CBS Evening News - 2002-12-16
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[0:03] should the aquatic park. Call 503557
[0:06] SURF.
[0:08] Tonight's headlines. Fighting for his
[0:11] job. Lot takes his case to black
[0:13] America. Gore leaves Democratic field
[0:16] wide open. Crisis in Venezuela. [music]
[0:19] It could hit your wallet. Also tonight,
[0:22] El Nino strikes again. A deadly storm
[0:25] batters the West Coast. CBS News
[0:28] investigates allegations of a cover up
[0:31] of criminal activity at a critical
[0:33] National Weapons Lab. And Eye on
[0:36] America, the law gives battered women
[0:39] convicted of murdering their abusers a
[0:42] second chance.
[0:45] [music]
[0:48] This is the CBS Evening News [music]
[0:51] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:54] headquarters in New York. [music]
[0:56] Good evening. Whether Trent Lot stays
[0:58] Republican leader of the US Senate or
[1:00] goes is no longer up to him alone. In
[1:03] his latest bid to keep his job, Lot of
[1:06] Mississippi is taking his case directly
[1:08] to African-Americans in a national
[1:10] televised interview tonight. But his
[1:13] fate after his recent remarks widely
[1:15] criticized as racist is now in the hands
[1:18] of other Republican senators and
[1:20] President Bush. CBS News correspondent
[1:22] Bob Schiffer on Capitol Hill begins our
[1:24] coverage. Bob
[1:26] >> Dan, Senate Republicans will hold an
[1:28] extraordinary meeting early next year to
[1:30] decide whether Trent Lot should stay in
[1:33] the powerful post of Senate Majority
[1:35] Leader. Presidential spokesman Ari Fleer
[1:37] said again today the president does not
[1:40] believe Lot needs to resign. But key
[1:42] Republican sources are telling me that
[1:44] if Republican senators do try to oust
[1:47] Lot, the president will not interfere,
[1:50] nor will he try to