CBS Evening News - 2010-01-12
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[0:01] Tonight, fears of a major disaster in
[0:03] Haiti as a powerful earthquake hits the
[0:06] Caribbean nation and a tsunami watch
[0:08] goes up [music] throughout the region.
[0:10] I'm Katie Couric. Also tonight, please
[0:13] stand by.
[0:14] Conan O'Brien boxed at NBC's plan to
[0:17] [music] push tonight into tomorrow to
[0:19] make room for Jay Leno. NBC said they
[0:22] wanted drama at 10:00. Now they got it.
[0:25] Now they got it. Everybody mad.
[0:27] And where America stands in the battle
[0:29] against Alzheimer's, [music] a disease
[0:31] that could be one of the biggest public
[0:33] health issues this country will ever
[0:35] face.
[0:38] From CBS News World Headquarters in New
[0:42] York, this is the CBS Evening News with
[0:45] Katie Couric.
[0:48] Good evening everyone. We begin tonight
[0:49] with breaking news from the Caribbean. A
[0:51] major disaster may be unfolding right
[0:53] now in Haiti, hit today by a powerful
[0:56] earthquake. It was a magnitude 7,
[0:58] possibly the strongest quake ever to hit
[1:01] that region. And it was quickly followed
[1:03] by a number of aftershocks. Tsunami
[1:06] watches have been posted for Haiti, the
[1:08] Dominican Republic, Cuba and the
[1:10] Bahamas, but have now been cancelled.
[1:13] More than 9 million people live in Haiti
[1:15] and there are reports that some
[1:16] buildings have collapsed with people
[1:18] buried underneath. Seth Doane begins our
[1:21] coverage tonight. Earthquake rocked this
[1:23] impoverished Caribbean nation late this
[1:25] afternoon. The 7.0 quake was centered
[1:28] roughly 10 miles from the capital city
[1:30] Port-au-Prince and there were reports of
[1:32] at least one strong 5.9 aftershock.
[1:36] Early reports are that a hospital may
[1:37] have collapse