NBC Nightly News - 1992-08-26

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[0:00] Five.

[0:03] >> Louisiana hit hard by Andrew before the

[0:05] storm runs out of gas. In Florida,

[0:08] people getting help as the hurricane's

[0:10] toll continues to rise. And President

[0:13] Bush issues a no-fly ultimatum to Saddam

[0:16] Hussein.

[0:19] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:22] Brokoff. Tonight, sitting in for Tom is

[0:25] Katherine Kurrick.

[0:26] >> Good evening, Andrew. Tonight is no

[0:29] longer a hurricane, but before it lost

[0:31] its punch, Louisiana was blasted by

[0:33] heavy rain and 150 mph winds. And just

[0:37] as it did on Monday in Florida, Andrew

[0:39] hit Louisiana during the pre-dawn hours.

[0:42] While New Orleans missed the full fury

[0:44] of the storm, a wide area from Morgan

[0:46] City to Baton Rouge suffered massive

[0:48] damage. We have NBC's Robert Hager in

[0:51] Lafayette and Roger O'Neal in New

[0:53] Iberia. Bob, let's begin with you,

[0:56] >> Katie. This storm took only hours to

[0:58] move through central Louisiana and its

[1:00] coast today, but residents here will be

[1:02] years getting over it.

[1:08] In Morgan City, the storm ripped the

[1:10] roof off a service station

[1:14] in La Place. A tornado spawned by the

[1:16] hurricane demolished homes and

[1:18] businesses, leaving one dead and 30

[1:21] injured. Troy Becknell escaped. and I

[1:23] grabbed my wife and we started trying to

[1:25] get to the bathroom and by that time the

[1:27] wall came down on top of us. My wife was

[1:30] trapped under me and uh

[1:34] and uh it just took a while, you know,

[1:36] we got out.

[1:38] It was evident the storm called Andrew

[1:41] packed nearly the same punch it had

[1:43] delivered to Miami Monday.

[1:47] Here in Lafayette, 3,500 huddled in

[1:50] shelters. But as the wind grew more

[1:52] dangerous, many were awakened at 3:00

[1:54] a.m.

[1:54] >> We're too close to the glass, and we're

[1:57] going to move you over over in this area

[1:59] across the way.

[2:00] >> Move them to hallways with no glass.

[2:03] Good thing as dawn came, and with it the

[2:06] full fury of the storm.

[2:15] At midm morning, the center of the storm

[2:17] passed Lafayette, the eye moving just to

[2:20] the east.

[2:21] >> And then it was over. Relieved occupants

[2:24] of the shelters emerged.

[2:26] >> Yeah. Going home.

[2:27] >> To assess the damage. What they saw was

[2:30] this

[2:32] and this

[2:35] and this.

[2:38] In the town of Homa, residences were

[2:40] badly damaged. Cliff Pitman's furniture

[2:43] store was a wreck. He spent the morning

[2:45] trying to protect what merchandise he

[2:48] has left under what he has left of his

[2:50] roof.

[2:53] But already the cleanup has started

[2:55] here.

[2:56] >> In the end, damage here will run in the

[2:58] billions of dollars, but it's not so

[3:00] expensive as in Miami. The area here was

[3:03] less populated. The wind not quite so

[3:06] strong. Louisiana is hurting, but not so

[3:09] badly as southern Florida. Katie,

[3:11] >> thanks a lot, Bob. Now to Roger O'Neal

[3:14] with the before, during, and after in

[3:16] the city of New Iberia. Roger,

[3:18] >> it was a night, Katie, which just would

[3:20] not end. For those of us who were here,

[3:23] residents and reporters, it was a storm

[3:25] the likes of which we have never seen

[3:27] before.

[3:29] This was the safest place to go, the

[3:32] high school.

[3:34] >> This is his first,

[3:36] only one.

[3:38] It would have been nice to be young

[3:40] again, not to know enough, to worry. But

[3:43] with 1,800 others chased here by Andrew,

[3:46] there was a calm feeling. And for a

[3:48] while, the mood inside the new Iberia

[3:50] Senior High School mirrored the

[3:52] relative, if only temporary, calm of the

[3:55] approaching storm.

[3:58] But between 1 and 2 a.m., the hurricane

[4:01] came. And for the next 5 hours, it kept

[4:04] coming.

[4:09] At the emergency operations center, they

[4:11] said the wind blew 120 mph with gust to

[4:15] 140. Whatever it was, it was enough to

[4:17] blow the rope off the school and with it

[4:20] the calm of this safe place.

[4:22] >> MOVE DOWN TO THE LAST.

[4:25] >> BE CAREFUL.

[4:28] >> Come on. Y'all doing great. Good. Good.

[4:31] Y'all going to have to leave SOME OF

[4:33] THAT STUFF HERE. BRING the main thing.

[4:35] >> In this town, at least last night, it

[4:38] seemed wherever there were people, there

[4:40] was trouble. At the hotels along the

[4:42] highway, the locals filled up the rooms.

[4:44] And here, too, the roofs were blown off.

[4:46] At the Best Western, at the Holiday Inn,

[4:50] and just when it couldn't get any worse,

[4:52] it did. There was a natural gas leak,

[4:55] and already scared children

[4:57] >> got more scared.

[4:59] >> Got a gas line, but we needed help. We

[5:01] trying to get the hell out of here.

[5:02] That's what we're trying to do.

[5:04] >> With almost everything broke in New

[5:06] Iberia, this gas station owner struck

[5:08] gold when he opened for business today.

[5:11] The power has been off for almost 18

[5:13] hours and still is. But a rented

[5:15] generator turned on the pumps and the

[5:17] cash registers to take in all the money.

[5:21] And the fixing continues to go on in New

[5:23] Iberia as it does elsewhere in

[5:25] Louisiana. The storm did pass quickly

[5:27] once it passed. Once it finally passed.

[5:29] In fact, Katie, the sun even came out

[5:30] for just a little bit today.

[5:32] >> All right, thanks, Roger. In Florida,

[5:35] the death toll from Andrew is now 15,

[5:37] and damage is estimated at $20 billion,

[5:40] almost twice that of the San Francisco

[5:43] earthquake 3 years ago. While it's just

[5:45] too early to estimate the damage in

[5:47] Louisiana, one thing is clear. Andrew

[5:49] was the most destructive natural

[5:51] disaster in American history. NBC's Noah

[5:54] Nelson reports on Florida after Andrew.

[5:58] This is my family room and kitchen. Hold

[6:00] it last.

[6:02] >> For Anne Mitchell, the devastating

[6:04] reality of what she and her family have

[6:05] lost just sank in today. The Mitchells

[6:08] live in Countrywalk, a once tidy Miami

[6:11] suburb ravaged by the hurricane.

[6:14] >> After 30 years, this is all we have

[6:16] left.

[6:17] >> Like 180,000 others in Florida, the

[6:19] Mitchells are now homeless. their dream

[6:22] house and the things they cherished like

[6:24] this grandfather clock lie on the front

[6:26] lawn.

[6:27] >> You have no idea what it's like to sit

[6:29] on a wall and pray and that that's the

[6:32] only room that was left intact.

[6:33] >> Really, I'm not this bad of a

[6:34] housekeeper.

[6:35] >> A short distance away, a neighbor,

[6:37] Brenda Smith, jokes to keep from crying

[6:40] while surveying what her family has

[6:42] left.

[6:42] >> Oh god.

[6:46] You know, I guess that doesn't mean

[6:48] anything anymore. We had nothing to

[6:50] drink.

[6:51] >> In South Florida, as shock begins to

[6:53] wear off, new emotions like anger and

[6:55] frustration are setting in.

[6:57] >> Where are they to help us, the Americans

[6:59] that pay the taxes, that do the things,

[7:02] that follow the rules, that help

[7:03] everybody else in the world? Where are

[7:06] they when we need the help?

[7:08] >> Almost 600,000 families have no electric

[7:11] power. In some of the hardest hit areas,

[7:13] there is still no mail or telephone

[7:15] service. And people are wondering when

[7:17] the suffering will end.

[7:19] Supermarkets, those able to function,

[7:21] have reopened, but they are very few.

[7:23] Many people resent being told to wait.

[7:26] >> I think that it's a very bad thing that

[7:29] people have to stand out in this line

[7:31] 6:00 in the morning to get two bags of

[7:33] ice.

[7:34] >> Those whose homes have been damaged or

[7:36] destroyed are having trouble reaching

[7:37] their insurance agents because of the

[7:39] thousands of claims being filed all at

[7:41] once. It's time now to write the checks

[7:43] and get these people's lives back in

[7:45] order and get them some money so that

[7:46] they can start to rebuild.

[7:48] >> People aren't the only homeless victims

[7:50] of the hurricane. At the Miami Zoo, one

[7:52] of the largest in the country, 300 birds

[7:54] are dead or missing and dozens of

[7:56] animals are running free amid the

[7:58] destruction. Noah Nelson, NBC News,

[8:02] Miami.

[8:03] >> When nightly news continues, George Bush

[8:05] warns Saddam Hussein stay away from

[8:08] southern Iraq.

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[9:11] >> The United States and its allies gave

[9:13] Saddam Hussein the word today. Any Iraqi

[9:15] aircraft that flies south of the 32nd

[9:18] parallel will be attacked as of 10:15

[9:20] tomorrow morning, Eastern time. NBC's

[9:23] Fred Francis is at the Pentagon tonight.

[9:25] Dennis Murphy is in Baghdad. Fred, let's

[9:27] begin with you,

[9:28] >> Katie. The president's big stick warning

[9:31] included the threat of a wider military

[9:33] action in addition to shooting at Iraq's

[9:35] air force if the attacks on Shiites in

[9:37] the south continue.

[9:40] Operation Southern Watch begins when US

[9:42] pilots once again patrol Iraq with

[9:44] orders from the president to down all

[9:46] Iraqi aircraft in the zone. Allied radar

[9:49] planes will sweep the Iraqi skies,

[9:52] serving, as one Pentagon official

[9:53] described it as the new arm of the

[9:55] Shiite rebels. The president confirmed

[9:58] this new policy was protection for

[10:00] Saddam's enemies.

[10:01] >> We continue to look forward to working

[10:03] with a new leadership in Baghdad, one

[10:05] that does not brutally suppress its own

[10:08] people and violate the most basic norms

[10:11] of humanity.

[10:13] >> The killing zone covers the southern

[10:14] one-third of Iraq, giving air protection

[10:17] to more than 30,000 rebels. US jets will

[10:20] take on Iraqi combat planes which have

[10:22] been used against the rebels as well as

[10:25] helicopters which have been used to spot

[10:27] artillery targets.

[10:29] >> We uh are not uh focusing on the ground

[10:33] operation at this time. I'm not going to

[10:34] suggest that it won't have an effect. I

[10:36] think it uh it certainly could have an

[10:38] effect on their ability to operate there

[10:40] if they're not able to fly aircraft.

[10:41] >> But Saddam is not without options. The

[10:43] wy dictator has the ability to suck the

[10:46] US into a wider conflict or an

[10:48] embarrassing standoff. Pentagon

[10:50] officials doubt if Saddam will risk his

[10:52] few remaining modern fighters. But he

[10:54] may send commercial airliners into the

[10:57] zone, daring US airmen to kill

[10:59] civilians. He could order out of Iraq

[11:01] all UN employees and inspection teams.

[11:04] He might try to lure US Army forces into

[11:06] a fight by staging a massive offensive.

[11:09] One US general said, "We'd look silly if

[11:12] we stood by while Saddam's army kills

[11:14] our new allies, the Shiites."

[11:17] >> So, the concern at the Pentagon tonight

[11:19] is where does this end? Will the

[11:21] president commit ground forces if Saddam

[11:24] comes on strong? What is the mission? Is

[11:26] there an endgame this time? Katie,

[11:29] >> thanks, Fred. Now to NBC's Dennis Murphy

[11:32] in Baghdad. Dennis, at the UN tonight,

[11:34] Iraq's ambassador said that Saddam won't

[11:36] tolerate this ultimatum. What exactly

[11:39] does that mean?

[11:40] >> Well, what they're telling us here,

[11:42] Katie, is that they will fight back.

[11:43] They will fire on US planes if they're

[11:45] attacked. But President Saddam Hussein

[11:47] has not spoken on the record yet about

[11:49] this latest crisis.

[11:51] Baghdad was calm tonight. Just Iraqis

[11:54] going home from work when Bush made his

[11:55] announcement. Street reaction was

[11:57] predictable. Drilledin rhetoric stated

[12:00] without passion.

[12:02] >> He says, "We will shoot down any

[12:04] American planes that come here. I'm

[12:06] ready to fight for my home.

[12:09] >> But the evening news didn't tell viewers

[12:11] what they were expected to fight for.

[12:13] There was no mention of the Allied

[12:15] threat to shoot down planes, just vague

[12:17] illusions to a Western conspiracy.

[12:20] >> The newscaster said, "Bush won't be

[12:22] president forever." Before the White

[12:24] House announcement, I asked the Iraqi

[12:26] Minister of Information if Iraq would

[12:27] resist the US-led flyovers.

[12:29] >> When we are attacked, uh, we will defend

[12:33] ourselves. Defend meaning what?

[12:37] >> Any air defense system will be used when

[12:39] the country is attacked.

[12:41] >> It will be used against invading

[12:42] aircraft.

[12:43] >> Of course, this is this is the the

[12:46] mission of uh of the air defense system.

[12:51] >> The Shiites President Bush says he is

[12:53] defending against Iraqi aggression live

[12:55] in swamps in the far southeast corner of

[12:57] the country near Iran. The Iraqis

[12:59] tonight are proposing that observers

[13:01] from neutral countries go to the marshes

[13:03] and report back on what they find there.

[13:06] >> In the crowd of men I talked to tonight,

[13:08] one of them gestured like that. He

[13:10] zipped his lips, indicating to me he

[13:12] could not speak his mind in public.

[13:13] Katie,

[13:14] >> thank you, Dennis. Now to John Cochran

[13:16] at the White House for the political

[13:18] implications of all this. John

[13:20] >> Katie, the people in the Bush camp who

[13:22] say he has no political motives in

[13:24] threatening Saddam also say the Iraq

[13:27] card could be decisive in a close

[13:29] election.

[13:31] >> Bush himself reacts sharply to any

[13:33] suggestion that Americans will smell

[13:35] politics since his warning comes as he

[13:38] faces an uphill fight for reelection.

[13:40] >> Well, do you think it looks funny to the

[13:41] British people, the French people, the

[13:44] Saudi people? The answer is no. I don't

[13:46] I'm not concerned about that in the

[13:48] least. Bush provided intelligence

[13:50] briefings to Bill Clinton who gave his

[13:52] support but also repeated his charge

[13:54] that the president ended the war last

[13:56] year just a little too early.

[13:58] >> General Schwarzoff is now a matter of

[14:00] record urged that the that the fighting

[14:02] go on for another day and a half so that

[14:04] uh several hundred tanks could be

[14:05] destroyed. The Republican Guard could be

[14:07] weakened. The overthrow of Saddam by

[14:09] internal forces would be made more

[14:11] likely. Pentagon officials admit they

[14:14] should have continued the war another

[14:15] day or two, but they say it was their

[14:17] mistake, not Bush's commanders,

[14:19] including Schwarzup, back up Bush's

[14:22] account that he simply followed their

[14:23] advice, which was based on faulty

[14:26] intelligence. Now, 17 months after the

[14:28] war, Bush is moving belatedly to protect

[14:31] the Shiites. Bush waited until a new UN

[14:35] report provided evidence of Saddam's

[14:37] repression. What emerges from eyewitness

[14:40] accounts is further graphic proof of

[14:43] Saddam's brutality. A lot of voters may

[14:46] wonder why the Shiites have suddenly

[14:48] become so important. Voters may also

[14:50] remember that Bush's popularity went up

[14:53] after foreign policy successes such as

[14:55] the early meetings with Mikail

[14:56] Gorbachop, the capture of Manuel

[14:58] Noriega, and the big one, the Gulf War.

[15:02] Americans today are much more cynical

[15:05] about a president's motives in acting on

[15:08] foreign policy during a campaign than

[15:10] they used to be. The most convincing

[15:13] argument that Bush's motives are pure

[15:15] come from his aids who say, "Are you

[15:17] kidding? This thing could blow up in our

[15:19] face if it ends in American casualties

[15:21] or if Saddam comes out of this looking

[15:23] stronger than ever come November."

[15:26] Katie,

[15:27] >> thanks, John. Also in Washington today,

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[17:11] >> On America Closeup tonight, we begin a

[17:13] three-part series on American education

[17:16] in conjunction with NBC's Brokaw Reports

[17:18] this Saturday and USA Today. Tonight,

[17:21] the Magnet School. It was designed to

[17:23] provide better teaching of specialized

[17:25] subjects. It's become a model for

[17:27] schools all over the country. There are

[17:30] about 5,000 magnet schools in the US. In

[17:32] major cities, they enroll about one in

[17:35] every five high school students. NBC's

[17:37] George Lewis reports from Los Angeles.

[17:40] >> Guys, let's go. You got to be in class

[17:42] or you got to be picking.

[17:43] >> It doesn't matter what the hook is.

[17:45] That's not important at all. It matters

[17:46] that you get them hooked and bring them

[17:48] in.

[17:49] >> Guys,

[17:50] >> getting students hooked on learning is a

[17:52] passion with Jim Burke, who at 32 is the

[17:54] youngest principal in the LA school

[17:56] system. At Hamilton High, the hook is

[17:59] specialized programs in music and the

[18:01] humanities and a chance for kids to work

[18:03] with some of the best teachers in the

[18:05] city. Creating a customized curriculum

[18:08] towards a specific area. That's what

[18:11] excites students. That's what excites

[18:12] parents. That's what excites teachers.

[18:16] >> Carlos Perez has to leave home at 6:15

[18:18] every morning to catch the bus to

[18:20] Hamilton High.

[18:23] >> If I had gone to my school, my home

[18:25] school, I probably would have

[18:27] gone into gang activity just because

[18:29] that's everybody in my neighborhood is

[18:32] practically gay.

[18:35] >> Now he belongs not to a gang but to

[18:38] Hamilton High's music academy.

[18:40] >> I like music a lot. I found that it's

[18:42] like one of the things that's like deep

[18:44] within my being.

[18:46] >> Have a good day.

[18:47] >> All right.

[18:48] >> Colin Felton's parents can afford to

[18:49] send him to private schools. Instead,

[18:52] they and he chose Hamilton High's

[18:54] humanities program. Going to the

[18:56] humanities, I not only do I have the

[18:58] opportunities to get an education that's

[19:01] just as uh just as high quality as I

[19:03] would for private education, but I'm

[19:05] there with people from different

[19:07] backgrounds, different class levels,

[19:08] different races.

[19:10] >> 7 years ago, the school's enrollment was

[19:12] declining, the faculty was demoralized,

[19:15] and officials were talking about

[19:16] shutting the place down. Give me the

[19:18] hat.

[19:18] >> Burke used a lot of hustle to turn the

[19:20] school around, bending a few rules in

[19:22] the process and stepping on some toes.

[19:25] >> I have absolutely no patience for rules

[19:28] or procedures that inhibit the ability

[19:30] to provide services to the classroom.

[19:34] >> A former music teacher, Burke lobbyed

[19:36] for instruments and enough funds to turn

[19:38] the school's industrial shops into music

[19:40] studios. The school has received

[19:42] corporate grants and donations totaling

[19:44] about $3 million. Some people think it's

[19:47] unsemly for educators like Jim Burke to

[19:49] be out hustling like this, but he says

[19:51] the bottom line is results. How well the

[19:54] kids do.

[19:55] >> He's a music man. HE'S A WIFE. HE'S A

[19:56] WIFE. HE'S A MUSIC MAN.

[19:58] >> Just before summer vacation started, the

[20:01] students put on a production of the

[20:02] music man. Big breath.

[20:05] >> That's the show about a fast-talking

[20:06] salesman who comes to town and promises

[20:09] to get kids out of trouble by enlisting

[20:11] them in a band. Jim Burke has a few

[20:13] things in common with that man. When

[20:15] that student says I chose that means

[20:18] that student is saying I want and the

[20:20] minute they say I want they will.

[20:23] >> Carlos

[20:24] >> at a time when public education is

[20:26] regarded as a national problem Jim Burke

[20:29] believes his school is an exception.

[20:30] >> Congratulations.

[20:32] >> We're preparing students

[20:34] >> at Hamilton who are more prepared to

[20:36] compete than virtually any school in the

[20:38] country.

[20:39] >> Congratulations.

[20:42] George Lewis, NBC News, Los Angeles.

[20:46] >> On America Closeup Tomorrow, no more

[20:48] schools out for summer. NBC's Bob Dodson

[20:51] on how 22 states now have yearround

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[22:59] today's other news. Hundreds of rockets

[23:01] rained on Bosnia's capital. The worst

[23:03] overnight pounding in eight in weeks. 18

[23:06] fires, one destroying the old Moorish

[23:08] town hall.

[23:10] >> This as a peace conference began on the

[23:11] Yugoslav war. World leaders saying the

[23:13] fighting must end or else.

[23:19] >> And in Spain, this is one way to get rid

[23:21] of too many overripe tomatoes. An annual

[23:23] festival where you're a nobody unless

[23:26] you get tomatoed and help paint the town

[23:28] red. Looks like fun. John Chancellor

[23:32] joins us now with some thoughts on the

[23:33] Republican party's focus on women. John

[23:36] >> Kitty, until yesterday, I thought Jesse

[23:38] Jackson had said the craziest thing this

[23:40] year when he compared Dan Quail of the

[23:43] White House to King Herod of the Bible.

[23:46] Then I saw the Associated Press story on

[23:49] Pat Robertson and the Equal Rights

[23:50] Amendment. Robertson said the ERRA quote

[23:55] is about a socialist anti-f family

[23:58] political movement that encourages women

[24:01] to leave their husbands, kill their

[24:03] children, practice witchcraft, destroy

[24:06] capitalism, and become lesbians. Well,

[24:10] Robertson is a prominent Republican, a

[24:12] featured speaker at last week's

[24:13] Republican convention, and he ties the

[24:16] ERRA to witchcraft and infanticide.

[24:19] Republican strategists must be a gasast.

[24:22] What is curious this year is that the

[24:23] Republicans are taking so many stands

[24:26] that make women angry. The president

[24:28] argues for families with fathers and

[24:30] mothers, but only one household in four

[24:33] with young children now includes both

[24:35] mom and dad. How do millions of single

[24:38] mothers feel about the president's

[24:39] stand? The Republicans imply that some

[24:42] women work because they find family life

[24:44] oppressive. More than 50 million people

[24:47] do work and millions have to because

[24:49] their families need the money. They're

[24:51] not rebels who find family life

[24:53] oppressive. On abortion, the Republicans

[24:55] have taken the hardest possible line

[24:58] against a woman's right to choose. How

[25:00] does that go down with the 55 million

[25:03] women of childbearing and voting age?

[25:05] Barry Goldwater says the Republicans

[25:07] will lose the presidency on the abortion

[25:10] issue. Women outnumber men and more are

[25:12] registered to vote than men. The

[25:14] Republicans are taking a huge risk

[25:16] treating women this way. Katie,

[25:19] >> thank you. John Mickey Edwards of

[25:21] Oklahoma, fourth ranking Republican in

[25:23] the House, has lost his bid for an

[25:25] eighth term. He was one of the worst

[25:27] offenders in the House bank scandal. And

[25:29] Peace Corps director Ela Chow was named

[25:31] as head of the United Way of America,

[25:33] replacing William Aramone, fired for

[25:36] misusing funds. On Wall Street, stocks

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[25:40] overseas today. Trading was moderate.

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[26:17] Here comes my obnoxious boss.

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[26:38] >> my mother's here, too.

[26:40] Craig, nobody knows your stomach better,

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[27:46] >> Summarizing tonight's top two stories

[27:48] now. President Bush was in Louisiana

[27:50] tonight. Earlier, he released $10

[27:52] million to pay for cleanup jobs in

[27:54] Florida. As for Andrew, it caused

[27:56] scattered heavy damage in central

[27:58] Louisiana, though not as severe as in

[28:00] Florida. Tonight, it has weakened to a

[28:03] tropical storm. And on that showdown

[28:05] with Iraq, the US and its allies set a

[28:07] 24-hour deadline for Saddam Hussein to

[28:10] get his aircraft out of southern Iraq.

[28:12] President Bush said the allies will

[28:14] attack any violators.

[28:16] That's Nightly News for this Wednesday

[28:18] evening. I'm Katie Kurrick. Good night.

[28:22] Tonight,

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