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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) The expectation that candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger will win over Governor Gray Davis in today’s California recall election featured. [Election OFFICIAL – reacts to the voting turnout.] [DAVIS, SCHWARZENEGGER – comment after casting their ballots.] [Candidates Lt. Gov. Cruz BUSTAMANTE†, Tom McCLINTOCK – comment on their chances.] [Several VOTERS – comment.] [Political scientist Bruce CAIN†- says the recall has not helped California solve its problems.]
(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) The complications of the election system and the ballot featured; details given about the large voting turnout. [California secretary of state Kevin SHELLEY†- cites statistics.] [VOTER – comments.] [Orange County registrar Steve RODERMUND†- comments on the compressed time frame for the election.] [CBS News election survey unit Anthony SALVANTO†- comments on the format of the ballot.] [Los Angeles County registrar Conny McCORMACK†- talks about absentee ballots & provisional votes.]
(Sacramento: Sandra Hughes) The politics behind the recall effort to oust Davis featured; details given about problems in California during Davis’s tenure. [Davis’s neighbor Charlotte GOLAND†- says we deserve a better governor.] [People’s Advocate Ted COSTA†- says Davis did nothing {during the California energy crisis.}] [Political scientist Jack PITNEY†- says Californians don’t like the image of a typical, cynical politician.] [California superintendent of public institutions Jack O’CONNELL†- says Davis is a down-to-earth person.]
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) More American soldiers killed in Iraq; a demonstration by Shiite Muslims at a Baghdad mosque, and approval from Turkey’s parliament to send peacekeeping forces to Iraq reported.
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: John Roberts) The Justice Department’s investigation of who in President Bush’s administration blew the cover of a CIA agent featured; details given about Bush’s delay in reacting to this leak. [BUSH – says he doesn’t know whether we’ll find out who the leaker is.] [October, 2001, BUSH – says it is unacceptable behavior to leak classified information.] [American University historian James THURBER†- says the White House has been very slow about this leak.] [White House press secretary Scott McCLELLAN – says we don’t want to overburden investigators.]
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) The knifepoint abduction & robbery from her McLean, Virginia, home of Kathleen Gregg, the wife of New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg, reported.
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Byron Pitts) Growing abuse of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin† featured; details given about accusations of abuse of the drug by radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. [Voice of LIMBAUGH – says he is waiting to find out what he is facing legally.] [Former drug counselor “RICHARD” – talks about his addiction to OxyContin.] [Drug treatment specialist Peter PROVET†- lists the legal uses of OxyContin.]
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) A federal appeals court’s approval for the FTC to begin enforcing the national do-not-call registry noted.
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Bob McNamara) The meeting in Dallas of conservative American Episcopalians in protest of the Episcopal Church’s new positions on homosexuality featured; details given of reactions to the Church’s decision to elect its first openly gay bishop and allow the blessing of same-sex marriages. [Episcopal Church Rev. David ROSEBERRY†- says there is a rolling outrage across the nation.] [Episcopal parishioner Evelyn SOBERS†- comments on homosexuality.] [Gay Episcopalian Bryan CATHER†- comments on the split within the Church.]
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Pope John Paul II’s appearance at a shrine in Pompeii, Italy, noted; scenes shown.
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) The condition of Roy Horn after being attacked by one of his tigers during his act in Las Vegas updated.
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(Los Angeles: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(San Francisco: John Blackstone) The significance of the issue of ferret ownership, which is illegal in California, in the recall election featured; excerpt shown of candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger with a ferret in the movie “Kindergarten Cop.” [Ferret OWNER – says we’ve been fighting this issue for 10 years.] [Gubernatorial candidates Mike WOZNIAK†, Mary CAREY†- support ferret ownership.] [Californians for Ferret Legalization Jeanne CARLEY†- supports Schwarzenegger.]
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