World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-29
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[0:04] On World News Tonight this
[0:07] Wednesday, flying the empty skies.
[0:09] Thanks to the millennium, air travelers
[0:12] won't have much company on New Year's.
[0:14] Did NATO forces commit war crimes in
[0:17] Kosovo? A UN court is
[0:19] investigating. America is gushing with
[0:22] wealth at year's end. We'll take a
[0:24] closer look at what's behind all this
[0:26] money and who isn't sharing it. and
[0:29] Chicago's plans for a truly global New
[0:32] Year. Australia, a human Noah's arc for
[0:35] the millennium.
[0:37] [Music]
[0:43] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:46] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:49] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight, Jack
[0:52] Ford. Good evening. Peter Jennings is in
[0:54] New York's Times Square tonight
[0:56] preparing for our Millennium Broadcast.
[0:58] We're going to check in with him a
[0:59] little bit later in the program, but
[1:00] first, the latest news on the arrival of
[1:02] the year 2000 and the preparations for
[1:05] what might happen when it comes. We've
[1:07] known for some time that fewer people
[1:10] plan to fly this weekend, but it now
[1:11] appears that air traffic will be almost
[1:13] at a standstill as the new millennium
[1:15] begins. The nation's major airlines
[1:18] expect half a million fewer passengers
[1:20] than flew over New Year's one year ago.
[1:23] Here's ABC's Lisa Stark.
[1:26] It is the nation's second busiest
[1:28] airport. But on New Year's Eve, Chicago
[1:30] O'Hare will virtually be a ghost town.
[1:32] Its two main carriers, United and
[1:35] American, have canled nearly all evening
[1:37] flights. Our daily passenger count is
[1:40] about 200,000 passengers. So, we will
[1:43] see a significant drop in that count. We
[1:46] will probably go down to eve