Up to the Minute (CBS) - 2006-07-28 (partial) - 1 of 2

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[0:03] Now on CBS News Up to the Minute,

[0:08] the Pentagon cancels tickets home for

[0:10] all US troops in Iraq as it attempts to

[0:13] put more troops and armor onto the

[0:15] streets of Baghdad.

[0:17] >> Does anybody need to make that much

[0:18] money?

[0:19] >> And with the price of gasoline above $3

[0:22] a gallon, Exon Mobile announces it's

[0:24] taking in more than a billion dollars a

[0:27] day.

[0:37] Good morning. This is CBS News Up to the

[0:39] Minute. I'm Meg Oliver. The Pentagon has

[0:42] canceled all flights out of Iraq for US

[0:44] soldiers as military commanders try to

[0:47] figure out how to implement President

[0:49] Bush's promise to put thousands more US

[0:51] troops, tanks, and armored vehicles onto

[0:54] the streets of Baghdad.

[1:01] Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has

[1:03] already extended the tours of duty for

[1:06] some 3,500 members of the 172nd Striker

[1:09] Brigade combat team. They were set to

[1:12] fly out of the war zone, but will be

[1:14] staying put for at least another four

[1:16] months. President Bush broadly outlined

[1:19] a plan to redeploy 5,000 more US

[1:21] soldiers to Baghdad from other parts of

[1:24] Iraq. Back here in the States, 21,000

[1:27] soldiers and Marines have been told to

[1:28] get their affairs in order because

[1:30] they'll be shipping out to Iraq during

[1:32] the next troop rotation. Inside the war

[1:35] zone, another US Marine has been killed

[1:38] in combat west of Baghdad. In all, at

[1:41] least 2571

[1:43] American troops have died in Iraq since

[1:45] President Bush launched the war.

[1:49] Israel's United Nations ambassador says

[1:51] his country won't allow the UN to play

[1:54] any role in investigating Wednesday's

[1:56] bombing of a United Nations observer

[1:58] post in southern Lebanon. Four UN

[2:00] peacekeepers were killed when their

[2:02] compound was destroyed by Israeli

[2:04] artillery. Secretary General Kofi Annen

[2:07] calls it an apparently deliberate act.

[2:10] Secretary of State Condisa Rice says

[2:12] she's willing to return to the Middle

[2:14] East, but so far there's no timetable

[2:16] for that. Rice is in Malaysia where she

[2:18] played piano for a room full of Asian

[2:20] diplomats. Rice has meetings today with

[2:23] the foreign ministers of Malaysia and

[2:25] Indonesia. Two large Muslim nations

[2:27] strongly opposed to the Israeli assault

[2:29] on Lebanon and at odds with the White

[2:32] House opposition to a ceasefire.

[2:35] Israeli missiles and artillery continue

[2:38] to rain down on Lebanon this morning.

[2:40] Hezbollah rockets are still being fired

[2:42] across the border and Israel called up

[2:45] 30,000 reserve soldiers, but insisted it

[2:48] isn't planning on a bigger invasion.

[2:50] CBS's Bianca Solarano has more.

[2:54] >> Car beams lit up the dark roads in

[2:56] southern Lebanon as more desperate

[2:58] families escaped the violence in border

[3:01] towns and villages.

[3:03] >> There is no water, there is no medicine,

[3:05] there is nothing. The people are dying,

[3:07] this woman says, as Israeli warplane

[3:09] struck deserted homes and other targets

[3:12] Thursday. The Lebanese health minister

[3:13] predicted as many as 600 people have

[3:16] died in Israeli attack since the

[3:18] fighting began.

[3:20] Israel put its death toll at more than

[3:22] 50 as Hezbollah rockets continued to

[3:24] rain down on the north. The Israeli

[3:27] government has decided not to expand its

[3:29] military offensive in southern Lebanon,

[3:31] but it is calling up 30,000 reserveists

[3:34] in case the combat intensifies. The

[3:36] rhetoric already has

[3:39] >> Israel's defense minister vowed the

[3:41] Hezbollah flag would never fly again on

[3:43] the Israeli Lebanon border. Meanwhile,

[3:45] Iran's president condemned Israel,

[3:47] saying it had ordained its own

[3:49] destruction by invading Lebanon. And

[3:52] al-Qaeda's second in command, Iman

[3:53] Azerwari, came out with a videotaped

[3:55] message calling on all Muslims to unite

[3:58] in a holy war against Israel. Bianca

[4:01] Solarano, CBS News, Washington.

[4:05] They were celebrating at Exxon Mobile.

[4:07] The company reported that second quarter

[4:09] profits surged to more than 10 billion

[4:12] dollars. That's the second largest

[4:13] quarterly profit ever for a US company,

[4:16] passed only by Exxon's profits for the

[4:18] fourth quarter of last year. The price

[4:20] of the pump remains near record, a

[4:22] nationwide average of $3 a gallon for

[4:25] self-s served regular. CBS's Alexis

[4:28] Christopherus has more.

[4:31] Marcus Burrow just spent $348 a gallon

[4:35] filling up his bike at this Exxon

[4:37] station in New York City.

[4:39] >> I wish I ran a gas company. And who

[4:41] wouldn't when soaring prices at the pump

[4:43] are pumping up oil company profits, most

[4:46] notably Exxon Mobile, where profits

[4:48] climbed 36% from April to June to 10.36

[4:53] billion. It's the second highest profit

[4:56] ever. Sales topped 99 billion, the first

[4:59] time a US company has earned over a

[5:01] billion dollars a day.

[5:03] >> They're victims of their own success.

[5:05] They're they're they're really in the

[5:06] right place at the right time. A time

[5:07] when crude oil and gasoline prices are

[5:10] at an all-time high. But this latest

[5:12] profit announcement from Exxon Mobile

[5:14] has triggered a fresh wave of outrage

[5:17] from lawmakers and consumers who would

[5:19] love to see the big oil companies taxed

[5:21] for their windfall profits. Unless the

[5:25] uh administration does something, we're

[5:28] going to have to keep paying these

[5:29] prices.

[5:30] >> Alexis Christopherus, CBS News, New

[5:32] York.

[5:34] Cycling champion Floyd Landis insists he

[5:36] did not take illegal drugs to win this

[5:38] year's tour to France. Landis says he

[5:41] has no idea why his urine tested

[5:43] positive for a huge spike in

[5:45] testosterone. A second sample will be

[5:47] tested in the next few days. And until

[5:49] the results are in, Landis, the US

[5:51] cycling team, and the runners up in

[5:54] France are holding their breath. CBS's

[5:56] Armen Kayan reports.

[6:00] >> It seemed almost too good to be true.

[6:02] American Floyd Landis at top the podium

[6:05] in Paris, winner of the tour to France

[6:07] in an epic comeback.

[6:09] >> Landis has done enough to win the tour.

[6:11] >> In a shocking turn, news from his team,

[6:13] no less, that Landis had tested positive

[6:16] for an unusual level of the male hormone

[6:19] testosterone late in the race and had

[6:21] been suspended pending further analysis

[6:23] of the urine sample. The 30-year-old

[6:26] Landis was unavailable for comment, but

[6:28] told his mother there was quote, "No way

[6:30] he used performance-enhancing drugs."

[6:33] >> I remained positive that uh he's a man

[6:36] of honor, and he's not proven guilty

[6:39] yet.

[6:40] >> Ironically, this year's tour opened

[6:42] under the cloud of suspicion that has

[6:44] haunted this sport. Four of the cyclists

[6:46] who finished behind Lance Armstrong last

[6:48] year were all bounced due to a massive

[6:51] doping scandal, leaving Landis an odds

[6:53] on favorite. Despite riding with a badly

[6:56] injured hip in need of replacement

[6:58] surgery, he charged into the overall

[7:00] lead in the 15th of 20 grueling stages,

[7:03] only to unexpectedly crack a day later,

[7:06] dropping completely out of contention.

[7:08] >> A nice show of determination.

[7:10] >> In response, Landis unleashed arguably

[7:13] the greatest single stage in tour

[7:15] history.

[7:15] >> The champagne is out. It was after that

[7:18] stunning effort on his way to that

[7:19] podium in Paris that Landis's

[7:21] testosterone ratio was tested and found

[7:24] to be above the permissible limit. The

[7:26] question is, would it help his hip or

[7:29] his performance?

[7:30] >> I cannot imagine that a doctor would

[7:32] have given him testosterone for the

[7:34] treatment of his hip disease,

[7:37] the athlete knowing the rules and

[7:38] regulations of doping in his sport. The

[7:40] governing body of cycling does not

[7:42] require analysis of the so-called B

[7:44] sample, but said that Landis had

[7:46] requested it. If he tests positive

[7:48] again, Landis would be fired from his

[7:50] team and stripped of his title. Armen

[7:53] Kayan, CBS News, New York.

[7:57] >> More news ahead. This is up to the

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