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CBS Evening News for 2016-05-17

This program is 30 minutes long

• Preview/Introduction

  #1172872

  12:00:18 am — 12:00:54 am

  Florida pleads for help fighting Zika but Congress offers what amounts to a fly swatter. It's not going to cost one point nine billion it could cost four billion or five billion. Also tonight a defense of Trump by his daughter. I found it to be disturbing. Our special series tracks one man's battle against opioid addiction. I don't want to die using drugs. I don't want my legacy to be this get overdose. You know and these haunting rhinos just saved their lives. This is the CBS Evening News....

• Florida / Michael Doyle / Laura Pratt / Zika

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  12:00:58 am — 12:03:24 am

  It's a race against time to kill mosquitoes that carry Zika the virus linked to birth defects. Today the Senate approved just over one billion dollars for the battle but that's only about half of what the president asked for. The House majority wants even less. Six hundred and twenty two million all the Zika cases in the U.S. have been in people who traveled from Latin America. But health officials expect mosquito borne infections will occur here soon. David Begnaud is in Florida. There are over...

• Houston / Jon LaPook / Tom Frieden / CDC

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  12:03:24 am — 12:04:28 am

  Our Dr. Jon LaPook has been following Zika from the start. John as Congress debates the funding what are public health officials telling you. Scott Dr. Tom Frieden who's the head of the CDC told me just this afternoon. It's mind boggling. This is no way to fight an epidemic. We're basically nickel and diming the response when we know there are urgent needs that aren't getting met. I'm hearing similar sentiments at every level of public government. Well what specifically is not being done for lac...

• Chicago / American Airlines / Congress / Senator

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  12:04:30 am — 12:06:10 am

  Well there was some improvement today in those airports security lines. The TSA said it was sending 58 more officers and Bob bomb sniffing dogs to Chicago O'Hare where the lines had been as long as three hours. Dean Reynolds is there with passengers lined up as far as the eye could see and with so many flights missed that frustrated travelers were left sleeping in the terminals. TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger today said he was sorry for the inconvenience. I always tell people I want to apolog...

• Donald Trump / Federal Election Commission

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  12:06:10 am — 12:06:34 am

  Well today Donald Trump said he is worth more than 10 billion dollars. That was the bottom line in his financial disclosure statement filed with the Federal Election Commission. The statement shows that Trump's net worth increased in the past year. His income topped five hundred and fifty seven million dollars not including dividends interest capital gains rents and royalties....

• Trump / Kim Jong Un / North Korean

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  12:06:36 am — 12:06:48 am

  Also today Trump told Reuters that he would be willing to talk directly to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un about the nuclear program in that country. That would be a major shift in U.S. policy....

• Trump / Ivanka

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  12:06:48 am — 12:07:46 am

  Our Norah O'Donnell talked to Trump's daughter Ivanka today. I want to ask you about the New York Times they ran a front page article this Sunday about your father and the treatment of women. Did you read it. I did and I found it to be pretty disturbing. Based on the facts as I know them. Both in my capacity as a daughter and in the capacity as an executive who's worked alongside of him at this company for over a decade. So I was bothered by it. Most of the time when stories are inaccurate they'...

• Nevada / Nancy Scott / Sanders / Democratic

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  12:07:46 am — 12:08:38 am

  Now to the Democratic presidential race that is all over but the primaries. There were two primaries today and Nancy Cordes has the latest. Nancy Scott both campaigns believe that Kentucky could go either way tonight. Oregon they expect will go to Sanders but top Democratic officials were preoccupied today with another state Nevada after Sanders supporters disrupted the state's Democratic convention over the weekend. Today state party officials sent a blistering letter accusing the Sanders campa...

• Baghdad / ISIS / Islam / U.S.

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  12:08:39 am — 12:09:07 am

  Well today the ISIS bombing campaign in Baghdad killed 69 people in four blasts as always. ISIS was attacking neighborhoods of its rival the Shiite branch of Islam. ISIS is made up of Sunni radicals. In six days bombs have killed nearly 200 Baghdad civilians. These attacks are designed to destabilise the U.S. backed government which is already teetering in a political crisis....

• Boston / Jonathan Blakely / Andrew / Mike Duggan

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  12:09:08 am — 12:14:05 am

  Returning now to an epidemic that is taking three lives in this country every hour the abuse of opioids including prescription painkillers and heroin. Jason Amaral could have been a dead man. The boy next door from a Boston suburb got hooked in college. He's now 30 and we're telling his story because we want you to know there is both hope and help for addiction. Last night we followed Amaral as he shot heroin for what he hoped would be the last time as we left him he was entering rehab. Correspo...

• National Academy of Sciences

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  12:14:06 am — 12:14:31 am

  In a much awaited report today the National Academy of Sciences said that genetically modified food is generally safe for humans and the environment. Tinkering with genetics does not turn crops into Franken food as some had claimed. At the same time the report says that GMO foods have not led to higher yields which was one of their selling points....

• Commercial: Rangers

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  12:14:31 am — 12:14:44 am

  Rangers are taking chainsaws to rhinos to save their lives and her lifelong quest to track down her biological mother. When the CBS Evening News....

• Commercial: Coleman / Zantac

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  12:14:47 am — 12:15:01 am

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• Commercial: Salonpas

  #1172885

  12:15:01 am — 12:15:15 am

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• Commercial

  #1172886

  12:15:17 am — 12:15:31 am

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• Commercial

  #1172887

  12:15:32 am — 12:15:46 am

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• Commercial: IBS / diarrhea

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  12:15:50 am — 12:16:45 am

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• South Africa / Simon Naylor / Mike Toft / Phinda

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  12:16:48 am — 12:19:00 am

  South Africa's rhino population is under siege. Poachers are killing three a day to sell the horns. Rangers at a private game reserve are now taking drastic and controversial action. Debora Patta spent time there. These terrified rhino run for their lives their horns have placed a deadly bounty on their heads. But the men hunting them are not poachers. Simon Naylor is Phinda reserves head ranger. He gives the order to tranquilize the rhinos. The drug quickly takes effect. A drunken stagger befor...

• Commercial: Safelite

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  12:19:02 am — 12:19:17 am

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• Commercial: Philips

  #1172891

  12:19:18 am — 12:19:32 am

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• Commercial: Tylenol

  #1172892

  12:19:33 am — 12:19:47 am

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• Commercial: type 2 diabetes / Type 1 diabetes / Januvia

  #1172893

  12:19:48 am — 12:21:14 am

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• Commercial

  #1172894

  12:21:28 am — 12:21:48 am

  Who knows. Rescuing no one from there. Not again. Sorry. I know I can take a break. I'm . [Alice Through the Looking Glass]...

• Commercial

  #1172895

  12:21:48 am — 12:22:00 am

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• Vero Beach /

  #1172896

  12:22:04 am — 12:22:16 am

  Some ferocious storms hit Florida's east coast today a woman driving on a ninety five spotted this funnel cloud in St. Lucie County and then came the rain nearly eight inches in Vero Beach....

• International Olympic Committee

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  12:22:17 am — 12:22:37 am

  New tests have caught some old cheaters. Today the International Olympic Committee said that retest of urine samples from the 2008 Beijing Summer Games came back positive for doping for 31 athletes in six sports from 12 countries. The athletes were not identified....

• Kansas / Eric Fanning / Senate / Pat Roberts

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  12:22:37 am — 12:23:02 am

  Today the Senate voted unanimously to confirm Eric Fanning as secretary of the army. He will be the first openly gay leader of a military branch Fanning's nomination was held up for eight months by Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas. He dropped his opposition when the administration promised not to transfer Guantanamo prisoners to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas....

• Commercial: Liberty Mutual Insurance / Brad

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  12:23:02 am — 12:23:48 am

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• Commercial: Allegra

  #1172900

  12:23:48 am — 12:24:03 am

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• Commercial: Microsoft

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  12:24:03 am — 12:24:31 am

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• Commercial

  #1172902

  12:24:34 am — 12:24:48 am

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• Commercial: Tums

  #1172903

  12:24:54 am — 12:25:03 am

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• Commercial

  #1172904

  12:25:04 am — 12:26:02 am

  These guys represent blood cells. If you have a fib not caused by a heart valve problem Pradaxa help stop blood cells from pulling in the heart forming a clot which can travel to the brain and cause a stroke. Pradaxa was better than warfarin at reducing stroke risk in the study. In the rare event of an emergency. Production has a specific reversal treatment to help you clot. Normally again for dad it is not for people who have had a heart valve replacement. Don't stop taking predicts that withou...

• Commercial

  #1172905

  12:26:04 am — 12:26:18 am

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• Commercial: Music City

  #1172906

  12:26:19 am — 12:26:28 am

  A senior prank gone too far. Now some students face the music. A bizarre jailbreak attempt and Music City says goodbye to a songwriting legend. Next at 6:00. [Local News 5]...

• Tacoma / Sun Cha / Cindy Burns / Korean

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  12:26:31 am — 12:28:52 am

  Finally tonight a mother and her daughter separated decades ago have been reunited. And Barry Petersen has their story. I'm nervous I'm excited. I've waited 50 years for this moment. For Cindy Burns. The wait is almost over. It started when she was a 10 month old baby left with a Korean adoption agency. Amid that country's poverty this was a chance at a better life in America. Believed her Korean mother Sun Cha. Did you believe you would ever see your daughter again. No I don't believe it. I don...

• Good Night

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  12:28:54 am — 12:29:01 am

  And that's the CBS Evening News for tonight. For all of us at CBS news all around the world good night....