World News Tonight (ABC) - 2005-10-12

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[0:05] On World News Tonight, defending the

[0:07] nominee. President Bush says if you want

[0:09] to understand his nominee for the

[0:11] Supreme Court, religion is important.

[0:14] Some evangelicals are offended that

[0:16] religion is even a selling point.

[0:19] Dancing in the streets of Baghdad, the

[0:22] breakthrough deal as Iraq counts down to

[0:24] the vote on a new constitution.

[0:27] Preventing car fires. They happen once

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[0:46] >> From ABC [music] News, this is World

[0:49] News Tonight.

[0:52] Reporting from [music] ABC News

[0:53] headquarters, Elizabeth Vargas.

[0:56] >> Good evening. We [music] start tonight

[0:57] with the defense of Harriet Meyers. Once

[1:00] again today, President Bush found

[1:02] himself explaining why he chose Ms.

[1:04] Meyers for the open spot on the Supreme

[1:06] Court. And for the first time, he

[1:08] addressed why his aids have been using

[1:10] her religion as a way to defend the

[1:12] president's choice. In many ways, the

[1:14] president was trying to reassure some of

[1:17] the people who have supported him most.

[1:19] People who now have serious concerns

[1:21] about Harriet Meyers. ABC's Terry Moran

[1:24] joins us from the White House with more.

[1:26] Terry

[1:27] >> Elizabeth. White House officials admit

[1:28] they were slow off the mark to defend

[1:30] Harriet Meyers from attacks by

[1:33] conservatives, but now they're fighting

[1:34] back on two fronts. Her qualifications

[1:37] and her religion.

[1:39] >> After meeting with the Polish president,

[1:41] President Bush was asked why the White

[1:43] House has discussed Meyer's bornagain

[1:45] Christianity and seeking support from

[1:46] conservatives.

[1:47] >> They want to know

[1:51] Harriet Myers's background. They want to

[1:52] know as much as they possibly can before

[1:55] they form opinions.

[1:57] Part of Herod Myers's life is her

[1:59] religion.

[2:00] >> For 25 years, Meyers has attended

[2:02] evangelical churches in Dallas. And that

[2:05] fact has been used by Mr. Bush's staff

[2:07] and supporters to bolster her

[2:09] nomination.

[2:09] >> Why is his top an telling people how she

[2:12] prays?

[2:13] >> He's simply talking about who she is and

[2:15] what her background is.

[2:16] >> But the faith-based pitch may not be

[2:18] working. Radio talk show host Rush

[2:20] Limbbo citing reports that Mr. Bush was

[2:22] determined to nominate a woman once

[2:24] again today blasted the White House.

[2:26] >> It had to be a woman. And the first

[2:28] thing was the nominee had to be a woman,

[2:29] i.e. quota.

[2:31] >> And on Capitol Hill, Republican staffers

[2:33] on the judiciary committee have been so

[2:35] scornful of Meyers that the panel's

[2:36] chief counsel, Michael O'Neal, sent out

[2:39] an email warning. I really cannot stress

[2:42] enough that we need to be careful about

[2:44] what we say to the press. and aids to

[2:46] conservative Republican Senator Tom

[2:48] Coburn of Oklahoma say constituent calls

[2:51] are running 2:1 against Meyers compared

[2:54] to 3:1 for Judge John Roberts. White

[2:56] House officials believe part of the

[2:58] problem is that Meyer's qualifications

[3:00] for the court are just not well enough

[3:02] known.

[3:02] >> She's a a brilliant legal mind. She is a

[3:05] hardworking uh lawyer and and confidant

[3:08] of the president and someone who as

[3:09] White House counsel deals with a lot of

[3:10] constitutional issues. uh and she was a

[3:13] trailblazer in in her field in Texas and

[3:15] she is a woman of faith.

[3:18] >> White House strategy now is to shore up

[3:20] support among conservatives and sell

[3:21] those qualifications, try to portray

[3:23] Harriet Meyers as a very accomplished

[3:25] lawyer. And Elizabeth, they say they

[3:27] still have the votes in the Senate, but

[3:29] then they would.

[3:30] >> Yes, they would indeed. All right,

[3:32] Terry, thank you. President Bush's

[3:33] comments today about Harriet Myers and

[3:35] her religion were in part a reaction to

[3:37] a controversy sparked by one of the most

[3:39] influential evangelical leaders in the

[3:42] country. Dr. James Dobson said that he

[3:45] had been given confidential information

[3:47] about Ms. Meyers, which convinced him to

[3:49] support her nomination. Today, Mr.

[3:52] Dobson revealed what he had been told.

[3:54] Here's ABC's Dan Harris.

[3:56] >> On a radio show broadcast to millions of

[3:58] Americans today, Dr. James Dobson

[4:00] explained himself. Carl Rove has now

[4:03] given me permission to go public with

[4:06] our conversation.

[4:07] >> Dobson said Rove told him that Mr. Bush

[4:10] chose Harriet Meyers only after several

[4:12] better known conservatives refused to go

[4:14] through the often bruising nomination

[4:16] process. Dobson also quoted Ro as saying

[4:19] the president only wanted a female

[4:21] nominee.

[4:22] >> And you can imagine what that did to the

[4:24] short list. That may have cut it by 80%.

[4:28] Right there.

[4:29] >> Last week when Dobson said that he was

[4:31] supporting Meyers after the White House

[4:33] had told him things he probably

[4:34] shouldn't know.

[4:35] >> I do know things I'm not prepared to

[4:37] talk about here.

[4:38] >> Leading senators threatened to haul him

[4:40] before Congress. They suspected Dobson

[4:43] had been given assurances that Meyers

[4:45] would vote to overturn Ro versus Wade,

[4:47] the landmark abortion case.

[4:49] >> It did not happen. Period. Dobson said

[4:53] Rove did tell him that Harriet Meyers is

[4:55] an evangelical Christian.

[4:57] >> She is uh from a very conservative

[5:00] church which is almost uh universally

[5:04] pro-life.

[5:05] >> Some evangelicals are offended that the

[5:07] White House has been touting Meer's

[5:09] Christianity.

[5:10] >> It is patronizing to use an evangelical

[5:13] faith uh as a political commodity. Many

[5:17] Christian conservatives were already

[5:19] frustrated with the administration for

[5:20] not doing enough to stop illegal

[5:22] immigration, federal spending, and

[5:24] same-sex marriages. The Meers nomination

[5:27] has exacerbated that frustration with

[5:29] some evangelicals saying the president

[5:31] only pays them sufficient attention come

[5:34] election time.

[5:35] >> They want our support, but they don't

[5:38] want anybody to know that they are

[5:40] affiliated with us. One thing

[5:42] evangelicals agree on is that this

[5:44] controversy disproves what they call a

[5:46] common [music] misconception that

[5:48] evangelicals are so simple and obedient

[5:50] that they always walk in lock step with

[5:53] one another [music] and with the

[5:54] president.

[5:55] >> Dan Harris, ABC News, New York.

[5:58] >> And now overseas to news. The president

[6:00] is also watching very closely today. In

[6:02] Iraq, hopeful signs that a new deal on

[6:04] the constitution could make a difference

[6:06] when it's put to a vote this weekend. A

[6:09] number of leaders representing the Sunni

[6:11] Arab minority have agreed to support the

[6:13] new constitution. They had been urging

[6:15] Sunnis to boycott the elections. The

[6:18] enormous question tonight for the US and

[6:20] Iraq is will the Sunnis show up and

[6:23] vote. ABC's Martha Ratitz is at the US

[6:26] military headquarters in Baghdad. Martha

[6:29] >> Elizabeth, this sudden compromise by

[6:31] Iraq's political leaders is being hailed

[6:33] as a breakthrough with one calling it

[6:36] the beginning of a new era.

[6:40] In Baghdad tonight and in Njaf,

[6:44] >> some Iraqis celebrated news of the

[6:46] compromise. US officials had been

[6:48] pushing Iraqi Shiite and Kurdish leaders

[6:51] to reach out to the Sunnis, fearing that

[6:53] violence in Iraq will get even worse if

[6:56] the Constitution passes in its present

[6:58] form. The compromise approved tonight

[7:01] could give Sunnis a reason to vote for

[7:03] the Constitution because they could have

[7:05] a chance to help reddraft the document

[7:07] after December's elections. The Sunnis

[7:10] had little input in the original

[7:12] document. A senior member of a leading

[7:14] Sunni party, which had been telling

[7:16] followers to vote against the

[7:18] Constitution, is now telling members to

[7:20] vote yes. But not all Sunnis are

[7:23] convinced. Tonight, at least one

[7:25] prominent Sunni urged his followers to

[7:28] vote down the Constitution. The senior

[7:30] commander in Iraq, General George Casey,

[7:32] told ABC News tonight that this

[7:35] compromise makes the Constitution more

[7:37] suitable for all Iraqis.

[7:39] >> All our estimates tell us that the

[7:41] Constitution will pass. And I think

[7:42] there have been some things that h have

[7:43] happened in the last 24 hours here uh

[7:46] that will give it an even greater chance

[7:48] of passing. General Casey met with

[7:50] commanders in Kirkook today to nail down

[7:53] security plans for the vote, which

[7:55] include a 4-day curfew beginning

[7:58] tomorrow. And just as they did during

[8:00] January elections, all traffic will come

[8:03] to a halt. But with only a few days to

[8:06] go before the vote, Iraqis will have

[8:08] very little time or resources to get the

[8:11] word out to Sunnis about tonight's

[8:13] compromise. Elizabeth.

[8:15] >> All right, Martha. Thank you. There are

[8:16] already signs the insurgents are

[8:18] stepping up their attacks in the city of

[8:20] Talafar. For the second day in a row, a

[8:23] suicide bomber attacked a crowd of

[8:25] people, killing 30. Another 34 died in a

[8:28] bombing yesterday. Just two weeks ago,

[8:30] President Bush pointed to Talifar as an

[8:33] example of a successful joint Iraqi US

[8:36] operation to clear the area of

[8:38] militants. In Pakistan, President Perves

[8:41] Musharov went on television today

[8:43] defending his government's handling of

[8:45] the earthquake disaster there. He

[8:47] admitted many people still have not

[8:49] gotten the help they need. But he said

[8:51] no country could be ready for such a

[8:53] huge disaster. With the government's

[8:55] response so lacking, private groups have

[8:57] stepped in. And in some cases, that has

[9:00] the US very concerned. ABC's David

[9:03] Wright is in Pakistan.

[9:06] Not far from the epicenter of the

[9:07] earthquake, there's a supply depot piled

[9:10] high with blankets, clothes, and food.

[9:13] This is not the work of an international

[9:15] relief organization, and it's got

[9:17] nothing to do with the government of

[9:19] Pakistan. All of this is privately

[9:21] organized.

[9:22] >> Yes,

[9:23] >> this is a private organization.

[9:26] >> It's a fundamentalist Islamic group

[9:28] called Jamat Udawa. Many of its members

[9:31] used to belong to militant factions now

[9:33] banned in Pakistan as terrorist groups

[9:36] and they are filling a void here.

[9:40] >> Only the mujahedin the militants are

[9:42] helping us said this man.

[9:44] >> Hello.

[9:45] >> Pakistani Kashmir has long been a magnet

[9:48] for extremists. Al-Qaeda is known to

[9:50] have training camps here and Osama bin

[9:53] Laden is thought to have used this area

[9:55] as his escape route after he fled

[9:57] Afghanistan. There are reports tonight

[9:59] that some training camps were destroyed

[10:01] in the earthquake. [snorts]

[10:05] Disaster relief here is more than just a

[10:08] humanitarian gesture. It's an

[10:10] opportunity to win hearts and minds.

[10:13] That's one reason why the US is playing

[10:15] such a visible role here. Today,

[10:17] American helicopters were able to reach

[10:19] mountain villages that had been

[10:21] completely cut off.

[10:24] But 5 days after the earthquake, the

[10:26] Pakistani government is still unable to

[10:29] cope with the huge demands here. Whether

[10:31] it's handing out food and medicine,

[10:34] pulling dead bodies from the rubble or

[10:36] rebuilding damaged infrastructure,

[10:39] private citizens are mostly having to go

[10:41] it alone. Natural disasters are no one's

[10:44] fault. But here, as in New Orleans,

[10:47] disaster relief can be highly political.

[10:50] David Wright, ABC News. Msafrabad,

[10:52] Pakistani Kashmir.

[10:54] >> In Syria, there are questions tonight

[10:57] about the mysterious death of the

[10:58] interior minister. The official Syrian

[11:01] news agency said he committed suicide.

[11:03] Gazi Kanan had served as Syria's

[11:05] intelligence chief in Lebanon for 20

[11:07] years. All over the region tonight,

[11:10] there are suspicions that he was

[11:12] murdered to cover up evidence that Syria

[11:15] was behind the assassination of

[11:17] Lebanon's former prime minister Rafi

[11:19] Hariri.

[11:21] When we return, the stunning revelation

[11:23] in Los Angeles today. The accusations of

[11:25] sexual abuse ignored for years and the

[11:28] children [music] who suffered. In other

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[14:32] involving priests. The arch dascese

[14:34] released the personnel files of 126

[14:37] priests. They chronicle 75 years of

[14:40] cases in which the church was warned

[14:41] about clergymen but failed to protect

[14:44] children from them. ABC's Miguel Marquez

[14:46] is in Los Angeles.

[14:49] alleged victims of sexual abuse gathered

[14:51] today in the shadows of the Los Angeles

[14:53] Cathedral to send the message that the

[14:55] newly released documents are not enough.

[14:58] >> I'm happy that some of this information

[14:59] has been released to the public, but

[15:02] >> I'm convinced that there is so much more

[15:04] that the public is not going to get.

[15:06] >> Father Michael Baker was one of the 126

[15:09] priests named in the files. Matt

[15:11] Severson says he was one of Baker's

[15:14] victims. I was abused by Father Michael

[15:17] Baker from 1976 through 1986.

[15:20] >> The report shows that Cardinal Roger

[15:22] Mahoney met with Baker in 1986 to

[15:25] discuss his sexual relationship with two

[15:27] boys. The record shows Mahoney

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[15:31] then reassigned him to parishes where he

[15:33] allegedly offended again. The documents

[15:35] were released as part of a civil suit

[15:37] filed by 560 accusers. Nationwide, the

[15:41] Catholic Church has spent over a billion

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[15:46] claims of abuse since 2003.

[15:48] Among the largest settlements, Boston's

[15:50] Arch Dascese paid $85 million to settle

[15:54] 552 claims. Louisville, Kucky's Arch

[15:57] Dascese paid almost 26 million for 243

[16:01] victims. And just two months ago,

[16:03] Oakland, California's dascese paid $56

[16:06] million to 56 people. But with 560

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[16:14] settlement here could dwarf all others.

[16:17] >> With those kinds of numbers, you know,

[16:19] it's clear that a resolution this case

[16:22] could be significantly in excess of a

[16:25] billion dollars.

[16:26] >> Today's documents mirror some of the

[16:27] problems highlighted just a few weeks

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[16:31] dascese of Philadelphia. A grand jury

[16:34] found that the cover up by the arch

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[16:39] itself.

[16:39] >> The LA Dascese says the church wanted to

[16:42] release the documents all along. It also

[16:44] says they've been more open about naming

[16:46] the priests who have been accused.

[16:48] >> What we have here is a church that is

[16:50] embarrassed uh that is contrite that is

[16:54] um ashamed of what happened in the past

[16:58] and is committed to reforming it.

[17:01] Cardinal Mahoney has held eight private

[17:03] apology services for victims, but many

[17:06] say he must publicly take responsibility

[17:08] for the alleged abuse. Miguel Marquez,

[17:11] ABC News, Los Angeles.

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[20:10] >> There's some alarming news about the

[20:12] cost of staying warm. The government

[20:14] said today that heating bills will soar

[20:16] this winter because of tight fuel

[20:17] supplies and production problems caused

[20:19] by the hurricanes. Households using

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[20:25] customers 32% more. And households with

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[20:32] All over the northeast today, the rain

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[20:50] ABC News has learned that the American

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[20:57] were startled by the statistics. There

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[21:15] Bob Amar can finally play piano again.

[21:18] >> It was just a a horrible explosion. In

[21:22] less than a minute, Amar suffered

[21:23] thirdderee burns on his face, hand, and

[21:26] arm, sprayed by a gasoline fireball

[21:28] during a violent traffic accident on a

[21:30] Southern California freeway.

[21:32] >> The Bronco behind me was hit so hard

[21:34] that it ruptured the gas tank.

[21:36] >> Aar is just one of more than,300 car

[21:39] fire victims every year. The National

[21:41] Fire Protection Association reveals that

[21:44] cars burn on American highways once

[21:46] every 2 minutes. More people die in

[21:49] vehicle fires than in apartment fires

[21:52] each year in the United States.

[21:54] >> And 75% of those car fires start not

[21:56] with an accident, but with plain bad

[21:59] maintenance.

[22:00] >> I never took care of my car.

[22:01] >> 20 years ago, Mary Alonzo, a student at

[22:04] the time, couldn't afford to keep her

[22:05] car up. One day, the muffler just

[22:07] erupted in flames, leaving Mary with

[22:10] burns on 30% of her body.

[22:12] >> Take care of your car now so you won't

[22:14] have to pay the price later like I did.

[22:18] See how quickly it flames up?

[22:20] >> This AAA demonstration shows six

[22:22] flammable fluids under the hood.

[22:24] >> Power steering fluid, engine oil.

[22:27] >> Among tomorrow's AAA recommendations.

[22:30] >> Check underneath the car for leaks. The

[22:32] prime suspect, the oil pan, the steering

[22:34] rack, which in this case is leaking very

[22:36] close to the catalytic converter, which

[22:39] is the car's main emission device and

[22:41] can heat up to some 600°.

[22:44] And if a fire does break out, most

[22:46] injuries and deaths can be prevented by

[22:48] moving 100 feet away. And say

[22:50] firefighters never open the hood to

[22:52] fight the inferno yourself. It only

[22:54] feeds oxygen to the flames. Jim Avala,

[22:56] ABC News Orlando.

[22:58] >> And that warning and recommendations

[23:00] coming out from the AAA tomorrow. When

[23:02] we return, looking for another iPod

[23:05] revolution, a new way to watch TV

[23:07] anytime, anywhere. [music]

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[24:12] >> To the Thanksgiving traditions of

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[24:43] >> If you're concerned about catching a

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[24:48] avoid other people for 6 months.

[25:00] Or just drink a glass of Florida orange

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[25:09] Healthy, pure, [music] and simple.

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[25:15] since 1886. I've learned a lot from the

[25:18] generations who [music] came before me.

[25:20] My father taught me to never come out

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[25:25] >> We will not introduce a product that

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[25:52] >> Psycho chick. You came with a label.

[25:55] >> The series premiere of Freddy tonight at

[25:57] 8:30, 7:30 central, only on ABC.

[26:01] >> We end the program tonight with the

[26:03] future. Well, perhaps the future. For

[26:06] quite some time now, we've been hearing

[26:08] media executives everywhere talk about

[26:10] making movies and TV available on what

[26:12] they call alternative platforms so

[26:15] consumers can see them when and where

[26:17] they want. Until now, it's been a pretty

[26:19] vague vision of the future. ABC's Brian

[26:22] Rooney reports on the news today from

[26:24] Apple.

[26:26] >> Apple's iPod made it fashionable to walk

[26:28] down the street with little white wires

[26:30] coming out of your ears. They've sold

[26:32] nearly 30 million of them. It

[26:35] revolutionized how people buy and listen

[26:37] to music.

[26:38] >> It's been a huge success for us and

[26:42] therefore it's time to replace it.

[26:46] So for Apple, a video iPod able to play

[26:49] music, videos, television shows, and

[26:51] movies was the logical next step. The

[26:54] new 60 GB iPod, thinner than current

[26:57] models, holds 15,000 songs, 25,000

[27:01] photographs, and plays 150 hours of

[27:04] video on a color screen.

[27:06] >> So, it's really up to you whether you

[27:08] want music and photos, music and video.

[27:11] But first, it's about the music.

[27:13] >> There is competition. Just yesterday,

[27:15] the Dish Network released its pocket

[27:17] dish with a screen up to seven inches,

[27:20] holding 40 hours of video. Creative

[27:22] Technologies Zen Vision has been sold

[27:25] for 2 years. [music]

[27:29] >> The new iPod threatens to do for movies

[27:31] and television what the original did for

[27:33] music. It is unquestionably cool, but

[27:37] how many people will want to watch video

[27:39] on a 2 and 1/2 in screen? is I don't

[27:41] think people are going to sit and watch,

[27:43] you know, two and a half hours worth of

[27:44] Braveheart, but certainly I think music

[27:46] videos are certainly will be popular. TV

[27:48] shows will probably be popular as well.

[27:50] And there has to be a lot available to

[27:53] watch.

[27:53] >> Well, there is one more thing.

[27:56] >> Steve Jobs announced a deal with the ABC

[27:58] television network, owner of ABC News,

[28:01] to sell downloads of five hit television

[28:04] shows. It's not much, but when he

[28:06] started [music] selling music, he had

[28:08] just a handful of songs for sale. And

[28:10] now he's got two million.

[28:13] [music and singing]

[28:15] >> Brian Rooney, ABC News, San Jose.

[28:18] >> Ah, technology. And that's our report on

[28:20] World News Tonight. I'm Elizabeth

[28:21] Vargas. For all of us here at ABC News,

[28:24] have a good evening and good night.

[28:30] [music]

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