CNN Headline News, I'm Holly Furfer. Emergency management officials in Colorado call it a
Herculean effort. Rescuers in the southeastern part of the state are using helicopters, snowmobiles,
and military vehicles to pick up people stranded in as much as 15 feet of snow. Two deaths are
blamed on the storm and at least eight people are missing. Residents across the region are trying
to dig themselves out. Susan Candiotti looks at the progress. Dawn in Denver. The blizzard is over
and a lone jogger trudges up a quiet, hilly street. One day before commuters head back to work,
a metropolitan Denver is trying to dig itself out of two feet of snow. Traffic remained light.
Major thoroughfares are passable. More troublesome, a layer of ice underneath the snow.
Walking wasn't much easier, but that's how some made it to the store for essentials.
This is the worst I've ever seen. I've been here all my life. At least this early in the season.
Commercial snowplows are getting parking lots cleared for business Monday. Oh Roger, this doesn't look like it's too bad.
Optimism from a man whose car is not only buried under snow, but broken tree branches.
They had it go on and on so it was over two feet and that kind of thing. I did catch everybody by surprise.
Including stranded passengers at Denver International Airport. Terminal chairs and floors doubled as beds
for about 3,000 travelers, stuck for two nights in a row. For most of Sunday, up to half of the usual flights were back online.
Interstates heading north of Denver reopened, but southbound highways to the New Mexico border remained closed
because of lingering blizzard conditions and abandoned cars. The same winter storm that slammed Colorado with up to 50 inches of snow
also muscled its way into Nebraska, where one woman died in a house fire caused by an unattended candle.
Back in Colorado, Governor Roy Romer flew over the worst hit areas to assess where help is needed.
With temperatures forecast to reach the 50s this week, there is some concern about flooding,
but bigger worries about making sure Denver can respond more rapidly when the next blanket of snow arrives.
That's what you expect when you live here.
Fortunately, the Colorado Rockies didn't make it to the World Series. If you thought last week snow flurries in Cleveland were bad,
this is what baseball fans would have faced here. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Denver.
Chinese President Zheng Zemin says he plans to see with his own eyes the achievements Americans have made in economic and social development.
Zheng arrived in Honolulu Sunday morning. He was honored with a 21-gun salute and then greeted by more than 100 people
from Hawaii's Chinese community waving American and Chinese flags.
It's the first time in more than a decade a Chinese leader has visited the United States. Zheng is scheduled to tour Williamsburg, Virginia Tuesday.
Wednesday he's to meet with President Clinton at the White House. Zheng says he hopes the meeting will help the United States and China
broaden their common ground. Some American politicians are skeptical.
Why should we be rolling out the red carpet for the leader of the regime that crushes dissent in its own country?
Why should we give a 21-gun salute to the leader of the People's Liberation Army,
which proliferates weapons of mass destruction to un-safeguarded and rogue states?
I was very disappointed in President Clinton's speech yesterday. I thought it was masterful in the way it whitewashed China's record on human rights, proliferation, and trade.
I said that he tried to cover up the failure of his trade policy and the failure of his human rights policy by a fiction about China's cooperation on proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. It simply is not so.
Billy Graham's son Ned leads one of the largest evangelical groups in China, and he has personally reported that he's able to do so with considerably increasing freedom all the time.
There's a huge amount of religion practice there. Is it somewhat restricted? The answer is yes.
Has there been some discrimination? Has there been some discrimination? The answer is yes, and some persecution.
But it is moving significantly beyond where it has been.
Human rights activists have promised to protest at almost every stop of Zhang's eight-day trip.
The chairman of the Senate Committee investigating questionable campaign fundraising says he doubts President Clinton will testify before the panel.
Former presidential candidate Bob Dole offered last week to testify and was encouraging the president to do the same.
Senator Fred Thompson says he will not force Mr. Clinton to come before the committee.
I'm disappointed. I think that every week new questions arise. It would not be unprecedented.
But we do have a separation of powers issue here. Presidents do not very often come, I think, maybe three times in times past, only under extraordinary circumstances.
I think these are extraordinary circumstances. But we're not going to press the issue.
I think that if he declines, that's his decision to make. I wish he would not do that.
But since he's taken that position, we're going to leave it at that.
The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Attorney General Janet Reno is doing great damage to the Justice Department.
Utah Republican Orrin Hatch is criticizing Reno's handling of the campaign fundraising investigation.
Hatch says Reno is getting bad advice from her staff.
We are going to have a hearing in the near future and determine who in the world is advising her.
Now, we know, but I think it's time for the press and the public to know as well.
There are political advisors advising her upon whom she is relying, I think, to the detriment of our country.
Look, I like Janet Reno. I'd like to see her come through this well. But up to now, it's certainly been anything.
It's been a lot less than all right.
Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin says congressional efforts to scrap the federal income tax by 2000 absolutely cannot work.
He says Americans need the predictability of the tax system to make decisions.
And he says changing to a different system would require a significant transition period to make sure it didn't disrupt the economy.
Newly transcribed tapes show former President Richard Nixon ordered break-ins before Watergate to dig up dirt on Democrats.
The White House conversations were recorded in June and July of 1971 after the Pentagon Papers were published.
The tapes were transcribed by Newsweek and the Washington Post.
In one conversation, Nixon wants aides to ransack government files for information that would discredit Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
In another, he tells an aide to have the IRS investigate reporters and Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.
New documents suggest the Army's mental health system has serious and widespread problems.
The North Carolina newspaper, The News and Observer, reviewed internal Army files about suicides at Fort Bragg over the past 11 years.
The documents reportedly indicate high-ranking officers have prevented mental health workers from approaching soldiers who may have needed help.
Doctors did not offer to keep information confidential, and suicide attempts have gone unreported.
The Army insists its system is first rate and that last year it spent more than $100 million on mental health programs.
A new report warns that in three years, almost one in six of the world's children will go to bed hungry each night.
The International Food Policy Research Institute says the problem will be most severe in the sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
It urges developed nations to redirect their aid to most vulnerable countries.
The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy reopened to worshiper Sunday, but it will be closed to tourists for several years.
The 13th century church sustained heavy damage in two earthquakes a month ago.
Four people were killed in the Basilica, and chunks fell from priceless frescoes on the ceiling.
The Franciscans who run the church hope to complete restoration by the year 2000.
Van Gogh created many masterpieces, but one Japanese company may not have gotten the real thing.
We'll explain after a look at the national weather forecast.
At the CNN Weather Center, I'm Byron Miranda with the CNN Headline News weather update.
There's that area of low pressure in frontal system I've been talking about since Friday.
It is now bringing some light snow and will bring some light snow from the Midwest towards the interior section of the Northeast.
I suspect you might see one to six inches of snow in the interior section of the Northeast in the best lake effect areas.
Down in the Southeast, more thunderstorms in the forecast during the morning hours because of that frontal system.
Pretty unstable atmosphere through the Southeast, but as that front progresses off the coast, high pressure will set in.
It's going to be winds out of the Northwest, clearing skies for the Gulf Coast all the way back towards the Southwest.
Quiet in the Pacific Northwest, but Seattle and Portland, you have a little rain in your forecast.
That's a look at your CNN Headline News weather.
The Florida Marlins are the new World Series champions.
They defeated the Cleveland Indians by a score of 2-3 in the 11th inning of Game 7 of the World Series.
Cleveland jumped to an early two-run lead at Miami's Pro Player Stadium,
and the
Chicago Buggie Bobby Bonilla blasted a home run in the bottom of the seventh inning,
and Craig Council tied it with a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth.
The Marlins went on to win their first World Series championship, four games to three.
We'll have game highlights later in Headline Sports.
Well, there's a shakeup in the art world over a Van Gogh painting sold for a record-setting amount in the 1980s.
Denise Dillon has the story.
Martin Van Gogh, one of the great masters of the 19th century, once told his brother, both his confidant and creditor,
I'll give you back the money or I will give away my soul.
Japanese collectors who gave away almost $40 million in 1987 for what they thought was a Van Gogh painting
might now wish they had a similar assurance.
The London Sunday Times, citing a year-long study by art expert Geraldine Norman,
says some of the world's most famous paintings, all credited to Van Gogh, might really be fakes.
The study indicates that Sunflowers was actually painted by Claude-Emile Schupenacker,
a struggling French art teacher who left his mark in the history of art in a not-so-glorious way.
Schupenacker is known in the world of art collectors for having copied dozens of Van Gogh's paintings,
a fairly common practice at the turn of the century.
It's an irony that the artist who was unable to sell his own work, his work was very soon faked
because of the high prices that they commanded.
The study's findings are not the first to question the authenticity of Van Gogh's paintings.
Works such as The Garden at Auvers, The Arlesienne, and Dr. Gaucher are also under suspicion.
Many were in Schupenacker's collection and only emerged when Van Gogh's paintings started fetching higher prices.
Even so, it's unclear if the new evidence will have any impact on the current art market.
The fact is anyone who's paying the large sums of money which Van Gogh costs,
you know, is going to look very closely at the authenticity of the picture,
and they would have done the past and they will now.
So I don't think they'll have much impact on the art market.
Experts now are questioning more than a hundred so-called mangos,
perhaps adding to the legend of a man who died in tragedy, but who left a lasting mark on the world.
Denise Dillon, CNN, reporting.
Next in consumer news, a sleepy town with a budget surplus has advised to wake up Washington number crunchers.
Also ahead, a real-life debate over the fate of a whale made famous in Free Willy.
This is the CNN Headline News Network.
Improving the popular Accord V6 was quite a challenge.
We gave it a more powerful 200 horsepower VTEC engine, a longer aerodynamic shape,
a roomier, more luxurious interior, even increased the size of the trunk.
Still, the improvement we're proudest of is the price.
It's lower. Nine hundred and fifty dollars lower.
This is an Accord like no other from Honda.
The truth is in the volumes of fine print.
Initiative 676 is not about safety.
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It puts stalking victims at even greater risk by making them wait for permission to protect themselves.
That's why thousands of law enforcement officers, responsible parents and citizens are opposing 676.
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A forest is much more than trees.
It's the water, plants, animals and fish that make up a healthy ecosystem.
At Boise Cascade, it's also our responsibility.
One example is in central Washington, where Boise Cascade and university scientists are studying the diverse habitats in our forests.
So that as we plant, grow and harvest trees, we make wise choices.
Like choosing not to export our logs.
Instead, keeping them here to be made into products for homes in Washington state.
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In a report due out this week, the Treasury Department is expected to show a budget deficit of less than $25 billion for the fiscal year.
Some experts say that's the latest sign the government is heading for something it hasn't seen in days.