CBS to host "The Great American Block Party 250" special on July 4

Americans volition beryllium ringing successful the nation's 250th anniversary of independency with coast-to-coast celebrations and star-studded concerts and performances. Join CBS for "The Great American Block Party 250," a primetime peculiar connected Saturday, July 4, hosted by "CBS Evening News" anchor Tony Dokoupil and "Entertainment Tonight" co-host Nischelle Turner. 

Dokoupil and Turner volition big unrecorded from the Washington Monument successful Washington, D.C., with exclusive performances by the Zac Brown Band, Jon Batiste, Goo Goo Dolls, The War and Treaty and different performers to beryllium announced. 

The solemnisation volition decorativeness disconnected with what organizers are calling the largest fireworks amusement successful past implicit the skies implicit the nation's capital. 

Along with the festivities successful Washington, the amusement volition diagnostic celebratory moments from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia, Mount Rushmore and Fort Campbell, Kentucky. We'll besides people the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library successful Medora, North Dakota. 

Watch "The Great American Block Party 250" connected Saturday, July 4, astatine 8 p.m. ET connected CBS and watercourse it connected Paramount+ and CBS News 24/7. 

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• 4th of July
• July 4th
• America astatine 250