CBS Evening News - 2008-05-12

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[0:00] [Music]

[0:02] tonight running for their lives a

[0:04] powerful earthquake in China kills

[0:06] thousands including hundreds of children

[0:08] buried in the rubble of their school and

[0:11] the first plane load of us Aid arrives

[0:13] in Myanmar but will it get to the

[0:16] victims I'm Katie kurick also tonight

[0:18] deadly weather here at home oh my God

[0:22] tornadoes sweep across the South and

[0:25] Midwest leaving more than 20 people dead

[0:28] a CBS News exclusive a prominent doctor

[0:32] says don't rule out a possible link

[0:34] between childhood vaccines and autism

[0:37] and we begin a cross country road trip

[0:40] to show you how Americans are dealing

[0:42] with the soaring price of

[0:48] gasoline this is the CBS Evening News

[0:51] with Katy

[0:54] kurk good evening everyone tonight a

[0:57] host of deadly natural disasters around

[0:59] the world an earthquake in China that

[1:01] cyclone in Myanmar and here at home

[1:03] tornadoes first china hit today by a

[1:07] magnitude 7.9 Quake centered in Sichuan

[1:10] Province and felt thousands of miles

[1:12] away the numbers are astounding more

[1:15] than 10,000 people have been killed in

[1:17] one area near the epicenter 80% of the

[1:19] buildings were destroyed in another a

[1:22] chemical plant collapsed spilling 80

[1:24] tons of toxic liquid ammonia Celia

[1:27] Hatton with the latest tonight from

[1:29] Beijing

[1:32] [Music]

[1:34] China was shaken to its core Monday

[1:37] these images recorded by a college

[1:39] student captured the earthquake as it

[1:41] hit the impact and the more than 300

[1:43] aftershocks that followed were the worst

[1:46] the country's felt in more than 30

[1:49] years dozens of bodies were pulled from

[1:51] the wreckage of a three-story High

[1:53] School the

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