Nightline (ABC) - 1999-05-03
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[0:01] Before we go, the very latest on the
[0:02] devastation in the Midwest from
[0:03] tornadoes tonight. 33 people are now
[0:06] confirmed dead, 22 in critical
[0:08] condition. The injured are streaming
[0:10] into hospitals by the hundreds in the
[0:13] states of Oklahoma and Kansas. A
[0:15] spokesperson for an Oklahoma City
[0:17] hospital says medical personnel there
[0:19] are definitely in disaster mode. Police
[0:22] say the number of damaged homes in
[0:23] Oklahoma City alone could reach a
[0:26] thousand or more. The governor of
[0:28] Oklahoma has declared a state of
[0:29] emergency. The National Guard has been
[0:32] called out. So tonight, the homes
[0:33] damaged, the power is out, hospital and
[0:36] medical personnel stretched to the
[0:38] limit, and it will be morning before
[0:40] even they know for sure just how bad it
[0:42] is.
[0:43] >> That will do it for Channel 2 News at
[0:44] 11. Thanks for joining us. Good night.
[0:51] >> Fisher Broadcasting
[0:56] >> May 3rd,
[0:57] 1999.
[1:04] >> He never sees the people on whom his
[1:07] bombs will fall.
[1:08] >> I'm concentrating 100% on making sure
[1:10] that that that bomb guides to the proper
[1:13] aim point.
[1:13] >> I've got my new weapon selected, and now
[1:15] it's time to designate the target.
[1:17] >> They rarely even see the planes that are
[1:20] creating havoc in their lives.
[1:22] >> But these people didn't do anything.
[1:24] >> The rocket was fired very high, and I
[1:26] expected that 1 km from my house will
[1:29] fall down, but it was unexpected.
[1:32] >> For him,
[1:33] it is sanitized, technical.
[1:36] >> Once the bomb's impacted, I'm ready to
[1:37] go on to my next attack.
[1:41] >> For them,
[1:42] it is dirty
[1:44] and personal.
[1:52] >> Your soldiers are free, but my people
[1:56] are not free.
[1:58] We are
[2:00] We are tired.
[2:02] Exhausted, really.
[2:03] >> Tonight
[2:05] at the brink,
[2:06] the war above,
[2:08] the war below.
[2:13] >> From ABC News,
[2:17] this is Nightline.
[2:20] Reporting from Novi Sad, Yugoslavia,
[2:23] Ted Koppel.
[2:25] At first, when you cross over from
[2:27] Hungary into Yugoslavia, there is no
[2:29] evidence of war to be seen. The fields
[2:32] are newly plowed, the shrubbery and the
[2:34] trees are green with early spring.
[2:37] It is a balmy, warm day.
[2:40] And then, we come to the outskirts of
[2:42] Yugoslavia's second largest city, Novi
[2:45] Sad.
[2:46] And all of a sudden, the war is there.
[2:50] This is a strange war, possibly even an
[2:53] unprecedented one, in that the two sides
[2:56] rarely, if ever, make direct contact.
[2:59] The people are caught in the middle.
[3:02] The combatants fight at long range.
[3:05] US pilots prepare for the bombing runs
[3:07] at bases and on aircraft carriers far
[3:10] from their targets.
[3:12] Serb anti-aircraft gunners fire, for the
[3:14] most part, blindly into the sky, usually
[3:17] at night, at planes that tend to fly out
[3:21] of their range.
[3:23] Until this war, there were always some
[3:25] occasions when armies clashed on the
[3:27] field of battle.
[3:29] Now, for the time being at least, they
[3:31] fight without seeing each other.
[3:34] To the degree that they see anything at
[3:36] all of one another, we in television
[3:39] news are the conduit.
[3:41] We show the Serbs the preparations that
[3:43] NATO forces make to bomb them. We show
[3:46] the rest of the world the results of
[3:48] those bombing raids.
[3:50] They do not know,
[3:53] neither do we which planes from which
[3:55] base or carrier dropped these bombs.
[3:58] But we asked Nightline correspondent
[4:00] David Marash to fly out to the USS
[4:02] Theodore Roosevelt where such raids are
[4:04] prepared and launched so that he and I
[4:08] could give you a sense of what it means
[4:11] to be at both ends of this war.
[4:32] The aircraft carrier Roosevelt is a
[4:34] platform full of weapons, but the
[4:37] veritable point of its spear is the
[4:40] FA-18 Hornet, the leading attack plane
[4:44] in the US Navy air.
[4:47] Over the next few minutes of television
[4:50] time, we'll compress about 2 and 1/2
[4:52] hours of real time, giving you what we
[4:55] think is the best picture yet of a real
[4:58] bombing mission over Serbia.
[5:00] With the cooperation of the Navy, we
[5:02] were allowed to place three tiny cameras
[5:05] inside the cockpit of one FA-18 with a
[5:08] fourth camera inside the cockpit of the
[5:10] pilot's wingman, and then to review the
[5:13] results with the pilot. Navy rules
[5:16] preclude any identification of pilot or
[5:18] target.
[5:19] >> All my main concern is to make sure they
[5:21] have a safe airplane that's ready to
[5:22] take me flying.
[5:24] Once I'm assured that, then I'm going to
[5:25] go through my own weapons system checks
[5:27] and make sure that I'm going to be able
[5:29] to properly put ordnance on the target
[5:31] that I'm given.
[5:32] >> Every sortie begins the same way,
[5:35] simultaneous run downs of mental and
[5:37] mechanical checklists to assure that
[5:40] both man and machine are perfectly
[5:42] primed for their mission.
[5:44] As he He his plane towards the flight
[5:46] line and nudges it to link up with the
[5:48] catapult. The pilot reruns his mental
[5:51] check several times over.
[5:53] >> Airplane is military power and we're
[5:55] doing one last check of the systems to
[5:57] make sure everything's working. All of
[5:58] our flight controls are working and
[6:00] everything looks good. Now we're getting
[6:02] a signal to go into afterburner
[6:05] with a nice hearty salute there and
[6:07] we're just waiting for the shuttle to
[6:08] fire.
[6:18] And now the shuttle's fired and we're
[6:19] off and away. In about a matter of a
[6:21] second and a half we go from zero to
[6:23] about 150 mile an hour in where one.
[6:25] >> Within seconds of being released from
[6:27] the four to five time G forces of the
[6:30] launch, the pilot is making yet another
[6:33] equipment check.
[6:34] >> I'm checking all my ordinance on board
[6:36] and making make sure it's ready to be
[6:37] delivered.
[6:39] My radar's up, my flares up and any
[6:40] countermeasure systems I may have on
[6:42] board is ready to go.
[6:43] >> Next to fact of life in today's naval
[6:46] aviation using his afterburners to
[6:48] achieve maximum propulsion off the
[6:51] carrier's short catapult deck
[6:53] necessitates a swift midair refueling.
[6:56] >> It's very delicate procedure. First of
[6:58] all, we need to find the airplane and
[7:00] find the find the tanker that we're
[7:01] going to take gas from. Today it's going
[7:03] to be a KC-135 that we're going after.
[7:06] Once we get there we need to round up
[7:07] make sure our wingman's coming along
[7:08] also and that we're ready to ready to
[7:10] receive gas.
[7:12] >> Aside from the moments when the pilot
[7:14] actually delivers his bomb to its
[7:15] target, refueling may be the most
[7:18] dangerous airborne part of the mission.
[7:20] A miscalculation of just a few inches
[7:23] can cause a dangerous collision.
[7:26] >> You can do all kinds of damage. As you
[7:27] can see here, we're approaching the
[7:29] basket right now with our probe out and
[7:31] our goal is to put the probe in the
[7:32] basket safely without letting it come in
[7:34] contact with our airplane. We have a
[7:36] very small
[7:37] margin of error to be able to do this.
[7:40] >> Once he and his wingman are refueled,
[7:42] the two of them contact an AWACS command
[7:45] and control plane somewhere out of
[7:47] sight. The AWACS provides this sortie's
[7:50] mission and targets and instructions on
[7:53] how to link up with its forward air
[7:55] control plane.
[7:57] >> He's going to give us where the target
[7:58] area is, a description of the target
[8:00] area, what kind of threats we may
[8:01] encounter in the target area, specific
[8:03] aim points, and also where there may be
[8:05] potential for collateral damage and how
[8:07] we can minimize that.
[8:08] >> The connection between lead man and
[8:10] wingman is intimate and intense. The
[8:13] primary task, to watch each other's back
[8:16] by keeping an eye out for enemy
[8:18] surface-to-air missiles or triple-A,
[8:21] anti-aircraft artillery. Both pilots go
[8:24] on high alert as their airplanes enter
[8:26] Serbian airspace.
[8:30] >> There is no reason at all why you should
[8:31] have heard of the thermoelectric plant
[8:34] at Obrenovac.
[8:35] Until this evening, neither had we.
[8:38] But apparently, it provides electricity
[8:40] to over half of Serbia.
[8:41] That is, it did until NATO bombers took
[8:44] it out tonight.
[8:45] At the hotel here in Belgrade, there is
[8:47] some power because they have their own
[8:49] generator, but for the most part,
[8:51] Belgrade is dark tonight. And so is Novi
[8:54] Sad and much of the rest of the country.
[8:57] Dark and so the early reports say,
[8:59] without the power to pump water.
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[11:28] >> I came, I saw,
[11:30] I widened.
[11:45] >> By Monday afternoon, some of the power
[11:47] has been restored to Belgrade. We can't
[11:50] videotape anywhere without a police
[11:51] escort, so we asked to be taken to a
[11:54] site that has been bombed.
[11:56] Most of the sites that have been hit,
[11:58] the bridges, the Ministry of the
[11:59] Interior, even the Foreign Ministry,
[12:01] make strategic sense, but occasionally
[12:04] in Belgrade, you also find something
[12:06] like this.
[12:07] A civilian neighborhood where a rocket
[12:09] apparently did go astray.
[12:13] A neighbor tells me, "I was about 50 m
[12:16] away returning to my home.
[12:18] The airplane came from the south. I saw
[12:20] the rocket headed this way. It was far
[12:23] away, and I was sure it would hit at
[12:24] least a kilometer away, but
[12:26] surprisingly, it hit right here where we
[12:29] are."
[12:30] The rocket, he tells me, hit a cafe and
[12:33] a couple of private houses. So, does he
[12:36] accept that it it may have been a
[12:38] mistake that this area was hit?
[12:47] It's hard to know, he said. It could
[12:48] have been a mistake or it could have
[12:50] been intentional. It's hard to know what
[12:52] was in the pilot's mind at the time.
[12:57] The mission is assigned, the target
[12:59] designated. Now, a deadly game of bomb
[13:02] delivery and airplane defense.
[13:05] >> I can't go into specifics on what type
[13:06] of defenses
[13:08] what kind of defensive systems that we
[13:09] encountered today, but they're
[13:10] definitely out there, and they're
[13:11] definitely trying to counter us every
[13:13] time we come in.
[13:14] >> Early on, Serbian air defenses and even
[13:17] more bad weather limited NATO success,
[13:20] but for the past week, the skies have
[13:22] cleared, and bombing effectiveness has
[13:25] improved dramatically.
[13:28] >> We're approaching the target area here.
[13:30] I'm looking out the window to make sure
[13:31] that not only am I getting my sensors on
[13:33] to the target, but I'm getting my eyes
[13:35] on the target so I can visually identify
[13:37] the target and make sure that I'm going
[13:38] to put my bombs where they need to go.
[13:40] >> For his first attack, the pilot puts his
[13:42] plane into a roll, drops its nose, and
[13:45] prepares to fire not a bomb, but a
[13:48] missile called a Maverick, which will be
[13:50] laser guided to its target by the pilot
[13:53] of the mission's forward air control
[13:55] plane.
[13:55] >> As you can see, the the nose is coming
[13:57] up now and the the Maverick just came
[13:59] off the airplane. Now the the weapon's
[14:01] off, I'm going to take a look out the
[14:02] window here and uh make sure that the uh
[14:05] the weapon's tracking on the proper
[14:06] target. Make sure that I have the target
[14:08] area in sight, which I do. And uh now
[14:11] I'm going to be setting my uh setting my
[14:12] cockpit up for the next attack.
[14:14] Once again, I'm looking out to make sure
[14:16] I've got the target ID and I can see
[14:18] where the previous missile has impacted.
[14:20] I can see the the smoke plumes coming
[14:22] out. I've got my new weapon selected and
[14:24] now it's time to designate the target.
[14:26] Uh as I'm coming around, I'm setting the
[14:27] airplane up to make sure it's in the
[14:28] proper position, checking my wingman.
[14:31] I'm going to roll inverted here and
[14:32] actually point the airplane right
[14:33] towards the target area. Make sure that
[14:35] once again, a quick check out to make
[14:37] sure no uh we're not seeing any
[14:39] surface-to-air missiles being fired or
[14:40] any type of uh defenses out there that
[14:42] may uh
[14:44] damage my airplane. Once I get the plane
[14:46] in position, get the aim point on the
[14:47] target, then I'm going to release
[14:48] weapons and then I'm coming off target.
[14:50] >> This time our pilot is firing a
[14:52] laser-guided bomb, which he will control
[14:55] himself. This adds a familiar element to
[14:58] the coverage, the monochrome FLIR,
[15:01] forward-looking infrared camera. These
[15:04] next moments, as the F-18 dives to its
[15:06] lowest altitude of the flight, and the
[15:09] pilot locks his mind onto the weapon's
[15:12] guidance system, are the most dangerous
[15:14] of the mission.
[15:15] >> With the bomb, we're actually going to
[15:16] be right over the target area, as you
[15:17] see me roll in there. Uh now, what I'm
[15:19] doing is I'm concentrating 100% on
[15:21] making sure that that that bomb guides
[15:24] to the proper aim point. Right here, the
[15:25] bomb's already in flight and we're
[15:27] guiding the bomb into the target. Uh we
[15:29] are coming off target and now the bomb
[15:30] is ready to impact.
[15:32] Once the bomb's impacted, I'm ready to
[15:34] go around for my next attack.
[15:36] Here we go. We're setting up the
[15:37] airplane for the third uh for the third
[15:38] attack. You can see the flare panning
[15:40] across the uh the countryside and uh
[15:42] once we go to a diamond here, you'll see
[15:44] we have the target designated.
[15:46] >> The point of the exercise is to strike
[15:48] three different aim points within the
[15:50] target area, an industrial complex
[15:52] inside Serbia.
[15:54] >> We've determined our aim point. We have
[15:56] the have our flare pointed at the aim
[15:58] point and now we're just waiting for
[15:59] weapons release. Once uh weapons release
[16:02] is off, now once again, uh coming off
[16:04] target, getting back, trying to uh
[16:06] minimize our threat exposure, and
[16:07] guiding our weapon to the proper aim
[16:09] point. If we look real closely, you can
[16:11] actually see the explosion on this
[16:12] particular one there in the background.
[16:15] >> With satisfaction at going three for
[16:18] three, our pilot and wingman head home,
[16:21] pausing briefly to check all the angles
[16:24] of each other's planes for any possible
[16:26] damage incurred on the mission.
[16:29] He's okay, I'm okay, and now all that's
[16:32] left is the always harrowing recovery,
[16:35] landing on the deck of the Roosevelt.
[16:38] >> We're approaching the aircraft carrier
[16:39] at about 150 mph and we're going to come
[16:41] to a stop in a couple hundred feet. So,
[16:44] I definitely throw this forward in our
[16:45] straps and we're just hanging on there,
[16:46] hoping that it all works out for us.
[16:49] I think every landing on a carrier is
[16:50] surprise.
[16:52] You know, it's nothing you're going to
[16:53] ever get used to, but it's something
[16:55] that it sure is comforting to know that
[16:56] you've caught that wire and you're
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[20:02] >> That building over there, about 100 yd
[20:04] away, is a primary school. It was not
[20:07] damaged.
[20:08] But, this house was wiped out.
[20:10] Accidental? Almost certainly.
[20:13] Miraculously, the couple who lived here,
[20:15] the woman was 6 months pregnant,
[20:17] survived, and a neighbor told us they're
[20:19] both going to be all right.
[20:21] When you're on the ground, though, this
[20:23] is what is meant by collateral damage.
[20:26] >> 5 4 3
[20:30] NATO officials face questions.
[20:33] >> The day we arrived on the aircraft
[20:35] carrier Theodore Roosevelt, the lead
[20:37] story on the ship's own television news
[20:39] show was about a NATO bombing error that
[20:42] had caused almost two dozen civilian
[20:44] deaths in a suburb of Belgrade.
[20:48] Given that watching television is one of
[20:50] the Roosevelt's most universal leisure
[20:52] time activities, awareness of the
[20:54] coverage of so-called collateral damage
[20:57] is high and often highly resented.
[21:01] >> The media always is
[21:03] trying to find fault with with us making
[21:05] mistakes. You know, that's a bother. I
[21:08] mean, we're out here doing our job. We
[21:09] do the best we can with what we got. And
[21:12] the media's constantly nitpicking at
[21:14] what we're doing.
[21:14] >> It's hard to deal with this this, you
[21:16] know,
[21:17] there's nothing we could have done about
[21:19] it.
[21:21] >> Among members of the Roosevelt's
[21:23] ordnance crews, the people who actually
[21:25] assemble and rig the bombs that can go
[21:28] astray, errors and the unintended deaths
[21:31] associated with them are unpopular
[21:34] topics for discussion.
[21:36] >> Things just happen.
[21:39] Bombs miss their targets. Not often, but
[21:41] they do.
[21:42] >> You're involved in combat. You know,
[21:43] this is about destroying things and
[21:47] that's an unfortunate part of it.
[21:49] >> The man in charge of all the Roosevelt's
[21:51] flight operations,
[21:55] the CAG, as he is known, firstly
[21:57] expresses his regrets over civilian
[21:59] casualties and then speaks more freely
[22:02] about how his air crews work to avoid
[22:05] them.
[22:06] >> I can tell you that we do everything
[22:08] within our power to ensure that we have
[22:10] the right target, that it's a military
[22:12] target, and that we can put our bombs on
[22:15] target. And that uh
[22:17] if the air crew feels that he can't do
[22:20] that, he can't identify the target, he's
[22:22] not sure that he can guide to the target
[22:23] for various reasons, then he's directed
[22:26] not to drop. And we have done that
[22:28] routinely.
[22:29] >> The NATO war against Yugoslavia is a
[22:31] strange one to fight and to report
[22:35] because no matter how busy or intense it
[22:37] gets here on the flight deck, the real
[22:40] war always remains somewhere over the
[22:43] horizon.
[22:46] In the Roosevelt's sick bay, for
[22:48] example, the ship's medical officer,
[22:50] Lieutenant Suzanne Green, checks her
[22:52] daily roster for ailments and finds
[22:55] >> everything from acne to minor um
[22:59] orthopedic injuries. Let's see.
[23:02] Um colds, flus.
[23:07] Muscle strains.
[23:08] >> In short, almost everything but wounds
[23:10] of war. But she says after almost a
[23:13] month of wartime duty, she and her
[23:15] fellow doctors are seeing indications of
[23:18] stress.
[23:19] >> We have had an increase in the number of
[23:20] patients seeing our psychiatrist,
[23:22] psychologist, excuse me.
[23:24] We've also
[23:25] just a lot of more a lot more injuries.
[23:27] People who get a little more careless, a
[23:29] little tired,
[23:31] a little fatigued.
[23:34] >> On the chow line, one food worker says
[23:36] she's been seeing the same signs.
[23:39] >> Sometimes you can tell by the way some
[23:40] people come through the galley line.
[23:42] They're real dirty and
[23:44] they're real tired and they look real
[23:46] worn out.
[23:47] >> We are seeing some levels of stress, but
[23:49] more so
[23:50] what we really worry about is a
[23:53] level of complacency.
[23:55] >> The Roosevelt's commanding officer is
[23:56] Captain David Bryant.
[23:58] >> As people out on the flight deck get
[24:00] used to the jobs, they're doing the same
[24:01] thing over and over again,
[24:03] doing the same thing with aircraft, live
[24:05] ordnance, launching the aircraft off,
[24:07] recovering them.
[24:09] They
[24:10] It's very easy to start forgetting the
[24:12] hazards that are out there because as
[24:14] soon as they start getting complacent
[24:16] about it, that's when we when we hurt
[24:18] people out on our deck.
[24:19] >> Fighting off the routine is routine for
[24:22] any long-term military assignment. But
[24:25] what can make fighting the war from the
[24:27] Roosevelt hard to put into high gear is
[24:30] the remoteness of the battlefield. As
[24:32] Commander Philip Logan, the gun boss of
[24:35] the Roosevelt's ordnance teams, puts it.
[24:37] >> We keep saying it's a war, you know, the
[24:39] admiral says we're in a war.
[24:41] I don't know if it feels like a war.
[24:43] We
[24:44] We don't see what's going on. The
[24:46] pilots, to them I'm sure it's a war.
[24:48] They're the ones that are getting shot
[24:49] at. They're the ones that actually
[24:50] dropping the weapons. Us back here,
[24:53] we're sort of removed from the uh the
[24:56] theater uh a little bit.
[24:58] Uh it's it's a little bit different
[25:00] feeling.
[25:02] >> The ultimate aim of every military
[25:04] commander has long been to win big and
[25:06] pitch a shutout. Achieve victory without
[25:09] any losses. Today, what was once a dream
[25:12] is not just a military possibility, but
[25:15] a political mandate. The standoff
[25:17] capabilities of today's weapons like the
[25:20] Roosevelt with its ability to deliver
[25:22] death and destruction hundreds of miles
[25:24] away while staying safely out of range
[25:27] of the enemy shape self-protective
[25:30] military tactics and increase political
[25:33] pressures to accept limited victories.
[25:37] I'm Dave Marash for Nightline on board
[25:39] the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.
[25:42] And I'll be back with a closing thought
[25:45] in a moment.
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[28:39] Late word tonight from Kansas and
[28:40] Oklahoma where a pack of tornadoes have
[28:42] killed at least 30 people, left hundreds
[28:45] more injured, and demolished hundreds of
[28:46] homes. One of the tornadoes may have
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[29:00] people. A separate tornado watch will be
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[29:11] Some final thoughts now from Belgrade
[29:13] and Nightline's Ted Koppel.
[29:18] >> The fact is that if you live here in
[29:20] Belgrade and you've been told that all
[29:21] those atrocity reports about Kosovo were
[29:23] just lies and NATO propaganda,
[29:26] the nightly air raids loom a lot larger
[29:28] in your life.
[29:30] This is where the power's out. This is
[29:32] where your neighbor's house was
[29:33] destroyed.
[29:35] In this part of Belgrade, it's not hard
[29:37] to see NATO as the aggressor.
[29:40] You'll hear a lot more about that
[29:41] tomorrow. That's our report for tonight.
[29:44] I'm Ted Koppel in Belgrade for all of us
[29:46] here at ABC News. Good night.
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