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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(Adams County, Iowa: Suzanne Malveaux) Derailment of an Amtrak train in southwest Iowa featured; scenes shown of the wreckage. [Two PASSENGERS - describe what happened.] [WOMAN - says she hauled off carloads of travellers.] [Rescue WORKER - describes the calmness at the scene.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(Pearl Harbor: George Lewis) The crucial testimony tomorrow by fire control technician Petty Office Patrick Seacrest at the Navy's court of inquiry into the collision of the submarine USS Greeneville with a Japanese fishing boat previewed. [Sub captain Commander Scott Waddle's lawyer Charles GITTINS - says the question of why Seacrest did not speak up is important.] The question of whether or not Waddle will be granted immunity to testify and Japan's call for the United States to raise the sunken ship noted. [University of Hawaii professor George TANABE - says the victims will not be at peace until their bodies are recovered.] [On Friday, WADDLE - offers no comment.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(White House: John Palmer) The state of the economy and President Bush's tax cut plan examined. [Senator Joseph LIEBERMAN - says Bush's tax plan is dead in the Senate.] [OMB director Mitchell DANIELS - says the Democrats will move towards Bush's position.] [Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Byron WIEN, Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation Tom GALVIN - assess the economic slowdown.] The expectation that Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan will lower interest rates to stimulate growth noted. [Goldman Sachs Group, Incorporated, Abby COHEN - talks about interest rates.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Joe Johns) The Congressional debate over campaign finance reform featured; details given of the McCain-Feingold proposals. [Senators Russell FEINGOLD, John McCAIN - talk about their bill's chances.] [Republican Senator Mitch McCONNELL - criticizes the bill.] [Senator John BREAUX - comments.] [Reform supporter Doris "Granny D" HADDOCK - says elections are being bought.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) The election reform firestorm on the state level following campaign 2000 noted.
(Washington: Norah O'Donnell) The push for election reform featured; details given of proposed legislation in Georgia and of various proposed reforms. [Georgia secretary of state Cathy COX - says the bill aims at changing our system of elections.] [National Conference of State Legislatures Susan Parnas FREDERICK - comments on state reforms.] [center for Voting and Democracy Robert RICHIE - hopes for funds to aid the states' changes.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) The damage to the huge oil rig off the coast of Brazil from a series of explosions reported; scenes shown of the listing structure that could spill oil and fuel.
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(No location given: Soledad O'Brien) The changing times for the nuclear energy industry due to the energy shortages featured; scenes shown of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. [Cambridge Energy Research Association senior director Lawrence MAKOVICH - cites the industry's turnaround in the competitive power world.] [Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. president/CEO Ross BARKHURST - comments on recent low sales offers.] The current bidding war for the Vermont plant and high sales prices for other plants noted. [Entergy Nuclear Corporation senior vice president Randy HUTCHINSON - talks about the energy market.] The role of General Electric in designing and servicing nuclear power plants and the unsolved problem of disposing of nuclear waste noted. [Former nuclear worker New England Coalition Against Nuclear Pollution David PYLES - says we thought the battle against nuclear plants had been won.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(London: Ron Allen) The economic impact in Britain of the spread of hoof- and-mouth disease examined; details given of the effect of tourism and of drastic livestock slaughter plans. [Duke of Devonshire Andrew CAVENDISH, Prince CHARLES - comment.] [Farmer's union of Wales Phil OWENS, Leyland BRANFIELD - talk about the scenario of destroying the animals.]
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Death of singer/songwriter John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas reported.
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(Studio: John Seigenthaler) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Dana Lewis) The coming spectacular crash of the Russian Mir space station into the earth's atmosphere featured; details given and animation shown of the plans for Mir's "suicide." [Russian mission control engineer Nikolai ANFIMOV - says we hope Mir can be brought down safely.] [Space writer Yuri KURASH - calls this a "unique experiment."]
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