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Senate majority leader Bill Frist visits tsunami area
1. Various of helicopter landing
2. Various of Bill Frist, majority leader in the US Senate, and Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, leaving helicopter, getting into car
3. Frist and Landrieu arriving at refugee camp
4....
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Deployment of first tsunami detection buoy in Indian Ocean
Phuket - 30 November 2006
1. Wide shot of ship carrying tsunami detection buoy
2. Wide shot of tsunami detection buoy
3. Close-up of buoy
4. Reverse shot of buoy then pan to detection sensor and batteries
5. Close-up of cables and...
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Disabled childrens home destroyed, aid arrives
1. Clean up at Sambodhi House which looks after disabled people
2. Sign on building reading: Sambodhi House
3. More of clean up with volunteers and monks
4. Various of furniture being dried
5. Various of debris
6. Book on ground
7....
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Villagers in remote area desperate for clean water and food
1. Wide of beach with destruction
2. Wide of makeshift shelters amid destruction
3. Mid shot makeshift shelters
4. Mid shot man and girl
5. Two boys sit in shelter
6. Wide of area hit by tsunami
7. Wide people walk in front of damaged...
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Government promotes Cool Biz clothing to save energy
The Japanese government wants the country's suit-loving salarymen to be bold this summer.
Ditch the stuffy jacket and tie, and for the good of the country, go light and casual.
Japan's "Super Cool Biz" campaign kicked off on Wednesday...
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A team of NOAA scientists that monitors the largest water masses in the world for any signs of seismic activity says the recent series of terrifying natural disasters could signify the beginning of a new cycle of large earthquakes.
HEADLINE: Scientists in Hawaii: Tsunamis on the rise?
CAPTION: A team of NOAA scientists that monitors the largest water masses in the world for any signs of seismic activity says the recent series of terrifying natural disasters...
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EL SALVADOR: COUNTRY IS ON THE BRINK OF ECOLOGICAL COLLAPSE
Spanish/Nat
In El Salvador ecological devastation is turning parts of the once-lush country to desert, causing severe water shortage and making respiratory disease from air pollution the most common cause of death among children.
The...
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Protecting the world's historic monuments from earthquake
AP Television
Jerusalem - 3 March 2014
1. Wide Tower of David citadel fortress
AP Television
Jerusalem - 7 March 2014
2. Wide Tower of David
AP Television
Jerusalem - 3 March 2014
3. Various Tower of David minaret
4. Tilt up Tower of...
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In a crowded Seattle neighborhood, a plumbing contractor crew discovered the tusk of an ice age mammoth that died there 10,000 years ago. (Feb. 12)
In the crowded south Lake Union neighborhood where Amazon.com workers go out for espresso, an ice age mammoth died 10,000 years ago and remained until Tuesday, when a plumbing contractor crew uncovered its tusk.
It's the latest example...
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Bush uses radio speech to note tsunami aid
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"We have made an initial commitment of $350 million in aid. And those funds are being distributed promptly to organizations on the ground. Navy vessels, including the USS Abraham...
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Schroeder and Fischer comments
1. Interior of German chancellery, Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor and Joschka Fischer arrive
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (German) Gerhard Schroeder, Chancellor of Germany:
"The catastrophe in South East Asia is the worst in the history of...
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Reax as Japan nuclear crisis sparks debate over safety in EU
Berlin
1. Wide of German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arriving for a (party) press conference
2. SOUNDBITE (German) , Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister:
"We want to form an independent investigating commission with a task...
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Thailand- Smog caused by forest fires in Indonesia
The cloud of toxic smoke choking southern Thailand is getting
worse and government officals have warned people to stay indoors
as much as possible - but relief could soon be on it's way.
The smog, caused by massive forest fires in...
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WRAP Annan, Powell, regional leaders, statements
1. Pan of summit delegates during moment of silence for victims of earthquake and tsunami
2. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during moment of silence
3. US Secretary of State Colin Powell during moment of silence
4. Flags
5....
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WRAP President on Samoa and Indonesia disasters
1. Pan of US President Barack Obama walking to podium
2. Wide of Obama at podium
3. Cutaway photographers
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, United States President:
"On behalf of the American people, I want to, once again, extend my...
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False banana plants produce no fruit but can be a good source of food
1. Pan up of enset plant (false banana plant)
2. Wide of banana plants' drooping leaves
3. Close pan down from enset plants' leaf to pseudostem
4. Zoom in to banana's on banana plant
5. Medium shot farmer chopping leaves off enset...
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Horses and elephants seemingly sensed approaching tsunami
1. Various of mother with foal in stables (foal was born on day of tsunami and therefore named Tsunami after the storm)
2. Exterior of stables
3. Various of horses
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Wittaya Cholaparn, Laguna horseriding...
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Scenes from disaster zone, hospital, voxpop
1. Aerial of coastline
2. Aerial of harbour
3. Sunken boat in harbour
4. Aerial of sea wall near port
5. Various aerials of town with hundreds of people gathered
6. Aerial of Galle International Cricket Stadium (one of only two grounds...
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NASA images cast new light on dinosaur extinction
Cape Canaveral, Florida - 11 February 2000
1. Space Shuttle Endeavor launch for the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)
Animation
2. Animation depicting deployment of the SRTM's 60 meter mast antennae
U.S. - Recent
3. SOUNDBITE:...
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Fears of spread of disease amid devastation
Nagapatinam, Tamil Nadu
1. Wide of partially-destroyed street, people passing by
2. Various of bloated bodies recovered on Friday morning
3. Pan of pile overturned fishing boats on shore
4. Pool of sewage in street
5. Various of...
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Igloo photo-op, Japan FM, comment on finance reform, Haiti
1. Tracking shot of Inuit men pushing sledge loaded with building blocks of snow
2. Inuit man showing igloo to Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, zoom in, Flaherty crawls into igloo
3. Wide of Inuit woman opening meeting by lighting...
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WRAP Supplies arrive in disaster zone, Italian field hospital
Galle, 31 December 2004
1. Two World Food Programme lorries arriving at a refugee centre based in a mosque
2. Supplies being unloaded and brought into mosque
3. Refugees watching
4. Various of refugees receiving meals
5. Italian Field...
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Asean foreign ministers'' sympathies with Haiti, bites
1. Wide of the Furama resort
2. Mid of security guards
3. Cutaway of ASEAN logo reading:" Vietnam 2010"
4. Close of ASEAN flag
5. Mid of Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, ASEAN Foreign Ministers and officials walking to the...
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Relatives fly out as relief operation continues in US territory
Honolulu, Hawaii
1. Passengers boarding flight to American Samoa
2. Medium of Red Cross banner
3. Man talking to Red Cross worker
4. Close up man sitting in waiting area
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mulu Atutmata, whose mother was killed in...