CBS Evening News - 2009-02-06
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:04] 13 jobs a minute disappearing.
[0:07] >> These numbers demand action.
[0:08] >> Senate moderates race to trim the
[0:10] stimulus package to a passable size.
[0:13] >> The world is waiting to see what we're
[0:14] going to do in the next 24 hours.
[0:16] >> I'm Katie Kurrick. Also tonight, a CBS
[0:18] News exclusive.
[0:20] New questions about the safety of a
[0:22] vaccine recommended for millions of
[0:24] young girls.
[0:26] Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps suspended
[0:29] for smoking pot.
[0:30] >> For mistakes, you should get punished
[0:33] >> and keeping watch on America's front
[0:35] door from your living room.
[0:41] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:44] Kur
[0:48] and good evening everyone. There's
[0:49] breaking news from Washington tonight.
[0:51] The Senate has reached tentative
[0:53] agreement on an economic stimulus
[0:54] package. price tag $780 billion, trimmed
[0:58] down from more than 900 billion. The
[1:01] compromise followed more dismal economic
[1:03] news. We'll have more about that in a
[1:05] moment. But first, our chief White House
[1:07] correspondent Chip Reed has the latest
[1:09] on the stimulus deal. Chip?
[1:11] >> Well, Katie, you know, the price of the
[1:13] stimulus deal has done nothing but go up
[1:15] and up and up. It was up around $930
[1:18] billion. A lot of people said there's no
[1:20] way they'll get it down to the target of
[1:22] $800 billion. They exceeded that. really
[1:24] extraordinary by congressional
[1:26] standards. They're now they now have a
[1:27] tenative deal for $780 billion. We're
[1:30] told a lot of the cuts are from aid to
[1:32] the states, especially spending for
[1:35] education. The deal was worked out
[1:38] behind closed doors by a group of about
[1:40] 16 moderate R