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#763874
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The refusal of Joseph Smith, who was arrested in Sarasota, Florida, for the abduction of Carlie Brucia, to cooperate with police noted; photograph of Smith shown. [Brucia’s mother Susan SCHORPEN†- asks the media for help.]
(Sarasota, Florida: Orlando Salinas) The profile and police interrogation of Smith featured; details given on the progress of the investigation, the help that the police have been getting from citizens, and the police search of Smith’s house for evidence; scenes shown to illustrate to police investigation across Sarasota. [Sarasota County Sheriff Bill BALKWILL†- comments on Smith.]
#763875
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The news that Senator John McCain will be placed on the commission to investigate pre-war intelligence on Iraq reported.
(Studio: Shepard Smith) CIA director George Tenet’s speech at Georgetown University where he gave his defense of pre-war intelligence on Iraq noted. [TENET†- comments on intelligence.]
(White House: Jim Angle) Tenet’s defense of the intelligence President Bush used to justify the war with Iraq featured. [TENET†- recalls the information the US received from a spy from a “friendly country” and the attempt by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to produce a nuclear device.]
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The Senate intelligence committee’s review of the draft of their report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq noted.
(Washington: Mike Emanuel) The Senate intelligence committee’s report on pre-war intelligence featured; details given about the findings and reaction to the report. [Senator Jay ROCKEFELLER†- claims the need for Congress and the White House to admit they were wrong on certain issues.] [Senator Pat ROBERTS†- states that this isn’t the time to be beating up on the intelligence community.]
#763876
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The attempt by some Massachusetts lawmakers to find a way to postpone the ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court that clears the way for legal same-sex marriage noted.
#763877
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The acquittal in a German court of Abdelghani Mzoudi†, accused of helping the September 11 hijackers, reported; scenes show from the trial in Hamburg, Germany.
#763878
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The reopening of the Senate building after the ricin scare reported.
#763881
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The campaign stops of Howard Dean and Senator John Kerry noted. [DEAN – tells a reporter that he will not bow out because he wants to change the country and challenges Senator John Kerry’s use of special interest money.]
(Chicago: Carl Cameron) The announcement that Representative Richard Gephardt will endorse Kerry and Dean’s statement that if he loses the Democratic primary in Wisconsin he is out of the race featured; details given about General Wesley Clark’s missteps and Senator John Edwards’s hope to be the last candidate standing against Kerry reported; campaign scenes shown.
#763882
(Studio: Shepard Smith) President Bush’s visit to states that were just visited by Democratic candidates; the campaign stops of Senator John Edwards in Tennessee and Virginia; the decision by the Pentagon not to allow online voting this fall; the machine-gun like noise that interrupted a Washington, DC, prayer breakfast; and the California Democratic fund-raising event that was filled with entertainment stars reported; scenes shown.
#763885
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The government’s release of the first tape from inside the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reported; parts of the video shown.
#763886
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The snow and rain in the South and Midwest noted; scenes shown from Arkansas City, Kansas and Houston.
#763887
(Studio: Shepard Smith) A judge’s ruling that says the NFL’s football draft rule violates antitrust law and a prisoner who stripped during his court appearance reported; scenes shown of prisoner stripping.
#763888
(Studio: Shepard Smith) A van fire in the streets of Miami; a fire at a strip mall in Union City, New Jersey; a woman’s house that was flooded with crude oil in Longview, Texas; a Wisconsin college professor trying to set the world record for mileage on a treadmill noted; scenes shown.
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#763891
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.
(San Quentin, California: Claudia Cowan) The policies of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on crime and punishment featured; details given about the controversy surrounding his parole of some criminals convicted of murder. [Criminal Justice Legal Foundation’s Mike RUSHFORD†- comments.] [Amnesty International’s Kevin PALIERI†- protests against the use of the death penalty.]
#763893
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Steve Harrigan) The assassination attempt on Iraq’s Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani† featured; details given on the reported attack and the power that the ayatollah has.
#763894
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.
(New York City: Dagen McDowell) The cross-examination in the Martha Stewart trial of former broker’s assistant Douglas Faneuil about a coverup of her ImClone stock sale featured; details given about e-mails that Faneuil wrote about his contact with Stewart and his reasons for waiting this long to come forward; courtroom sketches shown.
#763895
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The death of a prosecution witness in the Scott Peterson murder trial noted.
#763896
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The report that Michael Jackson’s accuser’s mom spent time in a mental hospital noted.
#763897
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The third defense attorney to leave the Robert Blake murder case reported.
#763898
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The demand from prosecutors in the Phil Spector† murder trial for defense lawyers to turn over evidence reported.
#763900
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The calls for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to remove himself from a case over whether his friend, Vice President Dick Cheney, should make energy policy records public reported.
#763901
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The Department of Justice’s look into bribery claims involving Halliburton noted.
#763902
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Labor Department figures on retail, productivity, and unemployment noted.
#763904
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The progress of the Opportunity rover on its exploration of Mars noted; animation shown of the rover.
#763905
(Studio: Shepard Smith) A report that says Americans are eating more calories and carbohydrates than they did three decades ago and a study by New York Presbyterian Hospital that shows there might be a higher risk for lung cancer in female smokers noted.
#763908
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Anita Vogel) The controversy about Mexican kids crossing the US border daily to attend schools only to return home to Mexico after classes featured; details given over the outrage of certain parents and the reasons why the schools are looking the other way. [Southwest High School parent Al SIDES†- comments on the Mexicans’ “theft” of an education.]
#763909
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The offer from the Israeli deputy prime minister in Washington of a plan to withdraw from a settlement in the Gaza Strip and the police questioning of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on a possible case of bribery reported; scenes shown for the Gaza Strip.
#763910
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The pardon agreement by the Pakistani president to a nuclear scientist who admitted he sold nuclear weapons secrets to other countries reported; scenes shown from meeting in Rawalpindi†, Pakistan.
#763911
(Studio: Shepard Smith) A deadly stampede at a festival in Beijing, China, reported; scenes shown of the aftermath.
#763912
(Studio: Shepard Smith) A gas leak at a downtown rail line in Sydney, Australia; a protest by Russian students in Latvia over a new law that makes schools teach only in Latvian; a lantern festival in Taiwan; and a competition of police women in Russia to be crowned “Miss Security” reported; scenes shown.
#763915
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The Georgia schoolboard’s decision to abandon the plans to remove the word “evolution” from curriculum reported.
#763916
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Report introduced.
(Nashville: Jonathan Serrie) The decision by the school board that students in Nashville, Tennessee, must have parental permission to have there names listed publicly featured; details given about the law that effects the ways that teachers can showcase student achievement without violating the student’s right to privacy. [Cumberland Elementary School Principal Renita PERKINS†- explains why she needs parental permission to display students’ names] [Tennessee Education Department’s Kim KARESH†- comments on the Tennessee policy.] [Southeastern Legal Foundation’s Todd YOUNG†- explains students’ rights.]
#763919
(Studio: Shepard Smith) The editing of part of the TV show “ER” by NBC; the report that Paris Hilton is in talks to host a beauty pageant; an update of “American Idol 3”; and a tongue-and-cheek story about the “Kennewick Man” noted; scenes shown.
#763920
(Studio: Shepard Smith) Quick notes about the casting of actors Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman to star in a movie remake of “Bewitched”, actor Jack Nicholson’s use of Viagra, the drug rehabilitation for singer Faith Evans, and this day in history noted; scenes shown.
#763921