CBS Evening News - 2006-11-26

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[0:00] All next week on Coin News [music] 6 at

[0:01] 6.

[0:04] >> I'm Russ Mitchell. Stepped up efforts to

[0:06] find a way out of the deadly violence in

[0:08] Iraq as Iraqi residents fear a repeat of

[0:11] last week's blood bath. Americans on a

[0:14] spending [music] spree. First returns

[0:15] from Black Friday show holiday shoppers

[0:18] off to an early and high-spending start.

[0:21] Still more questions about the poison

[0:22] puzzle in London. Could the radioactive

[0:24] substance that killed a former spy

[0:26] really be for sale in the US online? And

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[0:44] >> This is the CBS Evening News with

[0:47] [music] Russ Mitchell.

[0:51] >> Good evening. It has been another bloody

[0:53] weekend in Iraq, and the new week is

[0:55] shaping up to be historic and

[0:56] potentially more explosive. In the last

[0:59] two days, at least 100 Iraqis have been

[1:01] killed. Three Americans, two Marines,

[1:03] and a soldier were also killed, bringing

[1:05] the total number of US military

[1:07] casualties since the war began to 2,875.

[1:11] All this as President Bush prepares to

[1:13] head to the region for talks with Iraq's

[1:15] prime minister. Elizabeth Palmer has

[1:17] more from Baghdad.

[1:19] Prime Minister Nuriel Maliki visited Sar

[1:21] City today, not far from the place where

[1:24] Thursday's bombings killed more than 200

[1:26] people. He was doing his best to look

[1:29] relaxed, hoping to send a message that

[1:31] Iraqis need above all to remain calm.

[1:34] But these people, many still grieving,

[1:36] weren't calm.

[1:39] >> On this, the last day of the curfew in

[1:41] Baghdad, Al- Maliki knows the crisis has

[1:44] exposed his weakness as a leader.

[1:48] Everyone here knows the Shiite cleric

[1:50] Muktad al-Sad is the man with real

[1:52] power. Today, 10,000 members of his Mai

[1:56] army militia marched in the city of

[1:58] Najaf. Iraqis watching these pictures

[2:00] know every one of these men owns a gun

[2:02] and is ready to use it. Alsia

[2:06] weren't at frantic government meetings

[2:08] this weekend, though, and neither were

[2:10] some of the key Sunni leaders. When

[2:12] Iraq's Political Council for National

[2:15] Security at last spoke to Iraqis, it was

[2:18] only to make an appeal. Don't allow

[2:20] terrorists to drag you into a civil war.

[2:25] >> Tonight, Iraqi politicians look very

[2:27] short of ideas to help the country out

[2:29] of this crisis. Russ

[2:31] >> Elizabeth, that curfew you spoke of is

[2:33] now set to be lifted in just a few

[2:34] hours. How concerned are authorities

[2:37] that there will be more violence once

[2:38] that happens?

[2:41] Not only the authorities, I think

[2:43] everybody is terrified. I've just been

[2:45] talking to a member of parliament who

[2:46] says some of the perpetrators of the

[2:49] violence haven't been included in the

[2:51] political negotiations to reach a deal.

[2:53] So, that's a real worry. And I can tell

[2:55] you that our Iraqi colleagues who've

[2:57] been trapped in our office with us since

[2:59] the curfew was imposed have just never

[3:01] looked so worried.

[3:04] >> Elizabeth Palmer in Baghdad, thank you

[3:06] and take care. Joining us to look at

[3:08] future options for US policy in Iraq is

[3:10] Peter Galbreth, a former US ambassador

[3:12] who helped the Iraqis write their new

[3:14] constitution. Ambassador Gabbath, let me

[3:16] ask you, first of all, in your mind, is

[3:18] Iraq in fact in the middle of a civil

[3:20] war?

[3:21] >> Absolutely. Uh this is a level of

[3:24] sectarian violence that is tremendous.

[3:26] Uh 100 to 200 people being killed each

[3:29] and every day. Uh, and the country is

[3:33] dividing between its Sunnis and its

[3:35] Shiites with the third group, the Kurds,

[3:37] effectively having an independent

[3:39] country in the north. Ambassador, I know

[3:41] you advocate splitting Iraq into three

[3:44] separate regions. At this point, do you

[3:46] think that's the only option?

[3:49] >> Basically, this has already happened.

[3:51] The country has already broken up. Uh,

[3:54] and the national unity government in

[3:56] Baghdad, it isn't united. And most

[3:58] importantly, it doesn't govern anything.

[4:00] power [snorts] rests uh with the regions

[4:03] or with the militias that effectively

[4:05] run the uh areas that are inhabited by

[4:07] the religious or ethnic communities.

[4:10] >> Looking ahead to the summit this week

[4:12] between President Bush and Iraqi Prime

[4:14] Minister Maliki, what do you think is

[4:16] the best possible outcome?

[4:18] >> There isn't any good outcome. Uh Mr.

[4:21] Maliki is the leader of a Shiite

[4:25] religious movement that uses militias to

[4:28] uh control the south and is a partisan

[4:30] in the civil war. His national unity

[4:33] government cannot agree on anything

[4:35] because it includes Sunnis and Shiites

[4:37] that is both sides in the civil war and

[4:39] most importantly it doesn't govern

[4:41] anything. So he can make all sorts of

[4:43] promises to President Bush but he cannot

[4:46] deliver on any of them.

[4:48] >> Ambassador Peter Galbbert, thank you so

[4:49] much for your insight. We appreciate it.

[4:51] Good to be with you.

[4:52] >> King Abdullah of Jordan today raised the

[4:54] prospect of not one but three civil wars

[4:56] in the Middle East. Bella warned that

[4:58] without strong action, Iraq sectarian

[5:00] violence could spread beyond its borders

[5:02] within the next 12 months.

[5:05] We're juggling with uh the strong

[5:08] potential of three civil wars uh in the

[5:10] region, whether it's the Palestinians uh

[5:13] that of Lebanon or of Iraq. And

[5:16] therefore it is time that uh that we

[5:18] really take a strong step forward as

[5:20] part of the international community and

[5:22] make sure we avert the Middle East from

[5:23] a tremendous crisis uh that I fear and I

[5:26] see could possibly happen in 2007.

[5:29] Here's what else is happening this

[5:30] Sunday in this country whether at home

[5:32] or on the road. Millions of Americans

[5:34] charged into malls this weekend. New

[5:36] figures from the National Retail

[5:37] Federation show the average consumer

[5:39] spent $360 on Black Friday. That's up

[5:43] 19% from last year. Bianca Solzano has

[5:46] more on shopper madness. She is out and

[5:48] about at a mall here in New York City.

[5:50] Hi, Bianca.

[5:52] >> Hi, good evening, Russ. Yes, that news

[5:54] that shoppers got out there and spent

[5:56] this weekend. It's really the best

[5:58] present that retailers could get. Sales

[6:00] from this weekend really set the tone

[6:02] for how well retailers will do

[6:04] throughout the rest of the holiday

[6:06] season.

[6:10] Santa could have a big gift for

[6:12] retailers this year, and they could be

[6:13] jingling their cash registers all the

[6:16] way to the bank. [cheering] The holiday

[6:19] shopping season started off strong this

[6:21] weekend. Compared to last year, overall

[6:24] sales could be up as much as 7%.

[6:27] >> This year will be the best year ever for

[6:29] US retail.

[6:31] >> Retailers have a lot adding up in their

[6:33] favor. The shopping frenzy started early

[6:36] last week. All those people who slept

[6:38] out on the street to buy PlayStation 3

[6:40] got a first look at other merchandise.

[6:43] >> We're seeing the toy category hot,

[6:45] consumer electronics hot, and digital

[6:47] red hot.

[6:48] >> And there's simply more time to buy. The

[6:51] Saturday before Christmas is usually the

[6:53] biggest shopping day of the year. Last

[6:55] year it fell on Christmas Eve, but this

[6:58] year there's a whole extra day to shop

[7:00] before Christmas.

[7:02] >> Two years ago it was $20 DVD players.

[7:04] Last year, the $300 laptop. This year,

[7:07] the most sought-after item, the 42-inch

[7:10] plasma for under a thousand.

[7:11] >> This is not a toy. This is a necessity

[7:13] in television today. This is really not

[7:15] a toy.

[7:16] >> For Nuni Gray, one plasma wasn't enough.

[7:19] She took home two. High techch toys are

[7:22] not just for boys anymore. Last year,

[7:24] women spent $55 billion on electronics.

[7:28] Men just 41. Given the choice to unwrap

[7:31] a flat panel television, diamond

[7:33] jewelry, or designer shoes, a whopping

[7:36] 77% of women chose the TV.

[7:41] And tomorrow is Cyber Monday. That's

[7:44] when, and I'm not telling people to do

[7:46] this, but it's expected 61 million

[7:48] people will go online from their

[7:50] computers at work during their lunch

[7:52] break, of course, and do even more

[7:55] shopping. Russ

[7:56] >> plasma TV, a necessity. I'll try that

[7:58] one myself. Thank you very much. Today

[8:00] is one of the busiest travel days of the

[8:02] year as folks try to get home from their

[8:04] Thanksgiving journey. Take a look at

[8:05] this. Each of these green dots

[8:07] represents an airliner right now in the

[8:09] skies over the US. Joey Chen tells us

[8:12] how many of those heading home got an

[8:13] early Christmas present.

[8:16] It had all the makings of a holiday

[8:18] travel jam. 38 million Americans on the

[8:21] highway this Thanksgiving, up 1 million

[8:23] from last year. 25 million flying home

[8:26] for the holiday, up 3%. Even Amtrak on

[8:30] overload. 27 extra trains online for the

[8:33] Northeast Corridor alone. Almost all of

[8:36] them sold out. You could just see travel

[8:39] problems brewing. And yet,

[8:41] >> actually, I'm shocked that there are not

[8:43] more people. It's actually very pleasant

[8:44] in here.

[8:45] >> It's true. You had to look hard to find

[8:47] travel trouble this Thanksgiving Sunday.

[8:49] For much of the afternoon, the worst of

[8:51] it was New Jerseys Teeter, a tiny

[8:54] commuter airport. Not to look a gift

[8:56] horse in the mouth, but why? just one

[8:59] thing. This the weather or lack of it.

[9:02] From coast to coast, little rain or

[9:04] snow. Sunny skies just about everywhere.

[9:07] >> We enjoyed it. We're on time and early

[9:10] for everything. So, it all went pretty

[9:11] smooth.

[9:12] >> So, the Sanders family of Miami got to

[9:14] the airport more than 4 hours early,

[9:16] braced for the worst, and never found

[9:18] it. And it's dead. It's like totally

[9:21] dead. There were lines at airport

[9:23] security for the first big holiday since

[9:25] Ziploc bags contain travel essentials

[9:27] beyond leftover turkey. And air

[9:30] travelers are finding themselves stuffed

[9:32] into coach cabins. The airline industry

[9:34] expects flights will be more than 90%

[9:36] full both today and tomorrow as

[9:38] Americans head home.

[9:42] By this evening, there were some

[9:43] scattered delays reported at airports

[9:45] around the country. Some of the most

[9:46] significant being at Newark and San

[9:48] Francisco. But still, Russ, just look

[9:50] around. This turns out to be the most

[9:51] common site this Sunday after

[9:53] Thanksgiving. A pretty empty airport.

[9:56] Surprising and quite a relief for

[9:58] travelers. Russ

[9:58] >> does not look bad at all. Joey Chen,

[10:00] thanks a lot. Still ahead on tonight's

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[13:16] the sushi restaurant where a former KGB

[13:18] spy dined before becoming fatally ill

[13:21] with radiation poisoning. But it is

[13:23] still a mystery exactly how the rare

[13:25] palonium 210 entered his body. And CBS

[13:28] News has discovered that it's possible

[13:29] to buy this substance on the internet

[13:31] here in America. Tony Guy has been

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[13:39] You'd be surprised at the number of

[13:41] people using palonium 210. And as long

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[13:49] >> Well, this is a small sample of palonium

[13:51] 210. It's

[13:52] >> Bob Lazar is a physicist whose mail

[13:54] order company east of Albuquerque, New

[13:56] Mexico, sells palonium 210. There it is

[13:59] on his website. Price $69. The same

[14:03] radioactive substance that British

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[14:08] Venenko. But Lazar is selling minuscule

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[14:14] former Russian spy.

[14:15] >> That amount of material you just you

[14:18] just can't get your hands on. You know,

[14:20] being an ordinary citizen,

[14:22] >> palonium 210 is highly lethal if

[14:25] ingested. It releases alpha particles

[14:27] that attack vulnerable cells in the

[14:30] body, splitting their DNA, causing the

[14:32] cell to die or to transform into a

[14:35] potentially cancerous tumor. Merely

[14:38] micrograms of it wreak havoc. anywhere

[14:40] it lodges. Even small amounts will just

[14:43] sit there and continuously expose the

[14:46] surrounding cells to a just a

[14:48] bombardment of alpha particles and

[14:50] eventually it's just going to destroy

[14:52] what's going on there or whatever organ

[14:54] or cells are it's near. Palonium 210 is

[14:57] all around us. It's in the earth's

[14:58] crust. It's in some water sources. It's

[15:01] even in the lungs of heavy smokers. Some

[15:04] manufacturing processes rely on palonium

[15:06] 210, but these are just trace amounts.

[15:09] Not enough to kill someone. According to

[15:11] a government scientist,

[15:13] >> truly it does take a level of

[15:15] sophistication not only to manufacture

[15:16] it but able to acquire a large amount,

[15:20] one large amount that would be concerned

[15:22] for immediate health effects. And so the

[15:25] mystery remains. How was Alexander

[15:27] Litmanenko killed? How did somebody get

[15:30] enough pelonium 210 inside his body? And

[15:33] where did the killer get it? Speculation

[15:35] is it had to come from a country with a

[15:37] nuclear program such as Russia because

[15:39] pelonium 210 usually is made

[15:41] artificially in a nuclear reactor. Russ

[15:44] Tony Gunn, thank you very much. Just

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[18:49] >> For civilian contract workers in Iraq,

[18:51] the often generous pay has to be weighed

[18:53] against the risks. So far, nearly 8,000

[18:56] civilians working for American companies

[18:58] have been injured, many by enemy fire.

[19:00] Almost 700 have been killed. As CBS News

[19:03] chief investigative correspondent Armen

[19:05] Katan reports, many injured civilians

[19:07] find themselves fighting a new battle

[19:09] once they come home.

[19:12] It was a few days before Christmas in

[19:14] Mosul, Iraq 2004. Sam Walker sat down

[19:18] for lunch in a military tent. A suicide

[19:21] bomber just steps away.

[19:23] >> And next thing you know, there's a

[19:24] bright explosion coming, a bright light

[19:27] coming toward me. I think I'm picked up

[19:30] and thrown over the table.

[19:31] >> 22 people were dead.

[19:33] >> The blast tore up the bodies and you see

[19:36] all the blood and all that stuff. That's

[19:38] who.

[19:40] >> It was pure horror for Walker, who had

[19:42] come to Iraq to run a private

[19:44] recreational facility for soldiers.

[19:46] After the Mosul bombing, he went home to

[19:48] Georgia and was deserted, he says, by

[19:51] the company that hired him, Kellogg

[19:53] Brown, and Root.

[19:54] >> And you're saying KBR?

[19:56] >> No.

[19:56] >> In no way reached out to you to say

[19:58] >> not whatsoever. what you know and as of

[20:01] today I don't think anyone has called

[20:04] and asked how are you doing or you know

[20:06] is everything okay

[20:07] >> but everything was not okay suffering

[20:10] from nightmares and flashbacks walker

[20:12] was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress

[20:14] disorder his request for workers

[20:16] compensation passed from KBR to its

[20:19] insurer AIG what happens with AIG when

[20:24] it becomes clear you're suffering from

[20:26] PTSD

[20:27] >> uh they deny all claims

[20:30] Where were you based out of?

[20:32] >> As it turns out,

[20:33] >> hey,

[20:34] >> Sam Walker is far from alone, witnessed

[20:36] this recent gathering of civilian

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[20:41] City hotel, it was the same sad song.

[20:45] David Meredith, a truck driver from

[20:46] Kansas, diagnosed with PTSD, was in a

[20:50] supply convoy heading to a military base

[20:52] when a roadside bomb took out one of the

[20:55] trucks and the driver inside. His

[20:57] windshield was blown out, laying

[21:01] laying in the middle of the street. I

[21:03] climbed up passenger side of the truck

[21:05] ready to pull him out.

[21:10] There was nothing left of him.

[21:13] Nothing at all.

[21:15] AIG says it has no incentive to deny

[21:17] claims because the federal government

[21:19] reimbures all awards paid to private

[21:21] contractors wounded in attacks.

[21:24] Nevertheless, some plaintist attorneys

[21:26] charge the insurer drags its feet on

[21:28] certain claims that should be paid right

[21:30] away. AIG would not discuss individual

[21:33] claims, but a company spokesman said the

[21:35] insurer pays more than 90% of workers

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[21:43] The same rate paid on US claims.

[21:45] >> It's just superficial injury. Sam

[21:47] Walker's injury claim was paid 19 months

[21:50] after the Mosul bombing, but only after

[21:52] his lawyer filed a complaint with the

[21:54] labor department. Meanwhile, dozens of

[21:57] men like David Meredith are running out

[21:59] of hope.

[22:00] >> ABR is

[22:03] pretty much disposed of me. You knew

[22:06] what you were getting into when you went

[22:07] over there.

[22:10] Deal with it. A KBR spokeswoman told CBS

[22:13] News that every potential employee

[22:15] receives very specific warnings about

[22:17] the dangers of working in a war zone.

[22:19] The company has seen more than 50

[22:21] employees killed and 3,500 injured in

[22:24] Iraq. Armen Kate in CBS News New York.

[22:29] Up next on tonight's CBS Evening News,

[22:31] meet the Grid Irons winning as coach 543

[22:34] victories and counting.

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[25:32] >> Finally this evening, some things never

[25:34] change. The sun rises, the sun sets, and

[25:37] South Carolina's Somerville High School

[25:39] wins football games. The team reached

[25:41] the state quarterfinals again this year.

[25:43] It may have something to do with a

[25:45] living legend on the Somerville

[25:46] sidelines as we hear from Mark Stman.

[25:50] In Somerville, South Carolina, falls

[25:53] Friday night lights spotlight the high

[25:55] school's football dynasty. Get him,

[25:58] please.

[25:59] >> And coach John McKissen, the Green Waves

[26:02] living legend.

[26:05] >> Great job.

[26:06] >> Good job, guys. Good job.

[26:07] >> A fixture here for 55 years and

[26:11] football's winningest coach ever. Now

[26:13] 80, McKissik still oozes Vince Lamardi.

[26:17] >> What the hell you doing?

[26:21] Right.

[26:22] >> I can't breathe.

[26:23] >> He has to win, doesn't he?

[26:25] >> Yeah. Yeah, he does. And it's um it's a

[26:27] bad weekend when he loses, let me tell

[26:29] you.

[26:30] >> How bad?

[26:31] >> Real bad.

[26:32] >> McKisick started coaching here in 1952.

[26:36] And you could say he got the hang of it

[26:37] pretty fast. That 52 team lost only one

[26:40] game. By 53, Somerville was undefeated

[26:44] and has been a romp through the record

[26:46] books ever since. Penn State

[26:48] championships, 30 regional titles, and

[26:51] more total coaching wins than Don Schula

[26:54] in the NFL or John Gagliard at the

[26:57] college level. In 1993, McKisik set the

[27:00] national high school record with his

[27:02] 46th career win and just kept going. You

[27:06] have grandsons and watched by their

[27:09] grandfathers who also played for you,

[27:11] >> right? And that's a good feeling to know

[27:14] that I'M STILL AROUND. [laughter]

[27:18] AND still old school.

[27:21] >> The football is blocking, tackling, AND

[27:22] AND RUNNING.

[27:24] >> Off the field, quarterback Reed McCullum

[27:27] knows McKisick's other fundamentals.

[27:29] Study hard, get to class, hair cut

[27:32] short, shirts tucked in.

[27:34] >> He doesn't like the facial hair.

[27:35] >> I got to shave. Speaking of it,

[27:37] [laughter]

[27:38] >> no earrings.

[27:38] >> No, sir.

[27:39] >> You wouldn't even think about wearing

[27:40] hair.

[27:41] >> No, sir. McCullum's [clears throat]

[27:42] father, Dennis McCullum, played for

[27:44] McKisik in 1969.

[27:47] Yes, they were state champs that year.

[27:49] >> You know, for my son 36 years later, to

[27:52] be able to play for him is um pretty

[27:54] unbelievable.

[27:55] >> Hey, Reed, we need points, son. We need

[27:58] points. Let's go.

[27:59] >> In the opening round of this year's

[28:01] state playoffs, undefeated Somerville

[28:03] fell behind early, then rallied to

[28:06] advance.

[28:07] Y'all got a hell of a

[28:09] >> tell.

[28:10] >> It was McKess's 543rd

[28:13] career win.

[28:14] >> We need 544.

[28:16] >> We need to get the next one.

[28:18] >> Always it's about the next one. And next

[28:21] year, McKisick's team is supposed to be

[28:24] even better.

[28:25] >> A remarkable man.

[28:26] >> Mark Stman, CBS News, Somerville, South

[28:29] Carolina.

[28:31] >> And that's the CBS Evening News. Thanks

[28:33] for joining us this Sunday evening. I'm

[28:35] Russ Mitchell, CBS News in New York.

[28:37] Good night.

[28:43] >> [music]