We have a developing story now on CBS2. Well, we are just days away from TV's biggest night. Thanks for joining us. I'm Suzanne Rico and welcome to CBS2 News. For eight years, I dragged myself out of bed at 3 a.m. To anchor the news in Los Angeles. L.A. landmark closed for almost a decade. It's back on track. With a big cup of coffee on set, I worked my way through a two-hour live broadcast

of local and national stories, traffic, and weather.

Let's get your marathon forecast, because it is Sunday.

It was usually pretty light stuff.

This was the morning show, after all.

But in March of 2003, that changed.

My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military

operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.

The invasion began with 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles, launched at Iraq from battleships in the Persian Gulf.

These are pictures via video phone, thus they're a little bit blurry, but this is somewhere in Baghdad.

You can see there on the left of your screen, an explosion, black smoke rising into the sky.

Our news banner read, America at war.

Now, CBS2 News at 5 a.m.

And in the studio, I wasn't sleepy anymore.

Dramatic pictures coming out of Baghdad this morning.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was off to an astonishing start. Jogganah has definitely begun.

It's hard-stopping.

When these bombs fall, they send some kind of shockwaves through the air.

And because coalition troops used mainly high-tech weapons,

they suffered few casualties.

Not so for the Iraqis.

Iraqi hospitals at capacity, not being able to take any more people because of the mass

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