Speaking out at his Georgia home, Newt Gingrich confirms he's quitting the House as well as
his speakership.
John Glenn takes his first measured steps on Earth after his nine-day long return to space.
And outbreaks of disease mean still no relief for the storm-devastated people of Central
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Capitol Hill is still reeling from the political earthquake triggered by Newt Gingrich.
And today, he officially said he will leave Congress altogether to allow his successor
room to work.
As Phil Jones reports, today's tremor was the rumble of Republicans racing to fill the
void.
At his home in Georgia this afternoon, Newt Gingrich emerged with a bag of garbage in
one hand and some political torpedoes in the other.
He blamed his own party for his hasty decision to quit as speaker.
I could hardly stand by and allow the party to cannibalize itself in that situation, and
I thought it was best for all of us.
So with the self-proclaimed GOP revolutionary leader of 1994 fallen, the restless conservative
troops are fighting amongst themselves over who should replace Gingrich as speaker.
Bob Livingston, a 22-year House veteran from Louisiana, chairman of the House Appropriations
Committee, thinks he has the conservative credentials.
But what about the votes to win?
I do believe that when the dust settles that you'll see that I am the next speaker of the
House.
Chris Cox is a 10-year veteran from California, picked by Gingrich to take over investigation
of the campaign finance scandal.
I haven't a hat, but if I did I would take it off and toss it in.
Tom DeLay, number three in the leadership, now has decided not to run for speaker.
He's backing Livingston.
And Bill Archer, already a committee chairman, said no thanks today.
It's not a job that sounds like fun to him.
I may be the right man for the job, but the job just isn't right for me at this time in
my career.
Oklahoma Congressman Steve Largent, who's trying to knock off Majority Leader Dick Armey,
said today that Gingrich was responsible for much of his and the party's damage.
When you're the speaker of the House, every thought you utter is on the public record
and it is significant.
And a lot of those things actually came back to bite us right in the rear end.
And maybe Gingrich was still feeling that bite today when asked if he planned to run
for president.
No, he said, I'm going to go out and collect dinosaurs.
By the time the Republicans vote for speaker in 11 days, even more wannabes are expected.
It could be that the next speaker of the House hasn't even announced yet.
Phil Jones, CBS News, Capitol Hill.
The grand old man of space returned to Earth and glory today.
Space shuttle Discovery landed perfectly at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, delivering
a wobbly John Glenn to the applause of the nation.
Cheryl Atkinson watched as Discovery glided home.
Two sonic booms signal the return to Earth of the world's oldest astronaut after a three
and a half million mile space journey.
Still inside the shuttle after landing, Discovery and this crew took us around and around and
that view is still tremendous.
John Glenn once again remembered his first flight into space 36 years ago.
And I want to reprise a statement I made a long, long time ago, except this time it is
one G and I feel fine.
But Glenn was noticeably unsteady when he joined the rest of the astronauts in a runway
walk around of Discovery.
NASA doctors say they aren't worried.
Many people who return from space flight have what we call ataxia and that's a little bit
of an unsteady footing.
They need to be a little bit careful, particularly when they turn corners and that sort of thing.
And I think that's what you were seeing in the Senator.
Comparing how Glenn and the younger astronauts readjust to gravity is just one of this mission's
scientific goals.
And the entire crew, said to be fatigued after nine days of space flight, canceled a news
conference originally scheduled for tonight.
Glenn still faces several weeks of testing.
We may not know the results of all the research for a year, but the simple fact of his safe
return may be seen as the biggest success in this mission's most ambitious experiment.
Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News at Kennedy Space Center.
In Central America, Honduras lined up for vaccinations today, hoping to avert a new
disaster spawned by Hurricane Mitch, an epidemic of disease.
Some medicine and other relief supplies are finally beginning to reach into the muddy
wasteland that was once Honduras.
John Roberts takes us to the heart of the devastation.
A week after Hurricane Mitch, San Pedro Sula is still a city choked in mud, a place where
misery is measured one step at a time.
With shovels and sweat, some people begin an impossible cleanup.
Others have moved to makeshift tent cities on the highway, the only high ground around.
I can't live down there, this woman says.
There's too much water, too much mud.
And the people hardest hit by Hurricane Mitch are those who can least afford it.
This is a country where the annual yearly income is measured in the hundreds of dollars.
Without a massive international relief effort, many of these people might not even survive,
let alone pick up their lives and rebuild.
Peter Bell, president of the relief organization CARE, toured the area today, where people
still wait in shin-deep water for food, where there are thousands of stories like this woman's.
She lost everything in the storm, all her clothing, her possessions, her spirit.
There are going to be needs here for really dire needs for probably the next six months
or so.
After a slow start, the relief flights are landing hourly in the capital city of Tegucigalpa,
relief that in San Pedro Sula can't come fast enough.
John Roberts, CBS News, Honduras.
And still to come on tonight's CBS Evening News, what a rock worry.
People in Baghdad taking the showdown in stride.
Also, a red letter day for Russia's remaining communists.
And a munchkin sees the wizard.
A classic film looking better than ever.
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Secretary William Cohen said today the U.S. now has all the allied support it needs for
a military strike against Iraq.
He and other top advisors meet with the president tomorrow at Camp David.
But as Alan Pizzi reports from Baghdad, whatever action the allies take may have little impact
on Iraq.
With nothing to do, the U.N. weapons inspectors reduced their numbers today.
Over the next few days, the 120-strong inspection force will be cut by 20%.
But Iraq's refusal to fulfill U.N. resolutions on ending its weapons program did not seem
to have reached crisis proportions for the senior U.N. official in Baghdad.
The secretary general has been asked by the security council to continue to pursue his
role in fulfilling the memorandum of understanding in this resolution.
So the secretary general and I are pursuing that matter.
The atmosphere in Baghdad's streets is nowhere near the anxiety level that prevailed when
the U.S. threatened airstrikes earlier this year.
That's in part due to the fact that people have enough to do just to get through the
day, and they've learned how to live with what has become their lot in life.
In the old part of town, businessmen and intellectuals gather as they have done for centuries.
If we stay patient, Zuhair al-Khashali says, God will reward us.
God is on the side of the patient.
Nearly eight years under the U.N. embargo have made faith and patience necessary commodities
in Iraq.
A few million dollars' worth of cruise missiles will make little, if any, difference here.
Ordinary people have been so ground down by life under U.N. sanctions, they feel things
can't get much worse, and there's nothing they can do about it anyway.
Their fate and that of the U.N. resolution lies in the hands of the ruling council of
Saddam Hussein, and there is no indication that America's threats are being taken seriously
there.
Alan Pezzi, CBS News, Baghdad.
Russia marked an uneasy anniversary today, the 81st anniversary of the Communist Revolution.
President Yeltsin, who has not been seen or heard from in recent weeks, spoke to the nation.
Yeltsin said communism is irrevocably over, and even former revolutionaries must now live
by Russia's new democratic rules.
For the old party faithful, it was still a day to take to the streets, but as Jeffrey
Kaufman reports, their demonstration was only a faint shadow of the past.
They are the ragtag remnants of Russia's once mighty Communist Party.
Just 10,000 loyalists turned out for this march, marking the 81st anniversary of the
Russian Revolution.
Before the Soviet Empire crumbled, Revolution Day was the biggest holiday of the year here.
Communism may be a dirty word to most Russians these days, but with the country's capitalist
system in crisis, communism is also the only real alternative to the Yeltsin government.
As the biggest party in parliament, the communists are eager to capitalize on that economic crisis.
What's holding them back is an identity crisis, a split between hardcore communists and moderates
who would preserve the new democracy.
Take businessman Andrei Brezhnev, grandson of former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
He may be a chip off the old communist block, but he says his new Communist Party isn't
out to revive repression.
Not so for some hardline communist politicians who want to go back.
This week, one threatened revenge on Russian journalists who are anti-communist, and another
says Russian Jews are responsible for the current economic crisis.
His party refused to censure him.
With the Yeltsin government discredited, the communists are in a position to gain, but
only if the party of Lenin and Stalin can agree to speak with one voice.
Jeffrey Kaufman, CBS News, Moscow.
And just ahead on tonight's CBS Evening News, cats, asthma, and the ironic twist in the
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Join us this Sunday morning.
A deadly avalanche today on Utah's Mount Baldy.
One backcountry skier died despite a three-hour effort by rescue workers to save him.
Another is in serious condition with a broken pelvis.
She was brought out by rescue workers.
Three others somehow managed to hike out safely to go get some help.
Officials say the avalanche danger is high despite being early in the season.
Asthma researchers are meeting in Philadelphia this weekend sharing the latest advances in treatment.
But as Eric Engberg reports, the key to a cure for the breathing disease may be found in your own home.
Suffered from asthma since she was a baby.
It's like you can't get enough breath. You're like...
What troubles doctors like James Baranek is that asthma is on the rise up by nearly 70 percent,
especially among children and especially those who spend a great deal of time indoors.
Surrounded by dust mites, refiltered air and all too often the pet cat.
The cat licks its skin, licks its fur and the saliva and the skin proteins become the dander.
That will flake off as the cat runs around through the rest of the day and these flakes will fly all over the place.
Ironically medical researchers now suspect that the same pet that triggers asthma may hold the key to its cure.
Of all the species that have been used to try to understand asthma in people,
there's only one animal besides the human being that develops asthma naturally and it turns out that it's the cat.
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Asthmatic cats show the same symptoms as humans.
Wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing.
But only in the last five years because of new tools for studying cells have researchers begun to study cats in earnest.
The x-rays that we see in cats with asthma are very similar actually to the x-rays of people
and they have a very similar response to therapeutic drugs as do people with asthma.
Patritch shares his laboratory with what he calls fellow researchers, cats with asthma.
He studies them to better understand the disease itself and how they react to promising treatments,
hoping the treatments will lead to a cure.
That day couldn't come too soon for Gwendolyn Deck who has watched helplessly as her daughter struggled to breathe.
And it's nothing to joke about and parents, if they have any kids and they have it,
stay close by them because they're not promised to them because in a blink of an eye they could be gone.
Last year 5,000 Americans died of asthma.
A cure is not in sight but researchers hope that their furry little friends will show them the way.
Eric Engberg, CBS News, Bethesda, Maryland.
Florida is toughening its lawsuit against the magazine sweepstakes run by American family publishers.
Florida's Attorney General says letters sent to the elderly constitute fraud, theft and unfair trade practices.
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Congressman Cox, Lindsey Graham, Minority Leader Gephart, and Senator-elect John Edwards face the nation Sunday.
There is another Ford in the Ford Motor Company's future.
Starting January 1st, the nameplate on the door of the chairman will again be the same as the nameplate on the cars.
That's tonight's one-on-one, a second look at a talk we had with heir to the family business, William Clay Ford Jr.
The history to me is very important, but what's more important to me is kind of what lies in the future.
Because I think you can become a captive to this legacy and feel like that was the high point of the Ford Motor Company and the Ford family.
And I don't want to think that way. I think the best is yet to come.
William Clay Ford Jr. is the great-grandson of that Ford, Henry.
His ideas changed the world a century ago and drive his descendants today.
Do you feel the pressure constantly?
I sure do. But I think it's mostly self-imposed pressure.
And I don't really react to external pressure, but I do have great expectations for myself.
And so every day I kind of go through this mental checklist and see how I'm doing.
And so far, okay is about the best grade I can give myself.
What are you afraid of?
I'm afraid of failure. I desperately don't want to fail.
And I'm afraid of not living up to my potential, whatever and wherever that may take me.
Fear of failure is the last thing one might expect to hear from a man with Ford's wealth and background.
But during our morning together at the Henry Ford Museum, where the man, his cars and our culture are celebrated, an overriding need to make a difference kept coming up.
In January, 41-year-old William Ford Jr. will be the first Ford in 18 years to lead the company that bears his name.
We're not just another nameless, faceless corporation.
And we're quite unique in American business that still has a member of the founding family in a company this large, you know, active in management.
Because of your family lineage though, do you think you have more to prove?
I did early on, sure. I think that, you know, particularly in my first few years, I think people would look at me and say, you know, who is this Ford kid?
And, you know, is he any good? And, you know, can he carry his own weight?
But I think I'm through that. At least I hope I am.
Having said that though, I think you never stop proving yourself to people.
If you hadn't been born a Ford, what do you think you'd be doing?
Probably environmental work. As I look at the people that I admire that are really making a difference in society, so many of them are people that are doing really great environmental things.
Did you ever think you had any other option but to go on and be a part of the Ford Motor Company?
Sure. I mean, I thought I was going to be a professional hockey player.
What happened to that?
I was small and slow, which is a bad combination if you want to be a professional hockey player.
Bill Jr. ended up in pro sports anyway. The other family business is the Detroit Lions football team, and he's already its vice chairman.
I love the Lions. The Lions are something I grew up with. I feel that the Lions are something that my kids are involved, they get excited about.
I love game day. My adrenaline starts pumping about 48 hours before the game, and it's something that's wonderful to be involved with. It's really in many ways the antithesis of Ford Motor Company.
Ford Motor Company is a big, capable corporation. The Detroit Lions as a business is small, and you make decisions and you can see the results of them immediately.
You don't have to be working right now. What drives you?
I grew up surrounded by people that were wealthy and had powerful positions, and I saw a lot of them were miserable because they didn't live up to their potential. They didn't leave a mark on the world.
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Ford says he wants his namesake company to be an environmental leader, and he predicts the internal combustion engine will be replaced eventually, possibly by electric power.
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That's nice, but wait until you hear the FBI's case against him, hiding in plain sight. Eye on America, Monday on the CBS Evening News.
The newest movie to hit theaters is a 59-year-old favorite. The scarecrow still needs a brain. The Tin Man is looking for a heart.
And the lion is still just a big frady cat. But Steve Hartman reports there is a brand new look over the rainbow.
You're about to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
Most of us have already seen it once.
You're about to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
Most of us have seen it more than once.
You're about to see the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz.
It's been on TV 39 times.
What did you think? Your honest answer. What did you think when you heard the movie was coming out again?
I said, why?
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You can tell them anything, but if you tell them you're in the Wizard of Oz, they want to know all about it.
And it is that never-fading fascination that Warner Brothers says will bring America back to the box office.
To see a new and improved Wizard of Oz.
Digitizing. Or digitalitizing?
I don't think it's either one of those.
It's called digital restoration.
We painstakingly removed every spot of dirt, hair and defect on every single frame of the film.
Dozens of technicians spent almost ten months at these computerized dustbusters.
I'll do a pixel fill.
Part of the reason it took so long was because the original black and white footage was lost in a fire.
So the studio had to work off a filthy backup copy.
But they touched up every frame.
Right down to the tiny flash of dust on Dorothy's right eyelid.
So in the end, what used to look like this, now looks like this.
I'll get you, my pretty. And your little dog, too.
The colors were amazing and the little things you could see, just things that I'd like never noticed before.
Jerry Maron went to see it this weekend, too.
We're off to see the wizards.
But only because a friend asked him. He really wasn't too thrilled about going.
Maybe I will get excited about it. Maybe.
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
But in the end, even he had a change of heart.
I didn't realize it was such a good picture.
And it seems a whole new generation agrees.
Steve Hartman, CBS News, Hollywood.
And for good reason, I might add.
That is the news for tonight.
Tomorrow on the CBS Evening News, a monumental rehab job on one of Washington's most popular sites.
Also tomorrow on Sunday morning, an artist who is truly golden.
Then on Face the Nation, the House Republican Shake-Up.
I'm Paula Zahn, CBS News in New York. Have a good night and a great weekend.
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