Tonight, police of Maryland shot a
gunman who had taken hostages
in Discovery Channel as hundreds fled.
I amHarry Smith also tonight.
The latest on hurricane Earl, as it soon moves close
to the east coast. Residents start packing up
and moving inland.
Pressure bill Meridia is a popular weight loss drug.
After a new study says, it can raise the risk of heart attack.
In New Warkes, new democracy gets some lesson
from the country with more than 2 century experience.
From CBS news, world headquarter in New York.
This is the CBS evening news with Katie Couric.
Good evening, Katie is off tonight.
With beginning, a real live drama at the Discovery Channel.
A man who reported had a history
of issue with the cable network programming.
At headquarter of Discovery channel Washington D.C. today,
waving a gun and taking hostage
Hundreds of others fled the
building as police negotiated
with the gunman but after
several hours of talks, police
shot and killed him because
they say the lives of hostages
were in jeopardy.
It all played out in Silver Spring, Maryland.
CBS news corresponder Wyatt Andrews is there.
It was tense out here for a few
hours, but it's pretty much over
now.
The man who took those hostages
for several hours was shot and
killed by police.
All of the hostages are safe.
But because some kind of
explosive device went off during
the police rescue, police are
still searching discovery
headquarters for any possible
remaining explosives.
For discovery's employees, the
first alert came by mass e-mail.
"there may be an armed gunman,"
It warned.
"proceed to a locked office
immediately."
>> It just said there was a bad
situation going on, just stay in
your office and lock it.
>> When police then
ordered a mass evacuation,
Almost all of discovery's 1,900
workers and all of the
children in the building's day
care center streamed on to the
streets.
>> Did everybody get out?
All the kids?
>> All the kids did, yes.
>>All of the children
were there, but the assailant
was holding three workers at
gunpoint. We have an onging hostage situation.
>>The gunman was identified as 43 year old
James Lee, a man with long and quirky history of
protest against Discovery. In an anti-cropper protest
2 years ago, Lee was arrested while throwing cash
outside of the Discovery office. He said he ….
moved to save the planet, partly by elgo documetary
an inconvenient truth.
But Lee's web site,
savetheplanet.com, has become a
hodgepodge of anti-immigration,
anti-war and anti-population
rants where he rails against
giving birth to more filthy
human children."
He seemed especially upset by
Discovery health's broadcast
called "baby stories" which
celebrates the joys of pregnancy
and childbirth.
For several hours, Lee held his hostages.
While the police try to
learn in telephone negotiations
what he wanted.
But police also had trained a
camera on Lee, and when he drew
a handgun, they moved in.
>> Our tactical units move in.
They shot the suspect.
The suspect is deceased.
Lee’s first start
is when he walked into
Discovery headquarters wearing
two backpacks and some
containers, canisters that
witnesses told us look like pipe
bombs.
So police are still in there
searching, trying to learn if
those packs and canisters are,
indeed, explosive before they
can sound the all-clear..
Harry?
>> Wyatt Andrews outside
Discovery headquarters tonight.
Thanks.Other big story is hurricane
Earl.
The governors of North Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland had declared statement
of emergency.
The storm moves closer and grows
stronger.
It is a category four again with
135 mile an hour winds and it
cuts an imposing image in the radar’s
photo from space. And the latest report
Earl is about 600 miles pass …
North Caroline
It could be here late
tomorrow or early Friday, then
roll up the east coast.
Hurricane watches and warnings
Earl ups far north as Cape Cod.
Good evening.
Despite a picture perfect beach
day here, some tourists and
locals alives most in this island spending packing up.
Because hurricane Earl wind and rain
could be close to this coast in 24 hours.
If it is without any doubt about
hurricane Earl power
close to .. should be raised.
The storm used at least $150
million in damage from the
Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico,
cut power to almost 200,000
homes and left 60,000 without
clean water.
>> The hurricane will impact the
coastal and offshore area within
the next 72 to 96 hours.
>> The coast guard is
warning ships to get out of the
way, with Earl now over open
water picking up speed and
strength and heading for a new
target: the U.S. Coast.
>> We've got a few more things
to do, and …
Bob in 1991 has the storm
Eastern seaboard.
That storm left 18 people dead
and $1.5 billion in destruction.
From New York to North Carolina,
relief supplies are being
stocked, and some areas are
under evacuation orders, like
The small island of Ocracoke,
North Carolina, population 800.
The only way off is by boat.
Today, tours locals
packed ferries for the mainland.
The … family is not
jumping to conclusions just yet.
While people all around them are
leaving, they are planning to
watch the storm from their vacation
home on island.
>> this is our 14th year here,
And I'm not read go up t
New York and get onto my routine
So, yeah.
>> So you're waiting
it out?
>> We're waiting it out.
We'll see.
People watching this may be like
"wow, famous last foolish
words."
But I don't know.
We'll be smart.
We'll leave if we have to.
>> Like many people,
They'll be watching the forecast
closely because a slight move to
the east or west could make a
big difference.
Harry?
>> Kelly Cobiella on the
North Carolina coast tonight.
Thank you.
David Bernard is chief
meteorologist at CBS 4 news in
Miami and our CBS news hurricane
consultant.
David, it's so interesting.
Yesterday, when we talked, it
was a four, went down to a
three.
It's back up to a four again.
Just how strong is Earl?
>> It's a powerful hurricane and
it is definitely this means business.
The ends this afternoon with
this hurricane, 135 miles per
hour, generating all kinds of
bad waves out there.
In fact, we had a buoy earlier
today recording a wave height of
50 feet.
Right now they're running
anywhere from 15 to 30 or 35
feet around what is a very large
hurricane in the southwest
Atlantic.
>> So wt are your best
ideas in terms of where this
storm is going to go?
>> One thing we can look at,
Harry, is we can actually look
at the computer models.
When we look at those models
tonight, most are continuing to
hug the coast or move to the
Northeast just to the east of
Cape Hatteras, maybe just to the
East of Cape Cod.
But, again, look how close they
all are to the coastline.
Just a couple of them are off to
the east.
The main story line here is,
It's just still too close to
call where this hurricane is
going to go.
>> So knowing what we
know, how is Earl, then, going
to affect the east coast?
>>What we can look at right now
Harry, is the probability of
tropical storm force winds If you see
a number of higher than 30%. There is
a very good likehood that your location
would at least the wind that strong.
And right now, tonight, anywhere
from Cape Hatteras to ..
Have very good chance to
have traffic storm formation.
Some place might be little more
worse.
Traffic with down this month new car
show room.
Americans worried about the
economy and dealers offering
fewer incentives.
G.M sales fall 25%
from last August of August last year.
Ford's were down 11%.
Ford says it will cut production
by 4,000 vehicles in the fall
But Chrysler sales go up 7%.
On wall street, news that
manufacturing is picking up
helped to send stock prices
sharply higher.
The Dowjones soared 254 points.
That’s the biggest gain in
nearly two months.
Wall street is watching two things very
closely their
calendar and congress.
The question is, will congress
allow the bush tax cuts to
expire for high-income earners
at the end of this year?
Here's business corresponder.
>> The recession hit
Dave Campbell's lumber yard in
Let the Bush tax cut expire, he says,
would come even deeper.
It would take more cash in our business that
less people we can hire it is a
big deal
Many economists agree hit economy
can't take right now.
>> I think if the tax cuts
expire for everybody, then we'll
be back in recession, no doubt.
It would be a huge policy
mistake.
>> While we extend middle-class
Tax cuts...
>> President Obama has
proposed extending the cuts for
individuals making less than
$200,000 and couples making less
Than $250,000.
But under his plan, the top two
income tax rates, now 33% and
35%, would revert to levels
before the bush administration
of 36 nearly to 40%.
What kind of impact would that have?
>> I mean it would actually
have, I think, a pretty
incremental impact.
The reason said by
David Zervos with company.
The top 3% of households
account for a quarter
of all personal spending.
>> the easier’s path is probably
of some sort of keep the strategy.
I would extend the tax cut
for everyone at least 2011.
Because the economy is so
fragile.
>>But extend
cuts for the wealthy would cost
$700 billion dollars over the next
decade, according to the
Congressional budget office.
Former fed chairman Allen who originally
support the Bush plan said we can no
longer afford it.
I’m very much in favor of tax
cuts, but not with borrowed
money.
>>But De Cabell,
whose taxes as a small business
owner would jump, says he needs
the money to invest and hire.
Leave us alone and let
us do our business and don't
worry about raising taxes at
this point.
>> A recent survey of
economists found about 56%
support extending the tax cut.
So do Replicants, Democrats hope to
bring up the issue before
November election.
Harry?
The reporter said
that bad economy is a big reason of a
number of illegal immigrants in this country
has dropped for the 1st time in two decade.
Security in Mexico boarder is another one.
Last year, there are about 11 million immigrants living
in US illegally. And it is million fewer than 2007
and 8% drop.
Fewer issues have dominated
the world attention as much as
the Mideast peace process.
Every American President since
Harry Truman has tried in vain
to work out a lasting peace
between Israel and the
Palestinians.
Today, President Obama open
new round of talks, but as
Senior White House correspondent
L Plante report hope once again
collided with reality.
President Obama
entry into the Treacherous
Thicket of middle east
peacemaking was marked by
bloodshed.
Four Israeli settlers gunned
down yesterday in the West bank
by Hamas, a Palestinians to pause peace talk.
>> Our goal is a two-stage solution
that ends the conflict and the show of the right
and the security of both Israel and the
Palestinians. Opening peace talk is
And Palestine
Mad abbas who condemned
the arrest of 150 members of
Hamas.
The president also met
separately with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and
Jordan's Ruler, King Abdullah.
The four main issues separating
Israel and the Palestinians have
been the same for decades: the
borders of a Palestinian state,
the Israeli security, Jerusalem
where Palestinians, too, can
Claim it as their capital and
refugees, whether Palestinians
have a right to return to lands
from which they were forced or
fled.
Now there is hope.
Cooperation between Israel and
the palestinian authority has
been improving.
For nine months there has been a
halt to Israeli settlement
construction.
But that moratorium expires on
September 26.
And unless there is a compromise
to extend it, the talks could
fail before they really begin.
>> The bar is set high and my
fear in the middle east, if it's
all or nothing, it's nothing.
But getting nothing really plays
into the hands of the radicals.
>> And now more than
ever, America, Israel, and the
Palestinians have a common
interest in peace, because the
radical Palestinians of Hamas
are funded by their common
enemy, Iran.
>> Bill Plante at the
White House tonight.
Thanks.
Now to Iraq.
U.S. Troops there have a new
mission, and today they got a
new commander.
General Ray Odierno was
succeeded by Loyd Austin who
now leads a force of 50,000
Americans whose primary task is
to train Iraqi soldiers.
Earlier, defense secretary
Robert Gates visited troops in
Ramadi, once an insurgent
stronghold.
Gates told reporters history
will judge whether the Iraq war
was worth fighting.
>> Even if the outcome is a good
one, from the standpoint of the
United States, it will always be
clouded by how it began.
>> Gates was referring,
of course, to the weapons of
mass destruction that Saddam
Hussein was believed to have
stockpiled but were never found.
Still ahead on the "CBS evening
News," they could be Iraq's best
hope: a generation that grew up
with war now determined to make
the future much brighter.
But up next, judging Meridia.
Do the benefits of this diet
pill outweigh the risks?
This month the FDA
would decide the fate
controversial diet pill of Meridia.
America 2nd most popular prescription diet drug.
Today New England Journal of Medicine
weighed in with a
Editorial calling it to be
pulled from the market after a
new study showed an increased
risk in heart attacks in some
patients.
Dr. Jon Lapook takes a closer
Look.
>> The unusually
critical editorial came as a
result of the largest long-term
study of Meridia.
Almost 10,000 overweight or
obese people with cardiovascular
disease or diabetes were
followed for three and a half
years.
The group taking meridia lost on
average about nine pounds but
had a 16% higher risk of
suffering a heart attack or
stroke.
The drug company Abbott told CBS
News there's already a label
warning the drug should not be
used in patients with known
cardiovascular disease.
But the editors of the new
England journal wrote that since
Meridia has a worrisome
cardiovascular risk profile,
It's difficult to discern a
credible rationale for keeping
this medication on the market.
Dr. Louis Erone is a weight loss
expert who advised Abbott.
>>Meridia has palyed a small but
significant role.
We use it when other types of
treatment don't work.
>> FDA committee
will meet in two weeks to decide
Meridia's fate, Harry?
>> The company says
there's already a warning label.
Isn't that enough?
>> Harry, the problem
is while it's true there's a
warning label and in this study
only patients with known
underlying cardiovascular
disease were at increased risk
for heart attack and stroke.
In the real world it's hard to
know exactly who those patients are.
Who is at increased risk for
cardiovascular disease?
About half of all patients who
die suddenly in heart attack
have no known history of heart
disease.
>> Jon Lapook, thank you
so much.
For more information, all you
need to do is go to our partner
in health news webmd.com and
search "weight loss drugs."
>> For a golfer, setting
the course on fire is usually a
good thing.
Not this time.
They weren't yelling "fore" but
"fire" last Saturday in Irvine,
California.
A golfer reportedly set off a
12-acre fire with one swing.
His club snagged a rock, causing
a spark that sent the bone-dry
ass up in flames.
Tony Blair's long-awaited memoir
is out tonight and it includes
the former British prime
Minister's take on some of the
famous and powerful.
President Bush: intelligent,
knew exactly what he wanted.
Blair's successor Gordon Grown:
A strange guy.
Princess Diana boyfriend Dodi
Fayed: a problem.
Blair who says he has no regrets
about going to war with Iraq is
donating the profits to a
charity for wounded soldiers.
Here in New York city, an
amazing end to a suicide
attempt.
A 22-year-old man jumped from an
apartment building yesterday,
plunged 39 floors and survived.
That's because of where he
landed-- in the backseat of a
Dodge charger.
He smashed through back
windshield and broke two legs.
Tonight he's in the hospital in
stable condition.
A second chance at life.
An interesting new study is out
about older people and their
tastes in news.
It finds that, given a choice,
people over age 50 prefer to
read negative news about young
adults rather than positive.
The authors of the study
speculate that in this youth-
Oriented culture, the negative
News helps boost the self-esteem
of the older folks.
The researchers also found out
that young adults don't like
reading about older people at
all.
We'll be right back.
>> Finally tonight, with
the end of U.S. combat
operations in Iraq, it's time to
fook ahead to the country's
future.
Seth Doane met some of Iraq's
next generation of leaders,
determined to chart a different
course for their homeland.
>> Growing up in iraq,
Hasan Talib's teenage years were
scarred by war.
Now he wants to help his country
heal and rebuild.
It's a mission that's brought
him all the way to the U.S.
Capitol to witness democracy in
action.
>> diversity will make us
stronger.
I think diversity is a good
thing for every country.
>> The challenge for
you to say how do we make that
work to our advantage in Iraq.
>> and we will make that work.
>> Hasan is one of
about 50 iraqi university
students invited to the U.S. for
a summer exchange program.
It's funded by the U.S. State
Department.
>> because effective team...
>> Through team
building workshops, leadership
training and community service
projects, a diverse group of
Iraqi Christians and Muslims,
Arabs and Kurds are brought
together to glimpse the
patchwork of American life.
A medical student was one of
500 to apply.
She says even the simplest
values she's observed here--
Like being on time-- could help
her country function more
smoothly.
Can 50 students coming here and
going back to Iraq really make a
difference?
>> yeah, we can make a
difference, because when you
tell your friends and your
friend is going to tell his
friend or her friend, it's just
like the circle is going to get
bigger and bigger.
>>Of course, the idea
of an exchange is that learning
goes both ways.
When you say "I'm an Iraqi,"
What's the reaction?
>> When they ask me, like, do
you go by camel to your
University, I'm like, I'm going
to be a dentist, I have my own
Car.
>> reporter: this next
Generation of Iraqi leaders say
They'll stay united back at
home.
After all, in the U.S. They've
seen a country made up of many
which can work together as one.
Seth Doane, CBS news,
Washington.
>> That's the "CBS
Evening news."
For Katie Couric, I'm harry
Smith.
I'll see you in the morning on
“The Early show."
Good night.
gunman who had taken hostages
in Discovery Channel as hundreds fled.
I amHarry Smith also tonight.
The latest on hurricane Earl, as it soon moves close
to the east coast. Residents start packing up
and moving inland.
Pressure bill Meridia is a popular weight loss drug.
After a new study says, it can raise the risk of heart attack.
In New Warkes, new democracy gets some lesson
from the country with more than 2 century experience.
From CBS news, world headquarter in New York.
This is the CBS evening news with Katie Couric.
Good evening, Katie is off tonight.
With beginning, a real live drama at the Discovery Channel.
A man who reported had a history
of issue with the cable network programming.
At headquarter of Discovery channel Washington D.C. today,
waving a gun and taking hostage
Hundreds of others fled the
building as police negotiated
with the gunman but after
several hours of talks, police
shot and killed him because
they say the lives of hostages
were in jeopardy.
It all played out in Silver Spring, Maryland.
CBS news corresponder Wyatt Andrews is there.
It was tense out here for a few
hours, but it's pretty much over
now.
The man who took those hostages
for several hours was shot and
killed by police.
All of the hostages are safe.
But because some kind of
explosive device went off during
the police rescue, police are
still searching discovery
headquarters for any possible
remaining explosives.
For discovery's employees, the
first alert came by mass e-mail.
"there may be an armed gunman,"
It warned.
"proceed to a locked office
immediately."
>> It just said there was a bad
situation going on, just stay in
your office and lock it.
>> When police then
ordered a mass evacuation,
Almost all of discovery's 1,900
workers and all of the
children in the building's day
care center streamed on to the
streets.
>> Did everybody get out?
All the kids?
>> All the kids did, yes.
>>All of the children
were there, but the assailant
was holding three workers at
gunpoint. We have an onging hostage situation.
>>The gunman was identified as 43 year old
James Lee, a man with long and quirky history of
protest against Discovery. In an anti-cropper protest
2 years ago, Lee was arrested while throwing cash
outside of the Discovery office. He said he ….
moved to save the planet, partly by elgo documetary
an inconvenient truth.
But Lee's web site,
savetheplanet.com, has become a
hodgepodge of anti-immigration,
anti-war and anti-population
rants where he rails against
giving birth to more filthy
human children."
He seemed especially upset by
Discovery health's broadcast
called "baby stories" which
celebrates the joys of pregnancy
and childbirth.
For several hours, Lee held his hostages.
While the police try to
learn in telephone negotiations
what he wanted.
But police also had trained a
camera on Lee, and when he drew
a handgun, they moved in.
>> Our tactical units move in.
They shot the suspect.
The suspect is deceased.
Lee’s first start
is when he walked into
Discovery headquarters wearing
two backpacks and some
containers, canisters that
witnesses told us look like pipe
bombs.
So police are still in there
searching, trying to learn if
those packs and canisters are,
indeed, explosive before they
can sound the all-clear..
Harry?
>> Wyatt Andrews outside
Discovery headquarters tonight.
Thanks.Other big story is hurricane
Earl.
The governors of North Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland had declared statement
of emergency.
The storm moves closer and grows
stronger.
It is a category four again with
135 mile an hour winds and it
cuts an imposing image in the radar’s
photo from space. And the latest report
Earl is about 600 miles pass …
North Caroline
It could be here late
tomorrow or early Friday, then
roll up the east coast.
Hurricane watches and warnings
Earl ups far north as Cape Cod.
Good evening.
Despite a picture perfect beach
day here, some tourists and
locals alives most in this island spending packing up.
Because hurricane Earl wind and rain
could be close to this coast in 24 hours.
If it is without any doubt about
hurricane Earl power
close to .. should be raised.
The storm used at least $150
million in damage from the
Virgin Islands to Puerto Rico,
cut power to almost 200,000
homes and left 60,000 without
clean water.
>> The hurricane will impact the
coastal and offshore area within
the next 72 to 96 hours.
>> The coast guard is
warning ships to get out of the
way, with Earl now over open
water picking up speed and
strength and heading for a new
target: the U.S. Coast.
>> We've got a few more things
to do, and …
Bob in 1991 has the storm
Eastern seaboard.
That storm left 18 people dead
and $1.5 billion in destruction.
From New York to North Carolina,
relief supplies are being
stocked, and some areas are
under evacuation orders, like
The small island of Ocracoke,
North Carolina, population 800.
The only way off is by boat.
Today, tours locals
packed ferries for the mainland.
The … family is not
jumping to conclusions just yet.
While people all around them are
leaving, they are planning to
watch the storm from their vacation
home on island.
>> this is our 14th year here,
And I'm not read go up t
New York and get onto my routine
So, yeah.
>> So you're waiting
it out?
>> We're waiting it out.
We'll see.
People watching this may be like
"wow, famous last foolish
words."
But I don't know.
We'll be smart.
We'll leave if we have to.
>> Like many people,
They'll be watching the forecast
closely because a slight move to
the east or west could make a
big difference.
Harry?
>> Kelly Cobiella on the
North Carolina coast tonight.
Thank you.
David Bernard is chief
meteorologist at CBS 4 news in
Miami and our CBS news hurricane
consultant.
David, it's so interesting.
Yesterday, when we talked, it
was a four, went down to a
three.
It's back up to a four again.
Just how strong is Earl?
>> It's a powerful hurricane and
it is definitely this means business.
The ends this afternoon with
this hurricane, 135 miles per
hour, generating all kinds of
bad waves out there.
In fact, we had a buoy earlier
today recording a wave height of
50 feet.
Right now they're running
anywhere from 15 to 30 or 35
feet around what is a very large
hurricane in the southwest
Atlantic.
>> So wt are your best
ideas in terms of where this
storm is going to go?
>> One thing we can look at,
Harry, is we can actually look
at the computer models.
When we look at those models
tonight, most are continuing to
hug the coast or move to the
Northeast just to the east of
Cape Hatteras, maybe just to the
East of Cape Cod.
But, again, look how close they
all are to the coastline.
Just a couple of them are off to
the east.
The main story line here is,
It's just still too close to
call where this hurricane is
going to go.
>> So knowing what we
know, how is Earl, then, going
to affect the east coast?
>>What we can look at right now
Harry, is the probability of
tropical storm force winds If you see
a number of higher than 30%. There is
a very good likehood that your location
would at least the wind that strong.
And right now, tonight, anywhere
from Cape Hatteras to ..
Have very good chance to
have traffic storm formation.
Some place might be little more
worse.
Traffic with down this month new car
show room.
Americans worried about the
economy and dealers offering
fewer incentives.
G.M sales fall 25%
from last August of August last year.
Ford's were down 11%.
Ford says it will cut production
by 4,000 vehicles in the fall
But Chrysler sales go up 7%.
On wall street, news that
manufacturing is picking up
helped to send stock prices
sharply higher.
The Dowjones soared 254 points.
That’s the biggest gain in
nearly two months.
Wall street is watching two things very
closely their
calendar and congress.
The question is, will congress
allow the bush tax cuts to
expire for high-income earners
at the end of this year?
Here's business corresponder.
>> The recession hit
Dave Campbell's lumber yard in
Let the Bush tax cut expire, he says,
would come even deeper.
It would take more cash in our business that
less people we can hire it is a
big deal
Many economists agree hit economy
can't take right now.
>> I think if the tax cuts
expire for everybody, then we'll
be back in recession, no doubt.
It would be a huge policy
mistake.
>> While we extend middle-class
Tax cuts...
>> President Obama has
proposed extending the cuts for
individuals making less than
$200,000 and couples making less
Than $250,000.
But under his plan, the top two
income tax rates, now 33% and
35%, would revert to levels
before the bush administration
of 36 nearly to 40%.
What kind of impact would that have?
>> I mean it would actually
have, I think, a pretty
incremental impact.
The reason said by
David Zervos with company.
The top 3% of households
account for a quarter
of all personal spending.
>> the easier’s path is probably
of some sort of keep the strategy.
I would extend the tax cut
for everyone at least 2011.
Because the economy is so
fragile.
>>But extend
cuts for the wealthy would cost
$700 billion dollars over the next
decade, according to the
Congressional budget office.
Former fed chairman Allen who originally
support the Bush plan said we can no
longer afford it.
I’m very much in favor of tax
cuts, but not with borrowed
money.
>>But De Cabell,
whose taxes as a small business
owner would jump, says he needs
the money to invest and hire.
Leave us alone and let
us do our business and don't
worry about raising taxes at
this point.
>> A recent survey of
economists found about 56%
support extending the tax cut.
So do Replicants, Democrats hope to
bring up the issue before
November election.
Harry?
The reporter said
that bad economy is a big reason of a
number of illegal immigrants in this country
has dropped for the 1st time in two decade.
Security in Mexico boarder is another one.
Last year, there are about 11 million immigrants living
in US illegally. And it is million fewer than 2007
and 8% drop.
Fewer issues have dominated
the world attention as much as
the Mideast peace process.
Every American President since
Harry Truman has tried in vain
to work out a lasting peace
between Israel and the
Palestinians.
Today, President Obama open
new round of talks, but as
Senior White House correspondent
L Plante report hope once again
collided with reality.
President Obama
entry into the Treacherous
Thicket of middle east
peacemaking was marked by
bloodshed.
Four Israeli settlers gunned
down yesterday in the West bank
by Hamas, a Palestinians to pause peace talk.
>> Our goal is a two-stage solution
that ends the conflict and the show of the right
and the security of both Israel and the
Palestinians. Opening peace talk is
And Palestine
Mad abbas who condemned
the arrest of 150 members of
Hamas.
The president also met
separately with Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak and
Jordan's Ruler, King Abdullah.
The four main issues separating
Israel and the Palestinians have
been the same for decades: the
borders of a Palestinian state,
the Israeli security, Jerusalem
where Palestinians, too, can
Claim it as their capital and
refugees, whether Palestinians
have a right to return to lands
from which they were forced or
fled.
Now there is hope.
Cooperation between Israel and
the palestinian authority has
been improving.
For nine months there has been a
halt to Israeli settlement
construction.
But that moratorium expires on
September 26.
And unless there is a compromise
to extend it, the talks could
fail before they really begin.
>> The bar is set high and my
fear in the middle east, if it's
all or nothing, it's nothing.
But getting nothing really plays
into the hands of the radicals.
>> And now more than
ever, America, Israel, and the
Palestinians have a common
interest in peace, because the
radical Palestinians of Hamas
are funded by their common
enemy, Iran.
>> Bill Plante at the
White House tonight.
Thanks.
Now to Iraq.
U.S. Troops there have a new
mission, and today they got a
new commander.
General Ray Odierno was
succeeded by Loyd Austin who
now leads a force of 50,000
Americans whose primary task is
to train Iraqi soldiers.
Earlier, defense secretary
Robert Gates visited troops in
Ramadi, once an insurgent
stronghold.
Gates told reporters history
will judge whether the Iraq war
was worth fighting.
>> Even if the outcome is a good
one, from the standpoint of the
United States, it will always be
clouded by how it began.
>> Gates was referring,
of course, to the weapons of
mass destruction that Saddam
Hussein was believed to have
stockpiled but were never found.
Still ahead on the "CBS evening
News," they could be Iraq's best
hope: a generation that grew up
with war now determined to make
the future much brighter.
But up next, judging Meridia.
Do the benefits of this diet
pill outweigh the risks?
This month the FDA
would decide the fate
controversial diet pill of Meridia.
America 2nd most popular prescription diet drug.
Today New England Journal of Medicine
weighed in with a
Editorial calling it to be
pulled from the market after a
new study showed an increased
risk in heart attacks in some
patients.
Dr. Jon Lapook takes a closer
Look.
>> The unusually
critical editorial came as a
result of the largest long-term
study of Meridia.
Almost 10,000 overweight or
obese people with cardiovascular
disease or diabetes were
followed for three and a half
years.
The group taking meridia lost on
average about nine pounds but
had a 16% higher risk of
suffering a heart attack or
stroke.
The drug company Abbott told CBS
News there's already a label
warning the drug should not be
used in patients with known
cardiovascular disease.
But the editors of the new
England journal wrote that since
Meridia has a worrisome
cardiovascular risk profile,
It's difficult to discern a
credible rationale for keeping
this medication on the market.
Dr. Louis Erone is a weight loss
expert who advised Abbott.
>>Meridia has palyed a small but
significant role.
We use it when other types of
treatment don't work.
>> FDA committee
will meet in two weeks to decide
Meridia's fate, Harry?
>> The company says
there's already a warning label.
Isn't that enough?
>> Harry, the problem
is while it's true there's a
warning label and in this study
only patients with known
underlying cardiovascular
disease were at increased risk
for heart attack and stroke.
In the real world it's hard to
know exactly who those patients are.
Who is at increased risk for
cardiovascular disease?
About half of all patients who
die suddenly in heart attack
have no known history of heart
disease.
>> Jon Lapook, thank you
so much.
For more information, all you
need to do is go to our partner
in health news webmd.com and
search "weight loss drugs."
>> For a golfer, setting
the course on fire is usually a
good thing.
Not this time.
They weren't yelling "fore" but
"fire" last Saturday in Irvine,
California.
A golfer reportedly set off a
12-acre fire with one swing.
His club snagged a rock, causing
a spark that sent the bone-dry
ass up in flames.
Tony Blair's long-awaited memoir
is out tonight and it includes
the former British prime
Minister's take on some of the
famous and powerful.
President Bush: intelligent,
knew exactly what he wanted.
Blair's successor Gordon Grown:
A strange guy.
Princess Diana boyfriend Dodi
Fayed: a problem.
Blair who says he has no regrets
about going to war with Iraq is
donating the profits to a
charity for wounded soldiers.
Here in New York city, an
amazing end to a suicide
attempt.
A 22-year-old man jumped from an
apartment building yesterday,
plunged 39 floors and survived.
That's because of where he
landed-- in the backseat of a
Dodge charger.
He smashed through back
windshield and broke two legs.
Tonight he's in the hospital in
stable condition.
A second chance at life.
An interesting new study is out
about older people and their
tastes in news.
It finds that, given a choice,
people over age 50 prefer to
read negative news about young
adults rather than positive.
The authors of the study
speculate that in this youth-
Oriented culture, the negative
News helps boost the self-esteem
of the older folks.
The researchers also found out
that young adults don't like
reading about older people at
all.
We'll be right back.
>> Finally tonight, with
the end of U.S. combat
operations in Iraq, it's time to
fook ahead to the country's
future.
Seth Doane met some of Iraq's
next generation of leaders,
determined to chart a different
course for their homeland.
>> Growing up in iraq,
Hasan Talib's teenage years were
scarred by war.
Now he wants to help his country
heal and rebuild.
It's a mission that's brought
him all the way to the U.S.
Capitol to witness democracy in
action.
>> diversity will make us
stronger.
I think diversity is a good
thing for every country.
>> The challenge for
you to say how do we make that
work to our advantage in Iraq.
>> and we will make that work.
>> Hasan is one of
about 50 iraqi university
students invited to the U.S. for
a summer exchange program.
It's funded by the U.S. State
Department.
>> because effective team...
>> Through team
building workshops, leadership
training and community service
projects, a diverse group of
Iraqi Christians and Muslims,
Arabs and Kurds are brought
together to glimpse the
patchwork of American life.
A medical student was one of
500 to apply.
She says even the simplest
values she's observed here--
Like being on time-- could help
her country function more
smoothly.
Can 50 students coming here and
going back to Iraq really make a
difference?
>> yeah, we can make a
difference, because when you
tell your friends and your
friend is going to tell his
friend or her friend, it's just
like the circle is going to get
bigger and bigger.
>>Of course, the idea
of an exchange is that learning
goes both ways.
When you say "I'm an Iraqi,"
What's the reaction?
>> When they ask me, like, do
you go by camel to your
University, I'm like, I'm going
to be a dentist, I have my own
Car.
>> reporter: this next
Generation of Iraqi leaders say
They'll stay united back at
home.
After all, in the U.S. They've
seen a country made up of many
which can work together as one.
Seth Doane, CBS news,
Washington.
>> That's the "CBS
Evening news."
For Katie Couric, I'm harry
Smith.
I'll see you in the morning on
“The Early show."
Good night.
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