CBS Evening News (A block) - 2006-12-01

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[0:02] I'm Katie Kurrick. Tonight, the big

[0:04] chill sweeps the country, turning

[0:06] temperatures from bombing to bone

[0:07] chilling overnight. While a day after

[0:09] the summit, the president warms up to

[0:11] another Iraqi power broker with a second

[0:14] pow-wow planned for Monday at the White

[0:16] House. Cynthia Bowers is in the windy

[0:18] and now snowy city where air travel is

[0:21] one big mess.

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[0:57] This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:00] Kurrick.

[1:03] Hi everyone. Mother Nature's been

[1:05] playing tricks all over the country. A

[1:07] powerful storm front has been pushing

[1:09] eastward, turning the weather from no

[1:11] jacket to snow jacket in the blink of an

[1:14] eye. It's dumped ice and snow from Texas

[1:16] up through the Great Lakes. And tonight,

[1:18] fierce winds are really going to rattle

[1:20] power lines and trees in the northeast.

[1:24] Chicago, in particular, got dumped on

[1:25] with hundreds of flights canled at

[1:27] O'Hare Airport. Cynthia Bowers is among

[1:30] the happy travelers there. Hi, Cynthia.

[1:33] Hi, Katie. It has been pretty hellacious

[1:35] here today. You can see behind me,

[1:37] passengers are finally getting onto

[1:39] planes, some passengers, because even

[1:41] though the storm has gone, the flights

[1:43] are still only running at about 50%.

[1:47] 520 departure tomorrow.

[1:49] >> It was one long day of playing catchup

[1:51] at Chicago's O'Hare after the major

[1:53] airlines here canceled hundreds of

[1:55] flights stranding thousands of wouldbe

[1:57] passengers.

[1:59] >> They said it was just top luck. It's

[2:00] canled

[2:01] >> and turning concourses into makeshift

[2:03] shelters.

[2:05] But despite heavy snowfall in some of

[2:07] the suburbs,

[2:08] >> it's a shocker, that's for sure. We

[2:10] haven't had good snow in about the last

[2:12] 6 years. and waves on Lake Michigan that

[2:14] look like a hurricane. Most of Chicago

[2:17] was spared.

[2:19] It was a far different story in the

[2:21] plain states. Much of Missouri was

[2:23] paralyzed by the disastrous winter mix

[2:25] of sleet and snow that left hundreds of

[2:28] thousands of families without power and

[2:30] more than a foot of snow in some places.

[2:33] But this storm is also packing dangerous

[2:35] winds and heavy rains from Alabama where

[2:38] it ripped through the small town of

[2:40] Demopoulos overnight all the way up the

[2:42] Ohio Valley to waterlog Cleveland 800

[2:45] miles away and onto Pittsburgh which by

[2:47] midday could lay claim to the title

[2:50] Windy City. Now it's bearing down on the

[2:52] east coast. By the time it's done, a

[2:55] storm that first showed its punch Monday

[2:57] when it brought a rare snowfall to

[2:59] Seattle will have steamrolled its way

[3:01] 3,000 miles across the country, giving

[3:04] the cold shoulder to millions of

[3:06] Americans. The Good News forecasters

[3:08] say, don't read too much into this early

[3:10] season assault.

[3:12] >> The outlook for for winter, December,

[3:14] January, and February, favors above

[3:15] normal temperatures,

[3:17] >> mild, just like it was in the hours

[3:20] before the storm hit. We weren't

[3:22] counting on this after that warm

[3:23] weekend. We're outside in shorts and

[3:26] t-shirts drinking wine.

[3:28] >> People are still digging out and getting

[3:30] back to normal, which airport officials

[3:32] tell me should happen here by sometime

[3:34] tomorrow. Katie

[3:35] >> and Cynthia are other airports, a zoo

[3:37] like O'Hare.

[3:39] >> Oh my gosh, you can't I don't know

[3:40] what's going on in the east except that

[3:42] there are now 4hour flight delays at

[3:44] JFK, nearly 3 hours at Philly, and more

[3:48] than 2 hours at Newark. So, it's going

[3:50] to be a tough night of travel ahead,

[3:51] Katie.

[3:51] >> All right, we got back just in time.

[3:53] Cynthia Bowers is in Chicago tonight.

[3:55] Thank you, Cynthia. While the US cools

[3:57] down, President Bush is trying to heat

[3:59] up diplomatic efforts in Iraq. Today,

[4:01] just one day after a summit in Jordan

[4:03] with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuriel Maliki.

[4:06] The president announced plans to meet

[4:08] next week with a powerful leader of a

[4:10] major Shiite militia. Next month, he'll

[4:13] meet with a top Sunni leader. For the

[4:15] very latest on that story, here's Bill

[4:17] Plant at the White House. Bill. Katie,

[4:19] the meetings signal a new sense of

[4:21] urgency. Even though the White House

[4:22] says the timing is coincidental, the

[4:24] administration is reaching out to the

[4:26] waring factions in Iraq. Just as the

[4:28] Iraq study group is expected to

[4:30] recommend.

[4:32] Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, whom the president

[4:34] meets Monday, heads Iraq's largest

[4:36] Shiite sect. His B militia rivals the

[4:39] Madi army of Mkta Elsad. US intelligence

[4:42] sources tell CBS News Hakeim's forces

[4:45] were the first to send death squads to

[4:47] target Sunnis. Next month, Mr. Bush will

[4:50] host a Sunni, the Iraqi Vice President,

[4:52] Tariq Al-Hashabe.

[4:54] In his meeting with the president

[4:55] yesterday, Iraq's prime minister

[4:57] insisted that he could gain control of

[4:59] the sectarian violence if he had

[5:01] complete control of security forces. Mr.

[5:04] Bush agreed to speed that up. And today,

[5:06] the US commander of coalition forces in

[5:09] northern Iraq said that control of four

[5:11] Iraqi divisions will be transferred to

[5:13] Baghdad by March. But longtime M East

[5:16] diplomat Martin Indic says, "Forget

[5:17] victory. The US is staring defeat in the

[5:20] face.

[5:20] >> What we need to be focused on

[5:24] is preventing uh the situation in Iraq

[5:29] affecting our other interests in the

[5:31] region."

[5:33] is precisely to keep the region from

[5:35] exploding that the Baker Commission is

[5:37] expected to recommend a major diplomatic

[5:39] initiative, including US talks with Iran

[5:41] and Syria, something the president has

[5:43] consistently rejected. As one senior

[5:46] White House official put it, if that's

[5:48] the recommendation, everyone here will

[5:50] be underwhelmed. Katie

[5:52] >> Bill Plant reporting for us at the White

[5:53] House tonight. Thanks, Bill. Meanwhile,

[5:55] there was a huge protest in another

[5:57] Middle East hot spot, Lebanon, plus a

[6:00] party in Cuba. But will the guest of

[6:02] honor show up? And several new twists in

[6:05] that strange case of the ex-Russian spy

[6:07] who was poisoned. We began tonight's

[6:10] news briefing with Mark Phillips in

[6:12] Beirut. They came, police estimated, in

[6:15] their hundreds of thousands, supporters

[6:17] of the militant Hezbollah movement,

[6:20] which battled Israel in southern Lebanon

[6:22] in last summer's war and which wants to

[6:24] bring down the US backed Lebanese

[6:26] government now. and they pitch their

[6:29] tents saying they'll stay until the

[6:31] government falls.

[6:33] This isn't just a protest or even a

[6:35] sitin. It's a siege. It's a contest of

[6:37] wills between a weakened government and

[6:40] an emboldened Hisbala movement that

[6:42] already has influence and now wants

[6:44] power.

[6:46] I'm Richard Roth in London. Authorities

[6:48] now say the radioactive substance that

[6:50] killed a former Russian spy also

[6:52] poisoned one of his contacts. He's

[6:55] Italian security consultant Mario

[6:57] Scaramela under treatment tonight at the

[6:59] same London hospital where Alexander Lid

[7:01] Vignenko died. Scaramela met the Russian

[7:04] one month ago at a sushi bar warning him

[7:07] about a death threat. With extra

[7:09] equipment to protect the pathologists

[7:11] today an autopsy was carried out on

[7:13] Litenko's body which gets sealed in a

[7:16] special coffin before it's buried to

[7:18] keep radiation from spreading.

[7:21] >> I'm Laura Logan. Fidel Castro remains

[7:24] seriously ill, but CBS News has learned

[7:26] that he does not have cancer despite the

[7:28] rumors. However, we're told it's

[7:30] unlikely he'll recover enough to ever

[7:33] return to power, even if he survives for

[7:35] years. Millions here are hoping Castro

[7:38] will be able to attend a military parade

[7:40] tomorrow in what would be his first

[7:42] public appearance since these images of

[7:44] a frail and gaunted Fidel were broadcast

[7:47] just over a month ago. His younger

[7:50] brother Raul is already running the

[7:52] country in a transition of power that so

[7:54] far has been remarkably smooth in

[7:57] Havana. Lara Logan. And there's much

[7:59] more CBS news straight ahead. Up next,

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