CBS Evening News - 2012-11-09
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[0:00] Tonight, the head of the CIA is suddenly
[0:03] out. David Petraeus had a secret of his
[0:07] own and abruptly resigned in a meeting
[0:09] with the president. Reports from Nancy
[0:12] Cordis and David Martin. Mark Stman with
[0:15] the new homeless. Hundreds living in
[0:18] tents nearly 2 weeks after Hurricane
[0:20] Sandy. Wyatt Andrews on the president,
[0:23] the speaker, and the fiscal cliff. New
[0:26] talk of compromise, but as a tax
[0:29] increase next.
[0:31] And Steve Hartman on the road. At the
[0:34] height of the storm, Tony Ian got a
[0:37] phone call from his son.
[0:38] >> When he hung up, I started to cry. I
[0:41] said, "It's over. He's not coming back.
[0:48] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:51] P.
[0:52] Good evening. Late today, President
[0:54] Obama accepted the resignation of the
[0:57] director of central intelligence, David
[0:59] Petraeus. Petraeus acknowledged having
[1:02] an extraarital affair. We have learned
[1:05] that for the last few months, the FBI
[1:07] has been investigating the
[1:09] communications of Petraeus. Law
[1:11] enforcement sources tell Bob our there
[1:13] was concern about emails that the CIA
[1:16] director was exchanging with a woman who
[1:18] was a journalist. Additional sources
[1:21] tell us those communications involved
[1:23] Paula Broadwell, seen here with Petraeus
[1:26] on a defense department plane.
[1:28] Broadwell, 39 years old, published a
[1:31] book last year on Petraeus's time as the
[1:34] general in charge in Afghanistan.
[1:37] Broadwell is a Harvard University
[1:39] research associate and she spent time in
[1:41] an in Afghanistan with Petraeus. She is
[1:44] a West Point graduate as is Petraeus. We
[1:47] have tried to reach Broadwell today, but
[1:49] we have not