CBS Evening News - 1999-12-23

Name: CBS Evening News - 1999-12-23
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:03] Summers and Noah Wy on ET.

[0:07] A new warning about possible terror

[0:09] attacks against Americans. The post

[0:12] office starts x-raying packages from

[0:14] Germany for any mailbs. Tightened

[0:17] airport and border security slows

[0:20] American travelers at the start of the

[0:22] holiday weekend. A woman arrested at the

[0:24] US Canada border is linked to Algerian

[0:27] terrorists. and jingle bells on Wall

[0:30] Street. Records all the way.

[0:34] [Music]

[0:36] [Applause]

[0:37] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:42] Rather.

[0:44] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:45] John Roberts. The US government tonight

[0:47] is trying to strike a balance between

[0:49] vigilance and calm as evidence mounts

[0:52] that terrorists may be planning a

[0:54] year-end attack on American soil.

[0:56] Federal prosecutors now say a Canadian

[0:59] woman arrested at the Vermont border has

[1:01] links to a terrorist group. And the post

[1:04] office is x-raying mail from abroad as

[1:06] the FBI warns of possible mail bombs.

[1:10] CBS News correspondent Thalia Ashurus

[1:12] begins our coverage from federal court

[1:14] in Vermont.

[1:16] >> Saying this case could be a much more

[1:18] serious international terrorist event. A

[1:21] US magistrate judge denied bail to

[1:23] Canadian Lucia Goff and her Algerian

[1:26] traveling companion Buabid Chanchchi.

[1:28] The pair arrived in court in shackles.

[1:31] Gaf, a mother of three, looked pale.

[1:33] Chonchi was unshaven. The couple was

[1:35] arrested Sunday at this remote border

[1:38] post between Canada and Vermont. Sniffer

[1:40] dogs detected traces of explosive

[1:42] substances in their car, but further

[1:45] analysis came up negative. But there was

[1:47] a forged French passport and a story

[1:50] that