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Rescue teams are beginning to deploy along the gulf coast
in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Floodwater is still
rising in New Orleans, and the death count is expected to
number in the hundreds. From Houston, Smiley Maddox has
more.
In Iraq today U.S. warplanes launched three airstrikes
near the Syrian border. The military says it killed a
known Al Qaeda militant. A local hospital official says
at least 46 other people were killed as well. Meanwhile
insurgent attacks killed two Iraqi police colonels in
Baghdad and Kirkuk, and a suicide car bomber killed two
officers in a police patrol in Samarra. The U.S. military
is still holding a cameraman for the Reuters news agency,
two days after an incident in which U.S. troops shot and
killed his cameraman.
The Bush administration and Arab League diplomats are
urging Iraqis to amend the constitution that Shiite
negotiators have presented as a final offer. Prominent
Sunni leaders are calling on their followers to reject
the proposed constitution in an October 15 referendum,
citing measures that crack down on the Baath party and a
proposed federal system that could cut Sunnis off from
the nation's oil wealth.
A U.S. army whistleblower has announced she'll sue the
army for demoting her. Bunny Greenhouse, the army corps
of engineers' top contracting official, exposed contract
abuses involving Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown,
and Root.
In India, a coalition of Muslim organizations has come
together to speak out against growing problems of
discrimination. From New Delhi, Vinod K. Jose reports.
In what is being called the largest criminal tax case
ever filed, KPMG has admitted to helping its clients
evade billions of dollars in capital gains and income
taxes. The accounting firm brokered a deal to pay $456
million in fines, restitutions and penalties to keep the
Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service from
shutting it down. From the nation's capital, Wendy Wang
has more:
New census data shows the U.S. poverty rate rose for the
fourth year in a row during 2004. The number of people
living beneath the poverty line rose 1.1 million to 12.7
% of the population. This despite the fact that the
economy has been in a recovery since 2001--analysts say
that's because rising inequality is leaving low-income
Americans worse off. Chris Tilley is a professor of
regional economic and social development at the
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
Tilley: "Wages are stagnating. The kinds of income
support programs that we used to have--at least up until
the 1990s--are gone. The minimum wage is at a level we
haven't seen consistently since the 1950s-it's that low
once you control for inflation. So all the things that
might help people get ahead are not really helping them
at this point."
The census data also shows the number of people without
health insurance grew by 800,000, but did not increase as
a percentage of the population.
Features
Growing Opposition Towards John Roberts Nomination to
Supreme Court (3:21)
Liberal advocacy group Alliance for Justice and the
disability rights group A.D.A. Watch added their names to
the growing list of groups opposing the nomination of
John Roberts to the Supreme Court today. Both the NAACP
and the National Women's Law Center are expected to
announce similar positions tomorrow. The organizations
join several other groups who have also announced their
opposition to Roberts, including the gay rights group
Human Rights Campaign, the Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights and NARAL. The announcements come just one week
short of Roberts' confirmation hearing. Mitch Jeserich
has more from Washington.
Luis Posadas Carriles' Immigration Case (3:00)
The immigration hearing of alleged terrorist and former
CIA agent, Luis Posada Carriles continues in El Paso,
Texas today. Posada Carriles has been under detention
since May after he was apprehended while attempting to
leave the United States. He escaped from a Venezuelan
prison in 1985 while awaiting sentencing after being
tried by a civilian court for masterminding the bombing
of a Cuban airliner in 1976 that killed 73 people. On
Monday, Judge William Lee Abbott agreed that if deported,
Posada Carriles will be sent to Venezuela. FSRN's Dolores
M. Bernal attended the immigration hearings, where
several protestors rallied outside the immigration
courthouse to demand Posada Carriles' extradition to
Caracas.
Philippines President Faces Possible Impeachment (2:34)
A bid to impeach Philippines President Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo headed for defeat in the House of Representatives
after opposition lawmakers walked out of the hearings.
Arroyo's opponents vow to take the fight to the streets
if her allies succeed in blocking the efforts to unseat
her. Girlie Linao reports from Manila.
A New Wave of Haitian Massacres Ahead of Presidential
Elections (4:04)
A bloody crackdown carried out by police and machete-
wielding civilians in Haiti at a U.S.-government
sponsored event is fueling fears of state-sponsored
terror as presidential balloting in November draws near.
The killings appear to be a new and more terrifying
tactic employed by the Haitian national police, which has
been accused of summary executions and other human rights
abuses in the poor neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince since
interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue assumed office in
March 2004. No police officer has been brought to justice
for these crimes and a United Nations peacekeeping
mission mandated with protecting human rights has done
little to investigate alleged violations. Reed Lindsay
reports from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(LEFT) Nesly Devla, 20, showing a three-inch long
stitched-together gash
on his forehead and another on his hand as evidence of a
narrow escape after
being struck with a machete outside the "Play for Peace"
soccer match.
(RIGHT) Outside the house of Luckner Innocent, a resident
of the
Port-au-Prince slum of Grand Ravine, who went to the
"Play for Peace" soccer
match with his 21-year-old nephew Wasnay Alcidas and two
days later found
him at the morgue. Innocent said Alcidas had been shot
six times in the
stomach and hacked with a machete.
More African Immigrants Dead in New Paris Housing Blaze
(4:35)
A fire in a Paris tenement killed seven African
immigrants - including one child, last night. It's the
second such tragedy in four days.17 Africans, 14 of them
children, were killed when the building they were living
in went up in flames last Friday, leaving about 110
survivors. Last night's fire struck a building housing 40
people from the West African country of Cte d'Ivoire.
Both blazes seem to have been the result of the rundown
buildings and have led some to consider the way France's
housing policy affects its immigrants. Tony Cross reports
from Paris.
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