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Kroft at one point asked Obama to address a jab thrown last week by former vice president Dick Cheney, who had said that ... read more 43 Comments

Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the US Airways flight 1549 crew have been making headlines ever since they safely landed a jet with 155 people in the Hudson River. But their first television appearances since last month's crash served as a poignant reminder that the plunge into the icy water was more than some Hollywood fantasy.

"It was the worst, sickening pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the floor feeling I've ever felt in my life. I knew immediately it was very bad," Sullenberger told Katie Couric during his 60 Minutes interview on Sunday. "I knew immediately that this, unlike every other flight I'd had for 42 years, was ... read more 6 Comments

Sully's 15 minutes of fame are morphing into 60 Minutes and counting.

Viewers got a preview of Katie Couric's sitdown with Chesley Sullenberger, the hero pilot of Flight 1549, when she visited CBS's Early Show Friday to show an excerpt from the interview. The rest will air on Sunday's 60 Minutes. She also provided a preview on Thursday's Evening News.

"It was the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life," Sullenberger says in the interview excerpt.

The Early Show will also devote its entire episode Monday to Flight 1549, which Sullenberger successfully touched down in New York City's Hudson River last month after bird strikes took out its engines. Guests will include ...
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60 Minutes has scored the first interview with Chesley Sullenberger, the celebrated US Airways pilot who safely landed Flight 1549 in the middle of New York City's Hudson River on Jan. 15.

Sullenberger will be interviewed by CBS Evening News anchor and 60 Minutes contributor Katie Couric, alongside his four-member crew, The Associated Press reports. The interview is scheduled to air Feb. 8.

The sit-down comes a week after Sullenberger canceled a scheduled Jan. 19 interview on NBC's Today with Couric's old colleague Matt Lauer. Today said the pilots' union ...
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This Sunday's ratings highlights:

• Leading out of CBS' late-running Chargers-Steelers game coverage, Steve Kroft's sit-down with president-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, gave 60 Minutes its largest audience since at least 1999 — 24.5 million total viewers. That number could swell once the markets which broke in at 8 pm/ET with The Amazing Race are factored out.

• NBC won the night with its coverage of the Cowboys-'Skins game, which averaged 17 mil.

• CBS placed second for the night with Amazing Race (12.25 million), Cold Case (12 mil) and The Unit (9.8 mil).

• While ABC's Desperate Housewives (16.5 mi) enjoyed a week-to-week gain of 840 thou, Extreme Makeover (10.2 million viewers) and Brothers & Sisters (10.07 mil) each dipped.

• Fox's The Simpsons (8.52 mil, +360K), King of the Hill (seven mil, +250K) and American Dad (6.78 mil, +170K) all saw increases, while Family Guy held steady at 8.52 mil.