CBS Evening News - 2002-01-01

Name: CBS Evening News - 2002-01-01
Uploaded: 2026-01-19
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] is

[0:00] >> so you can plan ahead

[0:02] >> because [music] Sweeney said so

[0:06] >> celebrity giant Susan [music] Luchi and

[0:08] Star Vacation's next ET.

[0:12] >> A new year, a new mission for [music] US

[0:15] Marines in Afghanistan, searching for

[0:16] clues they hope will lead to the top man

[0:18] of the Taliban. Fire all over, down

[0:21] under. The so far losing battle against

[0:24] Australian bush fires. A new year, a new

[0:27] currency for millions of Europeans. the

[0:29] debut of [music] the euro and the good

[0:31] old dollar was buying more at the store

[0:33] as Americans went holiday shopping

[0:35] again.

[0:37] [music]

[0:43] >> This is the CBS [music]

[0:45] Evening News with Dan Rather

[0:48] >> and good evening. Dan is off tonight.

[0:50] I'm Russ Mitchell. Happy New Year. And

[0:52] for the US, this new year begins with

[0:54] the unfinished business of the old one,

[0:56] tracking down those behind the September

[0:57] 11th attack in America and those who

[0:59] gave them aid and comfort. Among them,

[1:01] Mullah Muhammad Omar, leader of

[1:03] Afghanistan's Taliban. US Marines now

[1:05] joining the hunt for Omar. They're

[1:07] searching just outside Kandahar for

[1:09] clues to his whereabouts. As CBS News

[1:11] correspondent Wyatt Andrews reports,

[1:15] >> in perhaps their biggest combat mission

[1:17] of the war, Marines backed by helicopter

[1:20] gunships surrounded and then searched a

[1:23] large al-Qaeda compound near Kandahar.

[1:26] Even though the search was for

[1:27] intelligence materials, the Marines, not

[1:30] knowing exactly what to expect, arrived

[1:32] in force.

[1:34] >> Based on what we found when we got

[1:35] there, we probably had five times more

[1:37] Marines than we needed. But we always go

[1:40] uh with en