansion.
[6:56] Closing off Pennsylvania Avenue is under consideration, too, but the administration is reluctant to do that.
[7:02] You have to achieve a balance insofar as making it accessible as you can to the American people, and in turn, giving the protection that's necessary for this nation's leaders and their family.
[7:14] A full White House security review was already underway in the wake of last month's plane crash on the back lawn.
[7:20] But for his part today, the president seemed most interested in selling a new thing, claiming a Republican-controlled Congress will cut Social Security and Medicare.
[7:29] That's $3,600 a year out of the most vulnerable people in this country, people who have worked hard all their lives, people who have paid their taxes, people who have paid their dues.
[7:40] Republicans charged that the president is just pulling a Halloween trick, trying to spook Americans into believing that they'll be better off under Democrats.
[7:49] Rita Braver, CBS News at the White House.
[7:52] And coming up next on the CBS Evening News, the latest on the search for those two South Carolina children missing now for nearly a week.
[7:59] And later, Eye on America.
[8:02] Tonight, a public school that may have a private agenda.
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[9:14] Nearly a week now
[9:15] And nothing but frustration
[9:16] In the search for a South Carolina carjacker
[9:19] Who reportedly drove off with two little brothers
[9:22] Strapped in the back seat
[9:23] And this Halloween night
[9:25] Jittery parents
[9:25] Are keeping a close eye
[9:27] On their children
[9:28] Correspondent Randall Pinkston
[9:29] Is covering the story
[9:30] Happy birthday
[9:32] Soon
[9:34] Six days after they were reported kidnapped
[9:37] Police are no closer
[9:38] To finding little Michael and Alex Smith
[9:40] And with no new leads
[9:42] The search has some
[9:43] Questioning the children's mother
[9:45] Susan Smith
[9:46] And the credibility
[9:47] Of her story
[9:48] You can't
[9:51] Presume that this lady
[9:52] Is guilty
[9:53] Because you haven't found
[9:55] The children yet
[9:56] Shirley MacLeod
[9:57] Has come forward
[9:57] To defend Susan Smith
[9:59] MacLeod was in her home
[10:01] When a woman came to her door
[10:02] Saying a gunman
[10:04] Forced her out of her car
[10:05] And sped away
[10:06] With her children
[10:07] Her state of mind
[10:08] At the time
[10:08] That all this was happening
[10:10] Shock
[10:11] Disbelief
[10:13] Hysterical
[10:15] It was as if
[10:16] She was going to faint
[10:17] With all the trails
[10:19] At a dead end
[10:19] Authorities continue to hope
[10:21] That the children
[10:22] And the car
[10:23] Are in this area
[10:24] We have a lot of forest
[10:25] There are many leaves
[10:26] On the trees
[10:28] There's possibilities
[10:29] The car could be here
[10:30] And could not be seen
[10:31] From an aerial flyover
[10:33] Tonight the goblins
[10:35] Ghosts and pirates
[10:36] Of this small community
[10:37] Are out
[10:37] But with no sign
[10:39] Of two kidnapped children
[10:40] This Halloween
[10:41] Anxiety and fear
[10:43] Are more than make believe
[10:44] She came home
[10:45] And told me
[10:46] That the kid got taken
[10:47] But I was just telling
[10:49] That's why I like to keep
[10:50] Her by me
[10:51] Whenever we're out
[10:51] Someplace
[10:52] We're more conscious
[10:53] Now of locking our door
[10:54] When we get in the car
[10:55] And especially
[10:56] With the children
[10:57] So far authorities
[10:59] Have not posted a reward
[11:00] To avoid generating
[11:01] Bogus tips
[11:02] But in the desperate search
[11:04] To find little
[11:05] Michael and Alex
[11:06] They may take the risk
[11:07] Of more bad leads
[11:08] To find the one good one
[11:10] Randall Pinkston
[11:11] CBS News
[11:12] Union, South Carolina
[11:13] Coming up next
[11:15] Warning
[11:15] This week's television schedule
[11:17] Is filled with graphic images
[11:18] And rough language
[11:20] He wants to be
[11:22] The second Bill Clinton
[11:23] He looks like Clinton
[11:24] Talks like Clinton
[11:25] And those are just
[11:27] The political commercials
[11:38] Some days
[11:39] It would help
[11:39] If there were more
[11:40] Than one of you
[11:41] It could also help
[11:42] If you're cooking
[11:43] On a Whirlpool range
[11:44] This Whirlpool
[11:45] Has easy to use
[11:46] Controls
[11:47] That program
[11:47] Simply
[11:48] And a self-cleaning oven
[11:49] In case you need it
[11:51] Someplace else
[11:51] And because you can't
[11:53] Always watch the sauce pot
[11:55] The Whirlpool clean top system
[11:57] Let's you wipe up spills fast
[11:59] Sure
[11:59] One of you can do it
[12:01] Because together
[12:02] You and Whirlpool
[12:03] Know how to make a home run
[12:06] What they do is simple
[12:08] So simple
[12:09] It would be easy
[12:10] To miss it altogether
[12:11] But they're making a difference
[12:13] You see
[12:14] Drunk driving fatalities
[12:15] Are down 32%
[12:16] In the last 10 years
[12:18] And fatalities
[12:19] From teen drunk driving
[12:20] Are down 60%
[12:22] So to everyone
[12:23] Who checks an ID
[12:23] Offers to call a cab
[12:25] Or helps a customer
[12:27] Know when to say when
[12:28] We extend our thanks
[12:29] By doing what's right
[12:31] You are making things better
[12:33] A message from Budweiser
[12:36] What a time for a cold
[12:37] Our oldest was in the playoffs
[12:39] My nose was soft
[12:40] My chest was congested
[12:42] I was coughing
[12:43] No way he wasn't going
[12:44] So I went to the store
[12:46] There were a million brands
[12:47] Of cold medicine
[12:48] But only one Robitussin
[12:50] Robitussin liquid gels
[12:51] Cold formulas
[12:52] The pharmacist said
[12:53] They're really powerful
[12:54] Even for bad cold
[12:55] They were
[12:56] I felt so much better
[12:57] Because of Robitussin
[12:58] I got to watch Terry
[12:59] The play of the game
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[13:03] Discover Robitussin relief
[13:04] For your cold
[13:05] How did he get Washington
[13:07] To fork over more than
[13:08] 100,000 of your tax dollars
[13:10] To fight crime
[13:12] In a town that doesn't
[13:13] Even have a cop
[13:14] I thought it was a prank
[13:15] When I first heard it
[13:17] It's no prank
[13:18] What's going on here
[13:19] Eye on America
[13:20] Tomorrow on the CBS
[13:21] Evening News
[13:22] With Dan Rather
[13:23] And Connie Chubb
[13:26] The campaign charges
[13:28] Are flying fast and furious
[13:29] Tonight
[13:29] In the final week
[13:30] Before election day
[13:31] Republicans are already
[13:33] Airing their latest
[13:34] Negative ad campaign
[13:35] So called attack ads
[13:37] Democrats today
[13:38] Unveiled an ad campaign
[13:39] Accusing Republicans
[13:40] Of plotting
[13:41] Social security cuts
[13:42] All told
[13:43] Campaign 94
[13:44] Has some of the
[13:46] Highest costs
[13:46] Highest tech
[13:47] And deepest
[13:48] Down in the gutter
[13:49] Political attack ads yet
[13:50] Correspondent Linda Douglas
[13:52] Has more about
[13:53] The power of negative thinking
[13:55] Your sentence
[13:57] For plotting to kill his wife
[13:58] It's the most negative
[13:59] Political ad season ever
[14:01] Jan Stoney's commercial
[14:02] Is simply a lie
[14:03] Candidates are routinely
[14:05] Calling their opponents
[14:06] Liars
[14:07] After 36 years in office
[14:09] He'll now even
[14:10] Lie to win
[14:11] Republicans just released
[14:12] This one
[14:13] Clinton Democrats
[14:14] Now they're lying
[14:15] About Republicans
[14:16] Sometimes the ad
[14:17] Doesn't call the candidate
[14:18] A liar
[14:19] But you get the picture
[14:20] And lying isn't
[14:21] The only charge
[14:22] Congressional candidate
[14:23] Bob Barr
[14:24] A criminal lawyer
[14:25] Is accused of defending
[14:26] A lot of scumbags
[14:28] There are ads
[14:29] Which seem to compare
[14:30] Candidates to
[14:30] Unpleasant animals
[14:31] Lewis even sent a mailing
[14:33] To ham radio operators
[14:36] What do you call
[14:37] Someone who won't debate
[14:38] That's right
[14:39] A weasel
[14:40] Using this year's
[14:41] Latest technique
[14:42] Republicans turn opponents
[14:44] Into President Clinton
[14:45] Or into another politician
[14:47] Or into several
[14:49] Other politicians
[14:50] Their peas in a pod
[14:51] In a year when voters
[14:53] Are disgusted with politicians
[14:54] Why reinforce their anger
[14:56] With negative commercials
[14:57] Because even though voters
[14:59] Say they hate those ads
[15:00] Political analysts say
[15:01] They work
[15:02] They tap our cynicism
[15:04] And skepticism
[15:05] And they show us
[15:06] What we don't like
[15:07] About a candidate
[15:09] And frequently
[15:10] That's how they make decisions
[15:11] Not by the candidate
[15:12] They like
[15:12] But the candidate
[15:13] They dislike
[15:14] Florida Governor
[15:15] Lawton Childs
[15:16] Always shun negative campaigning
[15:18] But this year
[15:18] He decided to join the pack
[15:20] Attacking his opponent
[15:21] Jeb Bush
[15:22] Many of Jeb Bush's businesses
[15:24] Haven't paid taxes for years
[15:26] Taxes you and I
[15:27] Have to pay instead
[15:28] Childs moved up in the polls
[15:30] In the nasty Virginia Senate race
[15:32] Between Senator Chuck Robb
[15:34] And Oliver North
[15:35] Robb called North a liar
[15:36] North countered with attacks
[15:38] On Robb's personal life
[15:40] The beauty queen
[15:41] In the hotel room
[15:42] In New York
[15:42] Robb says
[15:43] It was only a massage
[15:45] North's ad man
[15:46] Defends negative ads
[15:48] As weapons of war
[15:49] Why is that fair game
[15:50] In a campaign
[15:51] For the United States Senate
[15:52] They're going to get
[15:53] Into a knife fight
[15:54] We're going to bring
[15:54] A gun to the knife fight
[15:55] But in this year
[15:57] Of animal acts
[15:58] And name calling
[15:58] There is one charge
[16:00] That can ruin a candidate
[16:02] The charge that he has become
[16:03] Of all things
[16:04] A typical politician
[16:06] Linda Douglas
[16:08] CBS News
[16:08] Washington
[16:09] In Las Vegas tonight
[16:11] Former Navy Lieutenant
[16:12] Paula Coughlin
[16:13] Was awarded another
[16:14] Five million dollars
[16:16] In punitive damages
[16:17] Stemming from the
[16:18] Sexual assault against women
[16:20] At the 1991
[16:21] Tailhook Convention
[16:22] Of Navy Flyers
[16:23] This is on top
[16:24] Of the 1.7 million
[16:26] In damages
[16:26] A jury awarded Coughlin
[16:28] On Friday
[16:29] The judgment
[16:30] Is against the hotel
[16:31] Where Tailhook
[16:32] Was held
[16:32] On Wall Street
[16:34] A quick end
[16:34] To the rally
[16:35] That started Friday
[16:36] The Dow Industrials
[16:37] Fell today
[16:38] More than 22 points
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[16:52] You get smarter
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[17:00] Both relieve pain
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[17:16] I sneeze
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[17:18] I go to a restaurant
[17:19] My restroom radar
[17:21] Kicks in
[17:22] Because it could happen
[17:23] Who wants to think
[17:23] About light bladder protection
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[17:48] Again
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[17:50] She has a cappuccino machine
[17:55] Vanilla cappuccino
[17:56] Only from Maxwell House
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[18:07] I swear Rose
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[18:13] Without the machine
[18:15] 6 a.m.
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[18:17] Without phones
[18:18] Without interruptions
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[18:23] For Maxwell House
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[18:27] One cup at a time
[18:30] Kids are asleep
[18:31] Husband's asleep
[18:32] But four suspects
[18:34] Are still at large
[18:35] The perfect time
[18:37] For decaffeinated
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[18:39] Filter pack singles
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[18:46] When you're in pain
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[18:53] Wednesday
[19:22] The Supreme Court
[19:24] Less bureaucracy
[19:24] But there are concerns
[19:26] That at least one of these schools
[19:28] Those schools has a hidden agenda
[19:30] Frank Currier investigates for tonight's eye on America
[19:35] Tucked deep in west central Michigan's farm country
[19:38] It's a toll free call
[19:39] Feel free to give us a call in time
[19:41] I know it's been a hassle sometimes to get a hold of us
[19:43] Through the cornfields to this rural log cabin
[19:46] Headquarters to a new and controversial public school called the Noah Webster Academy
[19:51] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
[19:56] It's called a charter school
[19:58] One of nearly a hundred in America
[19:59] Aimed at reforming public education
[20:01] Schools that are supposed to be an innovative alternative to conventional public schools
[20:06] We're on the cutting edge here
[20:08] Presenting something brand new and exciting
[20:10] Any document
[20:11] But critics charge Noah Webster has stretched the spirit of the law
[20:14] And is little more than a disguise to get public money for religious education
[20:19] Good morning Noah Webster Academy
[20:20] There are no students here
[20:22] Just teachers on call
[20:24] Reachable by phone
[20:25] Our database now has over 1,800 students enrolled
[20:29] A long distance helpline to homeschoolers in neighborhoods across Michigan
[20:32] Here's a little more magnification
[20:34] Why don't you take a peek in here
[20:35] Actual instruction is done in kitchen classrooms
[20:38] Not by Noah Webster's certified public school teachers
[20:41] But by parents like Glenn and Donna Lindsley
[20:44] We need to provide somewhat of a protective atmosphere for them
[20:48] And I think homeschooling, Noah Webster, we can do that
[20:54] The academy says it qualifies for public funding the same as other schools
[20:59] $5,000 per student, $12 million in all
[21:02] To support what critics say is private home study
[21:05] It really is to raid the public treasury
[21:08] To give away about $12 million without any kind of public accounting for those dollars
[21:17] Opponents claim the school has strong ties to Christian fundamentalism
[21:22] To homeschool families who already teach reading, writing, and religion
[21:26] Our opponents don't like the fact that we can come in as a public school
[21:29] Noah Webster's founder is Lansing lawyer David Coleman
[21:33] Who defends the legal right of enrollees to use any curriculum they choose
[21:37] We're not going to give them credit for having a Bible study in their home
[21:40] I mean, that doesn't get, you know, they don't get credit for that with Noah Webster
[21:43] But at the same time, they're perfectly free to do that
[21:45] The future of charter schools in America will be influenced by what happens at this log cabin
[21:50] But before Noah Webster can claim even a dime of public money, it will survive a serious round of court challenges
[21:56] Is this your first year of homeschooling?
[21:58] Uh-huh
[21:58] It's been taking a while for us to get our act together a little bit over here
[22:01] It may take a while longer
[22:03] This lawsuit brought by the Michigan Teachers Union and the ACLU seeks to block the use of tax dollars
[22:09] And overturn the state's charter school law
[22:12] Public education in America is supposed to be secular public education
[22:17] There is a right to teach your kids religious education
[22:20] But don't expect that to be supported by tax dollars
[22:24] Do bears really go to parties? No
[22:26] Webster enrollees Lynn and Michael Cronkright are up front about mixing homework with the Holy Spirit
[22:32] We are Christians and our values naturally are going to come through the interactions that we have
[22:39] But they're at home, not in school, and neither parent is a certified teacher
[22:43] Can we indeed expect kindergarten children, first grade, second grade children who cannot read as yet
[22:48] Be able to pick up a phone to call 1-800 number to ask someone 200, 300 miles away for assistance with their reading
[22:55] With critical funding on hold, it is for the courts to decide
[22:58] If Noah Webster is a cleverly disguised network of religious homeschoolers
[23:03] Or as lawmakers intended, a radical breakthrough in reforming public education
[23:08] In Ionia, Michigan, Frank Currier for Eye on America
[23:13] Coming up next on the CBS Evening News
[23:15] The marketing of O.J. Simpson
[23:17] One way that crime does indeed pay
[23:21] Keep it moving
[23:22] How much closer do our precision heads help shave beneath the skin?
[23:33] How much closer does our innovative groove make Norelgo's lifting cut system?
[23:40] How much better is the latest Norelgo razor?
[23:44] We think you'll find it's never brought you closer
[23:50] The Norelgo razor, our closest shave ever
[23:54] This helps diagnose arthritis
[23:57] To effectively relieve the minor pain of arthritis, use this
[24:00] Advil
[24:01] Advil works directly at the site of pain
[24:04] It's fast and gentler to your stomach than aspirin
[24:07] Advil, advanced medicine for pain
[24:09] So at Jenny's school play, I get this cough
[24:12] Somebody handed me these Robitussin cough drops
[24:14] They went right away
[24:16] And I could feel those vapors
[24:18] Robitussin took the spotlight off me
[24:19] And put it where it belongs
[24:21] Robitussin cough drops
[24:22] Cough drops from the cough experts
[24:24] 6 p.m. and all is not well
[24:27] It feels a little like 6 a.m. when you woke up with morning press
[24:31] Sure you use scope but a lot has happened since then
[24:34] Including lunch
[24:35] And those germs, they're back
[24:37] This time it's evening breath
[24:39] Time to scope again
[24:40] Because scope gets to the hard to reach places even brushing can't get to
[24:44] Kills millions more germs than brushing alone
[24:47] And gets your whole mouth clean and your breath minty fresh
[24:50] Not medicine-y
[24:51] When you gotta freshen your breath again
[24:53] Scope again
[24:54] Oh well I'm the kind of light
[24:57] That likes to bend around
[24:58] You can point me left or right
[25:00] Or hang me upside down
[25:02] But I'm not the kind of light
[25:04] You have to hang on too
[25:06] Just use me when you need three hands
[25:08] But you've got only two
[25:10] Cause I'm the snake light
[25:11] They call me the snake light
[25:13] It's the hands-free flexible flashlight
[25:15] New from Black & Decker
[25:16] Yeah we're the snake lights
[25:19] From Black & Decker
[25:20] We get around, around, around, around, around
[25:26] It's Halloween and the hottest costume around this year is O.J. Simpson
[25:31] As Reed Galen reports, the Simpson mask is just one of the ways entrepreneurs are making money
[25:36] Off a high-profile murder case
[25:39] He's a double murder suspect
[25:41] But we still refer to him, almost affectionately, as O.J.
[25:46] Even celebrate him in bronze
[25:48] The piece is $3,395
[25:51] It's well undervalued
[25:53] In a climate ripe with dark humor
[25:56] 99 cents a call to the O.J. joke line
[25:58] Here's the top 10 reasons why O.J. is not
[26:01] The cynical, disgusted, or just plain savvy among us are cashing in
[26:04] We have a winner
[26:05] A root beer company promotes a DNA scratch-off contest
[26:08] Another firm markets the O.J. crime watch
[26:11] Time to create a new O.J. for the Hollywood Wax Museum
[26:14] I think we got him just about where we want him
[26:16] Before all this happened, O.J. Simpson had a very saleable image
[26:19] All-American, heroic, nice guy
[26:22] Reversing that image seems in a strange way to have increased his marketability
[26:26] An entire industry has grown up around him while Simpson sits in the L.A. County jail
[26:31] He has total ownership of his name and likeness
[26:33] And neither can be used without his permission legally
[26:37] He can't stop it all
[26:40] But Simpson has approved and been paid for some things
[26:43] Even signing memorabilia while in jail
[26:45] Two bodies down at the condo home of Simpson Brown
[26:48] If bad taste were a crime, even allowing for art
[26:52] Illegal procedures
[26:53] A lot of people might be locked up with O.J. Simpson
[26:56] In the most demand costume we've ever had in the seven years we've been in the costume business
[27:02] Trading on real-life tragedy may seem ghoulish
[27:05] You're getting paid to stand here and talk about this
[27:07] But plenty of people are buying into this sideshow
[27:11] Somebody's buying hundreds of thousands of copies of the four books already published
[27:15] And these souvenir pieces made for a child's game
[27:18] And sales of white Ford Broncos have doubled at some dealerships
[27:22] If you want one today, you should expect to pay full sticker price
[27:25] Police escort not included
[27:28] Ford certainly hasn't tried to market the O.J. connection
[27:31] You've been in the car business a while?
[27:32] Fifteen years
[27:33] You ever seen anything like this?
[27:34] None
[27:34] O.J. on the cover still guarantees 10-20% more tabloids sold
[27:40] Where does it end?
[27:41] With O.J. himself
[27:42] Of course
[27:43] What would you pay for his story?
[27:44] I'll give him my American Express card number, as I've said, because there are no limits on it
[27:48] F. Scott Fitzgerald said, show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy
[27:52] We might add now, show me a tragedy and I'll write you a check
[27:56] In this society, yeah, show me a tragedy and I'll write you a made-for-TV movie as well
[28:01] The video's already been released
[28:03] I'm just keeping moving
[28:05] Reed Galen, CBS News, Los Angeles
[28:08] And that's part of our world tonight
[28:09] Coming up tomorrow on CBS This Morning
[28:11] All the latest on tonight's plane crash in Indiana
[28:15] And Dan and I will see you again tomorrow night
[28:17] Thank you for joining us and for all of us at CBS News
[28:19] Good night
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[28:50] Elizabeth Burrs on Cutting Government Waste
[28:53] All of us face the reality of living within a budget
[28:56] A portion goes for rent or for mortgage
[28:59] Some may go for food and clothing
[29:01] But we all know we must live within our means
[29:04] I went to Congress to make a lot of money