CBS Evening News - 2009-02-05
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[0:02] Tonight a crippled jet liner with 155
[0:05] people on board and a pilot with only
[0:08] one option.
[0:09] >> We can't do it.
[0:11] >> Okay, which one way would you like it to
[0:12] turn around?
[0:12] >> We're going to be in the Hudson.
[0:14] >> Did you think
[0:15] how are we going to get ourselves out of
[0:17] this?
[0:18] A 60 Minutes exclusive. For the first
[0:20] time, you'll hear from the hero captain
[0:23] of flight 1549.
[0:25] I'm Katie Couric. Also tonight, a
[0:27] Supreme Court Justice battling cancer.
[0:30] Ruth Bader Ginsburg has surgery for
[0:33] pancreatic cancer. We'll have the latest
[0:35] on her condition.
[0:37] And a coach reaches new heights
[0:39] >> Got to get on the board.
[0:41] >> the stairs.
[0:47] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:50] Couric.
[0:53] >> Good evening, everyone. It was 3 weeks
[0:55] ago today, just minutes after takeoff,
[0:58] the captain of an Airbus A320 carrying
[1:01] 155 people is looking desperately for a
[1:04] place to make an emergency landing. He
[1:07] settles on the Hudson River, and you of
[1:09] course know the rest of the story.
[1:11] Tonight though, the story you haven't
[1:12] heard from the lips of Captain Chesley
[1:14] "Sully" Sullenberger on tower recordings
[1:17] just released by the FAA and in an
[1:19] exclusive interview for Sunday's 60
[1:21] Minutes. First, Bob Orr with the
[1:23] dramatic audio of a captain calm in a
[1:27] crisis.
[1:28] >> Just 3 minutes before US Airways flight
[1:30] 1549 splashed down in the Hudson River,
[1:33] all was normal as the jetliner using the
[1:35] call sign Cactus 1549 climbed out of
[1:38] LaGuardia Airport and over New York.
[1:41] >> Cactus 1549 ready to fire three to
[1:42] contact and maintain 15,000.
[1:45] >> Maintain 15,000 Cactus 1549.
[1:49] >> But th