CBS Evening News - 2002-07-31

Name: CBS Evening News - 2002-07-31
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[0:00] skating competitions in Salt Lake City.

[0:03] Just hours after signing the corporate

[0:05] reform law, the president limits its

[0:07] protection for people who try to do the

[0:10] right thing. And an Eye on America

[0:13] investigation. Local Red Cross chapters

[0:15] dipping into donations meant for

[0:18] national disasters.

[0:22] [music]

[0:26] >> [music]

[0:27] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:30] Rather. [music]

[0:32] And good evening, Dan is off tonight.

[0:33] I'm John Roberts. The vengeance-driven

[0:35] conflict in the Middle East claimed at

[0:37] least three American lives today. They

[0:40] were among at least seven killed when a

[0:42] powerful bomb exploded at an Israeli

[0:44] college in the lunchroom of a student

[0:46] center named for Frank Sinatra. For

[0:48] Palestinian militants, it was a new

[0:50] style of attack on a new kind of target.

[0:52] CBS News correspondent Richard Roth

[0:54] joins us with the latest from Tel Aviv.

[0:56] Richard.

[0:58] >> John, it's been confirmed tonight that

[1:00] the casualties, there were many

[1:02] foreigners among the casualties from

[1:04] this attack and it was confirmed late

[1:06] tonight that three Americans were among

[1:08] the dead.

[1:09] It's exam week on this Hebrew University

[1:12] campus and it was lunchtime in the

[1:14] cafeteria jammed with summer school

[1:16] students.

[1:17] >> The first thing you hear is like there's

[1:18] glass smashing everywhere and then

[1:20] there's a deathly silence. Seven people

[1:22] were killed, five of them foreigners,

[1:24] including three Americans. More than 80

[1:27] were wounded.

[1:28] >> I was bleeding a bit from a couple

[1:30] places, but I assumed I was okay.

[1:33] >> It wasn't a suicide bombing, but a bag

[1:35] no one noticed in time fil