World News Tonight (ABC) - 2005-10-30

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[0:02] From ABC News headquarters in New York,

[0:05] this is World News Tonight.

[0:08] Good evening everyone. I'm Bob Woodruff.

[0:10] President Bush is on the verge of naming

[0:12] a new Supreme Court nominee after the

[0:14] worst political week of his presidency.

[0:16] That's our top story tonight. Now, the

[0:18] rest of the headlines

[0:20] in the nation's capital tonight. Rosa

[0:22] Parks makes history again, receiving an

[0:25] honor usually reserved for presidents

[0:27] and generals. The FBI investigates a

[0:30] massive case of flu fraud. More than a

[0:32] thousand people got fake vaccinations.

[0:35] How to make sure your shot is real. And

[0:37] the four-legged firefighters.

[0:42] One city's innovative and inexpensive

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[0:49] But we begin with President Bush's next

[0:51] pick for the Supreme Court. It is widely

[0:53] anticipated that the president will

[0:55] choose a nominee very soon. After a

[0:57] swift rejection of Harriet Meyers and

[0:59] the indictment of his vice president's

[1:01] chief of staff, Mr. Bush does need some

[1:03] good news this week. The person he picks

[1:06] and how he or she is received could have

[1:09] major implications for his presidency.

[1:11] ABC's Jeff Morurell tonight is at the

[1:13] White House. Jeff.

[1:14] >> Bob. This weekend, the White House

[1:16] floated the names of three prospective

[1:18] nominees to an influential conservative

[1:20] group. The group would not identify any

[1:21] of them, but tells me two of the three

[1:23] are women. Whoever is on that list, it

[1:25] appears to have been whittleled down to

[1:26] one because every indication out of the

[1:28] White House is that the president will

[1:29] announce his next nominee tomorrow.

[1:32] President Bush spent the weekend

[1:34] conferring with Harriet Meyers, his

[1:36] first choice for the job, about who

[1:38] should replace her as the next nominee.

[1:41] >> I believe the Supreme Court is so

[1:43] important.

[1:43] >> But she's not the only one offering

[1:45] advice. the president should come

[1:47] forward with some middle of the road

[1:49] person, somebody that is is is going to

[1:51] be a good Supreme Court justice.

[1:53] >> Some say Mr. Bush coming off the worst

[1:55] political week of his presidency has

[1:58] been so weakened he cannot afford to

[2:00] wage war with Senate Democrats over

[2:02] anyone deemed too conservative.

[2:05] >> So help me God.

[2:06] >> But others argue the president's

[2:07] weakness dictates he pick a tried andrue

[2:10] conservative. I think the need to please

[2:13] the conservative base is probably

[2:15] paramount at this stage because if they

[2:17] aren't supporting him, he has almost no

[2:19] support.

[2:20] >> That is why tomorrow the president is

[2:22] expected to nominate someone of

[2:24] unquestionable intellectual

[2:25] qualifications and proven conservative

[2:28] credentials.

[2:29] >> Looking forward to having a good

[2:30] discussion.

[2:31] >> In other words, say conservative groups

[2:32] all that Harriet Meyers is not.

[2:35] >> We are more confident now than we were

[2:37] in the past that President Bush is going

[2:38] to pick a good nominee. And that's

[2:40] because there are a lot of lessons

[2:42] learned in the Harry Meyers nomination.

[2:44] >> And the John Roberts nomination teaches

[2:46] that it is possible to nominate a

[2:48] conservative even some Democrats will

[2:51] support.

[2:52] >> It's just wrong to say that the

[2:53] president has to choose between pleasing

[2:54] his conservative supporters or pleasing

[2:56] the broad middle of the country. You can

[2:58] do both. That's what he did with John

[3:00] Roberts.

[3:02] >> The White House says that neither the

[3:03] Meyers fiasco nor any of the president's

[3:05] other problems will influence his

[3:07] decision-making on that matter. They

[3:09] insist he's going to nominate a judicial

[3:11] conservative just as he promised during

[3:13] the campaign. But Bob, they were saying

[3:15] the same thing about Harriet Meyers. And

[3:16] look what happened to her.

[3:17] >> Yeah, they didn't felt they didn't get

[3:19] that. Jeeoff, on the other major matter

[3:20] of the day, the White House has had a

[3:22] couple of days now to digest the

[3:23] indictment of the vice president's chief

[3:25] of staff, Scooter Libby. Any fallout

[3:27] from that yet?

[3:28] >> Well, Time magazine is reporting the

[3:29] president has lost confidence in his

[3:31] three top adviserss. The vice president,

[3:33] Andy Carr, the chief of staff, and Carl

[3:35] Rove, his top political adviser. But the

[3:37] White House tonight is pushing back hard

[3:38] on that, calling the story nonsense and

[3:40] insisting that the president has the

[3:42] full confidence or rather has full

[3:44] confidence in his entire staff.

[3:45] >> All right, Jeff Morell at the White

[3:47] House tonight. Thank you. The CIA leak

[3:49] case is complex for an interactive

[3:52] slideshow that shows how all the players

[3:53] are involved. You can go to abcnews.com.

[3:57] The legal troubles have damaged the Bush

[3:59] administration's public image. According

[4:01] to an ABC News Washington Post poll

[4:03] released today, 55% of Americans see the

[4:06] indictment of Dick Cheneyy's chief of

[4:08] staff as a sign of broader ethical

[4:10] wrongdoing. And the president's

[4:12] disapproval rating has now reached a new

[4:14] high of 58%.

[4:16] Historically, scandals have affected

[4:18] most modern presidents after reelection.

[4:20] ABC's John Yang tonight on the curse of

[4:23] the second term.

[4:27] November 2004, President Bush wins

[4:30] reelection.

[4:31] >> I earned capital in the campaign,

[4:33] political capital, and now I intend to

[4:35] spend it.

[4:35] >> A year later, that capital is running

[4:38] low.

[4:38] >> Special counsel Fitzgerald's

[4:40] investigation

[4:41] and ongoing legal proceedings are

[4:43] serious.

[4:44] >> It's not only the indictment of a top

[4:46] administration official. It's Hurricane

[4:48] Katrina, the rising death toll in Iraq,

[4:51] and a failed Supreme Court nomination.

[4:54] Harriet, thank you for agreeing to

[4:55] serve.

[4:56] >> President Bush's presidency is moving

[4:58] from embattled to dysfunctional. He's

[5:00] squandered so much credibility in the

[5:02] last 12 months that it's going to be

[5:03] difficult to rebound. For nearly a

[5:05] century, scandal and turmoil have been

[5:07] the norm for secondterm presidents as

[5:09] they go through their own special kind

[5:11] of sophomore slump. Dwight Eisenhower's

[5:14] chief of staff was forced to resign in

[5:16] an ethics scandal. Ronald Reagan was

[5:18] dogged by illegal arm sales to Iran that

[5:21] funded Central American rebels.

[5:24] Bill Clinton was impeached, though not

[5:26] convicted, over his relationship with

[5:28] Monica Lewinsky.

[5:30] >> I wonder sometimes why presidents think

[5:31] they need to serve eight years. It

[5:33] usually messes up their historical

[5:35] legacy. No end.

[5:37] >> Only Richard Nixon's second term ended

[5:40] in disaster. The others were able to

[5:42] rebound, and Mr. Bush may be able to as

[5:44] well.

[5:45] >> I think they can redirect our attention

[5:48] and put their energies into the more

[5:50] immediate problems at hand. A shift that

[5:52] could mean abandoning lofty secondterm

[5:54] goals such as overhauling social

[5:56] security and federal tax laws. John

[5:58] Yang, ABC News, Washington.

[6:01] >> Tonight, one of the country's heroes has

[6:03] a place of honor in the nation's

[6:05] capital. Rosa Parks helped launch the

[6:08] civil rights movement by refusing to

[6:10] give her bus seat up in 1955 to a white

[6:13] passenger. The president and first lady

[6:16] were among thousands of people who went

[6:18] to the Capitol Rotunda to pay their

[6:20] respects tonight. Rosa Parks is the

[6:23] first woman and only the second

[6:25] African-Amean to be honored this way. It

[6:28] is one of the nation's highest symbols

[6:30] of respect to lie in honor here.

[6:33] One that has been bestowed only 30 times

[6:35] in history. Rosa Parks will be the 31st.

[6:39] She was really one of the forerunners,

[6:40] the person who took the first stand and

[6:42] who will always be in all of the

[6:44] American history textbooks. So the

[6:46] Congress felt that it was very

[6:47] appropriate that she should lie in honor

[6:49] in the capital.

[6:50] >> It's been reserved mostly for government

[6:52] figures, presidents from Abraham Lincoln

[6:54] to John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan. Top

[6:58] generals such as Douglas MacArthur and a

[7:00] director of the FBI, Jay Edgar Hoover.

[7:04] Not all have been individuals. unknown

[7:07] soldiers of World Wars one and two,

[7:09] Korea, and Vietnam.

[7:13] Not all were public figures. In 1998,

[7:15] two Capitol policemen were given the

[7:17] honor after they were killed protecting

[7:19] the building.

[7:20] >> The United States Capital building was

[7:22] actually built by slave labor. The

[7:24] Statue of Freedom on top of the dome was

[7:27] cast by a by a slave. And now, Rosa

[7:30] Parks will take her place in history

[7:32] here in a building that was still

[7:34] racially segregated when she refused to

[7:36] give up her seat 50 years ago.

[7:40] A well-deserved honor. An important

[7:42] story tonight for anyone interested in

[7:44] getting a flu vaccine. Worries about the

[7:46] aven flu and a possible shortage of

[7:48] regular vaccine this winter have set the

[7:51] stage for dangerous scams. ABC's Dean

[7:53] Reynolds reports on a major incident in

[7:56] Texas.

[7:58] Tomorrow, the director of this Houston

[8:00] clinic, the man at the center of the

[8:02] alleged vaccine scam, will be in court.

[8:04] Yad Abu Elhawa faces at least 10 years

[8:07] in prison if convicted on Medicare fraud

[8:10] charges. As many as 1,600 employees of

[8:12] Exxon Mobile, as well as 14 residents of

[8:15] a nursing home, were injected with what

[8:17] apparently was purified water. We are

[8:20] trying to ascertain as quickly as

[8:22] possible whether more victims receive

[8:25] fake flu shots and whether they too are

[8:28] at risk.

[8:29] >> To be safe, public health officials want

[8:31] those who got the shots to also be

[8:33] tested for HIV and hepatitis.

[8:35] >> The uncertainty of what was injected

[8:37] into your body is a key concern of

[8:39] people. The suspect was arrested

[8:41] preparing to deliver vaccines to

[8:43] hurricane ravage Lake Charles,

[8:45] Louisiana, raising questions about how

[8:47] widespread the problem may be. Medical

[8:50] professionals say there is heightened

[8:52] public concern about the flu this

[8:54] season, and that can provide an opening

[8:56] for scam artists.

[8:58] >> People should ask questions about the

[9:00] manufacturer and make sure a record of

[9:02] their shot is kept when they get one.

[9:04] >> And there you go. The public is more

[9:07] vulnerable this year to the commission

[9:10] of fraud because there's a general fear

[9:12] about aven influenza and there is recent

[9:15] memory about vaccine shortages from last

[9:18] year.

[9:19] >> Still at a church in Neapville, Illinois

[9:21] today, hundreds of people lined up.

[9:24] >> I have confidence that

[9:26] getting the real stuff.

[9:27] >> Is it a leap of faith?

[9:29] >> Yeah. Yeah.

[9:31] >> So go ahead and get the shot.

[9:33] >> Give you a little pinch here. but try to

[9:35] know who's giving it. Dean Reynolds, ABC

[9:38] News, Neighborville, Illinois.

[9:40] >> On Tuesday, President Bush is expected

[9:42] to announce the government's plan for

[9:44] handling a possible pandemic that could

[9:46] emerge from the aven flu. The plan will

[9:48] likely include isolating the sick,

[9:50] distributing food, and administering

[9:52] vaccines.

[9:54] Still ahead on World News Tonight, the

[9:56] woman behind the first notfor-profit

[9:58] drug company fighting to produce cures

[10:00] for some of the world's deadliest

[10:01] diseases.

[10:03] how these homeowners are beating high

[10:05] energy bills and why their utility

[10:07] company sends them a check. And at the

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[13:16] >> Another hurricane tonight. Hurricane

[13:18] Beta, the record 13th of the season,

[13:20] made landfall in Central America today.

[13:22] Beta crashed ashore in Nicaragua as a

[13:25] category 2 storm with 105 mph winds.

[13:28] Thousands of people scrambled for

[13:30] shelter ahead of the storm. It is not a

[13:32] threat to the US. Much of New England

[13:35] got its first real taste of winter

[13:37] weather early today. Heavy snow fell in

[13:39] and around Boston, part of a storm that

[13:41] hit eastern Massachusetts and Rhode

[13:43] Island. But the sledding and the snowmen

[13:45] didn't last long. The temperature in

[13:47] Boston topped 60° this afternoon. There

[13:51] are still 51 days until the official

[13:53] start of winter, but most Americans are

[13:56] already bracing for higher heating

[13:57] bills. The average cost to heat a home

[13:59] will be more than $1,000 this season, up

[14:03] 33% from a year ago. But as ABC's Bob

[14:06] Jameson reports, there are ways to lower

[14:08] your cost no matter where in the country

[14:10] you live.

[14:13] In Arizona, it's the steady sun that's

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[14:30] >> We pay between on the average 20 to $28.

[14:34] >> Bills can be as low as $5 a month, a

[14:37] savings of $250 a month.

[14:39] >> They are very nice, very easy to pay.

[14:42] Zero energy homes are springing up in

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[14:51] Reas sometimes sell power back to the

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[14:58] >> We will save enough energy in this

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[15:18] Builders say solar power is perfect for

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[15:44] >> These are inch and a quarter main lines.

[15:46] >> Contractor Bill Spade has never been

[15:48] busier installing the $15,000 units.

[15:51] >> When you go from doing a couple jobs a

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[15:55] it's it's a big change.

[15:57] >> There's a simple reason. Geothermal heat

[15:59] will cost about $1,100 over the next

[16:02] year, compared to more than $3,000 for

[16:05] natural gas and more than $4,000 for

[16:08] heating oil. Back in Arizona, the Reyes

[16:10] are convinced their $28,000 cost is a

[16:13] good investment.

[16:14] >> If we had put that money on the bank,

[16:16] will I be getting $200, $250 a month in

[16:21] return?

[16:22] >> I don't think so.

[16:23] >> And Reyes says unlike oil, the cost of

[16:25] the sun remains constant. Bob Jimson,

[16:28] ABC News, Tucson.

[16:30] >> As always, we'd like to tell you about

[16:31] some of the things coming up this week.

[16:33] On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve is

[16:34] expected to boost short-term interest

[16:36] rates. It would be the 12th increase

[16:38] since June of last year. On Wednesday,

[16:40] Prince Charles and his wife Camila visit

[16:42] the White House for the first time

[16:44] together. And on Thursday, President

[16:46] Bush travels to Argentina for a summit

[16:48] with Latin American leaders where he's

[16:50] expected to face criticism over the war

[16:52] in Iraq. In Iraq, in Baghdad today, the

[16:55] brother of one of Iraq's vice presidents

[16:57] was shot and killed on his way to work

[16:58] at the prime minister's office. It was

[17:01] one of several attacks this weekend,

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[17:04] advisers. In a separate ambush, Iraq's

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[20:30] mostly in Africa and Asia. Neglected

[20:33] because most drug companies don't make

[20:35] medicines for people who cannot afford

[20:37] to pay.

[20:38] >> These people don't represent a market.

[20:39] There's no return on investment there.

[20:41] >> Black fever, almost 100% fatal.

[20:44] Elephantasis, more than 40 million

[20:47] people disfigured. River blindness, more

[20:50] than a quarter million blinded. Sleeping

[20:52] sickness, also fatal, spread by the

[20:54] titly. And the big killers, malaria and

[20:58] children's diarrhea. These neglected

[21:01] tropical diseases aren't being neglected

[21:03] by everyone. They're getting the

[21:04] attention of one organization here in

[21:06] San Francisco. The Institute for One

[21:09] World Health is the nation's first

[21:10] not-for-profit pharmaceutical company.

[21:13] >> Hi.

[21:13] >> Hi, Victoria. Hi.

[21:15] >> Company founder Victoria Hail is a

[21:17] former pharmaceutical scientist who came

[21:19] up with a solution. look for existing

[21:21] drugs that have been dropped by the big

[21:23] companies. Drugs that could be used to

[21:25] cure these neglected diseases.

[21:28] Her first target, black fever.

[21:31] >> You hemorrhage and die. It's a terrible

[21:32] way to die.

[21:34] >> Using an off- patent drug called paramy

[21:36] and funding from the Bill and Melinda

[21:38] Gates Foundation, One World Health has

[21:41] finished clinical trials in India that

[21:43] cured 94% of the patients. Great

[21:46] progress, but there are a lot of other

[21:48] parasites out there. The problem with

[21:50] infectious diseases is the bug that

[21:53] you're going after changes. It mutates.

[21:55] It develops resistance. So you have to

[21:57] keep developing new medicines and it is

[21:59] that which is not happening.

[22:02] >> Drug companies of course are businesses,

[22:04] not charities. But some are getting

[22:07] involved. Merc took an existing

[22:09] heartworm medicine for dogs and turned

[22:11] it into a very effective treatment for

[22:13] river blindness in people.

[22:14] >> We were lucky enough to find something

[22:16] that worked and we've done what we can

[22:17] to make it available. In fact, we've

[22:20] donated more than a billion tablets.

[22:22] >> Even so, the diseases that afflict 90%

[22:25] of the world's population get only 10%

[22:27] of the health dollars. Most of those

[22:30] dollars go to western lifestyle

[22:31] problems, cholesterol, digestive

[22:34] problems, erectile dysfunction.

[22:36] >> I take Viagra.

[22:37] >> I am frustrated. Uh I I understand it

[22:41] though and I'm I believe that the way to

[22:44] address it is not to go in and change

[22:47] this enormous system that exists. But to

[22:50] build a system that can work with what

[22:52] already exists and to make it happen.

[22:55] >> And in one corner of the world, this one

[22:57] company is doing just that. Judy

[23:00] Mueller, ABC News, San Francisco.

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[26:20] Finally, this evening, this year's

[26:22] wildfire season has certainly been a

[26:24] mild one, especially compared to last

[26:26] year when nearly 7 million acres went up

[26:28] in smoke, but without the fires, there's

[26:31] a lot of extra brush around, and that's

[26:33] where the goats come in. ABC's Brian

[26:35] Rooney explains. Nature built these

[26:38] hills to burn, which was not a problem

[26:41] until civilization moved in. In 1991, a

[26:44] brush fire in the hills above Oakland

[26:46] burned nearly 3,000 homes.

[26:50] Now at a cost of up to 15,000 an acre,

[26:53] constant clearing of flammable hillside

[26:56] brush is an expensive problem. The

[26:58] answer the city of Oakland has found

[27:02] is goats.

[27:03] >> They are eating machines. I call them my

[27:06] 3,000 non-unionized city employees.

[27:10] >> Goats are voracious. They eat leaves,

[27:13] branches, thistles, even the poison oak

[27:15] that wildland firefighters hate. Goats

[27:18] are agile on steep hillsides where it is

[27:21] difficult for humans to work. The

[27:23] average goat eats about 5% of its body

[27:25] weight every day. So, if the brush was

[27:28] up to your knees and you had 40 goats

[27:30] that weighed about 100 lbs each, it

[27:33] would take them less than a week to

[27:34] clear an acre of land. This is what a

[27:37] herd of goats did on a hillside in

[27:39] Lagona Beach in just 36 hours. Goats

[27:43] fed, fire danger gone. It's not without

[27:47] controversy. Some people complain that

[27:49] the goats stripped the hills to bear.

[27:51] There are companies that rent out

[27:53] thousands of goats for hillside

[27:55] clearance. Sometimes residents need to

[27:57] be convinced of the benefits.

[27:59] >> It's not a machine that's that's running

[28:01] in their backyard all day long. And once

[28:04] once they've had them, they want them.

[28:07] >> In the hills above Lagona Beach, where

[28:09] fire burned nearly 400 homes in 1993,

[28:12] Gary Schwagger loves to watch the goats

[28:15] at work.

[28:16] >> We get a a bottle of red wine and we sit

[28:18] out here and some cheese and we really

[28:20] feel like we're in France.

[28:21] >> And in California, it's a way of beating

[28:23] nature by using it. Brian Rooney, ABC

[28:27] News, Lagona Beach.

[28:29] >> That is World News Tonight. I'm Bob

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