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| 00:00:08 | I'm gwen ifill.
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| 00:00:08 | President obama calls for a
bipartisan
solution or party politics?
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| 00:00:12 | >> Brown: And I'm jeffrey brown.
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| 00:00:13 | On the newshour tonight, we look
at the latest jockeying over
policy and power after some
conservatives rallied around
sarah palin at this weekend's
tea party convention.
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| 00:00:23 | >> Ifill: Then, nearly one month
after the quake hit, a report
from haiti on the ongoing
struggle for survival.
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| 00:00:30 | >> Brown: And ray suarez gets
two views on what it will take
to rebuild haiti's government.
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| 00:00:34 | >> Ifill: Making a list and
betty ann
bowser looks at one way to cut
health care costs.
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| 00:02:52 | >> Ifill: From left to right,
the national political scene was
in ferment today.
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| 00:02:56 | That followed president obama's
latest appeal for
bipartisanship, and sarah
palin's latest turn on the
national stage.
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| 00:03:07 | >> It didn't take much for
the president to draw a link
between the winter storm
that paralyzed the nation's
capitol this weekend and the
challenges facing his party.
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| 00:03:16 | >> We may be moving forward
against the prevailing winds,
sometimes maybe against a
blizzard.
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| 00:03:25 | But we're going to live up
to our responsibility to
lead.
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| 00:03:29 | >> Reporter: The political
blizzard the president told
loyal democrats meeting at a
washington hotel on saturday
was being engineered by
republicans.
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| 00:03:37 | The solution, heing
suggested the very next day,
was to invite gop leaders to
the white house later this
month to jump-start a
bipartisan health care
debate.
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| 00:03:48 | He said the televised
meeting patterned in part
after a republican session
he attended in baltimore
would solicit ideas.
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| 00:03:56 | Gop leaders said they would
accept the president's
invitation but any debate,
they suggested, must begin
from scratch.
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| 00:04:03 | The best way to start on
real bipartisan reform would
be to scrap those bills,
house republican leader john
boehner said in a statement.
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| 00:04:12 | >> Thank you dnc.
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| 00:04:14 | >> Reporter: It was a big
weekend for political
positioning as the president
was rallying his troops and
challenging republicans in
washington, a collection of
conservative activists were
stirring the political pot
in nashville.
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| 00:04:26 | >> Ladies and gentlemen,
sarah palin.
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| 00:04:29 | >> Reporter: The star of the
inaugural national tea party
convention was 2008 vice
presidential nominee sarah
palin who said democrats
have failed to keep promises.
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| 00:04:40 | >> How is that healthy
changey stuff working out
for you.
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| 00:04:45 | >> Reporter: Palin also told
fox news she has not ruled
out running for president in
2012.
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| 00:04:50 | >> I think that it would be
absurd to not consider what
it is that I can potentially
do to help our country.
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| 00:04:57 | I don't know if it's going
to be ever seeking a title,
though.
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| 00:05:00 | It may be just doing a darn
good job.
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| 00:05:06 | >> Reporter: Delegates paid
$600 each to attend the tea
party meeting.
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| 00:05:08 | The goal, organizers said,
is to raise money and help
elect conservatives to
congress in 2010 and to the
white house in 2012.
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| 00:05:17 | >> The tea party is less
defined as a grass roots yun
rising, a grassroots
movement.
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| 00:05:22 | It is not a political party
it is not the green party.
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| 00:05:24 | It is not the libertarian
party t is far younger, and
far less well organized than
either of those.
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| 00:05:29 | This is just a very loosely
affiliated group of people
coming together around the
idea that the government has
intruded too far into their
lives.
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| 00:05:40 | >> Reporter: I'm happy about
taxes, deficit spending and
big government, tea party
organizers that helped
candidates in massachusetts,
florida, nevada and other
states.
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| 00:05:50 | But for now, palin is the
closest thing the movement
has to being a national
political standard-bearer.
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| 00:05:57 | >> I think she speaks like
we do.
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| 00:05:59 | She thinks like we do.
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| 00:06:00 | She is a down to earth
person.
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| 00:06:03 | >> Reporter: The movement's
leaders made clear they are
taking aim at both
republicans and democrats.
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| 00:06:09 | >> BOTH MAJOR PARTY, THE Ds
AND THE Rs HAVE BOTH KIND OF
Locked their way in some
respect when the gop strays
from the planks and the
platforms, a people's
movement like the tea party
movement is invited in to
kind of hold these
politicians accountable
again and remind them of
their constitutional limits.
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| 00:06:27 | >> Reporter: The president's
olive branch strategy begins
tomorrow when lawmakers from
both partys arrived at the
white house for a previously
scheduled meeting on the
economy.
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| 00:06:38 | Here to help us sort through
this weekend's political news is
amy walter, editor-in-chief of
the "hotline," "national
journal's" daily briefing on
politics.
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| 00:06:45 | Let's take these two things
separately starting with the
president's announcement
about this televised health
care what, negotiation?
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| 00:06:51 | What this called.
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| 00:06:52 | >> I think it is a summit,
very fond of the word summit
at the white house these
days.
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| 00:06:59 | And you know, let's see what
this turns out to be.
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| 00:07:02 | Obviously you see already
republicans saying we're not
just going to start midway.
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| 00:07:06 | We have to start from
scratch.
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| 00:07:08 | Knowing full well that you
cannot start from scratch
and expect to get anything
done before the end of the
legislative session.
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| 00:07:13 | The president too in an
interesting position here
and the white house saying,
now for a few weeks, that
they want to make the
midterm election a choice
election between what
DEMOCRATS ARE PROPOSINGnd
What republicans are
proposing as opposed to a
referendum on the democratic
party.
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| 00:07:32 | >> Ifill: So these meeting
whether it be tomorrow's
meeting, or this big thing
ON FEBRUARY 25th, I GUESS,
Are they really about fixing
the problem or are they
about leaving the impression
that they are at least
talking to one another.
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| 00:07:45 | >> I think it is the latter.
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| 00:07:46 | I think political posturing
as you put in your piece is
probably the better way to
look at this.
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| 00:07:51 | Democrats hoping that voters
are going to look at the
ballot in 2010 and see not a
democratic party that failed
to deliver, but republicans
who stood in their way.
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| 00:08:00 | That is a very tough
argument to make when you
control everything in
washington and by big
margins.
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| 00:08:07 | >> Ifill: But on the health
care at least there is some
middle ground where they
could conceivably get
something done, isn't there.
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| 00:08:12 | >> Theoretically but how
much trouble have democrats
had with their own party.
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| 00:08:15 | I mean that has been the big
part of it too, was so much
of the negotiations were not
simply with republicans but
with democrats.
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| 00:08:21 | I think what is interesting
that president obama is
doing too is sort of setting
up congress as the bad guy
here, which is not
necessarily good for his
$c
now for the president to be
able to say let's ride
above-- rise above this,
let's get away from the
partisanship and sniping, we
know that in order to get
legislation passed, it's
going to still be not very
pretty when all is said and
done.
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| 00:08:45 | And congress already
suffering from very low
approval ratings.
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| 00:08:48 | It could make things even
worse for that party, and
his own party going into
2010.
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| 00:08:53 | >> Ifill: Isn't he also
speaking to his own party
saying I haven't completely
abandoned health care.
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| 00:08:57 | >> Well, that's right.
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| 00:08:59 | That, he is saying don't
worry, I'm to the going to
give up on this.
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| 00:09:02 | Democrats in 2010 terrified
that they are going to have
to run for re-election
without any tangible
evidence of major
legislation passing in the
middle of a recession.
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| 00:09:12 | They spent all this time and
energy on a health-care bill
that went nowhere.
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| 00:09:15 | They want to see something
happen.
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| 00:09:17 | Now in the end-- in the end
do we see that the president
reaches out, republicans say
we want all these changes,
the president says tas's not
acceptable, they say well,
that's not acceptable to us,
ultimately something passes,
that's just a very minor
fix.
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| 00:09:32 | Democrats able to at least
say we passed something.
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| 00:09:35 | It wasn't a total loss.
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| 00:09:36 | But the idea of a sweeping
change in health care seems
very unlikely.
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| 00:09:43 | >> Ifill: Let's talk to
something else and figure
out if it is sweeping as
well.
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| 00:09:46 | The political flip side, the
tea party convention this
weekend, was this the
beginning of making the tea
party movement an actual,
real, cohesive movement.
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| 00:09:55 | >> I think there is an
important distinction made
between a mood and a
movement.
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| 00:09:59 | There is a mood out there
that goes beyond this tea
party convention that sort
of permeaed both parties
and independents, as well,
which is frustration with
the status quo.
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| 00:10:09 | Frustration with business as
usual.
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| 00:10:10 | And what the tea party
movement had done is been
able to sort of capture that,
bring people together in the
hopes of channeling it to
electing their own
candidates or deposing
current incumbents.
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| 00:10:24 | We haven't seen quite yet if
they are able to do that.
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| 00:10:27 | They said they will put a
pact together, raise
something like $10 million
to target condition datas.
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| 00:10:31 | We know that activists say
that they are getting
involved in certain races.
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| 00:10:35 | But when you look
fundamentally at the people
who are running as these
so-called tea party can
dants you pointed to, scott
brown in massachusetts or in
florida, marco rubio running
against charlie crist, the
governor for the republican
nomination for senate, those
are all establishment
candidates.
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| 00:10:52 | Scott brown was in the
legislature for years, marco
rubio was at one time the
speaker of the house.
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| 00:10:57 | So these are not, these are
not people who have come
somehow out of the ether.
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| 00:11:00 | These are people who are
establishment candidates who
king up on the mood
and reworking their identity
to be an outsider.
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| 00:11:09 | >> Ifill: And sarah palin
was to the only the governor
of a big state, as she likes
to point out but also the
party's vice presidential
nominee which doesn't make
her an outsider.
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| 00:11:17 | >> Rit.
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| 00:11:17 | >> Ifill: But does she get
to be the leader of the
movement anyway.
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| 00:11:21 | >> And this is what is
happening in 2010.
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| 00:11:22 | What we are seeing are
candidates who are
recognizing the mood and
those candidates who aren't.
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| 00:11:27 | So if you recognize the mood
early and grab that change
mantle, that outsider mantle
even if you were an insider,
you are able to make
yourself look like an
outsider.
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| 00:11:36 | Governor rick perry in texas
is the perfect example.
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| 00:11:39 | He has been the longest
serving governor in texas
history.
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| 00:11:42 | He is running as the
outsider in his re-election
race because his opponent in
the primary is a sitting
united states senator.
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| 00:11:49 | And it is making washington
the bad guy as opposed to,
you know-- .
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| 00:11:55 | >> Ifill: The president is
making washington the bad
guy which is pretty easy to
do.
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| 00:11:58 | But does this mean that
sar-- does it matter, even,
whether sarah palin is
running for president or not
or is it just the platform
everybody wants to climb on
to right now?
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| 00:12:06 | >> Well, for her sake, it
does matter that she leaves
that impression out there
that she is looking to run
for president.
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| 00:12:13 | >> Ifill: Because.
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| 00:12:13 | >> Because no matter what
she wants to do next,
whether she runs or not, she
has a pretty good gig going.
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| 00:12:18 | I mean she is still bringing
in lots of attention to
herself.
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| 00:12:22 | She has her own analysis now,
I guess, slot on fox news.
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| 00:12:28 | She is able to bring in a
lot in speaking fees.
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| 00:12:30 | She's not going to be able
to do that if she is seen as
somebody who is not
particularly interested in
running again.
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| 00:12:36 | People want to see what she
does and want to see what
she says.
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| 00:12:40 | Now whether or not she is
able to translate this
support she's getting into
tangible support when it
comes to 2012, ie, is she
going to be able to organize
caucuses, is she going to be
able to raise money, is she
going to be able to do that
sort of grass roots stuff
that you need to do, that's
a whole other question aiz.
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| 00:13:03 | >> Ifill: Amy walter as
always you clear things up,
thank you very much.
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| 00:13:09 | >> An still to come on the
newshour, haiti after the
earthquake, checking for
safety in the operating room
and celebrating a big win in
the big easy.
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| 00:13:18 | >> But first the other you
news of the day.
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| 00:13:24 | Here's hari sreenivasan in our
newsroom.
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| 00:13:25 | >> Sreenivasan: Veteran
congressman john murtha died
today at a hospital in
arlington, virginia.
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| 00:13:28 | He had complications from
gall bladder surgery.
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| 00:13:32 | The pennsylvania democrat was a
marine corps officer in vietnam,
and was known as a democratic
hawk.
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| 00:13:35 | But in november of 2005, he
demanded president bush withdraw
u.s. troops from iraq.
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| 00:13:40 | >> This is a flawed policy,
wrapped in an illusion!
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| 00:13:45 | And the american public knows
it.
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| 00:13:47 | And lashing out at critics
doesn't help a bit.
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| 00:13:50 | You've got to change the policy.
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| 00:13:52 | That's what's going to help the
american people.
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| 00:13:55 | We need to change direction.
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| 00:13:58 | >> Sreenivasan: Murtha had been
in the house since 1974, and was
scrutinized a number of times
over ethical questions.
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| 00:14:02 | He was 77 years old.
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| 00:14:05 | The nation's capital and the
mid-atlantic region were still
snowbound today in the wake of
the weekend blizzard.
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| 00:14:12 | The snow closed down government,
schools, and roads, and
forecasters predicted even more
snow soon.
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| 00:14:23 | Across the region people
labored to dig out n
someplaces up to three feet
of snow.
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| 00:14:25 | Nearly 100,000 power
customers were still in the
dark.
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| 00:14:28 | And utility companies warned
it could be days before
electricity is fully
restored.
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| 00:14:33 | In washington alone federal
agencies that employ nearly
230,000 people were closed
as many roads remained
difficult if not dangerous
to drive.
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| 00:14:43 | >> The district didn't
really handle this very
well.
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| 00:14:45 | I men they didn't clean any
of the streets.
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| 00:14:47 | Haven't seen any trucks on
my street.
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| 00:14:49 | >> I'm from new hampshire so
this is nothing.
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| 00:14:52 | But october veysly the
damage, so the city has to
get itself back on its feet.
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| 00:15:00 | >> Reporter: Washington d.c.
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| 00:15:01 | Mayor add recent fenty said
the city was trying to do
just that and like officials
across maryland and virginia,
he urged patience.
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| 00:15:08 | >> Even though we are had
sun a the last couple of
days not a lot of paces the
snow could go.
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| 00:15:14 | And so we're working through
all those issuesment but
making no excuse to trying
to get the city open and
running, as quickly and fast
as humanly possible.
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| 00:15:26 | >> Reporter: Just how
quickly that happens was
critical for thousands of
students and teachers as
schools remained closed at
least through tuesday.
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| 00:15:35 | But major airports resumed
flights on a limited basis.
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| 00:15:39 | Amtrak also restored train
service with delays.
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| 00:15:41 | And washington subway system
was operated in a limited
capacity, aboveground
service for the metro was
suspended.
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| 00:15:48 | In the meantime, a new
winter storm warning is in
effect with as much as a
foot or more of new snow
expected to begin falling
tomorrow.
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| 00:15:59 | Washington has had nearly 45
inches of snow this winter, just
nine short of the record set in
1899.
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| 00:16:04 | And philadelphia may break its
record this week going back to
1884.
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| 00:16:09 | In contrast, there's not enough
snow in vancouver, canada, where
the winter olympics are set to
open on friday.
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| 00:16:14 | Workers have been using
helicopters and trucks to haul
snow to the sites of skiing and
snowboard competitions.
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| 00:16:21 | An avalanche killed at least 17
indian soldiers today at a
training center in the part of
kashmir controlled by india.
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| 00:16:28 | 17 Other soldiers were
critically wounded.
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| 00:16:30 | They'd been in the middle of ski
training exercises on the
himalayan slopes when the mass
of snow and ice swept them away.
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| 00:16:35 | More than 50 officers were
rescued six hours after the
avalanche.
|
| 00:16:41 | In ukraine, the opposition
leader claimed a narrow victory
in sunday's presidential
election.
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| 00:16:45 | Viktor yanukovich took a pro-
russian stance against the pro-
western government.
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| 00:16:50 | His opponent, prime minister
yulia tymoshenko, charged
election fraud, and threatened
to call out supporters.
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| 00:16:57 | In 2004, the presidential vote
results were thrown out after
yanukovich initially won.
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| 00:17:02 | But international monitors said
this year's election was an
"impressive display" of
democracy.
|
| 00:17:08 | Iran may have moved closer to
being able to produce a nuclear
warhead.
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| 00:17:12 | The country's top nuclear envoy
said today iran will begin
enriching uranium to higher
levels.
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| 00:17:19 | He insisted it's only to provide
fuel for research, not for
weapons.
|
| 00:17:24 | and france
said it's time to pursue new
sanctions.
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| 00:17:27 | Defense secretary robert gates
spoke in paris.
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| 00:17:34 | >> If iran continues and
develops nuclear weapons, it
almost certainly will
provoke nuclear
proliferation in the middle
east.
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| 00:17:43 | This is a huge danger.
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| 00:17:45 | The key is persuading the
iranian leaders that their
long-term best interests are
best served by not having
nuclear weapons.
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| 00:17:59 | >> Sreenivasan: On another
and the european
union also urged iran today to
live up to its international
human rights obligations.
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| 00:18:03 | There is fear of another
government crackdown later this
week, marking the founding of
the islamic republic.
|
| 00:18:09 | The death toll from an explosion
at a connecticut power plant
site should stand at five.
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| 00:18:13 | That was the word today from
state authorities on the scene
in middletown.
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| 00:18:17 | The blast erupted as workers
were testing natural gas lines,
but the exact cause remained
under investigation.
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| 00:18:23 | The power plant was under
construction.
|
| 00:18:26 | Wall street took another hit
today over new fears about
rising debt in europe.
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| 00:18:31 | The dow jones industrial average
lost 103 points to close at
9908, its first close below
10,000 since november.
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| 00:18:37 | The nasdaq fell 15 points to
finish at 2126.
|
| 00:18:42 | The former boss at merrill-lynch
will be the new chairman and
chief executive at c.i.t. group.
|
| 00:18:48 | John thain organized the sale of
merrill lynch to bank of america
in late 2008.
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| 00:18:53 | Later, he was forced out over
bonus payments to employees and
lavish renovations to his
office.
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| 00:18:57 | is a major lender to
small- and mid-sized companies.
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| 00:19:01 | It recently emerged from
bankruptcy reorganization.
|
| 00:19:04 | Michael jackson's personal
physician was charged today with
involuntary manslaughter.
|
| 00:19:09 | conrad murray is a
cardiologist.
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| 00:19:13 | He was with jackson when the pop
star died last june.
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| 00:19:16 | Prosecutors said murray acted
improperly by giving jackson
powerful sedatives to help him
sleep.
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| 00:19:21 | >> The doctor pled not
guilty at a court appearance.
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| 00:19:23 | Those are some of the day's main
stories.
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| 00:19:25 | I'll be back at the end of the
program with a preview of what
you'll find tonight on the
newshour's web site.
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| 00:19:28 | But for now, back to jeff.
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| 00:19:35 | >> Brown: Nearly four weeks
after the earthquake struck, aid
groups have launched a campaign
to vaccinate more than 100,000
people against measles,
diphtheria, and tetanus.
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| 00:19:43 | But many quake victims still
aren't receiving enough food and
other aid.
|
| 00:19:45 | Emma murphy of independent
television news updates the
story from port-au-prince.
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| 00:19:52 | >> Risk their lives they
skaff age on rubble filled
trucks.
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| 00:20:00 | It is the steel from
destroyed buildings a
treasure to be fought over.
|
| 00:20:06 | We two men do battle, rock
and knife in hand.
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| 00:20:08 | They have lost so much.
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| 00:20:09 | They can't bare to lose any
more.
|
| 00:20:13 | For those who survived what
a life is left to need, 2
million displaced in
makeshift camps.
|
| 00:20:20 | Already some of the injured
are back in their shacks as
everyone tries to adjust to
their new existence.
|
| 00:20:29 | Aid is getting through but
it's slow.
|
| 00:20:31 | This woman shows us the bag
of rice she has to feed
three families.
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| 00:20:35 | It's only just arrived.
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| 00:20:38 | In the same camp others have
received nothing.
|
| 00:20:43 | They are hungry and
desperate for help.
|
| 00:20:45 | This woman's grandchild is
now anemic and very weak.
|
| 00:20:50 | There is food on the street
but it's too expensive for
most so they cue for hours
for hand outs.
|
| 00:20:55 | >> No one is more frustrated
than ourselves that we face
such massive challenges in
getting food out.
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| 00:21:02 | But we are moving that food
now.
|
| 00:21:04 | We are looking to get up to
160,000 people a day and we
are very close to that now.
|
| 00:21:13 | >> These are the elderly
people itv reported after
the earth qa quake.
|
| 00:21:22 | They are settled in aid
tents but what a way to
spend your latter years,
frightened, displaced,
disorientated.
|
| 00:21:31 | The many are trying to
jostle for position at the
immigration office for a
passport out.
|
| 00:21:37 | The street signs say all,
written for english for the
western world to understand.
|
| 00:21:42 | >> And ray suarez continues
our haiti coverage with a
look at the government and
its rebuilding efforts.
|
| 00:21:48 | >> Suarez: For that we get
two few, we have an
associate professor of
political science at the
university of missouri in
St. LOUIS.
|
| 00:21:57 | Born and raised in
port-au-prince, he is an
american citizen.
|
| 00:22:01 | And the director of the
international security and
defense policy center at the
rand corporation, a career
diplomat until 20023, he
served as the clinton
administration's special
envoy to haiti in the mid
1990s.
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| 00:22:14 | Professor, there is a group
of elected and appointed
officials in port-au-prince
who call themselves the
government of the republic
of haiti.
|
| 00:22:22 | Are they in charge of the
country in any meaningful
way.
|
| 00:22:25 | And what should they be
doing in the near term?
|
| 00:22:27 | >> Well, I'm not sure that
they are in charge of haiti
in any meaningful way.
|
| 00:22:37 | But certainly there needs to
be haitians in charge of the
country.
|
| 00:22:44 | It's very clear from what
has been happening since the
earthquake that the haitian
government is unable to
function for understandable
reasons.
|
| 00:22:56 | The structures of the
haitian state were destroyed.
|
| 00:23:01 | But even before the
earthquake haiti was known
as a fragile and less
admitted failed city.
|
| 00:23:12 | The destruction of january
12th, 2010, WAS CERTAINLY
Caused by nature, but the
scale of the destruction
speaks to generations, if
not centuries of ineffectual
government.
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| 00:23:26 | So therefore more than ever
haiti now needs a working
government.
|
| 00:23:32 | >> Suarez: Ambassador, how
do you do that, mix the
people's choice.
|
| 00:23:36 | I mean there is an elected
set of office holders there,
with the need to coordinate
massive aid inflows and the
need to getgoing right away.
|
| 00:23:46 | >> Well, I think you have to
separate the humanitarian
phase from the
reconstruction phase, at
least intellectually.
|
| 00:23:55 | The humanitarian is
something foreigners will do
for haitians.
|
| 00:23:58 | Hundreds, maybe thousands of
nongovernmental
organizations, governments
and international
organizations have converged
on haiti and are providing
direct assistance in terms
of food, medicine, shelter
and water.
|
| 00:24:13 | But the reconstruction phase
is one that has to be done
with a much stronger haitian
participation.
|
| 00:24:20 | There has been a nation-building
operation under way in haiti
since 2004.
|
| 00:24:25 | And so there is a
PREEXISTING SET oPUQ#ORMS
That have been outlined and
were in the process of being
implemented.
|
| 00:24:33 | And there is an
international structure, a
peacekeeping course,
representative of the u.n.
|
| 00:24:39 | Secretary-general whose's
the most senior
international official on
the island.
|
| 00:24:43 | And now we have a much
greater american role,
participation and support.
|
| 00:24:49 | This all has to be accord
nighted and-- all has to be
coordinated and the focus of
the effort has to be not
just in brick and mortar an
construction but in
institutional reconstruction
so that in the end we have a
stronger haitian government.
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| 00:25:02 | So in the end the real
reconstruction project is a
project in state building.
|
| 00:25:07 | >> Suarez: When I was in
haiti recen
ambac-- ambassador, the
president told me that those
hundreds of thousands who
had fled to the countryside,
maybe it would be a good
idea if they stayed there.
|
| 00:25:18 | Another minister mentioned
places in the capitol that
should not be rebuilt to
discourage people from
coming back.
|
| 00:25:25 | But is there any local
haitian authority that can
make either of those things
happen?
|
| 00:25:31 | >> Well, there's a u.n.
|
| 00:25:34 | Peacekeeping force of about
10,000 troops and that's
being increased.
|
| 00:25:37 | There are a couple thousand
u.n. policemen.
|
| 00:25:39 | There are about 8 or 9,000
haitian policemen who have
recently been trained and
are actually doing rather
well before the earthquake.
|
| 00:25:46 | The international community
is going to have to provide
the resources.
|
| 00:25:50 | But to the extent they can
work with haitian
authorities to, for instance,
segregate areas of the city
which shouldn't be
repopulated until they can
be rebuilt, guide people to
the proper areas to set up
transient camps, those kinds
of things, they should do
so.
|
| 00:26:06 | I do think that the
international role needs to
be expanded.
|
| 00:26:09 | The secretary-general's
representative needs to be
given a greater authority
than he has had in the past.
|
| 00:26:15 | But we can't, we can't build
a haitian state by starting
off ignoring the haitian
government.
|
| 00:26:21 | There has to be some effort
to engage it, to support it,
and progssively to put
resources through it rather
than directly using american
or foreign nongovernmental
organizations.
|
| 00:26:33 | >> Suarez: Professor, how do
you do that?
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| 00:26:35 | How do you put enough
haitian authority and a
haitian face on the identity
of a reconstruction and at
the same time give the
international community the
chance to get in there and
do what needs to be done?
|
| 00:26:49 | >> Well, I have argued for a
joint trust.
|
| 00:26:54 | Now I realize that the word
trust has a bad history.
|
| 00:27:00 | But what I mean by that is a
partnership among the united
nations, haitians, and what
I would call a haiti
reconstruction authority.
|
| 00:27:14 | So this would really be a
joint effort because the
reconstruction of haiti
should not be expected to be
undertaken by the haitians
themselves.
|
| 00:27:24 | Because inside haiti the
resources are simply not
there.
|
| 00:27:29 | So the international
community along with haitians
will have to cooperate if
haiti is to be reconstructed.
|
| 00:27:36 | >> Suarez: Well, professor
is there an example of that
working in the recent past,
that the world can look to
as sort of a tool kit, a
model for what you are
suggesting for haiti?
|
| 00:27:46 | >> Well, I think what
happened in indonesia could
be a guide.
|
| 00:27:52 | There the international
community played an
important role in the
reconstruction of the area.
|
| 00:27:59 | But at the same time the
indonesian government was
not left standing on the
sideline.
|
| 00:28:05 | Now I realize that in
indonesia the central state
was not directly affected by
the tsunami.
|
| 00:28:12 | So it was left standing.
|
| 00:28:14 | But nevertheless, I think
that would be one of the
closest examples of
international cooperation
that might be applicable to
the haitian milieu.
|
| 00:28:24 | >> Suarez: How does that
sound to you, a haitian
reconstruction authority?
|
| 00:28:27 | >> I think that-- I think
some imagination should be
used to construct an
international haitian
partnership under these
circumstances.
|
| 00:28:34 | I would point out, though,
that while haiti is probably
suffered the most massive
natural disaster in recent
memory on a per capita basis,
there are other states that
and the natural
community have helped pull
back from failure that were
in even worse shape than
haiti, ciber ya, sierra
leone, both had decades-long
civil wars.
|
| 00:28:59 | They are even poore-- poorer
than haiti, had even less
competent governments than
haiti and they have both
been pulled back from the
brink and both have
functioning governments at
the moment.
|
| 00:29:09 | So there is a history and a
set of techniques that can
help in this kind of
situation.
|
| 00:29:16 | And I think that the extra
resources that haiti is now
going to have, and the fact
that the haitian system has
been so shocked, so
devastated may make it
easier to introduce some of
these reforms than had been
the case previously.
|
| 00:29:31 | >> Suarez: People have been
talking about five, ten and
twentyy years.
|
| 00:29:35 | Professor, quickly before we
go, does the international
community have enough of an
attention span with haiti to
be involved for that long?
|
| 00:29:42 | >> That's a very good
question, ray.
|
| 00:29:45 | I'm not sure about that.
|
| 00:29:47 | I think, I've written
elsewhere that the
reconstruction of haiti
which should not be only to
port-au-prince, by the way.
|
| 00:29:56 | Rural haiti needs as much
reconstruction as
port-au-prince.
|
| 00:30:00 | That effort will take at
least a generation or 20
years.
|
| 00:30:05 | I'm not sure that the
international community will
be willing to stay the
course.
|
| 00:30:11 | I hope that it does.
|
| 00:30:13 | >> Suarez: Professor,
ambassador, thank you
both.
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| 00:30:16 | >> Thank you.
|
| 00:30:17 | >> Thank you.
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| 00:30:24 | >> Ifill: Next, a simple fix for
cutting health care costs and
saving lives.
|
| 00:30:28 | Newshour health correspondent
betty ann bowser explains.
|
| 00:30:36 | >> He no known drug
allergies,.
|
| 00:30:39 | >> Reporter: A 50-year-old
man is about to undergo
emergency surgery at brigham
and women's hospital if
boston for a dangerous
infection in an artery in
his leg.
|
| 00:30:49 | >> Big breaths, in and out.
|
| 00:30:51 | That's great.
|
| 00:30:53 | >> Reporter: He's surrounded
by technology and highly
skilled doctors and nurses
who spent years training for
their profession.
|
| 00:31:00 | >> Doing great.
|
| 00:31:01 | >> Reporter: But they're
about to employ something
breathtakingly simple to
wolf has a
successful outcome.
|
| 00:31:09 | It's a checklist of 19
points including making sure
everybody in the or
introduces themselves.
|
| 00:31:18 | >> Ed, surgeon.
|
| 00:31:19 | >> Neil --
>> surgery resident.
|
| 00:31:23 | >> My name is anee,.
|
| 00:31:26 | >> I'm the attending
anesthesiologist.
|
| 00:31:28 | >> This gentleman we're
performing an excision of an
infected femoral bypass
graft today.
|
| 00:31:33 | Want to make sure we have
any necessary equipment,
looks good.
|
| 00:31:38 | Irrigation, a lot of
anti-biotic irgration.
|
| 00:31:42 | We have an ultrasound in
case we need it.
|
| 00:31:46 | >> Reporter: Watching all of
this was best selling author
and ge
brigham and women's
dr. gawanday.
|
| 00:31:54 | >> I never in a million
years thought I would be
writing a book about
checklists.
|
| 00:31:57 | >> Reporter: But that is
what his new book, the
checklist manifesto, how to
get things right, is about.
|
| 00:32:03 | It grew out of work he did
for the world health
organization which asked him
to help them find a way to
reduce deaths in surgery.
|
| 00:32:12 | >> That was when we came
across the idea.
|
| 00:32:14 | We knew we had technology
and incredible levels of
training.
|
| 00:32:19 | People working unbelievably
hard.
|
| 00:32:21 | But we have more than
100,000 deaths just in the
united states following
surgery.
|
| 00:32:27 | Half are avoidable from our
studies.
|
| 00:32:29 | What could we do.
|
| 00:32:31 | We have found this idea,
this extra tool that others
were using in aviation, in
skyscraper construction.
|
| 00:32:38 | And thought well, let's give
it a try.
|
| 00:32:41 | >> Reporter: After months of
research, in 2008, he and
his team created the
surgical safety checklist
for the who.
|
| 00:32:51 | >> We have a pause before
the anesthesia is given, and
another pause before the
incision, and then a pause
before the patient leaves
the room.
|
| 00:32:59 | We timed it to kep it less
than 2 minutes in a routine
operation.
|
| 00:33:03 | And we had, in order to keep
it short it meant there were
some very simple checks.
|
| 00:33:08 | Some dumb stuff, make sure
an ant biteic was given,
make sure blood was
available and some
interesting things which
were much more about having
a team prepare for handling
the complexities.
|
| 00:33:18 | >> Reporter: It may be hard
to believe, but some of the
dumb stuff doesn't always
get done prior to surgery.
|
| 00:33:26 | And gawanda says that is one
reason there are so many
preventable complications.
|
| 00:33:31 | >> When we deployed it in 8
hospitals around the world,
and they range from seattle,
london, toronto, to poor
settings, rural tanz ania,
each hospital had a
reduction in complications.
|
| 00:33:45 | The average reduction was
more than a third.
|
| 00:33:48 | And we saw a significant
drop in deaths as well.
|
| 00:33:53 | >> Reporter: And it didn't
matter if the hospital was
rich or poor.
|
| 00:33:57 | He argues the simple
checklist is effective
because in today's high-tech
complex medical world there
is just too much for the
human mind to remember.
|
| 00:34:09 | >> Fairly standard to use a
prosthetic for this portion
of the procedure and save
veins for later.
|
| 00:34:14 | >> You can take two lessons
out of this.
|
| 00:34:15 | One is you can say isn't it
terrible how things go
wrong.
|
| 00:34:21 | But I think the deeper
lesson is the complexity of
the world in medicine and
beyond has begun to eclipse
our abilities no matter how
well trained we are.
|
| 00:34:31 | We teach medical students
here's all the stuff in this
textbook you're going to
have in your brain.
|
| 00:34:36 | We don't teach them, guess
what, there is going to come
a moment where it's not in
your brain.
|
| 00:34:41 | And someone's life depends
on it.
|
| 00:34:42 | What are you going to do.
|
| 00:34:44 | >> Reporter: He says studies
show 60% of pneumonias in
america get incomplete or
inappropriate care.
|
| 00:34:52 | And that is the same for 40%
of all cases of coronary
artery disease.
|
| 00:34:57 | >> I will tell you right now,
it's not because we have bad
doctors or bad nurses.
|
| 00:35:01 | We have great people, great
drugs.
|
| 00:35:04 | But making all of the steps
come together in such a way
that nothing falls between
the cracks, we're not great
at that.
|
| 00:35:10 | >> Reporter: We interviewed
him in an operating room at
brigham and women where we
were required to wear scrubs
and hair covering.
|
| 00:35:17 | >> When I got through
reading this book, I came
away with an overwhelming
feeling that hospitals are
really scary place its.
|
| 00:35:25 | >> Yeah.
|
| 00:35:26 | They are scary places.
|
| 00:35:28 | We are deploying 6,000 drugs
and 4,000 medical and
surgical procedures.
|
| 00:35:35 | And those numbers grow
year-to-year.
|
| 00:35:38 | I started using the surgery
checklist approach of things
in my operations a couple of
years ago.
|
| 00:35:44 | We are at harvard.
|
| 00:35:45 | Did I think we needed this?
|
| 00:35:48 | No.
|
| 00:35:50 | And I found I have not
gotten through a week
without the checklist
catching things that made us
better.
|
| 00:35:57 | An anti-biotic that wasn't
given, blood that was
supposed to be available.
|
| 00:36:01 | I know of at least one
patient where I'm certain it
saved my patient's life.
|
| 00:36:05 | It was an operation to
remove a tumor that was in
his a drenal gland, stuck up
against his vena kava, the
main blood vessel going back
to the heart.
|
| 00:36:15 | And I made the wrong move
trying to get it out and i
tore into the vena kava.
|
| 00:36:19 | It is a disastrous thing to
happen, probably the worst
case I have had.
|
| 00:36:25 | Lost his entire blood volume
in about 60 seconds.
|
| 00:36:29 | >> Reporter: But he said
because they had gone
through the checklist there
was plenty of blood in the
or, and equipment to deliver
it quickly so the patient
survived.
|
| 00:36:41 | And in patient wolf's case,
the checklist helped the
operating room staff realize
there were two pieces of
critical equipment the
surgeon needed and were not
on hand.
|
| 00:36:51 | So they got them before
surgery ban.
|
| 00:36:55 | The doctor says the
checklist not only saves
lives in the or, it has also
lowered complications in
intensive care units.
|
| 00:37:04 | >> In michigan when the,
every hospital there adopted
a cleanliness checklist to
keep infected lines from
happening, they had a
two-thirds reduction in
infections within a year.
|
| 00:37:16 | They saved more than 1500
lives, and more than 200
million dollars.
|
| 00:37:21 | Spreading this across the
country multiplies that by
50 fold.
|
| 00:37:26 | >> Reporter: In a nation
where health-care costs are
going up faster than
inflation, he says that's
something to think about.
|
| 00:37:32 | Currently the checklist is
employed in less than one
quarter of u.s. hospitals.
|
| 00:37:37 | >> Is your belly getting
more bloated.
|
| 00:37:39 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:37:40 | >> Reporter: And he says
there has been some
resistence to it from those
in the medical profession.
|
| 00:37:45 | >> Our surveys show about
20% of surgeons think it's a
waste of time.
|
| 00:37:50 | That it can get in the way.
|
| 00:37:52 | They have had their ways of
doing things that have
worked perfectly well.
|
| 00:37:57 | What do you mean we should
work on improving things.
|
| 00:37:59 | But a couple of things that
are the most interesting,
when people have tried it,
80% find in our surveys that
they are actually glad to
have it.
|
| 00:38:07 | They wouldn't go back to
doing it any other way.
|
| 00:38:11 | >> Reporter: With the fate
of health-care reform
legislation up in the air,
the doctor thinks it's
important to push for wider
use of the checklist.
|
| 00:38:19 | Because it doesn't cost much
to implement, and because he
says it works.
|
| 00:38:33 | >> Brown: Last night's super
bowl drew the largest audience
in television history, 106
million people.
|
| 00:38:39 | And why not?
|
| 00:38:40 | It was exciting football, and a
great story line for a city
still struggling to get back on
its feet.
|
| 00:38:52 | >> Reporter: It was more
than a week before mardi
gras but new orleans party
mood the wee hours last
night after the city's
beloved saints beat the
indianapolis colts 31-17.
|
| 00:39:06 | It was the franchise's first
super bowl title since its
founding 43 years ago.
|
| 00:39:11 | And the city's first major
professional sports
championship ever.
|
| 00:39:16 | Quarterback drew brees was
the game's most val you
believe player.
|
| 00:39:19 | >> We played for so much
more than just ourselves.
|
| 00:39:21 | We played for our city.
|
| 00:39:24 | >> Reporter: Down 10-0, the
saints staged a no-holds bar
comeback including a
surprise onside kick that
gave them momentum to start
the second half.
|
| 00:39:36 | They sealed the win late in
the fourth quarter when
there was an interception
returned 74 yards for the
final score.
|
| 00:39:44 | As the celebration erupted
on new orleans famed bourbon
street, comparisons with the
city's own comeback were
inevitable.
|
| 00:39:55 | >> We love this city.
|
| 00:40:00 | Take it.
|
| 00:40:01 | >> Reporter: It's been four
and a half years since
hurricane katrina devastated
huge swathes of the city.
|
| 00:40:06 | The storm tore parts of the
roof off the superdome where
the saints played their home
games and flood victims
camped there for days.
|
| 00:40:15 | Since then head coach sean
payton has directed new
orleanss to a division title
in 2006 and now the lombardi
trophy, the symbol of the
nfl championship.
|
| 00:40:25 | The saints returned home
this afternoon to a cheering
airport crowd, tomorrow the
city turns out for a victory
parade.
|
| 00:40:33 | And here to tell us more
about the city and its saints,
garland robinette, host of the
"think tank," a call-in, talk
show on wwl radio in new
orleans.
|
| 00:40:47 | And brian allee-walsh, a writer
and columnist for
neworleans.com.
|
| 00:40:51 | He's been covering the saints
for more than two decades.
|
| 00:40:52 | Well, garland robinette, you
and your liss he owners were
part of the sell braig.
|
| 00:40:54 | You can give us a taste of
what it is like there now.
|
| 00:40:56 | >> I wasn't around for the
celebration after the end of
world war ii but I think
this one was bigger.
|
| 00:41:03 | >> Reporter: Tell us, what
was it like what is
happening on the streets?
|
| 00:41:06 | >> It's a revival that is
really hard to believe,
right before we came on the
air here, I was informed
that the saints had landed.
|
| 00:41:15 | And they had come out of the
airport.
|
| 00:41:18 | And they are waiting for a
crowd estimated to be over
100,000.
|
| 00:41:23 | Gives you an idea how
intense the feelings are
here.
|
| 00:41:26 | >> Reporter: Well, garland,
explain that for those on
the outside.
|
| 00:41:29 | What is the role of the
saints for this city,
especially given all that's
happened?
|
| 00:41:35 | >> You know, a couple of
days ago I would have given
you another answer.
|
| 00:41:39 | But I think at this point in
time one man's opinion, they
have awakened us to our own
recovery.
|
| 00:41:46 | We're doing great in the
digital industry, we're
doing great in attracting
young people here like we
never have before.
|
| 00:41:54 | Cost-of-living here is
better than most of the
places in the united states.
|
| 00:41:58 | So innovators and inventors
want to come here.
|
| 00:42:02 | And our education system
which is almost been always
been the laughingstock now
is thought to be one of the
better prototypes in the
country.
|
| 00:42:10 | And we hear it, but I don't97
THINK WE ASSIMILATED IT.g43tc3÷
But most importantly, when
the saints won, we saw the
BLACKS AND WHITES AND BROWNS!epAND YELLOWS
In this city
that are often apart, come
together.
|
| 00:42:23 | And I think it made us
realize that our recovery is
just about done, and on top
of that, the things we
thought we couldn't cure, we
can.
|
| 00:42:32 | So I think they kind of
accidentally awakened us to
our own recovery.
|
| 00:42:38 | >> Reporter: And brian
alley-walsh, you have
covered them for a long
time.
|
| 00:42:41 | This is a team that was
famously not very good,
right.
|
| 00:42:44 | They were the ain'ts, not
the saints.
|
| 00:42:47 | >> Yeah, but no longer.
|
| 00:42:49 | I mean like garland said,
you know, for this franchise
to have done, to reawaken
the community and the region,
the gulf coast region is
just, it's an incredible
story that 4 hours after
winning the game last night,
it still hasn't surge in for
me.
|
| 00:43:05 | And I'm in the ft.
|
| 00:43:06 | Lauderdale area s so far
away, and I can't wait to
get back to new orleans.
|
| 00:43:11 | I talk with my wife and she
said like garland explained,
it's just ined-- incredible
it is mardi gra ten times
over because it is such a
local story.
|
| 00:43:21 | >> Reporter: Tell us how
they did it, all those
high-risk moves I referred
to in our set up.
|
| 00:43:25 | How did they pull it off?
|
| 00:43:26 | >> You mean who da,-- dat
who that pull it off, I tell
you, you know, if you have
followed this team through
the season and garland would
know this, is that you know,
you felt something special
about mid season.
|
| 00:43:42 | And they have had that
feeling before for a couple
of years, not often.
|
| 00:43:47 | But as this thing escalated
and it took off as the
season progressed, you could
see that this thing was
going to end up being
something special.
|
| 00:43:55 | It's no surprise that they
walked off with the crown
last night.
|
| 00:43:59 | And the way they did it is
how they have been winning
all season long,
opportunistic defence-- defense,
a great quarterback who
ed an just who dat
nation an a lot of people
pulling in their favor.
|
| 00:44:13 | And this isn't just a
regional victory here.
|
| 00:44:16 | This is a countrywide
victory and there is who dat
fans all over the world.
|
| 00:44:23 | >> Reporter: You have felt
that you were talking about
these losing seasons.
|
| 00:44:26 | I remember as a football fan
watching when fans there
would put bags over their
heads at the superdome.
|
| 00:44:32 | But has the relationship
between the city and the
team been so close
throughout even through the
losing years?
|
| 00:44:40 | >> Well, it has but it has
reached full throw theen
this season.
|
| 00:44:46 | And I can't tell you what a
great public relations
situation that the team has
created.
|
| 00:44:54 | And it is genuine.
|
| 00:44:55 | This is not a phoney feeling
when you hear drew brees,
and not just drew brees,
it's from the top player,
the top echelon down to the
53rd player on this roster.
|
| 00:45:06 | These people, these players
genuinely want to win for
the city and they understand
that what it can mean to the
recovery of this area.
|
| 00:45:17 | So it's nothing phony about
this when they say that they
are doing this for who dat
nation and all that stuff.
|
| 00:45:24 | They really genuinely mean
it.
|
| 00:45:26 | >> Reporter: You know,
garland, I was reading an
interesting quote from drew
brees.
|
| 00:45:30 | He says he's often asked
whether it feels like a
burden to have the weight of
the city on his shoulder.
|
| 00:45:36 | And he said no, but we look
at it as a responsibility.
|
| 00:45:39 | What do you think he means?
|
| 00:45:41 | You've been watching this
team for a while, what does
that mean?
|
| 00:45:44 | >> I am not sure what it
means, but I know who the
man is that spoke it.
|
| 00:45:51 | This is an extraordinary
individual.
|
| 00:45:54 | You have sports heroes all
over the united states.
|
| 00:45:56 | But this guy and his wife,
and many members of the team,
brian can tell you this,
they do things in the value
of millions of dollars.
|
| 00:46:04 | They do things helping
children and people that
need help without a camera
there.
|
| 00:46:09 | Without the media knowing
about it.
|
| 00:46:12 | They are not doing this to
have good pr for the saints,
they are doing it because
these are really good
people.
|
| 00:46:19 | I don't know where the hell
they came from, but they are
so unusual that that's why
we bonded so much with em
this.
|
| 00:46:28 | These are extraordinary
people.
|
| 00:46:29 | Drew brees and coach payton
are way past-- way past the
peal as so what we usually
think a good person in a
community is.
|
| 00:46:39 | >> Reporter: Brian, you know
these guys, you think it's
for real, they've really
incorporated into the city
and taken it on themselves.
|
| 00:46:45 | >> There is no doubt about
it.
|
| 00:46:47 | You know, you can tell
someone when they are not
sincere.
|
| 00:46:50 | And to say it, interview in,
interview out, I can't tell
you how many times that drew
has spoken to me and others
in our media group from the
off season until now.
|
| 00:47:02 | And it's the same message.
|
| 00:47:04 | And again, you can read into
somebody and drew is
genuinely sincere when he
says that there is a reason
why he's in new orleans.
|
| 00:47:14 | There's a reason why he
signed with the saints back
in march of '06 when he had
a chance to go to the miami
dolphins.
|
| 00:47:22 | You know, he felt that there
was a calling.
|
| 00:47:24 | And look, I will be the
first person to say let's
kind of look at this.
|
| 00:47:30 | But this guy is the poster
boy for recovery in new
orleans.
|
| 00:47:35 | He and his wife.
|
| 00:47:36 | And again, like garland said,
they are not the only people
in this organization.
|
| 00:47:41 | It's up and down the line-up
where they truly believe
that they can make a
difference in the community.
|
| 00:47:47 | And you don't find that in a
lot of sports franchises.
|
| 00:47:50 | We're very fortunate to have
the saints organization and
of course everyone loves a
winner.
|
| 00:47:56 | But these folks were doing
it, you know, when they
weren't winning the last
couple of years.
|
| 00:48:02 | And I this I that speaks to
the kind of true characters,
character people that they
have in the organization.
|
| 00:48:06 | >> Reporter: Well, gar lan,
just in our last minute, you
started to talk about this,
but this is a moment where
the eyes of the nation look
back at your city.
|
| 00:48:13 | What should we know.
|
| 00:48:15 | How are things going?
|
| 00:48:16 | What is going well whack is
still unfulfilled?
|
| 00:48:19 | >> I'm glad you asked me
that.
|
| 00:48:21 | I will take a little oblique
off the question.
|
| 00:48:23 | But I would like to deliver
a message to the country.
|
| 00:48:26 | We know you have problems
out there, a lot of you are
unemployed.
|
| 00:48:30 | You are fearful.
|
| 00:48:31 | You don't know what the
future is going to bring.
|
| 00:48:33 | Nobody could have been in a
and we have proven
to you,
we are the litmus test that
whatever your problems are,
it's just an opportunity.
|
| 00:48:44 | It will come out much better
in the long run.
|
| 00:48:47 | We are there.
|
| 00:48:48 | We are, I think, just about
recovered.
|
| 00:48:51 | We still need work.
|
| 00:48:52 | But we are proof that no
matter how bad your
situation is, it is going to
get better.
|
| 00:48:58 | New orleans has done it.
|
| 00:49:00 | The saints have done it.
|
| 00:49:01 | You are looking at a miracle
that is also attainable by
you.
|
| 00:49:06 | >> Reporter: All right,
that's a good message to end
on.
|
| 00:49:08 | And you have a parade
tomorrow, guys.
|
| 00:49:10 | Enjoy it garland robinette,
brian allee-walsh,hank you
both very much.
|
| 00:49:15 | >> Thank you.
|
| 00:49:19 | >> Ifill: Finally tonight, a
look at another major american
city, detroit, and how the
lessons of that city's explosive
growth more than a century ago
are being applied today.
|
| 00:49:26 | City officials are developing
plans for new methods of getting
people around, including using
federal stimulus money to build
high-speed rail lines.
|
| 00:49:40 | "Blueprint america," the pbs
series on the nation's
infrastructure, has been
reporting from detroit.
|
| 00:49:43 | Here's an excerpt from their
latest documentary.
|
| 00:49:45 | The correspondent is miles
o'brien.
|
| 00:49:47 | >> There was a time when
american investment in
intra-- infrastructure and a
willingness to plan
long-term powered the growth
of the most dynamic
industrial economy on earth.
|
| 00:49:57 | And no place benefitted more
than detroit.
|
| 00:50:01 | >> In the northern great
lakes, minnesota, upper
peninsula of michigan was
one of the greatest
concentration of iron-ore in
the whole world.
|
| 00:50:12 | The allegheny mountains have
incredible supplies of coal.
|
| 00:50:19 | And if you could bring the
iron and the coal together,
you had the potential for
the greatest industrial
concentration in the world.
|
| 00:50:30 | One of the things that steel
made possible was the
internal combustion engine
and I think really it was
just one man, henry ford who
turned the potential of that
particular city into the
reality, into the motor
city.
|
| 00:50:53 | >> In 1913 the auto industry
was still new.
|
| 00:50:55 | It was only literally 13
years old.
|
| 00:50:58 | An people were just pouring
into detroit to get a job, a
$5 a day job, or if you were
a smart engineer, anywhere
in north america, you wanted
to come to detroit and work
in this new industry.
|
| 00:51:10 | Detroit was the silicon
valley of america.
|
| 00:51:12 | >> There were a lot of
technologies that were
competing for the
transportation business.
|
| 00:51:16 | So you had cars that ran on
diesel fuel.
|
| 00:51:20 | Obviously cars that ran on
gasoline.
|
| 00:51:23 | There was even a car company
here called detroit electric
car which was predicated on
the idea that cars would run
on electricity.
|
| 00:51:32 | Folks trying to figure out
what was the right formula,
what was the power plant
that would win the day and
allow them to make fortunes.
|
| 00:51:40 | >> People poured into the at
this through this station
here.
|
| 00:51:43 | Cars were pouring out.
|
| 00:51:44 | The whole city was like a
big machine.
|
| 00:51:47 | >> The city was organized
according to these massive
and various railroad lines.
|
| 00:51:55 | >> Where rail line las ran,
industry sprang up.
|
| 00:51:58 | Smaller businesses and more
jobs quickly followed.
|
| 00:52:03 | >> Each dock is an
industrial enterprise and
you can see the lines that
they follow are actually the
railroad lines.
|
| 00:52:11 | And then the various
neighborhoods of workers
filled in close to the line.
|
| 00:52:17 | >> In just ten years
detroit's population doubled.
|
| 00:52:22 | Woodward avenue was a
bustling thoroughfare with
streetcars making stops
every few minutes all up and
down the line it where
trolleys ran on detroit's
main corridors, commercial
districts emerged.
|
| 00:52:35 | And dozens of streetcar
lines ran east and west
through the neighborhoods.
|
| 00:52:40 | At michigan central station,
service was stepped up to
pick up new waves of migrants.
|
| 00:52:47 | No one knew it at the time,
but you know, the trains
were pouring in here with
people and their job was
essentially to build
something that was going to
take the place of the train.
|
| 00:52:58 | >> Blue
>> Ifill: "Blueprint america:
Beyond the motor city" airs on
most pbs stations tonight.
|
| 00:53:04 | >> Brown: Again, the major
developments of the day.
|
| 00:53:08 | The political ferrment
increased after president
obama calls for republicans
to join him in a televised
health care summit.
|
| 00:53:14 | Veteran democratic
congressman john murtha died
at a hospital in arlington,
virginia.
|
| 00:53:20 | The nation's capitol and
mid-atlantic region struggle
to dig out after a weekend
blizzard and wall street
tanked again.
|
| 00:53:26 | The dow jones industrial
average lost more than 100
points to close below 10,000
for the first time since
last november.
|
| 00:53:34 | The.
|
| 00:53:35 | The newshour is always online.
|
| 00:53:37 | Hari sreenivasan, in our
newsroom, previews what's there.
|
| 00:53:38 | Hari?
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| 00:53:40 | >> Sreenivasan: Find additional
information about yesterday's
elections in ukraine from david
stern of global post, an
international news web site, in
kiev.
|
| 00:53:50 | We have dispatches from the
super bowl celebrations in new
orleans, along with photos on
our flickr page.
|
| 00:53:56 | Plus, from "blueprint america,"
watch earlier reports about
infrastructure and browse web-
only video.
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| 00:54:02 | You'll find that link in the
public media resources box on
our home page.
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| 00:54:06 | All that and more is on our web
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|
| 00:54:07 | Gwen?
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| 00:54:09 | And that's the newshour for
tonight.
|
| 00:54:10 | I'm gwen ifill.
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| 00:54:13 | >> Brown: And I'm jeffrey brown.
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| 00:54:14 | We'll see you online and again
here tomorrow evening with,
among much else, jim lehrer's
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| 00:00:07 | I'm gwen ifill.
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| 00:00:08 | President obama calls for a
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solution or party politics?
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| 00:00:11 | >> Brown: And I'm jeffrey brown.
|
| 00:00:12 | On the newshour tonight, we look
at the latest jockeying over
policy and power after some
conservatives rallied around
sarah palin at this weekend's
tea party convention.
|
| 00:00:23 | >> Ifill: Then, nearly one month
after the quake hit, a report
from haiti on the ongoing
struggle for survival.
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| 00:00:29 | >> Brown: And ray suarez gets
two views on what it will take
to rebuild haiti's government.
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| 00:00:33 | >> Ifill: Making a list and
betty ann
bowser looks at one way to cut
health care costs.
|
| 00:00:43 | >> In michigan they had a
two-third reduction in
within a year, saved 600
lives an 2 $am dollars.
|
| 00:00:54 | >> Brown: And more than just a
football game, as new orleans
celebrates a super bowl victory.
|
| 00:00:58 | We play for so much more
than just ourselves, we play
for our city.
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| 00:02:52 | >> Ifill: From left to right,
the national political scene was
in ferment today.
|
| 00:02:55 | That followed president obama's
latest appeal for
bipartisanship, and sarah
palin's latest turn on the
national stage.
|
| 00:03:06 | >> It didn't take much for
the president to draw a link
between the winter storm
that paralyzed the nation's
capitol this weekend and the
challenges facing his party.
|
| 00:03:15 | >> We may be moving forward
against the prevailing winds,
sometimes maybe against a
blizzard.
|
| 00:03:24 | But we're going to live up
to our responsibility to
lead.
|
| 00:03:29 | >> Reporter: The political
blizzard the president told
loyal democrats meeting at a
washington hotel on saturday
was being engineered by
republicans.
|
| 00:03:37 | The solution, heing
suggested the very next day,
was to invite gop leaders to
the white house later this
month to jump-start a
bipartisan health care
debate.
|
| 00:03:47 | He said the televised
meeting patterned in part
after a republican session
he attended in baltimore
would solicit ideas.
|
| 00:03:56 | Gop leaders said they would
accept the president's
invitation but any debate,
they suggested, must begin
from scratch.
|
| 00:04:02 | The best way to start on
real bipartisan reform would
be to scrap those bills,
house republican leader john
boehner said in a statement.
|
| 00:04:12 | >> Thank you dnc.
|
| 00:04:13 | >> Reporter: It was a big
weekend for political
positioning as the president
was rallying his troops and
challenging republicans in
washington, a collection of
conservative activists were
stirring the political pot
in nashville.
|
| 00:04:26 | >> Ladies and gentlemen,
sarah palin.
|
| 00:04:28 | >> Reporter: The star of the
inaugural national tea party
convention was 2008 vice
presidential nominee sarah
palin who said democrats
have failed to keep promises.
|
| 00:04:39 | >> How is that healthy
changey stuff working out
for you.
|
| 00:04:44 | >> Reporter: Palin also told
fox news she has not ruled
out running for president in
2012.
|
| 00:04:50 | >> I think that it would be
absurd to not consider what
it is that I can potentially
do to help our country.
|
| 00:04:56 | I don't know if it's going
to be ever seeking a title,
though.
|
| 00:05:00 | It may be just doing a darn
good job.
|
| 00:05:05 | >> Reporter: Delegates paid
$600 each to attend the tea
party meeting.
|
| 00:05:08 | The goal, organizers said,
is to raise money and help
elect conservatives to
congress in 2010 and to the
white house in 2012.
|
| 00:05:17 | >> The tea party is less
defined as a grass roots yun
rising, a grassroots
movement.
|
| 00:05:21 | It is not a political party
it is not the green party.
|
| 00:05:24 | It is not the libertarian
party t is far younger, and
far less well organized than
either of those.
|
| 00:05:29 | This is just a very loosely
affiliated group of people
coming together around the
idea that the government has
intruded too far into their
lives.
|
| 00:05:39 | >> Reporter: I'm happy about
taxes, deficit spending and
big government, tea party
organizers that helped
candidates in massachusetts,
florida, nevada and other
states.
|
| 00:05:49 | But for now, palin is the
closest thing the movement
has to being a national
political standard-bearer.
|
| 00:05:56 | >> I think she speaks like
we do.
|
| 00:05:58 | She thinks like we do.
|
| 00:06:00 | She is a down to earth
person.
|
| 00:06:02 | >> Reporter: The movement's
leaders made clear they are
taking aim at both
republicans and democrats.
|
| 00:06:08 | >> BOTH MAJOR PARTY, THE Ds
AND THE Rs HAVE BOTH KIND OF
Locked their way in some
respect when the gop strays
from the planks and the
platforms, a people's
movement like the tea party
movement is invited in to
kind of hold these
politicians accountable
again and remind them of
their constitutional limits.
|
| 00:06:27 | >> Reporter: The president's
olive branch strategy begins
tomorrow when lawmakers from
both partys arrived at the
white house for a previously
scheduled meeting on the
economy.
|
| 00:06:38 | Here to help us sort through
this weekend's political news is
amy walter, editor-in-chief of
the "hotline," "national
journal's" daily briefing on
politics.
|
| 00:06:45 | Let's take these two things
separately starting with the
president's announcement
about this televised health
care what, negotiation?
|
| 00:06:51 | What this called.
|
| 00:06:52 | >> I think it is a summit,
very fond of the word summit
at the white house these
days.
|
| 00:06:58 | And you know, let's see what
this turns out to be.
|
| 00:07:02 | Obviously you see already
republicans saying we're not
just going to start midway.
|
| 00:07:05 | We have to start from
scratch.
|
| 00:07:07 | Knowing full well that you
cannot start from scratch
and expect to get anything
done before the end of the
legislative session.
|
| 00:07:12 | The president too in an
interesting position here
and the white house saying,
now for a few weeks, that
they want to make the
midterm election a choice
election between what
DEMOCRATS ARE PROPOSINGnd
What republicans are
proposing as opposed to a
referendum on the democratic
party.
|
| 00:07:32 | >> Ifill: So these meeting
whether it be tomorrow's
meeting, or this big thing
ON FEBRUARY 25th, I GUESS,
Are they really about fixing
the problem or are they
about leaving the impression
that they are at least
talking to one another.
|
| 00:07:45 | >> I think it is the latter.
|
| 00:07:46 | I think political posturing
as you put in your piece is
probably the better way to
look at this.
|
| 00:07:51 | Democrats hoping that voters
are going to look at the
ballot in 2010 and see not a
democratic party that failed
to deliver, but republicans
who stood in their way.
|
| 00:07:59 | That is a very tough
argument to make when you
control everything in
washington and by big
margins.
|
| 00:08:06 | >> Ifill: But on the health
care at least there is some
middle ground where they
could conceivably get
something done, isn't there.
|
| 00:08:12 | >> Theoretically but how
much trouble have democrats
had with their own party.
|
| 00:08:14 | I mean that has been the big
part of it too, was so much
of the negotiations were not
simply with republicans but
with democrats.
|
| 00:08:20 | I think what is interesting
that president obama is
doing too is sort of setting
up congress as the bad guy
here, which is not
necessarily good for his
$c
now for the president to be
able to say let's ride
above-- rise above this,
let's get away from the
partisanship and sniping, we
know that in order to get
legislation passed, it's
going to still be not very
pretty when all is said and
done.
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| 00:08:45 | And congress already
suffering from very low
approval ratings.
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| 00:08:47 | It could make things even
worse for that party, and
his own party going into
2010.
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| 00:08:52 | >> Ifill: Isn't he also
speaking to his own party
saying I haven't completely
abandoned health care.
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| 00:08:57 | >> Well, that's right.
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| 00:08:58 | That, he is saying don't
worry, I'm to the going to
give up on this.
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| 00:09:01 | Democrats in 2010 terrified
that they are going to have
to run for re-election
without any tangible
evidence of major
legislation passing in the
middle of a recession.
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| 00:09:11 | They spent all this time and
energy on a health-care bill
that went nowhere.
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| 00:09:15 | They want to see something
happen.
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| 00:09:16 | Now in the end-- in the end
do we see that the president
reaches out, republicans say
we want all these changes,
the president says tas's not
acceptable, they say well,
that's not acceptable to us,
ultimately something passes,
that's just a very minor
fix.
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| 00:09:31 | Democrats able to at least
say we passed something.
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| 00:09:34 | It wasn't a total loss.
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| 00:09:36 | But the idea of a sweeping
change in health care seems
very unlikely.
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| 00:09:43 | >> Ifill: Let's talk to
something else and figure
out if it is sweeping as
well.
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| 00:09:46 | The political flip side, the
tea party convention this
weekend, was this the
beginning of making the tea
party movement an actual,
real, cohesive movement.
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| 00:09:54 | >> I think there is an
important distinction made
between a mood and a
movement.
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| 00:09:58 | There is a mood out there
that goes beyond this tea
party convention that sort
of permeaed both parties
and independents, as well,
which is frustration with
the status quo.
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| 00:10:08 | Frustration with business as
usual.
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| 00:10:10 | And what the tea party
movement had done is been
able to sort of capture that,
bring people together in the
hopes of channeling it to
electing their own
candidates or deposing
current incumbents.
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| 00:10:24 | We haven't seen quite yet if
they are able to do that.
|
| 00:10:26 | They said they will put a
pact together, raise
something like $10 million
to target condition datas.
|
| 00:10:30 | We know that activists say
that they are getting
involved in certain races.
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| 00:10:35 | But when you look
fundamentally at the people
who are running as these
so-called tea party can
dants you pointed to, scott
brown in massachusetts or in
florida, marco rubio running
against charlie crist, the
governor for the republican
nomination for senate, those
are all establishment
candidates.
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| 00:10:51 | Scott brown was in the
legislature for years, marco
rubio was at one time the
speaker of the house.
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| 00:10:56 | So these are not, these are
not people who have come
somehow out of the ether.
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| 00:11:00 | These are people who are
establishment candidates who
are picking up on the mood
and reworking their identity
to be an outsider.
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| 00:11:08 | >> Ifill: And sarah palin
was to the only the governor
of a big state, as she likes
to point out but also the
party's vice presidential
nominee which doesn't make
her an outsider.
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| 00:11:16 | >> Rit.
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| 00:11:17 | >> Ifill: But does she get
to be the leader of the
movement anyway.
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| 00:11:20 | >> And this is what is
happening in 2010.
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| 00:11:22 | What we are seeing are
candidates who are
recognizing the mood and
those candidates who aren't.
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| 00:11:26 | So if you recognize the mood
early and grab that change
mantle, that outsider mantle
even if you were an insider,
you are able to make
yourself look like an
outsider.
|
| 00:11:36 | Governor rick perry in texas
is the perfect example.
|
| 00:11:39 | He has been the longest
serving governor in texas
history.
|
| 00:11:42 | He is running as the
outsider in his re-election
race because his opponent in
the primary is a sitting
united states senator.
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| 00:11:48 | And it is making washington
the bad guy as opposed to,
you know-- .
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| 00:11:54 | >> Ifill: The president is
making washington the bad
guy which is pretty easy to
do.
|
| 00:11:57 | But does this mean that
sar-- does it matter, even,
whether sarah palin is
running for president or not
or is it just the platform
everybody wants to climb on
to right now?
|
| 00:12:05 | >> Well, for her sake, it
does matter that she leaves
that impression out there
that she is looking to run
for president.
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| 00:12:12 | >> Ifill: Because.
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| 00:12:13 | >> Because no matter what
she wants to do next,
whether she runs or not, she
has a pretty good gig going.
|
| 00:12:18 | I mean she is still bringing
in lots of attention to
herself.
|
| 00:12:22 | She has her own analysis now,
I guess, slot on fox news.
|
| 00:12:27 | She is able to bring in a
lot in speaking fees.
|
| 00:12:30 | She's not going to be able
to do that if she is seen as
somebody who is not
particularly interested in
running again.
|
| 00:12:36 | People want to see what she
does and want to see what
she says.
|
| 00:12:39 | Now whether or not she is
able to translate this
support she's getting into
tangible support when it
comes to 2012, ie, is she
going to be able to organize
caucuses, is she going to be
able to raise money, is she
going to be able to do that
sort of grass roots stuff
that you need to do, that's
a whole other question aiz.
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| 00:13:02 | >> Ifill: Amy walter as
always you clear things up,
thank you very much.
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| 00:13:09 | >> An still to come on the
newshour, haiti after the
earthquake, checking for
safety in the operating room
and celebrating a big win in
the big easy.
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| 00:13:18 | >> But first the other you
news of the day.
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| 00:13:23 | Here's hari sreenivasan in our
newsroom.
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| 00:13:25 | >> Sreenivasan: Veteran
congressman john murtha died
today at a hospital in
arlington, virginia.
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| 00:13:28 | He had complications from
gall bladder surgery.
|
| 00:13:32 | The pennsylvania democrat was a
marine corps officer in vietnam,
and was known as a democratic
hawk.
|
| 00:13:35 | But in november of 2005, he
demanded president bush withdraw
u.s. troops from iraq.
|
| 00:13:39 | >> This is a flawed policy,
wrapped in an illusion!
|
| 00:13:44 | And the american public knows
it.
|
| 00:13:47 | And lashing out at critics
doesn't help a bit.
|
| 00:13:50 | You've got to change the policy.
|
| 00:13:51 | That's what's going to help the
american people.
|
| 00:13:54 | We need to change direction.
|
| 00:13:57 | >> Sreenivasan: Murtha had been
in the house since 1974, and was
scrutinized a number of times
over ethical questions.
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| 00:14:02 | He was 77 years old.
|
| 00:14:05 | The nation's capital and the
mid-atlantic region were still
snowbound today in the wake of
the weekend blizzard.
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| 00:14:11 | The snow closed down government,
schools, and roads, and
forecasters predicted even more
snow soon.
|
| 00:14:22 | Across the region people
labored to dig out n
someplaces up to three feet
of snow.
|
| 00:14:24 | Nearly 100,000 power
customers were still in the
dark.
|
| 00:14:28 | And utility companies warned
it could be days before
electricity is fully
restored.
|
| 00:14:33 | In washington alone federal
agencies that employ nearly
230,000 people were closed
as many roads remained
difficult if not dangerous
to drive.
|
| 00:14:43 | >> The district didn't
really handle this very
well.
|
| 00:14:44 | I men they didn't clean any
of the streets.
|
| 00:14:47 | Haven't seen any trucks on
my street.
|
| 00:14:49 | >> I'm from new hampshire so
this is nothing.
|
| 00:14:52 | But october veysly the
damage, so the city has to
get itself back on its feet.
|
| 00:14:59 | >> Reporter: Washington d.c.
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| 00:15:00 | Mayor add recent fenty said
the city was trying to do
just that and like officials
across maryland and virginia,
he urged patience.
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| 00:15:07 | >> Even though we are had
sun a the last couple of
days not a lot of paces the
snow could go.
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| 00:15:14 | And so we're working through
all those issuesment but
making no excuse to trying
to get the city open and
running, as quickly and fast
as humanly possible.
|
| 00:15:26 | >> Reporter: Just how
quickly that happens was
critical for thousands of
students and teachers as
schools remained closed at
least through tuesday.
|
| 00:15:34 | But major airports resumed
flights on a limited basis.
|
| 00:15:38 | Amtrak also restored train
service with delays.
|
| 00:15:41 | And washington subway system
was operated in a limited
capacity, aboveground
service for the metro was
suspended.
|
| 00:15:48 | In the meantime, a new
winter storm warning is in
effect with as much as a
foot or more of new snow
expected to begin falling
tomorrow.
|
| 00:15:58 | Washington has had nearly 45
inches of snow this winter, just
nine short of the record set in
1899.
|
| 00:16:03 | And philadelphia may break its
record this week going back to
1884.
|
| 00:16:09 | In contrast, there's not enough
snow in vancouver, canada, where
the winter olympics are set to
open on friday.
|
| 00:16:13 | Workers have been using
helicopters and trucks to haul
snow to the sites of skiing and
snowboard competitions.
|
| 00:16:20 | An avalanche killed at least 17
indian soldiers today at a
training center in the part of
kashmir controlled by india.
|
| 00:16:28 | 17 Other soldiers were
critically wounded.
|
| 00:16:29 | They'd been in the middle of ski
training exercises on the
himalayan slopes when the mass
of snow and ice swept them away.
|
| 00:16:35 | More than 50 officers were
rescued six hours after the
avalanche.
|
| 00:16:40 | In ukraine, the opposition
leader claimed a narrow victory
in sunday's presidential
election.
|
| 00:16:45 | Viktor yanukovich took a pro-
russian stance against the pro-
western government.
|
| 00:16:49 | His opponent, prime minister
yulia tymoshenko, charged
election fraud, and threatened
to call out supporters.
|
| 00:16:56 | In 2004, the presidential vote
results were thrown out after
yanukovich initially won.
|
| 00:17:01 | But international monitors said
this year's election was an
"impressive display" of
democracy.
|
| 00:17:08 | Iran may have moved closer to
being able to produce a nuclear
warhead.
|
| 00:17:11 | The country's top nuclear envoy
said today iran will begin
enriching uranium to higher
levels.
|
| 00:17:18 | He insisted it's only to provide
fuel for research, not for
weapons.
|
| 00:17:23 | and france
said it's time to pursue new
sanctions.
|
| 00:17:27 | Defense secretary robert gates
spoke in paris.
|
| 00:17:33 | >> If iran continues and
develops nuclear weapons, it
almost certainly will
provoke nuclear
proliferation in the middle
east.
|
| 00:17:42 | This is a huge danger.
|
| 00:17:44 | The key is persuading the
iranian leaders that their
long-term best interests are
best served by not having
nuclear weapons.
|
| 00:17:58 | >> Sreenivasan: On another
and the european
union also urged iran today to
live up to its international
human rights obligations.
|
| 00:18:02 | There is fear of another
government crackdown later this
week, marking the founding of
the islamic reblic.
|
| 00:18:08 | The death toll from an explosion
at a connecticut power plant
site should stand at five.
|
| 00:18:12 | That was the word today from
state authorities on the scene
in middletown.
|
| 00:18:16 | The blast erupted as workers
were testing natural gas lines,
but the exact cause remained
under investigation.
|
| 00:18:22 | The power plant was under
construction.
|
| 00:18:25 | Wall street took another hit
today over new fears about
rising debt in europe.
|
| 00:18:30 | The dow jones industrial average
lost 103 points to close at
9908, its first close below
10,000 since november.
|
| 00:18:36 | The nasdaq fell 15 points to
finish at 2126.
|
| 00:18:41 | The former boss at merrill-lynch
will be the new chairman and
chief executive at c.i.t. group.
|
| 00:18:47 | John thain organized the sale of
merrill lynch to bank of america
in late 2008.
|
| 00:18:53 | Later, he was forced out over
bonus payments to employees and
lavish renovations to his
office.
|
| 00:18:57 | is a major lender to
small- and mid-sized companies.
|
| 00:19:00 | It recently emerged from
bankruptcy reorganization.
|
| 00:19:04 | Michael jackson's personal
physician was charged today with
involuntary manslaughter.
|
| 00:19:08 | conrad murray is a
cardiologist.
|
| 00:19:12 | He was with jackson when the pop
star died last june.
|
| 00:19:15 | Prosecutors said murray acted
improperly by giving jackson
powerful sedatives to help him
sleep.
|
| 00:19:21 | >> The doctor pled not
guilty at a court appearance.
|
| 00:19:23 | Those are some of the day's main
stories.
|
| 00:19:25 | I'll be back at the end of the
program with a preview of what
you'll find tonight on the
newshour's web site.
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| 00:19:28 | But for now, back to jeff.
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| 00:19:35 | >> Brown: Nearly four weeks
after the earthquake struck, aid
groups have launched a campaign
to vaccinate more than 100,000
people against measles,
diphtheria, and tetanus.
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| 00:19:43 | But many quake victims still
aren't receiving enough food and
other aid.
|
| 00:19:45 | Emma murphy of independent
television news updates the
story from port-au-prince.
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| 00:19:51 | >> Risk their lives they
skaff age on rubble filled
trucks.
|
| 00:20:00 | It is the steel from
destroyed buildings a
treasure to be fought over.
|
| 00:20:05 | We two men do battle, rock
and knife in hand.
|
| 00:20:07 | They have lost so much.
|
| 00:20:09 | They can't bare to lose any
more.
|
| 00:20:13 | For those who survived what
a life is left to need, 2
million displaced in
makeshift camps.
|
| 00:20:20 | Already some of the injured
are back in their shacks as
everyone tries to adjust to
their new existence.
|
| 00:20:29 | Aid is getting through but
it's slow.
|
| 00:20:31 | This woman shows us the bag
of rice she has to feed
three families.
|
| 00:20:34 | It's only just arrived.
|
| 00:20:38 | In the same camp others have
received nothing.
|
| 00:20:42 | They are hungry and
desperate for help.
|
| 00:20:45 | This woman's grandchild is
now anemic and very weak.
|
| 00:20:50 | There is food on the street
but it's too expensive for
most so they cue for hours
for hand outs.
|
| 00:20:55 | >> No one is more frustrated
than ourselves that we face
such massive challenges in
getting food out.
|
| 00:21:01 | But we are moving that food
now.
|
| 00:21:03 | We are looking to get up to
160,000 people a day and we
are very close to that now.
|
| 00:21:13 | >> These are the elderly
people itv reported after
the earth qa quake.
|
| 00:21:21 | They are settled in aid
tents but what a way to
spend your latter years,
frightened, displaced,
disorientated.
|
| 00:21:30 | The many are trying to
jostle for position at the
immigration office for a
passport out.
|
| 00:21:36 | The street signs say all,
written for english for the
western world to understand.
|
| 00:21:42 | >> And ray suarez continues
our haiti coverage with a
look at the government and
its rebuilding efforts.
|
| 00:21:47 | >> Suarez: For that we get
two few, we have an
associate professor of
political science at the
university of missouri in
St. LOUIS.
|
| 00:21:57 | Born and raised in
port-au-prince, he is an
american citizen.
|
| 00:22:01 | And the director of the
international security and
defense policy center at the
rand corporation, a career
diplomat until 20023, he
served as the clinton
administration's special
envoy to haiti in the mid
1990s.
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| 00:22:13 | Professor, there is a group
of elected and appointed
officials in port-au-prince
who call themselves the
government of the republic
of haiti.
|
| 00:22:22 | Are they in charge of the
country in any meaningful
way.
|
| 00:22:25 | And what should they be
doing in the near term?
|
| 00:22:27 | >> Well, I'm not sure that
they are in charge of haiti
in any meaningful way.
|
| 00:22:37 | But certainly there needs to
be haitians in charge of the
country.
|
| 00:22:43 | It's very clear from what
has been happening since the
earthquake that theaitian
government is unable to
function for understandable
reasons.
|
| 00:22:55 | The structures of the
haitian state were destroyed.
|
| 00:23:00 | But even before the
earthquake haiti was known
as a fragile and less
admitted failed city.
|
| 00:23:11 | The destruction of january
12th, 2010, WAS CERTAINLY
Caused by nature, but the
scale of the destruction
speaks to generations, if
not centuries of ineffectual
government.
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| 00:23:25 | So therefore more than ever
haiti now needs a working
government.
|
| 00:23:31 | >> Suarez: Ambassador, how
do you do that, mix the
people's choice.
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| 00:23:35 | I mean there is an elected
set of office holders there,
with the need to coordinate
massive aid inflows and the
need to getgoing right away.
|
| 00:23:45 | >> Well, I think you have to
separate the humanitarian
phase from the
reconstruction phase, at
least intellectually.
|
| 00:23:54 | The humanitarian is
something foreigners will do
for haitians.
|
| 00:23:57 | Hundreds, maybe thousands of
nongovernmental
organizations, governments
and international
organizations have converged
on haiti and are providing
direct assistance in terms
of food, medicine, shelter
and water.
|
| 00:24:12 | But the reconstruction phase
is one that has to be done
with a much stronger haitian
participation.
|
| 00:24:19 | There has been a nation-building
operation under way in haiti
since 2004.
|
| 00:24:24 | And so there is a
PREEXISTING SET oPUQ#ORMS
That have been outlined and
we in the process of being
implemented.
|
| 00:24:32 | And there is an
international structure, a
peacekeeping course,
representative of the u.n.
|
| 00:24:39 | Secretary-general whose's
the most senior
international official on
the island.
|
| 00:24:42 | And now we have a much
greater american role,
participation and support.
|
| 00:24:48 | This all has to be accord
nighted and-- all has to be
coordinated and the focus of
the effort has to be not
just in brick and mortar an
construction but in
institutional reconstruction
so that in the end we have a
stronger haitian government.
|
| 00:25:02 | So in the end the real
reconstruction project is a
project in state building.
|
| 00:25:06 | >> Suarez: When I was in
haiti recen
ambac-- ambassador, the
president told me that those
hundreds of thousands who
had fled to the countryside,
maybe it would be a good
idea if they stayed there.
|
| 00:25:17 | Another minister mentioned
places in the capitol that
should not be rebuilt to
discourage people from
coming back.
|
| 00:25:25 | But is there any local
haitian authority that can
make either of those things
happen?
|
| 00:25:30 | >> Well, there's a u.n.
|
| 00:25:33 | Peacekeeping force of about
10,000 troops and that's
being increased.
|
| 00:25:36 | There are a couple thousand
u.n. policemen.
|
| 00:25:39 | There are about 8 or 9,000
haitian policemen who have
recently been trained and
are actually doing rather
well before the earthquake.
|
| 00:25:45 | The international community
is going to have to provide
the resources.
|
| 00:25:49 | But to the extent they can
work with haitian
authorities to, for instance,
segregate areas of the city
which shouldn't be
repopulated until they can
be rebuilt, guide people to
the proper areas to set up
transient camps, those kinds
of things, they should do
so.
|
| 00:26:05 | I do think that the
international role needs to
be expanded.
|
| 00:26:09 | The secretary-general's
representative needs to be
given a greater authority
than he has had in the past.
|
| 00:26:14 | But we can't, we can't build
a haitian state by starting
off ignoring the haitian
government.
|
| 00:26:20 | There has to be some effort
to engage it, to support it,
and progressively to put
resources through it rather
than directly using american
or foreign nongovernmental
organizations.
|
| 00:26:32 | >> Suarez: Professor, how do
you do that?
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| 00:26:34 | How do you put enough
haitian authority and a
haitian face on the identity
of a reconstruction and at
the same time give the
international community the
chance to get in there and
do what needs to be done?
|
| 00:26:49 | >> Well, I have argued for a
joint trust.
|
| 00:26:54 | Now I realize that the word
trust has a bad history.
|
| 00:27:00 | But what I mean by that is a
partnership among the united
nations, haitians, and what
I would call a haiti
reconstruction authority.
|
| 00:27:13 | So this would really be a
joint effort because the
reconstruction of haiti
should not be expected to be
undertaken by the haitians
themselves.
|
| 00:27:24 | Because inside haiti the
resources are simply not
there.
|
| 00:27:28 | So the international
community along with haitians
will have to cooperate if
haiti is to be reconstructed.
|
| 00:27:36 | >> Suarez: Well, professor
is there an example of that
working in the recent past,
that the world can look to
as sort of a tool kit, a
model for what you are
suggesting for haiti?
|
| 00:27:46 | >> Well, I think what
happened in indonesia could
be a guide.
|
| 00:27:52 | There the international
community played an
important role in the
reconstruction of the area.
|
| 00:27:59 | But at the same time the
indonesian government was
not left standing on the
sideline.
|
| 00:28:04 | Now I realize that in
indonesia the central state
was not directly affected by
the tsunami.
|
| 00:28:11 | So it was left standing.
|
| 00:28:13 | But nevertheless, I think
that would be one of the
closest examples of
international cooperation
that might be applicable to
the haitian milieu.
|
| 00:28:23 | >> Suarez: How does that
sound to you, a haitian
reconstruction authority?
|
| 00:28:26 | >> I think that-- I think
some imagination should be
used to construct an
international haitian
partnership under these
circumstances.
|
| 00:28:33 | I would point out, though,
that while haiti is probably
suffered the most massive
natural disaster in recent
memory on a per capita basis,
there are other states that
and the natural
community have helped pull
back from failure that were
in even worse shape than
haiti, ciber ya, sierra
leone, both had decades-long
civil wars.
|
| 00:28:58 | They are even poore-- poorer
than haiti, had even less
competent governments than
haiti and they have both
been pulled back from the
brink and both have
functioning governments at
the moment.
|
| 00:29:09 | So there is a history and a
set of techniques that can
help in this kind of
situation.
|
| 00:29:15 | And I think that the extra
resources that haiti is now
going to have, and the fact
that the haitian system has
been so shocked, so
devastated may make it
easier to introduce some of
these reforms than had been
the case previously.
|
| 00:29:30 | >> Suarez: People have been
talking about five, ten and
twentyy years.
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| 00:29:34 | Professor, quickly before we
go, does the international
community have enough of an
attention span with haiti to
be involved for that long?
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| 00:29:42 | >> That's a very good
question, ray.
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| 00:29:44 | I'm not sure about that.
|
| 00:29:47 | I think, I've written
elsewhere that the
reconstruction of haiti
which should not be only to
port-au-prince, by the way.
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| 00:29:55 | Rural haiti needs as much
reconstruction as
port-au-prince.
|
| 00:29:59 | That effort will take at
least a generation or 20
years.
|
| 00:30:04 | I'm not sure that the
international community will
be willing to stay the
course.
|
| 00:30:10 | I hope that it does.
|
| 00:30:12 | >> Suarez: Professor,
ambassador, thank you
both.
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| 00:30:16 | >> Thank you.
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| 00:30:17 | >> Thank you.
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| 00:30:23 | >> Ifill: Next, a simple fix for
cutting health care costs and
saving lives.
|
| 00:30:28 | Newshour health correspondent
betty ann bowser explains.
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| 00:30:35 | >> He no known drug
allergies,.
|
| 00:30:38 | >> Reporter: A 50-year-old
man is about to undergo
emergency surgery at brigham
and women's hospital if
boston for a dangerous
infection in an artery in
his leg.
|
| 00:30:49 | >> Big breaths, in and out.
|
| 00:30:51 | That's great.
|
| 00:30:52 | >> Reporter: He's surrounded
by technology and highly
skilled doctors and nurses
who spent years training for
their profession.
|
| 00:31:00 | >> Doing great.
|
| 00:31:01 | >> Reporter: But they're
about to employ something
breathtakingly simple to
wolf has a
successful outcome.
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| 00:31:08 | It's a checklist of 19
points including making sure
everybody in the or
introduces themselves.
|
| 00:31:18 | >> Ed, surgeon.
|
| 00:31:19 | >> Neil --
>> surgery resident.
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| 00:31:22 | >> My name is anee,.
|
| 00:31:25 | >> I'm the attending
anesthesiologist.
|
| 00:31:27 | >> This gentleman we're
performing an excision of an
infected femoral bypass
graft today.
|
| 00:31:33 | Want to make sure we have
any necessary equipment,
looks good.
|
| 00:31:37 | Irrigation, a lot of
anti-biotic irgration.
|
| 00:31:42 | We have an ultrasound in
case we need it.
|
| 00:31:45 | >> Reporter: Watching all of
this was best selling author
and general surgeon at
brigham and women's
dr. gawanday.
|
| 00:31:53 | >> I never in a million
years thought I would be
writing a book about
checklists.
|
| 00:31:57 | >> Reporter: But that is
what his new book, the
checklist manifesto, how to
get things right, is about.
|
| 00:32:02 | It grew out of work he did
for the world health
organization which asked him
to help them find a way to
reduce deaths in surgery.
|
| 00:32:12 | >> That was when we came
across the idea.
|
| 00:32:13 | We knew we had technology
and incredible levels of
training.
|
| 00:32:19 | People working unbelievably
hard.
|
| 00:32:21 | But we have more than
100,000 deaths just in the
united states following
surgery.
|
| 00:32:26 | Half are avoidable from our
studies.
|
| 00:32:29 | What could we do.
|
| 00:32:30 | We have found this idea,
this extra tool that others
were using in aviation, in
skyscraper construction.
|
| 00:32:38 | And thought well, let's give
it a try.
|
| 00:32:40 | >> Reporter: After months of
research, in 2008, he and
his team created the
surgical safety checklist
for the who.
|
| 00:32:50 | >> We have a pause before
the anesthesia is given, and
another pause before the
incision, and then a pause
before the patient leaves
the room.
|
| 00:32:58 | We timed it to kep it less
than 2 minutes in a routine
operation.
|
| 00:33:03 | And we had, in order to keep
it short it meant there were
some very simple checks.
|
| 00:33:08 | Some dumb stuff, make sure
an ant biteic was given,
make sure blood was
available and some
interesting things which
were much more about having
a team prepare for handling
the complexities.
|
| 00:33:18 | >> Reporter: It may be hard
to believe, but some of the
dumb stuff doesn't always
get done prior to surgery.
|
| 00:33:25 | And gawanda says that is one
reason there are so many
preventable complications.
|
| 00:33:31 | >> When we deployed it in 8
hospitals around the world,
and they range from seattle,
london, toronto, to poor
settings, rural tanz ania,
each hospital had a
reduction in complications.
|
| 00:33:45 | The average reduction was
more than a third.
|
| 00:33:47 | And we saw a significant
drop in deaths as well.
|
| 00:33:52 | >> Reporter: And it didn't
matter if the hospital was
rich or poor.
|
| 00:33:57 | He argues the simple
checklist is effective
because in today's high-tech
complex medical world there
is just too much for the
human mind to remember.
|
| 00:34:09 | >> Fairly standard to use a
prosthetic for this portion
of the procedure and save
veins for later.
|
| 00:34:13 | >> You can take two lessons
out of this.
|
| 00:34:15 | One is you can say isn't it
terrible how things go
wrong.
|
| 00:34:20 | But I think the deeper
lesson is the complexity of
the world in medicine and
beyond has begun to eclipse
our abilities no matter how
well trained we are.
|
| 00:34:31 | We teach medical students
here's all the stuff in this
textbook you're going to
have in your brain.
|
| 00:34:36 | We don't teach them, guess
what, there is going to come
a moment where it's not in
your brain.
|
| 00:34:40 | And someone's life depends
on it.
|
| 00:34:42 | What are you going to do.
|
| 00:34:43 | >> Reporter: He says studies
show 60% of pneumonias in
america get incomplete or
inappropriate care.
|
| 00:34:51 | And that is the same for 40%
of all cases of coronary
artery disease.
|
| 00:34:56 | >> I will tell you right now,
it's not because we have bad
doctors or bad nurses.
|
| 00:35:00 | We have great people, great
drugs.
|
| 00:35:03 | But making all of the steps
come together in such a way
that nothing falls between
the cracks, we're not great
at that.
|
| 00:35:09 | >> Reporter: We interviewed
him in an operating room at
brigham and women where we
were required to wear scrubs
and hair covering.
|
| 00:35:16 | >> When I got through
reading this book, I came
away with an overwhelming
feeling that hospitals are
really scary place its.
|
| 00:35:25 | >> Yeah.
|
| 00:35:25 | They are scary places.
|
| 00:35:27 | We are deploying 6,000 drugs
and 4,000 medical and
surgical procedures.
|
| 00:35:35 | And those numbers grow
year-to-year.
|
| 00:35:37 | I started using the surgery
checklist approach of things
in my operations a couple of
years ago.
|
| 00:35:44 | We are at harvard.
|
| 00:35:45 | Did I think we needed this?
|
| 00:35:47 | No.
|
| 00:35:49 | And I found I have not
gotten through a week
without the checklist
catching things that made us
better.
|
| 00:35:57 | An anti-biotic that wasn't
given, blood that was
supposed to be available.
|
| 00:36:00 | I know of at least one
patient where I'm certain it
saved my patient's life.
|
| 00:36:04 | It was an operation to
remove a tumor that was in
his a drenal gland, stuck up
against his vena kava, the
main blood vessel going back
to the heart.
|
| 00:36:14 | And I made the wrong move
trying to get it out and i
tore into the vena kava.
|
| 00:36:19 | It is a disastrous thing to
happen, probably the worst
case I have had.
|
| 00:36:24 | Lost his entire blood volume
in about 60 seconds.
|
| 00:36:28 | >> Reporter: But he said
because they had gone
through the checklist there
was plenty of blood in the
or, and equipment to deliver
it quickly so the patient
survived.
|
| 00:36:40 | And in patient wolf's case,
the checklist helped the
operating room staff realize
there were two pieces of
critical equipment the
surgeon needed and were not
on hand.
|
| 00:36:51 | So they got them before
surgery began.
|
| 00:36:54 | The doctor says the
checklist not only saves
lives in the or, it has also
lowered complications in
intensive care units.
|
| 00:37:04 | >> In michigan when the,
every hospital there adopted
a cleanliness checklist to
keep infected lines from
happening, they had a
two-thirds reduction in
infections within a year.
|
| 00:37:15 | They saved more than 1500
lives, and more than 200
million dollars.
|
| 00:37:20 | Spreading this across the
country multiplies that by
50 fold.
|
| 00:37:26 | >> Reporter: In a nation
where health-care costs are
going up faster than
inflation, he says that's
something to think about.
|
| 00:37:32 | Currently the checklist is
employed in less than one
quarter of u.s. hospitals.
|
| 00:37:37 | >> Is your belly getting
more bloated.
|
| 00:37:39 | >> Yes.
|
| 00:37:39 | >> Reporter: And he says
there has been some
resistence to it from those
in the medical profession.
|
| 00:37:44 | >> Our surveys show about
20% of surgeons think it's a
waste of time.
|
| 00:37:49 | That it can get in the way.
|
| 00:37:52 | They have had their ways of
doing things that have
worked perfectly well.
|
| 00:37:56 | What do you mean we should
work on improving things.
|
| 00:37:59 | But a couple of things that
are the most interesting,
when people have tried it,
80% find in our surveys that
they are actually glad to
have it.
|
| 00:38:07 | They wouldn't go back to
doing it any other way.
|
| 00:38:10 | >> Reporter: With the fate
of health-care reform
legislation up in the air,
the doctor thinks it's
important to push for wider
use of the checklist.
|
| 00:38:19 | Because it doesn't cost much
to implement, and because he
says it works.
|
| 00:38:33 | >> Brown: Last night's super
bowl drew the largest audience
in television history, 106
million people.
|
| 00:38:38 | And why not?
|
| 00:38:39 | It was exciting football, and a
great story line for a city
still struggling to get back on
its feet.
|
| 00:38:51 | >> Reporter: It was more
than a week before mardi
gras but new orleans party
mood the wee hours last
night after the city's
beloved saints beat the
indianapolis colts 31-17.
|
| 00:39:05 | It was the franchise's first
super bowl title since its
founding 43 years ago.
|
| 00:39:10 | And the city's first major
professional sports
championship ever.
|
| 00:39:15 | Quarterback drew brees was
the game's most val you
believe player.
|
| 00:39:18 | >> We played for so much
more than just ourselves.
|
| 00:39:21 | We played for our city.
|
| 00:39:23 | >> Reporter: Down 10-0, the
saints staged a no-holds bar
comeback including a
surprise onside kick that
gave them momentum to start
the second half.
|
| 00:39:36 | They sealed the win late in
the fourth quarter when
there was an interception
returned 74 yards for the
final score.
|
| 00:39:44 | As the celebration erupted
on new orleans famed bourbon
street, comparisons with the
city's own comeback were
inevitable.
|
| 00:39:54 | >> We love this city.
|
| 00:39:59 | Take it.
|
| 00:40:00 | >> Reporter: It's been four
and a half years since
hurricane katrina devastated
huge swathes of the city.
|
| 00:40:06 | The storm tore parts of the
roof off the superdome where
the saints played their home
games and flood victims
camped there for days.
|
| 00:40:14 | Since then head coach sean
payton has directed new
orleanss to a division title
in 2006 and now the lombardi
trophy, the symbol of the
nfl championship.
|
| 00:40:24 | The saints returned home
this afternoon to a cheering
airport crowd, tomorrow the
city turns out for a victory
parade.
|
| 00:40:32 | And here to tell us more
about the city and its saints,
garland robinette, host of the
"think tank," a call-in, talk
show on wwl radio in new
orleans.
|
| 00:40:47 | And brian allee-walsh, a writer
and columnist for
neworleans.com.
|
| 00:40:50 | He's been covering the saints
for more than two decades.
|
| 00:40:52 | Well, garland robinette, you
and your liss he owners were
part of the sell braig.
|
| 00:40:54 | You can give us a taste of
what it is like there now.
|
| 00:40:56 | >> I wasn't around for the
celebration after the end of
world war ii but I think
this one was bigger.
|
| 00:41:02 | >> Reporter: Tell us, what
was it like what is
happening on the streets?
|
| 00:41:05 | >> It's a revival that is
really hard to believe,
right before we came on the
air here, I was informed
that the saints had landed.
|
| 00:41:15 | And they had come out of the
airport.
|
| 00:41:18 | And they are waiting for a
crowd estimated to be over
100,000.
|
| 00:41:22 | Gives you an idea how
intense the feelings are
here.
|
| 00:41:25 | >> Reporter: Well, garland,
explain that for those on
the outside.
|
| 00:41:29 | What is the role of the
saints for this city,
especially given all that's
happened?
|
| 00:41:34 | >> You know, a couple of
days ago I would have given
you another answer.
|
| 00:41:39 | But I think at this point in
time one man's opinion, they
have awakened us to our own
recovery.
|
| 00:41:46 | We're doing great in the
digital industry, we're
doing great in attracting
young people here like we
never have before.
|
| 00:41:54 | Cost-of-living here is
better than most of the
places in the united states.
|
| 00:41:58 | So innovators and inventors
want to come here.
|
| 00:42:01 | And our education system
which is almost been always
been the laughingstock now
is thought to be one of the
better prototypes in the
country.
|
| 00:42:10 | And we hear it, but I don't97
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But most importantly, when
the saints won, we saw the
BLACKS AND WHITES AND BROWNS!epAND YELLOWS
In this city
that are often apart, come
together.
|
| 00:42:22 | And I think it made us
realize that our recovery is
just about done, and on top
of that, the things we
thought we couldn't cure, we
can.
|
| 00:42:32 | So I think they kind of
accidentally awakened us to
our own recovery.
|
| 00:42:37 | >> Reporter: And brian
alley-walsh, you have
covered them for a long
time.
|
| 00:42:41 | This is a team that was
famously not very good,
right.
|
| 00:42:43 | They were the ain'ts, not
the saints.
|
| 00:42:47 | >> Yeah, but no longer.
|
| 00:42:48 | I mean like garland said,
you know, for this franchise
to have done, to reawaken
the community and the region,
the gulf coast region is
just, it's an incredible
story that 4 hours after
winning the game last night,
it still hasn't surge in for
me.
|
| 00:43:04 | And I'm in the ft.
|
| 00:43:06 | Lauderdale area s so far
away, and I can't wait to
get back to new orleans.
|
| 00:43:10 | I talk with my wife and she
said like garland explained,
it's just ined-- incredible
it is mardi gra ten times
over because it is such a
local story.
|
| 00:43:20 | >> Reporter: Tell us how
they did it, all those
high-risk moves I referred
to in our set up.
|
| 00:43:24 | How did they pull it off?
|
| 00:43:26 | >> You mean who da,-- dat
who that pull it off, I tell
you, you know, if you have
followed this team through
the season and garland would
know this, is that you know,
you felt something special
about mid season.
|
| 00:43:42 | And they have had that
feeling before for a couple
of years, not often.
|
| 00:43:46 | But as this thing escalated
and it took off as the
season progressed, you could
see that this thing was
going to end up being
something special.
|
| 00:43:54 | It's no surprise that they
walked off with the crown
last night.
|
| 00:43:58 | And the way they did it is
how they have been winning
all season long,
opportunistic defence-- defense,
a great quarterback who
ed an just who dat
nation an a lot of people
pulling in their favor.
|
| 00:44:12 | And this isn't just a
regional victory here.
|
| 00:44:16 | This is a countrywide
victory and there is who dat
fans all over the world.
|
| 00:44:22 | >> Reporter: You have felt
that you were talking about
these losing seasons.
|
| 00:44:25 | I remember as a football fan
watching when fans there
would put bags over their
heads at the superdome.
|
| 00:44:32 | But has the relationship
between the city and the
team been so close
throughout even through the
losing years?
|
| 00:44:39 | >> Well, it has but it has
reached full throw theen
this season.
|
| 00:44:45 | And I can't tell you what a
great public relations
situation that the team has
created.
|
| 00:44:53 | And it is genuine.
|
| 00:44:54 | This is not a phoney feeling
when you hear drew brees,
and not just drew brees,
it's from the top player,
the top echelon down to the
53rd player on this roster.
|
| 00:45:06 | These people, these players
genuinely want to win for
the city and they understand
that what it can mean to the
recovery of this area.
|
| 00:45:16 | So it's nothing phony about
this when they say that they
are doing this for who dat
nation and all that stuff.
|
| 00:45:23 | They really genuinely mean
it.
|
| 00:45:26 | >> Reporter: You know,
garland, I was reading an
interesting quote from drew
brees.
|
| 00:45:30 | He says he's often asked
whether it feels like a
burden to have the weight of
the city on his shoulder.
|
| 00:45:35 | And he said no, but we look
at it as a responsibility.
|
| 00:45:39 | What do you think he means?
|
| 00:45:41 | You've been watching this
team for a while, what does
that mean?
|
| 00:45:44 | >> I am not sure what it
means, but I know who the
man is that spoke it.
|
| 00:45:51 | This is an extraordinary
individual.
|
| 00:45:53 | You have sports heroes all
over the united states.
|
| 00:45:56 | But this guy and his wife,
and many members of the team,
brian can tell you this,
they do things in the value
of millions of dollars.
|
| 00:46:04 | They do things helping
children and people that
need help without a camera
there.
|
| 00:46:09 | Without the media knowing
about it.
|
| 00:46:11 | They are not doing this to
have good pr for the saints,
they are doing it because
these are really good
people.
|
| 00:46:19 | I don't know where the hell
they came from, but they are
so unusual that that's why
we bonded so much with em
this.
|
| 00:46:27 | These are extraordinary
people.
|
| 00:46:29 | Drew brees and coach payton
are way past-- way past the
peal as so what we usually
think a good person in a
community is.
|
| 00:46:38 | >> Reporter: Brian, you know
these guys, you think it's
for real, they've really
incorporated into the city
and taken it on themselves.
|
| 00:46:45 | >> There is no doubt about
it.
|
| 00:46:46 | You know, you can tell
someone when they are not
sincere.
|
| 00:46:50 | And to say it, interview in,
interview out, I can't tell
you how many times that drew
has spoken to me and others
in our media group from the
off season until now.
|
| 00:47:02 | And it's the same message.
|
| 00:47:03 | And again, you can read into
somebody and drew is
genuinely sincere when he
says that there is a reason
why he's in new orleans.
|
| 00:47:13 | There's a reason why he
signed with the saints back
in march of '06 when he had
a chance to go to the miami
dolphins.
|
| 00:47:21 | You know, he felt that there
was a calling.
|
| 00:47:24 | And look, I will be the
first person to say let's
kind of look at this.
|
| 00:47:29 | But this guy is the poster
boy for recovery in new
orleans.
|
| 00:47:34 | He and his wife.
|
| 00:47:36 | And again, like garland said,
they are not the only people
in this organization.
|
| 00:47:41 | It's up and down the line-up
where they truly believe
that they can make a
difference in the community.
|
| 00:47:47 | And you don't find that in a
lot of sports franchises.
|
| 00:47:50 | We're very fortunate to have
the saints organization and
of course everyone loves a
winner.
|
| 00:47:56 | But these folks were doing
it, you know, when they
weren't winning the last
couple of years.
|
| 00:48:01 | And I this I that speaks to
the kind of true characters,
character people that they
have in the organization.
|
| 00:48:06 | >> Reporter: Well, gar lan,
just in our last minute, you
started to talk about this,
but this is a moment where
the eyes of the nation look
back at your city.
|
| 00:48:13 | What should we know.
|
| 00:48:14 | How are things going?
|
| 00:48:16 | What is going well whack is
still unfulfilled?
|
| 00:48:19 | >> I'm glad you asked me
that.
|
| 00:48:20 | I will take a little oblique
off the question.
|
| 00:48:23 | But I would like to deliver
a message to the country.
|
| 00:48:26 | We know you have problems
out there, a lot of you are
unemployed.
|
| 00:48:29 | You are fearful.
|
| 00:48:30 | You don't know what the
future is going to bring.
|
| 00:48:33 | Nobody could have been in a
worse position than we.
|
| 00:48:35 | And we have proven to you,
we are the litmus test that
whatever your problems are,
it's just an opportunity.
|
| 00:48:43 | It will come out much better
in the long run.
|
| 00:48:46 | We are there.
|
| 00:48:47 | We are, I think, just about
recovered.
|
| 00:48:50 | We still need work.
|
| 00:48:52 | But we are proof that no
matter how bad your
situation is, it is going to
get better.
|
| 00:48:58 | New orleans has done it.
|
| 00:48:59 | The saints have done it.
|
| 00:49:01 | You are looking at a miracle
that is also attainable by
you.
|
| 00:49:05 | >> Reporter: All right,
that's a good message to end
on.
|
| 00:49:08 | And you have a parade
tomorrow, guys.
|
| 00:49:09 | Enjoy it garland robinette,
brian allee-walsh, thank you
both very much.
|
| 00:49:14 | >> Thank you.
|
| 00:49:18 | >> Ifill: Finally tonight, a
look at another major american
city, detroit, and how the
lessons of that city's explosive
growth more than a century ago
are being applied today.
|
| 00:49:26 | City officials are developing
plans for new methods of getting
people around, including using
federal stimulus money to build
high-speed rail lines.
|
| 00:49:40 | "Blueprint america," the pbs
series on the nation's
infrastructure, has been
reporting from detroit.
|
| 00:49:43 | Here's an excerpt from their
latest documentary.
|
| 00:49:44 | The correspondent is miles
o'brien.
|
| 00:49:47 | >> There was a time when
american investment in
intra-- infrastructure and a
willingness to plan
long-term powered the growth
of the most dynamic
industrial economy on earth.
|
| 00:49:56 | And no place benefitted more
than detroit.
|
| 00:50:00 | >> In the northern great
lakes, minnesota, upper
peninsula of michigan was
one of the greatest
concentration of iron-ore in
the whole world.
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| 00:50:12 | The allegheny mountains have
incredible supplies of coal.
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| 00:50:18 | And if you could bring the
iron and the coal together,
you had the potential for
the greatest industrial
concentration in the world.
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| 00:50:29 | One of the things that steel
made possible was the
internal combustion engine
and I think really it was
just one man, henry ford who
turned the potential of that
particular city into the
reality, into the motor
city.
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| 00:50:52 | >> In 1913 the auto industry
was still new.
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| 00:50:55 | It was only literally 13
years old.
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| 00:50:57 | An people were just pouring
into detroit to get a job, a
$5 a day job, or if you were
a smart engineer, anywhere
in north america, you wanted
to come to detroit and work
in this new industry.
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| 00:51:09 | Detroit was the silicon
valley of america.
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| 00:51:11 | >> There were a lot of
technologies that were
competing for the
transportation business.
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| 00:51:16 | So you had cars that ran on
diesel fuel.
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| 00:51:20 | Obviously cars that ran on
gasoline.
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| 00:51:23 | There was even a car company
here called detroit electric
car which was predicated on
the idea that cars would run
on electricity.
|
| 00:51:31 | Folks trying to figure out
what was the right formula,
what was the power plant
that would win the day and
allow them to make fortunes.
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| 00:51:39 | >> People poured into the at
this through this station
here.
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| 00:51:42 | Cars were pouring out.
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| 00:51:44 | The whole city was like a
big machine.
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| 00:51:47 | >> The city was organized
according to these massive
and various railroad lines.
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| 00:51:54 | >> Where rail line las ran,
industry sprang up.
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| 00:51:57 | Smaller businesses and more
jobs quickly followed.
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| 00:52:03 | >> Each dock is an
industrial enterprise and
you can see the lines that
they follow are actually the
railroad lines.
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| 00:52:11 | And then the various
neighborhoods of workers
filled in close to the line.
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| 00:52:17 | >> In just ten years
detroit's population doubled.
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| 00:52:22 | Woodward avenue was a
bustling thoroughfare with
streetcars making stops
every few minutes all up and
down the line it where
trolleys ran on detroit's
main corridors, commercial
districts emerged.
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| 00:52:34 | And dozens of streetcar
lines ran east and west
through the neighborhoods.
|
| 00:52:40 | At michigan central station,
service was stepped up to
pick up new waves of migrants.
|
| 00:52:46 | No one knew it at the time,
but you know, the trains
were pouring in here with
people and their job was
essentially to build
something that was going to
take the place of the train.
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| 00:52:58 | >> Blue
>> Ifill: "Blueprint america:
Beyond the motor city" airs on
most pbs stations tonight.
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| 00:53:04 | >> Brown: Again, the major
developments of the day.
|
| 00:53:08 | The political ferrment
increased after president
obama calls for republicans
to join him in a televised
health care summit.
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| 00:53:14 | Veteran democratic
congressman john murtha died
at a hospital in arlington,
virginia.
|
| 00:53:19 | The nation's capitol and
mid-atlantic region struggle
to dig out after a weekend
blizzard and wall street
tanked again.
|
| 00:53:25 | The dow jones industrial
average lost more than 100
points to close below 10,000
for the first time since
last november.
|
| 00:53:33 | The.
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| 00:53:35 | The newshour is always online.
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| 00:53:36 | Hari sreenivasan, in our
newsroom, previews what's there.
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| 00:53:37 | Hari?
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| 00:53:39 | >> Sreenivasan: Find additional
information about yesterday's
elections in ukraine from david
stern of global post, an
international news web site, in
kiev.
|
| 00:53:50 | We have dispatches from the
super bowl celebrations in new
orleans, along with photos on
our flickr page.
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| 00:53:55 | Plus, from "blueprint america,"
watch earlier reports about
infrastructure and browse web-
only video.
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| 00:54:01 | You'll find that link in the
public media resources box on
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| 00:54:05 | All that and more is on our web
SITE, newshour.pbs.org.
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| 00:54:06 | Gwen?
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| 00:54:08 | And that's the newshour for
tonight.
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| 00:54:09 | I'm gwen ifill.
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| 00:54:12 | >> Brown: And I'm jeffrey brown.
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| 00:54:14 | We'll see you online and again
here tomorrow evening with,
among much else, jim lehrer's
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