CBS Evening News - 2006-11-06 (no intro) (day before election)

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[0:00] Johnson's campaign.

[0:00] >> Things are moving. Having said that, the

[0:02] Republicans are still behind. They are

[0:04] running with a president who has a very

[0:06] low approval rating, and all the polls

[0:09] show Americans believe the country is

[0:11] headed in the wrong direction. So, it's

[0:13] going to be hard for the Republicans to

[0:15] close this gap entirely.

[0:17] >> Why do you think the numbers moved so

[0:18] much over the weekend, Bob?

[0:19] >> A couple of things. The Republicans had

[0:21] more money. They're really pouring it

[0:23] on, and all the polls show that their

[0:25] voters are now getting enthusiastic and

[0:27] fired up about all this.

[0:29] >> And what is your fearless forecast, Mr.

[0:31] Schieffer? I think the Democrats are

[0:34] going to take the House, and I think the

[0:35] Senate is going to wind up 50-50. So, it

[0:38] should be an exciting night, right?

[0:40] >> be. All right, Bob Schieffer. Bob,

[0:42] thanks so much. CBS News has a team of

[0:44] correspondents here in our election

[0:46] headquarters and out in the field to

[0:48] bring you the very latest as the

[0:50] campaign come comes to an end. Lee Cowan

[0:53] is in Ohio where both parties are

[0:55] pulling out all the stops to get OUT THE

[0:57] VOTE.

[1:02] IN COLUMBUS, THE SPIRITUALS ARE

[1:03] HEAVENLY, but the mission more earthly.

[1:06] Get souls to the polls before time runs

[1:08] out. Raise the minimum wage by voting.

[1:11] Raise compassion for our senior citizens

[1:14] by voting. Whether it's IN THE PEWS

[1:19] OR IN THE BLEACHERS. Do you want a

[1:21] bumper sticker? Campaign volunteers like

[1:23] Jemima Robder taking advantage of every

[1:25] last second. I made thousands of phone

[1:27] calls and definitely knocked on hundreds

[1:29] of doors.

[1:31] And so have the candidates. How

[1:33] exhausted are you at this point? Well,

[1:35] I'm running on pure adrenaline. It feels

[1:37] pretty good, actually.

[1:38] Deborah Price is the fourth-ranking

[1:40] Republican in the House, and hers is

[1:42] Ohio's race to watch. We've looped this

[1:44] district three times, going on four

[1:46] times, and it takes that kind of thing.

[1:48] I am Mary Jo Kilroy. Her challenger,

[1:50] Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, is running on a

[1:53] mix of caffeine and poll numbers that

[1:55] show her in the lead. Go out, work hard,

[1:58] get tired, get some rest, go back out

[2:00] again.

[2:01] Ohio Democrats are enthusiastic about

[2:03] this election, but it's the Republicans

[2:05] who've been especially good about

[2:06] getting out the vote. Hi, is Greg

[2:08] available? Hi, my name's John. They've

[2:10] made a dizzying array of as many as

[2:12] 250,000 phone calls a week. That is more

[2:15] contacts in a given week

[2:18] uh this time of year, for sure, before

[2:20] the election, than we made in even '04.

[2:23] It's really important. Every vote

[2:24] counts. But Democrats are picking up the

[2:26] pace. At this house party, we found

[2:28] volunteers burning up the cell phones.

[2:30] Bye. And with the help of labor unions

[2:31] like the AFL-CIO, Democrats now seem

[2:34] better organized to mobilize.

[2:38] Their last big rally was this one, again

[2:40] at a church, but the time for songs and

[2:43] slogans has passed.

[2:45] Ohio's absentee ballots are already

[2:48] being scanned.

[2:50] And there are a lot of those absentee

[2:51] ballot ballots, Katie. In fact, one out

[2:53] of every three Ohio voters voted

[2:55] absentee just so they could avoid

[2:57] tomorrow's long lines. Katie? All right,

[2:59] Lee Cowan. Lee, thanks so much. We'll

[3:01] see you tomorrow night. And with the

[3:03] early voting, there are, of course,

[3:05] early voting problems. Our chief

[3:07] investigative correspondent, Armen

[3:08] Keteyian, is here now with the very

[3:10] latest on that. Armen?

[3:12] Well, Katie, early voting has been going

[3:14] on in 15 states, an early test of the

[3:16] electronic voting equipment to be used

[3:18] by nearly 90% of the country tomorrow,

[3:21] but problems are beginning to surface.

[3:24] Thank you. In Tennessee, the site of a

[3:26] very tight Senate race, machines froze

[3:28] up in one county after 10,000 early

[3:31] voters, far more than expected, showed

[3:33] up.

[3:34] The problem easily solved, said a local

[3:36] official, when more machines were

[3:38] activated. In Chicago's Cook County, a

[3:41] handful of 32,000 early voters claim

[3:44] machines switched their votes from

[3:45] Democrat to Republican.

[3:47] County officials later cited voter

[3:49] confusion and error.

[3:51] Similar events took place in parts of

[3:53] Texas and South Carolina. And in New

[3:55] Mexico, the state's computerized voter

[3:57] registration database crashed during the

[4:00] last hours of early voting this weekend,

[4:02] forcing those in line to write out a

[4:04] backup paper ballot or come back

[4:06] tomorrow.

[4:08] Well, both parties have armies of

[4:09] lawyers fanned out across the country,

[4:11] Katie, ready to file court challenges

[4:13] based on voting irregularities as they

[4:16] arise.

[4:17] All right, Armen. Thank you so much. And

[4:19] if you have any doubt that every vote

[4:21] counts in the battle for Congress, about

[4:23] 20 to 25 House races and four Senate

[4:26] races are considered complete toss-ups

[4:29] tonight. So close, no one is predicting

[4:31] a winner. Correspondents Byron Pitts and

[4:34] Sharon Alfonsi are in states with some

[4:35] of the tightest races in the country.

[4:37] Let's begin tonight in Missouri,

[4:39] specifically St. Louis. Sharon?

[4:43] Well, despite $60 million in spending

[4:46] and endless hours campaigning, tonight

[4:48] the Senate race in Missouri remains

[4:50] exactly how it always has been, too

[4:53] close to call.

[4:55] Talent sprint to the finish line, and

[4:57] we're asking you to join us. Republican

[4:59] Jim Talent was barnstorming with

[5:00] President Bush. Democrat Claire

[5:03] McCaskill called on Senator Barack

[5:04] Obama.

[5:05] >> I got CLAIRE MCCASKILL, WHO'S GOING TO

[5:07] BE THE NEXT UNITED States Senator for

[5:09] Missouri. But in the end, the

[5:11] razor-close race could be influenced

[5:13] less by those stars and more by this

[5:16] one. I care deeply about stem cell

[5:18] research. Actor Michael J. Fox has made

[5:21] the ballot initiative on stem cell

[5:22] research a hot-button issue in Missouri

[5:25] this year, number two behind Iraq. What

[5:28] you do in Missouri

[5:30] matters to millions of Americans.

[5:32] All that attention helped boost Democrat

[5:35] Claire McCaskill, who supports the

[5:37] initiative, but it also helped to

[5:38] re-energize Republicans who oppose it.

[5:42] How the Fox factor plays out is likely

[5:44] to tip the balance of the Senate. Katie?

[5:47] Meanwhile, Sharon, I understand this

[5:48] race is so tight, we may not even know

[5:51] the results late tomorrow night.

[5:54] Well, they are under a lot of scrutiny,

[5:56] so it's going to be slow. Add to that

[5:58] the fact that some counties are now

[5:59] reporting that they have twice the usual

[6:01] number of absentee ballots. It could

[6:04] take a while. All right, Sharon Alfonsi.

[6:06] Sharon, thank you. Now to our national

[6:07] correspondent Byron Pitts in

[6:08] Connecticut, where some of the closest

[6:11] and most crucial House races will be

[6:13] decided tomorrow. Byron?

[6:17] Well, Katie, here is pretty simple.

[6:18] There are three competitive races, and

[6:20] they all come down to one word, Iraq.

[6:25] Take Congressman Chris Shays, one of

[6:27] three Republican incumbents fighting for

[6:29] another term. Your congressman, and

[6:31] that's Christopher Shays. He served in

[6:33] the House for 19 years, a moderate by

[6:35] any measure, but this year, it's not

[6:38] about Shays' record. People are unhappy

[6:40] about the Republican Party. They're

[6:41] unhappy about the war.

[6:43] Um they're not all that excited about

[6:45] George Bush in this district. I am Diane

[6:47] Farrell, running for Congress. And

[6:49] that's what Shays' opponent, Diane

[6:51] Farrell, has been hearing every day from

[6:53] her supporters. A vote for change, a

[6:55] vote against the war, a vote against

[6:58] Bush. Uh you get a hug.

[7:00] >> For all three reasons. Thank you. Thank

[7:01] you. Thank you.

[7:02] >> I have people that will drive by, roll

[7:04] down their windows, and just yell out to

[7:06] me, "I'm voting for you. It's time for a

[7:08] change." I think people are just

[7:11] fed up. Now, no votes have been counted,

[7:13] of course, but even the Republicans

[7:15] concede, if the Democrats pick up three

[7:17] seats in Connecticut, and that's a big

[7:19] if, that spells trouble for the GOP

[7:21] nationwide. Katie? All right, Byron.

[7:23] Thanks so much. And that brings us to

[7:25] the number one Republican, the man who's

[7:27] not on the ballot, but still potentially

[7:29] a big factor in the voting, and has a

[7:31] lot at stake in the outcome. That, of

[7:34] course, would be President Bush. Jim

[7:36] Axelrod has been with him as he spent

[7:38] the past few days campaigning all around

[7:40] the country. Jim?

[7:42] Well, Katie, if the president and his

[7:44] aides are worried, they're sure hiding

[7:45] it well. Top Democrats say Republicans

[7:48] have made no attempts to reach out and

[7:50] mend fences, even though they may very

[7:52] well have to start working with

[7:53] Democrats come Wednesday.

[7:59] On the last day of campaigning, Mr. Bush

[8:01] was out to rally the faithful to go to

[8:03] the polls, like in Pensacola, Florida.

[8:05] We're 24 hours away from voting.

[8:09] Some of the folks in Washington have

[8:10] already think they figured out the

[8:12] results.

[8:13] Florida neatly sums up the president's

[8:15] status. Low approval ratings mean he

[8:17] only visits heavily conservative areas

[8:20] like the panhandle.

[8:22] But even there, top GOP candidates don't

[8:25] want to be seen with Mr. Bush. Charlie

[8:27] Crist, the Republican running for

[8:29] governor, chose instead to campaign

[8:31] clear on the other side of the state.

[8:33] The White House wasn't happy. Let's see

[8:36] how many people show up in Palm Beach on

[8:37] 24 hours' notice versus 8 or 9,000

[8:40] people in Pensacola.

[8:42] The president headlines a a rally final

[8:45] rally here in Dallas tonight, will vote

[8:46] in Crawford tomorrow, then back to

[8:48] Washington, where he'll watch returns

[8:50] and see just how different the last two

[8:52] years of his presidency will be. Katie?

[8:55] All right, Jim Axelrod in Dallas

[8:57] tonight. Thank you. After you vote

[8:59] tomorrow, and we hope you'll do that,

[9:00] you can tune in to CBS to watch your

[9:02] vote count. We'll have updates

[9:04] throughout the evening and an hour-long

[9:06] election night special with all the

[9:08] latest results and analysis beginning at

[9:10] 10:00, 9:00 Central. You can also watch

[9:13] the returns come in on our website at

[9:16] cbsnews.com.

[9:18] There's much more CBS News straight

[9:20] ahead. And coming up next, Lara Logan

[9:23] reports from Baghdad on Saddam's death

[9:25] sentence. How soon could it be carried

[9:27] out, and why are President Bush and Tony

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[12:13] President Bush and British Prime

[12:15] Minister Tony Blair apparently don't see

[12:17] eye to eye over Saddam Hussein's death

[12:19] sentence. While the president has

[12:21] praised Iraq's judicial process, Blair

[12:24] said today he opposes the death penalty

[12:26] whether it's Saddam or anyone else. But

[12:28] things are moving ahead very quickly.

[12:31] The former dictator could be hanged

[12:33] early next year and those who still

[12:34] support him are furious. Here's Chief

[12:37] Foreign Correspondent Lara Logan.

[12:41] Once again, Iraqi streets echoed with

[12:43] the sound OF HIS NAME.

[12:45] A CRY OF ANGER FROM Iraq's Sunnis who

[12:48] see in Saddam's guilty sentence their

[12:51] own loss of power and protection. In

[12:54] court Sunday, the defiant dictator tried

[12:57] his best to drown out the judgment.

[13:00] "Go to hell, you and the court." he

[13:02] yelled.

[13:04] But this fight he was never going to

[13:06] win.

[13:07] Sentenced to hang until dead for crimes

[13:10] against humanity, for the killing of 148

[13:13] men and boys in northern Iraq after a

[13:16] failed attempt on his life.

[13:18] The former president now a condemned

[13:21] man.

[13:22] As Saddam was escorted out of the

[13:24] courtroom, guards holding him tightly on

[13:26] either side, he shouted out in one last

[13:29] defiant cry. Staring straight at the

[13:31] media at the back of the courtroom, he

[13:33] said, "To hell with the occupiers." And

[13:35] then as he turned to pass the Iraqi

[13:37] prosecution team, he yelled out, "To

[13:39] hell with the traitors."

[13:41] But this was a moment of reckoning

[13:44] millions in Iraq had been waiting for.

[13:46] None more jubilant than the majority

[13:48] Shiite population who suffered so

[13:51] brutally at his hands.

[13:53] Now they and their leaders are anxious

[13:55] to see Saddam executed quickly. His

[13:57] lawyers are appealing, but many here

[14:00] expect the government will try to speed

[14:02] up that process. If they succeed, it

[14:05] could be only a few months before Saddam

[14:07] Hussein is led from his prison cell and

[14:10] hanged by the neck. Lara Logan, CBS

[14:13] News, Baghdad.

[14:15] Meanwhile, another old Washington

[14:17] nemesis is making a comeback. Remember

[14:19] Daniel Ortega? He was president of

[14:21] Nicaragua's Sandinista government in the

[14:23] 1980s and led the fight against the

[14:25] US-backed rebels. Tonight he's

[14:27] apparently won an election to get his

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[14:36] One of Ortega's big supporters is

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[14:45] tonight shows 17,000 kids end up at the

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[14:50] on the school bus. That's double

[14:52] previous estimates. Only five states

[14:54] require seat belts on school buses, but

[14:56] the fact is nearly a quarter of the

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[15:01] or off the bus.

[15:02] Two schools and dozens of homes in

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[15:06] today. Santa Ana winds are feeding

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[15:13] and an industrial yard. Fire crews say

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[15:17] but they're worried it could still

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[15:22] And just ahead, Microsoft wants to get

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[18:06] Have you ever clicked on Google Earth to

[18:09] see those sky-high photographs of your

[18:11] favorite real estate? Even President

[18:13] Bush uses it to check out his ranch.

[18:16] Well, tonight Google's got an internet

[18:17] rival in the spy-in-the-sky business and

[18:20] it's not just any old internet startup.

[18:23] Anthony Mason gives us an exclusive

[18:25] sneak peek in tonight's Eye on

[18:27] Technology.

[18:30] Websites like Google Earth have given us

[18:32] a bird's-eye view of the world. Until

[18:34] now, that world was flat. So we're going

[18:37] to head down to the strip in Las Vegas.

[18:40] But that's about to change. But the real

[18:42] power of this application is when you

[18:43] actually turn to see the angle of the

[18:46] buildings. Alex Daily gave us an

[18:48] exclusive first look at Virtual Earth

[18:50] 3D, Microsoft's new mapping service that

[18:53] goes online tonight. From the live.com

[18:56] website, you'll be able to swoop down

[18:58] into Las Vegas and fly up the strip.

[19:02] Soar over the Hoover Dam. It really

[19:04] gives you a feel for the location that

[19:06] you could never get before. Or drop in

[19:08] on LA. So the user is absorbing a ton of

[19:11] visual information about what a place is

[19:13] really like. What's near what? How is LA

[19:16] laid out? Where's the Staples Center in

[19:17] relation to Dodger Stadium? I know

[19:19] they're the enemy, but how is this

[19:20] different from Google Earth?

[19:22] This is a singularly unique experience.

[19:25] Virtual Earth is really about creating a

[19:26] fully 3D realistic model of the world.

[19:30] Animated from actual photographs, 15

[19:33] major American cities have been mapped

[19:35] in 3D, but within 5 years Microsoft

[19:38] plans to map 5,000 around the world. How

[19:41] much is Microsoft investing to make this

[19:43] happen?

[19:45] It's hundreds of millions of dollars.

[19:47] From the air, mapping companies have

[19:48] been taking high-resolution images to

[19:50] create a database. Now on the ground,

[19:53] vans equipped with multiple cameras are

[19:55] driving cities all over the country,

[19:57] firing off millions of images in every

[20:00] direction. Those pictures will lead to

[20:02] Virtual Earth's next step, a

[20:04] street-level 3D map.

[20:07] The idea is that from your computer at

[20:09] home, you'll be able to walk down a

[20:10] street like this anywhere in the world.

[20:12] And if, say, you pass a store that

[20:14] interests you, you'll actually be able

[20:16] to go inside and go shopping. But

[20:18] ultimately, the goal is for this thing

[20:20] to become alive. Google and Microsoft

[20:23] are fighting an air war for your

[20:25] eyeballs. Virtual Earth 3D has just

[20:28] lifted the game to another level.

[20:31] Anthony Mason, CBS News, Reston,

[20:33] Virginia.

[20:34] That is so cool. Well, we have some

[20:36] voting results for you now. Yes, the

[20:38] voting in our interactive series

[20:40] Assignment America. Visitors to our

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[23:54] If you think you're having a bad day,

[23:55] listen to this. The aircraft carrier

[23:57] Intrepid is 63 years old, and after

[24:00] serving as a museum here in New York for

[24:02] 25 years, it was due for a little

[24:04] face-lift. It was supposed to be moved

[24:06] today to another port for those repairs,

[24:09] but tugboats could only nudge it 15 feet

[24:12] before the propellers dug into the mud.

[24:15] The mission, scrub for now, but Richard

[24:18] Schlesinger has more on the carrier's

[24:20] proud history.

[24:22] This is hardly the Intrepid's worst day.

[24:24] After serving from the Second World War

[24:26] to the Cold War, then as a tourist

[24:28] attraction, she's a little rusty, a

[24:30] little musty, but full of memories as

[24:33] fresh as yesterday. So, when you come

[24:36] here and you look at these certain

[24:37] spots, it all comes back. If you look at

[24:40] Louis Novelli, Hector Janeska, and Ray

[24:42] Stone, all served aboard the Intrepid.

[24:48] They survived the kamikazes. One came

[24:51] through right here and exploded right

[24:54] there.

[24:55] And still relive the attacks. The smell

[24:58] is the thing. I have a strong visual,

[25:01] but the I can smell it.

[25:04] Even now?

[25:04] >> Fresh ammo. Yeah.

[25:07] It

[25:08] it doesn't leave. How did you survive?

[25:12] Well, I don't know, really. Don't ask me

[25:13] that. These three men have been living,

[25:16] breathing exhibits in this floating

[25:18] museum. That's the truth.

[25:21] But for the past several weeks, workmen

[25:23] have been packing up the ship.

[25:26] While it didn't work today, sooner or

[25:28] later, it will be towed to dry dock for

[25:30] 2 years. So, the men of the Intrepid

[25:33] will lose their stage and lose their

[25:35] audience and lose the sight of their

[25:37] greatest challenge. It will take some

[25:40] adjustment for older men who, in their

[25:42] minds, were young again whenever they

[25:44] boarded this ship. Just recently, Ray

[25:47] Stone was permitted to see where he

[25:48] lived on board in a part of the ship

[25:50] that had been closed off for years. It

[25:53] would be interesting to see the hell's

[25:55] back here. There's an old workshop here

[25:57] now, but Stone remembers this area well.

[26:00] When was the last time you were in this

[26:02] part of the ship?

[26:05] 1945.

[26:06] This is roughly where his bunk was. I

[26:09] can see the bunks. I can see the guys.

[26:12] How clearly can you see it in your

[26:14] mind's eye? Like a photograph.

[26:17] Some snapshots never fade, and for all

[26:19] these years, the Intrepid has been a

[26:21] kind of focal point, helping these men

[26:23] keep their memories of an old war sharp.

[26:27] Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, New York.

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