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(Chicago: Dean Reynolds) The storm featured; scenes shown of overturned trucks & cars in new Mexico & elsewhere, snow everywhere, weather maps, skidding cars; details given about flight delays. [Meteorologist Bernie RAYNO†, at O'Hare Airport, traveller Jennifer DANT - talk about aspects of the weather conditions.] The '75 sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior recalled.
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(Washington: Bob Orr) The security breach in which the Transportation Security Administration {TSA} published a document on the Internet that reveals airport screening secrets examined; various details given from the aviation security document. A TSA statement & the warning on each page of the document quoted. ["Wired" magazine editor John ABELL††- calls it a rookie mistake leaking secret information.]
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(Kabul: Terry McCarthy) The US plan for the war in Afghanistan featured; scenes shown of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai. [GATES - says this is not an open-ended commitment; hopes we can beat the timeline for withdrawal.] [KARZAI - comments.] [Kabul aid worker Dil AGHA†- says it is too short-term.]
(Pentagon: David Martin) What a win in Afghanistan would look like reviewed. [Before Congress, US commander in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McCHRYSTAL - expects progress by specific dates in 2010.] [Yesterday, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike MULLEN - says there is no middle ground between winning & losing.]
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(London: Elizabeth Palmer) Five deadly bombings in Iraq featured; scenes shown of the damages at government buildings in Baghdad & of people in the streets raising questions.
(Studio: Katie Couric) Earlier interview held with Gen. Ray Odierno about the war in Iraq. [Multi-national forces commander in Iraq ODIERNO - offers perspective on today's attack; states it is important Iraq secures its own people & we will support them; suggests the insurgent strategy will not work.]
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(White House: Chip Reid) The view of President Obama that we need to spend our way out of the recession examined; details given about proposed spending on transportation projects, tax breaks for small businesses, rebates for home energy projects. [OBAMA - says we are not yet creating enough jobs.] [Senator John McCAIN - criticizes stimulus spending.] [Vinyl Lite Windows†† co-owner Michael BOUCHERY†- talks about saving money for energy.]
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(Greenland: Mark Phillips) The impact of global warming on the great glaciers of Greenland featured; scenes & diagrams shown of the mountain-size "iceberg" glaciers; details given about how the economy is speeding up with mineral & oil exploration. [Greenlander Johannes Mathaussen - talks about the temperature change.] [Inuit Circumpolar youth movement's Stina BERTHELSEN†- worries about getting rich right away.]
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