1970s: cacti plants in flash flood. Cactus flower. Tortoise eats cactus flower. Root system in desert plants. Spines on cactus plant

BARS. BRIEF INTV/W A POLICE CHIEF (NDS) WHO TALKS ABOUT THE FLOODING IN BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. CR:75. VS OF THE FLOOD WATERS. VS OF HOMES BURIED UNDER WATER. VS OF RESIDENTS IN A BOAT. VS OF PARTIALLY BURIED ROAD SIGNS-- "RIVER ROAD", "DEAD END". MORE VS OF SUBSTANTIALLY BURIED HOMES. INTVS/W A RESIDENT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. (HE TALKS ABOUT THE 1977 FLOOD AND THE NEED FOR A WALL TO KEEP THE WATERS AT BAY). REVERSALS. MORE VS OF THE FLOODED AREA. VS OF TWO KIDS AND A DOG IN A BOAT. SU. (MORE VS OF THE FLOODED AREA. BLANK. CI: DISASTERS: FLOODS. TRANSPORTATION: WATER, BOATS. JUSTICE: POLICE.

<p><pi><b>This package/segment contains third party material. Unless otherwise noted, this material may only be used within this package/segment.</b></pi></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Tuesday</p>\n<p>Hastings, MN</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Steve Mollick</p>\n<p>Hastings</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Ryan Johnson</p>\n<p>Hastings</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>"Living on this river its the greatest place to live, it really is" </p>\n<p>STEVE MOLLICK HAS LIVED IN HIS HOME ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER SINCE 1977</p>\n<p>" This is normal, yep"</p>\n<p>HIS LOW LYING HOME IS PRONE TO SPRING FLOODING SOMETHING HES EXPERIENCED AT LEAST 8 TIMES</p>\n<p>" It's a lot of clean up when it comes into your house, its a lot of work drying it out, it takes about all summer to get it back together but its worth it"</p>\n<p>DESPITE THE RISK OF MAJOR FLOODING THIS YEAR STEVES NOT TOO WORRIED BECAUSE HE HAS A PLAN.</p>\n<p>" We pull everything out of the basement. the furnace, the hot water heater the washer and dryer and we put it all up in the garage"</p>\n<p>THE WATER HAS NEVER REACHED THEIR MAIN LEVEL... BUT IT'S GOTTEN CLOSE</p>\n<p>"It was over top of those clothesline poles, it was 5 feet in the basement!" </p>\n<p>IN PAST YEARS, HES MOVED LOGS OUT OF HIS YARD... AND EVEN WELCOMED NEW HOUSE GUESTS</p>\n<p>"I opened up the basement door and a barge came by and made a wake and in it went.</p>\n<p>So all spring until the flood waters went down we had minnows down there"</p>\n<p>DURING THE FAMOUS FLOOD OF 1965...</p>\n<p>Supposedly there was kids fishing in the streets</p>\n<p>THE WATER FLOODED DOWNTOWN HASTINGS, WHERE RYAN JOHNSON NOW OWNS A BUSINESS.</p>\n<p>It just concerns me that theres so much snow up north thats still up there thats waiting to melt and come down the rivers and</p>\n<p>come down here" </p>\n<p>WHETHER IT FLOODS OR NOT -</p>\n<p>STEVE SAYS ITS JUST A WAY OF LIFE, ON THE RIVER.</p>\n<p>The city will come down and offer their help and we're prepared.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>MINNESOTA WATER MINNESOTA SPRING FLOODING </p>\n<p></p>

Part 3 of 3 - Rescue Impossible - 1977 Airport ’77 featurette - Jack Lemon, Jerry Jameson, James Stewart, William Frye, Lee Grant - disaster film - large section of plane in water - fever inside control room - helicopter - zodiac enters ship in ocean - interview with James Stewart, Jack Lemon - divers in water - flooding plane in ocean - door opens - panic - US navy ship platform

Two decades ago a wall of water crashed into the plaza, a section south of downtown Kansas City, killing more than two dozen people. Today, the memories of that flood are still fresh for those who were there. Bob Werly talked to some who were present that night twenty years ago.

1970s: cactus plants in desert biome. Arid biome. Snow on cactus plants. Cactus plants in flash flood in desert. Melting ice on plant

<p><b>**ATTENTION AFFILIATES: BELOW IS A ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION PROVIDED BY AN AUTOMATED SERVICE. THIS MAY NOT BE EXACT. PLEASE CHECK FOR ACCURACY BEFORE TAKING TO AIR.**</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Friday</p>\n<p>Westlake, California</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>Mayor Francis Suarez </p>\n<p>(R) Miami</p>\n<p>--alt--</p>\n<p>Mayor Francis Suarez </p>\n<p>(R) Presidential Candidate</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--ROUGH LOG--</b></p>\n<p>Well, good morning, Poppy. I think the reason why is because mayors are closest to the people and we deal with the real problems that people care about. We deal with crime, we deal with homelessness, we deal with mental health issues. These are the issues that people deal with and face on a daily basis. Um In the city of Miami, we reduced taxes to the lowest level in history and we saw double digit growth. We invested in our police department and we had the lowest homicide rate per capita since nine, 1964. I was born in 1977. Ok. This year we're 40% below that number where we're seeing a crime spike throughout the country. And then the last thing is we focused on prosperity. We're number one in the nation in wage growth and we have the lowest unemployment in America. And we did that by focusing on the next generation's economy. That's what we have to do as a country. We have to create prosperity, which leads to things like happiness, which also has great mental health outcomes. Well, I think the skills that you need to be a president. Uh uh don't change based on the number of zeros, right? So uh the courage that it takes, for example, to balance a budget, uh the courage that it takes to make radical change in your city so that you create prosperity and you give educational opportunity to everyone that has nothing to do with the number of zeros or the number of employees that you manage. Uh being able to inspire people, being able to uh lead an organization, uh whether it's 4500 employees that we have in the city of Miami or 450,000 or 4.5 million. It really doesn't matter who you are and how you project yourself is what really matters. And so, uh unfortunately, uh I don't agree with the, with the former mayor on this one. You know, in Miami, we like to say the environment is the economy. Um We don't separate uh one from the other. We don't make it a dichotomy of one or the other. We don't pit them against each other. We need uh drinking water. It's an existential issue for us. So we need to make sure that our everglades are clean. Uh We, we have eco tourism in our bay. So we wanna make sure that our bay is healthy and yes, we have hurricane, we have dry day flooding and we have things called rain bomb. So we've invested in resiliency and making sure that we can adapt to those climatic events, that's just good policy. And I think by the way, we've gotten money from a Republican controlled state legislature. In fact, more than we've gotten so far from, from a Democrat controlled infrastructure bill. You know, abortion is an incredibly personal and deeply personal issue. I think in states like New York where they allow abortion up to birth, I think that's barbaric. Uh in Miami we have the fourth, it may not be the norm, but it, it is the case in some states. And so in Miami where we have the fourth largest public hospital in America, I've seen babies and incubators at 22 weeks. That's something you can't unsee. I'm pro life. Uh My wife is pro life. My three sisters are pro life. My mother's pro life, my parents met at a pro life rally. Um and, uh, you know, and, and my sister who has five kids, uh you know, had her fourth after knowing she was gonna have genetic abnormality. So I think this is a deeply personal and difficult decision. We don't give it enough time to discuss it. But yes, I would, I would, I would sign a 15 week ban because I think that that would save a tremendous amount of babies.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----</b></p>\n<p></p>

Part 1 of 3 - Rescue Impossible - 1977 Airport ’77 featurette - Jack Lemon, Jerry Jameson, James Stewart, William Frye, Lee Grant - disaster film - dam - bridge along top of dam - dam gives way - flooding plane on extreme descent - interior airplane: door opens, great winds blow - train falls off bridge - helicopter over ocean - man dives from copter - plan crashes low over ocean - plane pov: landing through snow at night

11/24/77 C0061229 - COLOR ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA: AFTERMATH OF CYCLONE AND FLOODS, LNC 88443 "CYCLONE A 'MATH" SHOWS: MS SMASHED BOATS PAN TO DEBRIS (3 : MS DEBRIS: MS BODY IN RIVER: MS HOMELESS (2) MS WATERLOGGED VILLAGE: MS CARCASS: MS RESCUE WORKERS: MS REFUGEES AND BELONGINGS: MS REFUGEES EATING: MS PAN REFUGEES WITH BELONGINGS: (SHOT 11/22/77 55FT) INDIA - ANDHRA PRADASH HURRICANES - 1977 CYCLONE UPITN / 55 FT / 16 COLOR / PRINT /

Part 2 of 3 - Rescue Impossible - 1977 Airport ’77 featurette - the making of - behind the scenes - Jack Lemon, Jerry Jameson, James Stewart, William Frye, Lee Grant - disaster film - Boeing 747 - film crew in airplane reconstruction - William Frye - luxury jet - man puts on gas mask - operator - pilot - copilot - crash into ocean - Lee Grant - plane floods - woman punches woman - Jerry Jameson - water tank - scuba divers - hoses - actors interview, behind-the-scenes

President Ronald Reagan’s remarks to the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.TRANSCRIPT:It's an honor to address the Center for Strategic and International Studies, all the more so in this, your 25th anniversary year. During this past quarter of a century, CSIS has brought to bear upon our national security policy an extraordinary array of intelligence and insight, drawing from the academic, diplomatic, and business worlds alike. Always you've taken the high ground -- intellectually and morally. Always you've insisted upon bipartisanship, stressing that any successful foreign policy must be built, not upon a Republican or Democratic consensus but upon an American consensus. In fact, coming here today to discuss arms reductions before you who are so expert in this area -- well, would you be surprised to hear that it reminds me of a story? [Laughter] The story has to do with a fellow who finally passed away and arrived at the gates of Heaven. And Saint Peter was making him welcome, and he said, ``You know, you're the most recent arrival from Earth.'' And he said, ``The people who have been up here for a while like to hear about things down there. Would you perhaps have anything?'' ``Oh,'' the man said, ``Would I!'' He said, ``I was the only living survivor of the Johnstown flood for many years.'' And he said, ``Having that distinction, I was out traveling and making after-lunch and after-dinner speeches all over the country telling about the horrors of the flood and how powerful it was and all this.'' And he said, ``I'm sure they'd be interested.'' ``Oh,'' Saint Peter said, ``I'm sure they would.'' So, he found himself before a gathering, and Saint Peter introduced him -- didn't give away his subject, but said he had great word about an exciting happening down on Earth and so forth, and then introduced him. And as he stepped up to the podium, Saint Peter retreated past him. Saint Peter said, ``That fellow with the beard in the aisle seat, second row -- his name is Noah.'' [Laughter] It goes without saying that the Nation owes each of you a profound debt of gratitude. And if I may, I'd like to add a special word of thanks to one who, during his term as your president, has served this institution and the Nation itself, untiringly. Joe Jordan, would you please stand? And to another of your number, one to whom we owe gratitude as a founder of this institution, one to whom we all extend our best wishes as he prepares to become your new president -- former NATO Ambassador and my former Special Counsellor, David Abshire, would you rise? And I am also pleased to see in the audience my former National Security Adviser, Bud McFarlane. A moment ago, I spoke of the need to base our policy upon an American consensus, upon an agreement about our nation's aims in the world that is not sectional nor partisan, but truly rooted in the will and values of the American people themselves. Certain aspects of this consensus we're privileged to have handed down to us by our founders -- above all, our love of peace and our fierce attachment to freedom; freedom not for ourselves alone, but in Lincoln's words: ``The hope, too, that in due time the weights would be lifted from the shoulders of all men.'' Yet, as for a consensus on the specific policy means by which these American values are to be carried into action, that policy consensus is one that, with each major development in our foreign affairs, we must build for ourselves. So, I come to you today. The treaty that General Secretary Gorbachev and I signed last week represents, as you've been told, a landmark achievement and an important step toward a safer world. But there's promise of still greater progress in bolstering our security and in putting East-West relations on a sounder footing. And I want, as well, to share some thoughts on this. First, however, the historic INF treaty itself. Each of you, of course, knows the background from the last decade and this. But permit me to repeat it briefly, for there are vital points to be made. It was in 1977 that the Soviet Union first deployed the SS - 20. This was not another short-range tactical weapon similar to those already in the theater inventories, intended for limited battlefield use. Neither was it another long-range intercontinental weapon like those already possessed by the Soviet Union and the United States. The SS - 20 was a new and threatening intermediate-range nuclear missile capable of striking targets in Asia and anywhere in Western Europe after minutes of launch, much more capable and sophisticated than its predecessors. NATO had in the field no similar weapon to counterbalance this new threat. Still, the Soviets continued to deploy these new weapons. By 1979 they had deployed some 130 INF missiles with some 390 warheads; by 1982, over 300 missiles with more than 900 warheads. For our friends and allies in Europe and Asia, these missiles represented a massive and totally new dimension of threat. And this brings me to my first point: The INF treaty that Mr. Gorbachev and I signed is not intended to achieve some kind of superficial shuffling of the superpower arsenals, some sort of rearrangement of the pieces on a chessboard. All the talk of numbers, numbers, numbers in recent days might quite naturally have led people to feel this. Yet we must remind ourselves that what the treaty will accomplish is, if you will, something entirely real: Not the rearrangement of numbers, but the elimination of a grave danger to our NATO allies and our own troops in Europe and to our friends and allies in Asia. We all remember that it was Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who led the NATO call to counter this new threat. And at a meeting in 1979, NATO made its famous two-track decision. Track one: Deploy a limited number of our own INF missiles. Track two: Use the unity and strength that NATO's own deployment would demonstrate to bring the Soviets to the bargaining table. Never was the aim of this NATO decision the permanent deployment of American INF missiles. Always the American deployment was understood as the means to an end. Giscard D'Estaing, President of France at the time of the 1979 NATO decision, recently wrote that: ``The deployment was a tactical exercise, whose preferred goal was to compel the Soviet Union to eliminate the SS - 20's.'' Well, no doubt the Soviets intended to test NATO's resolve. And to be sure, the deployment of our Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles had to be carried out in the face of sharp protest, even mass demonstrations. I remember speaking in Bonn in 1982. Across a river, thousands of demonstrators chanted and marched. And I couldn't help thinking: What irony. For it was to secure the peace they sought that NATO decided to deploy the missiles they protested, and missiles such as they protested helped ensure their very freedom to protest. Yet NATO held fast. The deployment of our missiles commenced. And yes, it was when we showed strength, when it became clear that we would not be intimidated -- only after this had taken place did the Soviets finally begin to negotiate in earnest. The INF treaty represents the culmination -- the historic culmination -- of that long and arduous process. A first step -- and a critical one -- toward building a more durable peace. Two final points about the process itself: First, as will be clear from all I just described -- I shuffled my notes up here pretty good. If I get off track, I will have to stop and tell another story. [Laughter] As will be clear from all I just described, this was not only an American effort but truly a Western effort. NATO had said from the first that we should be prepared to halt, modify, or reverse NATO deployments if the Soviets would eliminate the SS - 20 threat. At all NATO ministerial meetings since 1980, foreign and defense ministers have endorsed American efforts toward reaching a treaty, including our putting forward the zero-option proposal. And at a number of points during this process, our allies have asked that we alter or reshape our negotiating stance. And we did so. Our allies have been with us throughout, and we've been with them. Second, the NATO treaty will leave NATO -- the treaty, I should say, will leave NATO with an effective nuclear deterrent, just as we had before the first Soviet SS - 20 deployment in 1977. In the final communique at their meetings this month, NATO defense ministers, the very officials charged with ensuring allied security, stated that the treaty ``has been made possible by the determination and solidarity of the allied governments over the years. We look forward to the prospect of the INF treaty being signed and ratified in the near future.'' And Prime Minister Thatcher called the treaty -- and I quote her own inimitable words -- ``a marvelous Christmas present, an extra piece of good will and a lovely way to end the year.'' Well, given that the treaty accomplishes NATO aims and has the firm support of our NATO allies, but more important, given our duty to build a safer peace as we work to expand freedom, how can we fail in the end to hail this treaty as an historic achievement? No one thought before that first deployment that NATO had been ``denuclearized.'' No one then believed that the United States and Western Europe had been in any way been ``decoupled.'' Neither, then, can these charges be leveled against this treaty. I know that some in Europe and in the United States, perhaps some in this room, view the treaty with anxiety. I welcome the Senate ratification hearings as a forum in which every concern arising from the treaty can be examined. I am convinced that simply by following their own course the hearings will lay anxieties to rest and help to build up the needed consensus. In the meantime, permit me to lay before you some considerations which I believe should form a major part of this dialog. Over 3 years, we and the Soviets will completely eliminate all our INF missiles, the Soviets eliminating about four times as many deployed warheads as will the United States. The Soviets will dismantle not only their SS - 20's and SS - 4's but also their shorter range ballistic missiles, the SS - 12's and SS - 23's. These shorter range missiles can be used with chemical and improved conventional warheads and aimed at NATO military targets; in particular, those ports, depots, and airfields crucial to NATO's reinforcement plan. Thus, in 3 years there will be no U.S. or Soviet INF missiles in Europe, none in Asia, none on Earth. An entire class of nuclear weapons will be gone. The verification regime will be the most stringent in the history of arms control negotiations, with far-reaching implications. For the first time, the Soviets will permit onsite inspections, including inspections at short notice -- our ability to simply think or suspect something and say we're coming over. And they can do the same to us. It's a remarkable breakthrough in itself. What we have here, then, is a new departure in East-West relations -- an effective, verifiable treaty that will lead, not just to arms control but to the first nuclear arms reductions in history. Chancellor Kohl has called the INF treaty -- and I'll quote him -- ``a great success for the Atlantic alliance.''

1970s: ocotillo plants in desert biome. Plants grow after rainfall in desert. Leaves on plant. Ground squirrel eats. Rabbit in shade. Lizard looks for food. Lynx catches prey

1/29/77 C0061265 - COLOR ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA: AERIALS OF FLOODED AREAS IN INDIA'S ANDHRA PRADESH PROVINCE. LNC 88754 "CYCLONE RELIEF" SHOWS: GV AERIAL FLOODED LANDSCAPE 3 SHOTS: MS INT HELICOPTER CREW THROW OUT FOOD: GV DAMAGED VILLAGE: MS HELICOPTER IN FLIGHT: GV FLOODED LANDSCAPE: MS CREW DISTRIBUTE MILK TO VILLAGERS FROM HELICOPTER: MS RUBBLE STREWN VILLAGE: MS CATTLE CARCASS: MS CLOTHES ON GROUND: MS BODIES IN VILLAGE AND PEOPLE WALKING PAST: GV SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDING: GV SUNKEN AND DAMAGED BOAT: SHOT 11/27/77 86FT MUTE HURRICANES - 1977 (CYCLONE) INDIA - ANDHRA PRADESH FLOODS - INDIA UPITN / 86 FT / 16 COLOR / PRINT / 900 FT / 16 COLOR / ORIG /

Sequence of GVs showing torrential floodwater rushing down rural country roads after the River Exe burst its banks in Exeter, UK; 1960. (LGF5313L - AEVZ001J)

0/00/77 C0061344 - COLOR - RR ALSO C0063004 INDIA: CYCLONE AT ANDHRA PRADESH. RR 7749A "CYCLONE" SHOWS: AERIALS OF FLOODED LANDSCAPE: FLATTENED VILLAGES: CROPS UNDER WATER: SNAPPED TAMARIND TREES: BLOCK ROADS: WRECKED FISHING VILLAGE WITH BOATS: SURVIVING VILLAGERS: CORPSESES BLOATED AND ABANDONED: FLOODED AND STRANDED BUSES: RELIEF OPERATION: HELICOPTERS AIRLIFT RICE AND MILK: GRATEFUL INDIANS FED: RUBBLE OF STONE BUILT HOUSES: PEOPLE QUEUE FOR MILK RATION: WIDE SHOT OF STRICKEN LANDSCAPE: SHOT XX 323FT) INDIA - ANDHRA PRADESH FLOODS - INDIA HURRICANES & TROPICAL STORMS - 1977 CYCLONE) BODIES RELIEF WORK UPITN / 323 FT / 16 COLOR / PRINT /

OC 800 SOF / MAG ROLL A FTG OF FLOOD FUNERAL. VS FUNERAL SERVICES IN PROGRESS FOR VICTIMS OF FLOOD WHEN KELLY BARNES DAM BURST FLOODING CAMPUS OF TOCCOA FALLS BIBLE COLLEGE IN GEORGIA. VS COFFINS OF VICTIMS BEING CARRIED FROM CHURCH INTO CEMETERY. VS WRECKAGE CAUSED BY FLOOD. VS PEOPLE WEEPING AT SIDE OF GRAVE. INTV W/ VOLUNTEER FIREMAN WHO DESCRIBES FLOOD IN WHICH 39 PEOPLE DIED, DISCUSSES FRIEND WHO LOST HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IN FLOOD. ON NOVEMBER 6, 1977, AT 1:30 AM, THE KELLY BARNES DAM FAILED AFTER A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN; SEVEN INCHES HAD FALLEN FROM NOVEMBER 2-5. IN PARTICULAR, 3½ INCHES FELL BETWEEN 6 PM AND MIDNIGHT, NOVEMBER 5. A TOTAL OF 200 FEET (61 M) OF THE DAM HAD FAILED. THE FLOOD CAUSED 39 FATALITIES ALONG WITH DESTROYING NINE HOUSES, 18 HOUSE TRAILERS, TWO COLLEGE BUILDINGS AND MANY MOTOR VEHICLES. FIVE HOUSES AND FIVE COLLEGE BUILDINGS WERE ALSO DAMAGED. TWO BRIDGES ON TOCCOA FALLS DRIVE AND A CULVERT AT COUNTY FARM ROAD WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. THE EMBANKMENTS AT GEORGIA HIGHWAY 17 WERE DESTROYED ON EITHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, AND ONE OF THE BRIDGE ABUTMENTS AT HIGHVIEW ROAD WAS DESTROYED. THE WATER-SUPPLY PIPE FOR THE CITY OF TOCCOA WAS DAMAGED AND THE CITY'S WATER SUPPLY WAS CONTAMINATED FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

Anadolu captured on Thursday ,Sep. 12, the impact of the 2023’s catastrophic flood on the Libyan city of Derna one year. Eastern Libya was ravaged by deadly floods caused by Mediterranean storm Daniel on Sept. 10, 2023, killing more than 4,000 people and leaving behind a massive trail of destruction. Floodwaters resulting from Storm Daniel contributed to significant damage across northeastern Libya, affecting housing, health facilities, water networks, and other infrastructure, according to the UN. About 70% of the infrastructure in the affected eastern regions suffered damage. Ninety-five percent of educational institutions were damaged, leading to a 10-day nationwide suspension of education. A three-day mourning period was declared for victims. Derna was hardest hit by the floods, causing the city's dams to burst, washing away homes and people. The Bumansur Dam (23 million cubic meter capacity) and Al-Bilad Dam (1.5 million cubic meter capacity) were built in Libya between 1973 and 1977 for flood control and irrigation purposes. The collapse of both dams submerged the city of Derna. Decomposing bodies under debris and mixing sewage water with drinking water raised the risk of a disease outbreak. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that the disaster displaced 40,000 residents. (Footage by /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)