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PERU: PRESIDENT FUJIMORI TOURS REGIONS HIT BY EL NINO
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Peru's president Alberto Fujimori has been touring rural regions worst hit by the El Nino weather phenomena this week.
Heavy rains and flooding have left 28 people dead, 36 injured, ten reported missing and thousands more...
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A winter storm has workers at the world's busiest airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International, making extra preparations as the storm moves east. (Nov. 25)
Forecasters say freezing rain is possible in parts of the north Georgia mountains as a massive storm makes its way southeast.
Workers at the world's busiest airport, Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International, are making extra...
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WRAP Crisis a lucrative business for some ADDS preps for dry season
Bangkok - 9 November 2011
1. Top shot of bus stopping on flooded street
2. Close-up of passengers looking through open windows of bus
3. Top shot of people walking through water and getting on bus
4. Close-up of road lane marking under...
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As the 2007 hurricane season approaches, some New Orleans residents say the city is struggling to control a problem that plagued the region before Hurricane Katrina hit: crime.
HEADLINE: Is New Orleans secure for hurricane season?
CAPTION: As the 2007 hurricane season approaches, some New Orleans residents question whether the city is prepared for another disaster. (April 5)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
"The city were...
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Residents in Punjab struggling to cope in aftertmath of deadly rainy season
1. Various of children swimming in receding flood water
2. Remains of collapsed house, household items lying around
3. Wide of damaged houses, children in foreground, tent behind
4. Flood damage
5. Homeless camp, possessions lying...
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Morales tours disaster zone, US ambassador hands out aid
1. President Evo Morales standing next to helicopter with Brazilian soldiers (in Bolivia to help with the floods)
2. Various aerials of flooded areas in Trinidad
3. Helicopter on airstrip after landing
4. Morales descending from...
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Markets traders in Cairo worried seasonal profits will be down
Market traders in Cairo say shoppers are being put off buying the traditional delicacies eaten for Ramadan because prices have rocketed due to instability in the region.
At the same time this year's surfeit of dates means the traders'...
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Displaced people say it is too unstable to go home but struggle as aid in short supply
People displaced from their homes by the fighting in South Sudan say they are too afraid to return, even though South Sudanese troops have been gaining ground against rebel forces in recent days.
More and more cities are falling back...
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UNHCR delegates visit Sudan refugees
1. Aerial shot from UN plane of Iridimi refugee camp, near Iriba, in eastern Chad
2. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers arriving at camp
3. Lubbers walking through camp
4. Sudanese refugee women in the camp
5. Close-up of...
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Safe housing still elusive for many, 2 months after quake
Port-Au-prince - March 11 2010
1. Wide of Red Cross prototype houses being installed, workers in front
2. Mid of French Red Cross instructor explaining to Haitian how to build a house, showing him a manual
3. Close up of temporary...
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The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA.
HEADLINE: World's oceans warmest on record
CAPTION: The world's oceans this summer are hotter than they have ever been and it could feed hurricanes and harm coral, according to NOAA. (Aug. 21)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
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VENEZUELA: NATIONAL EPIDEMIC ALERT ANNOUNCED
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Venezuela's government has declared a national state of alert to prevent the outbreak of an epidemic of dengue.
The move comes in the midst of the country's rainy season which has already caused heavy floods and...
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USA: LOS ANGELES: SEA LIONS ARE LATEST VICTIMS OF EL NINO
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Sea lions have become the latest victims of the El Nino effect which is being blamed for the relentless storms that have pounded California's coastline.
Deprived of squid and other nutrition due to the unnaturally warm ocean...
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Crisis a lucrative business for some; preps for dry season
Bangkok - 9 November 2011
1. Top shot of bus stopping on flooded street
2. Close-up of passengers looking through open windows of bus
3. Top shot of people walking through water and getting on bus
4. Close-up of road lane marking under...
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BRAZIL: HAZE HAMPERS ATTEMPTS TO COMBAT AMAZON FOREST FIRES
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A smoky haze hampered fire fighting attempts on Monday to combat a three-month-old fire in Brazil's northern Amazon region.
Four Argentine helicopters were forced to cancel fire fighting efforts just outside the Yanomami...
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Cayman Islands brace for Hurricane Wilma
1. Wide of Emergency Operations Centre
2. Close-up British and Cayman Island flags
3. Donnie Ebanf, Chairman National Hurricane Committee
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donnie Ebanf, Chairman of the National Hurricane Committee
Q: "Obviously,...
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USA: EL NINO WEATHER PHENOMENON EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SPRING
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There's little relief in sight for storm-battered California.
The El Nino rogue current in the Pacific has been blamed - and U-S government officials say the weather phenomenon is expected to drag on through the spring.
"El...
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US troops prepare tent cities as hurricane season nears
1. Various of tent camp established in the wake of January's earthquake
2. US soldiers arriving at camp and giving directions to workers
3. Camp residents working with US soldiers to install sewage system
4. Various of US soldiers...
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La Nina brings heavy rains, flooding several towns on Bolivia/Brazil border
Cobija, Pando department, Bolivia - 23 February 2012
1. Wide of flooded street
2. Zoom out from partially collapsed houses due to the rain and the floods
3. Collapsed house with bird on top
4. Woman with bucket on flooded street
5. Man...
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USA: EL NINO DIES OUT IN PACIFIC BUT LA NINA IS BORN IN ATLANTIC
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Scientists say the freak El Nino weather effect is over. But get ready for La Nina.
The latest data from the U-S space agency NASA shows dramatic drops in water temperatures of the Pacific Ocean.
But El Nino's end in the...
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Thousands of homes damaged in deadly floods
1. Wide of flooded street in neighbourhood on the outskirts of Bogota
2. Residents being evacuated in an inflatable boat
3. Emergency worker helping crying woman through floodwater after leaving her house
4. Emergency workers carrying...
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Seasonal rains trigger massive flooding in Indonesia
1. Tilt down from house to overflowing river
2. Pan of flooded area
3. Various of residents wading through waist-deep floodwater
4. Woman looking out of window
5. Close of food at food stall
6. Various of food seller serving customers at...
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FM Carr meets counterpart Surapong, comments on Myanmar aid
1. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr (glasses) arriving and shaking hands with Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul
2. Various of Carr and Surapong posing for cameras
3. Wide of bilateral meeting
4. Various of Carr and...
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UN Secretary General and World Bank president on climate change
1. Wide of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Robert Zoellick entering news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"As we stand before you today, the world...