CBS Evening News, 12/24/25
CBS Evening News
CBS News
3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In Bethlehem, the Christmas story comes to life with a tree lighting in manger square, but empty streets reveal a holy city struggling without pilgrims or tourists.
Twenty years after a family’s self-published elf on the shelf, now a Christmas icon from school roofs to Macy's parade and SNL skits.
Flamingos are returning to Florida's everglades, hopeful signs that these rare sightings in the wild could signal a comeback for the pink birds.
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| 0:00.0 | At Radio Lab, we love nothing more than nerding out about science, neuroscience, chemistry. |
| 0:07.0 | But, but we do also like to get into other kinds of stories. |
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| 0:15.0 | Sex. |
| 0:16.0 | Of bugs. |
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| 0:23.3 | And hopefully make you see the world anew. |
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| 0:30.7 | On Christmas Eve, the governor declares a state of emergency in Southern California as a powerful winter storm brings heavy rain, flooding, |
| 0:38.3 | and mudslides. Also tonight, the weather challenges facing travelers trying to get to their holiday |
| 0:44.3 | destinations. |
| 0:45.3 | We're working with local, state, and federal authorities. |
| 0:47.3 | The search for the cause of that deadly explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home. |
| 0:51.3 | Eye on America. |
| 0:53.3 | Flamingos came close to extinction in Florida tonight, |
| 0:57.0 | the story behind their amazing comeback. |
| 1:02.5 | And celebrating 20 years of Santa's most famous helper, |
| 1:07.2 | the elf on the shelf. |
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