CBS Evening News - 2007-04-12
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[0:00] I'm Katie Couric, breaking news in the
[0:02] Don Imus story.
[0:04] Under growing pressure, CBS late today
[0:07] fired the radio host effective
[0:09] immediately.
[0:13] Also tonight, a deadly attack aimed at
[0:15] the very heart of the Iraqi government.
[0:17] A suicide bomber blows himself up in the
[0:20] parliament cafeteria despite some of the
[0:22] tightest security in all of Iraq.
[0:26] And the Durham DA who charged those
[0:28] three Duke lacrosse players with rape
[0:31] tells them today he's sorry.
[0:38] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:41] Couric.
[0:44] >> Hello everyone. There will be no Imus in
[0:46] the morning tomorrow morning. CBS today
[0:49] fired nationally syndicated radio host
[0:51] Don Imus over those now infamous remarks
[0:54] he made about the women's basketball
[0:55] team at Rutgers University. CBS had at
[0:58] first said it was suspending Imus for
[1:00] two weeks, but political pressure grew.
[1:03] Sponsors pulled their advertising and
[1:05] MSNBC canceled its simulcast of the
[1:08] program. And late today, CBS pulled the
[1:11] plug altogether on one of the most
[1:13] influential and successful broadcasters
[1:15] in America. We'll begin our coverage
[1:17] tonight with Nancy Cordes.
[1:20] >> The pressure built and built until it
[1:23] was just too much.
[1:24] >> It was our appeal
[1:27] to really
[1:29] have the second shoe of justice drop.
[1:32] >> According to a statement from CBS
[1:34] President Leslie Moonves, he is
[1:36] terminating the Imus in the Morning
[1:38] radio show effective immediately,
[1:40] saying, "I believe all of us have been
[1:42] deeply revolted by the statements that
[1:44] were made on our air about the young
[1:46] women who represented Rutgers
[1:48] University." Moonves says he