CBS Evening News - 2009-05-04

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[0:00] Well, Portland Beavers rained out

[0:01] tonight. They'll play a doubleheader

[0:03] Wednesday. I can't figure out why.

[0:04] >> Geez, it's rained out. Yeah.

[0:06] >> What they what they can't [laughter]

[0:06] play in a little rain?

[0:07] >> Exactly.

[0:08] >> They're not Oregonians?

[0:09] >> Very heavy rain coming in for the next

[0:11] hour and a half at least. Gusts of 65

[0:14] miles an hour along the coast and 40

[0:15] miles an hour [music] in the valley.

[0:17] >> I mean, you [laughter] dry out

[0:18] afterwards, right?

[0:19] >> CBS Evening News up next.

[0:24] >> Search to pay the costs of our

[0:25] >> Tonight, the president proposes major

[0:27] changes in the tax code. His target,

[0:30] American corporations and individuals

[0:32] abusing overseas tax havens. [music]

[0:34] >> These and other reforms will save

[0:36] American taxpayers 210

[0:39] billion dollars.

[0:40] >> I'm Jeff Glor. Also tonight, a powerful

[0:42] burst of wind

[0:43] >> [music]

[0:44] >> and then disaster.

[0:47] After the roof collapses at a Dallas

[0:49] Cowboys practice facility injuring 12

[0:51] people,

[0:52] the search continues for answers.

[0:55] Building an automobile powerhouse,

[0:57] Fiat's already buying a piece of

[0:59] Chrysler. Now, it wants some of GM.

[1:02] And 2 years after a tornado wiped out

[1:04] this town,

[1:05] >> [music]

[1:05] >> it's growing back. Green.

[1:10] >> [music]

[1:12] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:15] Couric.

[1:18] >> And good evening. Katie's on assignment

[1:20] this week. As a candidate, Barack Obama

[1:22] promised to overhaul the tax code. Today

[1:24] as president, he set out to do it. For

[1:26] starters, he wants to hire 800 new IRS

[1:29] agents to quote, "Detect and pursue tax

[1:31] evaders." And he wants to close

[1:33] loopholes in the law to eliminate

[1:35] overseas tax havens for corporations and

[1:37] individuals. That he says would generate

[1:39] 210 billion dollars in revenue for the

[1:42] US Treasury over 10 years. But can the

[1:45] president get these changes by the

[1:46] powerful business lobbies and through

[1:48] Congress? Here's Chip Reid.

[1:51] >> The president said today it's time to

[1:53] fix a broken tax It's that encourages US

[1:56] corporations to send money and jobs

[1:58] overseas.

[2:00] >> It's a tax code that says you should pay

[2:01] lower taxes if you create a job in

[2:04] Bangalore, India

[2:06] than if you create one in Buffalo, New

[2:09] York.

[2:10] >> The White House gives this example. Two

[2:12] US companies decide to build a new

[2:14] factory. Company A builds in the US and

[2:16] is taxed 35% on profits. Company B

[2:20] builds in a foreign country where the

[2:21] tax rate is 10%. It has to pay the other

[2:24] 25% only when it brings its profits back

[2:27] to the US. But many companies never do,

[2:30] instead reinvesting the money overseas.

[2:34] Promising to end that practice was a

[2:35] major applause line for the president on

[2:38] the campaign trail. The president today

[2:40] also proposed cracking down on wealthy

[2:42] individuals and corporations that avoid

[2:45] taxes by putting money in foreign tax

[2:47] havens. This building in the Cayman

[2:49] Islands is home to nearly 19,000

[2:52] corporations.

[2:53] >> Either this is the largest building in

[2:55] the world or the largest tax scam in the

[2:57] world.

[2:59] I think the American people

[3:00] know which it is.

[3:01] >> But Marty Regalia of the US Chamber of

[3:03] Commerce says the president's proposals

[3:05] are a $210 billion tax grab to pay for

[3:09] bigger government.

[3:10] >> We're going to penalize those companies

[3:11] simply because they are successful and

[3:14] the administration needs money.

[3:16] >> In a letter to Congress, 200 major US

[3:18] corporations say higher taxes on foreign

[3:20] operations will impair the global

[3:22] competitiveness of US companies,

[3:24] resulting in job losses here at home. On

[3:27] Capitol Hill, critics warn that if taxes

[3:29] on US multinationals go up, more will

[3:31] suffer the fate of Budweiser, Lucent

[3:33] Technologies, and John Hancock Financial

[3:36] Services. All were bought by foreign

[3:38] corporations.

[3:40] For the president, getting this plan

[3:41] through Congress is not going to be

[3:43] easy. Business lobbyists are expected to

[3:45] pull out all the stops in an effort to

[3:48] defeat it. And on Capitol Hill today,

[3:50] even some top Democrats gave it a

[3:52] lukewarm reception. Jeff.

[3:54] >> All right, Chip Reid at the White House.

[3:55] Chip, thank you tonight. On the CBS

[3:57] MoneyWatch tonight, more of those

[3:58] glimmers of hope for the economy.

[4:00] America's Realtors say the number of

[4:02] homes under contract, they're called

[4:04] pending sales, is up for the second

[4:05] straight month. And spending on

[4:07] construction is up as well after 5

[4:09] months of declines. All that gave Wall

[4:11] Street a boost. The Dow gained more than

[4:13] 200 points. And look at this, the S&P

[4:15] 500 has moved into positive territory

[4:18] for the year.

[4:20] Turning now to the flu outbreak. The

[4:22] head of the CDC says there are

[4:23] encouraging signs the threat is leveling

[4:25] off. Here in New York City today, St.

[4:27] Francis Prep reopened. There were 45

[4:30] confirmed cases of H1N1 flu at the

[4:32] school. Nationwide, the CDC confirms 286

[4:35] cases in 36 states. The vast majority

[4:39] were not serious. Still, experts in the

[4:42] US and overseas say it's still too early

[4:44] to declare the outbreak under control.

[4:46] Here's Nancy Cordes.

[4:48] >> In China, where SARS infected thousands

[4:51] just 6 years ago, the response to this

[4:54] flu outbreak has been swift, and some

[4:56] might say severe. 350 people have been

[5:00] sealed inside this Hong Kong hotel since

[5:02] Friday, when a Mexican traveler tested

[5:05] positive for the virus. And even though

[5:07] they have no symptoms, more than 70

[5:09] Mexicans have been quarantined in

[5:11] Beijing, angering the Mexican

[5:14] government.

[5:14] >> I have to emphasize that the World

[5:16] Health Organization does not recommend

[5:19] this type of actions that no other

[5:20] country in the world is implementing

[5:21] this type of actions.

[5:22] >> Here in the US, the number of schools

[5:24] closed due to flu spiked to 533 today,

[5:28] leaving 330,000

[5:30] healthy children sitting at home. Is it

[5:33] all overkill? Not really, says this

[5:35] infectious disease specialist.

[5:37] >> We don't really know what this virus is

[5:40] going to do, but we do know that

[5:42] the kind of preventive mechanisms that

[5:45] are being put into place are most likely

[5:48] going to slow down the progression of

[5:50] this virus so that a vaccine can be

[5:52] developed.

[5:53] >> And yet US officials seem more and more

[5:55] convinced that the threat here is

[5:57] declining.

[5:58] >> We have started to see encouraging signs

[6:00] that this virus may be mild and that

[6:03] it's spread may be limited.

[6:04] >> In the meantime, Mexico's tourism

[6:06] industry is on life support. Country

[6:09] officials say 70% of hotel reservations

[6:11] in Cancun for the week have been

[6:13] canceled and cruise ship companies have

[6:15] called off 64 port calls to the country

[6:18] so far.

[6:19] >> It's like putting meat in front of a dog

[6:21] and then pulling it back. Here's Cabo

[6:22] San Lucas, but we're not porting we're

[6:24] not getting off the boat.

[6:26] >> Mexican businesses and schools will

[6:28] reopen this week because the government

[6:30] there says the flu outbreak has peaked,

[6:32] but international health officials say

[6:34] it's still too early to tell.

[6:36] >> Jeff.

[6:37] >> Nancy Cordes in Washington. Nancy, thank

[6:38] you.

[6:39] The Southeast is being hit by another

[6:41] round of violent spring weather.

[6:42] Powerful thunderstorms are forecast

[6:44] tonight from the deep south into the

[6:46] Carolinas. Heavy rain is also causing

[6:48] flooding in several southern states.

[6:50] Over the weekend, a woman in Mississippi

[6:52] was killed by a falling branch as

[6:54] thunderstorms uprooted trees and knocked

[6:56] out power to thousands.

[6:58] In Irving, Texas, government inspectors

[7:00] today sorted through the wreckage of the

[7:02] Dallas Cowboys practice facility trying

[7:04] to figure out why the brand new roof

[7:06] collapsed when it was hit by a sudden

[7:08] burst of wind. It's called a microburst,

[7:11] similar to the windshear aircraft

[7:12] experience. 12 people were hurt, one of

[7:15] them critically. Here's the Early Show's

[7:17] weather anchor, Dave Price.

[7:20] >> It was supposed to be a regular football

[7:22] practice for newly drafted Dallas Cowboy

[7:25] players, but in a matter of minutes, it

[7:27] became a mad dash for safety.

[7:29] >> Oh my god.

[7:31] >> A rare weather pattern of high winds and

[7:34] pouring rain called a microburst

[7:36] flattened the tent-like practice

[7:37] facility. Winds were clocked at 64 mph,

[7:41] one shy of a tornado. All this with

[7:44] little warning.

[7:45] >> One minute those lights started to shake

[7:47] on the ceiling and then pretty soon the

[7:49] walls started to billow and then the

[7:51] next thing we knew

[7:53] the wall behind me started coming down

[7:55] and everyone just started running for

[7:56] the exit.

[7:57] >> When it was over, 12 people were

[7:59] injured, three seriously. Scouting

[8:01] assistant Rich Beem's spine was severed,

[8:04] paralyzing him from the waist down.

[8:06] Today, inspectors from the Occupational

[8:08] Safety and Health Administration were on

[8:10] scene. The 80-ft high facility had just

[8:13] been repaired a year earlier. The

[8:15] company that built and repaired it,

[8:16] Summit Structures of Allentown,

[8:18] Pennsylvania, stood by its engineering.

[8:21] The weather phenomenon that brought it

[8:23] down was captured on a cell phone by a

[8:25] nearby witness.

[8:27] Now, a microburst is often referred to

[8:30] as an upside-down tornado because of its

[8:32] inverted cone shape. It's a sudden

[8:35] downdraft of cool air sometimes

[8:37] accompanied by rain or hail, which

[8:39] accelerates as it heads towards the

[8:41] surface and then it spreads out with

[8:44] destructive force for a very short

[8:46] period of time and in a limited area.

[8:48] So, the highest winds may very well have

[8:50] been right at the top of this structure

[8:52] at this practice facility, which may

[8:55] very well have destabilized it. So,

[8:56] obviously, Jeff, a lot of work still

[8:58] needs to be done. Investigators still

[8:59] hard at work.

[9:00] >> All right, Dave Price, thank you very

[9:01] much tonight.

[9:02] In other news here, General Motors faces

[9:04] a June 1st deadline for restructuring

[9:06] its debt. And today, CEO Fritz Henderson

[9:08] said there's a chance it can be done

[9:10] without following Chrysler into

[9:12] bankruptcy. Also today, GM said it has a

[9:14] number of potential buyers for its

[9:16] Saturn division. Now, Anthony Mason

[9:18] tells us Fiat has its eye on another

[9:21] piece of GM.

[9:24] >> A week after Fiat joined hands with

[9:27] Chrysler, the Italian automaker is

[9:29] looking to buy GM's European operations

[9:32] and its Opel brand, a move that could

[9:34] make it at world's fourth largest car

[9:36] company.

[9:37] >> Right now they're bargain shopping,

[9:38] let's face it.

[9:39] >> Analyst Jack Nerad says it's the new

[9:42] survival strategy.

[9:43] >> To play in this game in the future, car

[9:46] companies are feeling they have to be

[9:47] global or they're not a player at all.

[9:49] >> Only 5 years ago Fiat itself was on the

[9:52] brink of bankruptcy, but new CEO Sergio

[9:55] Marchionne engineered a stunning

[9:57] turnaround. As car sales slid across

[10:00] Europe in March, Fiat sales were up

[10:02] almost 15%.

[10:04] >> Fiat has demonstrated that it can build

[10:06] the clean fuel-efficient cars that are

[10:08] the future of the industry.

[10:10] >> But international mergers can be tricky,

[10:12] and Chrysler's previous marriage ended

[10:14] in divorce after Daimler, the German

[10:17] automaker, lost billions. Now it's

[10:19] Fiat's turn to try to understand the

[10:22] American customer.

[10:23] >> That was Daimler's failing with

[10:25] Chrysler. They didn't really get the

[10:27] North American market. They didn't, I

[10:28] think, get what the Chrysler brand stood

[10:31] for.

[10:31] >> In Europe, Fiat's been using an American

[10:33] actor to sell its cars, but as the

[10:36] commercial points out, when you buy a

[10:38] Fiat, George Clooney is not included.

[10:41] >> For now, Ferrari and Maserati are the

[10:43] only Fiat-owned brands sold in the US.

[10:47] The Italian automaker pulled out of the

[10:49] American market back in the early 1980s

[10:51] when some buyers joked that Fiat stood

[10:54] for fix it again, Tony.

[10:57] >> But Fiat still has its fans here, like

[11:00] Bob Rainer, who's owned nine of the

[11:02] cars. As head of the largest Fiat fan

[11:04] club in the country, he likes to quote

[11:06] his favorite auto writer.

[11:08] >> Who said the Germans invented the

[11:09] automobile, the Americans turned it into

[11:11] a disposable item, but the Italians

[11:13] taught it how to dance and sing.

[11:15] >> If its bold expansion strategy's going

[11:17] to work, Fiat will need to give Detroit

[11:20] some dancing lessons.

[11:22] Anthony Mason, CBS News, New York.

[11:25] >> Coming up next, the ground zero of

[11:27] green.

[11:28] >> Two years after a tornado nearly wiped

[11:30] it off the map, Greensburg Kansas

[11:32] rebuilds [music]

[11:34] with the environment in mind.

[11:38] >> Mhm, Bush's Baked Beans. Hey, it's

[11:41] Grandpa Bush. Let Duke sell Bush's

[11:44] secret family recipe.

[11:45] >> Nice try, Duke.

[11:46] >> How'd you know it was me?

[11:48] >> Grandpa didn't have a tail.

[11:49] [clears throat]

[11:49] >> Oops.

[11:50] >> Enjoy Bush's Baked Beans, made with our

[11:52] secret family recipe.

[11:54] >> Are you and your gray hair facing an

[11:56] identity crisis?

[11:57] >> My hair says experience. [music]

[11:59] >> My hair says energy.

[12:00] >> Touch of gray. The best of both comes

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[14:10] >> You may recall that in his address to

[14:12] Congress back in February, President

[14:13] Obama read a letter from an eighth

[14:15] grader named Ty'Sheoma Theus. She was

[14:18] pleading for help to fix up her

[14:19] crumbling school in South Carolina. But

[14:21] today, students and teachers found

[14:23] $250,000

[14:25] worth of new furniture waiting for them

[14:27] at the school.

[14:28] All courtesy of a Chicago company that

[14:30] says

[14:31] they just wanted to help.

[14:33] Well, today marks 2 years since a

[14:34] massive tornado all but destroyed

[14:36] Greensburg, Kansas, killing 11 people.

[14:39] That twister stayed on the ground for an

[14:40] incredible 12 minutes and wiped out 95%

[14:43] of that town.

[14:45] Now, 24 months later, a remarkable

[14:47] transformation continues.

[14:50] Just about everywhere you look in

[14:52] Greensburg

[14:53] >> Keep going right here.

[14:53] >> somebody's building something or

[14:55] something's just been built. Nonstop for

[14:58] 2 years.

[14:59] >> Oh my gosh.

[15:01] >> Ever since a mile and a half wide

[15:03] tornado with 205 mph winds basically

[15:06] wiped this town of 1,500 people off the

[15:08] map. Greensburg, May 3rd, 2007.

[15:12] And Greensburg, May 4th.

[15:15] >> Is there anything left?

[15:16] >> There's nothing.

[15:17] >> This was Jill Eller the next day.

[15:20] >> Oh my god.

[15:22] >> Hopelessly sifting through the ruins of

[15:24] her house and her life.

[15:26] >> How do you start?

[15:28] >> Like many here, her family lived in a

[15:30] trailer for 2 years, willing themselves

[15:33] to stay.

[15:34] >> We felt like we were abandoning ship if

[15:36] we left Greensburg.

[15:38] >> This is Jill and her husband Scott

[15:40] today.

[15:41] >> It's called the igloo house, the

[15:42] Princess Leia house, uh

[15:45] >> All those things and more?

[15:46] >> Yeah, and more.

[15:47] >> Yeah, those are the nice things.

[15:49] >> Last month they moved into their

[15:50] one-of-a-kind three-bedroom green dream

[15:53] house, energy efficient and more

[15:55] tornado-resistant with SIPs panels, 6 in

[15:59] of Styrofoam sandwiched between layers

[16:01] of plywood. Their gas bill went from

[16:03] $200 a month to only 30, but their

[16:06] mortgage went from nearly paid off to

[16:08] $200,000.

[16:10] >> We're in the worst financial position

[16:12] we've been in since we first got

[16:14] married, but

[16:15] uh we're working it out.

[16:18] >> Like the Ellers, it would have been

[16:19] easier for most people to leave, but

[16:21] about 800 refused, no matter how it

[16:24] looked and no matter how much it cost.

[16:27] And now Greensburg is ground zero for

[16:29] the green movement. The area got nearly

[16:32] $100 million from the government to

[16:34] rebuild, including a $50 million school,

[16:37] $25 million hospital, and a $3 million

[16:40] city hall. All of them certified LEED

[16:43] Platinum, the most energy efficient you

[16:45] can get, but not inexpensive. Greensburg

[16:49] has gone from a town that was

[16:50] celebrating its survival on the first

[16:52] anniversary of this tornado to one that

[16:54] is now asking serious questions about

[16:56] its future on the second.

[16:58] >> We expect to be bigger, stronger, and

[17:00] greener.

[17:00] >> The question is, what happens when all

[17:03] the aid money dries up? Can going green

[17:06] produce green? To survive, city manager

[17:09] Steve Hewitt is tirelessly working to

[17:11] capitalize on his town's name by luring

[17:13] in green businesses, places that build

[17:16] products for wind and solar and other

[17:18] clean energy companies, which would mean

[17:20] critically needed jobs that so far have

[17:22] not materialized.

[17:24] >> Do you worry that despite everything

[17:26] you've done, all the money that's been

[17:27] spent, the buildings may not be filled?

[17:30] >> I'm scared that someday, you know, if I

[17:32] don't keep working hard every single day

[17:34] and we have them empty buildings again.

[17:35] And I don't want empty buildings. I

[17:36] don't want to I don't want a ghost town.

[17:38] >> Hello.

[17:38] How are you?

[17:39] >> If anyone embodies the costs here, from

[17:41] the storm to the rebuilding, it's Sarah

[17:44] Schmidt.

[17:45] The tornado took her husband Harold

[17:47] after 53 years of marriage.

[17:49] >> He had

[17:50] five surgeries and said that every 48

[17:53] hours they were doing surgery on him

[17:54] trying to save him.

[17:58] It wasn't meant to be.

[18:00] >> Left only with Harold's Bible.

[18:02] >> It was wet, tear through it.

[18:05] I took it page by page

[18:07] and

[18:09] dried it out.

[18:10] >> She decided to stay. Even though it's 76

[18:13] years old, it meant working two jobs to

[18:15] pay for her new house. Right or wrong,

[18:18] for Greensburg, there's no going back.

[18:21] >> I think that I was meant to stay here

[18:23] for a reason and and I hope I find it

[18:26] and I hope it helps someone else.

[18:28] >> This remains a nervous season for

[18:30] Greensburg. The town has been hit by

[18:31] eight tornadoes in just the past 16

[18:34] years.

[18:35] We'll be back.

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[21:10] >> There are growing concerns about the

[21:12] security of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

[21:14] The Taliban have made a strong push for

[21:16] the Afghan border and last week came

[21:18] within 60 miles of the capital. US

[21:20] military experts are worried the

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[21:26] could put Pakistan's nuclear weapons in

[21:28] the hands of America's sworn enemies.

[21:32] >> Calling the rising tide of Taliban

[21:34] violence in Pakistan calls for grave

[21:36] concern, the chairman of the Joint

[21:38] Chiefs played down the nightmare

[21:40] scenario of terrorists taking control of

[21:42] that country's nuclear weapons.

[21:45] >> I don't think that's going to happen. I

[21:46] don't see that

[21:47] in any way imminent whatsoever at this

[21:50] particular point in time.

[21:51] >> But Admiral Mullen acknowledged there's

[21:53] a limit to what he knows since Pakistan

[21:55] guards its doomsday secrets as jealously

[21:58] as the US guards its own.

[22:00] >> Much of the complex is

[22:02] largely secret kept so

[22:05] necessarily by the Pakistani government

[22:07] and so I'm not sure we know as much as

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[22:11] >> CBS News consultant Juan Zarate worked

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[22:20] He says the US is not sure exactly how

[22:22] many weapons the Pakistanis have or

[22:25] where they all are.

[22:26] On top of that

[22:27] >> There are and have been Pakistani

[22:29] scientists or elements of the of the

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[22:34] have met with people we would consider

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[22:37] >> Shortly before 9/11 Osama bin Laden met

[22:40] directly with two Pakistani nuclear

[22:42] scientists and former CIA officer Ralph

[22:45] Mowat-Larssen who knows as much about

[22:47] Pakistan's nuclear complex as any

[22:49] American says Taliban and Al-Qaeda

[22:52] sympathizers remain its Achilles heel.

[22:55] >> Security is strong particularly given

[22:58] the seriousness with which the Pakistan

[22:59] government approaches this unless there

[23:02] are people on the inside who are willing

[23:04] to work with terrorists.

[23:05] >> Insiders who might not be able to steal

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[23:12] >> Material that typically finds its way

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[23:16] another buyer, comes from the production

[23:19] of nuclear materials and can be perhaps

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[23:31] In a country with nuclear weapons, that

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[23:36] David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.

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[26:32] >> Finally tonight, President Obama gets

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[26:46] >> My favorite color is pink.

[26:48] >> 8-year-old Lucy O'Brien loves to draw.

[26:51] Ask her dad, a fine antiques dealer.

[26:53] >> Lucy is a drawer. That's what she loves

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[26:56] >> Her mom.

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[27:00] >> I'm not bragging about it, but I think

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[27:04] >> She also knows times are hard at dad's

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[27:07] >> My mom and dad talk about it usually and

[27:10] I'm

[27:11] sort of nosy when I listen to them

[27:12] talking about it.

[27:14] >> So when her mother told her about a Dear

[27:16] Mr. President contest, lucky winners art

[27:19] and letters presented to President

[27:20] Obama, she poured her heart into it.

[27:23] >> I added like confetti and stuff like

[27:26] that and then I added hope on the top to

[27:29] show for the future that there's hope

[27:32] for

[27:34] maybe the economy or something.

[27:36] >> to be for the

[27:36] >> And sent it off to Larry Hitchcock's

[27:38] website Kid Thing.

[27:40] >> We had to extend the deadline because so

[27:42] many were coming in and

[27:43] >> from kids age 5 to 12 all over the

[27:45] country. Kids stuff.

[27:47] >> A 6-year-old who just wants the

[27:49] president to make it rain candy.

[27:51] >> Serious stuff.

[27:52] >> Poor people should have food.

[27:54] >> From almost 5,000 kids.

[27:57] >> Dear Mr. President, please take care of

[27:59] the environment

[28:01] >> Dear President Obama, on Inauguration

[28:03] Day I was at the hospital here in LA.

[28:06] >> 8-year-old Carlos Santiago feels good

[28:09] these days.

[28:09] >> Very good.

[28:10] >> He's fighting a rare form of cancer. His

[28:13] message to the president?

[28:15] >> When I'm done with all my treatment, I

[28:16] want to go see you in the White House on

[28:18] my birthday. Love, Carlos.

[28:21] >> The best 150 entries put in this book to

[28:25] be hand-delivered to President Obama.

[28:28] >> There's a theme through all of it of

[28:30] hope and and kind of belief that

[28:32] tomorrow's going to be a better day.

[28:33] >> Carlos' letter made it.

[28:35] >> Out of 5,000

[28:36] kids.

[28:37] >> Yeah.

[28:38] >> It's pretty good.

[28:39] >> I felt really lucky.

[28:41] >> Lucy's, too.

[28:42] >> I was jumping up and down. I was

[28:44] screaming and I ran to my brother's room

[28:47] and I was like, "I made it into the

[28:49] book." And he was like, "Oh, good for

[28:51] you."

[28:52] >> A book full of young hopes and dreams.

[28:56] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[29:00] >> That is the CBS Evening News tonight.

[29:01] For Katie Couric, I'm Jeff Glor.

[29:03] Good night.

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[29:25] >> Richard, what are you doing?

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