CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 11:30 p.m. (E)
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[0:03] [music]
[0:05] You are watching CBS News continuing
[0:08] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf.
[0:09] [music] From CBS News headquarters in
[0:12] New York, here is Dan Rather.
[0:15] >> The dimensions, the context in of the
[0:17] Gulf War has changed quite a bit over
[0:20] the last few hours. The war goes on. Air
[0:22] attacks are underway in Iraq, in Kuwait.
[0:26] uh heavier air attacks if anything. And
[0:28] some new targets have been added to the
[0:30] list to be hit by US war plananes and
[0:33] other allied planes in the wake of
[0:35] Saddam Hussein successfully lobbing Scud
[0:39] missiles into Israel. This hour, these
[0:41] are among the story lines and headlines.
[0:43] President Bush has reportedly told the
[0:45] Israelis that the United States is
[0:47] retaliating for the Iraqi missile
[0:49] attacks. US Patriot missile groundtoair
[0:52] successful in its first combat use in
[0:54] Saudi Arabia. Pentagon sources say a
[0:57] second US war plane is lost. Only known
[1:00] US casualty so far is identified. Israel
[1:04] radio says President Bush told Prime
[1:06] Minister Shamir that he has ordered new
[1:08] air strikes in retaliation for Iraq's
[1:11] missile attacks this evening on Israel.
[1:13] These photographs uh in and around Tel
[1:15] Aviv. Tel Aviv and other cities
[1:17] including Hifa were hit by as many as
[1:19] nine Scuds were now told. All of the
[1:22] Scuds apparently carrying conventional
[1:24] not chemical warheads. Seven Israeli
[1:27] injuries reported and considerable
[1:29] damage. As you can see, the fact that
[1:31] the sirens alerted people to this
[1:34] incoming Scuds may have kept the number
[1:36] of casualties down. In Washington,
[1:38] Israel's ambassador to the United States
[1:40] said the attac