CBS News - Desert Storm - 1991-01-17 - 12 noon (E)
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[0:00] for the News Channel 5 Midday Report
[0:02] with Roy Hobs.
[0:06] >> This is the News Channel 5 Midday Report
[0:09] with Roy Hobs.
[0:12] >> Good afternoon everyone and welcome to
[0:13] the Midday Report. It's Thursday,
[0:15] January 17th, and America is at war.
[0:18] Here are the latest facts as we know
[0:20] them. The Defense Department confirms
[0:22] one US casualty so far in Operation
[0:25] Desert Storm. An American pilot. A
[0:27] British plane has also been lost. News
[0:30] reports in Egypt say arrangements have
[0:32] been made for the desertion of 50 Iraqi
[0:35] tank crews in Kuwait. Cautious optimism,
[0:38] that's what the government is asking all
[0:40] Americans to have regarding our Allied
[0:42] strike against Iraq. While it appears
[0:44] the first strike has been very
[0:46] successful, Pentagon officials warn it
[0:48] is far from being over.
[0:52] Since the air attacks began at just
[0:54] before 6:00 p.m. Nashville time last
[0:56] night, Allied forces have flown more
[0:58] than a thousand sorties or air attacks
[1:00] into Iraq and Kuwait. We uh had air
[1:03] superiority the entire time. We came up
[1:06] very little. Uh we went in with some
[1:08] very precision bombers. We went in some
[1:10] very heavily defended areas and dropped
[1:12] some excellent bombs and destroyed a lot
[1:14] of targets.
[1:16] Defense Secretary Dick Cheney reported
[1:18] this morning that two Allied aircraft,
[1:20] one American jet and one British jet,
[1:23] had sustained damage during the attack.
[1:26] Present, we are in the process of using
[1:29] our intelligence assets to assess the
[1:32] damage that has been achieved.
[1:35] Uh, as that process is completed,
[1:38] decisions will be made about going back
[1:40] to restrike targets that