CBS Evening News - 1993-04-21
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[0:26] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:29] reporting from over, hovering above
[0:32] what's left of the cult compound outside
[0:34] Waco, Texas. Good evening.
[0:36] Down there, on the ground at the
[0:38] compound, there remains a volatile
[0:40] mixture of live ammunition and
[0:42] smoldering embers. Still too dangerous
[0:45] for all except the experts to go through
[0:47] on the ground, but from up here, we can
[0:50] tell you that investigators continue
[0:52] laboriously and carefully looking for
[0:54] bodies of the perhaps 90 people believed
[0:57] to have been in the compound when it
[0:59] became an inferno.
[1:00] At this hour, fewer than half that many
[1:02] bodies have been located.
[1:04] We begin our coverage with a look at the
[1:06] investigation with CBS News
[1:08] correspondent Vicki Mabry.
[1:11] As federal authorities scale back their
[1:13] operations, moving out tanks and flying
[1:15] agents out on military planes, the
[1:17] search for bodies, particularly the body
[1:20] of cult leader David Koresh, continues
[1:22] in the still smoldering compound ruins.
[1:25] We have not done a safety check of the
[1:28] entire 77 acre
[1:30] facility. We have
[1:32] no way of knowing at this point what
[1:35] kind of explosives may or may not be out
[1:37] there.
[1:39] Efforts to locate bodies have been
[1:41] hampered by ammunition that is still
[1:43] exploding 2 days after the fire. So far,
[1:46] investigators have found about 40 bodies
[1:48] around the compound's perimeter, 10 of
[1:51] them women and children. Three of the
[1:53] bodies have gunshot wounds, according to
[1:55] a Justice Department spokesman. one
[1:57] victim's head was nearly blown off. It
[2:00] is not known how or when they died.
[2:03] We are to make sure that th