Missile, struck down that plane, inside israeli airspace. Today marked the change of culture for the maker of oxycontin and other owe oids. Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all look the same to me. No, where are you really from . 9 11 was your fault. How do you see out of such small eyes . Go back to your country. I guess i wish that people knew. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. Today marked the change of culture for the maker of oxycontin and other opioids. The company is no longer marketing those drugs to doctors. It also laid off half its sales force. Jim axelrod explains why. Reporter after years of marketing videos like these. They dont wear out. They go on working. They do not have serious medical side effects. Reporter handing doctors pamphlets claiming 1 of opioid users became addicted. Purdue will back off, no longer sending sales reps to doctors offices to pus
This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor good evening. Some big numbers were rolled out in the Nations Capital today. President trump released a Budget Proposal worth 4. 4 billion, plus his plan to rebuild the countrysen fracture. This as the administration faces continued questions about how they handled the removal of a former staff secretary over abuse allegations. Chip reid is at the white house. To me this is a very, very sexy subject. Reporter the president tried today to shine the spotlight on his 1. 5 trillion infrastructure plan, which already faces an uphill battle in congress. I find it sexy, because i was always a builder. I always knew how to build on time, on budget, and thats what we want here. Reporter but spousal abuse allegations against his former staff secretary rob porter continue to overshadow the president s legislative priorities. The president and the entire administration take Domestic Violence very seriously. Reporter White House Press secretary Sara
After day. We will see if a rally can hold into the final hour here. The dow, itself, up 106 points also in record territory. And helping the market today, the house passing its 2018 budget, thats a first step toward getting tax reform done and how Speaker Paul Ryan will be holding a News Conference on that very topic later this hour. Well bring it to you live as soon as it begins. The dow up 40 points. When they announced they passed a budget, it was sudden i up 100. Its looking for right now. The Amazon Effect strikes again. This time fedex and u. P. S. In its sights see both those stock are lower detail on that coming up. We begin with the netflix stock jump today and the companys move to raise the price of its most popular streaming plan by 10 , which sounds like a lot, but its 1. Maybe it is a lot. Well, it could be, but, you know, i dont think its going to break too many banks. Julia boorstin has details for us julia . Reporter thats right, bill. Analysts, investors dont seem to
By mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Nate is now a tropical depression, moving inland, after making landfall last night as a category one hurricane in mississippi. Nate came ashore with 85mile winds near biloxi and hit the mississippi coast with a 10 foot storm surge. The busy beachfront highway u. S. 90, and some gulf coast casinos were flooded. More than 100,000 residents of mississippi and alabama were without power for part of the day. But nate lacked the destructive power of this years previous hurricanes. Officials report no major damage or stormrelated casualties. New orleans, which had prepared for the wor
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