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Washington Begins Weekend on Watch for Sniper
Aired October 18, 2002 - 14:39 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Around Washington, another weekend is beginning with many folks looking over their shoulders for a sniper.
CNN national correspondent Bob Franken is across the street from Falls Church, Virgina,'s Home Depot, where the last attacks took place.
Bob, you said that people don't even want to stop to talk to you now, huh?
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They're looking over their shoulders and nodding their heads no when if I ask they want to talk. That's unusual, Carol: People do like to be on television. But they don't want to stop and be on television as they go about their essentials duties, duties that many of them say they're a little bit nervous about.
We were told by the various store managers in this area that, not unexpectedly, business dropped off after Monday, and the snipers. It's beginning to pick up. People are beginning to trickle in. We're coming to the weekend, where there are certain essentials that have to be taken care of. At some point, you have to have food, at some points you have to have the necessary pharmaceuticals, that type of thing. So there's going to be an uptick in business.
But there has certainly been an effect on this community. The sniper/snipers, singular or plural, male or female, does know that this has had an impact. It just shows how fragile the routine. The impact is being felt in the cancellation of many events in the surrounding areas. Some of the counties around here are canceling such things as the weekend football games, high school. There is supposed to be a festival in downtown Washington, D.C., which is being scaled back.
That was the case last weekend. In Fairfax County, where we are, the high school is going to play its football game somewhere within 150 miles of the high school, somewhere undisclosed. They're not going to say. The football game, of course, will be played without any fans present, out of fear, something that causes people a great degree of sadness here. At the same time, they say they don't want to be intimidated. Everybody is very nervous and is going to some degree of extreme to be very, very careful as this unsolved mystery continues so tragically -- Carol.
LIN: Thank you very much. Bob Franken, live in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Aired October 18, 2002 - 14:39 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Around Washington, another weekend is beginning with many folks looking over their shoulders for a sniper.
CNN national correspondent Bob Franken is across the street from Falls Church, Virgina,'s Home Depot, where the last attacks took place.
Bob, you said that people don't even want to stop to talk to you now, huh?
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They're looking over their shoulders and nodding their heads no when if I ask they want to talk. That's unusual, Carol: People do like to be on television. But they don't want to stop and be on television as they go about their essentials duties, duties that many of them say they're a little bit nervous about.
We were told by the various store managers in this area that, not unexpectedly, business dropped off after Monday, and the snipers. It's beginning to pick up. People are beginning to trickle in. We're coming to the weekend, where there are certain essentials that have to be taken care of. At some point, you have to have food, at some points you have to have the necessary pharmaceuticals, that type of thing. So there's going to be an uptick in business.
But there has certainly been an effect on this community. The sniper/snipers, singular or plural, male or female, does know that this has had an impact. It just shows how fragile the routine. The impact is being felt in the cancellation of many events in the surrounding areas. Some of the counties around here are canceling such things as the weekend football games, high school. There is supposed to be a festival in downtown Washington, D.C., which is being scaled back.
That was the case last weekend. In Fairfax County, where we are, the high school is going to play its football game somewhere within 150 miles of the high school, somewhere undisclosed. They're not going to say. The football game, of course, will be played without any fans present, out of fear, something that causes people a great degree of sadness here. At the same time, they say they don't want to be intimidated. Everybody is very nervous and is going to some degree of extreme to be very, very careful as this unsolved mystery continues so tragically -- Carol.
LIN: Thank you very much. Bob Franken, live in Falls Church, Virginia.
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