CBS Evening News - 2007-04-01
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[0:00] I'm Russ Mitchell. Big bucks on the
[0:02] campaign trail. Hillary Clinton is
[0:04] breaking all fundraising records. Joey
[0:06] Chen and Sharon Alfonsi do the math.
[0:10] >> Troubled waters for those captured
[0:11] British sailors. Sheila McVicker has the
[0:13] latest on the standoff in the Gulf.
[0:16] Philadelphia murder capital. Bianca
[0:18] Solzano reports on the mounting death
[0:20] rate in the one-time city of brotherly
[0:22] love
[0:24] and granny basketball. Kelly Kobier goes
[0:27] to court with some women who prove
[0:28] you're never too old to play.
[0:35] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Russ
[0:38] Mitchell.
[0:42] And good evening. Record setting news
[0:43] this Sunday in the race for the White
[0:45] House. There is word tonight from the
[0:46] Hillary Clinton campaign that the
[0:48] senator raised $26 million for her
[0:50] presidential bid in the first three
[0:52] months of this year. That shatters the
[0:54] old record of just under $9 million
[0:56] raised by Al Gore some 12 years ago. On
[0:59] top of that, the senator has transferred
[1:01] an additional $10 million from her
[1:03] Senate fundraising account. We have two
[1:05] reports, beginning with Joey Chen in
[1:07] Washington.
[1:08] Hillary Clinton's campaign today lobbed
[1:11] the first spin of its early fundraising
[1:12] effort, saying her staggering number
[1:14] reflects the strength of her support.
[1:16] Her $36 million piggy bank dwarfs any
[1:19] previous record and could run off some
[1:22] of the competition.
[1:23] >> If that gap between Clinton in Obama's
[1:26] huge, everyone will say, "Look, you
[1:27] know, she's such a commanding presence,
[1:29] such a commanding campaigner that he's
[1:31] not going to be able to catch her."
[1:32] >> But her key Dem