CBS Evening News - 2015-12-30

Name: CBS Evening News - 2015-12-30
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[0:01] Criminal charges against the man once

[0:03] known as America's dad, Bill Cosby,

[0:06] accused of drugging and sexually

[0:08] assaulting a woman.

[0:09] The reaction of the victim, you know,

[0:11] frozen, paralyzed, unable to unable to

[0:14] move.

[0:15] Also tonight, the furious effort to hold

[0:18] back rising rivers in Missouri.

[0:20] Donald Trump keeps firing at Hillary and

[0:23] Bill Clinton.

[0:24] And two kids, one big idea, helping

[0:28] thousands go to college.

[0:30] What you give out to the world, you get

[0:32] back 10 times, you know, full.

[0:37] This is the CBS Evening News with Scott

[0:41] Pelley.

[0:43] Good evening. Scott's off tonight. I'm

[0:44] Jim Axelrod. Dozens of women have

[0:47] accused Bill Cosby of sexually

[0:49] assaulting them. But today, for the

[0:50] first time, the comedian and actor and

[0:53] long-time moral crusader was charged

[0:56] criminally, a felony count of aggravated

[0:59] indecent assault, just days before the

[1:02] statute of limitations was due to run

[1:03] out.

[1:04] If convicted, Cosby, who's 78 years old,

[1:07] could face 5 to 10 years in prison and a

[1:10] $25,000 fine.

[1:12] Tonight, he's free on $1 million bail.

[1:15] Deirdre Dunkin reports from suburban

[1:17] Philadelphia.

[1:18] Mr. Cosby, you want to say anything?

[1:21] This afternoon, attorneys for comedian

[1:24] Bill Cosby walked him into this small

[1:26] courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania,

[1:29] to hear the criminal sexual assault

[1:31] charges against him. His accuser is

[1:34] Andrea Constand, a former Temple

[1:36] University employee who first told

[1:39] police about the alleged incident over a

[1:41] decade ago.

[1:43] Constand says in the winter of 2004, she

[1:46] went to Cosby's house for career advice.

[1:48] Cosby offered, and she took