World News (ABC) - 2008-06-03 (Western)
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[0:00] I'd like to have you
[0:01] >> will have enough delegates to secure the
[0:03] Democratic nomination after the final
[0:06] primary votes are counted tonight. What
[0:09] went wrong? How did the Clinton
[0:10] campaign, which seemed so certain of
[0:12] victory, failed to make her the first
[0:14] woman to win the nomination?
[0:17] Hard turn. GM is closing four truck and
[0:20] SUV plants, investing in more
[0:22] energyefficient cars, and may even sell
[0:25] its Hummer brand. And color change. The
[0:28] FDA has asked to take certain food dyes
[0:30] off the shelves after suspicions they
[0:33] cause behavioral problems in children.
[0:41] >> From ABC News headquarters, this is
[0:45] World News with Charles Gibson.
[0:47] >> Good evening. Historic may be a word
[0:50] thrown around too loosely in our times.
[0:52] Less than 150 years ago, black men and
[0:55] women were held in involuntary
[0:56] servitude. Slavery was the law of the
[0:59] land. And now the Democratic Party will
[1:02] nominate a black man to be president of
[1:04] the United States. And that is historic
[1:07] by any definition. Historic in any age
[1:10] after the primary votes in South Dakota
[1:12] and Montana are counted tonight. Barack
[1:15] Obama will have the delegates needed for
[1:17] the Democratic nomination. What went
[1:20] right for him? What went wrong for
[1:22] Hillary Clinton? We cover it all
[1:23] tonight. And we start with our senior
[1:25] political correspondent, Jake Tapper,
[1:27] down in Washington. Jake,
[1:29] >> good evening, Charlie. Well, it was an
[1:30] historic race with record turnout and an
[1:33] unbelievably close finish, but tonight
[1:36] it ends.
[1:38] >> Senator Barack Obama walked out of a gym
[1:40] in Chicago today where he'd playe