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Stories | Transcripts - April 10, 2005
Highway to hell If you're like us, just the thought of a huge semi looming up ahead on the highway is unnerving. And there's every reason to be wary, even downright scared. It's a fact that most truckies break the rules. They speed, they're doped to the eyeballs, they drive till they drop. During the course of this investigation, we tailed one driver, who was at the wheel for 22 solid hours. That's illegal and so were the speeds he clocked up.
II Papa Peter Overton reports from Rome, where millions of the Catholic faithful have arrived for the funeral of Pope John Paul II. And for the most part they're not expected to leave until a decision is reached about the next pope. As Peter reports, there's no shortage of candidates nor a shortage of opinions as to who should be the man to lead a billion believers in the 21st century.
Pride of Erin Julia Roberts had no doubt. When she played Erin Brockovich in the film of the same name, it was as a bold and brassy single mum who, as the pitch went, "brought a corporation to its knees and a town to its feet". Julia got an Oscar; Erin became famous as the sassy street fighter who uncovered one of America's worst cancer scandals. Now Erin's at it again, with a new case, a class action, set in the heart of Tinseltown.
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