CBS Evening News - 1997-01-17
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[0:02] A death in the family, a hunt for the
[0:04] killer. Los Angeles police go all out to
[0:06] find the gunman who murdered Bill
[0:08] Cosby's son. Speaker Gangrich faces a
[0:11] tough reprimand, plus a six figure fine
[0:14] for misleading the House ethics
[0:16] investigation. And spectacles in the
[0:19] sky. We follow a record-breaking
[0:21] balloonist as he heads for trouble over
[0:23] Libya. And a catastrophe at [music] the
[0:25] Cape.
[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:34] [music] with Dan Rather reporting from
[0:36] CBS News headquarters in New York. Good
[0:39] evening. We're starting out tonight with
[0:40] the latest on a story that has moved so
[0:42] many Americans, the murder of Bill
[0:44] Cosby's son, Andis. The father says he
[0:46] is confident the Los Angeles police will
[0:49] solve the crime. Today, detectives were
[0:51] interviewing witnesses, too, in
[0:53] particular, searching for clues and
[0:55] putting together a composite sketch of
[0:57] the killer. Our coverage begins with
[0:58] Jerry Bowen.
[1:00] >> Los Angeles police today were retracing
[1:03] the last hours of Enis Cosby's life
[1:05] before he took this freeway exit early
[1:07] Thursday morning and was shot to death
[1:09] on the side of a frontage road.
[1:10] >> We're doing some background on this last
[1:12] 24 48 hours to try to determine where he
[1:14] was so that we can find out if this was
[1:16] a chance encounter, if it was something
[1:18] was planned, if it was followed.
[1:20] The manager of this Westside Sports Club
[1:22] says Cosby and a friend worked out here
[1:24] for 4 hours Wednesday night before
[1:27] leaving at 10:30. Cosby reportedly
[1:29] saying he was tired and going home. But
[1:32] 3 hours later, he was on route to visit
[1:34] a