CBS Evening News - 2009-01-06
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[0:01] Please raise your right hand.
[0:02] >> Tonight, a new Congress opens as the
[0:05] president-elect faces a deepening
[0:06] recession and a war in Gaza that's
[0:09] growing more deadly by the day. I'm
[0:12] Katie Kurrick. We'll take you to the
[0:14] Middle East where Israeli shelling
[0:16] killed Palestinian civilians.
[0:20] But Israel accuses Hamas.
[0:26] There's nothing wrong with your
[0:27] television, but the picture could look
[0:29] like this in millions of American homes.
[0:34] And what do you do when you lose your
[0:35] job? If you're like her, you bake
[0:38] yourself a new one.
[0:42] [Music]
[0:44] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:47] Kur.
[0:50] >> Good evening everyone. Barack Obama
[0:52] takes office as the 44th president of
[0:54] the United States two weeks from today,
[0:57] but the world is not hold. Until then,
[1:00] the recession is deepening and the war
[1:01] in the Middle East is worsening. And
[1:04] now, as chief White House correspondent
[1:05] Chip Reed reports, Mr. Obama has been
[1:08] drawn into the conflict.
[1:10] >> For the first time, President Elect
[1:12] Obama publicly weighed in today on the
[1:15] raging violence in Gaza.
[1:17] >> I am deeply concerned about uh the
[1:21] conflict that's taking place there. The
[1:23] loss of civilian life in Gaza and in
[1:27] Israel is a source of deep concern to
[1:29] me.
[1:30] >> He was responding to a question, but
[1:32] sources say Mr. Obama had every
[1:34] intention of addressing the Gaza issue
[1:36] today, a conflict they say he's been
[1:38] following very closely, even asking his
[1:40] daily intelligence briefers for extra
[1:43] updates on the humanitarian situation.
[1:45] Those sources say the president-elect
[1:47] wanted his voice to be heard around the