CBS Evening News - 1999-07-29
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[0:03] Massacre in Atlanta. A gunman goes on a
[0:06] deadly shooting rampage. We'll have the
[0:08] latest on the shooter and the victims. A
[0:11] judge finds President Clinton for giving
[0:13] false testimony under oath. And outrage
[0:17] over the latest cyber smut secretly
[0:20] recorded college locker room videos for
[0:22] sale on the internet.
[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:32] Rather.
[0:34] Good evening, Dan is off tonight. I'm
[0:36] John Roberts. Police in Atlanta are
[0:38] hunting tonight for a killer, a gunman
[0:40] who unleashed a hail of bullets inside a
[0:43] crowded office complex. At least nine
[0:45] people are dead, 12 injured, and three
[0:48] more people have been killed in an
[0:50] apparently related shooting. Our
[0:52] coverage begins with Byron Pitts who has
[0:54] been on the scene since shortly after
[0:56] the shooting began. Byron.
[0:58] >> John. Police say the gunman is still on
[1:00] the run at this hour. Authorities say he
[1:02] is alone. He is angry and he is armed. A
[1:05] day trader who today, in the words of
[1:06] one witness, quote, went crazy.
[1:12] >> The gunman opened fire just after 3 this
[1:15] afternoon, killing at least nine people
[1:17] and wounding another 13, many of them
[1:20] critically. Blood drips in the hallway
[1:22] leading into the property manager's
[1:23] office and there was blood all over
[1:25] there.
[1:25] >> Witnesses say 44y old Mark Barton, a day
[1:29] trader, walked into the Altech
[1:30] Investment Company where he had done
[1:32] business just 2 days earlier. Today, he
[1:35] returned with at least two guns and
[1:36] opened fire. Murdered in the first wave
[1:39] of gunshots, the office manager and
[1:41] assistant manager, both killed at point
[1:43] blank range. Then, according to
[1:45] witnesses, Barton went on a rampage,
[1:47] roaming the hallways, shooting anyone in
[1:50] his path.
[1:51] >> He had a 45 caliber handgun and a 9mm
[1:54] handgun. He apparently was a day trader
[1:58] at a brokerage firm and was concerned
[2:00] about financial losses.
[2:02] >> Police evacuated several buildings here
[2:05] in the heart of Atlanta's Buckhead
[2:07] Business District, but there was no sign
[2:09] of the gunman.
[2:10] >> As we got halfway across the street,
[2:11] they said, "There he is. He's got a
[2:13] gun." So he was just up on the corner of
[2:15] that building and he had a girl with
[2:16] him. So we they we just laid down on the
[2:19] ground next to the police cars.
[2:20] >> The hallway was empty except for a few
[2:22] members of the uh the police and they
[2:24] were with their backs against the wall,
[2:26] the guns drawn like you'd see, you know,
[2:27] in a movie. And basically they said,
[2:30] "Close the door. Close the door. Close
[2:31] the door." And on the ground uh on the
[2:33] carpet there was a little trail of blood
[2:35] coming down the hall.
[2:36] >> Police saying Mark Barton's killing
[2:38] spree did not start here. In the past
[2:40] hour, authorities found the bodies of
[2:42] three people in an apartment building
[2:44] some 30 miles south of Atlanta. All
[2:46] three are believed to be relatives of
[2:48] the gunman. The death toll here is now
[2:51] 12. John
[2:53] >> Byron Pittz at the scene. Thanks. As
[2:54] Byron mentioned, the shooting began at
[2:56] the office of the Altech Investment
[2:58] Group, which caters to so-called day
[3:01] traders. Altech is one of the nation's
[3:04] largest day trading companies. Its
[3:05] headquarters are in Montville, New
[3:07] Jersey with 23 offices across the
[3:09] country. It was founded by Harvey
[3:11] Hodkin, who is considered the father of
[3:13] day trading. He originated the computer
[3:15] program which allows day traders to buy
[3:18] and sell stocks moment by moment, hoping
[3:20] for quick profits instead of waiting for
[3:22] long-term gains. Mr. Hen spoke with us a
[3:25] few minutes ago about the shooting. Were
[3:27] you given any kind of indication as to
[3:29] why this took place? Uh it w let me
[3:32] explain one thing I I have been able to
[3:34] determine Mr. Barton
[3:37] had not been trading recently. So it it
[3:40] wasn't like the market was down 250
[3:43] points today which at one point it was
[3:45] and he had lost a tremendous amount of
[3:47] money and he snapped. Uh he had not been
[3:50] trading. he had come back to apparently
[3:53] discuss something or go over something
[3:55] and uh you know the fact that he had two
[3:58] handguns with him uh would lead me to
[4:00] believe that this was not spontaneous.
[4:02] >> Did he say anything to anyone in the
[4:04] room?
[4:05] >> The people that had spoken to the two
[4:07] people the only thing he said that while
[4:09] he was coming out or while he was going
[4:10] in he mentioned to me that he was saying
[4:13] I hope this doesn't ruin your trading
[4:14] day.
[4:15] >> That was Harvey Hit founder of the Alt
[4:17] Investment Group. Following the recent
[4:20] string of school shootings, Congress
[4:21] again took up the issue of gun control.
[4:23] This week, the House and Senate are
[4:25] naming a conference committee to
[4:27] reconcile their separate bills, but no
[4:29] action is likely until after Congress
[4:31] returns from its Labor Day recess.
[4:33] President Clinton is the first president
[4:35] ever found in contempt of court. Today,
[4:37] the judge who cited him fined him. CBS's
[4:40] Phil Jones reports. This all stems from
[4:43] the president's testimony under oath in
[4:45] the Paula Jones case.
[4:48] President Clinton may have thought he
[4:49] was escaping the heat today as he headed
[4:51] off to Europe. But soon after he was
[4:54] airborne, a heated judge zapped him with
[4:56] $90,686
[4:59] in fines for false and misleading
[5:02] testimony about his relationship with
[5:04] Monica Lewinsky. Arkansas federal judge
[5:07] Susan Weber Wright said the sanctions
[5:09] are being imposed not only to deter
[5:12] others who might consider emulating the
[5:14] president's conduct but to compensate
[5:16] the plainif Paula Jones who sued the
[5:19] president for sexual harassment. This
[5:22] money will go to Jones and her
[5:24] attorneys. It was President Clinton's
[5:26] testimony in January 1998 in the Jones
[5:29] case that resulted in him becoming the
[5:31] first president to ever be cited for
[5:34] contempt of court. At any time were you
[5:36] and Monica Lewinsky together alone in
[5:39] the Oval Office?
[5:44] >> I don't recall.
[5:45] >> But 6 months later, the president
[5:47] changed his sworn testimony. when I was
[5:50] alone with Miss Lewinsky
[5:54] on certain occasions in early 1996
[5:58] and once in early 1997.
[6:03] I engaged in conduct that was wrong.
[6:05] >> Judge Wright was so upset by Mr.
[6:07] Clinton's court misconduct that she
[6:10] ordered the president who asked her to
[6:12] come to Washington for the Jones
[6:13] deposition to pay for her trip. The
[6:16] president was told about the $90,000 in
[6:18] fines before he arrived in Italy. He
[6:21] reportedly had no reaction, but there
[6:23] was a tur statement from the president's
[6:25] lawyer saying, "We accept the judgment
[6:27] of the court and we will comply with
[6:29] it." This may not be the end of the
[6:31] president's problems. Judge Wright has
[6:33] asked the Arkansas Supreme Court's
[6:35] Committee on Professional Conduct to
[6:37] determine whether it should also take
[6:39] action against Mr. Clinton. Bill Jones,
[6:42] CBS News, the White House. Senate
[6:45] Republicans are on the verge tonight of
[6:47] passing the largest tax cut this nation
[6:49] has seen in nearly two decades. Measure
[6:52] is similar to one already passed by
[6:53] House Republicans. But as CBS's Diana Ol
[6:56] reports, the tax cut plan may turn out
[6:59] to be largely symbolic, facing almost
[7:01] certain death from the president's pen.
[7:05] >> Before Republican senators could pour
[7:07] their morning coffee, President Clinton
[7:09] was turning up the heat against their
[7:11] $800 billion tax plan. So I say to
[7:14] Congress, if you send me a tax cut that
[7:17] short changes America's priorities and
[7:19] our children's future, I will veto it.
[7:23] >> But Republicans continue to push their
[7:25] bill, and Democrats continue to argue
[7:27] they're just out to help the rich.
[7:29] >> This is class warfare.
[7:32] 60% of the benefits go to the top 10%.
[7:36] Even the dean of Republican economists,
[7:38] Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, warned big
[7:41] tax cuts could lead to big inflation.
[7:44] >> And he fears that if there is a massive
[7:46] tax cut that sends money back into the
[7:48] pocketbooks, it will merely show up in
[7:50] credit card balances and people will end
[7:53] up spending and spending and spending.
[7:55] >> So, with Greenspan so clearly opposed
[7:57] and President Clinton ready to veto, why
[7:59] are Republicans so set on such a huge
[8:02] cut? But ultimately, God put Republicans
[8:05] on earth to cut taxes.
[8:07] >> In 1981, Ronald Reagan signed the
[8:09] largest tax cut ever, sold as an
[8:11] economic stimulus. It resulted in a
[8:13] decade and a half of deficit, but gave
[8:15] Reagan 8 years of political popularity.
[8:18] >> So, Republicans believe that they have
[8:21] to go back to their standard bread and
[8:24] butter, and that's cutting taxes.
[8:26] >> Democrat John Bro also wants a tax cut,
[8:28] but is convinced the GOP plan will
[8:31] backfire. I think it'd be a serious
[8:33] mistake for the Republicans to send this
[8:36] bill to the president to be vetoed.
[8:38] He'll veto it and use that as a
[8:40] political issue against the Republicans.
[8:43] >> The smart money says that's exactly
[8:44] what'll happen. And so the future of any
[8:47] tax cut will depend on legislators
[8:49] cutting a deal behind closed doors in
[8:51] the fall. Diana Ollex, CBS News, Capitol
[8:54] Hill. And just as Congress is debating
[8:56] what to do with a surplus resulting from
[8:59] strong economic growth and low
[9:01] inflation, new numbers from the
[9:03] government today show economic growth
[9:04] slowing and inflation rising. Take a
[9:07] look. Economic growth in the second
[9:10] quarter of this year slowed to 2.3%. It
[9:13] was about double that in the first
[9:15] quarter. The big reason, consumer
[9:17] spending grew only 4% compared with a
[9:20] 6.7% increase at the start of the year.
[9:23] As for inflation, prices were rising
[9:25] almost twice as fast in the second
[9:27] quarter as they were in the first. And
[9:29] labor costs, which could ignite
[9:31] inflation, had their biggest quarterly
[9:33] increase since 1991.
[9:35] That spooked Wall Street. The Dow
[9:37] plunged 180 points. The Nasdaq fell 65.
[9:42] Still to come on the CBS Evening News,
[9:44] droughtstricken communities trying to
[9:46] save water before the well runs dry.
[9:49] Hidden cameras in the locker room making
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[11:34] >> On tonight's CBS Weather Watch, the
[11:36] deadly heat wave hanging over much of
[11:39] the country is showing no signs of
[11:40] leaving. Daytime temperatures were again
[11:43] in the 90s and some triple digits today.
[11:46] The heat related death toll now tops 60.
[11:49] In Maryland, the governor today issued
[11:51] the first statewide drought emergency in
[11:54] history.
[11:56] >> We are in the middle of one of the worst
[11:59] droughts that Maryland has ever
[12:01] experienced.
[12:02] >> In the old line state, the new line is
[12:05] conservation. Reservoirs are 24 ft below
[12:07] normal. And in some communities, wells
[12:09] have already run dry. The Ptoac River,
[12:12] which feeds the faucets in the nation's
[12:14] capital, is down 50%. And if drastic
[12:16] steps aren't taken, Baltimore may run
[12:18] out of water.
[12:19] >> Fact is that if water consumption
[12:22] continues at its current rate, and we do
[12:25] not get any more rain than we have been
[12:26] receiving, there is only a 35day
[12:31] supply of water in these reservoirs.
[12:33] >> And there is no sign that significant
[12:35] rain is anywhere in the future. This
[12:37] summer, the jet stream's been north of
[12:39] normal.
[12:40] >> Timer of the Gddard Institute for Space
[12:42] Studies says an unusual change in the
[12:44] jetream coupled with a westward shift of
[12:46] the Bermuda High has allowed a huge dome
[12:49] of hot air to form over most of the
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[12:51] >> Well, in a typical summer, you might see
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[12:56] What's been unusual about this summer is
[12:57] that this ridge has been here for a
[12:59] couple of months.
[13:00] >> And that weather pattern shows no signs
[13:02] of breaking. While there may be the odd
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[13:09] Colombia, four bodies have been
[13:10] recovered from the crash of a US Army
[13:12] aircraft. Casualties of the war on
[13:14] drugs. They're still searching for three
[13:17] more bodies. Five US soldiers and two
[13:19] Colombian Air Force officers were lost
[13:21] when the plane crashed last week as it
[13:23] was circling a major cocaine producing
[13:26] area. The US Department of Justice has
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[13:32] the first anniversary of the US embassy
[13:34] bombings in Africa August 7th. The
[13:37] bombings in Kenya and Tanzania were
[13:39] blamed on Osama bin Laden, the fugitive
[13:42] financier who is now on the FBI's 10
[13:44] most wanted list. Straight ahead on
[13:47] tonight's CBS Evening News, athletes
[13:49] fighting back to keep locker room scenes
[13:52] off the internet.
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[15:59] >> China today put out an arrest warrant
[16:01] for the leader of a banned meditation
[16:03] group who's now in exile in New York
[16:05] City. It's part of the government's
[16:07] escalating crackdown on Fallon Gong.
[16:10] State-run TV News is running non-stop
[16:12] attacks on the group and pictures of its
[16:15] materials being destroyed. It is the
[16:17] biggest propaganda campaign since
[16:19] Beijing tried to discredit pro-democracy
[16:21] students following the massacre at
[16:23] Tianaan Square. The worldwide web is
[16:26] caught in a new controversy over
[16:28] invasion of privacy. CBS's Sandra Hughes
[16:31] has the story of some athletes caught
[16:33] with their pants down through no fault
[16:36] of their own.
[16:38] Game highlights are where most college
[16:40] athletes find their biggest fame. But
[16:43] without his knowledge, this former
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[16:47] more revealing tape. One sold over the
[16:49] internet showing nude men in a locker
[16:52] room.
[16:53] >> Brought up the homepage and there I was
[16:54] on the internet naked. And at first I
[16:56] was just extremely shocked. You know,
[16:58] the whole world can see me naked on the
[17:00] internet. And
[17:01] >> now graduated and working in Chicago, he
[17:03] doesn't want to be identified. He's one
[17:05] of 200 college athletes across the
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[17:10] illegally recorded while they showered
[17:12] and dressed in their locker rooms.
[17:14] >> I think the way it was done is there's
[17:15] just a camera that was placed in
[17:16] someone's bag.
[17:17] >> But it's not just locker rooms. There
[17:19] are thousands of websites where you can
[17:21] buy down shirt and up skirt videos,
[17:24] bathroom cams, and changing room cams.
[17:27] Enough to scare people into never taking
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[17:31] >> The internet is the wild west. You can
[17:33] put anything you want up there.
[17:35] >> The students who attended well-known
[17:37] universities like Northwestern, Penn
[17:39] State, and Michigan State are outraged
[17:42] that unknown video producers are
[17:44] profiting at their exposed expense.
[17:46] They're suing the video companies for
[17:48] invasion of privacy and the internet
[17:51] service providers for posting the
[17:52] websites that sell the tapes. But
[17:55] ironically, the law called the
[17:57] Communications Decency Act may protect
[17:59] those companies which provide access to
[18:01] the internet.
[18:03] >> Under existing federal law, there were
[18:05] there is really no circumstance where
[18:07] the service provider would be
[18:09] responsible. And that's where I think
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[18:26] CBS News, Chicago.
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[21:28] process drugs. When she took the codine,
[21:30] she got no pain relief and the drug
[21:32] built up to potentially deadly toxic
[21:35] levels. And while adverse drug reactions
[21:38] may be the sixth leading cause of death
[21:40] in the hospital, doctors are just
[21:42] beginning to understand how widespread
[21:44] the potential problem is, saying 30% of
[21:48] us may be taking drugs we shouldn't use
[21:50] because of our genes.
[21:52] >> I think for many years, we all thought
[21:54] that everybody would respond the same to
[21:56] a medication. And over the years, we've
[21:59] learned that that's just not true.
[22:01] >> Dr. Raymond Wooley is pioneering a field
[22:03] called pharmarmaccogenetics. By
[22:05] analyzing a person's genes, doctors will
[22:08] be able to predict which drugs will work
[22:11] before the patient ever swallows a pill.
[22:14] Some of the most commonly prescribed
[22:15] medicines running into genetic
[22:17] roadblocks are codin for pain, Prozac
[22:20] for depression, low pressor for high
[22:22] blood pressure, and tacin for
[22:24] Alzheimer's disease. To find out who can
[22:27] take what, researchers here at the
[22:29] Georgetown University Medical Center
[22:31] have developed a simple test. Why
[22:33] >> if you just open wide for a minute?
[22:34] >> Dr. David Flockard demonstrates how easy
[22:37] it is. He collects cells which contain
[22:39] genetic code or DNA from the inside of
[22:42] the mouth. He prepares them in liquid,
[22:45] then analyzes them on a tiny DNA
[22:47] identification card known as a DNA chip.
[22:50] The test takes only a few hours to
[22:53] complete and the DNA sample can be
[22:55] stored for future analysis. Dr.
[22:57] Flockheart predicts someday everyone
[22:59] will have their own DNA chip.
[23:01] >> This opens up the whole possibility
[23:04] of an era of personalized medicines
[23:07] where because of one's specific genetic
[23:10] characteristics, you'll get a particular
[23:12] drug. The science of pharmaccogenetics
[23:15] is still in its infancy and can't become
[23:17] mainstream until a DNA test is
[23:20] government approved and mass-produced.
[23:22] But doctors believe just knowing that
[23:24] our genes determine which drugs will
[23:26] succeed is a prescription for major
[23:29] advances in medicine. In Washington DC,
[23:32] I'm Elizabeth Kaledan for Eye on
[23:34] America.
[23:35] >> Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,
[23:37] the old man on the moon will soon have
[23:40] another visitor from Earth.
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[24:06] though you've treated it and changed
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[24:47] Hi, I have a question about buying
[24:49] stock. What's the difference between a
[24:51] market order and a limit order?
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[25:04] Excuse me. When you have an investment
[25:06] question, does your online brokerage
[25:08] have anybody there to answer it?
[25:11] >> We do.
[25:16] Updating our top story. Police in
[25:17] Atlanta say a stock market day trader
[25:20] went on a shooting rampage this
[25:21] afternoon, killing nine people and
[25:23] wounding a dozen more in the office
[25:25] complex where he had worked. Police say
[25:27] he also shot and killed three of his
[25:28] relatives at a house in Atlanta suburbs.
[25:31] Last report, the police were still
[25:32] searching for the gunman identified as
[25:34] 44year-old Mark Barton. The mayor of
[25:36] Atlanta said Barton was upset about
[25:38] financial losses. Finally, this evening,
[25:41] the moon will soon have another visitor
[25:43] from Earth. A NASA satellite that's been
[25:45] mapping the moon will be sent plummeting
[25:47] onto the lunar surface this weekend. As
[25:49] CBS's John Blackstone reports, it's all
[25:51] in the name of science and the search
[25:54] for a life sustaining liquid.
[25:57] The moon may be about to give up one of
[25:59] its big secrets.
[26:00] >> 10 seconds.
[26:02] >> In a search for water up there,
[26:04] scientists today aimed a $63 million
[26:07] satellite to crash into the moon's
[26:09] surface early Saturday.
[26:11] >> Two one commands away. Copy.
[26:15] >> For a year and a half, Lunar Prospector
[26:17] has been orbiting the moon, picking up
[26:19] hints there might be water. Alan Binder
[26:21] has guided the spacecraft as it
[26:23] fidiously studied the moon's surface.
[26:26] But now you're going to steer it right
[26:27] into the moon.
[26:28] >> Going to steer right smack into the
[26:30] moon.
[26:30] >> Just as the most plentiful supply of ice
[26:32] on Earth is at the south pole,
[26:34] scientists believe there's ice just
[26:36] below the surface of the moon's south
[26:38] pole. To try to prove that, lunar
[26:40] prospector will roar into a crater
[26:43] there.
[26:43] >> Equivalent in terms of energy of a jet
[26:45] fighter plane going at Mach 2 roughly
[26:48] smashing into the side of a mountain.
[26:50] With luck, the collision will send up a
[26:52] cloud of lunar debris.
[26:53] >> Among that debris, of course, hopefully
[26:55] there'll be water vapor and that will
[26:57] expand as a cloud for 10, 15 minutes.
[27:00] >> Telescopes on Earth and in space will be
[27:02] watching the crater for signs of the
[27:04] water vapor. Finding water on the moon
[27:08] is something long dreamed of, says
[27:10] Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. In our
[27:13] early flights, we found no water at all,
[27:16] and it was very disappointing uh to to
[27:19] find such a dry moon. Now, that's not
[27:22] the case. Hopefully, the crash of the
[27:24] lunar prospector will also be a
[27:26] sentimental journey of sorts. The
[27:28] spacecraft is carrying the ashes of the
[27:30] famous space scientist Eugene Shoemaker,
[27:32] who died two years ago. And now, when
[27:35] lunar prospector crashes, Shoemaker's
[27:37] ashes will be sprinkled at the place he
[27:40] spent a lifetime studying. John
[27:41] Blackstone, CBS News, Mountain View,
[27:43] California. Now, here's Susan Spencer
[27:45] with a preview of tonight's 48 hours.
[27:48] >> Story of the man with the transplanted
[27:51] hand. A medical miracle.
[27:53] >> It's the start of an amazing journey.
[27:55] >> A con job.
[27:56] >> I think that he's probably one of the
[27:58] best conmen in the world.
[27:59] >> Or both. Tonight on 48 hours.
[28:02] >> For Dan Rather, I'm John Roberts, CBS
[28:04] News in New York. Good night.
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[28:16] Gunshots ring out in the Atlanta area
[28:18] and people literally run for their
[28:20] lives.