CBS Evening News - 2012-11-07 (day after election)
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:01] can they [music] fix Washington? Now,
[0:04] the politicians who brought us gridlock
[0:06] are reelected.
[0:07] >> Tonight, you voted for action, not
[0:11] politics as usual.
[0:13] >> Let's rise above the dysfunction and do
[0:15] the right thing together for our
[0:17] country.
[0:18] >> Reports from Nancy Cordis, [music] Dean
[0:20] Reynolds, and Anthony Mason. A countdown
[0:23] begins to automatic tax increases
[0:25] [music] and huge budget cuts. Wyatt
[0:28] Andrews on the fiscal cliff. A noraster
[0:31] bears down on shores ravaged by Sandy.
[0:34] Ben Tracy is there. We'll have the
[0:37] forecast.
[0:38] >> I don't know if we can mentally handle
[0:39] another storm.
[0:40] >> And one secret to the president's
[0:43] success was the changing face of
[0:45] America. [music] Anna Werner on the new
[0:47] voters who helped push him over the top.
[0:51] [music]
[0:55] This is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:58] Py.
[0:59] >> Good evening. This is a special one-hour
[1:02] edition. $6 billion was spent on
[1:05] political campaigns, and when they were
[1:07] over, nothing much changed. Republicans
[1:10] will still control the House, Democrats,
[1:12] the Senate, and Barack Obama will still
[1:15] be president. This was the scene tonight
[1:17] as the president and the first family
[1:19] returned from Chicago aboard Air Force
[1:22] One. They landed at Joint Base Andrews
[1:25] right outside Washington DC. We will
[1:28] have a look at what you can expect from
[1:30] Washington in the future, but first the
[1:33] latest returns. We still can't project a
[1:36] winner in the presidential contest in
[1:38] Florida, but even without Florida, Mr.
[1:40] Obama has 303 electoral votes, well over
[1:44] the 270 needed for victory. Mitt Romney
[1:47] ended u