Summary

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:06 -:09 <pi>** quick</pi>
Lexi Lindsey
Asheville Resident

:28 -:43
Gary O’Dell
Sharing Oxygen Tanks with Neighbor

:55 -1:14
Michelle Coleman
Executive Director, Asheville Dream Center

1:21 -1:30
Alejandre Fuerte
Asheville Resident

2:02 - 2:07
Josh Harrold
Black Mountain City Manager

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THE DEVASTATING PICTURES COMING OUT OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS - JUST MAKE YOUR HEART SINK.
RIGHT NOW—AMERICANS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN TENNESSEE ARE IN DESPERATE NEED OF HELP AFTER HURRICANE HELENE UNLEASHED FLOODING AND LANDSLIDES
THE BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN REGION IS UNRECOGNIZABLE AND AT LEAST 47 PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN NORTH CAROLINA .
THAT DEATH TOLL IN NORTH CAROLINA IS EXPECTED TO RISE, BECAUSE SOME SMALL TOWNS—ARE ESSENTIALLY GONE.
CNN’S ISABEL ROSALES IS SPEAKING WITH RESIDENTS WHO ARE SHARING MEDICAL SUPPLIES...

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((NATPOP)) volunteer workers shouting
LINES OF CARS..IN ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA ... WAITING.
"It's been rough. It's hard to find gas. No electricity, hard to talk to our family. It’s rough. Hard seeing the city like this."
SOME FAMILIES TELL CNN THEY’VE RUN OUT OF DRINKING WATER IN THE HARD HIT WESTERN AREA OF THE STATE
AND WITHOUT ELECTRICITY – THEIR FOOD IS ROTTING.
((NATPOP)) volunteer workers shouting
GARY O’DELL IS SHARING EVERYTHING HE’S GOT.
HIS HOME WITH HIS DAUGHTER WHO LOST IT ALL TO THE CATASTROPHIC FLOODS ...
AND EVEN LIFE-SAVING *OXYGEN* TANKS, WITH HIS NEIGHBOR.
Gary O’Dell, Sharing oxygen tanks with neighbor My next-door neighbor ran out of oxygen – he’s in worse shape than I am // That’s my problem. I’ve got lung cancer now, too. You don’t realize, oxygen is very important.
NON-PROFITS TEAMING UP TO SERVE 2,000 RESIDENTS ... IN THE FIRST FOUR HOURS.
((NATPOP))
*THIS* IS ONE OF THE FIRST SEMI-TRUCKS FULL OF DESPARETELY NEEDED SUPPLIES -- TO ARRIVE IN ASHEVILLE.
Michelle Coleman, executive director, the Asheville Dream Center This is the most devastating thing I've ever seen in her whole city. (crying) // I think that the loss of life, the fact that if you don't have cash, you can't get anything. We've gone to stores, waters out, ice is out, people slept overnight at gas stations like I feel like we've never seen this before.
ALEJANDRA FUERTE FORCED TO WALK TO GET HELP
SHE NEEDS BABY DIAPERS FOR HER GRANDCHILD
Alejandre Fuerte ROSE-PLAY ALL SPANISH UNDER--ISABEL WILL TRACK HER SOT
We’re not doing well ... SAID ALEJANDRA *cries* it made me so heartbroken to see everything so destroyed.
OUTSIDE OF ASHVILLE ... IT’S EVEN MORE WAITING
IT’S *HOURS* OF WAITING ... FOR GAS ... AT THE FEW PUMPS THAT ARE STILL RUNNING
CNN FLEW BY HELICOPTER ... WITH A NON-PROFIT SURVEYING INACESSIBLE TOWNS .. BADLY IN NEED OF AID.
HEAVY TREES AND DOWNED POWER LINES ARE BLOCKING MAJOR ROADWAYS --- HAMPERING THE DELIVERY OF BADLY NEEDED SUPPLIES.
AN OVERTURNED SEMI-TRUCK LAYING UPSIDE DOWN IN THE RIVER....AND NUMEROUS LANDSLIDES ALL SPOTTED FROM ABOVE
((NATPOP))
BLACK MOUNTAIN CITY MANAGER JOSH HARROLD SAYS IT COULD TAKE YEARS TO GET OVER THIS DEVASTATION
Josh Harrold, Black Mountain City Manager It's catastrophic. Black Mountain may never look the same again. (Plz Dont cover cut with a dissolve--please L cut with destruction video It's just total destruction.
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--KEYWORD TAGS--
WEATHER HURRICANE STORM TROPICAL STORM SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA