CBS Evening News - 2008-06-03 (Western)
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[0:00] is signaling she's interested in being
[0:02] his running [music] mate. I'm Katie
[0:04] Couric. Also tonight, GM truck sales
[0:06] dropping like a rock.
[0:09] The automaker [music] is closing four
[0:11] plants that make gas-guzzling SUVs and
[0:14] cutting thousands of jobs.
[0:16] Are some food [music] dyes hurting our
[0:18] kids? A consumer group says yes and
[0:21] calls on the FDA to ban them.
[0:24] And con artists on the freeway find a
[0:27] free way to get gas.
[0:34] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:37] Couric.
[0:40] >> And this is a special Western edition.
[0:42] [music] Good evening, everyone. It's an
[0:44] historic moment for this country. For
[0:46] the first time, a major political party
[0:48] will nominate an African-American for
[0:50] president. Barack Obama, the 46-year-old
[0:53] freshman senator from Illinois, tonight
[0:55] locked up the more than 2,100 delegates
[0:57] he needed to defeat Hillary Clinton for
[0:59] the Democratic nomination. Clinton is
[1:02] leading though in today's South Dakota
[1:04] primary, but Obama will get a share of
[1:06] the delegates there. And polls close at
[1:08] 7:00 Pacific Time in Montana, holding
[1:11] the very last primary. So, it will be
[1:14] Barack Obama facing Republican John
[1:16] McCain in November. We have a team of
[1:18] correspondents deployed to bring you
[1:19] extensive coverage of this very
[1:21] important night. First, Dean Reynolds in
[1:23] St. Paul, Minnesota, who is covering the
[1:26] Obama campaign. And Dean, this really is
[1:28] an extraordinary achievement.
[1:31] >> Boy, it sure is, Katie. After 16 months
[1:33] on the on the road, Barack Obama can now
[1:37] reach the milestone that he has been in
[1:39] search of for so many months, and he