{"id":641726,"date":"2026-05-14T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T01:41:10","slug":"cbs-evening-news-interrupted-as-cameraman-suffers-medical-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641726\/","title":{"rendered":"‘CBS Evening News’ Interrupted As Cameraman Suffers Medical Emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCBS News<\/a> said that a cameraman is \u201cokay and recovering\u201d after he suffered a media emergency during a live broadcast of CBS Evening News<\/a> from Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnchor Tony Dokoupil<\/a> was toward the end of the broadcast when he stopped and said, \u201cIs he OK? We\u2019re going to take a quick break. We have a medical emergency here.\u201d Off camera, Dokoupil could be heard saying, \u201cWe\u2019re calling a doctor.\u201d The broadcast then went to Matt Gutman, who was in New York and did the sign off. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cTonight during the final segment of CBS Evening News, our cameraman on set suffered a medical emergency. Thankfully, he\u2019s okay and recovering,\u201d the network said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\tDokoupil is anchoring from Taipei during President Donald Trump\u2019s two day summit with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. There were reports that the network\u2019s visa to base Dokoupil in China was not secured in time and arrived too late.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe choice to broadcast from Taiwan instead centered the broadcast in a locale that is a primary geopolitical concern of the summit.<\/p>\n

\n\tDokoupil said at the opening of the broadcast, \u201cOn the surface, it might look like all the action is over there,\u201d referring to Beijing. He added, \u201cWe will soon see images of President Trump and Xi Jinping as they negotiate the Iran war, tariffs, critical minerals trade and more. But if you zoom out from the state visit, you see one of the most important geopolitical stories of our time, and the big question tonight, will China, under Xi Jinping, try to take over Taiwan, risking war and economic catastrophe? This is what could happen here on the shores and in the streets if Xi decides to invade.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe network\u2019s Weijia Jiang and Anna Coren are reporting from Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News said that a cameraman is \u201cokay and recovering\u201d after he suffered a media emergency during a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[61590,7930,277133,88,3998,149597,92],"class_list":["post-641726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-cbs-evening-news","tag-cbs-news","tag-election-line","tag-entertainment","tag-taiwan","tag-tony-dokoupil","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}