CBS Evening News, 06/03/26
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A 15-hour standoff at a bank building in Bakersfield, California, ended Wednesday after all hostages were freed and the suspect was killed by the FBI.
As the votes are still coming in for California's primaries, it seems voters will likely send two Republican political newcomers to the November elections.
And, for the first time since the war with Iran started, the Republican-led House passed legislation that would force President Trump to stop all military action against Iran. However, it still has to go to the Senate.
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| 0:00.0 | Good to be with you. I'm Tony DeCopold. The breaking news right now. |
| 0:04.0 | The FBI opening fire, killing a man after a tense 15-hour standoff. |
| 0:10.0 | All 10 hostages he took are free tonight. Among them some who were tied up and strapped with what seemed to be explosive devices. |
| 0:18.0 | What we know tonight about why he did it. The California dream, |
| 0:23.5 | it's alive tonight. Also developing tonight, who will govern America's most populous state? |
| 0:29.4 | The primary results still unsettled tonight, millions of ballots remaining to count. The top |
| 0:34.2 | three contenders holding out hope they'll move on to November. |
| 0:42.9 | The new image is just coming in from the Bahamas, the search for a missing Michigan woman, |
| 0:48.3 | a possible murder investigation, Coast Guard divers targeting a new area of interest. |
| 0:58.3 | And something we've never seen before, a woman trapped in icy floodwaters on a warm June day after a surprise hailstorm. |
| 0:59.6 | What happened next? |
| 1:08.7 | Plus, the NBA finals, Knicks Spurs, game won tonight, a rematch more than 25 years in the making and what it means to the fans. |
| 1:11.7 | New York City is on fire. |
| 1:13.1 | No pun intended. |
| 1:17.4 | And the good stuff tonight, the man they call Dr. Buckets, |
| 1:21.3 | teacher by day, record-setting three-point shooter by night. |
| 1:29.6 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Tony DeCopold. |
| 1:36.6 | And good evening. We begin tonight with much more on that hostage situation in Bakersfield, California. |
| 1:43.4 | A 15-hour standoff is now over. All the hostages are free and the hostage taker is dead at the hands of the FBI. |
| 1:49.0 | Initially, the focus was on a Chase Bank, but we now know this was not a bank heist, but something else entirely. |
| 1:50.2 | The FBI saying a man with a long and violent criminal history had barricaded himself |
| 1:54.4 | one floor above the bank in a school district office space. |
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