CBS Evening News - 1991-02-03
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[0:00] of them.
[0:03] >> [music]
[0:04] >> The biggest US aircraft loss of the war,
[0:07] a B-52 goes down in the Indian Ocean.
[0:10] And Medicare takes another hit in the
[0:12] president's new budget.
[0:15] >> [music]
[0:18] >> This is the CBS Evening News, [music]
[0:19] Connie Chung reporting.
[0:22] Good evening. The war moved into day 19
[0:24] tonight with more losses reported, but
[0:26] not all because of enemy fire. The US
[0:29] lost its first B-52 bomber. Only three
[0:32] of the six crewmen were pulled from the
[0:34] ocean. And a Cobra helicopter gunship
[0:36] crashed in Saudi Arabia, a non-combat
[0:38] mission killing two crew members. Juan
[0:41] Vasquez has more.
[0:44] With near perfect flying weather, allied
[0:46] warplanes struck Iraqi targets yet again
[0:48] today, flying over 2,500 missions. But
[0:52] the US announced that a giant B-52
[0:54] bomber was down. The military command
[0:56] said the bomber ditched in the Indian
[0:58] Ocean as a result of mechanical problem.
[1:00] Three crewmen were rescued, three others
[1:02] are missing. But continuing attacks
[1:04] against hardened Iraqi silos destroyed
[1:07] another 68 enemy warplanes, bringing to
[1:10] 99 the number of jets destroyed either
[1:13] in air-to-air or bombing runs.
[1:15] The French displayed the accuracy of
[1:17] their own laser-guided bombs in a raid
[1:19] on an arms depot south of Kuwait City. A
[1:21] camera in the nose of the Jaguar shows
[1:23] four concrete bunkers demolished. But
[1:26] allied missiles aren't always that
[1:28] accurate. The military command confirmed
[1:30] that a Marine light armored vehicle like
[1:32] this one was accidentally hit by US fire
[1:35] during a nighttime battle last week.
[1:37] Seven Marines were killed. But clearly
[1:39] it w