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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Washington: Steve Centanni) President Bush's address from the Oval Office reviewed; details given on his acknowledgement of a secret domestic spying program, his defense of the program, his criticism of the "New York Times" and "Washington Post" for printing the information, and Bush drawing fire in Congress. [BUSH – says the program is crucial to national security.] [Voice of Senator Russ FEINGOLD†- says this isn't how democracy is supposed to work.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Last-minute negotiations in Congress before the holiday break reviewed; details given on the bills lawmakers are working on, the House's approval of another 29 billion dollars for Hurricane Katrina relief, and a measure passed to build a fence along parts of the US-Mexico border.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Vice President Dick Cheney's departure on a 5-day trip to visit US allies in the war on terror noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The easing of security in Iraq after the elections noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Washington: Catherine Herridge) Violent clashes in Hong Kong, China, during the ongoing protests of the World Trade Organization {WTO} meeting there reported; details given on demonstrators storming the convention center, and the WTO's progress in lowering trade barriers; scenes shown of the riots and the largely unaffected meeting.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The judge's postponement of the decision on whether or not to separate the criminal charges against Representative Tom DeLay noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The capture in Memphis, Tennessee, of Peter Braunstein††, a New York City man suspected of posing as a firefighter and molesting a woman for hours, reviewed.
(New York City: Rick Leventhal) The bloody end to yesterday's capture featured; details given on Braunstein stabbing himself several times in the neck. [Eyewitness Wesley GIFFORD†- describes the confrontation.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Tonight's stories: The theft of a Christmas tree from a grave in an Arkansas cemetery; a mobile home fire snapping power lines in Arizona; the crash of a small plane during a training flight in Florida; the construction of the world's longest drinking straw chain in Utah.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Last week's accident at Chicago Midway airport involving a Southwest Airlines jet that skidded off a runway and into the street where it trapped a car reviewed. [Crash victim Moses GALINDO†- describes the ordeal.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Thursday's evacuation of a plane at the Burbank, California, airport reviewed; details given on a man's arrest for making a comment about a bomb.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) New York City transportation officials and the Transit Workers' Union still at the bargaining table over the workers' contracts reported; details given on a threatened strike if an agreement is not reached by midnight Monday.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Police's high-speed pursuit of a suspected car thief in California reported; scenes shown of the chase and the pursued driver's crashed car after he clipped a tractor-trailer.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Power outages across the Carolinas due to ice storms, and snow in Wisconsin noted.
(Fox Weather Center: Kristen Sullivan) Winter storm systems on the West coast tracked; national forecast noted; weather maps and data shown on screen.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Berkeley, California: Claudia Cowan) College football players at the University of California Berkeley doing Pilates to improve their game featured; details given on the benefits of Pilates to football; scenes shown of the players' workout. [Defensive end Scott KELLY†, defensive line coach Ken DELGADO†, Pilates instructor Joseph QUINN†- comment on the workout.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: David MacDougall) The situation in Iraq after the elections featured; details given on how the votes are counted, voter turnout, the Sunni Arab alliance's consideration of working with Shiites, and the loosening of security now that the elections are over; scenes shown of election celebrations across the country.
(Studio: Rick Folbaum) A German magazine's report that a kidnapped German aid worker may be alive and well, and lack of information on the other hostages noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The subpoenas to the Orleans Levee Board requiring all the board's records in the investigation of the levees' failure during Hurricane Katrina, the possibility that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld may claim legal privilege to prevent his e-mails on the Katrina response being entered into evidence, the possibility that Mississippi Senator Trent Lott may not run for re-election because of Katrina, and church leaders meeting in New Orleans about rebuilding noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The State Department's warning that Americans traveling in the Middle East or northern Africa may be terror targets noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Jerusalem: Jennifer Griffin) The European Union's loss of patience with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's inflammatory remarks about Israel and the Holocaust and its investigation of ways to sanction Iran featured; details given on Iranian clerics' agreement with Ahmadinejad; historical footage shown.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The U.N. investigation into Syria's role in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri updated; details given on the head investigator's statement to a newspaper that he believes Syria was behind the attack.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Australian police's tightening of security in hopes of preventing a repeat of last weekend's race & culture riots in and around Sydney reported.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(La Paz, Bolivia: Steve Harrigan) Concerns about tomorrow's presidential elections in Bolivia featured; details given on front-runner Evo Morales and his platform of anti-Americanism & legalization of the coca leaves used to make cocaine; scenes shown from open-air markets where coca leaves are sold. [MORALES†- {through translator} says we are the US's greatest nightmare.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) The death of award-winning columnist Jack Anderson noted; details reviewed of his career.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Volunteers in Baltimore, Maryland, getting a test vaccine for bird flu with a live culture noted.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Tonight's stories: Deadly flooding & landslides in Vietnam; record snowfall in China; a giant Christmas tree in St. Peter's square in the Vatican; a mass wedding in Peru.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Report introduced.
(Miami, Florida: Orlando Salinas) The question of whether Florida's manatees should lose their status as a protected species so waterfront developers can build in prime areas presented; details given on the species' recovery, and environmentalists' concerns that the herd will thin if regulations are relaxed. [National Marine Manufacturers Wade HOPPING†, Florida Audubon Society Pat ROSE†, Florida Fish & Wildlife Christy HUDAK†- offer varying views.]
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) Tonight's stories: Boxing legend Muhammad Ali's receipt of a major German peace prize; the surviving Beatles' lawsuit against their record company for 53 million dollars in royalties; singer Jessica Simpson's filing for divorce from husband Nick Lachey; actress Renee Zellweger's denial that she is dating ex-husband Kenny Chesney again; an arrest warrant for a paparazzo charged in an attack on actress Reese Witherspoon; "American Idol" runner-up Constantine Morales' sitcom in the works; actor Tom Cruise awarded the dubious "stinkiest diaper of the year" honor; pop icon Michael Jackson on the verge of losing his Sony catalog; the recreation of rock-n-roll king Elvis Presley's homecoming to Mississippi.
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(Studio: Rick Folbaum) On this day in history: 1903: The Wright Brothers took flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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