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It's not that tonight's coverage lacks for dramatic effect. Shortly after Zero Hour, Charles Jaco's live report from Riyadh goes buzzing into static just as he's acknowledging that those are air raid warnings blowing in the background.

It later turns out to have been a drill.

Nonetheless, there are reports of multiple Scud firings against Saudi targets and of at least one missile fired toward Israel. At 7:20, Bill Redeker of ABC is online with Peter Jennings when the sirens wind up again. Peter gives his field man the option to go masked.