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How Continent-Sized Dust Storms Form
In the future, we may see more continent-sized dust storms like the one nicknamed Godzilla, which crossed the Atlantic ocean in 2020. And since then, researchers have been looking into what caused such a colossal storm. If we can predict...
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9 Weird Ways Animals Communicate
We all know ducks quack, dogs bark, and birds chirp, but that barely scratches the surface of all the amazing ways animals have devised to talk to each other!
PBS
Artists find inspiration in nature and history of Everglades National Park
Artists have long taken to the outdoors to do their work. Now, a new program, Artist in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE), puts a new emphasis on that important synergy. Jeffrey Brown visited Everglades National Park to see how artists are...
Curated Video
Gates visits India; says more Haiti relief needed, US to send more ships
1. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates walking to table
2. Close of cameraman
3. Wide of news conference
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Defence Secretary:
"As long as, more than two (m) million people in Haiti are still...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: BASEBALL STAR SOSA RECEIVES HERO'S WELCOME
Spanish/Nat
Baseball star Sammy Sosa received a hero's welcome in his native Dominican Republic on Tuesday.
Thousands of Dominicans - including President Leonel Fernandez - greeted the Chicago Cubs slugger at the capital's...
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Tropical storm leaves devastation in its wake GRAPHIC PIX
1. People wading through floodwaters which rush past homes, some of the homes have people on the roofs
2. Various of long lines of people wading through flooded water, carrying their belongings on their heads
4. People walking in...
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Opening arguments in Supreme Court over Guantanamo detainee
AP Television
1. Exterior of Supreme Court
2. People walking by Supreme Court
3. Statue outside Supreme Court - pull out to show crowds
++AUDIO OVERLAID WITH COURT SKETCHES - MUST COURTESY: Sketches by Ari Hennessey++
4. SOUNDBITE:...
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Sec of State with PM, US military
1. Official US airplane taxis through runway
2. US officials
3. Various shots of US Secretary of State Collin Powell exiting airplane and greeted by US and Haitian officials
4. Military security reinforcements
5. US Secretary of State...
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At least six injured after shootout at Dominican opposition party meeting
1. Supporters of former President Hipolito Mejia pulling down a tent outside the Dominican Revolutionary Party (DRP) headquarters after a melee erupted inside, man gesticulating to the camera ++INAUDIBLE SPEECH++
2. Mejia supporters...
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Memorial service for victims of floods that killed 1,400
1. Pan right of destroyed home
2. Medium shot of destroyed home
3. Wide shot of destroyed homes in river bed
4. Resident looking at destruction
5. Destroyed home
6. Pan left mourners at church service
7. Father Hector Martinez...
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Raul Castro tells official newspaper brother Fidel recovering
1. Wide Prado Avenue and Old Capitol Building in background
2. Wide traffic and Morro Castle in background
3. Medium small boats in water
4. Wide Morro Castle
5. Reverse shot man reading "Granma" newspaper with Raul's picture, headline...
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Hurricane Irene roars across the Bahamas archipelago
1. Medium of stop sign bent to the ground
2. Wide of palm trees shaking from wind and rains
3. Various driving shots of heavy wind and rains
4. Wide of fallen trees
5. Various of driving shots
6. Various of fallen trees
7. Wide of...
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Aruba prepares for Felix
1. High wide of driving rain and wind in city
2. Various of city in heavy rain
3. Various of police cars on city streets
4. Tilt down from palms blowing in wind
5. Various of wild seas
6. Setup of an official for the Forestry...
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Anti-government protesters demand resignation of President Martelly and PM Lamothe
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators filled Haiti's capital on Friday to call for the resignation of the island's president and prime minister.
Some demonstrators set tyres on fire in the streets of Port-Au-Prince and threw rocks...
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Rebel group denies involvement in disappearance of Spanish couple
1. Wide of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) delegation arriving for peace talks with the Colombian government
2. Media at FARC news conference
3. Wide of FARC delegation during news conference, Andres Paris, FARC negotiator,...
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US delegation cuts deal to sell food to Cuba
1. Conference room Hotel Nacional de Cuba
2. Media
3. Photographer
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gregory Estevane, President of Global Strategies:
"In identification of trading with Cuba, we have learned that Cuba represents a potential...
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A look ahead to the situation on the ground in Haiti on Sunday as relief efforts ramp up and the search for survivors continues.
HEADLINE: Haitians pray for aid, miracles
CAPTION: Haitians are going to church on Sunday to pray for help and more survivors from Tuesday''s massive earthquake. (Jan. 17)
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NY Mayor announces emergency team to be sent to Haiti
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. Cutaway of camera
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Bloomberg, New York City mayor:
"This program, hopefully, will not only do some good, maybe it will put back on everybody's radar screen that there...
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Clinton says talks are only path to Palestinian statehood
1. Wide of delegates in meeting room at UN General Assembly, zoom in to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton shaking hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba
2. Mid of Genba handing Clinton a photo of her husband, Bill...
SciShow
6 Ways Animals Prevent Epidemics
Humans aren’t the only ones who have to worry about epidemics: meet six other animals who take their own precautions to avoid getting sick! Chapters pathogens 0:40 vectors 1:15 VECTOR AVOIDANCE: BLUEBIRDS 2:19 social immunity 3:35...
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How African Dust Feeds Florida's Crops
Massive amounts of dust manage to travel all the way across the ocean, creating some powerful and surprising global effects!
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Football Disease, Moon Base Dreams, and the Deepest Vents Ever!
Hank breaks the news to you about your brain on football, the reality behind the latest moon-base plan, and an epic win -- and fail -- in the animal kingdom.
TED-Ed
TED-Ed: The dark history of bananas | John Soluri
In December 1910, the exiled former leader Manuel Bonilla boarded a borrowed yacht and set sail for Honduras in hopes of reclaiming power by whatever means necessary. Bonilla had a powerful backer: the notorious organization known...
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6 of the Coolest Things We've Found in Amber
Amber is amazing stuff! It can preserve organisms whole, and essentially freeze them in time, and the specimens we’ve found in it so far range from amazing to downright bizarre. Here are six of the coolest things we’ve found trapped in...