CBS Evening News - 2007-11-02
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[0:02] Tonight, are America's consumer safety
[0:04] watchdogs looking out for you or
[0:07] themselves?
[0:08] >> I was actually horrified.
[0:10] >> Two top officials took dozens of trips
[0:12] [music]
[0:13] paid for by the same industries they're
[0:15] supposed to be regulating.
[0:17] >> That is outrageous.
[0:19] >> I'm Katie Kurrick. Also [music] tonight,
[0:21] scandal at Oprah Winfrey School in South
[0:24] Africa. A former matron [music] at the
[0:26] school for disadvantaged girls is
[0:28] arrested on sexual assault charges.
[0:32] Would you believe these men are guarding
[0:34] a potential [music] terror target caught
[0:36] on tape catching a nap?
[0:38] >> It's the culture there that it's okay to
[0:40] do it.
[0:41] >> And it's called [music]
[0:43] picking up Butch and it's a college
[0:45] tradition. Steve Hartman will show us in
[0:47] [music] tonight's Assignment America.
[0:54] This is the [music] CBS Evening News
[0:56] with Katie Kurrick.
[1:00] >> Good evening everyone. In [music] this
[1:01] year when millions of dangerous toys
[1:03] have made it onto store shelves and into
[1:06] the hands of our children, the news out
[1:08] of Washington today brought cries of
[1:10] anger. Officials of the government
[1:12] agency that oversees toy safety have
[1:15] been accepting free trips from the toy
[1:17] industry. They've also gotten free rides
[1:20] from other industries as well. Nancy
[1:22] Nord, acting chairman of the Consumer
[1:24] Product Safety Commission, and her
[1:25] predecessor, House Stratton, accepted
[1:28] nearly 30 trips in all, including
[1:30] airfare, hotels, and meals valued at
[1:33] $60,000.
[1:35] Here's Nancy Cordis.
[1:39] They were trips to glamorous locations
[1:41] like Barcelona and Hong Kong, paid for
[1:44] by the very industrie