Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 2008-01-07

This program is 28 minutes long

• Preview/Introduction Katie Couric (Bedford, New Hampshire)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:31:10 pm

• Campaign 2008 / New Hampshire / Clinton / Republicans

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  05:31:10 pm — 05:41:10 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) The findings of the new CBS News poll on the widening lead for Senator Barack Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and the nationwide standings of the Democrats and Republicans in a new "USA Today"/Gallup Poll cited. [In response to a question, CLINTON - says this is "very personal for her" and this election is about our country and on the potential for problems to spin out of control.]

  (Salem, New Hampshire: Jim Axelrod) This personal reaction from Clinton to the question from from 64-year-old Marianne Pernold Young† reviewed. [YOUNG - says she {Hillary} showed emotion.] [John EDWARDS - responds to Clinton; calls the moment real.]

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Report introduced.

  (New Hampshire: Dean Reynolds) Obama's campaign in New Hampshire featured; scenes shown of Obama with the crowd outside and inside. [OBAMA - campaigns.] The changing CBS News poll figures cited. [Independent voter Chris SABAN†; in Lebanon, Clinton supporter David ASHEY†- offer differing opinions on Obama.]

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) The poll standings of the Republican leaders cited; scenes shown of Senator John McCain and Mitt Romney. [In an interview on the bus, McCAIN - comments on his surge after Labor Day, the success of the surge in Iraq beyond expectations with the political process moving forward slowly, whether age would become an issue in a race with Obama; predicts a respectful debate with any Democratic candidate.] [In an interview, ROMNEY - recalls McCain beating George Bush in New Hampshire; calls his campaign "fabulous" since he is a "guy from Detroit" now in the lead; states he has been attacked in a personal way.]

• Campaign 08 Notebook

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  05:41:10 pm — 05:42:50 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Mike Huckabee's appearance tonight with David Letterman; another marathon in New Hampshire by former Senator John Edwards with an ad targeting Obama and Clinton; the issue of a third party campaign by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the weather forecast for primary day in New Hampshire reported. [BLOOMBERG - calls the government dysfunctional.]

• Upcoming Items (New Hampshire: Katie Couric)

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  05:42:50 pm — 05:43:10 pm

• (Commercial: Publishers Clearing House; Plavix; Red Lobster; Glad.)

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  05:43:10 pm — 05:45:40 pm

• Crime in America

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  05:45:40 pm — 05:46:00 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) FBI report on crime in America in 2007 reported; statistics cited.

• Supreme Court / Death Penalty

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  05:46:00 pm — 05:48:00 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Report introduced.

  (Supreme Court: Wyatt Andrews) The Supreme Court's consideration of a Kentucky death penalty case involving the constitutionality of lethal injunctions examined; voices of petitioner's attorney Donald Verrilli† and Justice Antonin Scalia about lethal injections quoted. [Execution witness victim's brother Michael MANNING†- raises the cruel and unusual punishment issue.] [Victim's sister Rose BENNETT†- comments on her brother's murder.]

• Medicine: Autism and Thimerosal

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  05:48:00 pm — 05:48:30 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Research finding no link between mercury in the vaccine preservative thimerosal and autism in children reported.

• Upcoming Items (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Stock Market Report

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  05:48:30 pm — 05:48:40 pm

• (Commercial: Cepacol; Applebee's; Caduet; Advil; Caltrate; 1-800-SAFEAUTO.)

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  05:48:40 pm — 05:51:20 pm

• Iran-US Relations / Persian Gulf

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  05:51:20 pm — 05:53:00 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric) Report introduced.

  (Pentagon: Bob Orr) A dangerous confrontation between US and Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf reviewed; map and animation of the naval faceoff shown. [5th Fleet US commander Vice Adm. Kevin COSGRIFF†- comments on the possibility of a miscalculation.]

• (Commercial: "CBS Evening News"; Swanson; Coricidin; Levitra; Amitiza; NewsChannel 5.)

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  05:53:00 pm — 05:55:50 pm

• Campaign 2008 / New Hampshire / A Discussion

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  05:55:50 pm — 05:58:10 pm

  (New Hampshire: Katie Couric, Bob Schieffer, Jeff Greenfield) Live discussion held about the campaign in New Hampshire, including Senator Hillary Clinton's emotional response, former Senator Bill Bradley's endorsement of Senator Barack Obama, who is doing very well and how he and Senator John McCain are competing for the independent vote and the lowered expectations for Mitt Romney's camp.

• Good Night

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  05:58:10 pm — 05:58:10 pm