NBC Nightly News - 2006-07-23

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[0:00] stomach

[0:02] >> hunt.

[0:05] >> Air strikes in Lebanon and Israel.

[0:08] Civilians caught in the crossfire.

[0:11] A first look tonight at the devastation

[0:14] in southern Lebanon.

[0:16] Border crossing. Hundreds of thousands

[0:19] fleeing Lebanon while some Americans

[0:21] choose to stay.

[0:23] Under siege in Iraq, a dramatic

[0:26] escalation of the violence and new fears

[0:28] of civil war

[0:31] and American in Paris. Floyd Landis, a

[0:34] tour to force in France.

[0:40] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:43] York, this is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:47] Seanthaler.

[0:48] >> Good evening everyone. It has now been

[0:49] 12 days and the Middle East crisis is

[0:51] escalating tonight as the world watches.

[0:54] The attacks continue on both sides. Here

[0:56] are the latest developments. Israeli

[0:58] warplanes and artillery pounded Lebanon

[1:00] again today. One attack hit a mini bus

[1:03] carrying people trying to flee the

[1:04] fighting. Four were killed. Hezbollah

[1:07] continues to launch rockets into

[1:08] northern Israel. Two civilians in Hifa

[1:11] were killed today. And Secretary of

[1:13] State Cona Rice is on her way to the

[1:15] Middle East tonight after meeting with

[1:17] leaders from Saudi Arabia who asked the

[1:19] president to intervene in the conflict.

[1:21] We have complete coverage tonight

[1:23] beginning with NBC's Beirut bureau chief

[1:26] Richard Engel who made his way into

[1:27] southern Lebanon today.

[1:32] Lebanon is paying dearly for this.

[1:34] Hezbollah fired more rockets at Israel

[1:36] from Tire in South Lebanon. Israel

[1:38] responded within minutes. Four civilians

[1:41] were killed while escaping in a convoy

[1:43] along with a Lebanese journalist, the

[1:46] first reporter to die in this conflict.

[1:48] Israel also attacked a Hezbollah run

[1:50] mosque in Siden and the group's South

[1:53] Beirut stronghold.

[1:55] Today, the UN criticized Hezbollah for

[1:57] launching rockets from civilian areas,

[2:00] but also called Israel's response

[2:02] disproportionate. If it continues like

[2:04] this, there will just be more and more

[2:07] civilian casualties, more dead children,

[2:10] more and more wounded children

[2:12] struggling to save their lives. To

[2:15] assess the damage, we drove through

[2:17] southern Lebanon today. Every major road

[2:20] was shelled, bridges destroyed, the

[2:22] pavement pocked with craters. Sometimes

[2:25] we drove through, sometimes had to push.

[2:28] Our goal was to reach Nabatia, a town of

[2:31] 50,000 cut off for 3 days. 5 miles

[2:34] outside of Nabatia, we found a woman and

[2:36] her 5-year-old son. They escaped today.

[2:40] >> We decided to leave because we think

[2:42] this could last a long time, she says.

[2:44] And it's only getting worse. As Israel

[2:47] continued to shell Nabatia today, we

[2:49] drove in. The streets were empty. This

[2:52] is what's left of downtown Nabatia. The

[2:54] relentless Israeli air strikes and

[2:56] shelling have made it a ghost town.

[2:59] >> Six square blocks flattened. These had

[3:02] been drug stores and clothing stores now

[3:04] only identifiable by broken mannequins.

[3:08] 115 wounded have been treated at

[3:09] Nabatia's hospital for burns and

[3:11] shrapnel wounds like 9-year-old Muhammad

[3:13] Amin.

[3:15] >> I was playing in my house and then the

[3:17] house came down on me, he said. Then I

[3:19] remember being picked up and put in an

[3:20] ambulance. It was an Israeli air strike.

[3:23] This is the shrapnel that was in his

[3:25] leg. It's a fairly heavy piece of metal,

[3:27] and it pushed in the jeans he was

[3:29] wearing, and they actually pulled this

[3:31] piece of cloth out of his thigh.

[3:34] >> Today, the first relief supplies reached

[3:36] South Lebanon, but there is still no

[3:38] safe way in or out.

[3:40] >> NBC's Richard Angel reporting from

[3:42] Beirut tonight. As we just saw,

[3:44] Hezbollah kept up its attacks as well

[3:46] today, firing new rockets, and many of

[3:48] them fell in the Israeli city of Hifa.

[3:51] NBC's Mark Potter is there tonight. Good

[3:53] evening, Mark.

[3:55] >> And good evening to you, John. More than

[3:57] a 100 Hezbollah rockets fell on Israel

[3:59] today, killing two here in Hifa,

[4:01] injuring dozens more around the country.

[4:07] The port city of Hifa was hard hit today

[4:09] with air raid sirens blaring all day

[4:11] long. More than a dozen Hezbollah

[4:13] rockets fell here, hitting apartments,

[4:16] homes, and an industrial area as

[4:18] firefighters and rescue workers

[4:19] struggled to keep up. A 60-year-old man

[4:22] driving to work was killed when a rocket

[4:24] struck his car. Also hit again today,

[4:27] several other Israeli towns along the

[4:29] Lebanese border. Officials say since the

[4:31] conflict began nearly 2 weeks ago, some

[4:34] 2,000 rockets have struck Israel.

[4:38] Determined to stop the rocket attacks,

[4:40] the Israeli military kept up its ground

[4:42] and air campaign inside Lebanon,

[4:44] confronting Hezbollah guerrillas and

[4:46] trying to clear a buffer zone along the

[4:48] border.

[4:49] >> The state of Israel exercising its right

[4:52] for self-defense.

[4:54] >> Israeli soldiers continue to hold the

[4:56] Lebanese town of Maroon Alas, believed

[4:58] to be a Hezbollah stronghold used for

[5:00] rocket attacks. They are preparing

[5:02] themselves in the last six years with a

[5:05] lot of Katusha rockets. Some missiles,

[5:08] thousands of missiles are under the

[5:10] ground.

[5:12] >> Meanwhile, in a possible political

[5:13] breakthrough, Israeli leaders said they

[5:16] would accept a multinational

[5:17] peacekeeping force along the border,

[5:19] perhaps from NATO. They also met today

[5:22] with envoys from France, Germany, and

[5:24] Britain.

[5:24] >> We ask Israel, of course, to remember

[5:27] that there's a political war to be won

[5:29] as well.

[5:30] Caught in the middle are a million

[5:31] Israelis who either left the north or

[5:33] are now living in virtual ghost towns.

[5:36] In Hifa, streets are bare, playgrounds

[5:38] are empty, and many shops are closed as

[5:41] most people steer clear of public

[5:43] places. This university student says

[5:46] it's even hard to study here.

[5:48] >> It's very hard to concentrate like that,

[5:50] hearing the bangs of the rocket uh

[5:53] rockets hitting the the ground, the

[5:55] ocean.

[5:56] Many here still try to have normal

[5:59] lives, but life under threat and between

[6:02] warning sirens is far from easy now.

[6:06] Now, meanwhile, there is another concern

[6:08] here tonight. Former Israeli Prime

[6:10] Minister Ariel Chiron, who has been in a

[6:12] coma for months, reportedly has taken a

[6:14] turn for the worse, suffering new and

[6:16] very serious kidney problems. But

[6:19] doctors say they are not imminently

[6:21] life-threatening. John,

[6:22] >> NBC's Mark Potter in Hifa tonight. Mark,

[6:25] thank you.

[6:26] Secretary of State Rice left Washington

[6:28] on a diplomatic mission to the Middle

[6:30] East today after a meeting with

[6:31] President Bush and leaders of Saudi

[6:33] Arabia. NBC's Rosalyn Jordan joins us

[6:36] tonight from the White House with that

[6:37] story. Good evening, Roslin.

[6:38] >> Good evening, John. This meeting was

[6:40] designed to show that the Bush

[6:41] administration is dealing with the

[6:43] crisis, even in the face of criticism,

[6:45] that it hasn't done enough to stop the

[6:47] fighting.

[6:50] The Saudis showed up with their own plan

[6:52] for diplomacy, including an immediate

[6:54] ceasefire, prisoner exchange, and

[6:56] letting Lebanon disarm Hezbollah.

[6:59] Foreign Minister Sadel Fisizel said

[7:01] President Bush didn't agree to the

[7:02] ceasefire, but he was pleased that

[7:05] Secretary of State Condisa Rice was

[7:07] headed overseas to conduct face-to-face

[7:09] diplomacy. I'm not going to say anything

[7:12] or be pushed into saying anything to

[7:13] prejudice the secretaries

[7:16] and the negotiate the Asians that she's

[7:18] going to undertake.

[7:19] >> As Prince spoke, Rice left for Jerusalem

[7:22] and the Palestinian territories. Her

[7:24] goal to lay the groundwork for a peace

[7:26] deal. However, there are no plans for

[7:28] her to take up Syria's latest offer of

[7:31] direct talks with the US to end the

[7:32] crisis.

[7:33] >> If the Syrians would do all the things

[7:35] they already know they're supposed to

[7:36] do, that would be a major step forward.

[7:40] And the White House insists it can be an

[7:42] honest broker even though it defends

[7:44] Israel's right to protect its citizens

[7:47] with military force. Chief of Staff Josh

[7:49] Bolton speaking on NBC's Meet the Press.

[7:52] >> This crisis was created by a terrorist

[7:55] attack uh ongoing now by Hisbellah

[7:58] against the sovereign territory of

[8:00] Israel. We're going to help our ally

[8:01] defend itself. Tonight, a White House

[8:03] spokesperson says that the meeting was

[8:06] productive, that both sides talked about

[8:08] ways of shoring up the Lebanese

[8:09] government and about ways of helping the

[8:11] Lebanese people with humanitarian aid.

[8:14] John

[8:14] >> Roslin, do we know if Syria and Iran

[8:16] were mentioned in today's meeting?

[8:18] >> We don't know for specifically that

[8:19] those two countries came up. Certainly,

[8:21] the US has felt that Syria and Iran have

[8:24] been behind Hezbollah's reign of terror.

[8:26] However, in the Saudis view, it's the

[8:28] Lebanese people themselves who need to

[8:30] get a much stronger government. They

[8:32] feel the solution lies with the Lebanese

[8:34] people.

[8:36] >> NBC's Rosen Jordan at the White House.

[8:38] Rosen, thank you. And from all corners

[8:40] of Lebanon, some 300,000 evacuees have

[8:44] poured across the Syrian border to a

[8:46] tiny town near Damascus in search of a

[8:48] safe haven. NBC's Jim Meda joins some of

[8:51] them on their treacherous journey to Al

[8:54] Jediah.

[8:57] It's a massive human traffic jam. Some

[9:00] have walked for days across Lebanon to

[9:02] get to the border with Syria. Others

[9:04] came in pickup trucks. That's where we

[9:06] found 7-year-old Hussein Eunice wounded

[9:09] by shrapnel when an Israeli missile

[9:11] struck his village near the southern

[9:13] Hezbollah stronghold of Margayou.

[9:16] For 10 days, the family lived on a daily

[9:18] ration of one loaf of bread.

[9:22] What do you do when your child tells you

[9:23] he's hungry and you have no food or

[9:25] water to give him? asks his mother,

[9:27] Hana. They fled their village under

[9:29] bombardment. Hussein's grandfather,

[9:31] Kamal, has seen many wars, but nothing

[9:34] like this.

[9:36] >> It was sheer destruction. He said there

[9:38] isn't a single window in the village

[9:40] that wasn't shattered. Every day now,

[9:42] thousands more risk artillery and air

[9:45] strikes and make it to this border with

[9:47] their tales of hunger and horror. Few

[9:49] know where they're going or when they'll

[9:51] see their loved ones left behind.

[9:54] >> As the Ununis family drove on to

[9:55] Damascus looking for shelter, others

[9:57] were going much further like 17-year-old

[10:00] American Najla Fada back to Kansas.

[10:04] >> Taking vacation, um planes, lots of

[10:07] bombing, lots of that kind of stuff

[10:08] going on. We had to run away and just

[10:10] trying to find my way home. Syrian

[10:12] relief volunteers are coping with an

[10:14] influx of some 300,000 so far, opening

[10:17] schools and homes, but aid is running

[10:20] out. If this war is still going on three

[10:23] or four weeks from now, you say

[10:25] >> yeah, we we are really we will get a lot

[10:28] of problem for those people.

[10:31] >> The unices were lucky. They found a

[10:33] small hotel room and Hussein will get

[10:35] urgent medical care. But the road to

[10:37] Damascus will only get longer and

[10:39] deadlier as the war drags on. Jim Bedum,

[10:43] NBC News, Aljaded, Syria.

[10:47] >> More Americans are making their way from

[10:48] Lebanon to Cyprus, some 1600 arrived

[10:51] today on two ships. And while thousands

[10:54] have been struggling to leave the danger

[10:55] zone, some Americans who could go are

[10:58] choosing to stay. Here's NBC's Carrie

[11:00] Sanders.

[11:03] There's a way out and more than 11,000

[11:06] Americans have taken it. But not Samur

[11:08] Flahan, a 19-year-old Lebanese American

[11:11] from North Carolina who's staying put to

[11:14] be with his elderly grandmother.

[11:15] >> Something in America like this would

[11:17] happen. Would everyone just run away and

[11:18] leave?

[11:19] >> Three generations of his family here in

[11:21] Beirut, more often than not, glued to

[11:23] the TV. Hear it over and over again.

[11:26] Family and friends in America are

[11:28] asking, "Are you crazy? It's a war." And

[11:31] that's my sister. I'm so lucky that I

[11:33] can still see her.

[11:34] >> In peaceful Greensboro, North Carolina,

[11:37] a webcam helped Samur's uncle ease his

[11:40] anxiety.

[11:41] >> We beg them to come. But when you live

[11:43] there, you cannot leave your family

[11:46] behind. This is a tragic part about it.

[11:48] >> Back in Beirut tonight at the By the Way

[11:51] bar, the afternoon bomb strikes 5 miles

[11:54] away were the topic of conversation.

[11:56] 57year-old Reed Clark from Oakland says

[11:59] he's staying to keep his business and

[12:01] shipping here alive. 22 years ago, his

[12:04] family evacuated after the US Marine

[12:06] barracks were attacked.

[12:07] >> So you don't leave because you have this

[12:09] internal debate with yourself that you

[12:11] don't want to surrender.

[12:12] >> I have uh decided that uh the risk is

[12:15] worth taking to stay here at least for

[12:18] the uh near term.

[12:20] >> But the US embassy warns soon those

[12:23] passages to safety may end. and

[12:26] Americans remaining in the war zone will

[12:28] be on their own. Kerry Sanders, NBC

[12:31] News, Beirut.

[12:34] >> When NBC Nightly News continues this

[12:35] Sunday, the other big stories of the

[12:37] day, including the latest from Baghdad,

[12:39] new devastating attacks, and new

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[15:21] >> Now to Iraq's escalating violence and a

[15:23] particularly bloody day there. More than

[15:26] 60 people were killed in a pair of car

[15:28] bombings. This comes as Iraq's prime

[15:30] minister heads to Washington hoping to

[15:32] find a way to end the growing sectarian

[15:34] fighting. NBC's Ned Colt is in Baghdad

[15:36] tonight.

[15:40] Flames and thick smoke billowing over

[15:42] Kier Cook after a remotec controlled

[15:44] bomb exploded outside the courthouse,

[15:46] killing at least 20.

[15:51] This was the fourth deadly bombing in

[15:52] Kirkook this month, a city that Sunni

[15:55] Arabs and ethnic Kurds are fighting and

[15:57] killing one another over to win its oil

[15:59] riches.

[16:01] And earlier Sunday, another bombing in

[16:03] the Shiite Solder City neighborhood of

[16:05] Baghdad. A suicide bomber blew up a van

[16:08] at the entrance to a crowded market.

[16:13] >> Why? Cries this survivor. Why us?

[16:16] Relatives called for missing loved ones.

[16:18] At least 48 people, almost all of them

[16:21] civilians, were killed.

[16:24] >> This latest round of attacks comes as

[16:26] American and Iraqi troops step up their

[16:28] presence in Baghdad, trying to stem an

[16:30] upsurge in violence across the capital.

[16:33] Government officials believe al-Qaeda

[16:35] remains the main source of the attacks.

[16:37] >> They are trying to drive this wedge and

[16:41] trigger a sectarian war, a sectarian

[16:44] rift between the Shia and Sunni in

[16:47] Baghdad.

[16:48] >> And in a strange twist tonight, the

[16:50] dictator who wielded supreme power over

[16:52] Iraqis for three decades is in the

[16:54] hospital. Saddam Hussein has refused

[16:57] solid food for more than two weeks to

[16:59] protest security conditions for his

[17:01] defense team. Three have been

[17:02] assassinated since his trial for crimes

[17:04] against humanity started last October.

[17:07] Tonight, the US military says Saddam

[17:09] Hussein is being voluntarily fed through

[17:11] a feeding tube, but that he's medically

[17:14] fit to return to the courtroom. His next

[17:16] appearance is scheduled for Wednesday.

[17:18] Ned Colt, NBC News, Baghdad.

[17:22] Here at home, police are investigating a

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[17:53] Scattered power outages are reported in

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[18:01] Gas prices jumped again last week across

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[21:49] Frank Milton is the mayor of Jackson, a

[21:52] town that 50 years ago was one of the

[21:54] most racist in America.

[21:56] >> I love Mississippi. I would not trade my

[21:58] experiences in this state for anything

[22:00] in the world.

[22:01] >> Milton is a wealthy man, the former

[22:02] owner of the NBC affiliate here. He sold

[22:06] the station, then ran for mayor,

[22:07] promising to stamp out inner city crime.

[22:10] He won with 88% of the vote.

[22:13] >> You've got a lot of flight going out of

[22:14] Jackson, black and white, going to other

[22:17] areas. It's a more poor city now than it

[22:19] was 10 years ago.

[22:20] >> That is correct.

[22:21] >> So, how do you reverse that?

[22:23] >> I think first of all, we deal with the

[22:24] crime problem. You start with the small

[22:26] things and you work your your way up.

[22:28] >> Milton routinely straps on two guns and

[22:31] a bulletproof vest and patrols

[22:33] low-income neighborhoods. He's a kind of

[22:35] official vigilante.

[22:37] >> Ain't nobody selling no dope out here.

[22:39] >> No, sir.

[22:40] >> I see the effects of the absence of the

[22:42] father. I see the effects of of of the

[22:45] broken homes and a lack of structure.

[22:47] And if you want to specify and talk

[22:48] about the African-American community, I

[22:50] think you just have to be honest. We're

[22:52] in trouble.

[22:52] >> But some wonder whether the mayor can

[22:54] solve a whole community's problems by

[22:56] going doortodoor.

[22:58] >> And I feel very strongly about that.

[23:00] >> Ronnie Agnu is the editor of the Jackson

[23:03] Clarion Ledger.

[23:04] >> There needs to be a plan to have

[23:07] something that is sustainable, something

[23:09] that is long-term.

[23:10] >> Will that be the greatest of your

[23:11] administration?

[23:13] >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Bringing values back

[23:15] to our neighborhoods. It's It's about a

[23:17] passion. I think it's about being

[23:19] driven. This isn't going to happen in my

[23:21] lifetime. Uh but but I'm going to do

[23:23] everything I can.

[23:25] Separate and unequal reported by Tom

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[23:32] >> For the second straight year, Tiger

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[27:01] NBC Nightly News Monday.

[27:04] Finally tonight, for the eighth straight

[27:06] year, an American has won the tour to

[27:08] France. Pennsylvania native Floyd Landis

[27:10] joins Lance Armstrong and Greg Greg

[27:12] Lemon as the only Americans to win the

[27:15] grueling 3-week, 2200 mile race. Like

[27:19] the others, Landis' story is full of

[27:21] pain and perseverance. Here's NBC's

[27:24] Keith Miller.

[27:26] >> We're looking for the yellow jersey.

[27:28] There it is on the far side.

[27:29] >> It was a wild ride for Floyd Landis. A

[27:33] stunning victory for Floyd Landis at the

[27:35] tour to France.

[27:36] >> Thank you everybody who kept believing.

[27:39] Most of all my team uh when things

[27:42] weren't going so well.

[27:43] >> The win made all the more remarkable by

[27:45] the fact that many people including

[27:47] Landis didn't think he could do it.

[27:50] >> And then came the bad day on the road to

[27:52] Lu Su.

[27:53] >> On Wednesday with Landis in first place,

[27:56] the tour entered a grueling ride over

[27:58] the Alps. Landis cracked. But I think he

[28:01] probably didn't eat enough food and he

[28:03] hit the wall.

[28:03] >> He fell to 11th place, 8 minutes behind

[28:07] the leader in a sport where winning is

[28:09] measured in seconds. Some people blamed

[28:12] Landis' arthritic hip, a bone so badly

[28:15] damaged in a crash 3 years ago, it will

[28:17] have to be replaced in the off season.

[28:20] Then the comeback. Pedaling as if

[28:22] possessed, Landis surged forward. The

[28:26] race director called it a

[28:27] once-ina-lifetime ride. Uh, as far as

[28:30] greatest comeback, I who can say

[28:34] >> the people in his hometown of

[28:35] Farmersville, Pennsylvania, never

[28:37] doubted him. Floyd's parents, devout

[28:39] Menanites, didn't see him cross the

[28:41] finish line. They were riding their

[28:44] bikes home from church.

[28:45] >> We are extremely uh delighted that the

[28:48] Lord blessed him with strength and

[28:49] safety.

[28:51] >> Landis picks up where Lance Armstrong

[28:53] left off, winning in a sport once

[28:56] dominated by the Europeans.

[28:59] The tour is a cruel test of endurance.

[29:02] Riders pedal more than 2,000 miles in

[29:05] just three weeks at an average speed of

[29:08] 25 miles an hour. That's the equivalent

[29:10] of running a marathon every day.

[29:14] Landis called his victory a lesson in

[29:16] persistence. To his new legion of fans,

[29:19] it was nothing less than a tour to

[29:21] force. Keith Miller, NBC News, London.

[29:27] And before we go, don't forget DLine

[29:29] tonight coming up at 87 central right

[29:31] after a special hour with Tom Brokoff.

[29:34] That's NBC Nightly News for this Sunday.

[29:36] Thanks for watching. I'm John Seenthaler

[29:38] reporting from New York and I'll see you

[29:40] next weekend if not before.