World News Tonight (ABC) - 1991-02-02
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[0:00] Pray for me.
[0:05] >> From ABC News, [music] this is World
[0:08] News Saturday. Here's Carol Simpson.
[0:11] >> Good [music] evening. The confirmed
[0:13] death toll in last night's runway
[0:14] collision at Los Angeles International
[0:16] Airport is now at least 18 and is
[0:19] expected to rise. We'll have a complete
[0:21] report on that later in this broadcast.
[0:23] But first, the Persian Gulf. It's been a
[0:26] relatively quiet day along the
[0:27] Kuwait-Saudi border, but US forces have
[0:30] sustained losses in the past 24 hours.
[0:33] The latest from ABC's Morton Dean.
[0:36] >> The US, which claims supremacy in the
[0:38] skies, has learned that Iraq still has
[0:40] some potent anti-aircraft defenses.
[0:43] Two US warplanes were shot down by
[0:45] ground fire. An A-6 with two men and an
[0:49] A-10 with one man on board. They are the
[0:52] 14th and 15th US planes lost in combat.
[0:55] No information has been released about
[0:57] what happened to the crews.
[1:00] The confirmed US combat death toll has
[1:02] increased to 12. One Marine killed,
[1:05] three wounded, possibly by a deadly
[1:07] mistake. Friendly fire hitting a convoy.
[1:11] Friendly fire is still a possible
[1:13] explanation for the deaths of 11 Marines
[1:15] during the Iraqi offensive earlier this
[1:17] week.
[1:18] An investigation into the cause has not
[1:20] been completed.
[1:22] With the embattled town of Khafji now
[1:24] firmly in Saudi hands, the US military
[1:27] command says there's no evidence the
[1:29] Iraqis are preparing a new offensive.
[1:31] >> What they have essentially done is to go
[1:33] back into defensive positions. So, they
[1:35] have the word that's currently being
[1:37] used is hunkered down. They came out,
[1:39] they suffered uh da