CBS Evening News - 1999-12-29
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[0:00] a Monica Linsky exclusive her weight
[0:02] loss commercial on
[0:05] ET tracking the Y2K bug the US
[0:08] government Command Center opens for
[0:10] business watching for Y2K meltdowns
[0:13] anywhere in the world and the first big
[0:15] one is in Britain where some credit
[0:17] cards have stopped working Americans are
[0:20] stocking up on batteries and other
[0:22] necessities just in case and the story
[0:25] of a severely disabled child and the
[0:27] parents who just couldn't cope
[0:30] [Music]
[0:33] this is the CBS Evening
[0:36] News with Dan
[0:39] Rather good evening Bob schaer sitting
[0:41] in for Dan tonight well time is fast
[0:43] running out on 1999 just two days left
[0:47] now and here is the latest on the
[0:49] countdown to 2000 the Y2K bug has taken
[0:52] a bite out of Britain the state
[0:54] department is evacuating hundreds of US
[0:56] Embassy employees from Moscow police in
[0:59] the Middle East are making precautionary
[1:01] arrests amid fears of Terror attacks and
[1:04] security has been tightened here in the
[1:05] United States at the sites of the Y2K
[1:08] celebrations we're going to have details
[1:10] on all these stories tonight and we
[1:12] start with CBS News correspondent Diana
[1:15] olik in
[1:16] Washington with two days left one
[1:19] message is coming out of Washington
[1:22] 99.9% of federal Mission critical
[1:24] systems are ready for the rollover FEMA
[1:26] is ready the federal government's
[1:28] principal agencies are telling everyone
[1:31] every way they can that they're ready
[1:33] for Y2K we are prepared to respond just
[1:36] like we would for any other natural
[1:39] disaster or any other emergency
[1:41] situation anywhere in the continental
[1:43] United States the Pentagon showed off
[1:46] its Y2K re