Max Westerman, a reporter on the Dutch RTLnews was interviewed at the Convention center by the news anchors(?). Earlier in the day he and his crew took out a mother and her 4 week old baby. They bought clean clothes and milk for the baby and took them to a guest family where they were picked up by family members that evening. There was a lot of joy because they hadn't had contact with them for days but also sadness because they had to leave a sister and the grandparents behind.
There are two clips. The first is at the Convention center where he says are tens of thousands of people waiting for help, he compares the scene to the refugee camps in Darfur. He talks about the army turning up today but taking no one with them, he talks with parents and shows the covered bodies still lying there after days. When they have to leave they take Kennedy, her mother and her baby sister with them. http://www.rtl.nl/(channel=rtl4,progid=rtlnieuws,template=/actueel/rtlnieuws/video_template.html)/system/media/html/FFFFFF/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2005/week35/zaterdag_1930_beta_max.avi_plain.xml
And in the second they show the reunion and an interview. I translated it, not well but I hope you'll get the general idea:
Q You are driving in and out of the city. Why can't the family pick up their relatives? A "They would love to and it should be easy but they are kept out of the city. They are stopped from getting their dying family out by police cordons. The only reason we are getting into the city is because we have security with us. The roads are driveable so that cannot be the problem."
Q: Why don't all these people walk out of the city, why do they stay? A: "That is the most bizarre thing of this whole situation, they aren't allowed to leave. A lot of people told me that they tried to leave to the suburbs so they could get on the busses that are waiting for them. They were stopped from leaving the convention center by the heavily armed policemen and solders that are surrounding them."
Q Why are those cops and soldiers there? "They say to keep a lock-down(?) on all the violence. But honestly I have to say I haven't felt threatened or unsafe for a moment. Even in the Convention center where thousands of people are still dying under terrible conditions. I think that part of this situation has a lot to do with the extreme American obsession with security. The survivors are quarantined. They want to be absolutely certain nothing is going to happen when the buses come to get all these people. So for a lot of people they are going to come too late." http://www.rtl.nl/(channel=rtl4,progid=rtlnieuws,template=/actueel/rtlnieuws/video_template.html)/system/media/html/FFFFFF/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2005/week35/zaterdag_1930_max.avi_plain.xml
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Earlier in the day he and his crew took out a mother and her 4 week old baby. They bought clean clothes and milk for the baby and took them to a guest family where they were picked up by family members that evening. There was a lot of joy because they hadn't had contact with them for days but also sadness because they had to leave a sister and the grandparents behind.
There are two clips. The first is at the Convention center where he says are tens of thousands of people waiting for help, he compares the scene to the refugee camps in Darfur. He talks about the army turning up today but taking no one with them, he talks with parents and shows the covered bodies still lying there after days.
When they have to leave they take Kennedy, her mother and her baby sister with them.
http://www.rtl.nl/(channel=rtl4,progid=rtlnieuws,template=/actueel/rtlnieuws/video_template.html)/system/media/html/FFFFFF/components/actueel/rtlnieuws/miMedia/2005/week35/zaterdag_1930_beta_max.avi_plain.xml
And in the second they show the reunion and an interview.
I translated it, not well but I hope you'll get the general idea:
Q You are driving in and out of the city. Why can't the family pick up their relatives?
A "They would love to and it should be easy but they are kept out of the city. They are stopped from getting their dying family out by police cordons. The only reason we are getting into the city is because we have security with us. The roads are driveable so that cannot be the problem."
Q: Why don't all these people walk out of the city, why do they stay?
A: "That is the most bizarre thing of this whole situation, they aren't allowed to leave. A lot of people told me that they tried to leave to the suburbs so they could get on the busses that are waiting for them. They were stopped from leaving the convention center by the heavily armed policemen and solders that are surrounding them."
Q Why are those cops and soldiers there?
"They say to keep a lock-down(?) on all the violence. But honestly I have to say I haven't felt threatened or unsafe for a moment. Even in the Convention center where thousands of people are still dying under terrible conditions. I think that part of this situation has a lot to do with the extreme American obsession with security. The survivors are quarantined. They want to be absolutely certain nothing is going to happen when the buses come to get all these people. So for a lot of people they are going to come too late."
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