A New Mexico dam on the brink opens CBS Evening News' week
The flood emergency report drew about 170,000 views in five hours, alongside a Trump approval story and the full September 28 broadcast.
CBS Evening NewsStory of Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
New Mexico dam on brink of failing amid flood emergency
What drew the biggest crowd to CBS Evening News? A flood emergency in New Mexico, and a dam described in the title as close to failing. The report reached about 170,000 views within five hours of going up, more than any other upload in a week of fifteen.
The story with the most staying power is a political one. The report on high inflation and gas prices pulling down Trump's approval ratings, with his reply that "the polls are fake," is still gathering views steadily two days in. The full September 28 broadcast follows it, a sign that some viewers want the whole evening program and not only the clips. The week also brought harder material: the guilty verdict against a former "American Idol" contestant in his wife's murder, and two reports on a reopened Cornell rape investigation, including the woman's account of telling campus police she had been raped.
The channel as a whole ran at roughly a third of its usual daily views, and the subscriber count held where it was. That puts it in company: most of the news broadcasters its size, from CTV News and ITV News to the New York Post, were also below their normal pace, with euronews and 7NEWS Australia closest to their usual form.
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- Channel
- CBS Evening News
- Subscribers
- 2,420,000
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 170,455
The numbers
Here are the week's figures for CBS Evening News.
