CBS news anchor's first day turns into chaos

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00:00All right, to other news, as you just heard from Jill, well, to other news now, uh, to

00:04Governor Walz. No, we're gonna do Mark Kelly. First day, first day, big problems here. Uh, what?

00:12It was a rough start for CBS Evening News' new anchor, Tony DeCoppel. During his first official

00:18weekday broadcast on Monday, January 5th, the usually charming newsman was visibly flustered

00:24when he was hit with apparent teleprompter issues. In the awkward clip, DeCoppel seemingly

00:30argues with the studio producer over which story to go with, which leads to a few seconds of dead

00:36air. Are we going to Kelly here or are we gonna go to Jonah Kaplan? We're doing Mark Kelly. In

00:46another embarrassing moment when he finally moves on to the Tim Waltz segment, the copy referred to

00:51Minnesota as the Great Lake State. That's actually Michigan. Minnesota is famously the

00:57land of 10,000 lakes.