The Ticker: Road Trip, Bomb Damage, Back Home…

By Chris Ariens 

> The Early Show and the Evening News are teaming up next week for a week-long series called “Eye on the Road.” CBS News correspondents Nancy Cordes and Jeff Glor, will begin road trips Monday morning, nearly 3,000 thousand miles apart, to highlight the impact of rising gas prices. Cordes heads west from Central Park. Glor heads east from the Golden Gate bridge.

> The BBC’s Baghdad bureau was damaged today after insurgents fired rockets into the Green Zone. It “struck the roof of the BBC Baghdad bureau,” the bureau chief said. “It caused structural damage but no one was injured.”

> CNN correspondent Dan Rivers has returned from Myanmar where he was one of the very few international journalists reporting on the devastation from Cyclone Nargis. He talked with CNN International about evading the military government so he could continue filing reports.

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