NBC Nightly News - 1992-12-11
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[0:01] A killer storm stuns the eastern part of
[0:04] the United States with hurricane force
[0:05] winds. In Somalia, the warlords agree to
[0:09] a ceasefire, but shooting continues. And
[0:11] on America Closeup tonight, the changing
[0:14] role of the US military.
[0:17] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Bro.
[0:22] Reporting tonight from Somalia with Jane
[0:26] Paulie in New York.
[0:28] Good evening once again from Moadishio
[0:30] International Airport where Operation
[0:33] Restore Hope continues its steady
[0:35] buildup of troops and material. But the
[0:38] big story tonight is in the United
[0:40] States where an unexpectedly fierce
[0:42] storm has been lashing the eastern
[0:44] seabboard. We'll begin our program
[0:46] tonight with that story and Jane
[0:47] Paulie's in New York with details. Jane,
[0:50] >> thanks Tom. Before we get back to you in
[0:51] Somalia, that winter storm that's been
[0:53] wreaking havoc along the Jersey Shore,
[0:55] New York's Long Island, and New York
[0:57] City, it's been spinning in place most
[0:59] of the day off Delaware Bay, bringing
[1:02] snow, rain, high tides, and merciless
[1:05] winds with hurricane force gusts. WNBC
[1:08] TV's Ben Farnsworth has been reporting
[1:10] all day out in it from one of the
[1:12] hardest hit coastal towns, Sebrite, New
[1:14] Jersey. Ben, what's the latest? Jane,
[1:17] the surf is still surging, although the
[1:20] wind is eased and the flood waters have
[1:21] receded. But earlier today, this storm
[1:24] sent the sea everywhere.
[1:29] >> Okay, we're getting flooded pretty bad
[1:30] down here. Uh, everything's all closed
[1:32] down.
[1:33] >> The town of Sebrite was underwater in
[1:35] some places, as much as 4 ft, making it
[1:37] tough for rescue teams to reach people
[1:39] trapped in their houses.
[1:41] >> Bill Labianca and his family were
[1:42] evacuated this morning. The waves were
[1:44] coming over the seaw wall and running
[1:46] down the street and into coming into our
[1:49] house area and it looked like it was a
[1:53] good time to get out of there.
[1:55] >> Seabbrite up barrier island on the New
[1:57] Jersey coast is vulnerable to flooding
[1:59] anyway. Today's tides were 8 ft above
[2:01] normal and winds in excess of 75 m an
[2:04] hour.
[2:04] >> I've been here all my life. I've never
[2:06] seen a storm worse than this. Absolutely
[2:08] terrible.
[2:09] >> We didn't expect it to be this bad. We
[2:11] got flooded out about 4 and 1/2 ft in
[2:14] the house.
[2:16] We were watching boats float by and
[2:19] cars cars and it was really bad.
[2:23] >> Rescue workers say most houses have some
[2:25] wind or water damage and the deep water
[2:27] and high winds made it difficult to
[2:28] reach people who decided to ride out the
[2:30] storm.
[2:32] >> The big fear now is what happens at the
[2:34] next high tide. With new water surging
[2:37] in, it'll only make matters worse. Ben
[2:40] Farnsworth for NBC News in Sebrite, New
[2:42] Jersey. Jane,
[2:44] >> thanks. Ben, the same storm system
[2:46] that's been moving up the coast since
[2:48] last night dumped snow in several
[2:50] states, as much as three feet in parts
[2:52] of Maryland and Pennsylvania. They don't
[2:54] name norers like they do hurricanes. But
[2:56] as NBC's Gary Matsumoto reports, they do
[2:59] have a name for this one.
[3:02] The National Weather Service is calling
[3:03] it a hundred-year storm because storms
[3:06] of this severity, it says, only come
[3:08] round about once a century. This
[3:10] noraster has turned the Atlantic into a
[3:12] cauldron. Heavy seas churned up by winds
[3:15] gusting to 90 mph pounded the shore from
[3:18] Georgia to Massachusetts. More than 2 ft
[3:20] of snow fell on Virginia and West
[3:22] Virginia. High tides and high winds have
[3:25] made a destructive combination. It was
[3:28] the most intense storm system to affect
[3:30] the area since about 1950. Off the
[3:33] Virginia coast, the storm ripped this
[3:34] oil tanker loose from its tug. It was a
[3:37] drift for several hours, loaded with
[3:39] 400,000 gallons of fuel. In
[3:42] Pennsylvania, a church steeple sheared
[3:44] off by gale force winds, speared the Ben
[3:46] Franklin Bridge that links Philadelphia
[3:48] with southern New Jersey. The bridge is
[3:50] closed indefinitely. Outside
[3:52] Philadelphia, winds knocked down trees
[3:54] and power lines. Thousands of homes were
[3:56] blacked out. This school in Lancaster,
[3:59] Pennsylvania, had its roof blown off.
[4:01] Sheets of rain and high tide swept the
[4:03] Atlantic City boardwalk.
[4:06] In Hoboken, New Jersey, overflow from
[4:08] the Hudson River flooded subway
[4:10] stations. Electrical systems shorted
[4:12] out. Local trains were marooned on their
[4:15] tracks. On one rail line alone, nearly a
[4:17] quarter million commuters were stranded.
[4:20] The Hudson and the East Rivers flanking
[4:22] either side of Manhattan have been
[4:24] surging over their embankments all day,
[4:27] turning the streets of New York City
[4:29] into something resembling the canals of
[4:31] Venice. Even worse, across town, one of
[4:34] Manhattan's main expressways was shut
[4:36] down completely. New York's LaGuardia
[4:39] Airport was closed because of flooding.
[4:41] For a time, many trains stopped running
[4:43] in and out of New York's Grand Central
[4:44] Station. Many businesses closed early
[4:47] today to give employees extra time to
[4:49] get home.
[4:50] >> Our building's about 3 ft underwater,
[4:52] evacuated. Power's out, systems gone
[4:54] down.
[4:55] >> I was holding on to a lamp post at one
[4:57] point because of the velocity of the
[4:59] winds. Been a mess all day trying to
[5:01] figure out a way to get home.
[5:02] >> Meteorologists say the worst of the
[5:04] storm is lingering over the New York and
[5:06] New Jersey coast and will move on
[5:07] towards Boston overnight. Gary
[5:09] Matsumoto, NBC News, New York. When
[5:13] nightly news continues, Tom Broka in
[5:15] Somalia with the warlord ceasefire.
[5:20] >> So in my interview, they told me how Dao
[5:22] can take all this coal and turn it into
[5:25] clean burning gas. Wouldn't that cut
[5:26] down on acid rain?
[5:28] >> You got it. Sounds like one serious job,
[5:30] son. I just wish it wasn't so far away.
[5:34] >> Got a mission, Mike.
[5:36] >> Hey, take care of this for me. You can
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[6:19] Back here at Moadishu International
[6:21] Airport, troops and material for
[6:22] Operation Restore Hope continue to
[6:24] arrive around the clock. And now the
[6:27] complexity and the size of this job,
[6:29] they're beginning to emerge. Tonight,
[6:32] there is some encouraging news on the
[6:34] Somalian political front. While
[6:37] Operation Restore Hope continued the
[6:39] rapid buildup of forces, more than 4,000
[6:41] troops now, the two major warlords were
[6:44] meeting at the US embassy where they
[6:46] agreed to a ceasefire. General Adid and
[6:49] Ali called on their troops to disarm,
[6:52] and they promised to work on a joint
[6:54] military council, ending their day of
[6:56] goodwill with a common prayer. But
[6:59] operation restore hope forces didn't
[7:00] lower their guard. Security still is the
[7:03] first priority. And even after the
[7:04] ceasefire agreement was announced,
[7:06] sporadic firing was heard in Moadishu.
[7:09] Mogadishu remains a lawless city. But
[7:12] 100 miles west of here, conditions are
[7:14] much worse. Vidoa, a city of death,
[7:19] where this morning and every morning,
[7:21] bodies of the overnight dead are
[7:23] collected.
[7:25] A daily difficult ritual performed with
[7:28] dignity.
[7:30] This is what Operation Hope faces next.
[7:34] That ceasefire agreement between the two
[7:36] major warlords is an important first
[7:38] step. If this country's political
[7:40] situation is ever to be resolved,
[7:43] however, just a few hours after the
[7:44] ceasefire was announced, there was
[7:46] sniper fire here at the airport and
[7:49] gunfire rattled other parts of the city.
[7:51] As NBC's Martin Fletcher tells us
[7:53] tonight, there's a vast difference in
[7:55] this country between a ceasefire
[7:56] announcement and reality.
[7:59] >> The capital's gunmen have pulled back
[8:01] from the city center, but not very far
[8:03] back. These gunmen are just one mile
[8:05] from the Marines and the French Foreign
[8:07] Legion. But they say they're no threat
[8:09] to the Americans. They welcome them. The
[8:11] real threat, they say, comes from yet
[8:13] another group who weren't even invited
[8:15] to today's talks, the Muslim
[8:17] fundamentalists. The chief threat to the
[8:19] peace mission is not from vengeful
[8:21] gunmen angry at the foreign troops.
[8:23] According to the gunman themselves, it
[8:25] comes from fundamentalist Muslims who
[8:27] prefer anarchy over order. They're not
[8:29] many, but they're close.
[8:32] >> They described the shelling and shooting
[8:34] that shook Modishu at dawn. They fought
[8:36] a gun battle from this position with
[8:38] Islamic fundamentalists a mile away in
[8:40] that row of pink houses. At that moment,
[8:43] the fundamentalists fired another round
[8:45] at the Bogadishu.
[8:48] Now they want the Marines to fight the
[8:49] fundamentalists to make peace. But why
[8:52] do you expect the Americans to go in and
[8:53] fight the fundamentalists for you? They
[8:55] came here on a humanitarian mission, not
[8:56] to fight Somalis.
[8:59] >> Because he said if they shoot you,
[9:01] you'll have to shoot back. And they
[9:03] already are sniping at the French
[9:04] troops.
[9:05] >> They are not really significantly
[9:08] strong, but they have gained some ground
[9:11] lately because of the economic situation
[9:14] of the country. They want to create
[9:17] misunderstanding and mistrust.
[9:19] >> Somalia is a Muslim nation. Most do want
[9:22] peace and hope the Marines will persuade
[9:24] or force the warlords to put away their
[9:26] guns and as they say here to sit under
[9:29] the tree together.
[9:31] After two years of war, this is a tired
[9:33] nation. Two years with no electricity,
[9:36] running water or telephones. Two years
[9:38] of violence and fear. And it isn't over
[9:41] yet. A road. The driver wouldn't stop.
[9:44] The guards got angry.
[9:50] >> Everyone said last week they had guns.
[9:53] Five people would have died. Now thanks
[9:55] to the Marines is just sticks and
[9:57] stones.
[9:59] Here that's progress.
[10:01] Fetcher, NBC News Moadishu.
[10:05] >> US forces still are confined mostly to
[10:07] the capital to the Moadishu area, but
[10:09] now they do have a jumping off place for
[10:11] the interior. NBC's Keith Miller tonight
[10:15] at an abandoned airirstrip reclaimed.
[10:17] It's called Balogi.
[10:21] >> It may look like a miracle, but solving
[10:23] the problems of Somalia will be a slow
[10:25] and possibly painful experience for
[10:27] everyone.
[10:29] US forces advanced 100 miles west of the
[10:32] capital today. They took over an
[10:34] airfield called Balucle.
[10:37] They are being cautious and painfully
[10:39] slow to those who need them most. To
[10:42] speed up the delivery of relief
[10:44] supplies, the American military will try
[10:45] and use abandoned airfields such as this
[10:48] former headquarters of the Somali Air
[10:50] Force.
[10:52] On the ground, US forces have been
[10:54] confined to Moadishu.
[10:57] Security on the roads outside the
[10:59] capital is still unpredictable and
[11:02] traveling without an armed escort is
[11:04] dangerous.
[11:06] Eight agencies have been given
[11:08] permission by the military to travel
[11:10] with gunmen.
[11:10] >> We're now allowed to carry rifles and uh
[11:13] pistols as of yesterday because there
[11:15] were six uh eight cars looted yesterday
[11:20] >> in Bidoa. The situation is critical.
[11:23] >> Aid officials here have given up taking
[11:25] a daily body count. We're
[11:27] >> looking forward to the uh war surgery
[11:30] practice to take a mark decline once the
[11:32] Americans get here, if they ever get
[11:34] here. We've been waiting now for three
[11:36] or four days. They keep saying they're
[11:37] coming. Kind of like the checks in the
[11:39] mail.
[11:40] >> At Juan Leane Feeding Center, there's
[11:42] only enough food to last 3 days. Number
[11:45] 1266 has survived a severe case of
[11:48] measles.
[11:50] Baby Sara is still painfully
[11:52] malnourished.
[11:54] She doesn't know it, but she's waiting
[11:56] for the American forces, too.
[11:58] >> Keith Miller, NBC News. Juan Lee Wayne,
[12:02] Somalia.
[12:04] I'll be back from Somalia later in the
[12:06] program and Jame Paulie will have
[12:07] America close up tonight on our
[12:10] country's changing military role.
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[13:46] Closeup tonight. As the Somalia mission
[13:48] reminds us, the US military wants to be
[13:51] all it can be. But in the postcold war
[13:54] 1990s, what can or should the armed
[13:56] services be? It's a question being asked
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[14:01] world. NBC's John Cochran has more.
[14:06] November 1992, the new military
[14:09] withdrawing from the Philippines,
[14:11] pulling back, scaling back, thinking
[14:13] smaller. 2 weeks later, December 1992,
[14:17] the new military landing in Somalia,
[14:19] pushing forward, taking on new
[14:21] challenges, thinking big. Well, which is
[14:25] it? Which is the new military we keep
[14:27] hearing about? GIS saying goodbye to
[14:30] their Manila girlfriends or GIS starting
[14:33] their mission in Mogadishu. Didn't we
[14:36] decide all this during that endless
[14:37] presidential campaign? Didn't voters
[14:39] tell George Bush, "You just don't get
[14:42] it." I want him to pay attention to what
[14:44] our problems are, not everyone else's
[14:47] problems worldwide. And didn't voters
[14:50] way back in the Republican primaries
[14:52] tell Bush to forget about foreign
[14:53] affairs? Well, no, they didn't. They
[14:56] rejected Pat Buchanan's brand of
[14:58] isolationism. And even though Bill
[15:00] Clinton emphasized domestic problems, he
[15:03] never said, "Let's ignore the rest of
[15:05] the world." Clinton urged military
[15:07] action in Bosnia. And his proposed
[15:09] spending on defense is not much
[15:11] different from what Bush proposed.
[15:13] >> About 95% as much as he proposes to
[15:16] spend over the next 5 years, but we
[15:18] would spend it differently.
[15:19] >> Clinton would keep fewer troops overseas
[15:21] and spend more on airlift and seal lift
[15:23] mobility. Clinton would also cut 25% of
[15:27] the armed forces, 500,000 people.
[15:30] Military people feel it's unfair. They
[15:32] know the Cold War is over, but they say
[15:35] just since the Berlin Wall was breached,
[15:37] look what we have done. invaded Panama
[15:40] and arrested Manuel Noriega. Drove
[15:42] Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
[15:45] Protected Kurds in northern Iraq. Helped
[15:47] restore order after the riots in Los
[15:49] Angeles. Airlifted food and medicine to
[15:52] Bosnia. Rescued the rescue effort, which
[15:55] was floundering after Hurricane Andrew
[15:57] in Florida. And now, Operation Restore
[16:00] Hope, which gives the Pentagon a chance
[16:02] to advertise that it can save lives as
[16:05] long as Clinton and Congress don't cut
[16:07] too deep.
[16:08] >> The nation is blessed that it has
[16:11] military capability during a period of
[16:14] historic draw down that can respond in a
[16:16] moment's notice to this type of
[16:18] operation. And if another one popped up
[16:21] tomorrow, we could do that, too. Others
[16:23] say the military can further justify its
[16:26] existence by taking on the role of well
[16:28] of role models. We have 400,000 black
[16:32] men and women in the military who are
[16:34] tremendous role models for our society.
[16:36] 90,000 Hispanics. Every military base is
[16:39] uh some near some population area or is
[16:42] accessible to that. I would like to see
[16:44] our military people out in the schools
[16:46] visiting people for an hour or two every
[16:48] week. But some think the military is
[16:50] losing its identity and its combat
[16:52] readiness by taking on non-combat
[16:54] duties. In a new article, Air Force
[16:56] Lieutenant Colonel Charles Dunlap wrote
[16:58] that such chores can leave the military
[17:01] unfit to engage an authentic military
[17:03] opponent. Ironically, just before the
[17:05] article was printed, Dunlap was sent to
[17:07] help with the relief effort to Somalia.
[17:09] And now, despite what he wrote, even he
[17:12] thinks the US has no choice when faced
[17:15] with this.
[17:17] John Cochran, NBC News, Washington.
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[19:58] evident than at US base, the US base in
[20:00] Guantanamo, Cuba. Among the Haitians
[20:03] held in legal limbo there for 13 months,
[20:06] a group infected with the AIDS virus.
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[20:13] >> The 276 Haitians are kept behind barbed
[20:16] wire even though they are not charged
[20:18] with a crime.
[20:19] >> It's not good. It's not really a
[20:21] condition, you know, for for human.
[20:25] >> In fact, the government says they are
[20:27] eligible for political asylum in the US.
[20:30] Many would face reprisals, even death if
[20:32] they returned to Haiti. But under a
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[20:38] positive for the AIDS virus cannot enter
[20:41] the country. Lawyers have been trying to
[20:43] win their freedom in the courts.
[20:44] >> Well, what we have there is essentially
[20:46] a concentration camp for people who have
[20:49] an HIV virus.
[20:53] >> 40 children and 22 pregnant women are
[20:55] living in a camp. In several families,
[20:58] including this one, only one member, in
[21:00] this case the mother, is infected.
[21:02] Four-year-old Stephanie and 5-year-old
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[21:06] doctors who treat the Haitians, cannot
[21:08] yet tell whether sunshine, born last
[21:10] month at Guantanamo, was infected. The
[21:12] detainees live in cinder block
[21:14] buildings. Flies are everywhere. Hanging
[21:17] bed sheets are the only source of
[21:18] privacy for families living in spaces
[21:21] only a few feet wide. Colonel Steve
[21:23] Kinder took command of the camp after
[21:25] riots last summer.
[21:26] >> Really, I'm not a politician. I'm just
[21:28] here to to take care of and I do the
[21:30] best I can for him. And
[21:31] >> military people are doing their best,
[21:33] but federal health officials say the
[21:34] camp is a potential breeding ground for
[21:37] serious infections. The government
[21:39] opened the camp to reporters only after
[21:41] several news organizations filed a
[21:43] lawsuit.
[21:45] The
[21:46] >> residents greeted us with signs and
[21:47] shouts demanding their freedom,
[21:49] something they hope Bill Clinton will
[21:51] grant them as soon as he takes office.
[21:54] >> Robert Bazelle, NBC News, Guantanamo
[21:56] Bay, Cuba.
[21:58] >> A New York City judge ruled today that
[22:00] no cameras will be allowed in the
[22:02] courtroom when the Woody Allen Mia Faroh
[22:04] child custody case goes to trial next
[22:06] Tuesday. It promises nonetheless to be a
[22:09] drama with twists and intrigue and
[22:11] involves allegations that Allan sexually
[22:14] abused an adopted daughter. NBC's John
[22:17] Miller is here now with more on the
[22:19] story. John,
[22:20] >> well Jane, it has all the elements of a
[22:22] Woody Allen movie plot. It's about love
[22:24] and sex and betrayal, but it is a dark
[22:26] story with none of the laughs.
[22:28] >> I'm so humiliated. I don't
[22:30] >> Woody and Mia are a famous couple with
[22:32] famous friends. I like them both very
[22:35] much and it's sad to see something so
[22:38] awful happen to people's friends.
[22:40] >> From the beginning, the battle has been
[22:42] fought in the headlines. Woody's press
[22:45] conference. Mia's side in Vanity Fair.
[22:48] Woody's appearance on 60 Minutes. Mia's
[22:52] story with photos of the kids sold by
[22:54] her to a British tabloid.
[22:57] Mia's style is public relations
[22:58] guerrilla warfare. Mia uses friends and
[23:01] relatives to plant anti-Woody barbs in
[23:04] the press.
[23:04] >> She's been using her friends on both
[23:06] coasts to to say terrible things about
[23:09] me and to lie about me continually.
[23:11] >> Woody's approach is more sophisticated,
[23:13] remaining silent for months, then
[23:15] strategically giving interviews or
[23:17] releasing items like the bizarre
[23:20] Valentine card given him by Pharaoh with
[23:22] knives and skewers through the family's
[23:24] hearts. In a statement, Farah told NBC
[23:28] News she wouldn't be interviewed about
[23:29] Woody Allen for this story and asked
[23:31] that her friends not talk to us about
[23:33] Allen either. She said for the sake of
[23:35] the children.
[23:37] >> She's paraded her children on television
[23:39] and my children on television. She's
[23:41] allowed them to be photographed by
[23:43] magazines for commercial purposes.
[23:45] >> In Mia Faroh's statement to NBC News,
[23:48] for the first time, she seemed to take a
[23:50] step back from the charge that Allen
[23:51] molested their seven-year-old daughter.
[23:54] The statement reads, "I have never
[23:56] accused Woody Allen of child
[23:57] molestation. I repeat, never. What I did
[24:00] do was take my daughter to a physician
[24:02] who, according to Connecticut state law,
[24:05] was required to report her story to
[24:07] authorities."
[24:08] >> I think what she's trying to do is
[24:10] position it so that when the truth comes
[24:12] out, she'll be able to blame the little
[24:14] girl and say, you know, it's not me. The
[24:16] little girl said it.
[24:18] >> Will this case move from the newsrooms
[24:20] to the courtrooms? Connecticut
[24:22] authorities still haven't decided
[24:23] whether to charge Allen. They are
[24:25] waiting for a report from a medical team
[24:27] at Yale. Jane,
[24:29] >> thanks John. On Wall Street today, more
[24:31] profit taking push stocks lower in
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[26:41] >> When I arrived here a week ago, I
[26:42] thought I was prepared for Somalia.
[26:44] After all, we've been covering the
[26:46] deteriorating political situation here
[26:48] for some time. And like everyone else, I
[26:50] had been absorbed by those haunting
[26:52] pictures of the Somalian people. I was
[26:56] prepared, I thought.
[26:58] I was not.
[27:01] This is a refugee camp and feeding
[27:03] center run by the International Red
[27:04] Cross in Moadishu.
[27:06] This is a success story. Habiba is the
[27:10] matriarch.
[27:11] >> She's had more to feed since the Marines
[27:13] arrived. More to sit beside 85-year-old
[27:16] Issha
[27:19] who walked 100 miles to get here.
[27:22] Mohamad, 20 years old, who is actually
[27:25] making progress,
[27:27] >> although he appears to be slipping away
[27:29] from home.
[27:30] >> More to share the pitiful shelter space
[27:32] of this woman and her sons, ages 10 and
[27:35] 15. She lost her husband to hunger. Now
[27:39] she says, matter of factly, I have no
[27:41] husband, no house, no medical care. Her
[27:45] story is not unusual. 75% of the
[27:48] Somalian population, more than 4 million
[27:50] people, need help, lots of help. These
[27:55] proud people, with their grace and
[27:56] beauty unddeinished by their burden,
[27:59] this battered land, are desperate beyond
[28:02] my means to describe it.
[28:05] Operation Restore Hope is an honorable
[28:07] objective,
[28:09] but Somalia cannot survive on hope
[28:11] alone.
[28:16] That's nightly news for this Friday
[28:17] night from Somalia. And Jane, I'll see
[28:20] you back in New York next week.
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