CBS Evening News - 2009-06-17
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[0:03] Tonight, the whole world's watching.
[0:08] Defying authority, new mass rallies in
[0:10] Tehran and calls for an even bigger one.
[0:13] The opposition is marching and the
[0:15] government is cracking heads.
[0:19] I'm Harry Smith. Also tonight, Twitter,
[0:22] texting and PDAs.
[0:25] The weapons on the street that are
[0:26] connecting a revolution.
[0:29] And why is it that when business goes
[0:31] bad in Iowa, they feel the pain in the
[0:33] Caribbean? Part of our series, Financial
[0:36] Family Tree.
[0:38] Plus, the city that can't afford a party
[0:41] finds a way to celebrate.
[0:49] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:52] Couric.
[0:55] >> Good evening. Katie is off. We begin
[0:57] once again with Iran. There is a feeling
[1:00] something big is about to happen there.
[1:02] The opposition presidential candidate
[1:04] has called for a huge protest march
[1:07] tomorrow in Tehran to press his case
[1:09] that the election was rigged. That's
[1:11] even as the government continues to
[1:13] crack down. Today, it started blocking
[1:16] websites and even accused the US of
[1:18] intolerable
[1:20] interference in its affairs. Through all
[1:22] of this, the rallies continue. Elizabeth
[1:25] Palmer begins our coverage from Tehran.
[1:29] >> They barely made a sound.
[1:32] But their message was crystal clear.
[1:35] Wearing black for mourning and green,
[1:37] the color of the opposition, tens of
[1:40] thousands of people obeyed the call of
[1:41] the defeated opposition candidate
[1:43] Mir-Hossein Mousavi to demonstrate
[1:45] peacefully.
[1:48] Some carried pictures of those wounded
[1:50] and killed earlier this week when the
[1:52] PROTEST TURNED VIOLENT.
[1:56] DISSENT is breaking out all over.
[2:00] Even among Tehran commuters on the
[2:02] subway