CBS Evening News - 2003-01-03
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[0:00] Need
[0:00] >> ahead.
[0:01] >> The Crooked E. CBS Sunday.
[0:04] >> Why is he using the name Jim Elliot? An
[0:07] unusual [music] alias at 6.
[0:09] >> Tonight's headlines. A massive new troop
[0:12] deployment for war with Iraq. UN weapons
[0:14] inspectors digging faster and deeper.
[0:17] Bush Medicare overhaul plan including a
[0:20] drug coverage benefit. Also tonight, the
[0:22] FDA approves the use of Prozac to treat
[0:25] depression in children. A Friday
[0:27] consumer alert about a sweepstake scam
[0:30] that could cost you a fortune. And the
[0:33] kindness of a stranger. The priceless
[0:35] gift he gave a child he didn't [music]
[0:37] even know.
[0:43] [music]
[0:46] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:49] Rather.
[0:51] >> Good evening. Dan is on assignment
[0:52] tonight. I'm Scott Py. We begin this
[0:55] evening with US troops on the move. The
[0:57] buildup of forces for a possible war
[0:59] with Iraq is about to grow a whole lot
[1:01] larger. Correspondent David Martin at
[1:04] the Pentagon has early word tonight on
[1:06] what's coming next in the showdown with
[1:08] Saddam.
[1:10] While the commander-in-chief was
[1:12] surrounding himself with soldiers at
[1:13] Fort Hood, Texas, the Pentagon was
[1:15] preparing a series of new deployment
[1:17] orders that would move 70 to 80,000 more
[1:20] troops into position to invade Iraq.
[1:23] Counting the forces already in the
[1:24] Persian Gulf and those already on the
[1:26] way, these new orders, which Defense
[1:28] Secretary Rumsfeld is expected to begin
[1:30] approving next week, would increase to
[1:33] well over 150,000, the number of troops,
[1:36] everything from foot soldiers to fighter
[1:38] pilots to ammo handlers targeted against
[1:40] Saddam Hussein. That number would
[1:43] inclu