This program is 28 minutes long
#192012
NOTE: Time numerals represent seconds into broadcast, not clock time, since the telecast originated in Washington, DC.
#192013
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: John McWethy) Crash of a Marines V-22 Osprey plane on a training mission featured; scenes shown from the Arizona crash site. [Marine Corps Lieutenant Mark CARTER - explains the training mission.] [Witnesses Norm KEEPERS, Susan CROSS - describe what happened.] The controversy over the cost of the Osprey program and the plane's capability as a successor to Marine helicopters reviewed.
#192014
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(State Department: Martha Raddatz) The CIA's administrative actions in response to last year's errant bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, featured; scenes shown of the damaged building; diagrams shown. [May 1999, Secretary of Defense William COHEN - says our planes hit a wrong target due to outdated maps.]
#192015
(Studio: Carole Simpson) The turbulent week in the custody battle for six- year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez introduced.
(Bethesda, Maryland: Linda Douglass) Counting down towards the turning over of Elian from the Miami relatives to his father featured. [Attorney General Janet RENO - says the exchange can be worked out.] [Attorney for Miami relatives Spencer EIG - outlines the conditions.] [On NBC, deputy attorney general Eric HOLDER - comments on the options.] [Miami Mayor Joe CAROLLO - says federal agents will be protected.] [Elian's rescuer fisherman Sam CIANCIO - says Juan Miguel loves his son.]
(Studio: Carole Simpson; Miami: Ron Claiborne) The Miami family's last ditch efforts to retain custody of Elian and the health problems for Elian's cousin Marisleysis Gonzalez discussed.
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Cardenas, Cuba: Morton Dean) Elian's hometown of Cardenas, Cuba, visited; scenes shown to illustrate the difficult living conditions in the neighborhood; details given of Elian's celebrity status in Cardenas.
#192018
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(New York: Jim Sciutto) The snowy spring weather in the Northeast featured; scenes shown from New York City and across the region. [Two PEOPLE - react to the cold weather.]
#192021
(Studio: Carole Simpson) State of emergency in Bolivia following economic protests reported.
#192023
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Boston: John Yang) The new role for former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev as an environmental activist featured. [Green Cross International President GORBACHEV - (thru translator) speaks about the environment; says the Chernobyl nuclear problem dramatized the environmental problems.] [Pace University school of law Nicholas ROBINSON - talks about Gorbachev, the political reformer.]
#192024
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Announcement by British Prime Minister Tony Blair that he will not take paternity leave when his new baby is born reported.
#192027
(Studio: Carole Simpson) The points of view of protesters and the Washington, DC, police over the planned demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund presented; details given of the role of the Internet in revolutionizing the approach to demonstrating; scenes shown from the highly organized December anti-trade protests in Seattle. [Ruckus Society Han SHAN, Washington Metropolitan police Department Chief Charles RAMSEY - outline their different aims and the level of organization among the protesters; offer differing opinions on demonstrations and discipline.]
#192031
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Carla Wohl) Scientific research on the blue whale featured; scenes shown from a "critter camera" attached to the back of a whale. [National Geographic Society John FRANCIS, marine biologist Terrie WILLIAMS - describe the huge size and the behavior of the whales.]
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