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(Studio: Aaron Brown) "Whip around the world" introduced.
(Houston: Ed Lavandera; White House: John King; Kandahar: Bill Hemmer) "NewsNight"'s major headlines previewed.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Tonight's stories previewed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Houston: Ed Lavandera) The start of the Houston murder trial for Andrea Yates, who drowned her five children, featured; scenes shown from the courtroom; Yates' 911 call played; details given of the issue of postpartum depression. [August 8, 2001, Harris County district attorney Charles ROSENTHAL - comments on the facts in the case.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The suicide plane flight by 15-year-old Charles Bishop into a building reviewed; scenes shown. [Journalism teacher Gabriella TERRY - talks about Bishop's goal.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(White House: John King) President Bush's promotion of his economic stimulus package featured. [BUSH - says the United States might have to run deficits in a time of war, national emergency and recession; says the question is how best to create jobs, but raising taxes would be a disaster.] Response from Representative Richard Gephardt to Bush's political charges quoted. The question of whether or not any Democrat is suggesting raising taxes discussed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Visit of a group of United States senators to Afghanistan to meet with Prime Minister Hamid Karzai noted.
(Kandahar: Bill Hemmer) United States air strikes in eastern Afghanistan where Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters might be trying to regroup reviewed. The operation to move terrorist prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, discussed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Yudofsky and victim's right advocate Dianne Clements about the question of Andrea Yates's responsibility for drowning her five children. [YUDOFSKY- talks about postpartum psychosis and the inability of sufferers to interpret reality; explains how mental illnesses are no different than physical illnesses.] [CLEMENTS - says the death penalty is appropriate if a jury finds her guilty.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The status of a state trial in Oklahoma for Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bomber Terry Nichols updated.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The murder trial in Atlanta for former Black Panther H. Rap Brown (aka Jamil Al-Amin) updated.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Islamabad, Pakistan: Ingrid Formanek) The problems faced by the media in Afghanistan from the bandits and warring militias, who extorted money and items from the journalists, examined; details given about the divisions within the interim government where allegiances are to tribes and not a central Afghan government.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Taped interview held with former Senator George McGovern about his adventures as a B-24 bomber pilot in World War II. [McGOVERN - recalls his first bombing flight in a war to the death; states that the B-24 was a difficult plane to fly; explains the experience of seeing fellow soldier incinerated; talks about Stephen Ambrose's book "The Wild Blue" about McGovern and his flight crew; says people are surprised that he was an opponent of the Vietnam War and a dedicated combat pilot in World War II; calls Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden a "bitter, twisted man" who hates Western civilization.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with cartoonist Scott Adams, who created Dilbert. [From San Francisco, ADAMS - talks about his experience working in a cubicle; comments on new New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's penchant for cubicle office space.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live conversation held with "mystery guest" fashion designer Joseph Abboud. [ABBOUD - talks about the significance of the retirement of designer Yves Saint Laurent; recounts his four "situations" with the FBI following September 11 because he is Middle Eastern.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) The origin of the name "Segment 7" noted. The question in New York City of what to do with Ground Zero introduced.
(New York: Garrick Utley) The issue of whether there should first be rebuilding or a memorial at the World Trade Center site examined. [New York City Redevelopment Board chairman John WHITEHEAD, tower victim's widow Monica IKEN, Van Alen Institution Raymond GASTIL - offer views on what should be done with the site.]
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Some pictures of Ground Zero shown.
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