CBS Evening News - 2009-02-02

Name: CBS Evening News - 2009-02-02
Uploaded: 2025-02-01
Duration: 1095 s
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Uploaded: 2025-02-01

Duration: PT1095S

Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 2009-02-02” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-02-01.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

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[0:02] tonight no light at the end of the power

[0:04] line hundreds of thousands from the

[0:06] south to the Midwest are spending yet

[0:08] another winter night in the dark many

[0:11] without heat nearly a week after the

[0:13] deadly storm I'm Maggie Rodriguez also

[0:16] tonight the president takes aim at the

[0:17] Senate as Republicans push their own

[0:20] economic package and the

[0:23] ocean as you've never seen it before now

[0:26] you can Google it

[0:32] this is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[0:38] kurick good evening Katie's on

[0:40] assignment she'll be along later in the

[0:42] broadcast We Begin tonight with a dire

[0:44] forecast for parts of the country still

[0:46] reeling from last week's ice storm

[0:48] another blast of cold air is heading

[0:50] south this as nearly half a million

[0:53] homes and businesses are still without

[0:55] power and the death toll is up to 47 har

[0:58] Reena aoson is in Mary in Kentucky where

[1:00] subfreezing temperatures are forecast

[1:03] through

[1:04] Wednesday National

[1:07] Guard every National Guard member in

[1:09] Kentucky has been called into service

[1:12] 4600 strong they are checking on Rural

[1:14] residents door by door but wait they

[1:17] have a generator too it is the worst

[1:20] natural disaster in the state's history

[1:23] more than 5,000 utility workers have

[1:25] been working around the clock but there

[1:26] are still more than

[1:28] 255,000 hes hes and businesses without

[1:31] power in Kentucky in neighboring

[1:33] Arkansas

[1:34] 119,000 the ice Storm's Devastation

[1:36] reaches into Missouri Indiana Ohio and

[1:39] Oklahoma as well well it looks like

[1:41] where bombs went off you know you see

[1:44] everything's down trees are down power

[1:46] lines even poles and ever