CBS Evening News - 2001-01-18
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[0:03] Big trouble for the Marines. Evidence of
[0:06] a cover up in the troubled Osprey
[0:08] program. CBS's Mike Wallace has
[0:11] exclusive details. Darkness at noon. The
[0:15] blackouts roll on. California goes
[0:18] shopping for emergency power. And can it
[0:21] be the capital of freedom living in
[0:24] fear? Tonight's Eye on America.
[0:30] >> [music]
[0:32] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:36] [music] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:38] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:41] A new shock tonight for one of the most
[0:43] controversial and troubled weapons
[0:45] programs ever undertaken by the US
[0:47] military. The V22 Osprey, a radical
[0:51] innovative aircraft that takes off like
[0:52] a helicopter and flies like a plane.
[0:55] Under pressure, the Marine Corps ousted
[0:57] the commander of an Osprey training
[0:59] squadron and opened an investigation of
[1:01] accusations that he's told squadron
[1:03] members to falsify aircraft maintenance
[1:06] records. CBS News 60 Minutes
[1:08] correspondent Mike Wallace is working
[1:10] this story and he breaks tonight
[1:12] exclusive details. Mike. Dan. The Marine
[1:15] Corps has been hiding the truth about
[1:17] the Osprey from the American public for
[1:19] months now. Meanwhile, 23 Marines have
[1:22] been killed in two Osprey crashes in the
[1:24] past nine months, and every effort that
[1:26] we've made to question the Marine Corps
[1:28] about it has been turned down. The facts
[1:31] that we've learned about the aircraft
[1:32] include the following. Since its initial
[1:34] test flights in the early '90s, four
[1:37] Ospreys have crashed out of a fleet of
[1:39] 15. On December 29th last at the Marine
[1:42] Corps Air Station in New River, North
[1:44] C