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(Studio: Aaron Brown) "The Whip" introduced.
(Washington: Jeanne Meserve; Pentagon: Jamie McIntyre; Miami: Susan Candiotti) "NewsNight"'s major headlines previewed.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Page two and a half: more stories previewed.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Various terrorism alert warnings cited.
(Washington: Jeanne Meserve) The story of veteran FBI agent Coleen Rowley's letter critical of the FBI's handling of the case of so-called "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui featured; details given of her thirteen page critique. [Senator Bob GRAHAM - says Rowley is risking her career with this explicit letter.] [Senate majority leader Tom DASCHLE - comments on ignoring information about Moussaoui.] FBI director Robert Mueller's request that the inspector general investigate noted.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with Time magazine Michael Weisskopf about Rowley's FBI letter. [From Washington, WEISSKOPF - says Rowley is her family's sole breadwinner and asked for whistle-blower protection in her letter to FBI director Robert Mueller; outlines Rowley's story of bureaucratic blocks and her point that more people in flight schools might have been arrested; suggests somewhere there should have been a synthesis process in the bureaucracy.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Jamie McIntyre) Pentagon investigation into the incident in Operation Anaconda in which American helicopters ran into Al Qaeda fire in the war in Taku Ghar, Afghanistan, on March 4 examined; photo shown; details given of the communications failure that led to deaths. ["Washington Post" reporter Bradley GRAHAM - describe what happened when the helicopter was hit; raise the issue of an early evacuation to save the life of Jason Cunningham.] [US Central Command Gen. Tommy FRANKS - says combat is a dirty, deadly business.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Miami: Susan Candiotti) The case in Florida of missing child Rilya Wilson, who was lost in the state's foster care system, featured; April 25 letter from Florida department of children and families Miami district administrator Charles Auslander expressing concern quoted. [May 6, Rilya's caretaker Geralyn GRAHAM, Judge Cindy LEDERMAN - comment on Rilya's case.] The troubled background of Rilya's family outlined. [Possible father Manville CASH - comments.] Documents in the case just released by the court shown.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" reporter Meg Kissinger about the story of Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who is accused of sexual abuse. [From Milwaukee, WI, KISSINGER - says victim Paul Marcoux is now claiming he was date raped by Weakland; outlines what the Catholic church is saying about payments in the Weakland-Marcoux case.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) President and Laura Bush shown visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia. Russian news coverage of the Bush- Putin meeting shown with NTV reports translated.
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Coming memorials to the events of September 11 noted; excerpts shown from an HBO film about 9/11 and the World Trade Center.
(Studio: Aaron Brown) Live interview held with former NYPD police commissioner Bernard Kerik. [KERIK - agrees the film about 9/11 should not be sanitized; indicates the nation wants to know what happened, so the history needs to be understood; explains how he learned about the planes striking the WTC, the sound outside at the towers fell, the end of the first day at Ground Zero.]
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(Studio: Aaron Brown) Report introduced.
(Indianapolis: Dwight Collins) Report from the Indianapolis 500 motor speedway presented; scenes shown of drivers and the teams. [Dreyer and Reinbold driver Robbie BUHL, Marlboro team Penske drivers Gil de FERRAN, Helio CASTRONEVES - talk about readying for the race.]
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