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tears for teddy. remembering one of the senate's legendary legislators. >> so many of his foes embrace him because they know he made them bigger. he made them more graceful. look out danny. tropical storm danny expected to clip the east coast. and digging for the story. a reporter knocks on the wrong door at the wrong time. >> wait a minute! wait a minute! get out of my [ bleep ]. captioning funded by cbs good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle guillen. this morning a black shroud drapes over ted kennedy's senate desk. later following a private ceremony at the family'...

endures. the hope rises again and the dream lives on. >> couric: tonight, the life of senator ted kennedy. captioning sponsored by cbs good evening, i'm katie couric. this is the "cbs evening news," there is, of course, no royal family in this country. the kennedys, perhaps, the closest we've ever had. for the past 40 years, senator edward kennedy was the patriarch, the last surviving brother of a political dynasty until he died last night after a 15-month battle with brain cancer. he was 77. for nearly half a century in the senate, ted kennedy spoke for people who had no voice: the ...

topper. that's all for 9news now at 6: . e cbs thevening news is coming your way next. tonight, more on cbthe life and legacy of senator ted kenned and join derrick for the area's only local newscast at 7:00. don't forget, wusa9.com. a few hours ago this campaign came to an end. >> couric: america mourns the lion of the senate. >> we on this side are interested in protecting american servicemen from the close fire of a civil war. >> couric: the man who carried the torch and the burden of a political dynasty. through triumph, tragedy... >> my brother need not be idealized or enlarged ...

rain, no cumulus clouds, no cirrus clouds, no lightning. well, we've got two of the four okay, but we're probably not going to get all of them again today. there's a chance, there was a lot of weather earlier that's scooted out to sea and has moved away. but we also can't have cirrus clouds. those high clouds made of ice, you can't have those at all, and they are coming in from a different system off the atlantic. see how that weather is kind of coming in there? you think, chad, why can't we just wait? why can't we wait until all this is good and the skies are clear, 8:00, 9:00, when...

>> and norm points to something interesting there. the way these confirmation battles the, there's almost a science to them at this point in terms of the precision of how the nominees are picked. the considerations about age, longevity but it's that lack of a paper trail that will cause problems. robert bourque a generation ago he'd written all these inflammatory things. it sunk him. now you have these folks who are groomed for years. if the nominee is presented who folks suspect is conservative, folks suspect is the kind democrats want to sink but on paper you don't have that record, does it ...