CBS Evening News, 09/02/25
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What we know so far about the US military strike on a boat leaving from Venezuela. The new layer of security you'll soon be seeing soon on airlines and what it's designed to do. Flee to safety or stay and protect your home? "Eye on America"...the surprising advice from a fire chief on what to do during a wildfire.
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| 0:00.0 | A U.S. military strike in the Caribbean, the target, a drug boat from Venezuela. |
| 0:05.6 | A lot of drugs in that boat. |
| 0:07.3 | Also tonight, the president says he's planning to send the National Guard into Chicago and Baltimore. |
| 0:14.4 | Chicago does not want troops on our streets. |
| 0:18.5 | Eye on America, Californians taking responsibility for fighting wildfires into their own hands. |
| 0:24.9 | I mean, I saved multiple homes with garden hoses. |
| 0:27.9 | Direct from our newsroom in New York. |
| 0:30.0 | And remembering the way it was, 62 years ago, tonight. |
| 0:35.9 | From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. |
| 0:42.3 | Good evening, I'm Maurice Dubois. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm John Dickerson. |
| 0:46.3 | President Trump has been threatening to use the military to go after drug cartels, and today, the administration says he did. |
| 0:53.3 | The Navy has been pouring warships into the Southern Caribbean. |
| 0:57.6 | Today, U.S. forces launched what a defense official calls a precision strike against a vessel |
| 1:04.5 | from Venezuela. |
| 1:05.5 | It was filled with drugs, the official says, and operated by a narco-terrorist organization. |
| 1:13.8 | Charlie Daggeta is at the Pentagon with the details. Charlie? |
| 1:20.2 | More details coming in this afternoon, Maurice. The strike announced this afternoon by the president comes at a time of unprecedented military buildup near Venezuela. |
| 1:24.5 | It marks the first of its kind so far, and the administration warns, this is just the |
| 1:29.5 | beginning. Video posted by President Trump shows the moment the boat was struck. He claimed it killed |
| 1:36.3 | 11 members of the Venezuelan gang, Trend de Aragua, and that the vessel was in international waters, |
| 1:42.2 | transporting drugs towards the U.S. |
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