CBS Evening News - 2003-02-04

Name: CBS Evening News - 2003-02-04
Uploaded: 2026-01-27
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:01] Secretary Powell prepares the case

[0:03] against Iraq as signs increase of new

[0:06] terror plans. And CBS News obtains a

[0:10] rare interview with Saddam Hussein. Here

[0:13] what he has to say tonight.

[0:21] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:25] Rather reporting tonight from the

[0:27] Johnson [music] Space Center in Houston.

[0:31] Good evening. On it goes. The search

[0:34] into another night for remains of the

[0:36] astronauts of the shuttle Colombia as

[0:39] new clues arrive to what brought their

[0:42] spacecraft down. But here at their home

[0:44] base, this was a day to pause for a

[0:47] moment, pause with the rest of the

[0:48] nation to remember and to honor the lost

[0:52] space travelers.

[0:55] [music]

[0:58] >> The tightlyk knit NASA family gathered

[1:00] to say farewell to seven of their own.

[1:02] >> I know you're listening.

[1:05] Please know you are in our hearts and we

[1:09] will always smile when we think of you.

[1:12] and to [music] offer for them a final

[1:14] prayer.

[1:15] >> After my death, mourn me thus,

[1:18] >> while remembering what made each one

[1:20] special, there was a pledge to do more

[1:23] than offer comfort.

[1:25] >> We also have the tremendous duty to

[1:27] honor the legacy of those fallen heroes

[1:31] by finding out what caused the loss of

[1:33] the Colombia and its crew. [music]

[1:37] The president consoled the astronauts

[1:39] families who say they want man's space

[1:41] flight to continue. [music]

[1:43] He assured them it will.

[1:46] >> America's space program will go on. We

[1:50] find the best among us,

[1:54] send them forth into unmapped darkness,

[1:57] and pray they will return.

[2:03] Yet, said the president, some explorers

[2:05] [music] do not return, and fate settles

[2:08] unfairly on th