CBS Evening News, 04/06/26
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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President Trump's threat to blow "everything up" if Iran won't make a deal hangs over new ceasefire bid. Artemis II astronauts made history Monday as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record of 248,655 miles from Earth, which was set in 1970. The parents of a toddler are facing child endangerment charges after the 17-month-old stuck his hand into a wolf enclosure and was injured at a zoo in Pennsylvania.
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| 0:00.0 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeKopold. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:05.8 | President Trump today threatening to blow up everything inside Iran if the regime doesn't |
| 0:10.7 | reopen the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday, 8 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:16.2 | What he said about that one-day extension and the civilian targets in the crosshairs? |
| 0:25.6 | The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night. Also developing tonight the battle to rescue that second downed aviator missing behind enemy lines in Iran for more than 48 hours. |
| 0:34.6 | Tonight what it took to get him out and how he's doing. |
| 0:38.2 | Also, Artemis II makes history, the crew traveling further into space than anyone has |
| 0:43.9 | before, more than a quarter million miles away. |
| 0:47.3 | What they're now saying. |
| 0:49.9 | And the parents facing child endangerment charges tonight after a wolf grabs their toddler's |
| 0:55.3 | hand at a popular amusement park zoo. |
| 0:58.2 | What went wrong? |
| 0:59.2 | It is good to be home. |
| 1:01.0 | Savannah Guthrie returns to the Today Show anchor desk more than two months after the |
| 1:06.0 | disappearance of her mother. |
| 1:08.1 | What authorities are now saying about that search? And the good stuff tonight, |
| 1:12.8 | what were you doing at 14? Dean Roy is running for governor of Vermont. From CBS News headquarters |
| 1:21.9 | in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopold. |
| 1:31.4 | Thank you for joining us on a very busy Easter Monday. |
| 1:33.7 | We've been following two big stories all day. |
| 1:36.3 | Both of them are moments of courage and ingenuity. |
| 1:40.8 | The first, NASA's Artemis II mission for all humankind, as they put it, |
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