NBC Nightly News - 1999-07-04

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[0:00] online at wsmvcars.com.

[0:04] >> Another killing blamed on the driveby

[0:06] shooter who seems to be targeting

[0:08] minorities.

[0:09] >> This man is on a spree. He's just

[0:12] shooting people and all over the state

[0:14] and out of state now.

[0:15] >> They now have a name and a license plate

[0:17] number. A manhunt is underway.

[0:22] Also underway this last July 4th of the

[0:24] century, a birthday bash from sea to

[0:27] shining sea.

[0:32] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:35] York, this is NBC Nightly News reported

[0:38] by Chris Hansen.

[0:40] >> Good evening. Police are now linking

[0:42] another fatal shooting to a string of

[0:44] apparent hate crimes. Attacks have now

[0:46] occurred in two states. All of the

[0:48] victims were minorities. The latest

[0:50] victim, a Korean who had just left

[0:52] church. And now, authorities have

[0:54] identified the man they are looking for.

[0:56] He reportedly has ties to a group called

[0:58] the World Church of the Creator, which

[1:00] distributed anti-semitic literature in

[1:02] Bloomington, Indiana last year. NBC's

[1:05] Suzan Melvo has the very latest.

[1:08] >> Chicago police identified this man,

[1:10] Benjamin Smith, as someone being sought

[1:12] in conjunction with the weekend shooting

[1:14] spree that so far has left two people

[1:16] dead and seven injured.

[1:18] >> This man is on a spree. He's just

[1:21] shooting people all over the state and

[1:23] out of state. Now, police in Urbana,

[1:25] Illinois, say the one-time 21-year-old

[1:27] University of Illinois student has been

[1:29] the focus of investigations concerning

[1:31] domestic violence and hate literature.

[1:34] Today, three new incidents police linked

[1:36] to Smith in Bloomington, Indiana. This

[1:38] morning, a man was shot to death outside

[1:40] a Korean church more than two hours away

[1:43] in Urbana, Illinois. Last night, police

[1:45] say Smith shot an Asian-American student

[1:47] at the University of Illinois. In

[1:49] Springfield, a short time earlier, shots

[1:52] fired at two black men. missed in Friday

[1:55] night shootings in the Chicago area more

[1:57] than two hours away. A black man was

[1:59] killed and six Orthodox Jews were

[2:02] wounded.

[2:03] >> We must change THE WAY WE WALK. WE MUST

[2:07] CHANGE the way we talk.

[2:09] >> Today in the Chicago area communities

[2:11] impacted by the weekend shootings, there

[2:13] were prayers and a call for calm.

[2:16] >> We must come together and and to to

[2:18] stand together against the violence in

[2:19] our communities. A call for forgiveness

[2:21] from the father-in-law of slang victim

[2:23] Ricky Birdsaw, former basketball coach

[2:26] at Northwestern University.

[2:27] >> We're not mad with anybody. We don't we

[2:30] don't hate anybody because we believe in

[2:32] God and uh we just want uh something to

[2:36] be done about it.

[2:37] >> And in Chicago's Rogers Park

[2:39] neighborhood where the shooting spree

[2:41] began, a call for the gunman to do the

[2:43] right thing.

[2:44] >> Give himself up immediately right now.

[2:48] The FBI is looking into whether or not

[2:50] there is enough evidence to charge Smith

[2:52] under the federal hate crimes law, which

[2:54] means if convicted, he could face double

[2:56] the sentence. Suzan Malvo, NBC News,

[2:59] Chicago.

[3:00] >> Now to our nation's birthday, the last

[3:02] Fourth of July of the century. From

[3:04] small towns to the nation's capital,

[3:06] fireworks, frankfforters, and freedom

[3:08] are filling the skies, stomachs, and

[3:10] souls of Americans. Here's NBC's John

[3:13] Palmer.

[3:15] Independence Day celebrations got off to

[3:17] a roaring start in Boston Harbor with

[3:19] the firing of guns aboard the USS

[3:22] Constitution Old Iron Sides. In

[3:24] Philadelphia, these Americans celebrated

[3:27] the nation's birthday and their own with

[3:29] a group photo, each born on a different

[3:31] July 4th in this century, including

[3:34] today. at Arlington, Virginia, and in

[3:37] many other towns and cities all across

[3:39] America, immigrants took the oath and

[3:41] became American citizens.

[3:43] >> I am very very elated, excited

[3:48] uh after the oath. Uh today, I really um

[3:53] feel like an American.

[3:54] >> 6,000 m away in Kosovo, US troops

[3:57] continued on patrol, but most had a

[4:00] chance to take a break and celebrate.

[4:02] Today, barbecued ribs replace the usual

[4:05] field rations.

[4:06] >> It's kind of significant for us to be

[4:08] here in Kosovo to be able to try to do

[4:10] the same for the people that are the

[4:11] Kosvar Albanian and the Kosvar service.

[4:13] Kosvar Albanian staged a rally to thank

[4:16] the Americans for being there. And in

[4:19] neighboring Macedonia, a visit from back

[4:21] home, the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

[4:25] In this country, there were the usual

[4:26] parades and foot races like this one in

[4:29] Atlanta that drew 50,000 runners on a

[4:32] hot day. In Knoxville, Tennessee, the

[4:34] release of a bald eagle, the species

[4:36] removed from the endangered list just

[4:38] last week. This year's hot dog eating

[4:40] contest at New York's Coney Island won

[4:43] by Steven Ker, who downed 24 and a half

[4:45] dogs and buns in 12 minutes. In South

[4:49] Dakota, last night's fireworks display

[4:51] at Mount Rushmore offered a preview of

[4:53] what's to come tonight in many cities

[4:55] and towns across America. Tonight,

[4:58] President and Mrs. Clinton will join

[5:00] more than half a million other Americans

[5:02] and viewing the traditional July 4th

[5:04] fireworks display on the Washington

[5:06] Mall. John Palmer, NBC News, at the

[5:09] White House. The holiday weekend turned

[5:11] deadly for an unknown number of voters

[5:13] in Minnesota. Two bodies have been

[5:15] recovered, but as many as eight people

[5:16] are still missing after a collision in

[5:18] the St. Croy River, which runs between

[5:20] Minnesota and Wisconsin. Here's NBC's

[5:23] Rick Davis.

[5:26] This search for bodies has gone on since

[5:28] 1:30 Saturday morning when two boats

[5:30] crashed in the St. Croy River. Two

[5:31] bodies were recovered from the wreckage

[5:33] of this 22ft boat. The second boat may

[5:36] have been carrying eight passengers,

[5:38] last seen leaving a dockside nightclub.

[5:40] The local sheriff fears someone may have

[5:42] forgotten how dangerous this river can

[5:44] be at night.

[5:45] >> It's unfortunate when people um

[5:47] apparently don't abide by some of those

[5:49] rules.

[5:50] >> Over 800 people have died in boating

[5:51] accidents each year since 1995. Alcohol

[5:55] was a factor in half of those accidents.

[5:57] At Long View Lake near Kansas City, it

[6:00] was just one big party this weekend.

[6:02] >> I'd say nine out of 10 boats out here

[6:03] will have some type of alcohol on them.

[6:05] Every state has laws about operating a

[6:08] boat while drinking, but they vary in

[6:10] degree and are often ignored. Only six

[6:12] states require licenses to operate a

[6:14] boat. The majority of states have a

[6:16] minimum age for being at the controls,

[6:18] but they range from 10 years in Illinois

[6:21] to 18 in New York. 15 states have no

[6:24] minimum age for operators. And 22 states

[6:28] do not even require an adult on board

[6:30] when a minor is at the controls. The

[6:33] number of Americans on the water

[6:34] increases every year. The Coast Guard

[6:36] and officials in many states say

[6:37] training, licensing, age limits, and

[6:39] strict control of alcohol would make

[6:41] those waters safer. Rick Davis, NBC

[6:44] News. Brush fires are still burning

[6:46] tonight in the American West in parts of

[6:48] Utah, Nevada, and California. About

[6:50] 50,000 acres have been consumed. An

[6:52] embarrassing revelation about this one

[6:54] in Northern California. It was

[6:56] originally set by government workers

[6:58] trying to get rid of dry brush. 500

[7:01] people there were forced from their

[7:02] homes. When NBC Nightly News continues

[7:05] in a moment, new evidence of atrocities

[7:07] in Kosovo and growing concerns about a

[7:10] generation of orphans. And later in

[7:12] focus, a ship so big it won't fit in the

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[8:35] To Kosovo now, and new discoveries by

[8:38] war crimes investigators. It now appears

[8:40] that ethnic Albanian children, even

[8:42] infants, were systematically targeted by

[8:45] Serb forces. Here's NBC's Jim Mada.

[8:49] Even veteran war crimes investigators

[8:51] called it horrific. This latest mass

[8:53] grave discovered in southwest Kosovo

[8:56] contained 12 bodies, seven of them

[8:58] children.

[9:00] >> An Albanian eyewitness says he buried

[9:03] boys and girls ranging from ages 4 to

[9:06] 12. All shot in the back of the head

[9:08] last March, allegedly by Serb

[9:10] paramilitaries. Now evidence of the

[9:12] worst war crimes against children to

[9:14] date. And as is so often the case, it's

[9:17] the children, those most vulnerable and

[9:19] least able to cope, who pay the price,

[9:22] especially children whose parents either

[9:24] fled the war or were killed in the

[9:26] conflict.

[9:29] These are Kosovo's most forgotten.

[9:31] Zoron, two and a half, left in a field

[9:34] near a front line. Or Benjamin, aged 6

[9:36] months.

[9:37] >> They said the parents left because the

[9:38] war broke out and the child was already

[9:40] in hospital, but they haven't turned up

[9:41] since.

[9:42] >> Orphans of war in a hospital. Why?

[9:45] Because in this Albanian society based

[9:47] on strong blood ties and extended

[9:49] families, orphanages don't exist. So

[9:52] what happens to these tiny outcasts,

[9:54] over 20 in this ward alone?

[9:57] >> I have no idea.

[9:59] >> I don't know.

[10:00] >> But what did happen to them is known.

[10:02] >> Some of the children were tied to their

[10:04] CS.

[10:04] >> Systematic mistreatment by the hospital

[10:07] staff mostly serves. Albanian nurses

[10:09] returned after the war to find chronic

[10:11] rocking, a symptom of neglect. Children

[10:14] and beds wet with urine, some passive,

[10:17] disturbed,

[10:17] >> they were uncared for.

[10:19] >> These orphans are now getting the love

[10:21] and attention they need, but UNICEF and

[10:23] other international organizations

[10:25] believe hundreds of other abandoned

[10:26] children are out there in the killing

[10:28] fields still inaccessible.

[10:30] >> It's very difficult to get off uh the

[10:33] hard surface roads at the moment without

[10:35] risking one's own uh security, safety

[10:39] because of the landmine issue. As

[10:40] Kosvars count their war dead, the toll

[10:43] on life's most precious is only

[10:45] beginning to surface. Jim Medum, NBC

[10:48] News, Christina Kosovo. Now to a

[10:50] historic trial in Florida, which could

[10:53] cost big tobacco billions. Jury

[10:55] deliberations resume on Tuesday. Here's

[10:57] NBC's Frederria Whitfield.

[11:01] >> Plaintiffs like 59-year-old Frank Amadeo

[11:04] hope their attorneys convince the jury.

[11:06] This is a case about the responsibility

[11:08] of an industry that spends over $5

[11:10] billion each year to entice people to

[11:13] smoke. Parents smoke.

[11:14] >> Representatives of big tobacco hope

[11:16] jurors were listening closely to their

[11:18] arguments.

[11:19] >> You can't commit fraud by not telling

[11:21] people things that they have known for

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[11:29] health, and that it can be hard to quit.

[11:31] That just can't be fraud. And in their

[11:34] fields, far from the courtroom, people

[11:37] like second generation tobacco farmer

[11:39] Fred Weatherington wait for word. The

[11:42] jury's decision could have a major

[11:44] impact on his family business.

[11:46] >> Most of us in the in the tobacco

[11:48] business uh watch all the litigation uh

[11:51] ongoing on all the cases.

[11:54] >> Since the tobacco wars heated up, things

[11:56] have been tough. In the last year, he's

[11:58] laid off four workers because of a 15%

[12:01] drop in sales. So good, good, good. Have

[12:05] a

[12:06] >> If jurors find the tobacco industry

[12:08] guilty of using ads like these decades

[12:10] ago to mislead World War II generation

[12:12] smokers about the dangers and to

[12:15] encourage the younger generation to pick

[12:17] up the habit. The companies could face

[12:19] damages in the hundreds of billions of

[12:21] dollars and tobacco growers would be big

[12:23] losers, too.

[12:25] >> Everything that's hurt the industry has

[12:27] rolled down and and hurt us. Uh and so

[12:30] we've got our fingers crossed. The case

[12:32] was brought on behalf of an estimated

[12:34] 500,000 sick Florida smokers or their

[12:37] survivors well represented in the

[12:39] courtroom. People like Frank Amadeo, a

[12:42] former singer treated for throat cancer

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[12:47] or drink without a feeding tube. Last

[12:50] fall, before testimony began, he

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[12:54] tobacco.

[12:55] >> Go out of business.

[12:58] Boom. Gone. Bankrupt. Now, almost a year

[13:01] after jury selection began, and after

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[13:06] jury is working through this complex

[13:08] 12-page verdict form to decide the first

[13:11] class action suit by smokers ever to

[13:14] reach trial. Frederick Whitfield, NBC

[13:17] News.

[13:18] >> When NBC Nightly News continues, the new

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[15:05] >> In focus this evening, a boat so big

[15:08] that its propeller is 30 ft high. NBC's

[15:11] Dan Loian on the new age in the shipping

[15:14] business.

[15:14] >> In the world of shipping, size does

[15:17] matter. Arriving at the port of Long

[15:19] Beach, California, the Danish built

[15:21] Susan MK, the largest container ship in

[15:24] the world. Longer than three football

[15:26] fields, its bridge 12 stories above the

[15:29] water and with a width of 140 ft. It's

[15:32] too big to sail into the Panama Canal.

[15:36] >> At sea, we are using our automatical

[15:38] pilots.

[15:39] >> Ship's captain Pierre Hmanson normally

[15:41] uses a crew of 20 and a battery of

[15:43] computers. There's an integrated system

[15:46] that uses 8,000 sensors placed all over

[15:48] the vessel to detect any leaks or

[15:50] unusual temperatures. The ship even has

[15:53] a black box similar to those in

[15:55] airliners. Five levels into the ship's

[15:58] hall is this one of the largest marine

[16:00] diesels on Earth. The massive 75,000

[16:03] horsepower engine. The Susan MK is part

[16:06] of a new class of mega ships designed

[16:09] with economic reality in mind. Profit

[16:12] margins have always been tough in this

[16:13] business and that's why you really have

[16:15] to have uh economies of scale uh because

[16:18] profit margins have eroded

[16:19] significantly. So you need to make it up

[16:22] in volume

[16:25] >> and volume is what this ship has on this

[16:28] voyage. The Susan MK is loaded with over

[16:31] 6,000 20ft containers.

[16:33] >> You can move a ship that has 6,000

[16:35] containers compared to a ship with 4,000

[16:37] containers for basically the same price.

[16:39] And these ships are full.

[16:41] >> On this voyage, the containers are full

[16:43] with everything from computers to car

[16:45] parts to shoes and shirts. To handle

[16:48] these mammoth vessels, billions are

[16:50] being spent by port authorities in

[16:52] places like Long Beach. On the agenda,

[16:54] dredging to deepen channels, buying

[16:57] larger cranes, and building roomier

[16:59] cargo terminals. We have to uh make sure

[17:02] that we have the facilities available

[17:04] because of the growth in trade. Our

[17:07] container volume in the Port of Long

[17:08] Beach has grown by 150% since 1990. So,

[17:12] we're struggling to keep up with with

[17:14] the growth in trade.

[17:16] >> That booming maritime economy is

[17:18] expected to grow even larger as the new

[17:21] millennium approaches.

[17:23] Even as the fleet of unusually large

[17:25] container ships grows, companies are

[17:28] looking at using something called fast

[17:30] ships. They are smaller than usual

[17:32] vessels, only able to hold a few

[17:34] thousand containers, but able to make an

[17:36] ocean crossing twice as fast as their

[17:39] larger counterparts. Dan Loian, NBC

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[20:00] CNBC's Maria Bartomo brings what she

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[20:12] >> He might have become the greatest player

[20:14] ever. He did become one of baseball's

[20:16] biggest embarrassments. Sholess Joe

[20:18] Jackson's team fixed a World Series.

[20:21] Now, as NBC's Jim Avala reports, a

[20:23] growing number of fans are asking

[20:25] baseball to forgive him.

[20:29] Baseball's darkest moment now has its

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[20:35] the 1919 Chicago Black Socks. The best

[20:39] baseball team of its time, starring a

[20:41] legendary but disgraced hitter, Shoeless

[20:44] Joe Jackson. One of eight players banned

[20:46] for life when gamblers paid the socks

[20:49] $40,000 to lose a World Series everyone

[20:53] thought they should have won.

[20:55] >> They lost the World Series and

[20:59] >> But now some in baseball and many

[21:01] outside the game want him back. Major

[21:04] League Baseball's newly named official

[21:06] historian Jerome Holtzman promises a

[21:09] report in six weeks. Included will be

[21:11] the fact that Sholess Joe tried to pay

[21:14] back $5,000 in payoffs, was the best

[21:17] player in the series, even though

[21:19] Jackson admitted he did not play his

[21:21] best because the fix was in.

[21:23] >> It was a very wrong thing to do. Very,

[21:26] very wrong.

[21:27] >> Hall of Famer Bob Feller, one of

[21:29] baseball's greatest pitchers, now leads

[21:31] the effort to forgive Jackson and

[21:33] install him in the Hall of Fame.

[21:35] >> He's not well educated. He might not

[21:36] have realized what he was doing. 80

[21:38] years after the scandal that nearly

[21:40] destroyed baseball, shoeless Joe Jackson

[21:42] is popular again. The movie Field of

[21:45] Dreams, set in the Iowa farm town that

[21:47] now celebrates him with its first annual

[21:50] parade and amateur baseball tournament,

[21:52] cast him as a forlorn figure coming out

[21:55] of the cornfield looking to play ball.

[21:57] >> Is this heaven?

[21:59] >> No, it's Iowa. There's no record of the

[22:02] real shoeless Joe Jackson ever playing

[22:05] baseball in Iowa, but the movie made

[22:07] here about him at the Field of Dreams

[22:09] has changed his image forever. From that

[22:11] scandalous blacksock to a sympathetic

[22:14] baseball bumpkin,

[22:15] >> Becky Lancing owns the farm where

[22:17] Hollywood recast Shoulless Joe.

[22:19] >> I saw a longing in his heart for the

[22:23] thing that he cared about most in this

[22:25] world, and that was baseball. Now, ghost

[22:28] ball players reenact the movies's

[22:30] cornfield scene five times a year, and

[22:33] baseball fans come to the middle of

[22:34] nowhere, Iowa, to throw a baseball.

[22:37] >> He just loved the game. He loved the

[22:38] smell of the grass. He loved the smell

[22:40] of the leather.

[22:41] >> But did he love money more? His

[22:43] supporters blame ignorance,

[22:45] unsophisticated, and illiterate.

[22:47] Jackson's friends say he was taken

[22:49] advantage of, dying a duped but innocent

[22:51] man in 1951. No way this man would

[22:55] participate in anything like that. I

[22:57] knew the man.

[22:58] >> And now baseball will decide for a

[23:00] second time whether this sad ball player

[23:02] with a mighty bat and a weak mind should

[23:05] be in the Hall of Fame or stay lost in

[23:08] an Iowa cornfield. Jim Avala, NBC News,

[23:11] Dyresville.

[23:13] When NBC Nightly News continues in a

[23:15] moment, a star for every state, a stripe

[23:18] for each original colony. What happens

[23:21] when old glory starts showing its age?

[23:25] >> Around here, it's not every day we all

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[23:44] >> Has a boyfriend.

[23:45] >> I guess they just know what we like.

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[23:56] >> We know all about it. Some people throw

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[24:02] this week that could be a costly mistake

[24:04] because this week, if you throw away a

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[25:21] >> Finally tonight, we are taught from a

[25:23] very early age to respect it, how to

[25:26] fold it, even when to put it up and take

[25:28] it down. NBC's Solidad O'Brien now on

[25:31] the intensely personal relationship many

[25:33] have with the American flag.

[25:36] >> I'm laying in bed at night. I have a

[25:38] perfect view of the flag. Last thing at

[25:39] night, first thing in the morning.

[25:42] 78-year-old Anne Espazito, a widow after

[25:45] 50 years of marriage. Her husband Pascal

[25:48] left behind three children, two

[25:50] grandchildren, and an American flag on a

[25:52] 25- ft pole. His tradition that she

[25:55] maintains today. Old glory. Much more

[25:59] than just the nation's symbol. It's a

[26:01] source of pride, the emblem of victory

[26:04] in the race to the moon. Indeed,

[26:06] >> they've got the flag up now, and you can

[26:07] see the stars and stripes.

[26:13] Used to pay tribute to those who fell

[26:16] and to celebrate the safe return of

[26:18] Americans held prisoner in foreign

[26:20] lands. They fly day and night, battling

[26:24] the coldest winters, the hottest

[26:26] summers, the harshest winds, a pounding

[26:29] which leaves some flags looking old and

[26:32] tired. Many Americans hang on to their

[26:34] flags long past their prime. Why? Maybe

[26:37] it's an emotional attachment. Maybe it's

[26:40] forgetfulness. Maybe they just don't

[26:42] know what to do with an old flag. There

[26:44] is no law dictating how to treat one,

[26:47] only guidelines which emphasize respect.

[26:51] >> The preferable way to retire the flag is

[26:53] with a solemn ceremony and preferably by

[26:56] burning. That's in the flag code of the

[26:59] United States. And following those

[27:01] guidelines, American Legion posts and

[27:03] local officials across the country hold

[27:06] so-called flag retirement ceremonies

[27:08] each year.

[27:09] >> A flag is that symbol of America and it

[27:12] should look fresh and crisp and uh

[27:14] something that we can be proud of.

[27:16] >> The kind of pride that resulted in this

[27:18] project to preserve the original Stars

[27:21] Spangled Banner, which inspired the

[27:23] national anthem. It will take three

[27:25] years and cost $18 million.

[27:28] While private citizens might hang on to

[27:30] their flags for years, the federal

[27:32] government changes its flags frequently.

[27:35] The flags of the Treasury Department in

[27:37] Washington DC are replaced eight times a

[27:39] year, so they're always in nearperfect

[27:42] shape. Some say a flag that's faded or

[27:45] worn is not fit to represent the

[27:47] country. But an Espazito is not among

[27:49] them.

[27:50] >> If you feel that way, of course, replace

[27:52] it. But if you love even the tatters,

[27:54] leave it up. What difference does it

[27:56] make? And the flag her husband hung

[27:59] before he died four years ago is to her

[28:02] as majestic today as it was when it was

[28:05] new. Solidad O'Brien, NBC News, Saddle

[28:09] River, New Jersey.

[28:11] >> That's NBC Nightly News for this Sunday.

[28:13] Tom Brohaw will be here tomorrow. I'm

[28:15] Chris Hansen. Thanks for watching and

[28:17] enjoy the fireworks.

[28:43] NBC News, America's news leader.

[28:48] >> Tuesday, the journey of a lifetime.

[28:50] They've left America, moved thousands of

[28:51] miles to live here. Is this the only

[28:54] place to be when the millennium comes?

[28:55] NBC Nightly News Tuesday.

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