CBS Evening News - 2009-06-16

Name: CBS Evening News - 2009-06-16
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[0:02] Tonight, demonstrators in Tehran

[0:04] continue to protest the presidential

[0:06] elections as thousands take to the

[0:08] streets. The Ayatollah promises a

[0:10] partial recount as the government there

[0:13] cracks down.

[0:21] I'm Jeff Glor. Also tonight, a shocking

[0:23] report about veterans care.

[0:26] Thousands may have been exposed to HIV

[0:28] and hepatitis because of incompetence

[0:30] and negligence at the VA.

[0:33] The FDA issues an extraordinary warning

[0:35] to stop using the popular cold remedy

[0:37] Zicam after dangerous side effects are

[0:40] reported.

[0:41] Plus, climate change. The results of the

[0:44] most comprehensive report yet on what

[0:46] might be coming to your part of the

[0:47] country. From wild weather swings to

[0:50] rising seas.

[0:55] >> [music]

[0:56] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[0:59] Couric.

[1:01] >> [music]

[1:03] >> And good evening. Katie's off. We begin

[1:04] tonight with remarkable events still

[1:07] unfolding inside Iran. Today, thousands

[1:10] marched again through the capital

[1:11] disputing the official results that show

[1:13] President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won

[1:16] re-election last week in a landslide.

[1:19] The protesters say the vote was rigged.

[1:21] Today's march was peaceful, unlike

[1:23] yesterday's.

[1:28] >> [cheering]

[1:30] >> Iran's government says seven protesters

[1:32] have been killed. Witnesses say gunmen

[1:34] fired from the roof of a building used

[1:36] by a state-run militia after a crowd

[1:38] tried to storm it. And there is late

[1:40] word the government has stepped up its

[1:42] crackdown on dissenters. The latest now

[1:44] from Elizabeth Palmer in Tehran.

[1:47] >> There is a lot of political maneuvering

[1:49] going on here in Iran to contain the

[1:51] unrest. And one