This program is 27 minutes long
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NOTE: Intermittent local weather bulletins on screen after 5:35:40.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The changes in the Senate due to Senator James Jeffords' leaving the Republican Party introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Linda Douglass) The power shift examined; minority leader Senator Trent Lott's memo quoted. [LOTT - calls for a "war of ideas."] [Republican Senators Mitch McCONNELL, Olympia SNOWE - comment.] [Senator Tom DASCHLE - says bipartisanship is a requirement; lists the agenda.] [Senator Frank MURKOWSKI - cites the energy crisis.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Terry Moran) The reaction of the White House to the Senate changeover examined. [President BUSH - says we still can get things done.] [JEFFORDS - comments.] [White House Chief of Staff Andrew CARD - says the president has his agenda.] The renewed outreach from the president noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Civil Rights Commission report on the 2000 presidential election; vaccinations in northeast Ohio against meningitis; appeals court ruling that an FBI sharpshooter may be tried for the 1992 Ruby Ridge, ID, shooting; the startup of the National Council of Aging's Website to help seniors connect with government money and the findings of an ABC News/Washington Post poll on what people will do with a tax rebate reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings, Betsy Stark) Request from President Bush's administration for trade sanctions on overseas steel because the United States steel industry is in crisis discussed; details given of the problems with the world steel market.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon calling Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat a murder and liar reported.
(Jerusalem: Bob Woodruff) The transplant of Palestinian Mazen Joulani's heart into the body of Israeli Yigal Cohen featured. [Cardiologist Dr. Yaacov LAVIE - comments on Lavine's reaction.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) A curfew in Nepal following the massacre of the royal family and the declining supply of vodka in Russia reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Stark) Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash test study that found the Ford F-150 truck finished last examined; video shown. [Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Brian O'NEILL - says the F-150's "safety cage" compartment collapsed.] [F-150 owner John KENNEY - expresses concern.] [Ford Motor Company Jason VINES - defends the F-series.] ["Automotive News" publisher Kenneth CRAIN - says the F-150 will not be hurt in the marketplace.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) UN's 20th anniversary of the first published report about AIDS; National Cancer Institute report on death rates from cancer; President Bush's administration's plan to rate Medicare providers and government approval of the "lap band" to help people lose weight reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statistics on the stark differences between the border towns of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, cited.
(Juarez: Judy Muller) The tale of the two border towns featured; details given of the living conditions in Juarez and El Paso. [Juarez Mayor Gustavo ELIZONDO -(thru translator) cites the tax revenue from Ciudad Juarez.] [El Paso water utilities Ed ARCHULETA - says there is a crisis.] [Center for Inter-American Border Studies at UTEP professor Jon AMASTAE - says health care matters on both sides; comments on open borders.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Dan Harris) Best-selling author Nick Foley, who wrestled professionally under the name of Mankind, profiled; scenes shown of him wrestling. [FOLEY - jokes about his career; talks about his books; defends wrestling.]
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