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[0:07] this is a CBS News special report on the
[0:10] Invasion of
[0:13] Grenada attack at dawn here is CBS News
[0:18] correspondent Dan Rather good evening
[0:21] almost one full day after an American
[0:23] Military invasion of Gren began fighting
[0:26] continues tonight on the tiny Caribbean
[0:27] island at least two us servicemen are
[0:30] confirmed killed in that fighting 23
[0:33] others officially confirmed as wounded
[0:35] many of them seriously The Invasion has
[0:37] powerfully overshadowed the tragic
[0:39] events in Beirut there the number of
[0:41] dead American servicemen from Sunday's
[0:43] terrorist bombing continues to grow the
[0:45] confirmed toll in Beirut now
[0:47] 216 CBS News has learned that Vice
[0:50] President Bush is on his way to Beirut
[0:52] for a morale boosting visit but today's
[0:55] startling event is Grenada a reged
[0:57] Administration official tonight said
[0:59] units of the 80 second Airborne Division
[1:01] would be sent there it would be asked to
[1:03] control the airports so Army Rangers can
[1:05] battle pockets of continuing resistance
[1:08] from whom the resistance comes is
[1:10] unclear whether it be Cubans and or the
[1:13] Grenada militia more than 200 armed
[1:15] Cubans have been captured many of them
[1:17] wounded 14 Cubans were reported killed
[1:20] the Cuban government said tonight its
[1:22] forces on Grenada had been ordered not
[1:24] to surrender so the day began with an
[1:27] American Military Invasion here's how it
[1:30] happened since Marxist grabbed power in
[1:33] greno four years ago the small Caribbean
[1:35] island nation has been of concern to the
[1:37] United States it was the middle of last
[1:39] week however when real options began to
[1:41] take shape that was w