NBC Nightly News - 1992-08-13

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[0:12] Baker, back to the White House. But

[0:13] leaving state was not easy.

[0:14] >> It has really been an honor to serve

[0:16] with you. I thank you and I salute you.

[0:20] >> Today's economic news won't make Baker's

[0:22] job any easier. The economy is still

[0:24] struggling.

[0:26] and Sam Donaldson's producer. Killed by

[0:28] sniper fire in San Diego.

[0:33] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Bro,

[0:37] reporting tonight from NBC News

[0:39] headquarters in New York.

[0:41] Good evening. This time, Jim Baker

[0:43] really has his work cut out for him. On

[0:45] the day it was announced that he would

[0:46] leave the State Department to return to

[0:48] the White House as chief of staff,

[0:49] senior counselor and boss of the

[0:51] president's re-election campaign, the

[0:53] latest NBC News Wall Street Journal poll

[0:56] shows Baker's friend George Bush with a

[0:58] lot of ground to make up. The poll this

[1:00] week shows Bill Clinton with a lead of

[1:02] almost 20 points, but the Republican

[1:04] convention in Houston should narrow that

[1:06] gap. NBC's John Cochran is at the White

[1:09] House tonight. John,

[1:10] >> Tom, when a cabinet officer resigns, the

[1:12] president usually issues a statement

[1:14] expressing deep regret. But George Bush

[1:17] accepted Jim Baker's departure from the

[1:18] State Department with no regrets at all.

[1:21] Just, and this is a quote, deep

[1:23] appreciation.

[1:25] >> Bush needs his friend at the White House

[1:27] and in a hurry. But the urgency is

[1:29] embarrassing. And Bush, refusing to

[1:31] answer questions, read from a statement

[1:33] which barely mentioned the difficult

[1:35] campaign ahead. uh he will help me build

[1:37] on what we've started by developing an

[1:39] integrated second-term program of

[1:42] domestic, economic, and foreign

[1:44] policies. And I also want his counsel

[1:46] and assistance as I seek a mandate for

[1:48] the American people to put this program

[1:51] into action. It was a strange, uneasy

[1:54] changing of the guard. Neither Baker nor

[1:56] the man he replaces, Sam Skinner, was

[1:58] present for the announcement. Last

[2:00] December, when Bush replaced Chief of

[2:02] Staff John Cenounu with Skinner, both

[2:04] were present at the time. Although

[2:06] Bush's popularity was dropping, the NBC

[2:09] News Wall Street Journal poll still

[2:10] showed most voters, 52%, approved of his

[2:14] performance. Our new poll shows only 34%

[2:17] approved, his lowest rating ever. That

[2:20] is by no means all or even mostly Sam

[2:23] Skinner's fault, but he is still being

[2:25] shunted to an advisory job with the

[2:27] party. Today, as Baker said goodbye to

[2:29] State Department staffers, he was

[2:31] already sounding less like a master

[2:33] diplomat and more like a campaign

[2:35] strategist. I think that there is a

[2:38] conservative agenda for helping people

[2:40] and for responding to their needs.

[2:42] >> Baker will work to define Bush as

[2:44] conservative and Clinton as liberal.

[2:46] Baker will also try to convince voters

[2:48] that Bush is ready to turn from foreign

[2:50] to domestic policy. America must have

[2:53] appropriate new approaches for the

[2:54] changes at home. Just as we have

[2:56] launched new policies to manage the

[2:59] changes abroad. If Baker can really sell

[3:02] Bush as a candidate for change, they can

[3:04] cut into Clinton's support. Our new poll

[3:06] shows only half of Clinton's supporters

[3:08] are solidly behind him. But only half of

[3:12] Bush's supporters are solidly behind

[3:14] him. Baker will bring some of his

[3:16] brightest aids with him to the White

[3:18] House. and sources say they will help

[3:20] package new economic proposals which

[3:22] Bush may unveil at the Republican

[3:24] convention next week. Tom,

[3:27] >> thank you, John. Our poll also shows the

[3:29] president's best issue against Clinton

[3:31] is foreign policy. That's where the

[3:33] president gets his highest approval

[3:34] marks. And so, as NBC's Andrea Mitchell

[3:36] reports tonight, Clinton now is trying

[3:39] to beef up his foreign policy resume.

[3:41] Andrea

[3:42] >> Tom Bill Clinton is trying to make up

[3:43] for his perceived weakness on foreign

[3:45] policy by attacking what most people

[3:47] believe is George Bush's strength.

[3:51] >> Delivering what the campaign called a

[3:53] major foreign policy address. Clinton

[3:55] tried to discount George Bush's long

[3:56] resume on world affairs.

[3:58] >> When it was clear to all that Yugoslavia

[4:00] was inexurably breaking apart, Mr. Bush

[4:04] and his secretary of state gave short

[4:05] shrift to the earnings of those seeking

[4:08] freedom. On Yugoslavia, Clinton earlier

[4:10] this month got out front quickly,

[4:12] calling for air strikes to protect

[4:14] relief supplies and to open detention

[4:16] camps.

[4:17] >> History has shown us that you can't

[4:19] allow the mass extermination of people

[4:21] and just sit by and watch it happen.

[4:24] >> Under pressure from Margaret Thatcher

[4:25] and Senate Republicans, George Bush

[4:27] eventually agreed. Central to Republican

[4:30] strategy is selling Bush as the man who

[4:32] knows what to do when the hotline rings

[4:34] in the middle of the night. And the

[4:36] American people need to know that the

[4:39] man who answers that phone has the

[4:42] experience, the seasoning,

[4:46] the guts to do the right thing.

[4:49] >> Attempting to beef up his foreign policy

[4:51] record. Clinton has claimed to have

[4:53] worked on Capitol Hill.

[4:54] >> I was there and it was great preparation

[4:56] for me. I worked in the United States

[4:58] Senate on the Foreign Relations

[4:59] Committee then.

[5:00] >> In fact, he was a college intern, not a

[5:02] policy person. And when questioned about

[5:05] his ability to serve as

[5:06] commanderin-chief,

[5:07] >> I have been commanderin-chief of my

[5:09] national guard as a governor for the

[5:11] last 11 years. I have had to make

[5:13] several life and death decision.

[5:15] >> Boning up for today's speech, Clinton

[5:17] consulted defense leaders from Congress,

[5:19] Les Aspen and Sam N. Running made Al

[5:22] Gore knowledgeable on defense issues,

[5:23] has become the campaign's pointman on

[5:25] foreign affairs. Clinton also has sought

[5:28] meetings with visiting foreign leaders

[5:29] to burnish his credentials. And when

[5:31] asked about his lack of experience,

[5:33] >> the issue in foreign policy is how much

[5:35] do you understand about the world? What

[5:37] are your values? What is your judgment?

[5:38] Do you have the personal strength to

[5:39] make the right decisions?

[5:41] >> To support his claim that former

[5:43] governors can become good foreign policy

[5:45] presidents, Clinton used an unlikely

[5:47] role model for a Democratic candidate,

[5:49] Ronald Reagan. Tom,

[5:52] >> thank you, Andrea. And of course, the

[5:53] listless American economy does remain

[5:55] the big issue in this campaign. And in

[5:57] that area, Clinton now has a commanding

[5:59] lead for now. NBC chief financial

[6:02] correspondent Mike Jensen tonight on the

[6:03] president's problems with the economy.

[6:06] And today's economic news, which does

[6:08] not help. Michael

[6:09] >> Tom, the economy is really not

[6:11] cooperating with George Bush. And that's

[6:13] starting to show up very specifically in

[6:15] the poll results.

[6:18] According to the NBC News Wall Street

[6:20] Journal poll, 41% of those surveyed said

[6:24] Bill Clinton would do the best job

[6:26] dealing with the economy. 19% preferred

[6:29] George Bush.

[6:30] >> I've been a staunch Republican for

[6:32] years, but I'm leaning towards Clinton

[6:34] this time. I think we definitely need a

[6:36] change in this country.

[6:37] >> That's a big turnaround from four months

[6:39] ago when 29% said Bush would do better

[6:43] versus 25% for Clinton. What's hurting

[6:47] Bush most is a stumbling economy. New

[6:50] retail sales figures for last month were

[6:53] a bit better, but at the same time, the

[6:55] government revised its June figures from

[6:57] a gain to a loss. People are skittish.

[7:01] >> I'm looking at my closet more carefully

[7:02] to see if I can assess what I really

[7:04] need these days.

[7:05] >> People's paychecks edged down again in

[7:08] July for the second month in a row.

[7:10] Well, I had to cut my spending habits by

[7:13] at least 25% of what I spent the

[7:15] previous year due to the economy.

[7:18] >> When people don't buy, companies don't

[7:20] hire. 403,000

[7:23] people filed new unemployment claims in

[7:26] the latest week. That's way down, but a

[7:28] GM companywide shutdown skewed the

[7:31] numbers, which had been way up the

[7:34] previous week. One bright spot is stable

[7:37] prices. Hardly any inflation. Food

[7:40] prices actually dropped last month.

[7:42] >> Food prices are down. Yeah, some things

[7:44] are down compared to when though, you

[7:46] know, when they were at their highest.

[7:47] >> But stable prices are one more

[7:49] indication that there's very little

[7:51] demand. People aren't buying with the

[7:54] economy in the doldrums. It's still

[7:56] growing, but just barely. And there's

[7:58] nothing to suggest that it's going to

[8:00] come bouncing back. Tom,

[8:02] >> thank you, Michael. When Nightly News

[8:04] continues in a moment, Robert Viselle

[8:05] tonight on that mysterious ailment

[8:07] affecting veterans of Operation Desert

[8:09] Storm.

[8:11] And on America Closeup tonight, teenage

[8:13] auto thieves, a deadly menace on the

[8:16] streets, pushed to protect the delivery

[8:18] of relief supplies to Bosnia. And it

[8:21] warned all the factions there that they

[8:23] could face war crime trials.

[8:26] In Bosnia today in Sieo, the violence

[8:28] claimed an American. ABC News producer

[8:31] David Kaplan fell to a sniper bullet. He

[8:34] was 45 years old. NBC's Rick Davis has

[8:37] more.

[8:46] David Kaplan was shot on this road from

[8:48] the Sieo airport. He was the first

[8:50] American journalist killed in this

[8:52] conflict. The road is always dangerous.

[8:55] Snipers fire from the hills. Gunmen are

[8:58] often on the road. A bullet went through

[9:01] the vehicle. Kaplan was hit in the back.

[9:03] He died of stomach wounds. David Kaplan

[9:06] was part of an ABC news team that came

[9:08] to Sievo aboard a plane with Yugoslav

[9:10] Prime Minister Milan Panish.

[9:13] It was called a peace mission. The

[9:15] violence never stopped while he was

[9:16] here. Artillery rounds poured in from

[9:19] the Serbian positions on the hills.

[9:21] Panish is a controversial figure.

[9:22] Critics call him the gentle face masking

[9:25] Serbian aggression. But this was the

[9:27] prime minister's reaction when he heard

[9:29] of Kaplan's death.

[9:31] >> This is not war of cross and syrup.

[9:33] These are criminals.

[9:35] >> These are criminals.

[9:37] >> A leading European diplomat was also

[9:39] here carrying a proposal Bosnians find

[9:41] hard to accept. Douglas Hog, the British

[9:44] foreign ministry told Bosnian President

[9:46] Aliyahovich he must negotiate with

[9:49] Serbian forces. No European military

[9:52] force will come here.

[9:53] >> No cavalry over the hill. There is no

[9:55] international force coming to stop this.

[9:57] That being so in the absence of

[9:59] discussions and a ceasefire, the killing

[10:01] will go on.

[10:02] >> But Bosnians say to negotiate with the

[10:04] Serbs would be to recognize that they

[10:06] should have a role in the government and

[10:08] they will never do that. Rick Davis, NBC

[10:11] News, Sievo.

[10:14] >> There is a troubling postcript tonight

[10:16] to another war, Operation Desert Storm.

[10:18] The Pentagon said today it is studying

[10:20] reports that some US veterans are now

[10:22] battling health problems linked to their

[10:24] duty in the Persian Gulf. More on this

[10:26] story now from NBC science correspondent

[10:27] Robert Bazelle.

[10:30] >> Many Desert Storm veterans vividly

[10:32] recall the oil fires. Chuck Weatherman

[10:34] was a Lance Corporal.

[10:36] >> The worst place we were at, that was one

[10:38] time it was about noon or 1:00 and we

[10:40] couldn't we could stand up and not be

[10:41] able to see our feet. Nowadays,

[10:43] Weatherman says he suffers from

[10:44] breathing problems, hair loss, fatigue,

[10:47] and vertigo.

[10:48] >> Can't can't work, support myself. The

[10:50] military is obviously not going to do

[10:52] anything to help me. Naturally, I'm

[10:54] worried.

[10:54] >> Chuck's father, Jim, a 26-year veteran

[10:57] of the Navy, has been collecting cases

[10:59] of other golf veterans with symptoms

[11:01] like Chucks. He's angered when some

[11:03] military doctors say the problem is

[11:05] stress. If there's stress, it's because

[11:07] they're wondering what's wrong with

[11:09] them, and they're wondering about the

[11:10] inattention and the insensitivity of the

[11:13] of the bureaucracy.

[11:14] >> No one knows how many veterans have

[11:16] symptoms.

[11:17] >> Right now, I've received about 70 cases

[11:20] that I've been dealing with, but I have

[11:22] the feeling that there is much much more

[11:23] because of the other soldiers on active

[11:27] duty that aren't coming forward

[11:28] publicly.

[11:29] >> John Green symptoms started when his

[11:31] tank unit was moving along the Euphrates

[11:33] River. I just had a real problem of

[11:36] blurred vision and my speech was real

[11:39] bad and within the two weeks I dropped

[11:42] 60 lbs.

[11:43] >> And he says the problems have continued

[11:45] since. Doctors say this wide variety of

[11:48] symptoms could be the result of exposure

[11:50] to the oil fires.

[11:52] >> I've seen numerous civilians that have

[11:54] been exposed to petrochemical substances

[11:56] that have similar symptoms. The Pentagon

[11:59] studies will try to determine how many

[12:01] Desert Storm veterans have health

[12:03] problems and what the causes might be.

[12:06] Robert Bazelle, NBC News, New York.

[12:09] Wall Street today, stocks were down

[12:11] again in moderate trading today.

[12:17] Never before, stealing just for the

[12:19] thrill of it. In 1990, more than

[12:22] 1,300,000

[12:23] cars were stolen overall, one every 24

[12:26] seconds. the nation's fastest growing

[12:29] property crime. NBC's Bob Herbert

[12:31] reports tonight from Newark, New Jersey.

[12:36] It's showtime. The car is a stolen BMW

[12:40] worth about $30,000. The maneuver is

[12:43] known as the donut. The idea is to leave

[12:46] donut-shaped skid marks on the pavement.

[12:49] Welcome to Newark, New Jersey, the car

[12:52] theft joy riding capital of America.

[12:55] 5:30 in the morning last Sunday morning,

[12:58] they were doing the donut out here. And

[13:00] I went to the phone to call the police

[13:02] and when I picked it up and I said 15,

[13:04] he said, "They're doing the donut,

[13:05] aren't they?" I said, "Yes." I said,

[13:06] "You know, you know," and they never did

[13:08] come. Young kids plus stolen cars equal

[13:12] accidents. There have been so many at

[13:15] this intersection that the landlord has

[13:16] mounted highway guard rails outside his

[13:19] house. How many times have cars crashed

[13:22] into this house? Uh, two times to my

[13:25] knowledge.

[13:26] >> You saw somebody get hit by a car?

[13:27] >> Yeah.

[13:28] >> What happened?

[13:29] >> Car hit him and kept going.

[13:30] >> South on Osborne Terrace has just went

[13:32] through the light.

[13:33] >> A special police task force has been

[13:35] formed to fight the problem. It is found

[13:38] that the problem is young, sometimes

[13:41] very young.

[13:43] >> Your mother,

[13:44] >> these youngsters were arrested last

[13:46] night. Me and the good sergeant pulled

[13:49] up and they started switching drivers.

[13:51] What I mean by switching drivers is they

[13:52] were taking turns driving a stolen car

[13:54] around.

[13:54] >> How old are these two kids?

[13:55] >> One is 12 years old, one is 14 years

[13:57] old.

[13:58] >> They were using the the floor mats of

[14:00] the car to drive because they weren't

[14:03] tall enough steering wheel. They were

[14:05] using the floor mats of the car to drive

[14:07] the car. You see the screwdriver right

[14:08] there to on the seat? That's apparently

[14:11] what they use to break the steering

[14:13] column.

[14:14] >> This is the biggest problem we have

[14:16] right now in the city of North is the

[14:17] little kids in the stolen cars.

[14:19] >> And it's dangerous. It's the danger's

[14:21] inside. They don't know how to drive a

[14:22] car. Look how he's operating this car.

[14:24] He He'll get killed. I got little kids

[14:26] in the street. I got people walking

[14:27] around with babies in their arms in this

[14:28] neighborhood. And this is the problem we

[14:30] run across. What's going to happen to

[14:31] these kids? Hopefully, the intake

[14:33] officer will want to put them in the

[14:35] youth house for the night. But

[14:36] unfortunately, it may be overcrowded.

[14:38] I'm sure we may not be able to get them

[14:39] in there. But the likelihood is that it

[14:41] won't be any more than one night.

[14:42] >> One night. Okay. Just that.

[14:45] >> For the kids, stealing cars is a big

[14:47] game. They get to joy ride, do their

[14:49] donuts, taunt the cops, and they seldom

[14:51] spend more than a night in jail. But

[14:54] it's a game with a heavy downside. And

[14:57] sometimes the downside is tragic. Two

[15:00] weeks ago, a 10-year-old boy was killed

[15:03] when a stolen minivan that he was riding

[15:05] in turned over. 3 days earlier, a

[15:09] 16-year-old girl was run down and

[15:11] seriously hurt by a stolen car. She's

[15:14] still in the hospital. The police

[15:16] themselves are targets. The young

[15:18] thieves get a kick out of aiming their

[15:20] cars at police vehicles and deliberately

[15:23] crashing into them. Sometimes they do it

[15:25] to see the cops airbags explode. Despite

[15:28] the task force, despite the dangers, the

[15:31] thefts go on.

[15:34] How old were you when you first stole a

[15:35] car?

[15:37] >> 11.

[15:38] >> And how old are you now?

[15:40] >> 13.

[15:41] >> Have you stopped stealing cars or do you

[15:43] still steal cars?

[15:44] >> I still do.

[15:45] Why do you still do it?

[15:47] >> For the fun of it.

[15:48] >> Bob Herbert, NBC News, New York, New

[15:51] Jersey.

[15:53] >> Some youngsters in Newark have been

[15:54] picked up 20 to 30 times for autotheft.

[15:57] Every 24 hours, 40 automobiles disappear

[16:00] in that city.

[16:03] >> Louise here

[16:03] >> was indicted in New York on federal

[16:05] charges that he bombed a jet liner over

[16:08] Colombia in 1989. All 110 people on

[16:11] board were killed. Two of them were

[16:12] Americans. Federal investigators blame

[16:15] vandalism for Wednesday night's Amtrak

[16:17] derailment in Virginia. A broken switch

[16:19] forced the train onto a sighting where

[16:21] it jumped the tracks. 70 people were

[16:23] injured.

[16:25] >> In Houston, the Republican platform

[16:27] committee wrapped up without

[16:28] compromising its tough anti-abortion

[16:30] line. The Bush campaign had pushed

[16:32] unsuccessfully to include language in

[16:34] the platform consiliatory to Republicans

[16:37] favoring abortion rights. The convention

[16:40] will begin Monday in Houston. John

[16:42] Chancellor is there with his commentary

[16:43] tonight.

[16:45] >> Here's something to remember about

[16:47] political reporters. We go to these

[16:49] conventions because they're often great

[16:51] theater, even in the tropical heat and

[16:53] humidity of Houston. Even though this is

[16:55] a convention of sobersided Republicans.

[16:58] And here's why it will be great theater.

[17:00] We have here a party in real trouble. In

[17:03] one recent survey, 80% of those pled

[17:05] disagreed with the way things are going

[17:07] in the country. This after 12 years of

[17:10] Republican presidents in the White

[17:11] House, only about onethird of the voters

[17:14] approve of the job the current

[17:15] Republican president is doing. 60% in a

[17:18] recent poll said Vice President Dan

[17:20] Quail is not qualified to step in if

[17:23] something happens to George Bush. And

[17:25] what may be the most gling statistic of

[17:27] all for the Republicans, most Americans

[17:30] don't think the outcome of the Gulf War

[17:32] was a victory for the United States.

[17:34] Further, the latest national poll shows

[17:37] Democrat Bill Clinton with an 18point

[17:39] lead over Republican George Bush. What a

[17:42] mess. Except that it won't look that

[17:44] way. The Republicans produce great

[17:46] political theater. Next week, the

[17:48] Houston Astradome is going to throb with

[17:50] upbeat themes and optimistic messages

[17:53] for four red, white, and blue days. You

[17:56] watch. And nearly all of us in the

[17:58] political press think this election will

[18:00] be a close race by October. Nobody in

[18:03] the press seats at this convention is

[18:04] predicting the outcome in November. It

[18:07] may look terrible now for the

[18:08] Republicans, but this contest is just

[18:11] getting started, which is commentary for

[18:13] today. See you next week. See you there,

[18:16] John. It takes a lot of sky, of course,

[18:18] to train flyers, and the Air National

[18:20] Guard is looking for even more sky these

[18:22] days, but NBC News has learned the

[18:24] language inserted into a Senate bill

[18:26] would freeze allocation of any new

[18:28] airspace for training. NBC's Roger

[18:31] O'Neal.

[18:33] >> The mountainous terrain of the St. Louis

[18:35] Valley in southern Colorado makes the

[18:37] skies over the old Lazy U Ranch

[18:40] critically important for the F-16 pilots

[18:42] training for war.

[18:48] But for the monks of the Carmelite

[18:50] Monastery, the noise makes it difficult

[18:52] to pray for peace.

[18:56] I came here to pray and to do penance

[18:59] and to mind my own business and it's

[19:00] been hard being a monk with jets flying

[19:03] over at 100 ft.

[19:04] >> The pilots want these Colorado mountains

[19:06] for Redeye, a new military operations

[19:08] area for war games. In Maine, it's

[19:11] Condor, a 200 square mile region for

[19:14] expanded training. And in 22 other

[19:16] states, the Air National Guard wants

[19:18] more of the skies. We need more space to

[19:20] operate in. It's important that we train

[19:23] the way we would fight. Once just

[19:25] weekend fly boys, the Air Guard's new

[19:27] mission as ordered by Congress is to fly

[19:29] shoulder-to-shoulder with active duty

[19:31] pilots to be on the front lines. Instead

[19:34] of handme-down A7 bombers, which

[19:36] required relatively small amounts of

[19:38] airspace to train in, the Air Guard now

[19:40] has modern F-15 and F-16s. And to fly

[19:43] that plane, pilots need two to three

[19:46] times more airspace.

[19:50] Just like in the movie Top Gun, though,

[19:52] there are always a few jet jockeyies who

[19:54] bend the rules.

[19:56] >> Have incident after incident of these

[19:58] planes actually strafing cars, strafing

[20:01] people, strafing our children, strafing

[20:03] them off at school over here, flying

[20:06] under power lines.

[20:07] >> That's why people are against giving any

[20:09] more airspace to the military. The

[20:12] general in charge of the Colorado Pilots

[20:14] admits abuses, hopes there will be no

[20:16] more. But Mason Whitney knows once

[20:18] you've been buzzed by an F-16, you never

[20:21] forget.

[20:22] >> The Air National Guard says if it can't

[20:24] get any more airspace, then the pilots

[20:26] who fly these F-16s will not be ready

[20:29] for war. Roger O'Neal, NBC News of

[20:32] Buckley Air National Guard base in

[20:34] Aurora, Colorado. Another matter

[20:37] altogether, Woody Allen once said that

[20:38] he and Mia Pharaoh were amazed at how

[20:40] little they had in common. They never

[20:42] married or shared a home, but the

[20:44] filmmaker and his leading lady have been

[20:46] longtime companions. Well, today Allan

[20:49] filed suit when custody of their three

[20:51] last one being Operation Desert Storm.

[20:53] Deadlines, generally in the middle of

[20:54] the night, kept him on the run, but he

[20:56] invariably paused long enough to laugh

[20:58] and roll his eyes and share with me the

[21:00] latest antic.

[21:03] Sam and the rest of us who get the

[21:04] camera time and attention are only the

[21:06] most visible part of this process. David

[21:09] and hundreds more like him are the

[21:11] anonymous heroes of this electronic

[21:12] family. It makes it all the more unfair

[21:15] that when you first hear his name, it is

[21:17] about his death.

[21:24] A camera caught this gunman taking 20

[21:27] innocent people hostage.

[21:28] >> None of us had any idea what the man

[21:30] wanted. From the first terrifying

[21:32] moment,

[21:32] >> we were all scared that he was going to

[21:34] shoot us, so we got down on our knees.

[21:36] to the final heroic rescue.