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>> AN ACT OF TERR EARLY THIS
MORNING.
PROBABLY A PIPE BOMB,.
FLAGS WILL FLY AT HALF STAFF
DACHLT THE OLYMPIC COMPETITION
WILL GO ON AS SCHEDULED.
WE'LL TV LATEST, "TODAY,"
SATURDAY, JULY 27th,
>>> AT CENTENNIAL PARK I
ATLANTA FROM THE BLIMP, FLAY
FLYING OVER THE THIS OLYMPIC
TY.
VERY EARLY THIS RNING AN
EXPLOSION, PROBABLY A PIPE BOMB
FROM A SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE, THAT
WAS PLACED AT THE BASE OF A
TOWER THAT CONTAINED LIGHTING
AND AUDIOEQUIPMENT FOR THE ROCK
CONCERT.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
WHAT WAS THE EXPLOSION.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH WOR
BUT A POLEMAN ON ALERT, SAW
THE SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE.
HE BEGAN TO CLEAR PEOPLE AWAY.
WE THINK THAT IT WAS PLACED IN A
LEATHER SATCHEL OF SOME KIND.
OUR CAMERAMAN AT THE SCENE, MARK
FIELD, GOT BACK ABOUT 50 FEET
AFTER TAKING AA PICTURE OF THAT
PACKAGE, AND HEN THE EXPLOSION
OCCURRED.
IT'S BUY A LONG, DIFFICULT
EVENING FOR EVERYONE HERE IN
ATLANTA.
THE FBI IS IN CHARGE OF THIS
INVESTIGATION.
THEY CALL IT AN ACT OF TERROR.
THE MAN WHO WAS THE CHAIRMAN OF
THOLYMPIC GAMES, WHO CONCEIVED
THE IDEA OF BRINGING THE GAMES
TO THIS CITY IN THE FIRST PLACE
AND SAW IT THROUGH THE LAST TEN
YEARS, BILLYAYNE, THE
CHAIRMAN.
THIS HAS TO BE YOUR WORST
NIGHTMARE.
>> FIRST, ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US
IN ATLANTA.
INDEED THE ENTIRE OL
FAMILY, OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO THE
FAMILIES OF THOSE NO LONGER WITH
US.
TO THOSE WHO WERE WITH US.
AND IT'S BEEN A SAD NIGHT
INDEED.
>> YOU'RE GOING GO FORWARD
WITH THE GAMES NOW.
THERS BOUND TO BE A
PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT, BILLY.
>> THE SPIRIT RIT HERE HAS BEEN
SO GREAT.
THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTA HAVE BEEN,
THE INCIDENT TER CHANGE S BEEN
WONDERFUL.
WE MUST GO ON IN THE FACE OF
ADVERSITY.
NEITHER WE INTLANTA, NONE OF
US IN AMERICA, NONE OF US IN THE
WORLD WHO CARE ABOUT BRINGING
PEOPLE TOGETHER, IMPROVING
CONDITIONS AROUND THE WORD, CAN
LET ADVERSY STOP US.
SO WE WILL CONTINUE.
THE SPIRIT OF ATLANTA WIL LATCH
AGAIN STRONGLY TO THE OLYMPIC
MOVEMENT.
AND WE WILL CARRY IN OUREART A
GREAT SADNESS OVER WHAT HPENED
LAST NIGHT.
SO, TOO, WILL WE CONTINUE TO
CELEBRATE THAT WHICH WE SHARE IN
COMMON.
>> BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO
CHANGE THE SECURITY, OBVIOUSLY
IN A LOT OF THEENUES.
IT WAS TIGHT ALREADY BEFORE W
YOU WENT ANYWHERE.
NO IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE
GHTER.
AND IN TERMS OF THE PED TRANS'
FREEDOM?
>> I'M NOT SURE CHANGIS THE
WORD.
WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED VERY TIGH
SECURITY MEASURES AT THE VENUES.
WE CONSTANTLY REVIEWHEM IN THE
FACE OF CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES.
THEY ARE AND WL CONTINUE TO BE
SAFE WITH RESPECT TO THE PARK
ITSELF.
WE'VE CLOSED A PORTION OF IT
TEMPORARILY UNTIL THE
INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE.
AND THEN THE PARK WILL BOUNCE
BACK
>> SOME PEOPLE HAVE TOLD US THAT
SECURITY OICIALS RECOMMENDED
TO YOU THAT THAT PARK BE MORE
SECURE THAN IT WAS.
THAT YOU PUT IN MAGNETOMETERS
AND OTHER SCREENING DEVICES BUT
YOU ELEED NOT TO DO THAT
BECAUSE YOU WANTED THE PEOPL TO
GO AS FREE AS THEY CHOSE.
>> TOM, NOBODY MADE THAT
SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION TO ME.
BUT I WOULD HAVE PROBABLY
INTERPRETED THAT IN THE CONTEXT
OF CAN YOU PERFECTLY SECURE ALL
PUBLIC PLACES?
AND THE ANSWER, OBVIOUSLYIS
NOT.
PEOPLE HAVE TO HAVE SOME FREEDOM
OF MOVEMENT.
WHILE I CERTAINLY, WE ALLREGRET
THIS INCIDENT, I DON'T THINK IT
WAS A CONSEQUENCE O DOING OTHER
THAN WE SHOULD HAVE DONE.
>> TELL ME ABOUT THE DECISIONS
THAT YOU ALL HAD TO MAKE THI
MORNING ABOUWHETHER THE GAMES
GO FORWARD.
WHAT WEREHE CONSIDERATIONS?
>> WELL, THE CONSIDERATIONS,
FRANKLY, THESE WERE SHARED WITH
PRESIDENT SARANCH AND THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD AND OUR SENIOR
STAFF, I THINK FOUND
FUNDAMENTALLY IN THEASIS THAT
WE MUST CONTINUE THE SPIRIT OF
THE OLYMPIC MANDATES THAT WE
MUST CONTINUE.
AS MUCH AS WE FEEL SO
DISCOUGED AND HURT BY THE
OCCURRENCE.
THE OLYMPIC MOVEMEN REMAINS ONE
OF THE BRIGHT HOPES OF THE
FUTURE.
WE CANNOT, CANNOT DEVIATE FROM
OUR MISSION.
NOT WITHSTANDING THE GREAT SORE
REWE FEEL.
>> HAVE YOU BEEN IN TOUCH WITH
PRESIDENT CLINTON?
>> NOT DIRECTLY.
I HAVE OF COURSE WITH THE WHITE
HOUSE DURING THE NIGHT.
AND HE IS VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE
SITUATION.
I'M SURE WE'LL TALK SHORTLY.
>> MR. PAYNE, AS YOU DO GO
FORWARD NOW, THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
IN THIS CITY WHO HAVE BEEN
MAKING THOOS GAMES RUN, MANY ARE
VOLUNTEERS.
>> YES, SIR.
>> CAN'T YOU IMAGINE A LOT OF
THEM ARE SAYING, I DON'T WANT TO
GO TO A CROWDED VENUE SOMEWHERE
WHERE THERS A MANIAC LOOSE OUT
THERE?
>> I WOULD THINK THAT THE SRIT
OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, EVERYONE
MAKING THE GAMES POSSIBLE, FEE
AS I DO.
TERRIBLY SADDENED.
AND, YET, ALSO EMPOWERED, ALSO
HONORED, TO BE REPRESENTING THIS
COMMUNITY AND THE OLYMPIC
MOVEMENT, AND IN I SUSPECTS
THEY'RE AWARE OF THE TIGHT
SECURITY MEASURES, HAVING
ENCOUNTERED THEM ALREADY AT THE
VENUES.
AND THEY'LL BE REPRESENTING
ATLANTA AND THE OLYMPICS.
>> YOU LOOKED CAREFULLY AT
MUNICH IN 1972.
THAT WAS AN EVEN MORE TRAUMATIC
EVENT.
BUT IT DID HAVE A BIG IMPACT ON
THOSE GAMES.
PART OF YOUR GREAT SPIRIT HAS
BEEN YOUR ENTHUSIASM AND YOUR
DETERMINATION TO GO FORWARD.
BUT THERE'S REALISTIC
ADJUSTME THAT HAS TO BE MADE
HERE, ISN'T THERE?
>> WE ENCOUNTER SADNESS AT SO
MANY DIFFERENTTAGES OF OUR
LIFE.
TODAY IS ONE OF THOSE.
I HAVE CONTINUED AS HAS THE
OLYMPIC MOVEMENT.
WHEN IT'S HAD DIFFICULTIES.
SO WE MARCH TOGETHER, LINKING
ARMS.
TO MAKE THE BEST OUT OF THIS
SITUATION, TO RENOOUF NATURE THE
SPIRIT OF ATLANTA AND INFORM
SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD FOR THE
NEXT EIGHT DAYS AS WE HAVE FOR
THE LAST EIGHT DAYS.
>> WE HAD ONE REPORT THAT ALE
GORE WAS COERNED ABOUT
SECURITY GETTING LAX.
AND HE RACESED THO CONCERNS
WITH SOME MEMBERS OF YOUR
COMMITTEE WHEN HE WAS VITING
HERE LAST NIGHT.
IS THAT TRUE?
>> I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT
CONCERN.
HE DID NOT RAISE IT TO M
YOU WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE VICE
PRESIDENT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT
HE MADE THAT STATEMENT TO
OTHERS.
>> YOU WERE ONCE AN ATHLETE,
DEFENSIVE END AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF GEORGIA.
ATHLIC COMPETITION REQUIRES
MENTAL CONCENTRATION.
PUT YOURSELF IN THE MINDS OF
THESE YOUNG ATHLETES LEAVING
THAT OLYMPIC VILLAGE TODAY.
IT'S BUNTD TO HAVEN IMPACT ON
THEM.
>> THEY, TOORX HAVE SADNESS FOR
THE FAMILIES OF THE ONE THAT WE
LOST AND WERE INJURED.
THEY ALSO HAVE GREAT FOCUS.
THEY HAVE TRAINED FOR THEIR
ENTIRE LIVES FOR THIS MOMENT.
AND I WOULD HOPE THAT THAT FOCUS
WOULD NOT BE SACRIFICED TOO MUC.
>> THANK YOU.
>> THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US
THIS MORNING.
LET'S GO DO ROGER'NILE.
OUT SIDE THE HEADQUARTER ARES OF
ACOU GO.
WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR US?
>> WE'RE ON THE EDGE OF
CENTENNIAL PARWHERE THE MOOD
HAS CERTAINLY CHANGED THIS
MORNIN
A NEW CREW OF SECURITY PEOPLE
FOR THE DAYTIM SHIFTS HAVE JUST
COME ON DUTY, AND INSTEAD OF
SEEING THREE OR FOUR OFFICERS,
FI OR SIX NATIONAL GUARDSMEN
ON CORNERS, NOW THERE'S 10 OR
12.
THEY ARE MUCH MORE DETERMINED AT
KEEPING PEOPLE AT BAY AND MAKING
SURE THEY DO NOT GO WHERE MUCH
OF THI DOWNTOWNREA HAS NOW
DIDN'T SEALED OFF.
THAT MILE AND A HALF RING HAS
BEEN EXTENDED TO NINE MILES.
I SUSPECT THAT IS MORE TO KEEP
PEOPLE OUT, THAN BECAUSE OF THE
THREAT DOWNTOWN.
HOWEVER, FBI OFFICIALS IN THE
BRIEFING THAT WE GOT THIS
MORNING FROM *** JOHNSON SAID
AT THE ENTIRE CENTENNIAL PARK
AREA WOULD BE SANITIZED BY
SECURITY FORCES LOOKING FOR
OTHER DEVICES THAT COULD CAUSE
MORE PROBLEMS, ALTHOUGH HE
EMPHASIZED THERE HAS BEEN NO
OTHER THREATS.
ALSO, ALTHOUGH THE NUES WOULD
BE SANITIZED BEFORE PEOPLE WERE
ALLOWED IN TODAY, AS NEW
SECURITY FORCES CAMEN DUTY
THIS MORNING IN THE DOWNTOWN
AREA, THEY WERE TOLD BY THEIR
COMMANDING OFFICERS, ONE
30-MEMBER NATIONAL GUARD UNIT
BEING TOLD YOU YOU ARE ON THE
SAME STATION IT IS THE SAME
WATCH,UT WATCH MORE CLOSELY.
AS F AS THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
HERE, THEY'RE ALMOST LOCKED IN
THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
NOBODY GETS IN.
NOBODY THE GETTINGUT AT THE
MOMENT.
BUT SARA JAMES HAS TALKED TO A
NUMBER OF PEOPLE AS TO WHETHER
OR NOT THEY ARE GOING TO GO TO
THE GAMES.
ARE THEY SCARED NOW?
DO TY WANT TO GO HOME?
>> IT WAS VERY INTERESTING,
ROGER, BECAUSE WE TALKED TONE
PERSON FROM CADA, ANOTHER FROM
GERMANY, AND TWO WHO ARE FROM
RIGHT HE IN ATLANTA.
AND EACH AND EVERY ONE SAID, WE
ARE GOING TO THE GAMES.
THEY ARE TAKING THE WD OF THE
OLYMPIC OFFICIALS HERE VERY
SERIOUSLY, AND WHILE THEY'RE
DEEPLY SADDENED BY WHAT HAS
HAPPENED HERE IN ATLANTA,
THEY'RE NOT GOG TO AOW THAT
TO MAR THE GAMES FOR THEM.
THEY ARE GOING TO GO FORWARD TO
GO ON TO THE GAMES.
I WAS PARTICULARLY STRUCK BY
TALKING TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM
GEANY, AND ISKED HIM IF I
BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF 1972,
IN MUNICH, THAT ATTACK THERE,
AND HE SAID,THAT SEEMED TO BE
DIFFERENT, WHILE WE STILL DON'T
KNOW EXACTLY WHO PLANTED THIS
EXPLOSIVE DEVICE, HE SAID IT
SEEMED THERE YOU WERE TALKING
ABOUTOLITICS, AND TO HIM, THIS
WAS AGAINST THE ENTIRE SPIT OF
THE GAMES, AGAINST THE PEOPLE
COMING TO THEGAMES, BECAUSE
INDEED IT HAPPENED IN CENTENNIAL
PARK WHERE EVERYONE WAS
GATHERING AND CELEBRANG, A
PLACE THAT WAS FOR EVERYONE, NOT
JUST FOR THE ATHLETES, NOT JUST
FOR THE MEDIA, BUT FOR EVERYONE
TO CELEBRATE, AND HE SAID HE
WASN'T GOING ALLOW THAT TO STOP
HIM.
HE, INDEED, WAS GOING TO GO TO
THE MES.
>> WHEN WE WERE FIRST BRIEFED,
TOM, ABOUT TWO HOURS AGO BY
OFFICIALS IN ATLANTA, INCLUDING
*** JOHNSON WITH THE FBI, IT
WAS A STARTLE STATEMENT THAT HE
MADE, THE FBI WILL CONSIDER IT
AN ACT OF TERRORISM UNTIL WE GET
MORE INFORMATION OTHERWISE.
IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT YOU
DON'T EXPECTO HEAR AT THE
OLYMPICS.
THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A
FESTIVAL.
AND IT WAS A FESTIVAL, UNTIL
VERY EARLY THIS MORNING WHEN IN
THE OPENREA, THE CENNNIAL
PARK, THE FESTIVAL FOR
ATLANTAENS MORE THAN ANYBODY
ELSE HAD THAT TERRIBLE
EXPLOSION.
>> THANKS VERY MUCH, ROG
O'NEIL, THAT IS THE EPICENTER OF
THE BLAST.
THERE IS AIPE BOMB, PROBABLY,
IN A LEATHER SATCHEL, WE HAD
VIDEOTAPE OF IT COMING FROM A
CAMERAMAN AS HE WAS BEING TOLD
TO CLEAR OUT OF THE AREA,
BECAUSE A POLIC SAW IT AS A
SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE.
THEN THE EXPLOSI WT OFF, AND
A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WERE INJURED.
MORE THA 100 AT LAST COUNT.
THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST TWO FAY
TALL TIS.
THE PEOPLE INJURED WERE
POLICEMEN T COULD HAVE BEEN
WORSE.
THEY WERE ABLE TO GET A LITTLE
BIT OF A CORE DO AROUND IT.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT THATSATCHEL
AND A PULLBACK FROM THE AREA.
THIS IS BEFORE THE EXPLOSI
OCCURRED.
PEOPLE ARE STILL GOING ABOUT
THEIR BUSINESS.
AND, YOU KNOW, IN OUR BUSINESS,
WE HAVE SO MANY TIMES BEEN TOLD
BY OFFICIALS, WE THINK WE HAVE A
SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE OR THERE MAY
BE A BOMB.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.
[ LOUD EXPLOSION ]
>> "JA MACK AND THE HEARD
ATTACK" WAS THE NAME OF THE
ROCK 'N' ROLL BAND.
THE PRODUCER WAS ON THE STAGE
WITH SOUND MIXERS.
HE WAS TOLD THERE WAS A WARNING
OF 0 BOMB THREAT.
THEY BEGAN TO CLEAR OUT OF
THERE.
HE BEGAN TO DO THAT AND ENDED UP
CARRYING AWAY FROM OF THE
WOUNDED WELL.
GEORGE LEWIS HAS BEEN UP ALL
NIGHT WORK ONG THIS STORY.
GEORGE?
>> Reporter: I'M ON MARIETTA
STREET, ONE OF THE MAIN DRAGNESS
DOTOWN ATLANTA.
POLICE ARE TURNING SOME OF THE
TRAFFIC AROUND FROM THE
CENTENNIAL PARK AREA.
A MUCH DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE TN
HAD PREVAILED BEFORE, SINCE THE
BEGINNING THE OLYMPICS THE
ATMOSPHERE WAS FESTIVE,EOPLE
STAYING OUT LATE PARTYING.
THAT ALL CHANGED THIS MORNING.
I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
VIDEOTAPE SHOWING THE ENE THIS
MORNING.
MAYBE THEEOPLE CAN ALERT ME
WHEN THAT VIDEOTAPE IS READY.
MEANWHILE -- YES?
>> I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ABOUT
WHETHER PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO MOVE
EASILY THROUGH -- THERE'S YOUR
TAPE.
HERE IT IS.
>> Reporter: THE SUPPT
PERSONNEL REPORTED QUICKLY,
SIRENS BLAZING IMMEDIATELY.
INSTANTLY.
>> GO!
GO
>> HE'S HURT!
HE'S HURT!
>> ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?
>> Reporter: THIS WAS THE SCENE
SHORTLY AFTER THE BLAST, AND
IMMEDIATELAFTER THAT, POLICE
BEGAN SECURING THE STREETS OF
DOTOWN ATLANTA, AND SECURING
THE AREA AROUND CENTENNIAL PARK.
WE RUSHED TO THE INTEATIONAL
BROADCAST CENTER THIS MORNING
AND FOUND THE ADDED SECURITY
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS WERE BEING
FRISKED ON THEIR WAY INTO THE
BUILDING, AND YOU CAN SEE
OCCASIONAL OCCASIONAL GROUPS'S
S.W.A.T. TEAMS MARCHING AROUND
HERE.
THE MAJOR THEY ARE FAIRS ARE
CLOSED OFF, THE TRAFFIC MESS
PRESENT BEFORE HAS BEEN
INTENSIFIED BECAUSE OF THE
ADDITIONAL STREET CLOSINGS, THE
FBI SAYS THAT THE PARK AND THE
OLYMPIC VENUES ARE GOING TO BE,
IN ITS WORDS, SANITIZED, A
THOROUGH SEARCH FOR EXPLOSIVE
DEVICES BEFORE PEOPLE ARE LET
IN.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE VERY
DIFFICULT FOR THE GAMES TO START