This program is 27 minutes long
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(Minneapolis-St. Paul: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Terry Moran) Questions about what the White House knews about a potential terrorist attack before September 11 examined; details given about the August 6 memo that said Al Qaeda could attempt hijackings in the US and of FBI warnings about suspicious Arabs taking flight lessons in the US. [White House press secretary Ari FLEISCHER - says President Bush did not receive information about the use of airplanes as suicide missiles.] [National security adviser Condoleezza RICE - says there was a clear concern something was coming, but the information was generalized.] The question as to why it has taken so long for information about what the president knew to come out noted.
(Minneapolis-St. Paul: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Linda Douglass) The Democrats' questioning of Bush's handling of September 11 examined. [Representative Richard GEPHARDT - says we have to find out what the White House knew, when it knew it and what was done.] [Senate majority leader Tom DASCHLE - raises questions.] [Senators Carl LEVIN, Richard SHELBY - offer differing opinions on whether the Senate Intelligence Committee knew about references to possible hijackings.]
(Minneapolis-St. Paul: Peter Jennings) The coming final cleanup at Ground Zero in New York City noted; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Charles Gibson) Report introduced.
(Chandlerville, IL: Dean Reynolds) The rising rivers in the Midwest due to unrelenting rainstorms featured; scenes shown from the banks of the Sangamon River in Illinois and other flood areas. [Two PEOPLE - comment on the waters.]
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(Studio: Charles Gibson) Wildfire in Arizona; record bankruptcy filings; California court ruling that anti-abortion activists are making illegal death threats with fake wanted posters and new FDA labelling standards for over the counter drugs reported; scenes shown of the fire.
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(Studio: Charles Gibson) Report introduced.
(Miami: Jeffrey Kofman) Florida Governor Jeb Bush's public attempt to find out what went wrong with the state's foster care system featured; details given of the case of missing child Rilya Wilson and of more evidence that the missing children problem is widespread. [BUSH - says we will consider suggestions.] [August 2001, state child protection team psychologist George RAHAIM - says the system is worse than ever.] The fact of many reports on the foster care system and their recommendations reviewed. [1995 panelist University of South Florida Department of public health Dr. Charles MAHAN, Florida panel on child protection chairman David LAWRENCE - offer views on the process.]
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(Studio: Charles Gibson) The discovery in Pakistan of the body of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl; announcement by Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat of presidential and parliamentary elections and the destruction of a billion dollars worth of art stolen from France reported.
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(Studio: Charles Gibson) "Circulation" report on two studies on exercising and aging introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) The unique study on exercise and aging featured; details given about the 1966 fitness study of five college men that featured three weeks of total inactivity and of the current follow-up exercise study. [Fitness volunteer Kazmer LASZLO - recounts the original test and the current exercise plan.] [Dallas Presbyterian Hospital Dr. Benjamin LEVINE - explains the aging during bed rest; says recently we got the five men back to the work capacity when they were 20.]
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(Minneapolis-St. Paul: Peter Jennings) How development in Minnesota is endangering the environment featured; details given from the 1973 "Time" magazine cover story on the "good life" in the upper Midwest; scenes shown of Minnesota's lakes and wilderness. [University of Minnesota lake development researcher George OWNING - cites the national trend of relocating cities.] [Natural Resources Department's Carroll HENDERSON - says lakeshore building creates environmental problems for the wildlife and fisheries; states it is time for a wake-up call.] [From the air, chief conservation officer Dick STOLTMAN - cites the destruction of the environment.]
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