CBS Evening News - 2001-04-11
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[0:08] [Music]
[0:15] lab. This is the CBS Evening News with
[0:19] Dan Rather. Tonight, in-depth coverage
[0:22] of the China Challenge and the return of
[0:25] the 24
[0:27] Americans. From CBS News headquarters in
[0:30] New York, here is Dan Rather. And this
[0:33] is a special West Coast edition. Good
[0:35] evening. They're in the air. The
[0:37] Americans held in China are now free.
[0:39] They're on their way home. China Tonight
[0:41] released the 24 US servicemen and women
[0:44] it had held for 11 days since their
[0:47] reconnaissance plane made an emergency
[0:49] landing on a Chinese island. As part of
[0:51] the deal, China keeps the plane, at
[0:52] least for now. And the US says in
[0:55] language improved for the Chinese that
[0:57] America is quote very sorry the plane
[1:00] landed without permission. Though
[1:02] Secretary of State Powell added he's
[1:04] glad it did. The Americans were taken by
[1:07] convoy this evening to the airport on
[1:09] China's Hainan Island. There they
[1:11] boarded a chartered US jet liner and are
[1:13] now in the air headed home. The plane is
[1:16] bound for the US island of Guam where
[1:18] the Americans will transfer to a
[1:20] military transport plane expected to
[1:22] land in Hawaii tomorrow. The agreement
[1:24] to release the Americans came just hours
[1:27] after President Bush declared a
[1:28] stalemate in negotiations. A clear
[1:31] signal the US would not give a full
[1:33] outright apology. But there was that
[1:36] change in language, giving Chinese
[1:38] leaders something closer to what they
[1:40] wanted. CBS's David Martin reports how
[1:42] the deal was done. The chartered
[1:45] airliner that