‘CBS Evening News’ Anchor Tony Dokoupil Cries on Air One Night After Awkward Flub

CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil cried on air while talking about Miami.

“It makes me emotional, it’s so funny,” Dokoupil told CBS Miami in an interview aired during Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, as seen in a clip shared to Instagram. “You only have one childhood, right?”

After composing himself, he added, “To help people understand why I have such a reaction, Florida is where I grew up.”

“We didn’t get a lot of sleep, so,” he chuckled. “My grandmother’s here, my father, my mother, my aunts and uncles, cousins, and it’s where I would have spent all of my childhood. But we left because my father got in some trouble with business.”

“We laugh about it now, but he was a drug dealer and he went to jail. It’s kind of a ‘ha ha’ thing that we say now,” he continued. “But the reason it’s so emotional for me, is because I feel like I was robbed of the full Miami experience.”

“I really love it here,” he added.

Dokoupil’s breakdown aired on his second day as anchor, and just one day after he experienced an awkward on-air flub.

The CBS newbie, who was named anchor in December after a major shake-up, attempted to transition to a story about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during the Monday, January 5 broadcast. However, an image of Arizona Senator Mark Kelly appeared on screen.

“No, we’re going do Mark Kelly. First day, first day, big problems here,” he admitted.