CBS Evening News - 2004-06-10 (partial)

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[0:00] Secret you won't believe.

[0:02] >> Am I the only one that finds this

[0:03] strange?

[0:03] >> Without a trace after CSI tonight.

[0:06] >> All this week, be a soap star, standup

[0:08] comedian, a cop, or the voice in a

[0:10] cartoon. That's just a few things our

[0:12] anchors always wanted to do. And see

[0:13] what happens when they do it on the

[0:15] Early Show.

[0:17] >> Remember everyone, if you see news in

[0:19] the making, give us a call in either

[0:20] Miami date or Broward. You can call us

[0:22] at 866658

[0:24] TIPS.

[0:25] >> Lots of monkeying around at this

[0:26] birthday party. Nona, an endangered

[0:28] Sumatraan orangutan, turned 52 today.

[0:32] She spent her special day opening

[0:33] presents and munching on yummy flowers

[0:35] out at Metro Zoo. Nona is the oldest

[0:37] orangutan in the US and the fifth oldest

[0:40] in the world. Now, congratulations.

[0:42] Happy birthday.

[0:43] >> All right,

[0:44] >> that's our report. Thanks for joining

[0:45] us.

[0:45] >> We'll see you back here at 11 for CBS4

[0:47] News Tonight. Now, it's time for the CBS

[0:49] Evening News with Dan Rather. Good

[0:51] night.

[0:52] >> And still they come. Tonight, Americans

[0:55] by the thousands from every walk of life

[0:57] wait hours to pay last respects to

[1:00] President Reagan. They'll tell you why.

[1:03] Was Libya's Muar Gaddafi plotting to

[1:06] assassinate a world leader even as he

[1:09] was renouncing terrorism? We'll tell you

[1:11] about an alleged plot. An important

[1:14] decision by the Bush administration

[1:16] could affect your telephone bill. We'll

[1:18] give you the inside story and the

[1:21] passing of an American original

[1:28] >> remembering the soulful genius of Ray

[1:31] Charles.

[1:40] >> This is the CBS Evening News

[1:44] with Dan Rather reporting tonight from

[1:46] Washington.

[1:49] Good evening and once again we are just

[1:51] across from the Capitol where something

[1:53] remarkable has been going on all day. It

[1:55] is still going on right now under the

[1:57] dome in the great rotunda. Thousands and

[2:00] thousands of people from all over

[2:02] America are walking silently past the

[2:04] casket of Ronald Reagan hour after hour

[2:07] paying their last respects to the 40th

[2:10] president before he's laid to rest

[2:11] tomorrow in California. CBS News White

[2:14] House correspondent Bill Plant is at the

[2:16] capital.

[2:19] >> When it was morning today in America,

[2:21] the lines of those who had come to say

[2:23] goodbye to Ronald Reagan snaked across

[2:25] the capital grounds.

[2:26] >> He made me want to be a better American.

[2:28] >> Hours of waiting in Washington's intense

[2:31] heat gave way to cool minutes inside.

[2:34] Just time enough to stop for a moment in

[2:36] thought, fight back a tear, or snap off

[2:39] a salute. They were ordinary people as

[2:42] well as the famous or once famous

[2:44] friends and sometime foes from the

[2:47] nation and the world. A grieving

[2:49] Margaret Thatcher wrote in the guest

[2:51] book to Ronnie well done good and

[2:53] faithful servant. There were Supreme

[2:56] Court justices, the new president of

[2:58] Iraq, veterans and children not yet

[3:00] thought of in Ronald Reagan's time.

[3:03] >> Well, Ronald Reagan,

[3:05] >> he never lied. even if he did something

[3:08] bad by accident.

[3:10] >> At Blair House today, where the Reagan

[3:12] family waited, Nancy Reagan received the

[3:14] condolences of her husband's political

[3:16] contemporaries.

[3:17] >> I tell you, she looked good and strong

[3:20] and uh very dignified

[3:24] and u in in um given the very painful

[3:29] circumstances in in remarkably good

[3:33] shape. Funeral preparations were

[3:35] underway under heavy security at the

[3:37] Washington National Cathedral. And at a

[3:39] downtown hotel, dozens of former Reagan

[3:42] White House staff members took time from

[3:44] their jobs and lives to work on their

[3:46] old boss's final event. To say that they

[3:49] adored him would be understatement.

[3:51] >> He had the un uh unusual ability of

[3:54] making you feel like you were the only

[3:57] person in the world when you were

[3:58] talking to him.

[3:58] >> They will clear through security.

[4:00] There'll be parking facilities on

[4:02] >> 3/4 of the cathedral's 4,000 seats will

[4:04] go to official Washington and the

[4:06] world's politicians and royalty. That

[4:09] leaves only 1,000 other places and

[4:12] thousands who want to be there.

[4:14] >> Unfortunately, uh we have nowhere near

[4:16] the number of seats in the cathedral to

[4:19] accommodate the number of tickets that

[4:20] are being requested.

[4:22] >> People will continue to make this visit

[4:24] through the night. Then tomorrow is a

[4:26] national day of mourning. And after the

[4:28] funeral service, Ronald Reagan goes back

[4:30] to California for the last time to be

[4:33] buried at sunset. Dan

[4:36] >> Hill Plant at the capital. Thanks. CBS

[4:38] News will bring you live coverage

[4:40] tomorrow morning of the service at the

[4:41] National Cathedral and tomorrow evening,

[4:44] the sunset burial in California. Right

[4:47] now, we want to tell you about President

[4:48] Bush's summit with leaders of the group

[4:50] of eight industrial nations at Sea

[4:52] Island, Georgia. At that summit, as it

[4:55] wrapped up today, the president outlined

[4:57] what other nations are and are not

[4:59] willing to do to help the United States

[5:01] in Iraq. CBS News chief White House

[5:03] correspondent John Roberts is in

[5:05] Savannah, Georgia. John.

[5:08] Dan. Just a day after declaring that he

[5:10] wants to get NATO more involved in

[5:12] providing for Iraq security, President

[5:14] Bush conceded late this afternoon that

[5:16] the most he can hope for is help from

[5:18] NATO to train up an Iraqi security

[5:21] force.

[5:22] I don't expect more troops from NATO to

[5:26] be offered up. That's an unrealistic

[5:29] expectation.

[5:31] Nobody is suggesting that.

[5:32] >> The pronouncement appeared to be a

[5:34] direct response to the public scolding

[5:36] Mr. Bush received from France's

[5:37] president yesterday, who said it is not

[5:39] NATO's purpose to intervene in Iraq and

[5:42] that any participation should be at the

[5:44] request of Iraq's government. Even if

[5:46] NATO does offer help, training a

[5:48] competent Iraqi force will take months,

[5:50] which would seem to contradict the

[5:52] president's claim today that the face of

[5:54] security in Iraq will not be American.

[5:57] >> No, there will be an Iraqi face on the

[6:00] security of Iraq.

[6:02] The Iraqis will secure their own

[6:03] country,

[6:05] >> and we are there to help them do so.

[6:07] >> The prison abuse scandal also crept into

[6:09] this summit. The president was asked

[6:11] today about a Justice Department memo

[6:12] from last year which argued he was not

[6:15] bound by US laws barring torture. Mr.

[6:18] Bush did not recall seeing that memo,

[6:19] but did remember orders he sent out on

[6:22] the interrogation of prisoners.

[6:23] >> Anything we did would conform to US law

[6:27] and would be consistent with

[6:29] international treaty obligations.

[6:32] That's the message I gave our people.

[6:35] But what President Bush would not offer

[6:37] up today was an unequivocal renouncement

[6:39] of the use of torture or say whether

[6:41] there were any circumstances under which

[6:43] he thought it would be justified. On the

[6:45] NATO issue, President Bush hopes to

[6:47] thwart France's lack of enthusiasm by

[6:50] urging Iraqi leaders to make their case

[6:52] in person at the NATO summit later this

[6:55] month. Dan,

[6:56] >> John Roberts reporting live from

[6:58] Savannah, Georgia. In Iraq today, a US

[7:01] military intelligence officer revealed

[7:03] that four Arab men posing as journalists

[7:06] were arrested Sunday as they tried to

[7:08] drive into the US headquarters compound

[7:11] in Baghdad. Their credentials turned out

[7:13] to be counterfeit and explosives were

[7:16] later found in their hotel rooms. In

[7:19] Afghanistan today, 11 Chinese highway

[7:21] workers were murdered in the deadliest

[7:24] attack on foreign civilians since the

[7:26] fall of the Taliban. The Chinese workers

[7:28] were attacked before dawn as they slept

[7:30] in a tent at a construction site.

[7:33] >> Also today, the US military said an

[7:35] Australian captured with the Taliban in

[7:38] Afghanistan will be tried by a military

[7:41] tribunal. David Hicks, who's being held

[7:43] on the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay,

[7:46] Cuba, is charged with conspiracy and

[7:48] aiding the enemy. He will not face the

[7:51] death penalty.

[7:53] At the G8 summit today, President Bush

[7:55] confirmed that US investigators are

[7:58] looking into allegations that Libyan

[8:00] dictator Muar Gaddafi plotted to kill

[8:03] Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah.

[8:05] CBS's Sheila McVicker has been looking

[8:08] into this and reports the alleged plot

[8:10] apparently grew out of a personal clash

[8:13] between the two Arab leaders.

[8:17] >> The setting was very public and

[8:19] televised Arab summit and the words very

[8:22] personal. The Saudi crown prince called

[8:24] Libya's Colonel Gaddafi a liar. "Your

[8:27] lies precede you," the crown prince told

[8:29] the Libyan leader. "And your grave is in

[8:31] front of you." Intelligence sources say

[8:34] it was this clash which led Libya's

[8:36] intelligence services to order the

[8:38] covert plan to assassinate the Saudi

[8:40] prince. A plan which directly implicates

[8:43] the Libyan leader. One of the

[8:45] participants in the plan was prominent

[8:46] American Muslim leader Abdul Rakhman

[8:48] Alamoodi, the founder of the American

[8:50] Muslim Council. Mr. Alam Moody is in

[8:53] prison in Virginia, indicted after his

[8:56] arrest last fall on charges of violating

[8:58] US sanctions by traveling to Libya and

[9:01] accepting Libyan money. According to

[9:03] sources who have seen transcripts of his

[9:05] interrogations, Mr. Alam Moody told US

[9:07] investigators that last June in a

[9:09] meeting in Tripoli, Colonel Gaddafi

[9:11] said, quote, "I want the crown prince

[9:13] killed either through assassination or a

[9:16] coup."

[9:17] As the Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan was

[9:19] ending in Mecca last year, Saudi

[9:21] authorities arrested four men and found

[9:23] weapons they say were to be used in the

[9:25] assassination attempt. A man said to be

[9:28] a Libyan intelligence colonel was also

[9:30] arrested. Saudi officials say he was

[9:32] supposed to pay the men $1 million in

[9:35] cash. All of this at a time when Colonel

[9:38] Gaddafi was supposed to be reforming,

[9:40] renouncing his weapons of mass

[9:42] destruction, and being welcomed back

[9:43] into international polite society.

[9:46] Libya's foreign minister appeared today

[9:48] to deny the alleged plot.

[9:50] >> It is not true. It is businessless. It

[9:53] is nonsense.

[9:54] >> But President Bush has confirmed there

[9:56] is an investigation and senior US

[9:58] administration officials say that

[10:00] Colonel Gaddafi has been confronted and

[10:03] warned. If investigators conclude the

[10:05] plot was real and the Libyan leader was

[10:08] involved, it could poison much of the

[10:10] goodwill generated by Libya's unilateral

[10:12] disarmament and put Colonel Gaddafi up

[10:14] near the top of the list of rogue

[10:16] leaders again. Sheila McVicker, CBS

[10:20] News, London.

[10:22] >> We want to take you back over to the

[10:24] capital now where President Reagan lies

[10:26] in state. President George W. Bush has

[10:29] just paid his respects. the 43rd

[10:32] president of the United States saluting

[10:34] the 40th. President Bush will deliver

[10:37] one of the eulogies for President Reagan

[10:39] at the National Memorial Service

[10:41] tomorrow morning at the National

[10:42] Cathedral here in Washington. There is

[10:45] mourning tonight for another American of

[10:47] humble origins who like Ronald Reagan

[10:50] rose to greatness and became one of the

[10:52] most beloved figures of his time. Ray

[10:55] Charles died today in California of

[10:57] liver failure. He was 73. Ray Charles

[11:00] was a master of American music from jazz

[11:03] to country, gospel to pop and he blended

[11:07] them into something new. He called it

[11:10] soul. Jim Axelrod has his soulful story.

[11:16] America

[11:22] >> in his own way. Ray Charles made as many

[11:25] American chests swell with pride as that

[11:28] other American icon being mourned

[11:30] tonight.

[11:41] >> And his story is every bit the Horatio

[11:43] alter rags to rich's American success.

[11:47] But his ghost song

[11:52] keeps on my mind.

[11:55] >> A son of the American South, Ray Charles

[11:57] Robinson was born poor, was blind by

[12:00] seven, and orphaned at 15.

[12:02] >> When you start out with zero, you know

[12:05] what it is to be poor.

[12:08] You know what it is to be hungry.

[12:10] >> Oh, what you trying to do to me? I just

[12:14] need you, baby. He went on to win a

[12:16] dozen Grammys, make millions, and shape

[12:19] the culture of the country he loved.

[12:21] >> We do have the freedom to say things we

[12:25] want to say, and we can, if we have the

[12:28] will and the drive, we can pretty much

[12:31] make ourselves become whatever.

[12:33] >> Ray Charles did more than just entertain

[12:35] for 57 years. He cross-pollinated

[12:38] American music. During one week in 1962,

[12:41] he was number one on the country R&B and

[12:44] pop charts all at the same time.

[12:54] >> Brother Ray had his deep sorrows and his

[12:56] demons, battling heroin for years. His

[12:59] saving grace was a refusal to wallow in

[13:02] self-pity. Glaucom took his sight, not

[13:05] his soul.

[13:06] >> I look at blindness like an

[13:07] inconvenience. I can do 98% of

[13:11] everything I want to do in my life.

[13:13] >> And whatever hardship robbed, his music

[13:16] seemed to restore.

[13:17] >> Music really and truly is my

[13:19] bloodstream, you know, my breathing, my

[13:24] respiratory system. I guess

[13:33] >> for me it is living.

[13:37] For me, there ain't no retiring until

[13:40] the day when they put me away.

[13:42] >> And not even then. He has one more album

[13:44] of new material set for release next

[13:46] month. Ray Charles was simply too big an

[13:49] American legend to suddenly go silent

[13:52] for good. Jim Axro, CBS News, New York.

[13:57] >> Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

[14:00] your phone bill. It may soon be going

[14:02] up. We'll tell you why in tonight's

[14:04] inside story. And then later they

[14:06] started to spo in friends. How Ronald

[14:09] Reagan and Mika Gorbachoff worked

[14:12] together to end the Cold War. CBS's

[14:15] special series, The Legacy. But first,

[14:20] CBS News honors fallen heroes. Ron Gther

[14:24] was a Navy reservist working on the

[14:26] rebuilding of Iraq. His family says

[14:28] Gther was fun to be around, had a great

[14:31] laugh, and loved to sing, especially

[14:33] country and western. Gentther's

[14:36] 9-year-old daughter says her father was

[14:38] a hero for going to Iraq. He loved

[14:40] everyone, she said, and wanted everyone

[14:43] to be free.

[15:04] Oh, Hey.