World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-20
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[0:00] Ram pickups.
[0:01] >> Handling relatives during the holidays
[0:03] tomorrow at 9:00.
[0:07] [Music]
[0:10] >> On World News Tonight this Monday. Was
[0:12] the man caught smuggling bomb-making
[0:14] ingredients into the country working
[0:16] with anyone else? What kind of bomb was
[0:19] he trying to make? Where did he intend
[0:21] to use it? A humanitarian catastrophe of
[0:24] overwhelming proportions in Venezuela.
[0:27] 150,000 people stranded by floods.
[0:30] 20,000 may be dead. A closer look at
[0:33] breaking into computers in order to make
[0:35] them more secure. Hackers who say it's
[0:38] the socially responsible thing to do.
[0:40] And in Japan, a radical shift in the
[0:43] ideal family. Crazy for baby girls.
[0:53] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:56] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:59] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,
[1:02] Connie Chung.
[1:04] >> Good evening and welcome to a special
[1:05] Northwest edition of World News Tonight
[1:08] here on Channel 2. There is a sense of
[1:10] urgency in the law enforcement community
[1:12] tonight. Federal investigators are
[1:14] frantically trying to find the people
[1:16] they believe are working with Aat Rasam.
[1:19] He's the Algerian man caught last week
[1:21] in Washington State trying to bring
[1:23] explosives into the country from Canada.
[1:26] And they say Rasam may have links to a
[1:28] very violent terrorist organization in
[1:30] Algeria known as the Armed Islamic
[1:33] Group. Their most pressing worry right
[1:35] now is that others may have succeeded in
[1:37] bringing in explosives where Rasam
[1:39] failed. First, ABC's John Miller
[1:41] reports.
[1:43] Today at the Canadian border in Sumis,
[1:45] Washington, customs and immigration
[1:47] inspectors were a