CBS Evening News - 1998-11-04

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[0:00] Leonardo's sexy new scenes and a mystery

[0:03] superstar mansion on ET.

[0:06] Farreaching ripples from the election 98

[0:09] stunner. Democrats gain and buck midterm

[0:13] election history against the backdrop of

[0:15] Congress's impeach the president

[0:17] inquiry. A man is being sought for

[0:19] questioning in the shooting death of an

[0:21] abortion doctor near Buffalo. Meet

[0:24] NASA's remarkable new blue next

[0:27] generation rocket propulsion system

[0:29] going far and deep on the cheap and

[0:33] legendary political nicknames. Old

[0:36] hickory, honest aid, and now the

[0:42] body. This is the CBS Evening

[0:47] News with Dan Rather reporting from CBS

[0:50] News headquarters in New York. Good

[0:53] evening. What a difference a day makes.

[0:54] Now it's the Republican congressional

[0:56] leadership facing political jeopardy

[0:58] from unhappy GOP ranks. But House

[1:01] Judiciary Committee Chairman Henry Hyde

[1:03] of Illinois said today that the November

[1:05] surprise dealt to Republicans will not

[1:07] affect Congress's impeach the president

[1:10] inquiry. He said this after Republicans

[1:12] not only failed to achieve expected

[1:14] modest gains in their Congress and

[1:16] governor majorities, they even lost

[1:18] ground. Republicans didn't get a single

[1:21] pickup in the US Senate and they lost

[1:23] about five House seats and one

[1:25] governor's mansion. CBS News chief

[1:27] Washington correspondent Bob Chaffer is

[1:29] here with the figures and the facts.

[1:30] Bob, thank you Dan. For Democrats,

[1:33] California's newly elected Senator

[1:35] Barbara Boxer said it all.

[1:39] First, I have something important to

[1:41] tell

[1:41] you. We won.

[1:45] And that was a word from the wide

[1:46] Pacific to the New York Har

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