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Description: Here's a vintage NBC News Update with Chuck Scarborough. Includes:

President-Elect Carter has made no statement yet about how he'll stimulate the economy.

Jim Wright will be the House Democratic leader in the next session of Congress.

Thomas "Tip" O'Neill is the new Speaker of the House.

Supreme Court rules that a man on death row in Texas cannot be executed until his case is appealed.

Gunman holds man hostage in Los Angeles in a Skyscraper - wanted to warn the world about tobacco.

Billy Carter loses election for Mayor of Plains, Georgia to the town barber.

Commercial: American Express with Greg Morris (of Mission: Impossible fame)

Voiceover during into by Bill Hanrahan.

This aired on local Rockford, IL TV on Monday, December 6th 1976! (not Chicago, but close enough)