CBS Evening News, 10/31/25
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
At least 11 airports around the country are facing delays due to air traffic control staffing shortages linked to the government shutdown.
The government shutdown is about to hit millions of people who depend on government programs to feed their families, pay for health insurance and send their kids to preschool. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to keep money flowing to SNAP, the food assistance program formerly known as food stamps.
And we go on the road to Heflin, Alabama, where police and teens turn Halloween mischief into a town-wide toilet paper battle that’s bringing everyone together.
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| 0:38.3 | The Transportation Secretary says it will only get worse. |
| 0:42.3 | Also tonight the shutdown tears holes in the social safety net, help paying for food and health insurance about to disappear. |
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| 1:27.1 | option for you this Halloween, consider yourself fortunate. |
| 1:30.3 | Thousands of flights on airplanes were delayed today, and the Transportation Secretary |
| 1:34.3 | blamed a shortage of air traffic controllers caused by the government shutdown. |
| 1:39.3 | That shutdown is about to enter a second month, and Secretary Sean Duffy says the controller shortages and resulting delays |
| 1:45.8 | and cancellations will get worse as the days go on. The only people who can reopen the government, |
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