ABC News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-16 - 6:55 p.m. (E)
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[0:00] Other planes that I would think uh were
[0:02] invol involved were the stealth fighters
[0:05] and possibly the FB111 bombers, the
[0:07] longer distance bombers uh which are
[0:10] also based in the area.
[0:11] >> As everybody in the country must know,
[0:13] this is one of those days on which there
[0:14] truly was a rumor uh every hour. Would
[0:16] there be an attack on this? The first
[0:18] day after the deadline for Saddam
[0:20] Hussein to withdraw his troops from
[0:23] Kuwait. And though we appear to be
[0:25] seeing we're though we are certainly
[0:26] seeing I shouldn't say appear to be
[0:28] seeing all the signs of battle um in
[0:31] Baghdad as reported to us by Gary
[0:33] Shepard from the western side of the
[0:35] Tigress River in the center of the city
[0:38] virtually. Um we are not able to confirm
[0:40] anything incoming from Americans. Gary,
[0:43] anything more to report at the moment?
[0:45] >> Peter, uh everything has quieted down
[0:48] now. Uh
[0:50] a short while ago, as I was saying,
[0:52] there was a great deal of uh tracer fire
[0:55] going up from the ground. Uh the burst
[0:58] of of a red staccatoike nature. Now uh
[1:02] the sky is clear again. The sound of the
[1:04] uh anti-aircraft fire completely
[1:07] stopped. Uh we have lost regular power
[1:11] here at the hotel. Uh we're using
[1:13] emergency lights here in the ABC News
[1:15] office and uh I am looking out and and I
[1:19] can still see uh ground lights on the
[1:22] horizon, but most of the city lights now
[1:25] appear to have been turned off.
[1:31] >> In just about 5 minutes, we're going to
[1:32] get a report from the uh Israeli Defense
[1:34] Forces, as the military is called in
[1:37] Israel. There has been enormous concern
[1:39] there today, o