CBS This Morning snippet (Dan Rather in Somalia) - 1992-12-10

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[0:01] It is true that most of the relief

[0:02] workers have been pulled out of there.

[0:04] My last information was that only two

[0:07] surgeons in the way of of western relief

[0:10] workers were left in just my very boiled

[0:12] situation. A lot of shooting reported.

[0:15] Uh once you get outside this marine

[0:17] perimeter, it's a very dangerous world

[0:19] out there. So no one uh could take issue

[0:22] with the marine commanders who are

[0:24] saying, "Let's be a little slow about

[0:25] moving out there and make sure that

[0:27] we've got our face in you." absolutely

[0:29] secure before we start moving out into

[0:31] the hterlands. But they're moving as

[0:33] fast as they can. But Carrie, I think

[0:34] it's important to recognize that the

[0:36] Somali thought things were going to move

[0:38] faster. The Marines believe they've

[0:40] moved really perhaps faster than they

[0:43] thought might be possible. But two

[0:45] worlds collide here in so many ways.

[0:48] >> Let me ask you this also. It seems with

[0:49] the arrival of the Marines, the monsoons

[0:52] came in about the about the same time

[0:54] too. How is the weather affecting the

[0:56] execution of uh of this mission?

[1:00] >> Well, it isn't helping any. Uh the

[1:02] Marines really got soaked and

[1:04] particularly the grunts, Harry, the

[1:06] enlisted men who dug in on the beach

[1:08] over there behind the sandbags. Uh

[1:11] they're finding out they said, "Does

[1:13] this happen every day?" and you say,

[1:14] "Well, yes, it does