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A cameraman suffered a \u201cmedical emergency\u201d during the CBS \u201cEvening News\u201d broadcast on Wednesday night. CBS<\/p>\nA \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d cameraman collapsed during a live broadcast Wednesday night after suffering an apparent \u201cmedical emergency\u201d offscreen.<\/p>\n
The cameraman could be heard falling while \u201cEvening News\u201d host Tony Dokoupil was providing updates on the US-China summit from the network\u2019s perch in Taiwan.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will hear a lot about the rise of a powerful new China \u2014 is he okay?\u201d Dokoupil asked halfway through his closing while the rest of the stunned crew stayed silent.<\/p>\n
A cameraman suffered a \u201cmedical emergency\u201d during the CBS \u201cEvening News\u201d broadcast on Wednesday night. CBS<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re gonna take a quick break. We have a medical emergency here,\u201d Dokoupil said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re calling a doctor,\u201d he added as crew members shuffled around offscreen.<\/p>\n
The broadcast quickly pivoted to CBS News chief correspondent Matt Gutman, who closed out the evening from the New York City office\u2019s anchor desk. <\/p>\n
The CBS \u201cEvening News\u201d team assured that the cameraman is \u201cokay and recovering\u201d in an update<\/a> shared just eight minutes after the broadcast ended.<\/p>\n Dokoupil is anchoring out of Taiwan\u2019s capital for the duration of the US-China summit<\/a> because the network failed to obtain a visa for Beijing<\/a>.<\/p>\n The news anchor tried to justify their last-minute relocation while opening the show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cIf 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 he said.<\/p>\n But, a CBS source told The Post that Dokoupil\u2019s stint in Taiwan is a \u201ccover your ass\u201d move.<\/p>\n Secretary of State Marco Rubio was almost iced out of China<\/a>, too, under a prior sanction the country issued against him in 2020. The Chinese government used a \u201cdiplomatic workaround\u201d \u2014 which boiled down to changing the spelling of his name \u2014 so it wouldn\u2019t have to enforce its own ban. <\/p>\n The high-stakes meetings between President Trump, China\u2019s President Xi Jinping, and a bulk of both leaders\u2019 respective cabinets are expected to test their self-described \u201cgreat relationship.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Tweet](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tony-dokoupil-2.jpg\")
The network said that the cameraman is \u201cokay and recovering.\u201d CBS<\/p>\n