CBS Evening News open - 2000-08-01 (Republican Convention)
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[0:00] drum of support for a life-saving cause.
[0:03] >> Tommy Ford was excited to be at Jackson
[0:05] Memorial Hospital for the annual
[0:07] National Minority Organ Donor Awareness
[0:09] Day. The star of the show, Martin, hopes
[0:11] more people will learn about organ
[0:13] donation and also sign up.
[0:16] >> That's our news for now. Thank you for
[0:18] joining us.
[0:18] >> Steve and I will see you back here
[0:19] tonight at 11. For now, we'll take you
[0:21] to New York and the CBS Evening News
[0:23] with Dan Rather.
[0:25] >> A convention bounce for Bush. signs he's
[0:28] picking up support as he heads for the
[0:30] official GOP presidential nomination. A
[0:33] formal rival takes the spotlight
[0:35] tonight, but tells CBS his political
[0:38] battles are not over. Outside the
[0:41] convention, new trouble with protesters
[0:43] on the streets of Philadelphia. And CBS
[0:46] News investigates the latest enemy for
[0:48] the US military. Russ,
[0:56] >> this is the CBS Evening News
[0:59] with Dan Rather reporting from the
[1:01] Republican National Convention in
[1:04] Philadelphia.
[1:06] Good evening. Outside the tranquility of
[1:09] this hall, protesters are clashing with
[1:11] police at this hour, trying to disrupt
[1:14] business as usual in this Republican
[1:17] convention city. Police have arrested at
[1:19] least 90 people with the confrontations
[1:21] continuing. At at least one location,
[1:24] protesters have been seen hitting police
[1:26] and the officers were using their batons
[1:29] in response. Now, most of this activity
[1:31] is a long way from the convention
[1:33] center. But some delegates have been
[1:35] stimid in their efforts to make their
[1:37] way from downtown hotels to the evening
[1:39] session. At several inte