CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 2 p.m. (E)

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[0:13] You're watching CBS News continuing

[0:16] coverage of Showdown in the Gulf.

[0:21] From CBS News headquarters in New York,

[0:24] here are Connie Chung and Charles

[0:26] Caralt.

[0:27] >> Here are the headlines of this hour. A

[0:29] new wave of Allied bombing apparently is

[0:32] underway.

[0:34] Thousand sorties last night, more

[0:36] tonight. It's nighttime over there.

[0:38] Allied troops are massing on the Kuwait

[0:40] border. That may signal the start of the

[0:43] ground war pretty soon. The president

[0:45] says he is pleased with progress in the

[0:48] Gulf War so far, but still no sign that

[0:52] Saddam Hussein is backing down, though

[0:54] the White House has called upon him now

[0:56] to surrender. Increased air activity in

[0:59] Saudi Arabia seems to indicate that a

[1:02] new wave of strikes against Iraq is

[1:04] indeed underway during the Persian Gulf

[1:07] night. That report brought this response

[1:10] from Marines in Saudi Arabia.

[1:14] >> I think it's pretty good right now.

[1:16] Anything to speed this up to get us home

[1:18] sooner is fine with me.

[1:19] >> Well, sitting in the desert for about 5

[1:21] months, it's about time something

[1:22] happened.

[1:24] >> You're glad about this? Well, I'm not

[1:26] glad about the aspect about going to war

[1:28] and I don't think any Marine sitting

[1:29] here in this desert is. But something's

[1:32] happening and it's the start. It's the

[1:34] start of something.

[1:35] >> Now, what's going to happen?

[1:36] >> Remember you as a man that comes to me

[1:37] and says,

[1:38] >> "That's what I'm worried about. What

[1:39] happens next?"

[1:40] >> Every time I see.

[1:44] >> The air war began with devastating

[1:46] suddenness last night with the launching

[1:48] of about 100 Tomahawk cruise missi