CBS Evening News - 2003-03-03
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[0:05] Tonight's headlines. Korea dispute
[0:08] escalates with a confrontation in the
[0:10] sky. Investigators hope big al-Qaeda
[0:13] bust will stop major attacks. US says
[0:17] Iraq war without Turkish bases would be
[0:21] hellish. Also tonight, hunting down a
[0:24] dictator. It was difficult enough to
[0:26] find Noriega. It may be even harder to
[0:29] find Saddam. Unsolved mysteries. What's
[0:33] killing animals at one of America's most
[0:36] famous zoos? And what's melting the ice
[0:39] in the land of deep freezes?
[0:47] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:50] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:52] headquarters in New York.
[0:54] >> Good evening. Just as the United States
[0:56] is running into more problems in
[0:58] preparing for war with Iraq, there is
[1:00] increasing concern that this country
[1:02] could be headed for another military
[1:04] confrontation, this one with North
[1:07] Korea. The United States is lodging a
[1:09] formal protest over what it says was a
[1:11] provocative new action by the North. MIG
[1:14] fighter jets yesterday intercepted,
[1:16] harassed, and implicitly threatened a US
[1:19] military aircraft that was in
[1:21] international airspace on what's
[1:23] described as a routine air force
[1:26] reconnaissance flight. CBS News's David
[1:28] Martin has details on the worsening
[1:30] situation with North Korea.
[1:34] Four North Korean MiGs intercepted a US
[1:37] reconnaissance plane over the Sea of
[1:38] Japan at one point coming within 50 ft
[1:41] of the American aircraft. US officials
[1:44] say the RC135, which goes by the code
[1:46] name Cobra Ball, was more than 100 miles
[1:49] off the coast of North Korea, well into
[1:52] international airspace and at the outer
[1:54] range of the North Ko