CBS Evening News - 2009-06-04
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[0:02] Tonight, the president brings Muslims a
[0:04] message of peace.
[0:06] >> As-salamu alaykum.
[0:09] >> And a plea for better relations.
[0:12] >> I've come here to Cairo to seek a new
[0:15] beginning
[0:16] between the United States and Muslims
[0:18] around the world.
[0:19] >> I'm Katie Couric. Also tonight, the
[0:21] first piece [music] of Flight 447
[0:23] wreckage is recovered.
[0:26] But the flight recorders are still
[0:27] missing. Is there a better high-tech way
[0:30] to monitor an airliner?
[0:33] Freedom, it's still elusive in China.
[0:35] >> You can't take photo.
[0:37] >> 20 years after the bloody crackdown on
[0:39] pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen
[0:42] Square.
[0:47] And 65 years after D-Day, correcting an
[0:50] error etched in stone.
[0:57] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[1:00] Couric.
[1:04] >> Good evening, everyone. Who could have
[1:05] imagined [music] this in the days and
[1:07] months after 9/11? An American president
[1:10] named Barack Hussein Obama, son of a
[1:12] Muslim, standing at the center of the
[1:14] Islamic world quoting from the Quran and
[1:17] extending a hand of friendship. In an
[1:19] extraordinary address in Cairo today,
[1:21] President Obama called for a new
[1:23] beginning in US relations with Muslims,
[1:26] defended the war in Afghanistan but not
[1:28] in Iraq, and said the attacks of 9/11
[1:30] had led America in some cases to act
[1:33] contrary to our ideals. The president
[1:36] has flown on now to Germany, where
[1:38] tomorrow he'll visit the concentration
[1:40] camp memorial at Buchenwald. Chip Reid
[1:43] is traveling with Mr. Obama and begins
[1:45] our coverage of his momentous speech.
[1:48] >> The president began with the Muslim
[1:50] greeting of peace.
[1:51] >> As-salamu alaykum.
[1:54] >> [