now reporting from new york, peter jennings. >> i'm peter jennings. good evening again.british, and to some extent the french, the saudi and the kuwaiti air force has done to their country in the last several hours. some of the very early reports were that the missile sites in the northwest corner of iraq which were in a position to launch scud missiles which could have reached israel were taken out very early on. that was israeli intelligence, very early on that that went down pretty quickly. everything else appears to have been suppressed. though we are reminded constantly that it may take many attacks on a number of these targets, so there is a watch word of caution waiting for bomb damage estimates this morning. >> we also have now a package that has been put together by the itn correspondent, a british correspondent by the name of brent sadler. we have that report now on last night's bombing raid over iraq. specifically, over baghdad. let's take a look at that. >> reporter: baghdad's lights were still blazing when the strike planes from "desert storm" found their fi

peter jennings used to tease me that i look like a complete dork. i'm too bad, i'm wearing it wherever i go. and i think you just have to have your own rules about what you'll do. in afghanistan now we have security. in fact, i will take some credit for that because a couple years ago we were staying at a hotel there and we started going back and forth to bag ram, which isn't the safest drive, just by ourselves. and we got stopped once by some police which was a little nerve racking and i remember calling our foreign editor saying we should not be traveling along these roads by ourselves. so through experience you try to get better at that. i don't think -- charlie, i love hearing him say this but he won't send people who have no war experience to war zones. after bob was hurt, i said to abc, don't -- and bob was experienced, but don't send people who have no experience. and they were like anything could happen. but if you're a in a humvee, you'll know what questions to ask. if you're with people not doing the right thing, you'll know that. you just

inaudible] >> a lot of people in this business -- i read somewhere where you were talking about -- peter jennings did not graduate from college. brian williams did not drop out of college. >> it is a much harder way to go. it is stupid. i do not think it would work at all anymore. life experience is fantastic. i have so few hours to finish my degree and i dropped out. it was a stupid. i tried to see if i could possibly get my degree. they basically said that the requirements have changed and i would have to come back and take more classes. i said that this would not be happening. i asked if i could teach a few glasses. i did not mean to be arrogant. i did not need to be -- one of the points that i really wanted to make with those kids is that they have to bridge between the civilians in the military. that is unique. the military has to stay in touch with the civilian world and the civilians have to stay in touch with the military. >> back to the university of utah. how many hours to to have left to do? >> i think i have 12 hours. now it has changed to two years. they were following those rules an

he didn't graduate from challenge and peter jennings, so why is everyone spending all of this money going to college and have a job like yours. >> i say to my children or anyone else, it's a much harder way to go. and stupid, and wouldn't work at all combam anymore. life experience is fantastic. i had so few hours to finish degree and i dropped out and it was stupid. but i tried in this last year to try to get my degree. and i tried everything and the communications department. and they said, sorry, the requirements have changed. you have to come back and take classes, and i thought, this will not be happening. can i just teach a couple of classes. i don't want to be arrogant. but no ma'am, we are following the rules. and norwich is a tremendous university and half cadets. and i see in the field they have to bridge between the civilians and the military. and that university is unique. the military has to stay in touch with the civilian world and the civilians have to stay in touch with the military. >> i have to go back to the university of utah. how many hours left? >> i think i had 12 h

here's our coverage from "world news tonight" with peter jennings from our abc news vault. >> "challengerottle up. >> reporter: the space shuttle "challenger" is destroyed just a little more than one minute after lift-off. >> 1:16, velocity 2900 -- >> reporter: all seven astronauts on board are killed. president reagan has declared a week of mourning for the seven astronauts. five men and two women who lost their lives on their way into space this morning. we begin at cape canaveral with with abc's john quinones. >> reporter: they gathered for what turned out to be their last meal at 6:48 this morning. the ceremonial breakfast. for months they trained together. astronaut allison from hawaii, the star of this mission, new hampshire school teacher christa mcauliffe, mission commander dick scobee, pilot michael smith, astronauts judith resnik and ronald mcnair. and payload specialist gregory jarvis. lift-off was scheduled for 9:38 this morning. again, there were problems. a hard freeze overnight left ice on the launch pad. a two-hour delay. and then nasa discovers a faulty fire detector on b

peter jennings had gone the year before and then bob woodruff. then in my child's mind he said, "mom, i do not want you to be an anchor any more. to him, that was how i was being safe. on the other hand i have done things i know i should not have done. i went into the valley when the taliban was controlling huge portions of that. as a woman, i stood out like crazy. you walk two feet and they know you are an american. that was the moment where i thought i really needed to do this because no one had done it. we did it very quickly. i got out when we got to the car. i interviewed a few people than we drove about 120 m.p.h. are there. in terms of body armor, i always wore body armor. peter jennings years to come and i looked like a complete dork in the helmand. i think you just have to have your own rules. in afghanistan there is security. i will take some credit for that because a couple of years ago we were staying at a hotel there and started going back and forth. we got stopped once by afghan police which was a little nerve wracking enough rememb