This program is 26 minutes long
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Seattle: Neal Karlinsky) Helicopter crash on Mt. Hood, OR, during a mountain rescue operation featured; scenes shown of the chopper going down and of the climbers. [Clackamus County sheriff's department Angela BLANCHARD - comments on the rescue effort.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Problems for mountain climbers on Mount Rainier in Washington noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: George Stephanopoulos) The closing of the work at Ground Zero featured; scenes shown of the ceremonies at the World Trade Center site in New York City; details given of the goal of a new neighborhood including a shrine for the dead. [Victim's widow Marian FONTANA - says body parts was found on the PATH train tracks.] [Lower Manhattan Development Corp. president Lou TOMSON - says there is a consensus for a memorial.] [Victim's father Tom ROGET - says there is no plan.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pierre Thomas) Announcement by Attorney General John Ashcroft of new guidelines for the operation of the FBI featured. [ASHCROFT - says the FBI feels frustrated by internal restrictions, which give advantages to terrorism.] [President BUSH - says the FBI needs to change to protect America.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Announcement of Customs' searches of cargo containers bound for the US at their point of origin; the end of the search for bodies at the Oklahoma bridge that was hit by a barge and a Journal of the American Medical Assn. study on nursing reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Announcement that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will to go to India and Pakistan to try to avert a nuclear war reported. [President BUSH - says war will not serve their interests.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings; Pentagon: John McWethy) The reasons for the delay in sending Rumsfeld to deal with the India-Pakistan region and what the US will do discussed.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Pakistan about moving its troops from the Afghanistan border to the India border noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Raid by British forces at Khost, Afghanistan, where weapons were found; UN report on the number of refugees who have returned to Afghanistan and a protest by Venice, Italy, gondoliers against street vendors reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Dean Reynolds) The question of increased security versus privacy issues with the reorganization of the FBI to give it more spying power examined. [On the street, two MEN; ABCNews polling director Gary LANGER, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Hussein IBISH - comment on the public's view.] [ACLU Laura MURPHY - says this is part of an FBI push for unfettered investigative powers.] [FBI director Robert MUELLER - says we need to conform to the Constitution.] [Associate attorney general John SCHMIDT - says this is a diversionary tactic.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Further coverage of surveillance versus civil liberties on ABCNews.com noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Cynthia McFadden) The culture clash in Pennsylvania between the state government and the Amish featured; details given about the orange triangle reflector for their horse-drawn buggies and the legal question of freedom of religion. [Posie College sociologist professor Donald KRAYBILL - cites the amenities the Amish don't have.] [Columbia County assistant district attorney Heath LONG - says the concern is about a rear- end accident.] [Amish defense attorney John CAMP - says the orange triangle is antithetical to their Amish beliefs.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The victory in the National Spelling Bee by Pratyush Buddiga reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Niland, CA: Judy Muller) California artist Leonard Knight, who for 17 years has been transforming a hill into "Salvation Mountain," featured; scenes shown from Niland, CA, desert of his terraced-hill creation made of sculpted adobe. [KNIGHT - speaks about his simple message of "love."] [WOMAN - praises Knight as a visionary artist.]
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