CBS Evening News - 2000-08-18

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[0:02] Musling the whistleblowers. The campaign

[0:05] to stifle talk about Firestone's

[0:07] troubled tires. Life on the Mississippi.

[0:10] A riverboat rally for Gore and

[0:11] Lieberman. Anxious hours off Russia for

[0:14] a desperate rescue effort below. And 20

[0:17] years ago, she killed a cop. Her

[0:20] sentence life. And I stand today

[0:24] with much remorse in my heart for the

[0:29] victim's family. Should she go free?

[0:40] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:43] Rather

[0:45] >> and good evening. Dan is off tonight.

[0:46] I'm Russ Mitchell. Investigators suspect

[0:49] heat is one key factor in the fly aart

[0:51] failures of those recalled Firestone SUV

[0:54] tires. And Firestone itself is feeling

[0:56] plenty of heat tonight from angry owners

[0:58] of vehicles equipped with the tires and

[1:00] from government safety officials. CBS

[1:02] investigative reporter Cheryl Atkinson

[1:04] has word tonight of counter moves by the

[1:06] company. Tonight, CBS News has learned

[1:09] federal safety officials are growing

[1:11] concerned that as they continue their

[1:14] investigation, people are literally

[1:16] dying in crashes allegedly related to

[1:18] Firestone tires. This week, a Florida

[1:20] doctor was killed when his ATX tire

[1:22] peeled apart on the highway. Firestone

[1:25] today won a fight to exclude the media

[1:28] from upcoming depositions of former

[1:30] workers at Firestone's Decar, Illinois

[1:32] plant, where many of the bad tires were

[1:34] made. The Decator workers alleged they

[1:37] saw rushed inspections, flaws covered up

[1:39] on tires that should have been scrapped,

[1:41] and old rubber used. Firestone's

[1:44] executive vice president says he doesn't

[1:46] believe it.

[1:47] >> We have many, many employees that will

[1:49] tell you that uh it is a great company

[1:51] to work for and we make great products

[1:53] and they make great products.

[1:55] >> But Alan Hogan, who built tires at

[1:57] another Firestone plant in Wilson, North

[1:59] Carolina, makes some of the very same

[2:01] allegations as the Decatur workers. The

[2:04] inspection is done very rapidly, very

[2:07] fast. I don't think the people have

[2:09] enough time to inspect the tires

[2:10] properly. Quantity overrules quality. If

[2:14] it's black and round and put it on the

[2:15] conveyor, it'll get counted. Hogan left

[2:18] Firestone to start his own repair shop.

[2:20] Now, that business may be in jeopardy.

[2:22] Because after Hogan first appeared on

[2:24] CBS News this week, some workers at the

[2:26] Wilson plant retaliated by organizing a

[2:29] boycott against him and the business

[2:31] that leases him space. Hogan's attorney

[2:34] blames Firestone and demands they issue

[2:36] an apology to Mr. Hogan and admit that

[2:39] what he said to CBS News is true. We're

[2:42] told federal safety officials are

[2:44] feeling pressure to move quickly with

[2:46] their Firestone investigation in light

[2:48] of the number of deaths allegedly due to

[2:50] the tires and the government is also

[2:52] taking a close look at some Firestone

[2:54] tires that have not been recalled in

[2:56] this country. Russ

[2:58] >> Charlinson in Washington. Thank you. Now

[3:00] to politics. When those 150,000 red,

[3:02] white, and blue balloons dropped to the

[3:04] close of the Democratic National

[3:05] Convention last night in Los Angeles,

[3:07] they signaled the beginning of the

[3:09] endgame in campaign 2000. And as CBS's

[3:12] John Roberts reports, Al Gore's first

[3:14] move took him straight to the heartland.

[3:18] >> Hoor acceptance speech and just 2 hours

[3:20] sleep, the vice president landed in the

[3:23] swing state of Wisconsin. We need to

[3:25] bring our people together,

[3:28] break down the barriers.

[3:29] >> Drawing on favorite themes from last

[3:31] night's address, Gore wound up a crowd

[3:34] in Lacrosse, then boarded a Mississippi

[3:36] riverboat.

[3:37] >> God bless you, Wisconsin. Thank you for

[3:40] being here.

[3:41] >> For the next 3 days, he'll travel 400

[3:43] miles through Midwest states his

[3:45] campaign says will decide the next

[3:47] president.

[3:50] >> Gore is hoping for that allimportant

[3:52] bounce following a convention in which

[3:54] he assumed the mantle of party leader

[3:56] and stepped out on his own. And I stand

[3:58] here tonight as my own man. And I want

[4:01] you to know me for who I truly am. I

[4:04] loved it. I had a good time.

[4:07] It was the best I've ever heard. at the

[4:09] convention.

[4:10] That's an unbiased response.

[4:12] >> But as the vice president took a stroll

[4:14] down the lazy river, hosting one of his

[4:16] famous policy seminars, opponent George

[4:19] Bush took an audacious swing at him in

[4:21] Gore's own backyard.

[4:23] >> Last night, we heard a laundry list of

[4:25] new promises, which I thought was an

[4:28] attempt to cover up old failures. Will

[4:32] we prolong four more years of Clinton

[4:34] Gore, or will we give America a fresh

[4:37] start? Voters were reminded of the

[4:39] Clinton scandals yesterday after a leak

[4:41] that a grand jury was investigating

[4:43] possible perjury charges against the

[4:45] president in the Monica Lewinsky case.

[4:47] Leaving on vacation today, the president

[4:49] gave a thumbs up to Gore's performance,

[4:51] but would say nothing about the leak.

[4:53] The Texas governor though jumped at the

[4:55] chance.

[4:56] >> I don't think it's fair for the vice

[4:57] president that uh that somebody leak a

[5:00] um you know, an internal memo or

[5:02] whatever was leaked that would affect

[5:05] affect his night. He needed to have his

[5:06] night free and clear, I thought. And uh

[5:09] >> by most accounts, last night was the

[5:11] biggest moment in Gore's political

[5:13] career. His speech appeared to satisfy

[5:15] delegates and went a long way toward

[5:17] unifying the party. Whether it energized

[5:19] voters is a question that won't be

[5:21] answered until Monday when the results

[5:22] of weekend polls are released. Stay

[5:25] tuned. Russ,

[5:26] >> John Roberts with the Gore campaign.

[5:28] Thanks. And just hours before Al Gore

[5:30] delivered that all-important speech last

[5:32] night, Democrats were outraged over that

[5:34] leaked report of a new grand jury

[5:36] looking into the Monica Lewinsky affair.

[5:38] CBS's Jim Stewart has some surprising

[5:40] new information about that. Jim, Russ,

[5:42] yesterday the White House, Democratic

[5:44] Party officials, and just about everyone

[5:46] in Washington who follows politics were

[5:48] in agreement that it had to be a

[5:49] Republican that leaked the news, that a

[5:51] grand jury was looking into the Monica

[5:53] Lewinsky affair. Now, a federal judge

[5:55] has stepped forward and volunteered that

[5:57] he was the leak. And not only that, but

[5:59] the judge was appointed by a Democrat.

[6:01] Federal Judge Richard Kadi, part of a

[6:03] panel that oversees the independent

[6:05] council's office investigating President

[6:07] Clinton, acknowledged in a statement

[6:08] that he quote inadvertently unquote

[6:11] referred to the grand jury investigation

[6:13] in response to a reporter's questions.

[6:15] The grand jury, meanwhile, is scheduled

[6:17] to meet next Tuesday. Leaks or no leaks.

[6:19] Russ

[6:20] >> Jim Stewart in Washington. Thanks a lot.

[6:22] Doctors said today that Senator John

[6:24] McCain's deadly skin cancer apparently

[6:26] has not spread. McCain will have surgery

[6:28] tomorrow in Arizona to remove melanoma

[6:31] spots from his left arm and temple.

[6:33] >> So, I'm very confident uh the doctors

[6:36] are very confident and that we'll have

[6:38] this thing done very quickly and in a

[6:40] very short period of time I'll be back

[6:42] on the Straight Talk Express campaigning

[6:44] for our candidates around the country as

[6:47] well as for uh Governor Bush. The former

[6:50] Vietnam War prisoner added, quote, "I've

[6:53] been in a number of fights in my life,

[6:54] and this is just another one, and I'm

[6:56] sure I'll prevail." End quote. More

[6:58] potentially embarrassing FBI testimony

[7:00] today at a bail hearing for a scientist

[7:03] charged with breaching security at the

[7:04] Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab. An FBI

[7:07] agent said when Ho Lee easily passed a

[7:09] lie detector test given by a private

[7:11] company for the energy department, but

[7:13] he said the FBI rejected the results

[7:15] because the test did not conform to

[7:17] agency guidelines. The same FBI agent

[7:19] acknowledged yesterday he gave incorrect

[7:21] testimony at a hearing last year when

[7:23] bail for Lee was denied. A Russian

[7:26] rescue capsule came ever so close today

[7:28] to hooking on to that sunken nuclear

[7:30] submarine. But in the end, the story was

[7:32] the same as it's been all week. Failure.

[7:35] CBS's Richard Roth has that and more

[7:37] from the home port of Russia's northern

[7:39] fleet in Morman.

[7:41] Russian divers finally managed to link

[7:43] their rescue craft to the crippled sub

[7:45] 350 ft down today. Then heartbreak. A

[7:49] docking collar couldn't be latched on to

[7:52] attempt a rescue. The hull of the Kursk

[7:54] is too severely damaged from whatever

[7:57] brought it down.

[7:59] The Russians say it was a collision

[8:01] during last week's naval exercise that

[8:03] sank the sub with an icebreaker that

[8:06] sailed away. According to one account,

[8:08] Russian TV dramatized a darker theory.

[8:11] An underwater hit and run by a foreign

[8:14] submarine. The message in the media

[8:16] here, it wasn't our fault. But Western

[8:20] experts say a collision doesn't fit the

[8:22] facts. Defense Secretary William Cohen

[8:25] today was unequivocal, denying the US

[8:27] had any role in Russia's tragedy.

[8:29] >> I can only assure uh you and the

[8:33] American people that there were no

[8:35] American ships involved in this matter.

[8:38] >> And US sources say they're not aware of

[8:40] any foreign ships or subs that could

[8:42] have been involved either. Their theory

[8:44] is the Kursk was the victim of a deadly

[8:47] onboard accident.

[8:49] A series of torpedo explosions that

[8:51] would explain the seismic jolts at sea

[8:54] recorded by Norwegian experts last

[8:56] Saturday in the place where the Kursk

[8:58] went down. Vladimir Putin said his

[9:01] advisers told him at the outset the

[9:04] chances for survivors were extremely

[9:06] small. For anguished relatives of the

[9:09] submarine's crewmen, it's a reality

[9:12] already sinking in. A British rescue sub

[9:15] is due on the scene tomorrow. More than

[9:17] just the best hope of saving lives now.

[9:20] It may be the only hope. Richard Roth,

[9:23] CBS News, Merman.

[9:25] >> Later on tonight, CBS Evening News, a

[9:27] former US Navy sailor tells what it was

[9:30] like when he was trapped in a sunken

[9:31] submarine. Also coming up, after half a

[9:34] century, more and more South Koreans say

[9:36] Yankee go home. And she's been a model

[9:39] prisoner for 20 years. Should this cop

[9:42] killer go free?

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[11:19] Following angry and sometimes violent

[11:21] protests by local residents, the US Air

[11:23] Force today agreed to close a strafing

[11:25] range in South Korea and stopped using

[11:27] live bombs at another range nearby. It

[11:30] is either a small advance or a retreat

[11:32] in the battle for acceptance by a

[11:34] longtime ally. More on that from CBS's

[11:37] Barry Peterson on assignment in Soul.

[11:42] >> American troops trained for a potential

[11:44] war with North Korea. They are CONFIDENT

[11:46] THEY'D WIN.

[11:49] BUT THIS is the battle they may be

[11:51] losing on the streets of Seoul where

[11:54] protesters want American bases closed

[11:56] and American troops sent home.

[12:01] Protest here has become so common,

[12:04] sometimes so violent that even South

[12:06] Korean and American officials realize

[12:09] something here is going terribly wrong.

[12:12] >> Father Moon Chongyang is on the

[12:13] anti-American front line. We are not

[12:15] happy with the US troops in this

[12:17] country.

[12:18] >> So you really want them to leave Korea.

[12:22] >> Well uh

[12:24] ultimately yes.

[12:27] >> Among issues fueling anti-American

[12:29] sentiment this bombing range near a

[12:31] fishing village. Protesters want the

[12:33] range closed down. Today the Americans

[12:35] agreed to scale back some exercises

[12:38] here.

[12:40] >> We can't live with this, says this

[12:42] villager. It goes on every day. Over the

[12:44] years, stray bombs have hit the village.

[12:46] One killed four children.

[12:49] >> That range should be closed right now.

[12:52] >> And many see the recent summit between

[12:54] the two Koreas, the first since the

[12:56] Korean War, as a sign that tensions are

[12:58] easing. That doesn't mean, argues one of

[13:01] America's top commanders, it's time to

[13:03] leave.

[13:04] >> I believe that it's certainly premature

[13:06] to even consider that, you know, fifth

[13:08] biggest military in the world, third

[13:11] biggest army. So I you you cannot ignore

[13:13] that.

[13:14] >> 50 years ago, American troops fought and

[13:17] died, repelling communists from the

[13:19] north. The continued US presence

[13:21] protected what is now one of Asia's most

[13:23] vibrant democracies where more and more

[13:26] people are using their right to speak

[13:28] out against their oldest ally

[13:32] Simon and Soul. I'm Barry Peterson.

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[13:56] Coming up in the CBS Evening News, she

[13:58] killed a cop 20 years ago, but now she

[14:00] claims she's a changed woman who

[14:02] deserves to be free.

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[16:13] >> More than 700 new wildfires were

[16:15] reported in dry western states during

[16:17] the past 24 hours. 19 of those fires

[16:19] classified as major. More than a million

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[16:27] over 5 million. And forecasters say

[16:29] firefighters will get little help from

[16:31] the weather this weekend. In North

[16:33] Carolina today, the state parole board

[16:35] began considering whether a confessed

[16:37] murderer now in a halfway house deserves

[16:39] freedom. But Cassie Johnson is no

[16:41] ordinary killer. Her victim was a police

[16:43] officer. Her conviction murder in the

[16:46] first degree. And some are determined

[16:48] she will never go free. As Dalia Shurus

[16:50] reports in tonight's Eye on America,

[16:54] >> they are two women with such a startling

[16:56] resemblance they could be mistaken for

[16:58] sisters who share a decadesl long

[17:01] tragedy. Cassie Johnson is a cop killer.

[17:04] >> Today I stand a new creature.

[17:08] That other person has passed away. She

[17:11] no longer lives.

[17:13] >> Her victim, Raleigh, North Carolina

[17:15] police officer DD Jimmy Adams. He was

[17:17] the father of two boys, Sandra Adams

[17:19] high school sweetheart and husband.

[17:21] >> Uh, I'm not really concerned about how

[17:25] she may have changed, how she may have

[17:27] um furthered her education, etc. She

[17:31] killed my husband. It all started here

[17:33] on a winter night 20 years ago when

[17:35] Officer Adams pulled over a pickup truck

[17:37] from that roadway into this parking lot.

[17:40] At the wheel, a drunk Cassie Johnson.

[17:42] Apparently, he didn't search her when he

[17:44] arrested her and put her in the backseat

[17:46] of his patrol car. Moments later, he was

[17:48] shot point blank in the back of the

[17:50] head.

[17:51] >> I remember having the gun in my hand

[17:56] and remember hearing the shot.

[17:58] >> Johnson, then 29 and the single mother

[18:00] of three, was sentenced to life in

[18:02] prison. She's been a model inmate,

[18:04] finished high school, holds a regular

[18:06] job. In her first ever interview, she

[18:08] said that time and her faith have

[18:10] changed her. And I stand today

[18:14] with much remorse in my heart for the

[18:18] victim's family

[18:19] >> and that she deserves a second chance at

[18:21] life. Freedom.

[18:23] >> I can never put back what I taken. But I

[18:26] have a lot to offer other people out

[18:30] there who are who are walking in my same

[18:33] shoes.

[18:34] >> But Sandra Adams, now Sandra Lipshots,

[18:36] isn't buying it.

[18:38] >> The sentence is life. I want her to

[18:40] serve life.

[18:41] >> She's collected petitions with help from

[18:43] the police community.

[18:44] >> They are from all over the United States

[18:46] >> to fight Johnson's parole. We as a

[18:49] family do not feel like that there is a

[18:52] fairness for her to be able to do the

[18:56] things that normal adults do, see

[18:59] family, have Christmas, holidays, etc.,

[19:03] and we can't. She had not seen her

[19:05] husband's killer in 20 years. I have

[19:08] been on my knees many night praying

[19:10] >> until we showed her our interview.

[19:12] >> I can tell her that her prayer has not

[19:14] been answered

[19:15] >> because pain has not gone away.

[19:18] >> Any of this change your mind?

[19:19] >> No. Not at all. No.

[19:22] >> The question is, will North Carolina's

[19:24] parole board change its mind and give

[19:26] one woman her freedom? Another something

[19:29] else to mourn. In Raleigh, North

[19:31] Carolina, I'm Thalia Ashuras for Eye on

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[21:51] We have all been affected this week by

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[22:08] lived to tell of their ordeal. Richard

[22:10] Slesinger spoke with one of them.

[22:13] Gerald Mccles is one of the few people

[22:15] alive who knows some of what the crew of

[22:17] the Kursk is going through. In 1939, he

[22:20] was aboard the Squalus when it went down

[22:23] off the New England coast.

[22:24] >> With no time at all, we settled right on

[22:26] the bottom.

[22:27] >> 26 men died. Mccle and the rest waited

[22:30] more than a day and a half to be

[22:32] rescued.

[22:33] >> We just uh settled in the forward

[22:35] torpedo room. We had no lights, no

[22:37] power. So, they told us to just lay down

[22:40] and conserve the oxygen.

[22:42] >> Even under the best of conditions,

[22:44] submarines are inhospitable places. This

[22:47] is the Growler on display at New York's

[22:49] Intrepid Museum. In an emergency, things

[22:52] start happening very quickly as levels

[22:55] of oxygen decrease and levels of carbon

[22:57] monoxide and carbon dioxide increase.

[23:01] What first happens is a headache. They

[23:03] the headache starts at a very low

[23:05] concentration of carbon dioxide.

[23:06] >> Dr. Frank Berlin Jerry served aboard

[23:09] submarines in the 1970s.

[23:11] >> Is the carbon dioxide builds up in the

[23:13] bloodstream, it stimulates the body to

[23:15] breathe faster. So they'll be gasping

[23:17] for air can become disoriented. Whatever

[23:20] they're doing on the Kursk, they're

[23:22] probably doing it in the dark and cold,

[23:24] just like Gerald Mccle in 1939.

[23:26] Power for light and heat probably went

[23:28] off when the sub hit bottom, leaving the

[23:30] men on board with nothing to do but lie

[23:33] down and wait. It's as though you're

[23:36] suffocating.

[23:38] It's not a good way to go.

[23:39] >> No, it's it's it's a horrible death.

[23:41] Gerald Mccle lived through one of the

[23:43] worst experiences a submariner can have

[23:46] and his boat was later raised from the

[23:48] ocean floor. As the days pass, it gets

[23:50] less likely the men of the Kursk or

[23:52] their boat will have the same luck.

[23:56] Richard Slesinger, CBS News, New York.

[23:59] On the CBS Health Watch, President

[24:01] Clinton will sign a bill tomorrow

[24:02] establishing an AIDS trust fund for

[24:04] Africa where the disease kills 6,000

[24:07] people a day. The bill seeds the fund

[24:09] with up to $150 million a year for two

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[24:17] up on the CBS Evening News, late night

[24:20] convention comedy.

[24:21] >> Bill Bradley spoke. I tell you, the

[24:23] crowd was electrified uh literally with

[24:26] cattle prod so they'd stay awake.

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[26:30] tonight at 6, you'll recall the story of

[26:32] the 82-year-old grandmother whose car

[26:34] fell into a snake pit. Well, she said

[26:36] that may not have been an accident.

[26:37] We'll have her story tonight at 6.

[26:42] Finally, this evening, one thing we

[26:44] heard over and over the last few weeks

[26:46] is that the party conventions have

[26:47] become nothing more than elaborate

[26:49] political shows. Well, you know the rule

[26:51] in showbiz, always leave them laughing.

[26:54] And of course, Thursday night at the

[26:56] convention, the stage will be set for

[26:57] the biggest speech of Al Gore's life.

[26:59] Also scheduled for Thursday night,

[27:00] America's best night of sleep ever.

[27:04] Al Gore, Mr. Crazy,

[27:07] came out at the end after his daughter's

[27:09] speech and made a surprise visit to the

[27:11] stage. This is not usually done at the

[27:12] convention. Political experts said this

[27:14] is the first time in history anybody

[27:15] ever said, "Wow, it's Al Gore."

[27:19] >> There's an old saying that behind every

[27:22] successful man

[27:25] there's a surprised mother-in-law.

[27:28] >> Suddenly, it was one big mushpuka.

[27:32] The Goyam were waving their chachkas.

[27:34] They were mushina for Liberman.

[27:37] Even this bubet had a smile in his

[27:41] poop.

[27:44] >> But a lot of people thought Lieberman

[27:45] was a little too conservative in his

[27:47] acceptance speech last night. In fact,

[27:49] tonight they're calling Al Gore speech

[27:50] the Democratic response.

[27:53] Some unprecedented things about Al Gore

[27:55] speech. One, he's claimed that he wrote

[27:57] it all himself.

[27:59] Politicians don't usually do that. He

[28:02] said he wrote the whole speech himself.

[28:03] Then he got carried away and said that

[28:05] he invented spellch check.

[28:09] And that's the CBS Evening News for this

[28:11] Friday night. Now, here's Steve Croft

[28:12] with a preview of Sunday's edition of 60

[28:14] Minutes.

[28:16] >> The law that put this man behind bars

[28:18] has been called the toughest law in

[28:20] America. So tough a lot of judges won't

[28:22] enforce it. 60 Minutes Sunday.

[28:25] >> That's 60 Minutes Sunday night. For Dan

[28:27] Rather in the CBS Evening News, I'm Russ

[28:29] Mitchell. I'll see you first thing

[28:30] tomorrow on the Saturday Early Show.

[28:32] Have a great weekend. Good night.

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[28:49] The latest castaway thrown off the

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