NBC Nightly News - 2009-03-31

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[0:01] On our broadcast tonight from London at

[0:04] the summit, the president comes to

[0:05] Europe. He says, to listen and to lead,

[0:08] but can they work miracles at this huge

[0:10] economic summit? Under new management,

[0:12] General Motors struggles to reinvent

[0:15] itself. And now survival is job one.

[0:18] Testing the air. Is it safe? A sweeping

[0:21] new plan to monitor the quality of air

[0:23] that school children breathe across the

[0:25] United States. and risk factor. A new

[0:28] health issue because of a change in what

[0:30] Americans are drinking more of these

[0:32] days. Also tonight, how a grateful

[0:35] nation is making a difference. Nightly

[0:37] News begins now.

[0:43] This is NBC Nightly News with Brian

[0:45] Williams.

[0:49] Good evening from London. President

[0:51] Obama is here tonight with his wife

[0:53] Michelle and with the other leaders who

[0:55] represent 90% of the world's total

[0:58] wealth. They are gathering here in the

[1:00] midst of a global financial downturn

[1:02] generally agreed to have started in the

[1:04] United States. And tonight, one of the

[1:06] pillars of the American economy is in

[1:09] crisis. And it's now very clear the

[1:11] Detroit auto industry is never going to

[1:13] be the same again. Names like Chrysler

[1:16] and General Motors, if both survive,

[1:18] will be forever changed, changing a

[1:21] whole lot of lives in the process. We

[1:23] begin our coverage tonight with CNBC's

[1:25] Phil Leau. He's outside GM headquarters

[1:27] in Detroit. Phil, good evening.

[1:30] Good evening, Brian. The old GM is dead

[1:33] and a new one is emerging. The new CEO

[1:36] says it is probable GM will remake

[1:39] itself in bankruptcy. The goal, a

[1:41] smaller, leaner, and profitable company.

[1:46] >> Good morning.

[1:47] >> With his company getting one more shot

[1:49] at avoiding bankruptcy, GM's new CEO

[1:51] Fritz Henderson

[1:53] >> says the automaker is preparing for a

[1:56] complete overhaul.

[1:57] >> In the event that we need to fall into

[1:59] bankruptcy and and basically use a court

[2:01] supervised process, there are there are

[2:03] mechanisms to go fast, but uh it

[2:06] requires a lot of work

[2:08] >> in its drive to profitability. GM will

[2:10] become a smaller company with new

[2:12] leadership. Six board members will be

[2:14] replaced and the company that once

[2:16] boasted eight brands may be stripped

[2:18] down to two, Chevy and Cadillac.

[2:21] Hundreds of dealerships could be

[2:22] dropped, its European operations scaled

[2:24] back, and GM will likely cut thousands

[2:27] more employees on top of the 47,000 it

[2:31] has already promised to lay off.

[2:32] President Obama is giving GM 60 days and

[2:35] Chrysler 30 days to show they deserve

[2:38] billions more in bailout money or

[2:40] they'll be facing bankruptcy.

[2:41] >> Bankruptcy could have a lot of benefits

[2:43] for General Motors. They could emerge as

[2:45] a much more efficient company. They

[2:47] could have fewer dealers. Uh they could

[2:49] have a more nimble uh portfolio of

[2:51] vehicles to offer customers.

[2:53] >> Bankruptcy could allow GM to lower its

[2:55] massive debts, costly pensions, and

[2:57] enormous healthcare obligations.

[3:00] With more than a million employees,

[3:02] retirees, and their dependents, GM is

[3:05] the largest private healthc care

[3:06] provider in the country.

[3:08] >> We've got a lot of experts with working

[3:10] with us, advisers, bankruptcy council.

[3:13] It's our responsibility in order to

[3:15] prepare for that.

[3:16] >> Even with the White House guaranteeing

[3:18] Chrysler and GM warranties, both

[3:20] companies know buyers are skeptical.

[3:22] >> At GM, we're reinventing the ownership

[3:24] experience. to bring in buyers. GM is

[3:26] now offering to make payments for

[3:28] customers who lose their jobs. Ford is

[3:31] doing the same.

[3:32] >> Very nice.

[3:32] >> At Baron Chevrolet in Miami, dealer

[3:35] Benny Dominguez believes the new deal

[3:37] should bring in skeptics. I think this

[3:39] is going to give reassurance to the

[3:41] customer that General Motors is not

[3:42] going anywhere.

[3:45] >> The new offers from GM and Ford are not

[3:48] the only deals that are being put out

[3:49] there to attract buyers. Today, the IRS

[3:52] announced that some people may be able

[3:54] to deduct state and local sales tax as

[3:57] well as excise taxes from their

[3:59] deductions next year for new vehicles

[4:00] bought this year. Brian

[4:03] Phil starting us off tonight in Detroit.

[4:05] Phil, thanks. Back here across the

[4:07] Atlantic in London, all of the various

[4:09] world leaders are getting into place.

[4:11] Once this summit begins, a reporter

[4:13] figured out they will spend less than 9

[4:16] hours together. 8 hours 40 minutes to be

[4:18] exact. That counts meals. And that's not

[4:21] much time to try to clear up the severe

[4:22] economic crisis that now grips much of

[4:25] the planet. And there is a harsh

[4:27] spotlight on the American president. Our

[4:29] chief White House correspondent, Chuck

[4:31] Todd, traveling with President Obama

[4:33] here in London. He's outside Buckingham

[4:35] Palace where tomorrow the Queen will

[4:37] meet her 11th American president. Chuck,

[4:40] good evening.

[4:41] >> Good evening, Brian. Well, normally a

[4:43] presidential overseas trip is focused

[4:45] solely on tricky foreign policy issues

[4:47] and this one will certainly have its

[4:49] share. But this is no ordinary time and

[4:52] this is no ordinary trip. And just like

[4:54] the focus for the president when he's

[4:56] back home, the focus for this trip is

[4:59] the economy.

[5:02] The president left the shaky American

[5:03] economy behind this morning for his

[5:05] first overseas trip. His goal, rally

[5:08] support for his approach to what's

[5:10] become a worldwide financial crisis. On

[5:12] Air Force One, press secretary Robert

[5:14] Gibbs laid out the president's

[5:15] priorities for the summit of the G20,

[5:17] the world's 20 wealthiest countries.

[5:19] >> It's likely that we will come out of the

[5:22] G20 with very broad agreement on

[5:26] uh measures that have to be taken to

[5:29] address the global recession.

[5:33] >> Mr. Obama hopes to use his immense

[5:35] popularity with the European public to

[5:37] persuade European leaders who are cool

[5:39] to his idea of more stimulus spending to

[5:41] boost the world's economy.

[5:42] >> Frankly, the most important thing he has

[5:44] to do is to demonstrate that he's got

[5:47] clarity about management of the global

[5:50] financial crisis and exercising

[5:52] leadership.

[5:53] >> Security in London is tight. Protesters

[5:55] staged a whimsical tea and cake sitdown

[5:57] in front of the Bank of England today

[5:59] and plan a massive protest tomorrow in

[6:02] what they're calling Financial Fools

[6:03] Day. And while London is rolling out the

[6:05] red carpet, some feel the US and Great

[6:08] Britain bear much of the blame for the

[6:09] financial meltdown. On the ground, Mr.

[6:12] Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon

[6:14] Brown face push back from two strong

[6:16] willed leaders. German Chancellor Angela

[6:18] Merkel has been cool to Obama's call for

[6:20] more stimulus and aids to French

[6:22] President Nicholas Sarcoi today

[6:24] threatened a walk out should the summit

[6:26] produce window dressing and what they

[6:28] called false success with language.

[6:30] Mindful of this challenge, President

[6:31] Obama called Brown from Air Force One

[6:33] today to prepare a united front. London

[6:36] is the first stop on an 8-day

[6:38] fivecountry trip, including a crucial

[6:40] meeting in France where Obama will call

[6:42] for more NATO troops in Afghanistan.

[6:46] Now, Brian, tomorrow the president, as

[6:48] you noticed, has his audience with the

[6:50] queen in a what is now a not very

[6:53] well-lit Buckingham Palace. But back

[6:55] home, a little bit of political trouble.

[6:57] His latest nominee for Health and Human

[6:59] Services Secretary Kathleen Sibilius

[7:02] revealed that she too had to pay some

[7:04] back taxes just like Treasury Secretary

[7:07] Tim Gner and the person she replaced,

[7:09] Tom Dashel. However, this wasn't a lot

[7:11] of tax money. About $7,000 and Senate's

[7:15] Democrats say she'll be confirmed

[7:17] easily.

[7:19] Chuck Todd, not far from here at

[7:20] Buckingham Palace tonight. Chuck,

[7:22] thanks. Diplomacy came close to breaking

[7:24] out today on another front. There is

[7:27] another international conference going

[7:29] on just across the North Sea from here

[7:31] in the Netherlands. It's about

[7:33] Afghanistan. Secretary of State Hillary

[7:35] Clinton is there and the news out of

[7:37] there today had to do with US relations

[7:40] with Iran and Russia. Our own Andrea

[7:42] Mitchell is traveling with the

[7:44] secretary. Andrea, good evening.

[7:48] >> Good evening, Brian. The US is reaching

[7:50] out to Iran tonight and welcoming an

[7:52] overture from Russia as the president

[7:54] and his secretary of state continue to

[7:56] remake US foreign policy.

[7:59] Iran

[8:01] showed up today and in a dramatic shift

[8:03] from the Bush years, Hillary Clinton

[8:05] sought Iran's help on neighboring

[8:07] Afghanistan.

[8:08] >> If we are to succeed, we will need the

[8:10] help of all nations present here.

[8:13] >> Clinton called Iran's response

[8:14] promising, offering help on drug

[8:16] trafficking and violence.

[8:18] Iran is fully prepared to participate in

[8:21] the project aimed at combating drug

[8:23] trafficking and the plans in line with

[8:26] deploying and reconstructing

[8:28] Afghanistan.

[8:29] >> Clinton deliberately kept her distance

[8:31] but with her blessing her special

[8:33] representative Richard Hullbrook made a

[8:35] point of greeting the Iranian the first

[8:37] official diplomatic contact between the

[8:39] United States and Iran in years. She

[8:41] went to the American school in Tehran

[8:43] before the revolution and uh we just

[8:46] agreed we ought to remain in touch.

[8:50] >> And Clinton followed up on promising

[8:52] signals from Russia today after Russia's

[8:54] president Dmitri Medv told the BBC and

[8:57] the Washington Post he wants to overcome

[8:59] our common negative legacy and is quote

[9:02] ready for such work with President

[9:04] Obama. Monday, the Russians told the

[9:06] White House progress was possible on

[9:08] terrorism, Iran, Afghanistan, and

[9:10] Clinton says even their biggest

[9:12] disagreement, missile defense,

[9:14] especially if there is progress on Iran.

[9:17] Well, we've made it clear from the

[9:19] beginning that the idea behind missile

[9:21] defense uh was to uh deter and prevent

[9:26] uh an attack coming from Iran or another

[9:30] rogue uh uh network. We believe that

[9:34] this is an opportunity for the Russians

[9:36] and the Americans to work together and

[9:38] we've been discussing that with the

[9:39] Russians.

[9:42] This is all moving very fast. Hullbrook

[9:45] already flew off to Germany for

[9:46] meetings, more meetings with the

[9:48] Russians and Clinton says that President

[9:50] Obama and the Russian president will

[9:52] have a lot more to say about their uh

[9:54] progress on a lot of issues when they

[9:56] meet in London tomorrow. Brian

[9:59] >> Andrea Mitchell in the HEG for us

[10:01] tonight. Andrea, thanks as always.

[10:03] Turning to some other news. Quite a bit

[10:04] of news about children's health tonight,

[10:07] including this. An announcement from the

[10:09] EPA today on the air quality around

[10:11] America's public schools. This is a big

[10:14] story. Health officials are placing air

[10:16] monitors outside dozens of schools to

[10:19] determine how vulnerable our kids are to

[10:21] what could be toxic air. Our report

[10:24] tonight from NBC's Raheima Ellis.

[10:28] The fear that toxic chemicals from smoke

[10:30] stacks, factories, and plants might be

[10:32] polluting the air around schools is a

[10:35] parents nightmare.

[10:38] >> A concern for parents in Dallas today.

[10:41] >> So if they breathing in bad air, I would

[10:43] want to know.

[10:44] >> It's why the government is taking action

[10:46] now. The EPA will monitor the air near

[10:50] 62 schools in 22 states for evidence of

[10:53] toxic chemicals. Most are near large

[10:56] industrial facilities or urban areas.

[10:58] The testing is expected to start

[11:00] immediately at some schools and be

[11:02] phased in over the next three months at

[11:05] a cost of more than $2 million.

[11:08] Here in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the air

[11:10] around this middle school will be

[11:11] monitored because it's within 15 miles

[11:14] of two refineries and three chemical

[11:16] plants, causing concern not only for

[11:19] parents, but the city as well. We

[11:22] believe it's about the whole community.

[11:23] Them monitoring a school area in fact is

[11:26] going to give them data uh for the

[11:28] community as to what type of

[11:30] contaminants exist.

[11:31] >> The government wants to determine the

[11:33] level of toxins such as benzene,

[11:36] manganese, and chromium because of the

[11:38] potential risk they pose to children

[11:40] whose bodies are still developing. Risk

[11:43] include organ damage, cancer, or

[11:45] impaired brain development. As soon as

[11:48] we can begin to get information and data

[11:50] back to people, I think that will

[11:52] actually start to put people's minds at

[11:54] ease and give them the power to advocate

[11:56] for their children if we do find things

[11:59] that are wrong.

[12:00] >> The EPA hopes to have some answers just

[12:03] as schools are letting out for the

[12:05] summer. Raheima Ellis, NBC News,

[12:08] Elizabeth, New Jersey.

[12:10] And when we continue along the way here

[12:12] this Tuesday night, the other story

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[14:32] >> The stats and studies have made official

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[14:37] through a loved one because of what

[14:39] Americans take in these days. More and

[14:41] more of our kids are turning up with

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[14:46] and unwelcome medical development

[14:47] tonight from our chief medical editor,

[14:49] Dr. Nancy Sniderman.

[14:52] Amanda Snider is an active, athletic

[14:55] 9-year-old, but two years ago, she was

[14:57] rushed to the hospital.

[14:58] >> She was moaning and crying and calling

[15:00] mommy and um vomiting.

[15:04] >> An ultrasound showed Amanda had

[15:06] developed a kidney stone.

[15:08] >> The stone went up to 1 centimeter.

[15:10] >> That's the size of a pee.

[15:11] >> That's the size of a chickpea.

[15:13] >> Kidney stones were once thought to be

[15:15] primarily a middle-aged problem. Dr. Dr.

[15:18] Pat Casali at the Children's Hospital of

[15:20] Philadelphia believes it's now a growing

[15:22] trend among children.

[15:24] >> About 5 years ago, we used to see maybe

[15:26] 10 patients a year. Uh now we're seeing

[15:28] about five patients a week. So, I hear

[15:31] you had some pain down in your belly.

[15:34] >> He says family history can be a risk

[15:36] factor, but something else has to

[15:38] account for the sudden rise. This

[15:41] problem isn't confined to children who

[15:43] are overweight or have other health

[15:44] issues. The typical kid that comes in is

[15:48] a young girl between the age of 8 and 12

[15:51] who doesn't like to drink a lot of

[15:52] water, is very active, and loves fast

[15:55] food.

[15:56] >> Fast food and sports drinks have lots of

[15:58] salt that can strain the kidneys and

[16:00] cause calcium deposits to form stones.

[16:03] Now, pediatricians urge children to

[16:05] drink at least four tall glasses of

[16:06] water a day in addition to anything

[16:09] else.

[16:10] For Amanda, the prescription is

[16:12] medication, more water, and a change in

[16:15] diet.

[16:16] >> I had to give up like French fries and

[16:18] potato chips and popcorn. But if I would

[16:19] eat it, I would have to drink a lot of

[16:22] water.

[16:22] >> Simple changes to focus not on treating

[16:25] kidney stones, but preventing them. Dr.

[16:28] Nancy Sniderman, NBC News, Philadelphia.

[16:32] >> On Wall Street, back in New York today,

[16:34] stocks capped a positive month, believe

[16:37] it or not, with an upday. The Dow gained

[16:38] just under 87 points. NASDAQ was up

[16:41] almost 27. S&P was up 10 and change. And

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[19:47] Tower Bridge. We're back here in London

[19:49] tonight where a few hours ago President

[19:51] Obama arrived for this huge G20 summit

[19:54] of world leaders. Much has been said

[19:56] about the economic problems back home in

[19:58] the US, but we haven't heard as much

[20:00] about the problems over here. You don't

[20:03] have to look far to realize this truly

[20:04] is a global crisis these days. Our

[20:07] report tonight in depth from NBC's Jim

[20:09] Meda.

[20:11] Boarded up shops for sale signs in

[20:14] Budapest, Hungary. It's a crisis of

[20:16] spending. Once the poster child of fast

[20:19] economic growth, this former communist

[20:21] nation lived the American dream, owning

[20:23] a new car and a home and all on euros

[20:26] borrowed from Western Europe's banks. By

[20:29] the time the global crisis struck,

[20:30] Hungary was almost broke. Now the

[20:32] Hungarian foreign is in freefall.

[20:34] >> When Hungarian currency lost nearly

[20:37] one-third of its value, that means um

[20:40] those loans and the interest interest

[20:42] payments have become one-third more

[20:44] expensive. And many economists think

[20:47] Hungary will be the first in Europe to

[20:49] go bankrupt. Just to hold on to his tiny

[20:51] apartment, Ishtan Hatosh, a freelance

[20:54] truck driver, has had to cut back on

[20:56] food for the family.

[20:59] >> I think people will go to the street, he

[21:00] says, because they won't tolerate any

[21:02] more hardship.

[21:05] But in Spain, the Florida of Europe,

[21:07] it's a different story, if similar pain.

[21:10] A 10-year construction boom turned towns

[21:12] like Almaria into a maze of condos and

[21:14] golf courses. Too much building, says

[21:17] 49year-old Antonio Galves, a jobless

[21:19] tile layer.

[21:21] >> The bank stopped lending, buyers stopped

[21:23] buying, and I was out of a job, he says.

[21:27] >> Unemployment is expected to hit a

[21:28] whopping 20% in Spain by next year. The

[21:31] building material sector hit especially

[21:33] hard. This is where a blanco Mikel, some

[21:36] of the world's finest white marble, is

[21:37] found. But starting late last year,

[21:40] international demand dropped 50%. Quarry

[21:43] after quarry shut down, leaving at least

[21:45] 1,200 marble workers, cutters,

[21:47] polishers, and transporters all out of

[21:50] work. So desperate for work, the Spanish

[21:53] are increasingly returning here to

[21:55] strawberry producing Helva, where they

[21:57] compete for $50 a day with the immigrant

[22:00] workers who had replaced them during the

[22:02] boom. The government's even offering

[22:04] $14,000 to each immigrant willing to go

[22:06] home.

[22:08] Spain needs jobs. Hungary funds. But can

[22:10] Europe, a land of 27 nations with

[22:12] different agendas, really deliver?

[22:15] >> This is still a remarkably fragmented

[22:18] confederation in which the nation states

[22:20] do most of the economic decision-making.

[22:23] So each country has its own financial

[22:26] crisis

[22:27] >> and each crisis likely to get much

[22:29] worse. Jim Medum, NBC News, Almaria,

[22:32] Spain.

[22:34] And when we come back here tonight,

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[25:15] >> Next, cold case cracked. An arrest in a

[25:18] murder 14 years ago. What led police to

[25:20] their suspect? And snow piling up on

[25:22] Mount Hood. Why some merchants now worry

[25:24] the long winter will hurt business.

[25:26] >> And winter's not over on the mountain

[25:28] yet. I'm Matt Safino. I'll tell you

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[25:31] with Valley Rain at 6.

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[25:42] We are back and it's time for tonight's

[25:43] making a difference report. We received

[25:45] an email from a viewer this week saying

[25:47] that where she lives in Maine, she

[25:49] swears more people are paying it forward

[25:52] these days, helping others in this bad

[25:54] economy because of the stories we've

[25:56] been airing. Stories of course that you

[25:58] have sent to us. Tonight's story,

[26:01] however, is a bit different, though it's

[26:02] still about acts of kindness. This story

[26:05] came about as a result of a great loss,

[26:08] the death of a US Marine sergeant in

[26:10] Afghanistan. His wife invited our NBC

[26:14] News cameras to his military burial with

[26:17] full military honors to see what loss is

[26:20] like and how it can tear families apart

[26:23] and how sometimes it brings out the very

[26:26] best in people. Our making a difference

[26:28] report tonight comes from Montana and

[26:30] NBC's Chris Jansing.

[26:36] >> This was not the life Nicole Johnson saw

[26:39] for herself at 24.

[26:43] a widow of the war in Afghanistan with

[26:45] two young children.

[26:47] >> My world stopped when I found out my

[26:49] husband was gone.

[26:51] >> Sergeant Trevor Johnson's dream was to

[26:53] see his children graduate from college.

[26:55] Nicole felt a tremendous burden. How

[26:58] would she provide the life for Landon

[27:00] and Aspen that she and Trevor had

[27:02] planned?

[27:03] >> Two businessmen with ties to Trevor's

[27:05] home state of Montana were about to

[27:07] answer her prayers. We assumed like many

[27:09] people that if if one of our soldiers is

[27:12] killed in the line of duty that that the

[27:14] family that's left behind would be taken

[27:16] care of financially by the government.

[27:18] And it's clear that that's just that's

[27:19] not the case.

[27:20] >> So David Bell and John McCarrick started

[27:22] raising money. They enlisted the support

[27:24] of the University of Montana and founded

[27:27] Grateful Nation. Montana's military has

[27:30] one of the highest fatality rates in

[27:32] Iraq and Afghanistan of any state.

[27:34] Grateful Nation aims to give the

[27:36] children of those fallen soldiers not

[27:38] just the money for college, but the

[27:40] tools they need to succeed there.

[27:42] >> This building right over here.

[27:44] >> That's why 16-year-old high school

[27:45] junior Dylan Highland is on campus

[27:47] regularly getting tours.

[27:50] >> Sitting in on classes,

[27:52] >> meeting with professors and a mentor.

[27:54] It's what Dylan's dad, First Lieutenant

[27:56] Joshua Highland, would have wanted.

[27:58] >> Oh my gosh, that was a dream.

[28:00] >> Yeah.

[28:01] >> For Dylan to go to school.

[28:02] >> Yeah, that's that's all. You know, it

[28:03] was preparing Dylan for college.

[28:05] >> All the Grateful Nation families, even

[28:07] with children as young as the Johnson's,

[28:09] get invited to campus to give them a

[28:12] sense of familiarity and belonging.

[28:14] >> I always said, "It's dark and it's cold

[28:16] in this world, Trevor. People are not as

[28:18] good as you think they are." And he

[28:19] goes, "Yeah, they are." So, I think he's

[28:22] up there telling me, "I told you so."

[28:24] >> Making sure the children of men and

[28:26] women who died for the American dream

[28:28] are able to realize it. Chris Jansing,

[28:31] NBC News, Missoula, Montana.

[28:35] >> And that is our broadcast for this

[28:37] Tuesday night. Thank you as always for

[28:39] being with us. I'm Brian Williams

[28:41] reporting tonight from London. I'll see

[28:43] you from here tomorrow morning on Today

[28:45] and then of course we hope to see you

[28:47] right back here tomorrow evening. Good

[28:49] night.

[28:57] Cold case cracked. A woman stabbed and

[29:00] left to die on a sidewalk in northeast

[29:02] Portland. 14 years later, an arrest.

[29:06] Who's behind bars now? And who they're

[29:09] still looking for. Big Tobacco's big

[29:11] setback. A jury awarded the widow of a

[29:14] Portland smoker $80 million in her

[29:17] lawsuit against Philip Morris. Hear from

[29:20] the family now that they can finally

[29:22] collect the cash. And pass the pepper.

[29:25] You've heard about peanuts and

[29:27] pistachios, but Pepper 2 now part of a

[29:30] Salmonella scare, the product to avoid.

[29:34] >> From the KGWHD

[29:36] studios,

[29:39] where the news comes first. News Channel

[29:42] 8 at 6 starts now.

[29:45] >> Hello, I'm Tracy Barry.

[29:47] >> And I'm Joe Don. First at 6, the case

[29:49] was cold for 14 years. The murder of a

[29:52] woman stabbed repeatedly and left to die

[29:54] on a Portland sidewalk. Well, now after

[29:56] all these years, a new tip leads to an

[29:59] arrest. News Channel 8's Mike Benner is

[30:01] live in the newsroom. How did police get

[30:02] this break, Mike?

[30:03] >> Well, Joe, an anonymous tip was called

[30:05] into Crimestoppers back in late

[30:06] February. 4 days later, cold case

[30:08] detectives were in Tacoma, Washington,

[30:10] where they arrested their suspect. He is

[30:12] 38-year-old Shantel Lamar Moses. He'll

[30:14] be arraigned tomorrow morning on three

[30:16] counts of aggravated murder. He's

[30:18] accused of

[30:45] AIA Brothers established in 1900

[30:49] offering oriental rugs and wall-to-wall

[30:51] carpeting at Southwest Sequoia and

[30:53] Bonita Road in Tiger.