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Just one other note about deterring terrorism tonight.
In Washington today, Republican and Democratic senators introduced legislation to enact all
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dealing with intelligence.
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Bill Clinton had been taking a daily pill to lower his cholesterol, a so-called statin
drug.
But when he lost weight, the former president stopped taking the medication.
I think it's a terrible mistake.
When you stop refilling those pills, you're giving up that 30 to 40 percent reduction
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For others, it's the side effects, such as severe muscle cramps.
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Some doctors say the former president will now have to take a much higher dose of a cholesterol
lowering drug.
And this time, they expect him to stay on it for life.
John McKenzie, ABC News, New York.
That is our report on World News tonight.
I'm Peter Jennings.
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The latest allegations that President Bush did not serve as he should have during Vietnam.
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The federal ban on assault weapons is about to expire.
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From ABC News World Headquarters in New York, this is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Good evening everyone.
We begin tonight with the problem.
In several important parts of Iraq tonight, the violent opposition to the U.S. and to
the Iraqi government is now by U.S. description the law of the land.
It was demonstrated again today.
The U.S. command for Iraq knows that it has a problem and says that it has a plan.
With the problem and with the plan, we go first to our national security correspondent,
Martha Raditz.
Overnight and throughout the day, U.S. warplanes pounded targets in Fallujah, a city now controlled
entirely by insurgents.
Officials say the strikes were aimed at militants coordinating attacks against coalition forces.
And there have been many.
In nearby Ramadi, attackers released this videotape of a bomb blowing up as a U.S. armored
vehicle passed by.
In western Baghdad today, a roadside bomb hit three military vehicles.
In Balad, another bomb killed a U.S. soldier.
Baghdad and the cities in the so-called Sunni Triangle remain the greatest threat in Iraq.
A year ago, I think they thought the situation was going to be significantly better than
it is now.
And of course it is not.
If anything, it's worse.
A plan last spring for Iraqi forces to patrol Fallujah fell apart, ending any kind of security
patrols in this city of 250,000.
U.S. and Iraqi officials are now talking about ways to retake these rebel-held towns.
A senior military official said, I'm not going to say when the moment is right, but it is
not very far away.
The plan, according to several officials, would be to put a slow squeeze on these cities.
More aggressively gather intelligence on insurgent operations, restrict the movement of those
causing problems, and increase bombing on those carrying out the attacks.
It makes their ability to resupply, it makes their ability to go forth and conduct operations
more difficult.
But there is a huge catch.
The plan calls for Iraqi forces to back up the U.S. militarily.
And officials admit there are not enough of them right now.
The U.S. has tried many approaches in this area in the past, as you know, Peter.
From all-out combat to negotiations, nothing has worked so far.
Many thanks, Martha.
Martha Raddatz at the Pentagon.
In Cincinnati today, John Kerry had diverted vital resources from a whole range of important
areas, health care, education, and homeland security.
Mr. Kerry's speech today was delivered at the same venue where President Bush went nearly
two years ago to make his case for the war.
Here was ABC's Dean Reynolds.
Senator Kerry has tried for months to turn the war in Iraq into an issue he can use against
the president.
Today's message?
The war is hurting the home front.
George W. Bush's wrong choices have led America in the wrong direction in Iraq, and they have
left America without the resources that we need so desperately here at home.
The senator has had to live with a lot of heckling lately.
Today in Ohio, he faced it again and blamed his opponent.
It's a terrific tactic of the Bush team.
They love to disrupt.
Turning back to his text, Kerry mourned the lives lost in Iraq and the money, he says,
has been misspent.
$200 billion for Iraq?
But they tell us we can't afford after-school programs for our children.
$200 billion for Iraq?
But they tell us we can't afford health care for our veterans.
There's no money for job training now, he said.
The deficit is exploding.
Social Security is threatened, and 8 million Americans are looking for work.
Two years ago, President Bush spoke in the same hall and made his case for war.
Saddam Hussein is a homicidal dictator who is addicted to weapons of mass destruction.
Mr. Kerry, aye.
Even though Kerry voted to give the president authority to go to war, he went to the Cincinnati
site to drive home his differences with Bush.
And a new ad elaborating on that point has just been released in 20 states.
George Bush's wrong choices have weakened us here at home.
There's been a lot of discussion inside his campaign about how much the senator should
dwell on Iraq.
He may have received a small sign later today here in Minnesota, where, at a lengthy give-and-take
with neighbors, he received only one question on the subject.
Gene Reynolds, ABC News, Rochester, Minnesota.
Senator Kerry has faced a lot of questions for several weeks, as you know, about the
medals he won in the Vietnam War.
Today it was President Bush's turn.
The Democrats want his service in the National Guard back on the table for debate.
Here is our White House correspondent, Terry Moran.
For opponents of President Bush, it's payback time with this new ad.
I heard George Bush get up and say, I served in the 187th Air National Guard in Montgomery,
Minnesota.
Really?
You know, that was my unit.
And I don't remember seeing you there.
Democrats charge that Mr. Bush failed to fulfill his duty to the Air National Guard in 1972,
when he transferred from Texas to a unit in Alabama, while he worked on a political campaign.
Earlier this year, the White House claimed all of Mr. Bush's military records had been
released.
But now the Pentagon, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Associated
Press, has released more documents.
According to the AP, they show no record of Mr. Bush performing his duty in Alabama between
April and October of 1972.
And they show that he missed a crucial 24-hour active alert mission to safeguard against
surprise attack in the southern United States.
White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett insists the president fulfilled his duty.
I'm not surprised that during an election campaign, and particularly right when President
Bush goes ahead in the polls, that all of a sudden the Democrats are coming out of the
woodwork to recycle old charges, old discredited claims that President Bush didn't meet his
obligations.
But the questions keep coming.
Today, the Boston Globe reported that Mr. Bush, when he left Texas to go to the Harvard
Business School in 1973, signed a National Guard form that included this pledge.
It is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve Forces unit.
The young Lieutenant Bush never joined a Massachusetts unit.
But today, an official with the Air Force said Mr. Bush did not have to join a unit
in Massachusetts because he was registered with a unit in Denver.
If the Air Force wanted him for duty, the official says, they knew where he was.
And in a conference call with reporters today, one of the president's main accusers in that
new ad admits the young Lieutenant Bush might have been on that base, and he simply didn't
see him.
Peter?
Many thanks, Terry.
Terry Moran at the White House.
President Bush went to Florida today to see some of the damage done by Hurricane Francis
in Fort Pierce, which is on the Atlantic coast north of Palm Beach.
He helped relief workers hand out supplies.
The mayor of Fort Pierce was asked if he thought Mr. Bush would take care of the area.
Well, the mayor said there's one good thing about this being an election year.
The latest estimate is that Florida suffered four to eight billion dollars in damages.
Francis is a tropical depression now, but it is still causing trouble from Tennessee
to New England, up to 15 inches of rain, causing flooding and mudslides.
There have also been tornadoes in North Carolina.
Several people had to be rescued from the high waters there, and the rains flooded the
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service.
And now, forecasters are watching an even more dangerous storm down in the Caribbean,
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When we come back this evening, we will take a closer look at politics and guns.
The assault weapons ban is about to expire, and why neither candidate wants to make it
an issue.
Our series, America Still at Risk, tonight the potential dangers on the freight trains,
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was enacted 10 years ago, but will expire on Monday unless Congress takes action.
It is against the law to make or sell or import 19 different kinds of semi-automatic weapons,
such as AK-47s, which are fairly familiar, or the Uzi, also an assault weapon.
Certain ammunition is also banned.
There appears to be little chance that the ban will be renewed.
First of all, here is ABC's Bill Redeker.
The assault weapons ban was enacted to get rid of this.
A weapon that is semi-automatic, capable of firing multiple bursts of gunfire.
The ban limited the capacity of ammunition magazines to 10 bullets.
This one is illegal for us as civilians to own today.
Next week it won't be.
And the firearms industry can't wait to take advantage.
The arms manufacturer Beretta is offering coupons for two free 15 round magazines.
This Arizona gun maker is using his website to tick off the minutes until the ban expires.
Gun dealers in Texas couldn't be happier.
If you've got a high capacity magazine, you spend less time reloading.
You shoot more, which is good for us because we sell more ammunition.
Those gun enthusiasts who hate the ban are euphoric.
Just good to see one more silly gun log on.
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I mean, you have people that want to effectively kill you.
So you think these are necessary?
These are necessary then for protection?
Well, I think it is.
Dropping the ban also means that semi-automatic weapons such as this one could soon be legal.
Among other things, it has a foldable and thus concealable stock and a flash suppressor
which makes it difficult to see the location of the shooter at night.
Many in law enforcement are mortified and for good reason.
In 1997, two bank robbers here armed with assault weapons held off 350 cops for two
hours firing more than 1,100 rounds from their 75 round drum magazines.
Because they're just weapons of murder.
They're not weapons for hunting or collecting.
The police say making such guns and magazines legal simply means it will be easier for criminals
to get them because more of them will be available.
The irony is we'll probably have more of these weapons in the United States than there are
in Iraq in the hands of the insurgents.
Isn't that amazing?
More guns that are more lethal and according to gun shops, cheaper too.
Bill Redeker, ABC News, Los Angeles.
Well, there's more to this of course.
A new survey has just found that 68 percent of Americans including one-third of the members
of the National Rifle Association want Congress to extend the assault weapons ban.
So why isn't it likely to happen?
With the second part of tonight's Closer Look, here's ABC's John Cochran in Washington.
To hear Democrats tell it, it is the Republicans who want to end the ban on assault weapons.
They're taking police off the streets while they put assault weapons back on the street.
Republican leaders in Congress do want to end the ban and President Bush is doing nothing
to stop them.
Mr. Bush says he opposes the semi-automatic weapons, but he has done nothing that would
upset the gun lobby.
ABC News has been told the National Rifle Association will endorse the president for
reelection after the ban expires.
Today families of gun victims joined with police chiefs from around the country pleading
with the president to ignore the NRA.
This woman lost her son.
I cannot believe that he has to answer to the NRA.
What is his problem?
But most Democrats aren't putting up a fight either because in key congressional districts
Democrats do not want to bring on the wrath of the NRA.
There is a big block of Democrats joining a big block of Republicans that will make
sure this issue never sees the light of day in the House.
Democrats remember that ten years ago a Democratic Congress sent President Clinton the bill outlawing
assault weapons.
A few months later the gun lobby was instrumental in helping Republicans win control of the House.
When it comes to gun control one of John Kerry's biggest supporters has two words of advice
for all Democrats.
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When Kerry was trying to get the Democratic nomination he talked tough as he tried to
win the support of liberals.
I'm for the assault weapons ban and I'm not looking to be the candidate of the NRA.
But now Kerry needs to impress gun owners.
This week he was in West Virginia holding a rifle never mentioning his opposition to
assault weapons.
John Cochran, ABC News, Washington.
Later this evening Nightline reports on why some people think they need an assault weapon.
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This is one of the main recommendations of the independent 9-11 commission.
Now we continue our series America's Still at Risk.
Our assessment of the nation's vulnerability three years after the attacks on 9-11.
A lot has been done since then to secure the country.
Still a poll conducted by the Associated Press finds that about four in ten Americans do
say they worry about becoming a victim of terrorism.
Tonight the railroads.
Here's ABC's Pierre Thomas.
For more than two years city officials across the country have been warning the federal
government about the dangers posed by freight trains.
Everyday freight trains carry explosives and deadly chemicals such as sulfuric acid and
chlorine through many metropolitan areas.
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Two weeks ago ABC News watched these tankers storing chlorine and other hazardous materials
stop for 45 minutes near a federal office complex housing 71,000 workers.
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Since 9-11 some steps have been taken to limit the risk.
The railroad industry has spent $100 million on expanded security patrols, electronic surveillance
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Rail officials oppose rerouting trains around cities saying it's expensive and might increase
the chance of derailments.
You're not eliminating the risk, you're just shifting the risk from one spot to another.
Homeland Security officials say they will announce recommendations to reduce the threat
later this month.
Meanwhile the trains keep rolling.
Pierre Thomas, ABC News, Washington.
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Finally this evening, the end of Genesis in Utah today, a NASA space capsule called Genesis
that had been collecting data from space for almost three years returned to earth with
a crashing thud or splat.
It wasn't meant to end that way.
Here's ABC's Ned Potter.
This is what was supposed to happen.
The Genesis capsule was supposed to come tearing into the atmosphere and slow itself enough
to release a parachute.
Then a helicopter flown by a Hollywood stunt pilot was supposed to snag it in midair so
it could be lowered gently to the ground.
This is a one time chance and there's no take two.
He was right.
This is what really happened.
As mission scientists watched helplessly, a long range camera showed the capsule tumbling
out of control.
No parachute, no helicopter to catch it.
Scientists say Genesis hit the Utah sand at 193 miles an hour.
There's a pit in my stomach.
Roger Wienz, a scientist who gave years of his life to this project, insists that even
though the ship was in pieces, there might still be samples from space worth saving.
We're going to get something out of it.
That's life.
We always make the best of what we get.
But the solar collection panels are very delicate, some of them made of silicon, sapphire, even
diamond.
I think the space business has humbled us occasionally.
Scientists had by now expected to have their ships safely in a sterile clean room, safe
from earthly germs.
Instead, they were out in the desert picking up the pieces.
Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.
Before we leave you tonight, a word of a program that we encourage you to watch later tonight.
Untold stories of betrayal and neglect from our tobacco file.
Tobacco is still the number one cause of premature death in the country tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern
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Hope you'll join us then.
That's World News Tonight.
I'm Peter Jennings.
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Tobacco police get serious about truancy arresting parents who don't send their kids to school.
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And local voices filled with sorrow and pride record their experiences from the civil rights
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The terrorists placed small backpack light on four trains bound for Madrid.
The bombs were wired to cell phones, which set off the explosions when their internal
alarm clocks went off simultaneously at the height of the rush hour.
The bombs were set to explode just as the trains were arriving at the platforms of the
Atacha station, but the trains were a few seconds late that morning.
Had they been on time, police say hundreds more would have been killed.
ABC News has learned that the bombers met with senior al-Qaeda operatives, but conceived,
planned and financed the attack locally.
Total cost, $10,000.
Total planning time, a few months.
This is the second lesson.
Al-Qaeda surrogates can still mount major attacks despite losing bases in Afghanistan
and much of its leadership.
Today, there is a network of small and medium-sized cells, he said, that often operate autonomously,
which makes preventing attacks much more difficult.
One more very disturbing lesson, terrorists can have a political impact.
In elections three days later, Spain's ruling party, which had been leading, was voted out
of power.
With an election approaching in the U.S., American officials worry terrorists will try
to do the same again.
Jim Sciuto, ABC News, Madrid.
After the bombings in Madrid, a consultant who specializes in analyzing security risks
for mass transit performed a test by putting a single backpack filled with 15 pounds of
explosives inside a bus.
Here's what happened.
A single backpack.
So how difficult is it to get a bomb, such as that, onto a bus or a train in a major
American city?
We asked ABC's Pierre Thomas to test the system.
Last week, wearing hidden cameras, ABC News went to suburban Maryland and bought a train
ticket with cash.
There was no sign of security.
We boarded a train, placed a backpack overhead, and began our journey with other commuters
toward the nation's capital.
Three stops later, we got off, leaving the backpack behind, in plain view.
Two ABC News producers stayed to watch the bag.
No one noticed it, not passengers nor conductors.
The backpack traveled 45 minutes through six stations to Washington, D.C.
If a terrorist wants to put a bomb on a train, they probably have about a 99 percent chance
of success.
On a Virginia commuter line last week, we did find some security.
A bomb-sniffing dog walked past our abandoned backpack, but only after it had been on board
for 30 minutes.
Two days ago, on Amtrak from Washington, D.C., we left a backpack that traveled two and a
half hours, all the way to New York City's Penn Station.
A top Homeland Security official says our tests left him uneasy.
It just confirms your fears that there are vulnerabilities in our systems.
With the Madrid bombing, the U.S. government has been trying to improve railroad security,
testing new ways to screen passengers.
Commuter lines have added patrols and undercover officers.
But transit officials say they need $6 billion federal dollars for training and better detection
and surveillance equipment.
We don't need another reminder like Madrid.
We know what to do.
We need additional resources in order to do it.
The railroad is a huge open system with no screening, and all three train lines we tested
acknowledged this week that protecting the nation's 32 million mass transit commuters
is an enormous task.
Pierre Thomas, ABC News, Washington.
America still at risk.
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Finally from us this evening,
the phone call that has cost investors so much money.
The Securities and Exchange Commission
is investigating an audacious new stock scam
that's been tried in more than 30 states.
And it begins with a message.
Here's ABC's Betsy Stark.
A few weeks ago, Sharon McGrath came home
to find a hot tip on her answering machine,
apparently intended for someone else.
She goes, hey, Steph, this is Wendy.
I hope I've got your number right.
Remember that stock guy, Evan,
that I was dating a while back?
He gave my dad that stock tip in June.
It went from a buck to like five bucks in two weeks.
And you were mad because I didn't call you?
Well, I'm calling you now.
But this weekend it's gonna be big,
so buy as much as you can.
McGrath was curious.
So she researched the stock on the internet.
And when she saw it was already trading higher,
she bought $1,100 worth.
I believe things come into our life for reasons.
In many ways, it's a classic pump and dump scheme.
Dupe investors into buying a stock, sell at a profit,
and leave the unwitting investors who buy at a high price
holding the bag when the price goes down.
Can you tell me what the stock was?
But SEC officials, who have been tracking the scam
for more than a month, say this is the first
pump and dump fraud to use widespread
voicemail messages as the lure.
And you received it on your phone?
It's clear a lot of people do think,
oh my goodness, my ship has finally come in.
This message was left on my machine by error,
but it's my lucky day.
Agency officials say they are also impressed
by the sophistication of the voicemails.
McGrath, who considers herself a savvy investor,
her cat's name, ticker and symbol,
was taken in by the caller's casual style,
snacking as she was talking.
She goes halfway through there, you hear her chomping,
and she says, sorry, I'm eating but I'm starving.
The SEC says no stock fraud in its history
has ever generated more complaints.
Sharon McGrath was one of them.
The hot tip she acted on cost her $800.
Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York.
That is our report on World News tonight.
I hope you'll join us again tomorrow.
I'm Peter Jennings.
Tomorrow, by the way, our personal.
We'll be right back.
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He said to get that number above 50, they know the rule.
When incumbents are above 50% in job approval, they win.
When they're below 50%, they lose.
One other thing, George, as you well know,
our poll also finds that Mr. Bush has a slight lead
over Mr. Kerry on that crucial question
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And here's a tough one for Mr. Kerry.
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On World News tonight, carnage in Iraq today,
70 people dead, more than 100 injured.
Hurricane Ivan headed for the Gulf Coast.
The nation's third busiest port, New Orleans,
is already shut down.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin
wants a whole lot more power.
The U.S. is concerned many Russians are appalled.
And the very strong warning today from the government
about anti-depressants for children and suicide.
From ABC News World Headquarters in New York,
this is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Good evening everyone.
It was a terrible day in Iraq for Iraqis.
And for the Bush administration,
it was a day to ponder limitations and priorities.
In Baghdad, a car bomb killed 47 people
and wounded more than 100.
To the north in the city of Vakuba,
gunmen opened fire on a bus full of policemen, killing 13.
In the town of Ramadi, 10 people were killed
in fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents.
And there was one other insurgent achievement today.
They managed to turn off most of the power in the country
when they blew up an oil pipeline in the north
sparking a nationwide chain reaction.
ABC's Brian Rooney reports first
on the devastating scene in Baghdad.
The bomb blew up outside a police station
on a busy street where men were waiting
to apply for work as police officers.
Nearby shoppers, people sipping coffee,
and police recruits were shredded.
Stretcher bearers carried off body after body.
But much of the job for rescue workers
was to pick up pieces of human beings
along a street littered with fruit and scattered clothing.
These are the victims' shoes.
This is what America has done their shouting.
An angry crowd chanted,
Bush is a dog and denounced their own leadership,
which is not protecting them.
The government has failed.
The government has failed, he screamed.
Police and security forces have been a primary target.
At least five times before, police stations have been bombed.
And with today's bombing, the death toll
in these incidents alone is approaching
300 officers and recruits.
The police were attacked not only in Baghdad.
Gunmen in Bekuba to the north opened fire on a van
carrying officers returning from work, killing a dozen men.
I was driving my car, he said,
and all I heard was the sound of bullets.
And tonight, the lights are out in 70% of Iraq,
including Baghdad.
Insurgents blew up an oil pipeline junction today
up 150 miles north of this city,
causing a fire that melted power lines
leading to a shutdown of the grid.
Engineers had just finished fixing the junction's
major valves after an attack two months ago
and left the area unguarded.
Brian Rooney, ABC News, Baghdad.
Well, Iraq was an issue in the presidential campaign today.
President Bush made a much anticipated appearance
before the National Guard Association.
There are concerns, of course,
about the burdens being placed on the Guard by the war.
Here's our White House correspondent, Terry Moran.
Mr. Bush ignored all the questions
swirling around his own time in the Guard three decades ago
and instead simply wrapped himself
in the Guard's tradition of service.
19 individuals have served both in the Guard
and as President of the United States,
and I'm proud to be one of them.
Still, Democrats seem determined to keep hammering away
at the old controversy with a new video
released on the internet.
It's time for George Bush to come clean.
And new attacks from the party chairman.
His lack of commitment 30 years ago
is an insult to those who fulfilled
their National Guard duty.
But the real issue for many of the Guard members here
is not what Lieutenant Bush did or did not do
in the Guard during the Vietnam War,
but what President Bush has done with the Guard
during the Iraq War.
Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks,
225,000 members of the National Guard and Reserves
have been activated for full-time duty,
their largest mobilization in 50 years.
40% of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
are Guard and Reserve members.
Many National Guard families complain
of the extended and repeated deployments overseas.
The President's only answer?
We're working to give you as much certainty as possible
about the length of your mobilization.
Senator Kerry accuses the President of abusing
the Guard and Reserves.
And we will end the backdoor draft.
But for now, Democrats still seem
to be focusing most of their attacks
on the actions of Lieutenant Bush long ago,
which seems just fine with the incumbent President
in this campaign.
Terry Moran, ABC News, with the President in Las Vegas.
Senator Kerry attacked President Bush
about soaring health care costs today paid by the elderly.
He jumped on the administration for not disclosing
its own estimates that seniors will
have to pay more and more of their social security
checks for health care.
Those estimates were first revealed this morning by USA
Today.
ABC's Dean Reynolds is with the Kerry campaign today.
Senator Kerry's message today was aimed at senior citizens.
He warned them that President Bush's Medicare prescription
drug plan would result in skyrocketing out-of-pocket
expenses for them.
This year, they played games with the American people
again.
In the battleground states of Wisconsin and Ohio,
Kerry tried to turn the administration's own report
against it.
Here's the chart right here.
Kerry said the government has traditionally
forecast how much seniors will have
to dip into their social security benefits
to pay for Medicare.
But the latest estimate compiled in this election year
was omitted.
Oh my gosh.
It's empty.
A great big question mark.
Missing is a government calculation
that a typical 65-year-old American
will have to spend 37% of his social security
income on Medicare premiums in 2006, 40% by 2011,
and 50% by 2021.
In fact, if no changes are made in the law,
health care spending is expected to eat up
nearly all of the social security benefit
when children born today are ready to retire.
They hid it from you.
They didn't want you to know what the costs were.
A Bush administration spokesman said Kerry's charges were
pure politics and that the White House played no role
in excluding the higher costs from the Medicare report.
296.
But Kerry and the Democrats believe
Bush is vulnerable on the issue of health care for seniors,
and they know one more thing.
Seniors vote.
Dean Reynolds, ABC News, with the Kerry campaign in Toledo.
And now to Hurricane Ivan.
Less than 400 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi River
tonight, a hurricane warning, not a hurricane watch,
has been issued for a 200-mile stretch of coastline
on the Gulf of Mexico, including the area around New Orleans.
In southern Louisiana, particularly,
there's a lot of potential for damage.
Much of the area is only a foot or two above sea level.
New Orleans is nine feet below.
So today, in anticipation, they have closed the port there.
It is the third busiest in the country.
ABC's Bob Woodruff is tracking the storm tonight
from Pensacola in Florida.
Bob?
Peter, the storm is moving in.
And because of the economic importance of this place,
those hurricane warnings you mentioned for New Orleans,
the rest of the Gulf Coast, could have an impact
on the entire country.
The Mississippi looked very empty today
after New Orleans closed its port.
The ships all tied up, bracing for the possible storm.
We're going to get hit.
We don't know if we're going to get punched in the mouth
or kicked in the knee.
But we're going to get hit, and it's going to hurt.
Which could have an impact on the entire US economy.
More than $300 million of goods go through the port every day.
It is America's largest import point
for steel, plywood, and coffee.
We're quite alarmed.
There's a lot of money at stake.
It's one of the busier ports of the world.
The oil industry is also concerned.
Workers were airlifted from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico today.
Nearly half of US oil is refined along the Gulf Coast.
And fears of disruption drove crude prices up $0.53.
Local economies are suffering already.
Hundreds of towns along a 400-mile stretch of coastline
are boarding up and spending their resources.
If we get a direct hit from a major storm,
you're talking about a multimillion dollar impact
here.
In Pensacola today, residents moved their boats
to dry dock.
The city removed every other traffic light,
leaving only some for safety.
The tourists are nearly gone.
Gary Coward left with his family today.
This vacation, he says, is over.
We are filled up with gas.
We feel like we're ready to at least get 300 or 400 miles
inland, which is all we need to do.
Millions of people all along the Gulf Coast
are being asked to evacuate for a storm that is expected
to arrive early Thursday.
People will have to go quite far, Peter,
to get away from this hurricane.
Scientists now say that Ivan is so big,
hurricane force winds could extend 100 miles inland
from the eye when it finally does make landfall.
That takes it into Georgia.
Many thanks, Bob.
Bob Woodruff, reporting from the Gulf Coast.
ABC News will, of course, have continuing coverage of Ivan.
You can find out where the storm is any time
by going to abcnews.com.
When we come back this evening, we're
going to take a closer look at the memos about the president's
National Guard service.
There are questions about their authenticity.
The US is concerned about the Russian president's plan
to give himself more power.
Take it as more appropriate.
The antidepressants prescribed for children
are in the news tonight.
The government's advisors want the strongest warning
label about the risks of suicide.
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We are going to take a closer look this evening
at the latest reporting about the president's record
in the National Guard during Vietnam.
The news has been in the news for some days
ever since the program 60 Minutes
filed a report on President Bush's record
in the National Guard during Vietnam.
As you may have heard, CBS cited documents allegedly written
by George Bush's squadron commander, Colonel Jerry Killian,
in one instance, citing his alleged failure to obey an order,
to take a physical, and in another instance,
a memo that Colonel Killian allegedly put in his own file
saying he had ordered Lieutenant Bush to be suspended
for failing to perform to U.S. Air Force National Guard standards.
Since the 60 Minutes report, the documents have been widely questioned.
Numerous people with varying degrees of competence in handwriting
and typewriter analysis have suggested that they are not genuine.
CBS has maintained that the document examiners they used
say they are authentic.
Our chief investigative reporter, Brian Ross,
has questioned two of the CBS analysts today.
That's right, Peter, the two experts hired by CBS News
say the network ignored concerns they raised prior to the broadcast
about the disputed National Guard records.
Emily Will, a court-certified examiner from North Carolina,
says she saw problems right away with the one document
CBS hired her to check in the days before the broadcast.
I found five significant differences in the questioned handwriting,
and I found problems with the printing itself
as to whether it could have been produced by a typewriter.
Will says she sent the CBS producer an e-mail message about her concerns
and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast
not to use the documents.
I told them that all the questions I was asking them at that time,
which was Tuesday night, they were going to be asked
by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday
if they ran that story.
But the documents became a key part of the 60 Minutes broadcast
questioning President Bush's National Guard service in 1972.
CBS made no mention that any expert disputed the authenticity of the documents.
I did not feel that they wanted to investigate it very deeply.
A second document examiner hired by CBS News, Linda James of Plano, Texas,
told ABC News she, too, had concerns about the documents prior to the broadcast.
I did not authenticate anything,
and I don't want it to be misunderstood that I did.
And that's why I have come forth to talk about it
because I don't want anyone to think that I did authenticate these documents.
A third examiner hired by CBS for its story, Marcel Matley,
appeared on CBS News last Friday
and was described as saying the documents were real.
Today, Matley told The Washington Post that he did not authenticate the documents
and could not because they are photocopies, not originals.
At the heart of the dispute is whether any typewriter existed in 1972
that could have produced the documents with their distinct type style,
even spacing, and the tiny T-H, known as superscript.
Two experts told ABC News today not even the IBM Selectric Composer,
the most advanced typewriter available in 1972,
could have produced the documents with the three distinct features.
This machine is not the culprit of those documents.
Other new questions were raised today by former National Guard officials
who told ABC News some of the language, terminology,
and abbreviations in the documents were not in use at the time.
CBS News says it still believes the documents are authentic.
It confirmed the two experts we talked to today were hired by CBS,
but the network says it did not rely on them to authenticate the documents.
It used others.
CBS said it believes the authenticity of the documents reflect the thoughts
and behavior of Lieutenant Colonel Killian at the time.
That's exactly what Colonel Killian's former secretary told ABC News today,
saying she believes the documents are fake,
but that Peter Daydue reflects some of what her boss thought
of Lieutenant Bush at the time.
Many thanks, Brian. Brian Ross, our Closer Look for today.
When we come back in the other news, the power grabbed by Russia's president.
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The Secretary of State Colin Powell said today
the U.S. is concerned about the Russian president's plan
to seize more power.
For one thing, Mr. Putin wants to nominate Russia's 89 governors
instead of allowing the voters to elect them.
He said it was necessary to fight terrorism more effectively.
We asked ABC's Mike Lee, who is in Moscow,
if the Russian people thought this was outrageous.
Russians we spoke to today expressed shock
that some of their most fundamental democratic principles,
which they've only had for a few years, are being swept aside.
It's an anti-constitutional proposal, says this man.
I don't like it, she says.
I think Putin is at a loss and doesn't know what to do
and chose to do it the old Soviet way.
Those criticisms today reflect a recent poll here
in which 84% blamed Putin's government security forces
for failing to prevent terrorism.
But in other parts of this enormous country,
where Putin's government controls most institutions,
he faces little organized opposition.
Putin's new rules would not go into effect until elections in 2008.
His political opponents in Moscow admit
it will be impossible to stop him.
There is no question about that.
When one man has total control on parliament, media,
security, elections, business...
Putin says he's doing this in the name of Russia's war on terror.
He claims that giving himself more central power
will reduce the local corruption
that makes it easier for terrorists to train and travel.
Putin believes that democracy equals weak state.
It's yet another step towards what I would call autocratic rule.
In terms of fighting terrorism, I think inconsequential.
What does this mean for Russian democracy?
It means that there is no democracy.
Opposition leaders here tonight claim that the U.S. government
could have helped convince Putin to pull back from the brink
on these anti-democratic plans,
but was too preoccupied with Iraq elections to focus on Russia.
Mike Lee, ABC News, Moscow.
One note about the U.S. and the rest of the world in Washington today.
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Finally this evening, children and antidepressants.
The government scientific advisors recommended today
that antidepressants prescribed for children should be labeled
with the nation's strongest warning,
saying the medication can sometimes cause suicidal tendencies.
Here's ABC's Lisa Stark.
The antidepressants are expected to carry what is called
a black box warning on the drugs labels.
The warning about increased suicide risk in young people
would apply to all antidepressants, including Prozac,
the only one specifically approved for children.
Hello, I'm Candace Downing.
The mother of 12-year-old Candace Downing says the new warnings
come too late for her daughter.
Candace hanged herself in January.
It is the worst thing you can imagine.
Candace had just stopped taking Zoloft.
The studies show increased suicidal tendencies just as
children start or stop the antidepressants.
Her mother is furious the FDA did not act earlier.
There was nothing that would ever lead me to understand the risks
that have been associated over and over again
with this particular medication.
Downing's death came just months after the FDA's own scientists
determined that these antidepressants could increase
suicidal tendencies in young people.
And right after, the British virtually banned most of these drugs for children.
But the FDA wanted more analysis.
A second study reached the same conclusion.
The suicide concerns were real.
We didn't know what the result was going to be.
We had no idea.
But we thought getting as right an answer as possible was the right thing to do.
It's estimated 7% of antidepressants prescribed are for those under age 18.
Some people who depend on the drugs insisted they do work.
Please help me preserve my future.
Don't take away my medication.
The drugs will not be banned.
The panel hopes new warning labels will make doctors much more cautious
prescribing them and parents more educated about their risks.
Lisa Stark, ABC News, Washington.
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A low-dive fire captain is arrested for allegedly molesting a teenage girl.
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A low-dive fire captain is behind bars this evening.
He's charged with child molestation and possession of child pornography.
And the girl making those accusations is a 14-year-old runaway
who made the claims after she was missing more than two weeks.
News 10's Mark Hedlund joining us live now with more from the town of Clements. Mark?
Jennifer, here in Clements, east of Lodi, Mike Tecklenburg has been a fixture for many years.
This is where he and his family lives.
And besides his normal paying job as a low-dive fire captain,
he also volunteers for the Clements Fire Department.
And now a missing 14-year-old for whom he helped search claims that he was molesting her.
That search was all-consuming for many here since the end of August.
42-year-old Mike Tecklenburg helped spearhead that search for the girl.
Last night she contacted her therapist.
She told him and detectives Tecklenburg had been molesting her for months.
On his home computer, detectives say they also found child pornography.
While investigators obviously believe the girl's allegations, many others who know him do not.
Yeah, I totally think he's wrongly accused.
The guy's last few weeks done everything he could above and beyond the call of duty to find her.
And that's why he was out front.
He was in contact with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
They had been very aggressive about trying to locate her, and I think now we have a better understanding why.
Neighbors and friends here in Clements.