CBS Evening News - 2007-02-08

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[0:01] I'm Katie kurick alarming news tonight

[0:03] about just how many American children

[0:05] are

[0:06] autistic people talk about a crisis and

[0:09] that's a lot of kids more than half a

[0:11] million kids the most comprehensive

[0:13] study yet shows autism is far more

[0:16] common than we thought firing back house

[0:19] Speaker Nancy Pelosi blames the Pentagon

[0:22] for the flap over which plane she can

[0:24] use and finds a surprising Ally in her

[0:27] corner and a sudden and shock in death

[0:30] what killed model and actress Anna

[0:32] Nicole

[0:37] Smith this is the CBS Evening News with

[0:41] Katie

[0:43] kurick hi everyone one of the most

[0:45] heartbreaking things any parent could

[0:47] hear is that their child has been

[0:49] diagnosed with autism autism is a

[0:52] disorder that can rob children of their

[0:53] ability to interact with the outside

[0:56] world today the Centers for Disease

[0:58] Control reported it's a lot more

[1:00] widespread than we thought they now say

[1:03] 560,000 children in this country have

[1:05] autism that's 60,000 more than the

[1:08] previous estimate our medical

[1:10] correspondent Dr John leuk reports on

[1:12] the most sweeping study of autism ever

[1:15] conducted in this

[1:16] country to get a clearer picture of

[1:19] autism in America the CDC conducted a

[1:21] comprehensive review of the medical and

[1:23] school records of children in 14 States

[1:26] CDC researchers determined as many as

[1:28] one in 150 children have the disorder

[1:31] previous Studies have estimated the rate

[1:33] was one in 166 children that there are

[1:36] large numbers of children now in this

[1:38] country with autism the CDC makes no

[1:40] judgments about whether autism rates are

[1:42] increasing what we're doing in in

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