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CBS Evening News for 2016-05-16

This program is 30 minutes long

• Preview/Introduction

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  12:00:18 am — 12:00:59 am

  America hooked on painkillers. Drug overdoses now take more lives every year than traffic accidents. Come on. We follow an addict as he hunts for heroin shoots up then seeks a way out of the shadow of death. Jason I am so glad you're here. Also tonight will Trump face an independent party challenge. And school kids launch the ultimate science project. What's your confidence on a one to ten point scale that this is going to work in. This is the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley....

• Ohio / Mary DiOrio / Dennis Witchern / Chelsea Blackburn

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  12:01:01 am — 12:03:39 am

  Tonight before this broadcast is over someone in America will die of an opioid overdose. It happens every 18 minutes. In just one year more than twenty nine thousand people lost their lives to an overdose of heroin or prescription painkillers including OxyContin Hydrocodone and fentanyl. That's an increase of three hundred and twenty nine percent since the start of this century. Because this has become a national epidemic we're beginning special coverage tonight and we'll start with Dean Reynold...

• Florida / Jason Amaral / Andrew / Mike Dugan

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  12:03:39 am — 12:09:36 am

  And now meet Jason Amaral. He is the face of the epidemic. He grew up in the Boston suburb of Arlington Massachusetts went to high school there and then on to college where he became an addict. He could be your child or the kid next door as the president said in his address on Saturday 44 percent of Americans know someone who has been addicted to prescription painkillers. Well tonight correspondent DiMarco Morgan and producer Jonathan Blakely begin a special series in the shadow of death. Jason'...

• Philadelphia / Mark Rosenker / Brandon Bostian / National Transportation Safety Board

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  12:09:37 am — 12:11:35 am

  CBS News has learned that an Amtrak engineer was distracted by radio transmissions just before his speeding train jumped the tracks in Philadelphia one year ago. Eight people were killed and more than 200 were hurt. Transportation Correspondent Kris Van Cleave is following this. National Transportation Safety Board investigators now believe the deadly Amtrak crash was caused by engineer Brandon Bostian's. Quote loss of situational awareness Bostian told investigators just minutes before the der...

• Chicago's O'Hare /

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  12:11:35 am — 12:11:58 am

  Well there seems to be no end to the long security lines at airports at Chicago's O'Hare. Look at this four hundred and fifty people missed their flights yesterday. More than 100 of them had to spend the night on cots. The TSA doesn't have enough screeners at least two airlines are exploring the idea of hiring extra people to speed up the lines....

• Supreme Court

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  12:11:59 am — 12:12:26 am

  Today the Supreme Court punted on one of the biggest cases of the term whether Obamacare can require religious groups to offer contraception coverage through their insurance plans. You'll recall there's a vacancy on the court and today the justices apparently did not want to risk a 4 4 tie which would have led to different laws in different states. So they sent the case back to the lower courts to explore a compromise....

• Texas / Donald Trump / Mitt Romney / Bill Kristol

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  12:12:26 am — 12:14:22 am

  Some Republicans opposed to Donald Trump are trying to recruit someone to run against him as an independent. Here's Major Garrett on how that's going. I just think running third party doesn't feel right. The long shot effort to mount an independent campaign fizzled further today when John Kasich one of the last on the list of potential candidates ruled it out. A third party candidacy would be viewed as this kind of a silly thing. I don't think it's appropriate. 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romne...

• Puerto Rico / Hillary Clinton / Bernie Sanders / Donald Trump

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  12:14:22 am — 12:16:00 am

  Well Hillary Clinton isn't having any free run to the nomination. Bernie Sanders is favored tomorrow in Kentucky and Oregon but it won't change the inevitable. Clinton is only a hundred and forty four delegates short of clinching the nomination. Here's Nancy Cordes. It's time people stop listening to Republican propaganda. In Kentucky Clinton blasted the GOP and its likely nominee trying out her Trump impression on jobs. His answer is I'm going to create them. They're going to be great. I know h...

• Commercial: Penis Transplant

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  12:16:01 am — 12:16:16 am

  A cancer patient has received the first Penis Transplant in this country. And what are the odds that everybody could walk away from a crash like this when the CBS EVENING NEWS continues....

• Commercial: Safelite

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  12:16:18 am — 12:16:33 am

  Think fixing your windshield is a big hassle not with Safelite. This family needed their wish everyplace but their daughter's heart was set on going to the zoo. So guess what. I met them at the zoo service that this your schedule. That's another Safelite advanced we your safe likely place....

• Commercial

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  12:16:33 am — 12:16:48 am

  Allergies with nasal congestion fine fast relief behind the counter with Claritin D. Struck past that for the allergy relief. They started working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant live cleared and clear with Claritin D....

• Commercial: Lynn / Linzess

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  12:16:48 am — 12:17:46 am

  My belly pain and constipation. They keep telling me drink more water exercise more. I know that try laxatives I know believe me it's like I've tried everything. My chronic constipation keeps coming back. I know that. Tell me something I don't know. Linzess works differently from laxatives Lindsey ass treats adults with IBS with constipation or chronic constipation. It can help relieve your belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements that are easier to pass. Do not gi...

• Commercial: Microsoft

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  12:17:46 am — 12:18:16 am

  There are 2 billion people who don't have access to basic bank that championship at Terminus with the Microsoft cloud. We can enable a banker to travel to the most remote locations with nothing but a phone and a tablet. Everywhere where there's a phone you have a bank. Now a person is able to start a business and employ somebody for the first time. The Microsoft cloud helped us to bring back to 10 million people in just two years. It's transforming our....

• South Africa / Walter Reed / Thomas Manning

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  12:18:16 am — 12:19:41 am

  We got word today of a remarkable transplant surgery in Boston the first of its kind in this country. A man who lost his penis to cancer has received a new one. It's a major development especially for veterans who suffered genital injuries and our Dr. Jon LaPook is here to explain more. John you spoke with two of the surgeons who did this. Why did they take on the case. Well it was interesting one of their young doctors went out to Walter Reed and he observed some wounded warriors who had genit...

• Commercial

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  12:19:42 am — 12:19:47 am

  Well winter makes a comeback in late spring. We'll show you next....

• Commercial

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  12:19:49 am — 12:20:04 am

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• Commercial: Alka

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  12:20:06 am — 12:20:19 am

  Sorry. Now I'm no burning here trying new Alka Seltzer heartburn relief gummies. They work fast and don't taste Chalky. Incredible looks tasty. You don't have heparin new Alka Seltzer heartburn relief gummy joy relief....

• Commercial: Tara / Peter

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  12:20:19 am — 12:20:33 am

  Tara to work for peanuts. What if I told you that peanuts can work for you. That's right. I'm talking feeding time delivery of seven grams of protein six essential nutrients. There is enough being to take a day off. I don't think so. Working power Peter. Planters Peanuts]...

• Commercial

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  12:20:34 am — 12:20:47 am

  What body. What you need. What sore elbow. I feel liquid gels make pain a distant memory. Nothing works faster and stronger for long. What. Advil....

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

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  12:20:47 am — 12:22:15 am

  If you have type 2 diabetes you may know what it's like to deal with high and low blood sugar. Januvia sitaglipton 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 di...

• Commercial: Jennifer / Metro Water Services / News Channel 5

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  12:22:20 am — 12:22:49 am

  Tonight at 10:00 News Channel 5 Investigates. Did you get this letter on Metro Water letterhead suggesting you ensure your water line. You saw that Metro Water Services was endorsing. Right. And that changed your mind. That's right. Turns out our private insurance company is paying them to say it sounds like an endorsement though Jennifer. It's not an endorsement but if you sign up are you really protected News Channel 5 investigates tonight at 10:00....

• None

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  12:22:51 am — 12:23:01 am

  On this late spring day Karibu Maine got four and a half inches of snow it's a record this late in May but it won't last. The high is expected to be in the upper 50s tomorrow....

• California.There / Sebastian Alvarez

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  12:23:02 am — 12:23:24 am

  Now have a look at this Sebastian Alvarez captured a frightening ride on his helmet cam when a skydiving plane had engine trouble and went down in a vineyard in central California.There's no fire. Relax. Everybody on the plane flipped over it had been too low for anyone any of them to jump out. All 18 people walked away....

• Garland Texas / Gregory Stevens / Robert Wilson / President Obama

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  12:23:25 am — 12:23:47 am

  At the White House today. President Obama presented the Medal of Valor to 13 police officers among them Gregory Stevens who stopped a mass shooting in Garland Texas after he subdued two gunmen and Philadelphia Sergeant Robert Wilson who was shot and killed in a store robbery. His grandmother accepted the medal for him and we'll be right back....

• Commercial: Trivago

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  12:23:51 am — 12:24:19 am

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• Commercial

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  12:24:31 am — 12:25:04 am

  This is what it can be like to have shingles a painful blistering rash. I never thought this would happen to me. If you had chicken pox the shingles virus is already inside you. One in three people will get shingles in their lifetime. I'm going to go back to the doctor tomorrow. It's pretty close to my eye. I don't know how you do it. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist today about a vaccine that can help prevent shingles....

• Commercial: Flonase

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  12:25:05 am — 12:25:19 am

  Pet moments are beautiful unless you have allergies. Flonase is the first and only nasal spray approved to relieve both itchy watery eyes and congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. Go ahead embrace those beautiful moments. Flonase changes everything....

• Commercial: K9 Advantix 2

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  12:25:27 am — 12:25:38 am

  To protect them would K9 Advantix 2. It kills fleas ticks and mosquito's K9 Advantix 2. FOR THE LOVE OF DOG MEAT fast heartburn relief....

• Commercial

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  12:25:38 am — 12:25:49 am

  Try cool mints Zantac it releases a cooling sensation in your mouth and throat Zantac worked in as little as 30 minutes Nexium can take twenty four hours. Try cool mint that intact no pain relief heartburn Bester....

• Commercial: OIC

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  12:26:04 am — 12:26:49 am

  If you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain you may be so constipated it feels like everyone can go except you. Tried too many things. Still struggling to find relief. You may have opioid induced constipation. OIC it's different and may need a different approach. Opioids block pain signals but can also block activity in the bowel which is why it can feel like your opioid pain med is slowing your insides to a crawl. Longing for a change. Half the conversation with your doctor about OIC and ...

• Commercial: Ron

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  12:26:51 am — 12:27:02 am

  What really happened to cause a plane's emergency landing here in Nashville exclusive details of a closer call than anyone I'd imagine. Plus Ron's wet workweek forecast next. [News Channel 5]....

• Earth / Emily Stocker / Rebecca el Choureiry / Felix Pellegrino

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  12:27:02 am — 12:28:52 am

  We end tonight with the next generation of aerospace engineers. Chip Reid reports from mission control in Arlington Virginia. If you're wondering what in the world made these students so happy. Well actually it was out of this world and it happened in the blink of an eye. Here it is again in slow motion a tiny satellite being launched today by astronauts on the International Space Station. Thirteen year old Rebecca el Choureiry helped build it. And now St. Thomas Moore Cathedral School in Arling...

• Good Night

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  12:28:52 am — 12:28:59 am

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