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CBS Evening News for 2016-05-27

This program is 30 minutes long

• Preview/Introduction

  #1173981

  12:00:17 am — 12:01:12 am

  Disaster in the southern plains. Devastating floods touched off by torrential rain. Cattle are swept away. Also tonight the summer travel season begins. I left my house at 2:00 so that I could get here by 4:00 for a flight that left at 10 20. Trump draws cheers at his rallies. And protesters outside. A study links cell phone radiation to cancer in rats. Steve Hartman with a soldier's remarkable recovery from death. I was put in a body bag toe tagged and taken to the morgue and his last request o...

• Texas / Jane Pauley / Darren Mitchell / Don Champion

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  12:01:16 am — 12:03:02 am

  Good evening Scott is off tonight. I'm Jane Pauley. The Memorial Day weekend is off to a rough start in parts of Texas. Over the past 24 hours more than a foot and a half of rain has left homes and roads underwater. At least one person has died. Several others are missing. There is also a tropical system threatening beach communities from Georgia to the Carolinas this weekend. But we begin with Don Champion in Bastrop County Texas. Third stretch. For the last twenty four hours rescue choppers ha...

• New England / Erik Jane

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  12:03:03 am — 12:04:01 am

  Eric Fisher is chief meteorologist at our Boston station WBZ. He's tracking what could become a tropical storm this weekend. Erik Jane newly designated the hurricane hunters went into this system off the eastern seaboard this afternoon. They determine that we have tropical depression number two which is going to track off toward the west looks likely to make a landfall sometime on Sunday across the South Carolina coastline in the vicinity of Charleston. Then it's going to stall out and work its ...

• California / Donald Trump / Carter Jane / Bernie Sanders

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  12:04:02 am — 12:05:25 am

  That debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders not going to happen. Today Trump called it off saying it would not be appropriate for him to debate the Democrats number two finisher. Trump also suggested the networks had not come up with the money. He demanded they donate to charity Sanders campaigning today for the June 7th California primary said he is disappointed and hopes Trump changes his mind. Trump is holding a rally in California. There are protesters outside. Ca...

• California / Hillary Clinton

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  12:05:25 am — 12:05:37 am

  Hillary Clinton also campaigned today in California ahead of the primary. She stopped at an Oakland restaurant that church serves chicken and waffles and hoped to pick up some votes to go....

• Atlanta / Eddie Camus / Jane / Delta

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  12:05:42 am — 12:08:17 am

  Triple A tells us more than two and a half million people are expected to fly this holiday weekend. And in some places it looked like they were all waiting in the same airport security line. You're looking at airports in San Francisco Atlanta Chicago and the Washington D.C. area. Dean Reynolds is in Chicago. Early birds at O'Hare today waited hours to take flight. Eddie Camus was among them. I got here at three o'clock in the morning. His swollen lanes zig zag with travelers at airports across t...

• Memorial / Triple A

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  12:08:18 am — 12:08:37 am

  Triple A estimates 34 million Americans are driving to their Memorial destinations. That's 700,000 more than last year. And they're paying the lowest Memorial Day gas prices in eleven years. The national average is two dollars 32 cents a gallon. Last year it was to 74....

• Washington D.C. / Paul Wiedefeld / Amtrak / Anthony Foxx

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  12:08:39 am — 12:10:47 am

  Whether by car plane or train Americans won't have to travel far to find trouble thanks to a crumbling infrastructure. And here's our transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave. Of Americans head out this holiday weekend. They'll be driving on roads that are not in very good shape. Triple A estimates pothole damage alone costs drivers three billion a year. Nearly one in 10 bridges nationwide is structurally deficient meaning while it is safe to use the bridge is in a deteriorating state and mu...

• Hiroshima / Toshiko Tanaka / President Obama / Shigeaki Mori

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  12:10:48 am — 12:12:56 am

  In Hiroshima Japan today President Obama said the memory of the first atomic bomb attack must never fade. And he called on the world's nuclear powers to have the courage to give them up. Mr. Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima. Margaret Brennan is there standing twelve hundred feet from the epicenter of the blast. A solemn President Obama laid a wreath in honor of the lives lost their souls speak to us. They ask us to look into work. To take stock of who we are listening...

• Commercial

  #1173990

  12:12:56 am — 12:13:08 am

  Still ahead on the CBS Evening News a possible health risk linked to cell phones. And Steve Hartman on the road. I've never heard a story like this. It's the kind of things nightmares are made of....

• Commercial

  #1173991

  12:13:18 am — 12:13:47 am

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• Commercial: Neulasta Onpro

  #1173992

  12:13:49 am — 12:14:48 am

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• Commercial

  #1173993

  12:14:48 am — 12:15:01 am

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• Commercial: Flonase

  #1173994

  12:15:02 am — 12:15:16 am

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• American Cancer Society / Henry Friedman / Otis Brawley

  #1173995

  12:15:20 am — 12:16:56 am

  Folks who spend hours on the cell phone have probably wondered what all that radiation is doing to their health. Tonight a possible clue. Here's Anna Werner. In one of the biggest studies to date the National Toxicology Program looked at the potential link between cell phone radiation and cancer. Researchers subjected lab rats to the radiation and found some rats developed tumors in the brain and heart. The report authors said given the widespread use of cell phones even a very small increase in...

• Commercial

  #1173996

  12:16:57 am — 12:17:02 am

  And happened again at the National Spelling Bee. But first these words....

• Commercial: rheumatoid arthritis / methotrexate / TB Hepatitis B

  #1173997

  12:17:08 am — 12:18:05 am

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• Commercial

  #1173998

  12:18:05 am — 12:18:19 am

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• Commercial: Prevagen

  #1173999

  12:18:20 am — 12:18:34 am

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• Commercial: IBS / Viberzi / diarrhea

  #1174000

  12:18:37 am — 12:19:34 am

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• Commercial: Hondas / 500

  #1174001

  12:19:35 am — 12:20:05 am

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• U.S. /

  #1174002

  12:20:07 am — 12:20:33 am

  The biggest auto recall in U.S. history already in the millions got even bigger today. Twelve million more vehicles from eight automakers were added to the list because their airbag inflator is made by Takata can rupture sending shrapnel into the vehicle. Eleven deaths have been linked to this. For a list of the models recalled go to CBS News dot com....

• Rio / Zika

  #1174003

  12:20:34 am — 12:20:51 am

  Today more than 150 prominent doctors and scientists called for the Summer Olympics to be postponed or moved from Rio because of concerns about the Zika virus. Brazil is the epicenter of the outbreak. Zika can cause severe birth defects....

• Henry Heimlich

  #1174004

  12:20:52 am — 12:21:31 am

  Dr. Henry Heimlich saved a life this week. That in itself is nothing new. Many have been saved from choking by the maneuver that bears his name. But Monday night he stepped in when a fellow resident at a senior center got a piece of hamburger stuck in her throat. Her throat. She was tearing sage. Dear God put me in that seat right next to you Doctor Heimlich so you could save my life. Dr. Heimlich is ninety six. He claims this is the first time he's ever used the Heimlich maneuver in an emergenc...

• National Spelling Bee / Jairam Hathwar / Nihar Janga

  #1174005

  12:21:33 am — 12:22:10 am

  It was another nail biter at the National Spelling Bee in the final round. Thirteen year old Jairam Hathwar spelled Feldenkrais Don't ask what it means look it up. Eleven year old Nihar Janga had one last shot. g e s e l l s c h a f t And for the third straight year there were two winners. A T i E....

• Commercial

  #1174006

  12:22:12 am — 12:22:18 am

  In a moment. An old soldier wants to recruit you for a special mission. Steve Hartman is next....

• Commercial: Cal Harris

  #1174007

  12:22:20 am — 12:22:30 am

  Cal Harris wealthy businessman. His wife vanished on 9/11 four murder trials. Now the final verdict. 48 hours Saturday....

• Commercial: Nexium 24HR / Nexium 24 hour

  #1174008

  12:22:32 am — 12:22:47 am

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

  #1174009

  12:22:47 am — 12:24:13 am

  If you have type 2 diabetes you may know what it's like to deal with high and low blood sugar. Januvia (sitagliptin) is a once daily pill that along with diet and exercise helps lower blood sugar Januvia works when your blood sugar is high and works less when your blood sugar is low because it works by enhancing your body's own ability to lower blood sugar less Januvia by itself is not likely to cause weight gain or low blood sugar hypoglycemia Januvia should not be used in patients with Type 1 ...

• Commercial: ClariSpray / Claritin

  #1174010

  12:24:17 am — 12:24:31 am

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• Commercial: MD Anderson Cancer Center / M.D. Anderson

  #1174011

  12:24:32 am — 12:24:58 am

  What if the human body could be trained to find you and you because the human body is stronger than anyone thinks. What is immunotherapy. Boosting the immune system by stimulating white blood cells. Its unique personalized and individual just like me so believe the immune system can fight back. Because cancer you think no one can beat you. But at M.D. Anderson we're doing one thing and one thing only making cancer history. MD Anderson Cancer Center...

• Commercial: Viagra

  #1174012

  12:25:03 am — 12:25:32 am

  Viagra single packs. So guys can take Viagra when they need it. Ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. Do not take Viagra. If you take nitrates for chest pain or attempts for pulmonary hypertension your blood pressure could drop to an unsafe level. To avoid long term injury seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. Stop taking Viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. Ask your doctor ...

• Commercial

  #1174013

  12:25:32 am — 12:25:40 am

  County's top cop in handcuffs. We have team coverage and People downtown said it sounded like a bomb went off. We'll tell you what really happened next at 6:00....

• Ca Ty River / John Colone / Curtis Washington / Cologne

  #1174014

  12:25:44 am — 12:28:50 am

  As we head into Memorial Day we end tonight with a reminder of what the holiday is all about. Steve Hartman has a soldier's story on the road. There are fifty eight thousand three hundred fifteen names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and this is the story of why there's not one more. A story about a soldier who came as close to dying as any man alive. I've never heard a story like this. It's the kind of thing nightmares are made of. Or blessings. John Colone's blessing of a nightmare began on F...

• Good Night

  #1174015

  12:28:52 am — 12:29:03 am

  And that's the CBS Evening News. Scott will be along Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. I'm Jane Pauley. I'll see you on Sunday morning. Have a safe holiday weekend and goodbye....