Скачать или смотреть WRAP Tropical storm pounds Jamaica, Cayman Islands

(30 Aug 2008)
Gordon Town, Jamaica - 29 August 2008
1. Zoom out road blocked by trees and branches knocked down by storm
2. Various of flood water running down stream
3. Mid of Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding touring affected area
4. Residents looking at flood water
5. Close of water
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Bruce Golding, Jamaican Prime Minister:
"We know that there has been significant damage to infrastructure. We know there has been some loss of homes, largely due to flooding, not so much to wind damage. We have to try to get a preliminary assessment of that. The shelters are up and running, the shelters are open, we are ensuring that supplies are made available."
7. Wide of house knocked over by landslide
8. Close-up of house
9. Wide of houses that remain standing on cliff
10. Army vehicle attempting to reach cut off areas
August Town, Jamaica - 29 August 2008
11. Zoom out of welcome sign
12. Residents by river
13. Close-up of river
14. Travelling shot of flooded street
15. Pan of city with rain and wind
Georgetown, Cayman Islands - 29 August 2008
16.Various of palm trees swaying with wind
17. Exterior of shelter set up for evacuees
18. Entrance of shelter
19. Sign reading: (English) "No stoves, No Mattress, No weapons."
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Eleanor Rose, resident:
"We are hoping and praying to God be the glory that, you know, we will be ok, with good preparation and the mercy of God. We are just going to hope for the best."
21. Various of residents filling out paperwork inside shelter
22. Family with small child inside shelter
23. Close of child
24. Various tracking shots of rains and wind in streets of Georgetown
STORYLINE:
Deadly Gustav regained hurricane force as it roared across the Caribbean on Friday, and on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, forecasters said for the first time there's a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed at least by tropical-storm-force winds.
Gustav ripped off roofs, downed power lines and pounded rain into Jamaica on Friday, triggering landslides and flooding and causing at least four deaths, before moving out to sea on Friday. That raised Gustav's overall toll to 71 lives after earlier deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Two people were killed in Gordon Town and two others in St. Thomas, an emergency management office spokesman said.
No details were immediately available.
After surveying damage in Gordon Town, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding told reporters there had been "significant damage to infrastructure".
"We know there has been some loss of homes, largely due to flooding, not so much to wind damage. We have to try to get a preliminary assessment of that," he said.
"The shelters are open, we are ensuring that supplies are made available," the prime minister added.
Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it ploughed towards Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a build-up that could take it to the US Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm.
As residents were evacuated from their homes in Georgetown, Cayman Islands, to stay in government shelters, local resident Eleanor Rose told AP Television "we are hoping and praying to God be the glory that, you know, we will be ok, with good preparation and the mercy of God. We are just going to hope for the best."
Well-heeled tourists fled Cayman hotels by air, while Katrina victims in Mississippi - on the third anniversary of the storm - were told to evacuate from emergency cottages and trailers beginning this weekend.
Officials in Cuba, next on Gustav's track, said they were preparing evacuations.

Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...