CBS Evening News - 1994-10-19
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT1756S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News - 1994-10-19” from malgent, uploaded on 2026-02-20.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:04] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:08] with Dan Rather and Connie Chum.
[0:12] >> Good evening. Israel is promising
[0:14] retaliation tonight. While the Islamic
[0:16] radicals of Hamas are promising more
[0:18] terror. Today's was the bloodiest attack
[0:21] yet in the current wave of Middle East
[0:23] violence. A bomb destroyed a bus in Tel
[0:25] Aviv. Scores of people were killed or
[0:28] wounded. Correspondent Tom Fenton has
[0:30] the story and the pictures. We caution
[0:32] you, it was a gruesome scene.
[0:39] These are the pictures of a lively Tel
[0:41] Aviv shopping street turned into an
[0:44] urban valley of death. One minute this
[0:48] man was the driver. One minute they were
[0:50] rush hour commuters and the next victims
[0:54] of terror sprawled amidst the remains of
[0:57] the bus buildings and bodies. The
[1:00] miracle was that any survived at all
[1:03] >> and I sat down
[1:05] and and I wept and I was full of blood.
[1:09] >> The numbers initially 22 dead, at least
[1:12] 46 wounded, one bomb, one suicide bomber
[1:16] from the radical Palestinian group
[1:18] Hamas. today's carnage a fulfillment of
[1:21] their promise to continue their campaign
[1:23] of terror by any means, anything to deny
[1:26] peace a chance. Even in this warh
[1:29] hardened country, rescue workers were
[1:31] overcome with emotion and the usually
[1:34] calm president consumed with anger.
[1:37] >> We'll have to find out where are the
[1:39] roots of the evil and cut them and chop
[1:43] them to pieces. As the Israelis pick up
[1:46] the pieces after this latest outrage,
[1:48] the question is whether they can hold
[1:50] together the fragile national coalition
[1:52] for peace with Arafat and the
[1:53] Palestinians. Opinions in this country
[1:55] ha