This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley retirement accounts are taking a big hit. Today for the third time the dow suffered a tripledigit loss, 392 points, this time, or 2. 3 . Investors are worried that the chinese economy, second largest in the world, is slowing more than the Chinese Government is letting on and that the governments haphazard attempts to intervene in its markets and devalue its currency are giving the impression that it doesnt know how to manage the trouble. Our Senior National correspondent Anthony Mason is following all of this. Anthony . Report scott, it was a painful day to check your 401 k . The dow is down more than 900 points since monday, thats 500 . The catalyst once again was china. The Chinese Market shut down after less than half an hour this morning after plunging 7 . It was the second shutdown this week. Investors are worried the chinese economy is slowing. Gdp growth, which hit 12 five years ago, is now below 7 . If chinas in trouble, th
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Will be right back. On the president ial campaign trail, it was standing room only in burlington, vermont for Donald Trumps latest campaign rally. He continues to hammer rival ted cruz for being born in canada. He said he should go before a qualified to be president. Major garrett was with the Cruz Campaign in iowa. Reporter ted cruz has argued nine cases before the united state supreme court, graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and was once a collegiate debate champion. None of that has prepared him for thbirther debate now raging with donald trump. Or for trumps unsolicited legal advice. I dont like the issue. I dont like bringing it up. Reporter against all evidence, donald trump claims an aversion to birtherism. Im doing this for the good of ted because i like him and he likes me. Reporter but for cruz, born in canada to an american mother, the issue is an unwelcome, possibly damaging distraction. Everybody tells me he had a joint passport. Reporter the real estate mogul
In burlington vermont for Donald Trumps latest campaign rally. He continues to hammer rival ted canada. He said he should go before a judge to determine if hes qualified to be president. Reporter ted cruz has argued nine cases before the United States supreme court, and was champion. None of that has prepared him for the birther debate now raging with donald trump. Or for trumps unsolicited legal advice. I dont like the issue. I dont like bringing it up. Reporter against all evidence, donald trump claims an aversion to birtherism. I like him and he likes me. Reporter but for cruz, born in canada to an american mother, the issue is an unwelcome, the real estate mogul offered cruz some legal advice. Go to the federal court to ask for a declaratory judgment. As a legal matter, its straightforward. I would note its occurred many times in history. John mccain was born in panama, but he was a natural born citizen. Reporter but mccain, a frequent opponent of cruz in the senate, offered no hel
And things are getting icy. The Winter Weather advisory just went into effect and it lasts until 2 00 tomorrow. This system had slowed down a little bit and it has thrown us for a loop in terms of accumulation, but we will see several inches in the denver metro. And Winter Weather advisories continue through tomorrow at across the stream southern reaches of the state. And we see it through eastern Eastern San Juan and South Central colorado. We can see some of these small snowflakes right now. Said that snow is doing in across the met greater natural. And you can see how the snow range. Not much in denver, but it is getting close. Weve got a a pair of systems, one off to the east with anticlockwise flow and a a and also a flow out this way. Here is the next system and that is going to bring more moisture into our area and that has prompted a a Winter Weather advisory until 2 00 tomorrow. Im looking at up to 6 inches. Fort collins and greeley are not in the advisory. But the denver metr