CBS Evening News - 2009-12-23

Name: CBS Evening News - 2009-12-23
Uploaded: 2026-01-15
Duration: 1817 s
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Uploaded: 2026-01-15

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Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 2009-12-23” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-01-15.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] help you too.

[0:01] >> If you've been injured in a car

[0:02] accident, get a lawyer and get it done.

[0:05] Call Hughes and Coleman. 1 8004896000.

[0:13] >> Tonight, it could have been a disaster.

[0:15] An American Airlines jet skids off the

[0:17] runway in Jamaica and nearly into the

[0:20] sea.

[0:21] >> We just felt a big crash all night went

[0:23] up and we felt the big impact.

[0:25] >> Remarkably, everyone gets out alive. I'm

[0:28] Katie Kurrick. Also tonight, holiday

[0:30] travel plans for hundreds of thousands

[0:33] are about to be ruined thanks to another

[0:36] wicked storm that this time could

[0:38] paralyze the Midwest.

[0:41] It's finally over. A 5-year tugofwar

[0:44] comes to an end as a Brazilian family

[0:46] agrees to turn over a 9-year-old boy to

[0:49] his American father.

[0:52] Plus, he was out of work and out of luck

[0:55] until he wrote a song that changed his

[0:57] life. up in the air.

[1:00] >> A Hollywood ending in tonight's American

[1:03] Spirit.

[1:08] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:12] Kurrick.

[1:14] Good evening, everyone. It's enough to

[1:16] send chills up the spine of any

[1:18] traveler. An American Airlines flight

[1:20] nearly ended in tragedy. This footage

[1:22] taken today shows how close the 737 came

[1:26] to plunging into the Caribbean after

[1:28] skidding off the runway in Kingston,

[1:30] Jamaica last night. Flight 331

[1:33] originated in Washington DC with a stop

[1:35] in Miami before heading to rainy

[1:37] Kingston with 154 people on board. But

[1:41] when it landed, the pilots could not

[1:42] stop. Bags flew around the cabin as the

[1:45] jet careened off the runway. Kelly

[1:48] Koviera is in Kingston tonight where the

[1:50] investigation is just getting underway.

[1:53] >> Investigators