CBS News will present a live “48 Hours: Paris Under Attack” primetime special on Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET on CBS, the network announced three hours before the broadcast.
“CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell will anchor the special edition of “48 Hours” from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York. “CBS Evening News” anchor and managing editor Scott Pelley will report on the attacks from Paris, along with a team of CBS News correspondents in Paris, Washington, D.C., New York and elsewhere around the world.
The special will include in-depth reports on the attacks, the politics of terrorism, security vulnerabilities, the latest U.S. intelligence, interviews with witnesses and a profile of the U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal, which was playing at the Bataclan concert hall when the attacks occurred.
“48 Hours: Paris Under Attack” will lead into CBS News’ multi-platform coverage of the Democratic presidential debate in the Eastern time zone, though the “48 Hours” special will be broadcast following the debate on the West Coast.
The debate will broadcast live from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on Saturday night at 9 p.m. ET, and it is presented in conjunction with CBS’ Des Moines affiliate KCCI, the Des Moines Register and Twitter.
CBSN, CBS News’ digital streaming news network, will be streaming live coverage of the attacks and the aftermath all day and night. It will include live reports and analysis from Paris, Washington and Des Moines.
John Dickerson, anchor of “Face the Nation” and the principal moderator of Saturday’s debate, will return to Washington, D.C., to anchor “Face the Nation” live on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. ET. Guests include House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr, former deputy director of the CIA and CBS News Senior Security Contributor Michael Morell, and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. The weekly panel will include Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute, Farah Pandith of the Council on Foreign Relations, CBS News political analyst Jamelle Bouie, CBS News contributor Peggy Noonan, and CBS News Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes. Additional guests have yet to be announced.
CBS News’ coverage of the Paris attacks will continue throughout the weekend with additional reports on “CBS Sunday Morning With Charles Osgood” and with Pelley reporting from Paris for “60 Minutes.”