CBS Evening News - 1999-08-11

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[0:03] The face of hate. A white supremacist

[0:06] allegedly out to kill Jews surrenders to

[0:08] face charges in the shooting rampage at

[0:10] a Jewish community center in California.

[0:13] We'll look at the spread in America of

[0:15] this potentially deadly cancer called

[0:18] hate and who's behind it. And it came

[0:21] without warning. A killer tornado plows

[0:24] through the heart of Salt Lake City.

[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:33] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:36] headquarters in New York. Good evening.

[0:39] The FBI has its man tonight and his

[0:41] possible motive. He surrendered less

[0:43] than 24 hours after a shooting rampage

[0:46] in California. Here's the latest. Buford

[0:48] Furl is the accused. He has deep

[0:51] connections to hate groups in the

[0:52] Pacific Northwest. A rapidfire weapon

[0:55] was apparently used to spray more than

[0:57] 70 bullets into the lobby of the Los

[0:59] Angeles County Jewish Community Center.

[1:02] Besides wounding several very young

[1:04] children, he may also have killed a

[1:06] postal worker near the community center.

[1:09] CBS's Sandra Hughes begins tonight's

[1:11] coverage.

[1:14] As the SWAT team swooped down on a local

[1:16] hotel just miles from the shooting

[1:18] scene, their suspect was already gone.

[1:21] Police thought 37year-old Buford Furrow

[1:24] was holed up inside the Seven Crowns

[1:26] hotel after finding a car they say he

[1:28] carjacked parked outside.

[1:30] >> He appears that the suspect left the Los

[1:33] Angeles area via ta taxi cab that took

[1:36] him to the area of the California Nevada

[1:38] border. At that time he traveled via a

[1:42] second cab to Las Vegas office of the

[1:44] FBI.

[1:46] Then he turned himself in with a simple

[1:48] explanation that he was the one who

[1:51] killed those kids in Los Angeles.

[1:53] Reportedly, he told the FBI that he

[1:55] wanted this to be quote, "a wakeup call

[1:58] to America to kill Jews.

[2:00] >> Nobody intimidates me and nobody

[2:03] intimidates the Jewish community."

[2:05] >> That was reaction from the Jewish

[2:07] Community Center to Furrow's

[2:08] anti-Semitic comments as it tried to

[2:11] return to normal life. But some parents

[2:13] were still concerned about the terror

[2:15] their children witnessed just yesterday.

[2:18] >> I was scared last night because I

[2:20] thought he was in my house and I got

[2:23] scared. I thought he was going to shoot

[2:25] me.

[2:25] >> Trying to erase the physical reminders

[2:28] of hate, a parade of repairmen arrived

[2:30] at the community center today to start

[2:32] what appears to be a huge job.

[2:35] >> The lobby is parked uh by bullet holes.

[2:40] I think it's been reported that there

[2:41] are between 70 and 80.

[2:43] >> The five victims, who were all gunned

[2:45] down in the lobby, are expected to

[2:46] survive. The most seriously injured, a

[2:49] 5-year-old boy, lost about half his

[2:51] blood supply and almost died.

[2:54] >> We are very hopeful, but absolutely not

[2:57] out of the woods.

[2:58] >> This counselor at the community center

[3:00] helped that child.

[3:01] >> Um, he came out, he was really

[3:03] cooperative. He was he I told him to

[3:06] breathe and he was breathing deeply and

[3:08] he was very calm.

[3:09] >> It's now believed that Furrow's shooting

[3:11] spree didn't end at the Jewish Community

[3:13] Center. Nearby, a postal worker was

[3:16] found shot to death. CBS News has

[3:18] learned Furrow will face federal charges

[3:21] for that murder.

[3:23] Now, Furrow will also face five counts

[3:26] of attempted murder and either state or

[3:29] federal hate crime charges. US customs

[3:32] will provide a Blackhawk helicopter to

[3:35] bring Furrow back to Los Angeles

[3:37] possibly tomorrow. Dan

[3:39] >> Sandra Hughes, thanks. What motivated

[3:42] such hateful thought and violent action?

[3:45] What were this man's connections and

[3:46] contacts? We asked CBS's Vince Gonzalez

[3:50] to look into the life of Buford Furrow

[3:52] before his violent burst onto the

[3:54] national scene.

[3:56] In the van he abandoned not far from the

[3:58] site of yesterday's shootings, suspected

[4:00] gunman Buford Furrow left clues that may

[4:03] show years of hate pushed him to

[4:05] violence. Besides the boxes of

[4:07] ammunition and the survival gear, there

[4:09] was a book in the van written by a

[4:11] leader of the racist Christian identity

[4:12] movement. That same author wrote what

[4:14] has become the hate handbook for violent

[4:17] anti-semitic zealots called the Phineas

[4:19] Priests. He was motivated by Christian

[4:21] identity, which calls for the uh

[4:24] elimination of Jews.

[4:26] >> Fur may have first come in contact with

[4:28] Christian identity groups as a member of

[4:30] the neo-Nazi Aryan nations, seen here

[4:33] wearing one of their uniforms. He was

[4:35] reportedly a lieutenant in that group's

[4:37] security force at this 1995 rally. Furl

[4:40] also has a connection to one of the most

[4:42] violent hate groups called the order. He

[4:44] recently lived with the widow of that

[4:46] group's founder, Robert Matthews.

[4:48] Matthews was killed in a shootout with

[4:50] federal agents in 1984. A former

[4:53] neo-Nazi remembers seeing Furrow teach

[4:55] hand-to-hand combat at a recruiting

[4:57] rally marking Hitler's birthday in 1996.

[5:00] >> Basically, what his specialty was, he

[5:02] was trained people on knives. These are

[5:04] often uh individuals who are sociopathic

[5:08] but who are pulled into the groups

[5:10] because the groups speak so violently

[5:12] and offer them a uh moral justification

[5:16] for the murders that they really want to

[5:18] commit.

[5:18] >> Last year, Furrow reportedly tried to

[5:20] commit himself to this psychiatric

[5:22] hospital, but ended up spending time in

[5:24] jail after pulling a knife on the

[5:25] hospital staff. And more than 6 months

[5:28] before the shooting spree in California,

[5:30] Furrow gave a chilling warning. He told

[5:32] a sheriff's deputy, "Sometimes I feel

[5:34] like I could just lose it and kill

[5:36] people." Vince Gonzalez, CBS News, Los

[5:39] Angeles.

[5:41] >> As Vince Gonzalez mentioned, the hate

[5:42] agenda of the hate group calling itself

[5:45] the Phineas Priest movement may have

[5:48] influenced Buford Furrow. It appears

[5:49] that it did. Walter thie is now serving

[5:52] 39 years in an Atlanta prison for two

[5:55] armed robberies designed to bankroll the

[5:57] Phineas priest agenda. I spoke with Thod

[6:00] in prison three years ago. His views

[6:04] offer chilling insight into the kind of

[6:06] American rampage of hate that took place

[6:08] in California.

[6:10] >> We are at war.

[6:11] >> Phineas priests see themselves as quote

[6:14] armed Christian soldiers. Do you

[6:16] consider this or do you not consider it

[6:19] a religious war that you're waging? Yes,

[6:21] it is a religious war in in the sense of

[6:25] it being something based on moral values

[6:28] which are

[6:30] themselves based in scripture.

[6:32] >> And he says that despite their

[6:33] self-described moral values, they are

[6:36] more than capable and often willing to

[6:38] assassinate their enemies.

[6:39] >> Assassination is murder. Not in case of

[6:42] warfare. It's not. We send our men out

[6:45] to to war all the time and tell them to

[6:48] kill the enemy. against whom is this war

[6:50] being ra waged?

[6:52] >> Our government is under the control of

[6:55] an elite group behind the scenes. If you

[6:59] examine the record of who are the people

[7:01] that are behind this that you'll find

[7:03] that a very large percentage of them, I

[7:06] would say roughly 90% to 95% are Jews.

[7:10] And from Pharaoh's statements today, the

[7:12] hatred of Jews could prove to be the

[7:14] connection between the Phineas priests

[7:16] and the shooting at the Jewish Community

[7:18] Center in Los Angeles. The shocking

[7:20] belief thie holds is that Jews, as he

[7:23] reads scripture, are from the house of

[7:25] the devil.

[7:26] >> They are not the people they claim to

[7:28] be. They claim to be descendants of

[7:30] Israel. They are not.

[7:33] They are liars.

[7:36] And I call them liars blatantly because

[7:39] they are. Revelation 2:9 and 3:9 refers

[7:43] to them as the synagogue of Satan.

[7:45] >> Please note, while Walter Thot's views

[7:47] may have fueled and influenced Buford

[7:49] Faroh in some way based on the books

[7:52] found in Furrow's Vand, there is no

[7:54] evidence that the two ever met. The

[7:56] attack in Los Angeles is the latest sign

[7:58] of a disturbing change in the face of

[8:01] hate crime in this country. CBS's Bob

[8:03] McNamera reports. Responsibility appears

[8:05] to be shifting from organized hate

[8:08] mongers to individuals while possibly

[8:11] connected to groups mostly acting on

[8:13] their own.

[8:15] >> Fear brought tightened security and

[8:17] bolted doors to synagogues, schools, and

[8:20] Jewish community centers from coast to

[8:22] coast today.

[8:23] >> Whether it's the person was aiming at

[8:25] Jews or not, um it's just scary. If hate

[8:28] really was at the heart of the attack on

[8:30] the Jewish Community Center here, then

[8:32] experts tracking hate crimes say a

[8:34] dangerous and deadly turn has been

[8:36] taken. That loners harboring the hates

[8:39] of organized groups have struck out on

[8:41] terror campaigns of their own.

[8:43] >> Loners don't share their agenda. They're

[8:46] not going to tell anyone what they

[8:47] intend to do. And when they keep that

[8:50] secret to themselves, they often

[8:52] therefore everybody wakes up to the

[8:54] news. That was the case with a racial

[8:56] killing spree in the Midwest last month,

[8:59] where blacks and Asians were shot by

[9:01] white supremacist Benjamin Smith before

[9:03] he took his own life. And in California,

[9:06] where the burning of three Sacramento

[9:08] synagogues and the murder of a gay

[9:10] couple brought the arrest of white

[9:12] supremacist brothers Benjamin and James

[9:14] Williams.

[9:15] >> These are people that are involved uh or

[9:18] who consider themselves to be involved

[9:19] in a war with this country. It is a

[9:21] faceless war waged on the internet on

[9:24] more than 12,200 so-called hate sites

[9:26] which some believe could spawn a sick

[9:29] search for attention by more lone

[9:31] gunmen.

[9:31] >> The reason they do it is for their

[9:34] moment of glory where they feel that the

[9:36] whole world is stopping to take notice

[9:39] of them and to the in their warp minds

[9:42] it's worth it.

[9:43] >> Who needs them?

[9:44] >> Don't like them.

[9:45] >> You can't stand them. In an exhibit

[9:47] called the other America at the Simon

[9:49] Visenthal Center of Los Angeles today,

[9:52] visitors were struck by a map of this

[9:54] country's growing number of known hate

[9:56] groups.

[9:56] >> It's just um totally unacceptable and

[9:59] very shocking.

[10:00] >> Tonight, even with the prime suspect

[10:01] behind bars, there's a sense across the

[10:04] country a new kind of battle is

[10:06] beginning where even tiny children have

[10:08] become targets. Bob McNamera, CBS News,

[10:12] Los Angeles. In Conor, Georgia, a judge

[10:15] ruled today that 15-year-old TJ Solomon

[10:17] will be tried as an adult for the

[10:20] shooting of six high school classmates

[10:22] in May. That means Solomon could get

[10:24] more than 300 years in prison if

[10:26] convicted. Still ahead on the CBS

[10:29] Evening News, an unusual tornado strikes

[10:32] downtown Salt Lake City. what the

[10:34] drought may mean to you if you have

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[12:20] On the CBS Weather Watch tonight, a

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[12:27] tornado cell system, unusual for that

[12:29] part of the country, slammed into Salt

[12:31] Lake City and touched down without

[12:33] warning.

[12:35] >> It came out of nowhere. A swirling black

[12:37] cloud of transformer exploding, window

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[12:42] Listen to the panic in this local

[12:44] reporter's voice.

[12:46] >> OH MY GOD, IT'S RUNNING ACROSS THE

[12:48] STREET. I CAN'T BREATHE. It wasn't the

[12:51] size of the twister seen here in a

[12:52] time-lapse sequence that made it a

[12:54] killer, but where and when it hit

[12:56] downtown Salt Lake City during the

[12:58] middle of lunch hour.

[12:59] >> Really fast. And there was like no time

[13:01] to do anything. Let's go. LET'S GO. WE

[13:03] GOT MORE PEOPLE COMING THROUGH. LET'S

[13:04] GO.

[13:05] >> At least one is dead and dozens are

[13:07] hurt. Maybe as many as a hundred.

[13:09] >> Watch out, guys.

[13:11] >> Saw a tornado hit the Delta Center, blow

[13:13] the roof off the Delta Center. As we got

[13:15] to the corner, it knocked us on our

[13:16] butts. Among the worst hit places, the

[13:18] Salt Palace Convention Center, full of

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[13:22] exhibitors.

[13:23] >> We were right in the center of that

[13:24] thing. It came right on top of us.

[13:26] >> Apparently, now we have some home video

[13:28] of the tornado area.

[13:30] >> Utah usually gets two tornadoes a year,

[13:32] but Salt Lake hadn't seen one like this

[13:35] in decades.

[13:36] >> Explosion like a big bomb.

[13:38] >> There is blood on the streets of Salt

[13:40] Lake City tonight. The twisters move

[13:42] through. The shock is just settling in.

[13:45] Jim Axelrod, CBS News, Dallas.

[13:48] >> The National Weather Service predicted

[13:50] today that the drought in the American

[13:52] Northeast will last into winter, get

[13:54] worse in the Southeast, and improve in

[13:56] the West. Today, part of New Mexico was

[13:58] declared a drought disaster area. In the

[14:00] Northeast, all of Connecticut, and more

[14:02] of Maryland, New York, and Virginia were

[14:04] added to the emergency list for farm

[14:07] aid. In the sky, the angle, time, and

[14:10] weather marred the view from North

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[14:14] But from Europe to Asia, millions saw

[14:16] it. The sun wore only basic black with a

[14:20] diamond necklace, the century's final

[14:22] total eclipse of the sun. The Pope in

[14:25] Rome cut short his morning audience so

[14:27] he and others could watch the heavenly

[14:29] show. They watched from Jerusalem's

[14:32] wailing wall and the pyramids of Egypt.

[14:35] Even zoo animals in Belgrade got to see

[14:37] it. So mark your calendar. The next full

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[17:20] There's growing evidence tonight that

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[17:25] doing business as usual by phone. CBS's

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[17:35] Every year federal inmates make more

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[18:57] >> And at first, federal authorities

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[19:11] 150,000 federal inmates making telephone

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[19:18] track of it all. Jim Stewart, CBS News,

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[21:37] In the most sweeping move of its kind,

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[22:00] There's news tonight for millions of

[22:01] Americans, up to 20% of our population,

[22:04] who have hay fever and other allergies.

[22:06] As CBS's Elizabeth Kaledan reports, both

[22:09] the drought and a new drug treatment

[22:12] could make a big difference.

[22:14] There's no relief in sight for parched

[22:16] lawns and thirsty plants, but the

[22:18] nation's drought is providing an

[22:20] unexpected benefit to allergy sufferers.

[22:23] People like Lio Sammy, who gets a hay

[22:25] fever shot every week.

[22:27] >> Have you ever tried to sleep and

[22:29] somebody just squeeze your nose and you

[22:31] can't breathe? It's something like that.

[22:34] >> Because the dying trees and grass are

[22:35] not making as much pollen, the fall

[22:37] allergy season is expected to come weeks

[22:40] earlier and be briefer. At the same

[22:42] time, new research shows that allergy

[22:44] shots may be more effective than

[22:47] previously thought. A study in the New

[22:49] England Journal of Medicine finds that

[22:50] people who got shots of grass pollen for

[22:52] 3 years remained allergyfree at least 3

[22:56] years after treatment stopped.

[22:58] >> The benefits from this treatment persist

[23:00] for a long period of time after the

[23:02] treatment is discontinued. That suggests

[23:04] that this form of treatment can somehow

[23:06] change the natural history of the

[23:08] disease in a way that may be permanent.

[23:11] Allergy shots have been used for decades

[23:13] to relieve chronic symptoms.

[23:15] >> And how are you feeling? How are your

[23:16] allergy symptoms doing?

[23:17] >> Much better.

[23:18] >> But they require a heavy schedule of

[23:20] doctor's visits. Many people opt to take

[23:22] other drugs instead. Now, doctors like

[23:25] Elizabeth Jacobson say she'll be more

[23:27] likely to recommend short-term pain for

[23:30] long-term gain. person with severe

[23:32] allergies may decide to undergo the

[23:36] discomfort of of scheduling for a few

[23:38] years if it means that they'll feel

[23:40] relief for several years afterwards and

[23:42] maybe even longer. Doctors predict the

[23:45] discovery that allergies can be stopped

[23:47] for years has the potential to lead to

[23:49] the ultimate allergy shot, a cure.

[23:52] Elizabeth Kaledan, CBS News, New York.

[23:55] In a moment, I'll be back to take you

[23:57] inside Colombia, where a besieged

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[24:05] waging a little known but widening war.

[24:07] It's a war to stamp out a combined army

[24:10] of revolutionary guerrillas and drug

[24:12] traffickers who in Colombia are often

[24:14] one and the same. From Colombia, when we

[24:17] come back,

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[26:22] I'm in Colombia and have been for a few

[26:24] days to check around on the situation

[26:26] here. a situation that has changed

[26:28] considerably from earlier in the 1990s

[26:32] have now narcotics traffickers and hard

[26:35] to distinguish them from gerillas,

[26:38] people with ideological and political

[26:40] agendas and a lot of overlap. It's a

[26:41] very complicated situation which is why

[26:44] I came down to have a look. Very rapidly

[26:46] in recent weeks, the following things

[26:48] have happened to it appears suddenly put

[26:52] Colombia very much on Washington's radar

[26:54] screen.

[26:57] First, the crash of a US military

[26:59] reconnaissance plane that killed five

[27:01] Americans on an anti-drug mission last

[27:03] month. Two of the bodies were returned

[27:05] today. Then, the sudden arrival of the

[27:07] Clinton administration's drugs are Barry

[27:09] McAffrey, who in a reversal of policy

[27:12] called for up to a billion dollars to be

[27:14] spent fighting what he now calls narco

[27:17] gerillas.

[27:19] >> There's been a doubling of cocoa

[27:21] production here in Columbia in the last

[27:23] 3 years. Massive threat. not only to

[27:25] Colombian interest but to the United

[27:27] States.

[27:28] >> The highest level talks in Bogota in a

[27:30] decade were held this week between US

[27:32] and Colombian officials. That reflects

[27:35] general confidence in the new Colombian

[27:37] government, but also alarm over the fact

[27:39] that an estimated 40% of the country is

[27:42] already in rebel hands. That's one

[27:45] reason Barry McAffrey is saying now the

[27:47] drugs are there's a crisis in Colombia

[27:50] and one he says that could spread to

[27:52] surrounding countries. Ecuador, Peru,

[27:56] Brazil, perhaps even Venezuela, and

[27:58] Panama. A serious debate about all this

[28:01] has begun in Washington. It seems

[28:03] certain to soon become a national

[28:05] debate. Whether to get more involved, if

[28:08] so, how and when. CBS News will be

[28:11] covering this story for you from

[28:13] Colombia in the coming weeks and months.

[28:16] And that's part of our world tonight.

[28:18] For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather

[28:20] reporting from Mirakita, Colombia. Good

[28:23] night.

[28:25] >> For news 24 hours a day, cbs.com on the

[28:28] internet and on our interactive partner,

[28:30] America Online at keyword CBS News.

[28:39] The manhunt is over, but questions

[28:41] remain. How did Furrow escape detection?

[28:43] And who's watching America's hate

[28:45] groups? Details tomorrow on the CBS

[28:47] Evening News with Dan Rather.

[28:50] >> Who is Buford Furrow Jr.? His story

[28:52] tomorrow on This Morning Experience CBS

[28:55] News.