CBS Evening News - 2002-01-09
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[0:03] Jordan's shocking divorce, plus Olympic
[0:05] security. Next,
[0:09] the growing US toll in the war on
[0:11] terror. An American military plane slams
[0:14] into a mountain along the Pakistan
[0:16] Afghanistan border. We'll have late
[0:18] detail. CBS's David Martin goes along
[0:22] with US special forces on the search for
[0:24] Osama bin Laden. Eye on America
[0:27] investigates the collapse of Enron. What
[0:30] did corporate executives know and what
[0:32] [music] did they say? And a
[0:35] technological breakthrough for the early
[0:37] detection of Alzheimer's.
[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:48] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:50] headquarters in New York.
[0:52] >> Good evening. The United States suffered
[0:54] new casualties [music] today in the war
[0:56] against terrorism. A Marine Corps KC130
[0:59] flying fuel tanker crashed in flames in
[1:01] western Pakistan on a remote mountain
[1:04] side not far from the border with
[1:05] Afghanistan. Early indications are this
[1:08] crash was not the result of enemy fire.
[1:10] CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews has
[1:12] more on that and an overview of the war
[1:14] in general from the Pentagon.
[1:18] The KC130 with seven Marines on board
[1:21] was on a fuel carrying mission. It took
[1:23] off from Jacobad, Pakistan and was
[1:26] trying to make its final stop of the day
[1:28] near Shamsi, Pakistan when witnesses
[1:30] said the plane caught fire. According to
[1:33] the Pentagon, it then crashed into the
[1:35] side of a mountain.
[1:36] >> The terrain is described as uh
[1:39] difficult.
[1:43] Rescue crews are working their way to
[1:45] the aircraft at this time
[1:48] >> for the US. The crash was not the only
[1:50] tough news of the day. The governor of
[1:53] Kandahar,