CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-18 - 8 a.m. (E)
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[0:21] You're watching CBS News continuing
[0:23] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf. From
[0:25] CBS News headquarters in New York, here
[0:27] are Harry Smith and Paula Zan. [music]
[0:31] >> Welcome back to this special edition of
[0:33] CBS This Morning. CBS News coverage of
[0:35] the war in the Gulf continues. I'm Harry
[0:37] Smith.
[0:37] >> Good morning everybody and I'm Paula.
[0:39] Here are the headlines at this hour. The
[0:41] US commander in the Gulf gives his first
[0:43] assessment of the war. He says things
[0:46] are going well. Two more US planes are
[0:48] confirmed lost in the fighting. A total
[0:50] of seven Allied jets are now confirmed
[0:53] down. The world waits for Israel's
[0:55] response to a missile attack overnight.
[0:58] And the weather puts a crimp in the
[1:00] Allied bombing effort against Iraq. For
[1:03] the first time since the Gulf War began
[1:04] just over 36 hours ago, the American
[1:07] commander in Saudi Arabia told reporters
[1:09] how things are going. According to
[1:11] General Norman Schwarzoff, they're going
[1:13] as planned.
[1:15] >> We are flying a total of about 2,000 air
[1:20] sorties of all types each day.
[1:24] Uh more than 80%
[1:28] of all of those sorties have
[1:30] successfully engaged their targets.
[1:33] >> General Schwarzoff confirmed that seven
[1:35] Allied aircraft have been lost. Three
[1:37] American, two British, one Italian, and
[1:40] one Kuwaiti. Pictures just released by
[1:43] the Pentagon show some of the
[1:45] effectiveness of the bombing. They show
[1:47] raids on various air bases, Scud missile
[1:50] facilities, and other military targets
[1:52] by F-111 fighter bombers and F-17
[1:55] stealth fighters. Defense officials
[1:57] commented on the re