Nightline (ABC) - 2009-04-30

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[0:00] Tonight

[0:05] on Night Line, American Gothic. Serenity

[0:08] shattered by a little girl's savage

[0:10] murder. We journey to a city on edge

[0:13] after the latest in a string of bizarre

[0:15] crimes. What's going on in Tracy,

[0:18] California? Plus, soaps on the ropes.

[0:22] Suspense, passion, betrayal.

[0:27] Fans love these daytime dramas, but

[0:30] they're not recessionp proof. Not even

[0:32] Susan Luchcci. Behind the scenes, where

[0:35] the story lines are fiction, but the

[0:37] recession is real. And too much or too

[0:41] little. Hundreds of schools closed

[0:44] around the country. A dire warning from

[0:46] the vice president, but still just one

[0:48] fatality in the US. Is it time [music]

[0:51] to rethink the reaction to swine flu?

[0:55] From the global resources of ABC News

[0:58] with Terry Moran, Martin Basher, [music]

[1:00] and Cynthia Mcbaden in New York City,

[1:03] this is Night Line, April 30th, 2009.

[1:09] >> Good evening. I'm Cynthia McFaten. We

[1:10] begin tonight with breaking news from

[1:12] the Supreme Court in Washington. ABC

[1:14] News has confirmed that Supreme Court

[1:16] Justice David Sudter plans to retire.

[1:20] Sudtor was appointed to the court in

[1:21] 1990 by President George HW Bush. At age

[1:25] 69, Justice Sudter is far from the

[1:28] oldest member of the court, and it is

[1:30] unclear precisely why he is choosing to

[1:33] step down, but the vacancy will give

[1:35] President Obama his first opportunity to

[1:38] appoint a justice to the high court.

[1:40] We'll have more about this breaking

[1:42] story later in tonight's broadcast. But

[1:45] now to Tracy, California, a Bay Area

[1:48] suburb of roughly 80,000 residents that

[1:51] ranks amongst the state's safest cities.

[1:54] But tonight, that serenity stands

[1:56] threatened. Melissa Huckabe, a

[1:58] 28-year-old Sunday school teacher, is

[2:00] accused of kidnapping, raping, and

[2:01] murdering her 8-year-old neighbor,

[2:03] Sandra Cantu. Week ago, a judge ruled a

[2:06] sealed the child's autopsy results for

[2:08] fear they would ignite public outrage.

[2:11] Whether Huckabe is found guilty or not,

[2:13] the high-profile case has stunned the

[2:16] community. But it's not the only crime

[2:18] that has residents feeling vulnerable.

[2:21] As Laura Marquez now reports, these last

[2:25] glimpses of a carefree Sandra Cantou

[2:28] could embody Tracy, California at its

[2:30] best

[2:32] before the horror of the little girl's

[2:34] murder. A small town where parents could

[2:37] let their children play, confident no

[2:39] harm would come to them. Anybody can

[2:41] kind of make a statement.

[2:42] >> But that ideal has been shattered.

[2:46] >> It's Donald Bger's job to care for the

[2:49] dead.

[2:50] >> Uh, they'll last forever. Uh, bronze

[2:55] takes ye hundreds of years to

[2:57] deteriorate.

[2:58] >> Here at the Tracy Mausoleum, he has

[3:00] drawers full of bronze letters and

[3:02] numbers he uses to memorialize a life.

[3:06] an S for Sandra, a C for Cantou, and

[3:09] dates too close in time.

[3:12] >> The years of of birth and death are when

[3:15] they're so close, it it just affects

[3:17] you. You It's just not a a real good

[3:20] thing. And you're just like, person had

[3:23] so much more to live.

[3:27] Just one of those things. It's not

[3:28] supposed to be.

[3:30] >> It will take time for those who call

[3:32] Tracy home to find their footing again.

[3:35] to put this image behind them. A black

[3:37] suitcase floating in a pond inside the

[3:41] body of Sandra Cantou

[3:43] >> in Tracy when one of our own was taken

[3:45] like this. A darling little girl, one of

[3:47] our own. It shows that the community

[3:51] comes together. How are you?

[3:53] >> Good. Good to see you.

[3:54] >> Mayor Brent Ives has lived in Tracy for

[3:56] 52 years, but this last year has been

[3:59] one of the toughest. Under the glare of

[4:01] the national spotlight, the town has

[4:03] been hit with several bizarre crimes.

[4:06] The Cantto murder and the arrest of her

[4:08] neighbor Melissa Huckabe, a surgeon

[4:11] charged with sexually molesting his

[4:12] patients, and a former Girl Scout leader

[4:15] accused of abusing a teenage boy who had

[4:17] escaped from her home, a chain padlocked

[4:20] around his ankle. I think one of the

[4:22] shocking things, Mr. mayors both in the

[4:24] case of the Shackle teen and in the

[4:26] Sandra Cantou case it did involve a

[4:28] neighbor and it does raise the question

[4:31] are people paying attention to what's

[4:33] happening right next door to them

[4:34] >> that's an excellent question and I think

[4:36] it's not only raised the the question

[4:38] but it's raised the awareness u of all

[4:41] of us here in town certainly these kinds

[4:43] of things are random events I think we

[4:45] all know that it could happen anywhere

[4:47] in fact if it can happen in Tracy it can

[4:48] happen anywhere

[4:50] >> Tracy was once a farming community

[4:53] but But in the last two decades, the

[4:55] population has exploded from 20,000 to

[4:58] 80,000. And now 70% of the residents are

[5:01] commuters.

[5:02] >> Who took that photo?

[5:04] >> Sher Matthews is the editor of the Tracy

[5:06] Press.

[5:08] The Cantou murder is the biggest local

[5:10] story it's ever covered.

[5:12] >> It's very tense and every day has been

[5:16] there's been something that's broken and

[5:18] the news just seems to be getting worse

[5:20] and worse. So,

[5:22] >> and that puts people on edge.

[5:23] >> Everyone's talking about it and yet they

[5:25] say we don't want any more bad news, but

[5:27] yet um you know, you can't get away from

[5:30] it.

[5:31] >> Unavoidably, people are looking at their

[5:33] neighbors differently.

[5:35] >> I think that there are people that are

[5:36] afraid. Um young mothers, I'm sure, are

[5:39] afraid for their kids, but I don't think

[5:41] it's torn our fabric at all. I think

[5:43] it's I think it's brought us closer

[5:44] together.

[5:45] >> That small town feel is what attracted

[5:47] Evelyn Tolbert to Tracy. Yeah, I fell in

[5:50] love with this town when I moved here in

[5:52] 1994. Now on the city council, Tolbert

[5:55] prides herself on keeping alive the

[5:57] history of Tracy. [music]

[6:00] Every year she puts on a musical

[6:02] featuring the town's past and showcasing

[6:04] its present. Tolbert says she knows the

[6:08] story of Sandra Cantou will become part

[6:10] of Tracy's history, that it has changed

[6:13] her community, made it lose some of its

[6:15] innocence. I think we might very well be

[6:18] entering an era where people will

[6:20] realize and Tracy will have the

[6:22] reputation for being a little

[6:24] overreactive, a little super sensitive

[6:27] when it comes to our kids because that's

[6:29] really the general feeling in this town.

[6:31] Now,

[6:32] >> I think that we will be able to move on,

[6:33] but we're never going to forget

[6:35] >> for this town. Will this story be one of

[6:38] those seinal moments?

[6:39] >> It will. It will. it it will become part

[6:42] of our history and people will remember

[6:43] where they were. Children, I'm sure,

[6:46] will remember too, which is sad.

[6:49] >> A tough lesson to learn at any age.

[6:52] >> It takes tragedy to wake people up and

[6:55] shake them a little bit. Say, hey, we

[6:58] need to get back to the basics again.

[7:00] And that's as a community, you know,

[7:04] bring everybody together and

[7:07] look out for each other. And that may be

[7:10] Sandra Cantto's legacy to this town. I'm

[7:13] Laura Marquez for Night Line, Tracy,

[7:15] California.

[7:17] A city in search of answers. Laura

[7:19] Marquez reporting. When we come back,

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[10:40] We turn now to the economy and a topic

[10:42] that may surprise you. Soap operas.

[10:44] Those daytime dramas with their

[10:46] intertwined tales of romance and

[10:48] backstabbing always ending on a

[10:50] cliffhanger. They were originally named

[10:52] some 70 years ago for the soap companies

[10:55] that advertised during the programs.

[10:57] More recently, auto ads have helped

[10:59] support the soaps. With car makers in

[11:02] dire straits, these popular shows are

[11:04] feeling the pinch. But as John Burman

[11:06] found out, they're finding ways to keep

[11:09] the story lines alive.

[11:12] >> I am Erica Kane, and you are a filthy

[11:16] beast. Things are never quiet in Pine

[11:19] Valley or for its most famous resident,

[11:21] Erica Kaine.

[11:22] >> Hello, Erica.

[11:26] >> I went to the slammer several times. The

[11:29] last one was done in real time, too.

[11:30] They could have shortened that story

[11:32] line.

[11:33] >> But you look good in the slammer.

[11:35] >> Oh, thank you.

[11:36] >> I mean, that's a great prison to be in

[11:37] if it was orange. It was a very good

[11:40] color [laughter] like And they let me

[11:42] work the uniform, you know.

[11:45] >> Yes. Pine Valley, the fictional town

[11:47] featured in ABC's All My Children, has

[11:49] seen it all.

[11:51] >> Give me the gun, Demetri. It's over.

[11:57] >> But now, this soap city is dealing with

[11:59] a new challenge. The recession's hitting

[12:02] Pine Valley.

[12:02] >> It is hitting Pine Valley. We are not

[12:04] unique.

[12:06] >> It's hitting some soap [music] cities

[12:07] even harder. CBS announced that this

[12:10] September it's pulling Guiding Light off

[12:12] the air after 72 years and NBC laid off

[12:17] Deerra Hall who'd been on Days of Our

[12:19] Lives for nearly 30 years. Julie Hannon

[12:23] Kurthers is the executive producer of

[12:25] All My Children. The recession's

[12:27] affected everything and obviously um you

[12:30] know my big challenge is how do you

[12:35] tighten a budget and not see it on the

[12:39] air?

[12:41] >> What is on the air on shows like All My

[12:43] Children is nothing short of an

[12:45] entertainment miracle.

[12:48] Cameron Mat plays heartthrob Ryan

[12:50] Levery.

[12:51] >> This is like a typical day here at All

[12:53] My Children. There are 47 scenes today.

[12:58] >> That's insane.

[13:00] >> Anxiety.

[13:02] >> Hi guys.

[13:02] >> They shoot 50 weeks a year putting on a

[13:05] new show every day.

[13:06] >> You grab the gun thusly, right?

[13:09] >> Juggling crew, sets, costumes.

[13:11] >> Yeah, here's my shot.

[13:12] >> And actors.

[13:14] >> This is this is what we call not a great

[13:16] hiding spot for a script.

[13:20] AND of course, they juggle story lines

[13:22] that stretch the imagination, like Erica

[13:25] Kane's love life.

[13:26] >> I do not need a man to be happy.

[13:29] >> You certainly married enough of them.

[13:32] >> How many times has she been married?

[13:33] >> 10.

[13:34] >> Is that enough?

[13:36] >> Maybe not for her. [laughter]

[13:39] >> It's [music] never too much in Pine

[13:41] Valley.

[13:42] >> How many women have you slept with in

[13:43] this bed?

[13:43] >> Uh, easily four.

[13:46] >> Four different.

[13:47] >> Four different

[13:47] >> at different times. Easy

[13:50] there, John. [laughter]

[13:53] >> And now they're having to do it in the

[13:55] toughest economic environment any of

[13:57] them have ever seen. With ad revenues

[14:00] drying up,

[14:01] >> is it getting harder?

[14:02] >> It's actually in an odd way getting

[14:05] easier. The the economic state of the

[14:09] world kind of made everybody here pull

[14:11] together.

[14:12] >> And that's it.

[14:12] >> Yeah.

[14:13] >> Okay.

[14:13] >> Pull together in ways that might seem

[14:15] surprising. Susan Luchcci, who has

[14:17] played the immortal Erica Kane for 39

[14:20] years through thick and thin.

[14:22] >> If my marriage falls apart, it will be

[14:24] all your fault

[14:25] >> and thin. YOU [screaming]

[14:28] >> I HATE YOU.

[14:29] >> Even Susan Luchi reportedly had to take

[14:31] a pay cut

[14:33] >> to meet some of the economic crunches.

[14:35] Um, everybody has pitched in and

[14:38] everybody has stepped up to the plate

[14:40] and we've tightened it where we can

[14:41] here. I've felt it in a couple of ways.

[14:44] There are some missing faces on the um

[14:46] the studio floor and that's sad because

[14:49] we really are an ensemble here from top

[14:50] to bottom. Not just the company of

[14:52] actors but the crew very much so

[14:55] [applause]

[14:56] >> and they have also become creative

[14:58] building storylines around products for

[15:00] advertising like Campbell Soup.

[15:02] >> Another special thanks to our wonderful

[15:04] sponsors good people of Campbell. One of

[15:06] the things I love is actually using real

[15:09] products because it validates and

[15:12] authenticates our fictitious Pine

[15:15] Valley. My goal is that when we do it,

[15:17] it happens in a very organic, natural

[15:20] way.

[15:20] >> But ad dollars are just one of the

[15:22] challenges. Frank Valentini is in charge

[15:25] of one life to live. I think like all

[15:27] media, the marketplace is fractured to

[15:29] such an incredible extent that people

[15:31] are either multitasking entertainment

[15:34] wise, u surfing the net, texting, on the

[15:37] phone, watching TV, listening to music

[15:39] all at once.

[15:40] >> Is it harder to keep your audience now

[15:41] than it used to be?

[15:42] >> I think it's a little bit more

[15:43] challenging now because there are more

[15:45] choices,

[15:46] >> more choices certainly than 1981 when

[15:49] Luke and Laura's wedding aired on

[15:50] General Hospital and pulled in 30

[15:52] million viewers. [music]

[15:55] [applause]

[15:56] Now soaps are lucky to pull in three

[15:57] million.

[16:02] That doesn't mean they aren't trying

[16:03] with big splashy plot lines. All My

[16:07] Children had a giant tornado.

[16:11] [music]

[16:13] >> And One Life to Live brings in huge

[16:16] musical guests like Mary J. Blige and

[16:18] the Pussycat Dolls.

[16:23] Yes, times are challenging. But in an

[16:25] industry where people are killed off and

[16:27] come back to life all the time.

[16:30] >> I almost believe you.

[16:34] >> Death is no obstacle. Death is nothing.

[16:38] >> They have a secret weapon.

[16:40] >> Agnes Nixon created All My Children

[16:42] almost 40 years ago. What is Pine

[16:44] Valley?

[16:46] Well, Pine Valley is

[16:49] a little commu a community, but it's

[16:52] also a state of mind and heart.

[16:54] >> It's that state of mind that transcends

[16:57] recessions and enthrals fans. Deeply

[17:00] devoted, committed fans.

[17:03] >> I can't get enough of the drama.

[17:05] >> I love the drama. [laughter]

[17:07] >> Who's your favorite character of all

[17:08] time?

[17:09] >> Susan Luchi. I will not let my fans down

[17:13] and I will not let myself down.

[17:15] >> I've watched it since I was a baby. She

[17:17] had me watching it.

[17:18] >> Well, I've been watching for 30 years.

[17:20] So,

[17:20] >> sometimes I pretend I was living with

[17:23] them. You know, and now now you yell at

[17:27] the TV and you yell at them and why are

[17:29] you doing this and that? It's great.

[17:32] >> Why do they love it so much, do you

[17:33] think? What makes them love it so?

[17:34] >> Because we're in their living room every

[17:36] single day. They see us every day. It's

[17:38] an ongoing story. It's not something you

[17:40] got to tune in every week to find out.

[17:41] It It's It's right there for an hour

[17:43] every day in your living room.

[17:45] >> Well, thank the management for me, but I

[17:46] just put out the do not disturb sign.

[17:51] >> Do I disturb you?

[17:53] >> At the end of the day, we could probably

[17:55] be doing this in front of a black drape

[17:57] and they'd be watching for their

[17:59] characters in the stories.

[18:00] >> They've grown up with stars like Kelly

[18:02] Ripa, Dei Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, and

[18:06] John Stamos. The soaps generate some

[18:08] pretty deep feelings.

[18:11] >> Steven, our producer, his grandmother,

[18:13] who's uh is in her 80s, the one question

[18:14] she wanted to ask, and these are out of

[18:16] these are words out of her mouth. Ask

[18:18] Erica why she's such a [ __ ] [laughter]

[18:23] >> She's not a [ __ ] You tell Steven's

[18:25] grandmother she Erica Kenny's not a

[18:26] [ __ ] She's just a girl who knows what

[18:29] she wants and wants it when she wants it

[18:31] and knows how to get it. But that

[18:32] [laughter]

[18:34] >> and just because we're in a recession

[18:36] doesn't mean that will change. Erica

[18:39] Kane will almost definitely get married

[18:42] again and divorced. It seems we need it

[18:45] more now than ever.

[18:47] >> The most impossible woman

[18:49] >> in a bad economy. That's when the

[18:52] audience really wants to watch something

[18:53] that helps them both escape, is in some

[18:57] ways instructive, and is also really

[19:00] hopeful and exciting, fun.

[19:03] >> I'm John Burman for Night Line in Pine

[19:06] Valley.

[19:08] >> And somebody else's life is more messed

[19:09] up than yours trying to write a happy

[19:11] ending. John Burman reporting. When we

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[23:16] >> Night Line continues from New [music]

[23:18] York City with Cynthia Mcbaden.

[23:22] >> The World Health Organization is now

[23:24] using the term H1N1 flu instead of swine

[23:28] flu. The reasoning to avoid confusion

[23:30] about the danger posed by pigs. The

[23:33] virus is in fact passed from human to

[23:36] human. But there remains other confusion

[23:38] about just how concerned people should

[23:40] be about this outbreak and the messages

[23:43] are mixed. As Ryan Owens reports,

[23:46] >> cleaning crews descended on Fort Worth's

[23:49] 140 public schools today and there were

[23:52] no students to get in their way. 80,000

[23:55] kids began an unscheduled week of

[23:57] vacation. For their parents, it's

[24:00] anything but. in Fort Worth. They are

[24:02] scrambling.

[24:04] >> Among those scrambling, Brandon Boyd,

[24:06] who had to rearrange his job to stay

[24:08] home with his daughter. 9-year-old

[24:11] Laurel has cable pausy.

[24:13] >> Today is just day one. So, when you look

[24:14] ahead, what do you see?

[24:16] >> Um, scheduling nightmare.

[24:17] >> Um, but, you know, we're going to work

[24:19] it out, but it's just going to make it

[24:20] real hard on us for week and a half.

[24:22] >> It's a massive inconvenience considering

[24:24] Fort Worth only has one student with a

[24:27] confirmed case of swine flu. Yes, that's

[24:29] one out of 80,000 students.

[24:32] >> Total shutdown of the public school

[24:34] system in Fort Worth because of the

[24:36] swine flu.

[24:37] >> Still from most parents, you hear the

[24:39] same phrase, better safe than sorry.

[24:42] >> I'm kind of glad that they're taking

[24:43] precautions and being careful.

[24:45] >> We have to do what we have to do to keep

[24:46] the kids safe.

[24:47] >> The fear, the concern, it isn't limited

[24:50] to Texas. More than 220,000 students in

[24:54] 17 states were out of school today just

[24:57] as a precaution. Closing schools really

[25:00] creates an a situation where there's

[25:02] much less likelihood for one child to be

[25:05] infecting another and buys time so that

[25:08] we can potentially slow down the spread

[25:10] of this problem in the community.

[25:12] >> This morning on the Today Show, Vice

[25:14] President Joe Biden had his own thoughts

[25:17] on slowing the spread.

[25:18] >> I have I wouldn't go anywhere in

[25:20] confined places. Now, it's not that it's

[25:22] going to Mexico. You're in a confined

[25:24] aircraft. When one person sneezes, it

[25:27] goes all the way through the aircraft.

[25:28] That's me. I I would not be at this

[25:30] point if I if they had another way of

[25:32] transportation suggesting they ride the

[25:34] subway.

[25:35] >> Biden's comments outraged the travel

[25:37] industry. And the White House spent much

[25:40] of the day trying to explain that the

[25:41] vice president didn't quite mean what he

[25:44] said.

[25:44] >> I understand what he said. I'm telling

[25:46] you what he meant to say.

[25:48] >> There are now three new confirmed cases

[25:49] in the UK. The swine flu and the fear

[25:52] surrounding it dominated the headlines

[25:55] around the world again today.

[25:58] [music]

[26:04] >> But the focus remains on Mexico where 33

[26:07] million students are out of school and

[26:09] where the government today announced a

[26:11] shutdown of all non-essential public

[26:13] services. Increasingly, the rest of the

[26:16] world is questioning how the Mexican

[26:18] government responded to this health

[26:20] crisis.

[26:21] >> I am disappointed in the slow uh release

[26:25] of information. People I talked to in

[26:27] both HHS and the and the White House,

[26:29] they've been frustrated as well.

[26:31] >> Not that anyone has handled this scare

[26:33] perfectly. Back in Fort Worth, health

[26:36] officials closed all of those schools to

[26:38] keep children away from each other. But

[26:40] today, kids spent their day off playing

[26:43] in the park together, hanging out in the

[26:45] mall, even packing into the ballpark to

[26:48] see the Texas Rangers.

[26:49] >> Need to be cautious, but um you know,

[26:52] I'm not I'm not really overly concerned

[26:54] about it. Um I think that uh we

[26:56] obviously have to be cautious, but live

[26:58] life. We can't be locked up in the

[27:00] house.

[27:00] >> At that ballpark this afternoon, there

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[27:06] masks as a joke. For the record, that's

[27:10] a lot more people than you could fit in

[27:12] any classroom.

[27:14] >> I'm Ryan Owens for Night Line in Fort

[27:16] Worth, Texas.

[27:18] >> Ryan Owens reporting. We'll keep you up

[27:20] to date when we come back. Supreme Court

[27:22] Justice David Sudter and his decision to

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[30:26] >> As we reported at the top of the

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[32:00] Customers of a local hair salon are

[32:02] sporting a new look tonight to help

[32:04] raise awareness about strokes. Roberts

[32:06] of Portland is hosting the third annual

[32:08] streaks for strokes campaign this month.

[32:10] Customers can have their hair streaked

[32:12] or get a clip-on streak. The cause is

[32:15] personal for the salon's owner. His

[32:17] mother is a stroke victim.

[32:19] So, it just creates an awareness. When

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[32:22] they'll a person will ask, "Why do you

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[32:26] you begin the kind of the dialogue about

[32:27] stroke awareness um and particularly

[32:30] about stroke um signs and symptoms.

[32:32] That's very very important.

[32:34] >> A try bus driver who helped save the

[32:36] life of a stroke victim stopped by for a

[32:38] streak today. So did KEX radio host Paul

[32:41] Lyn

[32:42] >> and his dog. Wonder if the dog got a

[32:44] streak too.

[32:45] >> It's a little Maltese. Paul looked good

[32:47] with that red. I liked it. Nightly News

[32:49] is straight ahead tonight with a look at

[32:50] the complete shutdown of [music] Mexico

[32:53] due to the swine flu outbreak which has

[32:55] turned Mexico City into something of a

[32:56] ghost town.

[32:57] >> We'll see you back here at 6.