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semrau an air as good evening i'm jim lehrer on the newshour tonight are summary of the news and some perspective on reconciling shiite muslim religious and political beliefs interact jan crawford greenburg look at today's supreme court arguments over church they clash in this country the latest on a new approach to testing for colon cancer and ray suarez how we live report on the business of whey is major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by christians and by the sec companies one

hundred twenty five years of getting the job done after one hundred twenty five years we are just getting used to the call public broadcasting stations hundreds of us troops killed off a town in northern iraq today in a major raid against the coral as the operation near kirkuk began before dawn and continued after nightfall attack jets flew overhead and troops blocked roads in a search for weapons and suspects they arrested more than one hundred people including an alleged leaders of saddam hussein's militia but us officials denied reports they had captured saddam's top advisor it sank abraham outdoor at another us soldier was killed in iraq today in a roadside bombing and in spain there was a

nationally televised funeral for seven intelligence officers killed in iraq on saturday the prime minister vowed not to withdraw spanish troops from iraq italy also has troops in the coalition and today the italian defense minister urged the european union to do more he said the policy of the eu have fallen so far no money no soldiers is anachronistic today iraqi governing council a stick with the us backed plan for moving to self rule despite a shiite leaders objections grand ayatollah elisa stunning has called for holding elections before any transition but a number of the council members said today that would only delay the return to iraqi sovereignty it's now set to take place by next july we'll have more on this in a moment the us embassies in kenya and saudi arabia warned today a possible terror attacks police in nairobi kenya said there were signs that terrorists had packed a truck with explosives in washington a state

department spokesman outline the intelligence on that threat a anonymous warning that detail to terrorist threats aimed at american western interests in downtown nairobi and specifically mentioned stanley hotel in the hilton tell the threat also said that they did the anonymous warning also said that the timing of some of the threat list for the next several days the spokesman said the information was not corroborated but was too specific to ignore us embassy in saudi arabia said it had confirmed information about a threadbare it said tears had a housing compound in riyadh under actually eve surveillance two suspects in the suicide bombings in turkey reportedly got instruction from a key our kind of figure newspapers in turkey carried that account today they said the suspects met with osama bin laden's top aide at least three times a year last month the bombers attacked two synagogues in istanbul

two more bombs at the british consulate in a british bank five days later and all more than sixty people were killed russia today rejected the kyoto protocol aimed at limiting global warming a nineteen ninety seven pac called for reductions and so called greenhouse gases but a senior advisor to president clinton said in its current form the kyoto protocol places significant limitations on the economic growth of russia and brussels belgium a top european union official urged moscow to reconsider the best thing we can do is to demonstrate to russia that and we are serious about our commitment under the kyoto protocol and also to create and it's for russia if they continue to keep us in uncertainty i think they knew they were then sense of the heart the russian decision effectively blocks the agreement from

taking effect because not enough countries have probed united states had already rejected it the us supreme court ruled today police did not have to wait more than twenty seconds before breaking into a drug suspects home unanimous ruling said waiting any longer would lead suspects much evidence down the toilet the case from las vegas about the man who was in the shower when police broke into his apartment the california state assembly of repeal the law admitting undocumented immigrants to get driver's licenses the action taken monday affects an estimated two million people then governor gray davis signed the law before he was recalled in october the new governor arnold schwarzenegger had promised to have a repeal on wall street today the dow jones industrial average lost forty five points to close at ninety eight fifty three the nasdaq fell more than nine points to close at nineteen eighty and absence of the newshour tonight now some to the shiite political agenda and

interact another church state argument before the us supreme court a new approach to detect in colon cancer and the business of weddings mad at religion politics in iraqi army home and start with some background one major combat ended in may one of iraq's leading religious figures urged his fellow shia muslims not to resist occupying troops a statement welcomed by us officials he is seventy three year old grand ayatollah ali says stunning the highest ranking shiite cleric interact in june he issued a religious decree a fatwa that criticize us administrator paul bremmer is planned to hand pick a provisional government to draft a new constitution so stanley wrote the occupation officials do not enjoy the authority to appoint the members of the council that would write the constitution general elections must be held so that every eligible iraqi can choose someone to represent him

what the american timetable formed with the us appointed iraqi governing council would have delayed elections until a constitution was written bremmer spoke on the newshour in september iraqis don't have a constitution they need one and you really can't get the sovereignty without elections in again elections and a constitution as us officials said direct elections would pose a series of practical problems iraq has no voting rolls note updated census and a us official said an election could be marred by continued violence but says dunning whose influence is believed to be widespread among iraq's shia majority stood firm the competing visions left the governing council deadlocked polls and in november as a taxonomy oregon's increase the administration changed course former presented a new political climate one that would allow in direct elections by regional iraqi officer but last week's a stunning criticize the new

plan he again demanded direct elections both for the constitutional conference and for a new provisional government and written comments to the washington post says sami said the plan does not guarantee the establishment of an assembly that truly represents the iraqi people a member of the iraqi governing council met with the sights of the cleric also wants to ensure the new government respects islamic principles the ayatollah says danny is deeply concerned over certain loopholes that he feels have to be resolved otherwise the process will be deficient and will not meet the expectations of the people of iraq an ayatollah says dunning found nothing that preserves islamic identity despite cyst on his views and employs several news organizations reported today that a majority of the governing council disagrees with him and continues to back the us approach for more on this we go to juan cole professor of history at the university of michigan and he recently authored a modern history of iraqi shia and tidal a sacred space and holy war

and to gary sick who served on the national security council staff under presidents ford carter and reagan he now teaches middle eastern politics at columbia university professor cole how would you explain says dante's insistence on direct elections right now buses that is a genuine democrat he believes that the sovereignty resides in the body public and so if you're going to have a government as legitimate that has to be elected by the people on the one person one vote basis and no other political agenda other than that well you know i was obviously that the majority of the rockies is shiite and therefore our one person one vote type of election will return a majority shiite government and certainly he believes that that's what the iraq should have here's a can you see this you got to remember that the cyst on his perhaps the sole legitimate

force in iraqi politics today the title was are not the appointed they are selected by their own people are people basically vote by giving them respect and money and support and so he represents a body of people who in effect have collected and he is perhaps the only elected official unofficial that is the only elected person in iraqi politics that gives him tremendous legitimacy much more so that any of the other institutions and i think what we're seeing here is a struggle between his concept of legitimacy and out of the governing council and the american occupying force bullock professor cole what about this idea of how you hold general elections when a suggestion that's a stunning and his folks have made is that you could put some put together voting rolls from the food rules the old un food roles is that makes sense to you well it certainly could be that i don't think that there's any legitimate

objection to holding elections if the problem is how to do it i think that there could be accomplished on the problem is that the us does not want to hold popular elections at this stage in the process because it is afraid those elections will throw up leaders who will vote down the road i've become obstacles to progress has happened in eastern europe and in bosnia i after the war there and it's beds a bad experience with the us has that the people can survive a militia virtue or a sedan or are thugs are radicals and if they get elected than they can stop further progress the abc it's a way kerry said that the us is concern not so much about democracy pursuing obviously but what the end result might be big if that happens to worry i think that's very true i think the us is worried about two things one speed and i think they do want to have a provisional government in place by july first were working only on the yard rocking calm under the

working on the us electoral calendar at the same time that the same thank you got to realize that the way the situation is now structured is that the governing council that is supported by the united states will in fact have a dominant role in two singing everybody in that initial boat to determine who's going to be in the provisional government and then he was going to write the constitution it gives united states a tremendous amount of authority in determining who gets to become a member of the provisional government when in fact the us occupation technically ends next a lot you make a good point and we walk through this and you all jump in and correct me about got this wrong as you say yeah very city the governing council will will set up a procedure where these regional caucuses will in fact elect people who will then become to go to baghdad and become the provisional government is that correct i think that sort of three correct answers and thick heavy and the thing is that these caucuses in the various eighteen provinces

are in fact going to be appointed or fifteen people and five of them will be appointed by the governing council regardless of kenmore will be selected with their approval so it basically means that the united states through the governing council will have controlled the process of every stage and this professor cole was once a stunning of online right well it should be remembered that many of those caucus delegates will be chosen by municipal councils which in turn had been appointed by the us military are many of the people chosen by the us military are alleged to have been a former ba'athists are there might be a slight sunni tendency there because they were after all the ones who knew how to run things i had seized it is very concerned that the shiites will be marginalized yet again as they were when the british took over in the nineteen twenties now to gary sick the other part of this system his problem was that

i think the word was that be that good that he was concerned that it doesn't not the islamic identity is not measure in the new government the way he sees this procedure as it's currently lay out what you talkin about how you interpret that entirely sure of what he means by that but he clearly how on one hand says cunningham is not one of the people who has been pushing hard for a clerical rule that is to have a clerical takeover like in iran our instead he has indicated that he is he is prepared to live with the government which is which is respectful certainly of islam and has an islamic character i really think it does come back to the fundamental democratic issue that he does see that the legitimacy and sovereignty lying in the body politic and he wants to see the body politic rep and of course this reflects his interest because thirties she earned sixty percent of the

population has one call said she also would you agree one call that he's not he really guarantee that he did that that the ayatollah does not want an islamic government in the way we know an islamic government threw it around right a meeting with a secular government but with a strong islamic influence of some kind it doesn't want any wrong type of government for the ayatollah's in the cleric's actually rule he thinks that the clerics should stay in the seminary in the mosque and they should issue rulings on essentially social matters it doesn't want them are running the government but on the other hand he does want an islamic government and what he means by that is that he wants islamic law ought to be the law of the land and he wants the clerics to be the judges honestly wants the clerics to have their influence through law and through the ditch judiciary our rather than in the executive branch we're necessarily in the legislature he wants guarantees that the legislature will pass laws that directly contradicts on his

interpretation of islamic law but gary sick that could be talking about women's rights all kinds of things then and pluralism as an end and the religious freedom for christians and others said this is not a this is not a simple matter is that it is not especially in a country that perhaps as many different factions in groups and sectarian beliefs as a raucous it's going to beaver a difficult to govern the country and that is something that the crew is going to be a problem and it is already being reflected in the fact that the the governing council which pays attention to sustain and takes them seriously is also arguing with ornellas give us the bottom line here begin with you juan cole i mean how far can the united states go or the governing council and the united states together go insane thank you mr ayatollah but no thank you we're going to go ahead and do it our way how how powerful is he right now in being able to have his work or have consequences if he doesn't get his way

seized it has enormous authority as gary sick said most shiites in iraq if you ask them who do follow they will say c stony eyed so if you wanted to make trouble he could however he is from that quietness tradition of badger have that believes that the clerics ought not to get involved too closely and day to day governing affairs he is trying to intervene strategically on what he sees as constitutional issues i think it's very unlikely then he would call for massive demonstrations against the us or the interim governing council if he is rebuffed i think he will issue has because of the toy his ruling i think it will affect people's conscience is it'll affect how they view the legitimacy of the transitional government but i don't think he will launch a social movement against the us at least in the short term you're nodding in agreement kerry said yes very much so i i don't see him calling for demonstrations on the other hand

the key element of the new government if it's going to govern and it's going to handle this very very complicated situation in grant country this is going to have to have real legitimacy and i'm afraid that if they go to obviously against his ideas that they're going to have a legitimacy problem later on when people will say you're there which are really a creature of the americans you're not a really a rocky government and we don't trust does he have the power very sick to just too quickly from his perspective to declare this government illegitimate well again i i would find it so i don't anticipate that in the short term he has been very cooperative that form with the american occupation that he is insisting that certain procedures before been ordered to go on from here and there and he's quite prepared to wait longer than the americans are prepared no one call it i found interesting reading today that job for all of his power and influence he can't refuse those four to talk directly to paul bremer what's at all about

well there is a saying in islam that that the worst of the clergy are those who associate with prince's imagine of tradition of declines to be in direct consultation with authority and certainly with authority that it considers less than legitimate actually here i disagree with by calling a gary sick i've seen a photo from our seas donnie which declares the president the interim governing council illegitimate he means by that that it that it doesn't spring from the rocky people i it's not in accordance with islamic law and so forth and so i think he just doesn't want to get involved with the americans in a direct certain way and that if they if he if they go ahead and do it their way rather than his way would he have the power to keep this thing from functioning i mean you see that serious an obstacle if he decides to become that one call well if he were to decide to take a direct role i guess i think it could be a big obstacle because after all the us is

not liked by many of the sunni arabs and were the shiites to turn against in a big way that that might make the government are untenable but i don't think see study wants to rock the boat that hardly just wants to intervene to make sure that as far as he can and that the moral guidance is there for how iraq should develop and gentlemen thank you both very much now the us supreme court takes up a us church state case and it went on for canada state deny a student scholarship money for studying theology that question goes to the heart of the washington state case argued before the supreme court today jan crawford greenburg of the chicago tribune was there and is here now to give us a sense of what went on in the courtroom today so to

help me was this case about discriminating against religion well that's what a lawyer for the state and a lawyer for the bush administration argue in court today that washington's day in denying this didn't scholarship money to study and theology had discriminated against him based solely on his religious beliefs and say that he could not get state scholarship money while it awarded state scholarship money to other states but only the religious student the status dating to be a minister with his glue from the program and they said that discriminated against him and violated his first amendment rights under the us constitution to freely exercise his religious beliefs that this was a scholarship fund of about eleven hundred dollars so great career going to make a difference between what he was able to go school and in his case out he i talked to last week he said what he did resign took another job out waiting tables and was able to to make up the difference but it was an important principle to hand him when the state told him that he could not get this scholarship money he

already enrolled in it and a christian college outside seattle had been attending for about two months when he found out from the stage it was yanking away the scholarship money he decided to contact a legal group and and pursue legal action against the state for him it was a matter of principle he wanted other students in his position not to be denied that kind of money even though it did make a difference for him was the principal about his ability to express himself a free speech principle or was it the religious he was a free exercise or the first in the constitution says that governments may make no live it and it hampers infringes a person's ability to run freely exercise his religious beliefs and the student joshua daley said that in denying him this money the state was hampering his ability to freely exercises to his religious beliefs it is washington state unique in this other other states which also have such a bright line drawn between what you can pay for what you can there are there are about thirty seven other states that have

similar provisions in there say a lot in the state constitutions they direct a high barrier between the church and the state now of course washington state officials argued in and a lawyer for the state argue in court today that they're not discriminating against anyone and i singling him out because of his religious beliefs they say they're relying on a provision in the state constitution written in a teenage eighty nine that prohibits state taxpayer money from going to pay for religious instruction and religious training so they say it's a matter of their state constitution and the lawyer for the state today said that the framers of the washington constitution thought was very important to limit government involvement in matters of religion to preserve freedom of crisis and then that kind of thing for washington citizens so the dispute before the justices become which constitution the state constitution federal constitution trump's share and the more conservative justices today suggested quite clearly that the state constitution this case has to give way because they saw this as a clear violation

of the students' ability to practice religious belief was at that argument justice scalia most notably that the chief justice also i thought tip his hand and in the court typically is very closely divided on these controversy over religion cases involving funding of religious activities often five four and what that means is we have the four more conservative justices the four more liberal justices and very often the one in the middle of justice sandra day o'connor her views can can determine how the court may come out today today's argument really showcase the deep divisions on the court in these church state issues we had our usual i we had the more liberal justices arguing that the state was not discriminating against this duet with a more conservative justices suggesting that it was andy weir justice o'connor who i thought seemed deeply troubled today by armed by arguments i did the state had gone too far she's seen

trouble that are willing for the student could call into question a host of other concerns like school voucher programs other state constitutional provisions she indicated that she thought that perhaps washington state had not gone to find that it was appropriate to deny this thing that discussion the court to rule on this battery issue involving the city cleveland look into the court has ruled that school vouchers are permissible that if that voucher itself goes to a religious school but that would not violate another religious clause in the federal constitution the establishment clause and of course the first amendment also prohibits the government from establishing a religion and the court has ruled that when a religious school gets about your money that just goes because of a student's independent choice that doesn't violate the establishment clause today's case and a lawyer for the state of washington on eric suggested that several of the more liberal justices suggested that we take it the next step they suggested that a ruling for the student in this

case requiring the state to give him a scholarship money could mean that on the issue of school vouchers and secondary schools for example this day's would be required to allow religious schools to dissipate soviet a private launch a program in your state in ohio or wherever you could explore the religious schools from getting that money for it gets what suggests the sometimes exchanged negotiate out loud lost on these issues and today i gather there was some discussion about the staffers you how you define it involving justice o'connor and justice kennedy what justice o'connor ask a lawyer david barton message discussion because we had a major impact in a witness really have a significant impact on school voucher programs a lawyer for the student conceded that yes it would be justice o'connor again suggested she was very troubled by the broad sweep of this case the other justices said the lab setting her concern they started pointing out loud have a breathtaking impact it would have heard a defect a host of other programs justice bryer justice souter both again syncing o'connor's concerned and trying to drive

her to versailles justice kennedy and other moderate that we often look to when the corps closely divided tried to suggest a way that the court could make its ruling more narrow so that would really only apply in the stevens case or cases like it justice o'connor was convinced joshua david is to defeat gone to university washington to a nonsectarian school and chosen to major in theology would this had the same effect with it also do we know it wasn't the the school with the courts focus time it still could've gone to school in michigan business administration it was his choice of measuring in the allergy that they are preparing to be a minister the distaste said its constitution prohibited from funding that state money could not go to religious training and ultimately of course she said to be a lawyer he said our first year at harvard law school now jan crawford greenburg thanks a lot you're welcome still to come on the newshour tonight a new way to detect colon cancer and the wedding

business that forces flood week on public television were taken a short break now so your public television station can ask for your support that support helped keep programs like ours on the air right for those stations not taking a pledge right the newshour continues now with excerpts from the speech today by michael leavitt the new administrator of the environmental protection agency the former utah governor spoke the epa employees in washington a nearly four weeks ago i was sworn in as the tenth administrator of the united states environmental protection agency the days since advanced than try to get a point of view i've been listening i've been beginning important process of earning your confidence ernie the confidence of the people who are the epa and determining how i could best apply my leadership are a lot of people have

been interested in how i view my rowe and president bush's cabinet i'd like to answer that by telling about my own experience in the executive branch of government i became governor rights record loyalty from each of the cabinet officers and i explained to them directly upfront but my definition of loyalty is i told them five times first i told them that right and you'd around the agency and i expect a karate not be around in your best with your best judgment and instinct because ninety nine percent of the things that happened under your responsibility the governor will never see a second i expect you to do certain and have the judgment to know when the issues that you're dealing with have consequences that will overflow to other branches of government or that aren't such consequence that we ought to elevate them for when a nation has been no elevated i will expect you to be a good collaborator

and jamaica's your first priority finding the right solution and fourth if there's an issue on which there's a disagreement i expect you to tell me exactly how in theater and lastly i expected remember that is the chief executive officer who got elected and who will have to stand accountable to the voters for those actions than i expected my relationship with president bush worked much the same way and may i say i hope very much that that's the way our relationship to work as well as colleagues here at the environmental protection agency like to give you a brief summary of my own management style for the first time i like to select group of long term goals and then i rely on a five hundred day plan to create a timetable of short

term actions that will move us toward the achievement of a longer term goal you might tell a five hundred day plan with a five thousand acre rise every two hundred days and i re evaluate the progress and i make the necessary adjustments it's a dynamic planet we find a better way we just adopted will releases five hundred day plan for air quality very slow in the next few weeks will do the same thing for other strategic goals of the agency a five hundred day plan for will chart a course for achieving the most productive period of air quality improvement in american history it will answer many of the questions that i've been asked recently will we implement programs and work with the states to ensure compliance on stringent the air quality standards for ozone and for fine particles the answer is yes he will we actually play stringent controls on diesel engines the answer is

yes we move forward with the first ever regulations addressing mercury emissions on power plants again the answer is yes what we push for the prom passage of clear skies legislation so that the state can make their standards more efficiently and effectively and more certainly in cutting pollution on power plants again the answer is yes we continued and will continue to protect will continue to safeguard may we do it faster may we do it better way we collaborate more than we have ever done before and we will be and oversaw the twenty first century network and we will be keepers of the thirtieth and we will do our best to make this great nation even better and we will leave things better for the next generation epa administrator mike leavitt speaking today in washington right

now a new tool for preventing colon cancer and do more work more colon cancer is the second deadliest form of cancer killing fifty seven thousand americans each year but only a small percentage of people over fifty undergo the unemployed screening tests needed to catch it soon enough to be treated now a new study done at military medical centers finds that a ct scan known as a virtual column ask if he detects cancerous growth as well as the conventional colonoscopy with us is the co director of the study dr perry picard radiologist at the university of wisconsin medical school after they can't walk and they get to be the first explain to us the technology of dispersal colonoscopy how does it differ in the way it looks at the colon from the traditional one a virtual khan asked the uses a ct image is to generate book two dimensional and three dimensional views of the inside of the colon this can be done in a relatively non invasive manner which

did the degree of invasive this is someone of that of a digital rectal exam with with air then just to distend the colon using ct scan then we can fly through the colon in this three d virtual fly through reality view and we found that this method is a great wheeze appear to previous attempts at using ct scans for detecting polyps sentiment you found that just using these images taken from outside the body actually we're as good at the pickup every pilot just as clearly as the as the traditional one where that the two goes all the way through the call that's right we're able to directly compare both virtual that is using ct technology and conventional cost fifty by patients undergoing boathouse on the same day and the sensitivity was was virtually identical for significant lesions that as pilots it monitors and greater meaning that detect them just as well

yes and let the sensitivity of a virtual coin ask you a slightly greater for that size pile up i'm going with paul sizer really does matter what we found and what we know is that pilots greater than a centimeter or ten millimeters really need to come out due to their potential for becoming cancer whereas polyps they're quite small five millimeters unless have really no significance there's still some controversy for those pilots are between six and nine millimeters however we know that the majority of these will actually regressing or stay the same in size and therefore really don't need to come out a small fraction however will continue to slowly grow we could continue to non invasive we follow up these patients with with the virtual glass could be a net small fraction of patients could eventually have a pauper movie theater work to continue our growth pianist and leader i will go into more detail now force about the advantages to the patient he said it's non invasive meaning what they don't want to be sedated but there are some advantages to shore with with bars with the ct

virtual called ask the patient doesn't require intravenous sedation or pain control there's no recovery room time all of which are necessary with the conventional procedure there is some mild discomfort associated with the airbus tension of the colon and that's really because we we don't we don't give any pain control is that the mild discomfort is usually quite tolerable and but we have patients control the book the rage and agree that the effort the corners to stand right there we found that really leads to more comfortable exam also convinced someone isn't there some small bike but there is a risk the perforation yes with conventional cars to dealers or there's a small but but finite risk of both bleeding from pollock removal and perforation both of which require either a margin surgery hospitalization or or or both and in many cases now the us imitations fine i'm appealing about having a colonoscopy is having to drink stuff to clean out that their digestive tract that it's still have to do so right that's correct

and the reason for that is with you about a recall by either virtual or physical methods you really need a clean coal and to accurately detect polyps and the good news is even though patients undergo a similar pratt if we do find a large pop which which our population would have been less than ten percent of cases those few patients go on for top removal of the same day or next day since they already have undergone the prep so it avoids the need for repressing but it would mean in that sense it would be having both procedures on the same day that that is correct in and but they i think the more important point to keep in mind is that over ninety percent of patients can then be given a clean bill of health without the need for the more invasive test either way i think it's an important message that the patients need to be screened whether it's by virtue or conventional costa ph we know that we can prevent colon cancer through this routine screening and it should serve as

complimentary cast and patients now have a choice talk about that choice what is the choice cost wise between the two because they're talk honestly the screening is not currently reimbursed by medicare and other third party payers it's difficult to really i compare charges per se but i would say the conventional coal osby if you include all the related costs of intravenous sedation and monitoring the recovery room time the loss productivity for missing a day's work the second person needed to drive that home and also the cost of removing many tiny little parts which which often don't need to be removed when you combine them all together and that's a class b is certainly a more costly procedure but is certainly the necessary one in high risk patients for patients with significant family history be the ideal population for virtual colonoscopy is actually that the healthiest patients were asymptomatic and and therefore have the least likelihood of having a large pollock it does protect those on suspected

politicians in the small minority who were able to really give the patient are what is a clean bill of health in over ninety percent of cases without the need for a more invasive tests so where is where these virtual can ask these available to people just paying out of pocket to have them they're currently paying out of pocket but i wanted that all virtual coin ask these are not currently created equal reviews the novel three d approach that was not previously available and and that's perhaps the major reason why our results are so much better than in previous studies by using this three d virtual slighted actually find the pulse which i believe is more effective search pattern we we were able to match on the best local mascot in and perform and so i would just warned that this will not be widely available overnight and there are some centers using this very technology right now including aware more politically at university wisconsin where currently of setting up a program and at the national

naval medical center as well as the health of the walter reed army medical center in san diego naval medical center thank you so much my pleasure writes bonnie tonight a report on how we live our continuing look at how and where americans live their lives tonight ray suarez looks at the wedding business kelly hardwood is one of two point three million prize went to marry in the next year she was shopping for a wedding dress with her mother iowa is a little bit different what would spent six months looking for the reception so dominant is next august of byzantine how el

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so roger ailes wedding events designer colleen how we best known from the today show's race to the alter says their children returned when the world was their records and i'm still with sylvia weinstock takes on the new booty there's a menu of a lifetime and some racing talk about the bottom line for a wedding and celebrity event planner to tear you write that down to real estate you know base level where we can make that it's the army because of a wedding is astronomical small group rides to be in the middle of their wedding march on madison compared to two years because it's time to leave my job writes the magazine's mina lawrence so is the need for more time to plan and

lengthening deja vu to about sixteen months and created a lot of young shoppers prepared to drop ceiling is what he is setting up new lives semi lot of magazines and watch a lot of television and they're the ratings that most advertisers want to talk to a coworker do enough they don't lose their job and they become completely and utterly fact according to communist market research aged couples by five times more in a year when the settlement house so it isn't surprising crate and barrel borrowed a couple of hundred registries skimmers from other stores and open early for their wedding march a registry actually is a vital component to fade out and actually turn those treatments at this point in time every retailer in the world almost has a registry the restraint other purchases seems tough hills of east anglia we know stressing this is not a time to say no

elizabeth or the wedding experts we spoke to agree the desire to be unique coupled with celebrity inspiration has created a guaranteed luxury market so that's kind of how this princess isn't waiting the price of a wedding dress has gone up about fifty percent in the last decade the more media saturation we have the har are their images to resist of a woman having her moment carolyn hacks writes the syndicated advice column tell me about she's led by the millions of men and women in their rallying cry their twenties and thirties a lot of that same rationale healthy people can get caught doing this without realizing it because your tissue with somebody you love your

feeling reading your tired dating in the hole bridal industrial complex and beckett easily intimidated to say no a lot of the stuff that shows up in my inbox is all about people can say no or can hear now and battle scarred veterans of the wedding waterloo so are hard to find or explain to debt consolidation companies how they got in trouble we probably applied for ten credit cards to try to help ease the shock of all the wedding expenses everything needed for a wedding is roughly three times the cost of anything else that would just be making payments on my five thousand our engagement ring i didn't realize how much resin trees and other expenses came along that we didn't think of elizabeth singers parents wanted to give or anything she wanted until they began shopping in the bridal gowns were three thousand dollars then she says reality city she thought her dress secondhand on the internet and her mother made her veil from ten bucks worth of wal mart to somewhere someone may figure out just how much money you can make out

of convincing a robot that went and i have this wedding that unstressed emerged that vick ran his most impossible either like it was a good singer in her new husband chris say even with a budget conscious approach basement doubled meaning they originally thought that almost half of oil companies admit to spend more than they planned marilyn hack says it's a potent fantasy that gets people to spend what could be a down payment on a house for a few days of parties there's a massive collective losing sight of what is important how many of those people were back on that twenty two thousand dollar party and they will maybe i should've gotten so caught up in it and how i was going to celebrate an unmet need to think about what i was celebrating and asks nina lawrence says that one amazing day's work if the new couple remembers stay in it with your partner of his

eyes is walking down the aisle and then it's all worthwhile remember if you have an emotional moment and everything is worth it and the us about that dr lawrence says the wedding has become a time for aspirational spending says she's looking for the trends toward more expensive weddings to continue even if the economy is so rare at now again the major developments of this day hundreds of us troops sealed off a town in northern iraqi a major raid against gorillas and us embassies in kenya and saudi arabia warned of possible terror attacks in nairobi and riyadh will see online and again here tomorrow evening i'm jim lehrer thank you and goodnight major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been

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and by the sec companies one of the twenty five years of getting the job after one hundred twenty five years we are just getting stuff says on the call this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to a pbs station you is like you think you need hundreds of us troops sealed off a town in northern iraq today in a major raid against the coral as the operation near kirkuk began before dawn and continued after nightfall attack jets flew overhead and troops blocked roads and a search for weapons and suspects they arrested more than one hundred people including alleged leaders of saddam hussein's militia but us officials denied reports they had captured saddam's top advisor it sank abraham

outdoor at another us soldier was killed in iraq today in a roadside bombing and in spain there was a nationally televised funeral for seven intelligence officers killed in iraq on saturday the prime minister vowed not to withdraw all spanish troops from iraq italy also has troops in the coalition and today the italian defense minister urged the european union to do more he said the policy of the eu have fallen so far no money no soldiers is anachronistic today iraqi governing council a stick with the us backed plan for moving to self rule despite a shiite leaders objections grand ayatollah ali says donnie has called for holding elections before any transition but a number of the council members said today that would only delay the return to iraqi sovereignty it's now set to take place by next july we'll have more on this in a moment