CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-18 - 8 p.m. (E)

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[0:04] >> We're set up to launch Tom.

[0:10] >> Good morning, Mr. Hussein. It's time for

[0:12] your 0530 Rey

[0:16] tonight. The latest from the

[0:18] battlefront. So far so good.

[0:20] >> The campaign continues.

[0:22] >> The price of war escalates.

[0:24] >> We have lost four US aircraft. We're

[0:26] doing everything we can uh to get our

[0:28] pilots back. After Saddam Hussein

[0:30] strikes back.

[0:31] >> Crazy man, a crazy dictator.

[0:33] >> The war is not the summer camp.

[0:35] >> The latest from the homeront.

[0:38] >> We support the president

[0:39] >> and fear.

[0:40] >> I would like my dad to come here.

[0:58] You're watching CBS News continuing

[1:00] coverage of the showdown in the Gulf.

[1:03] From CBS News headquarters in New York,

[1:06] here is Dan Rather.

[1:09] Good evening. 48 hours now into

[1:11] Operation Desert Storm. President Bush

[1:13] says so far so good. US war plananes

[1:16] attacked Iraqi missile launchers today.

[1:18] one of the largest aerial bombardments

[1:20] of the last half century. Still to come,

[1:23] the land war to drive Iraqi forces from

[1:26] Kuwait. Increasingly, it looks like that

[1:28] will be much tougher than was

[1:30] anticipated as short as say 24 hours

[1:32] ago. CBS News correspondent Bob Simon

[1:35] was with US ground forces today on the

[1:37] front lines in Saudi Arabia. Bob,

[1:41] >> Dan, we took a drive up north today to

[1:43] the border region and this is what we

[1:45] discovered. American troops are already

[1:48] under fire. These Marines, the members

[1:50] of an elite unit on a very highly

[1:52] classified mission near the border

[1:54] region, have been getting hammered by

[1:57] Iraqi artillery. In fact, in the last 2