CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 12/12/24
CBS Evening News
CBS News
3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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A man identifying himself as an American from Missouri, Travis Timmerman, was found in Syria and said he was freed from a seven- month imprisonment after Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed. Prosecutors begin gathering evidence for extradition of alleged United healthcare CEO killer. Eye on America - If you're in your 40s, financial experts say paying for a child's college should take a back seat to protect your own savings for retirement.
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| 0:30.7 | How did you on? Good. |
| 0:32.9 | Tonight, CBS News is the first to speak with an American man who was just freed from a Syrian prison. |
| 0:39.0 | I was only let out three times a day. |
| 0:41.5 | Prosecutors start presenting evidence to a New York grand jury in the CEO killing case, |
| 0:47.0 | the new details. |
| 0:48.0 | Initially I was really nervous. |
| 0:50.1 | Now I feel so much more impaled. |
| 0:52.1 | Tonight's eye on America, the retirement obstacle for people in their 40s, has Social Security and Medicare face funding problems. |
| 1:00.5 | And CBS News goes behind the scenes of the holiday shipping rush, the package deadlines you need to know. |
| 1:07.8 | You shop early, it gets shipped early. |
| 1:09.7 | The CBS Evening news starts now. |
| 1:11.6 | Good evening. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm Nora O'Donnell, and thank you for joining us as we learn more tonight about that |
| 1:21.6 | remarkable story of an American who turned up in Syria today, days after dictator Bashar al-Assad was ousted in a dramatic rebel coup. |
| 1:31.3 | CBS News was first to speak with a man who identifies himself as 29-year-old Travis Timmerman |
| 1:36.5 | of Missouri. |
| 1:37.8 | Timmerman says he was detained after crossing into Syria during a Christian pilgrimage in May. |
| 1:43.9 | A White House official says the U.S. had no indication that Timmerman was being held in Syria |
| 1:48.3 | and that officials are still confirming his identity. |
| 1:51.6 | CBS News has been on the ground in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. |
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