Video taking off 55x its usual first day

Passengers scramble off tilting New Orleans cruise boat after tanker collision

CBS TEXAS shows the escape from the docked American Heritage, with New Orleans' mayor confirming everyone was accounted for.

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CBS TEXAS Story of November 15, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 103,037 views a day, 55 times a normal first day on this channel (1,865).

Video shows passengers escaping from cruise ship in New Orleans

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"I knew it was tilting," passenger Marlene White tells CBS News, describing her scramble across an unstable gangway to safety.

Her account accompanies footage of a tanker striking the docked American Heritage near New Orleans' French Quarter on Friday. The river cruise boat lists sharply onto its side. Some passengers jump into the Mississippi River while others hurry off along the gangway.

The CBS TEXAS report drew more than 100,000 views in its first day, roughly fifty-five times the channel's usual start for Shorts. It brings together the collision footage, a passenger's account and officials' confirmation that no lives were lost.

Eyewitness Denny Halford describes the sound of the impact: "Tons of steel crunching, that's what it sounded like." White's account follows, putting a passenger's perspective alongside the images of the boat tipping and people trying to get ashore.

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno says all passengers were accounted for. Correspondent Skyler Henry closes with the investigation: the National Transportation Safety Board has dispatched a go-team. The independent federal agency investigates marine accidents as well as aviation crashes; the cause of this collision remains under investigation.

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