CBS Evening News, 03/04/26
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
For the first time since World War II an American submarine torpedoed an enemy ship. CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil has the latest. Despite thousands of American citizens making it out of the war zone this weekend, the struggle to get more out remains. Chief Correspondent Matt Gutman shares what he's learned so far. The first US service members have officially been killed in Operation Epic Fury. Senior National Security Correspondent Charlie D'Agata shares their stories.
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| 0:00.0 | When beloved family patriarch, Gary Ferris went missing, his family looked everywhere on their |
| 0:05.9 | property until they came across something horrifying. It's a homicide. |
| 0:10.3 | Absolutely. The blame game in this family went round and round. This is Blood is Thicker, |
| 0:16.5 | the Ferris Wheel. I don't see how anyone can look at this story and think they were happy. |
| 0:21.7 | Follow and listen to Blood is Thicker, The Ferris Wheel, on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Good to be with you from the Middle East. I'm Tonya de Koppel. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:36.4 | Day five of the war, the U.S. and Israel widening the assault on Iran. |
| 0:43.0 | And the IDF striking this building near a hospital in Beirut, as residents are told to get out. |
| 0:50.3 | What the White House is now saying about the state of the fight. |
| 0:53.6 | Somebody said on a scale of 10, where would you rate it? I said about a 15. |
| 0:57.8 | Also developing tonight, an American submarine sinks an enemy ship for the first time since World War II. |
| 1:05.1 | And for the first time ever, the U.S. fires long-range precision strike missiles in combat. Death and destruction from the U.S. fires long-range precision-strike missiles in combat. |
| 1:11.6 | Death and destruction from the sky all day long. |
| 1:16.6 | And what now? Iran lashes out and an American NATO ally drawing U.S. firepower in yet another direction. |
| 1:26.6 | The emotional reunions tonight worldwide as thousands flee the region. |
| 1:31.6 | And a lone star showdown, as President Trump says, he'll decide who should drop out of a razor-sharp |
| 1:38.1 | Republican race. |
| 1:40.0 | And remembering a college football legend, Lou Holtz has died. |
| 1:46.8 | This is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopal, reporting tonight from Tel Aviv. |
| 1:55.4 | And thank you for joining us on a very busy Wednesday night, another day of missiles and drones |
| 2:00.2 | crisscrossing the skies of the Middle East as Iran widens its ring of retaliatory fire tonight, threatening to draw our European allies into an escalating fight. |
| 2:10.6 | A U.S. warship in the Mediterranean shot down an Iranian missile headed for Turkey, which is a member of NATO. And an attack on one NATO member has the potential to trigger a mutual defense pack |
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