Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, January 3!, 2008

Lou’s new book INDEPENDENTS DAY is now on sale in bookstores
and on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. In Independents Day,
Lou issues a rallying cry to American citizens eager for a
change, focusing particularly on the critical issues and
challenges of the 2008 election.

Tonight, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama face off in a
critical debate in delegate-rich California. We’ll have a full
preview, and all the latest from the campaign trail.

Consumers are fearful of spending and banks are fearful of
lending. Distressed homeowners face skyrocketing mortgage bills
and possible foreclosure. And Standard and Poor’s projects more
massive write-downs for the big banks that financed and
profited from the subprime craze. A closer look at the breaking
down economy.

Dozens of members of Congress are outraged at Mattel for
continuing to sell toys with high levels of lead. Mattel says
the safety of children is its primary concern, but lawmakers
say that's a lie and now they're demanding action. We'll have
that special report.

About 100 people who came from Nepal on temporary visas to work
at a north Alabama DVD packaging factory have apparently fled.
The employees appeared to have abandoned apartments they were
renting, taking furniture and appliances with them, and with
plans to flee to different states across the country according
to neighbors. We’ll have the story.
And cancer patients in China last summer were harmed – some
paralyzed - by their Chinese-made medication. The same
manufacturer makes RU-486 for the United States. We’ll have a
special report.

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