CBS Evening News - 1999-11-24
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[0:03] Wait, but I have a great story to tell.
[0:05] >> What do I want to get him for?
[0:06] >> Just call.
[0:07] >> I don't know.
[0:08] >> Is this Monica Lewinsky's [music]
[0:10] new man on ET?
[0:14] Getting out of town, Americans fight
[0:16] record crowds of travelers to be with
[0:19] their families for Thanksgiving.
[0:21] The lawyers who took on big tobacco are
[0:24] now going after big HMO, accusing them
[0:27] of defrauding millions of patients. And
[0:30] a new kind of credit card fraud through
[0:33] the department store and mall checkout
[0:36] counters. It's two swipes and one big
[0:38] rip-off.
[0:42] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:45] >> [music]
[0:46] >> with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:49] headquarters in New York.
[0:51] Good evening. We have ignition. Millions
[0:54] of Americans have begun the holiday
[0:55] travel rush and crush. There was
[0:57] dangerous dense fog or rain in parts of
[1:00] the East and West and all over the map
[1:02] at this hour. Even where visibility is
[1:04] better, all you can see is other
[1:07] travelers. There is mass traffic up and
[1:09] down the Massachusetts Turnpike. It's
[1:11] bumper-to-bumper and toe-to-toe all
[1:13] around the St. Louis Arch. And Houston,
[1:16] we have a problem. Texas-sized traffic
[1:18] on the freeways. CBS's Jim Axelrod has
[1:21] the Thanksgiving travel story with all
[1:23] the trimmings.
[1:25] >> No matter how you dress it up, this
[1:27] holiday season's expected record number
[1:29] of travelers promises a record number of
[1:31] headaches.
[1:32] >> It's going to be brutal, I hear. It's
[1:34] going to be uh murder.
[1:35] >> It's the great American day before
[1:37] Thanksgiving ritual, the gridlocking of
[1:40] getaways. Already tonight, a nation of
[1:42] grownups feels more li