CAR CHASE FATALS (01/30/1997)
THREE PEOPLE WERE KILLED WHEN THE DRIVER OF THIS CAMARO LOST CONTROL, AND SLAMMED INTO A UTILITY POLE, SPLITTING THE CAR IN HALF. STATE TROOPERS SAY THE DRIVER HAD TURNED OFF HIS HEADLIGHTS JUST PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. THE CHASE BEGAN WHEN HAINES CITY POLICE TRIED TO STOP THE CAR FROM RECKLESS DRIVING.
United States: the Frenchies are back in Miami!
1997 Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida - South Beach at night - Colony Hotel - ms sidewalk and people - cu sign tilt up - blue neon - Art Deco-style building
USA: FLORIDA: USE OF ELECTRIC CHAIR UNDER REVIEW
TAPE_NUMBER: EF99/1204 IN_TIME: 03:21:38 - 09:16:48 LENGTH: 01:39 SOURCES: ABC RESTRICTIONS: No Access North America/Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat Florida should consider allowing lethal injections to keep capital punishment alive while the U-S Supreme Court reviews use of the electric chair. That is the opinion of a lawmaker who saw the state's last electrocution. The nation's high court agreed Tuesday night to review allegations that death in Florida's electric chair. At a press conference on Wednesday, Florida Governor Jeb Bush discussed the use of the state's electric chair. This after the U-S Supreme Court's decision to hear the constitutionality of electrocution for the first time in over a century. This stops the use of electric chairs for months. SOUNDBITE: (English) "The people of Florida have spoken on this issue repeatedly, and loudly and clearly, they support electrocution, they support the means that has been established for the completion for this sentence. I'm confident that the United States Supreme Court will, like the Florida Supreme Court has, uphold the constitution anality of Florida's electric chair. I believe that United States Supreme Court will see this exactly like the trial court as an argument over a nose bleed of a criminal who savagely murdered a pregnant woman and her two young daughters in 1983 and who was successful in delaying his own execution for sixteen years. U-S Supreme Court has never held a state's method of execution to be unconstitutional and I do not expect the court to do so here." SUPER CAPTION: Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Governor The decision made Tuesday granted an indefinite stay to a man that was scheduled to be electrocuted Wednesday morning and another one that was scheduled for Tuesday. This decision comes about four months after an inmate's nose bled after being electrocuted in Florida's chair. That was the third botched electrocution in the sunshine state in this decade. Two other times the headpiece worn by condemned killers burst into flames during electrocution in 1990 and 1997. Florida is one of the four states in the U-S that executes death row inmates by electrocution. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in February and is expected to rule by June. SHOTLIST: XFA Tallahassee, Florida, U-S; October 27, 1999 and file October 27, 1999 1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Governor File 2. Electric chair in Florida prison ?
US/UK: Bee Gee FILE - File of Maurice Gibb who is seriously ill in hospital folowing operation
TAPE: EF03/0030 IN_TIME: 00:28:27 DURATION: 0:57 SOURCES: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/WKYC/APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various - File SHOTLIST: Ohio - 7 May 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Clients must give on screen credit 1. Various shots of the Bee Gees performing (Maurice Gibb is playing guitar) WKYC Ohio - 7 May 1997 2. SOUNDBITE: Maurice Gibb, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. "Once again we're R & B, love. We love black music. We've always loved it for years. Even the fever stuff was R & B before it got used in the film. Then it got labelled disco. So, I guess it doesn't tell you much difference, does it?" APTN London - 6 May 1998 3. Police cordon in front of screaming fans 4. Maurice Gibb arriving at stage production of Saturday Night Fever 5. Banner over doors reading: "Saturday Night Fever" STORYLINE: The British media was reporting on Friday that Maurice Gibb, a musician in the band the Bee Gees, was seriously ill in hospital. Gibb's twin brother Robin said in a telephone interview on the British television programme "Richard and Judy" that the 53-year-old musician was in hospital recovering from surgery to remove a blockage in his intestine. Robin Gibb, also a musician in the same band, said that Maurice was critically ill in intensive care but had shown signs that his organs were in good health. Gibb's wife and children are at the hospital in Miami, Florida, where he lives and are awaiting more information from doctors later in the day. Maurice Gibb plays the bass guitar and keyboards in the Bee Gees with his twin brother Robin, his other brother Barry and friend Michael Jackson. Among the Bee Gees' famed disco hits are "Stayin' Alive", "How Deep Is Your Love?" and "Night Fever", all from the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever in 1977, and the sequel, Stayin' Alive in 1983.
Bike Week Fatality (03/07/1997)
Daytona Beach Police are investigating a third fatal accident at "Bike Week". Police say two elderly women from Canada were were trying to cross A-1-A Highway last night, when a motorcycle ran into the two women.
CUBA AND USA RELATIONS
PLANE CRASH LANDS (10/08/1997)
A CARGO PLANE CRASH LANDS ON ITS BELLY AT ORLANDO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AND THE PILOT WALKS AWAY UNHURT.
50 YEARS RELATIONSHIP CUBA/ USA
US/UK: Bee Gee FILE - File of Maurice Gibb who has died aged 53
TAPE: EF03/0033 IN_TIME: 07:35:31 DURATION: 0:57 SOURCES: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/WKYC/APTN RESTRICTIONS: music/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: Various - File SHOTLIST: Ohio - 7 May 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Clients must give on screen credit 1. Various shots of the Bee Gees performing (Maurice Gibb is playing guitar) WKYC Ohio - 7 May 1997 2. SOUNDBITE Maurice Gibb, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. "Once again we're R&B, love. We love black music. We've always loved it for years. Even the 'Fever' stuff was R&B before it got used in the film. Then it got labelled disco. So, I guess it doesn't tell you much difference, does it?" APTN London - 6 May 1998 3. Police cordon in front of screaming fans 4. Maurice Gibb arriving at stage production of Saturday Night Fever 5. Banner over doors reading: "Saturday Night Fever" STORYLINE Maurice Gibb, a member of the famed Bee Gees, died at a Miami Beach hospital on Sunday, his family said. He was 53. Gibb suffered cardiac arrest before undergoing emergency surgery for a blocked intestine. He was admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday and underwent surgery on Thursday. Gibb played bass and keyboard for the Bee Gees, whose name is short for the Brothers Gibb. Known for their close harmonies and original sound, the Bee Gees are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their 1977 contributions to the "Saturday Night Fever" album made it the best selling movie soundtrack ever with more than 40 (M) million copies sold. Among the hits on that album are "Stayin' Alive", "More Than a Woman", "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Night Fever". The Bee Gees - twins Maurice and Robin and their older brother Barry - emigrated from England to Australia in 1958 and the brothers soon gained fame as a teen pop group. They returned to England in the 1960s and their first four albums contained hits such as "1941 New York Mining Disaster", "To Love Somebody" and their first US number one song, 1971's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart". The brothers have lived in south Florida since the late 1970s. Their younger brother, Andy, who had a successful solo career, died in 1988 at age 30 from a heart ailment. The Bee Gees followed "Saturday Night Fever" with the 1978 album "Spirits Having Flown" which sold 20 (M) million copies. The Bee Gees released three studio albums and went on a world tour in the 1990s. The live album from the tour, "One Night Only", sold more than one (M) million albums in the United States. The group won seven Grammy Awards. The Bee Gees last album was in 2001, entitled "This Is Where I Came In". The brothers wrote and produced songs for Barbara Streisand, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick in the 1980s. They also wrote the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton hit "Islands in the Stream". The Bee Gees run a music production company in Miami called Middle Ear Studios.
Entertainment: FILE Bee Gee - Maurice Gibb has died, aged 53
TAPE: EF03/0034 IN_TIME: 14:46:13 DURATION: 0:57 SOURCES: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame/WKYC/APTN RESTRICTIONS: music/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: Various - File SHOTLIST: Ohio - 7 May 1997 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Clients must give on screen credit 1. Various shots of the Bee Gees performing (Maurice Gibb is playing guitar) WKYC Ohio - 7 May 1997 2. SOUNDBITE Maurice Gibb, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee. "Once again we're R&B, love. We love black music. We've always loved it for years. Even the 'Fever' stuff was R&B before it got used in the film. Then it got labelled disco. So, I guess it doesn't tell you much difference, does it?" APTN London - 6 May 1998 3. Police cordon in front of screaming fans 4. Maurice Gibb arriving at stage production of Saturday Night Fever 5. Banner over doors reading: "Saturday Night Fever" STORYLINE Maurice Gibb, a member of the famed Bee Gees, died at a Miami Beach hospital on Sunday, his family said. He was 53. Gibb suffered cardiac arrest before undergoing emergency surgery for a blocked intestine. He was admitted to Mount Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday and underwent surgery on Thursday. Gibb played bass and keyboard for the Bee Gees, whose name is short for the Brothers Gibb. Known for their close harmonies and original sound, the Bee Gees are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Their 1977 contributions to the "Saturday Night Fever" album made it the best selling movie soundtrack ever with more than 40 (M) million copies sold. Among the hits on that album are "Stayin' Alive", "More Than a Woman", "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Night Fever". The Bee Gees - twins Maurice and Robin and their older brother Barry - emigrated from England to Australia in 1958 and the brothers soon gained fame as a teen pop group. They returned to England in the 1960s and their first four albums contained hits such as "1941 New York Mining Disaster", "To Love Somebody" and their first US number one song, 1971's "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart". The brothers have lived in south Florida since the late 1970s. Their younger brother, Andy, who had a successful solo career, died in 1988 at age 30 from a heart ailment. The Bee Gees followed "Saturday Night Fever" with the 1978 album "Spirits Having Flown" which sold 20 (M) million copies. The Bee Gees released three studio albums and went on a world tour in the 1990s. The live album from the tour, "One Night Only", sold more than one (M) million albums in the United States. The group won seven Grammy Awards. The Bee Gees last album was in 2001, entitled "This Is Where I Came In". The brothers wrote and produced songs for Barbara Streisand, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick in the 1980s. They also wrote the Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton hit "Islands in the Stream". The Bee Gees run a music production company in Miami called Middle Ear Studios.
FATAL ACCIDENT (02/03/1997)
THE MAIN ROAD IN TEMPLE TERRACE IS CLOSED WHILE POLICE INVESTIGATE A FATAL ACCIDENT. OFFICERS ARE AT WORK CURRENTLY AT 56TH STREET AND BUSCH BOULEVARD, WHERE IT BECOMES BULLARD PARKWAY. THERE ARE REPORTS THE CORVETTER CONVERTIBLE WAS GOING 80 MILES PER HOUR WHEN IT SLAMMED INTO A CEMENT POWER POLE. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN THE ACCIDENT. ANOTHER IS IN THE HOSPITAL.
[Death of Robin Gibb]
Entertainment Argentina Maradona - Preview of ex footballer's new television show
NAME: ARG MARADONA 150805E TAPE: EF05/0725 IN_TIME: 10:00:09:00 DURATION: 00:01:28:23 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Buenos Aires, 15 Aug 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Wide shot of shops and pedestrians in Florida Street in the centre of Buenos Aires 2. Wide shot of billboard advertising Maradona's new talk show 3. Advertisement for Maradona's new talk show on telephone booth 4. Newspaper with picture of Maradona 5. Photograph in newspaper of Maradona and Pele 6. Various of newspaper ads for Maradona's show 7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Vox pop, Andrea, Maradona fan: "Maradona has always been in quarrels with everybody and now he is trying to fix things somehow to show he's grown up. He's doing it in order to fix what he made wrong, especially regarding his daughters." 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Vox pop, Guillermo, Maradona fan: "This evening, I will take a hot bath and then be ready to see "number 10, Maradona" 9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Vox pop, Jose, Maradona fan: "God is joining the King (Maradona and Pele)" 10. Wide shot of Florida Street SOCCER GREAT NETS JOB AS TV HOST Soccer legend Diego Maradona will launch a new career as a TV talk show host in Buenos Aires on Monday night. Maradona has asked fellow soccer great Pele to be his first guest on the show that is the talk of Argentina. Argentines have long claimed Maradona as the best soccer player of all time and Brazilians staunchly stand by Pele, but for the first time the two legends will be together to talk it out on-air in Maradona's prime-time show. Called 'La Noche del 10' - Spanish for 'The Night of 10' in reference to Maradona's famed number 10 soccer shirt - Monday night's premiere by the soccer great-turned-television host will also feature former Argentine tennis star Gabriela Sabatini and Italian actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta. Maradona says Monday's variety show will be the first in a regular series for local network Canal 13. Maradona was recently named a vice president of his beloved Boca Juniors soccer club, and his entry into prime-time television marks a return to the public limelight for the Argentinean since his retirement last decade amid cocaine addiction and grave health problems. The 45-year-old has recently dropped weight, unveiling a slimmer profile after stomach stapling surgery. He's also been jetting around the world, making appearances as a broadcast commentator at European soccer matches and showing up for celebrity charity events. Maradona led Argentina to victory at the 1986 World Cup, and went on to become one of the sport's greatest legends despite battling a cocaine addiction. In 1991, Maradona failed a drug test and was banned for 15 months. He retired from the sport in 1997. In 2000, he had what doctors described as a brush with death when he was hospitalised in the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este with a heart doctors said was pumping at less than half its capacity. Blood and urine samples turned up traces of cocaine, authorities said. In need of rehabilitation, Maradona chose Cuba - in part out of his regard for Cuban President Fidel Castro. He also underwent a 12-day hospitalisation in Buenos Aires in April 2004 for what doctors described as heart and lung problems.
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Cold Florida Crops (01/19/1997)
Dropping temperatures in Florida have area farmers worried. Last night in Plant City, Florida the temperature dropped down to the upper twenties. Plant City is the home of several huge strawberry farms in Florida. The farmers put frost ice on the berries, that means they turn the sprinklers on and the water freezes around the berries, thus protecting them. The farmers say that this technique has basically saved their berry crops.
US Jimenez - Filipino legislator to face charges over Clinton campaign donations
TAPE: EF02/1099 IN_TIME: 04:15:22 / 07:32:28 DURATION: 2:09 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Miami - 29 Dec 2002 SHOTLIST Miami International Airport, Florida, 29 December 2002 1. Exterior shot of Miami Airport terminal 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippine Congressman Presporo Pichay:"And that is the reason why I asked before boarding the plane 'Could you tell us what is the condition of Mr. Jimenez?' The FBI agent said 'Well, he's under arrest' "Well if he is under arrest," I said, 'Show us the warrant of arrest.' He said 'No, we can't show you the warrant of arrest.But, ' he said, ' The Philippine Government is our agent and as such there is a warrant from the Philippine Government.' I said, 'If you look at the order from the Judge, the Judge said 'You have to leave before December 26th, otherwise, if you don't leave on December 26th you'll be arrested.' But since he left on December 26th, technically he shouldn't be arrested." 3. Exterior Miami International Airport 4. SOUNDBITE (Tagalog) Philippine Congressman Presporo Pichay:(Same as first soundbite, but in Tagalog) 5. Exterior Miami International Airport STORYLINE: A wealthy Filipino businessman-turned-congressman who's accused of making illegal contributions to the Democratic Party has returned to the U-S to face an indictment in Miami. Mark Jimenez (HIM-en-enz) arrived at Miami International Airport Sunday night and was immediately taken to the Federal Detention Center in Miami, where he's scheduled to be processed and spend the night. Jimenez is set to make an initial appearance tomorrow before a U-S magistrate. Defence lawyers in Miami filed a motion Friday seeking Jimenez's release on 100-thousand dollar bond. He left the Philippines voluntarily on Thursday. According to fellow Philippine Congressman Presporo Pichay, Jimenez was shuttled first to Guam and then to Saipan, where a federal judge said he did not have jurisdiction over the case and that Jimenez had to be flown to Miami. Pichay said that during the flight Jimenez was given oxygen several times for a 'medical condition'. Jimenez was among at least 28 people charged by a Justice Department task force created by then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno in 1997 to investigate allegations of campaign violations. In other cases, 22 people were convicted, two are fugitives, one was acquitted, one was fined by the Federal Election Commission and another case is pending. Jimenez was Florida's largest donor to the national Democratic Party in 1996. Jimenez is accused of using corporate money to reimburse employees for illegal donations to former President Clinton and other candidates like Tom Strickland. He's accused of illegally routing 50-thousand dollars to the Democratic National Committee and more than 33-thousand dollars in donations to campaign committees
Cold Affects Tropical Fish Farms (01/19/1997)
The bay area's tropical fish farmers have a bit of a problem on their hands with the cold weather. Workers at a tropical fish farm near Gibsonton say the cold killed a few fish last night. Weinstein says he used giant tarps to cover his tanks last night. The tropical fish industry is one of the largest export businesses in the bay area.
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TF1 20 hours: [broadcast of September 17, 2004]
US Swimmer
AP-APTN-0630: US Swimmer Wednesday, 22 August 2012 STORY:US Swimmer- Jellyfish cause woman to abandon attempt to swim from Florida to Cuba LENGTH: 02:45 FIRST RUN: 0330 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Handout STORY NUMBER: 855584 DATELINE: 21 Aug 2012 LENGTH: 02:45 SHOTLIST: Florida Keys News Service handout - AP Clients Only 1. Wide of boat where Diana Nyad jumps off to swim to shore after quitting fourth attempt to swim across Florida straits 2. Various of Nyad swimming towards shore 3. Nyad standing up in water and waving to team and crowd waiting AP Television - AP Clients Only 4. Various of Nyad team in 'Cuba Swim 2012' shirts cheering as she comes towards shore 5. Nyad standing in water near shore Florida Keys News Service handout - AP Clients Only 6. Zoom in close up of Nyad hugging her team AP Television - AP Clients Only 7. Nyad walking up stairs and hugging boy with flowers 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diana Nyad, marathon swimmer: "This is history out here. No one has ever done it and really in this day and age, the earth has gotten to be a pretty small place. All the mountains have been climbed, all the deserts have been crossed, but this piece of ocean has never been done by a swimmer without a cage." 9. Cutaway to cheering crowd Florida Keys News Service handout - AP Clients Only 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diana Nyad, marathon swimmer: "I stand here proud, tall and proud. I think it's like anything, when you retire or let go of something extreme, it's hard to come down. That's is going to be the hard part for me, but I tell you when I was swimming yesterday, I had all these speeches planned for the shore and I'm realising honestly they are the same speeches, make it or not make it. It was a journey, intense journey." AP Television - AP Clients Only 11. Medium pan of team laying towel down as Nyad climbs on it 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Diana Nyad, marathon swimmer: "So you know what, when you ask me a fifth time, I'm not a quitter, but the sport and this particular ocean are different than it used to be. These jelly fish are prolific and you know what, to me there is no joy in that." 13. Various of Nyad getting medical treatment after coming ashore STORYLINE: Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her decades-old dream thwarted, more than anything else, by jellyfish. Storms brewing around her and repeated jellyfish stings forced her out of the water, her crew said. She travelled by boat close to a rocky shoreline in Key West on Tuesday afternoon, just over 72 hours after setting out from Cuba. She made a final short swim to a waiting crowd. Nyad turns 63 on Wednesday and logged 41 hours and 45 minutes of swim time. Her lips swollen from jellyfish stings, she appeared weary as she was helped from the water at her arrival in the US, though she insisted her muscles weren't even sore. She was given asthma inhalers, oxygen and an intravenous drip, mostly out of sight of the gathering crowd. She all but ruled out a fifth try at attempting the crossing, though she also had ruled out a fourth one after failing last year. "I'm not a quitter, but the sport and this particular ocean are different than they used to be," she said. "These jellyfish are prolific. And, you know what? To me, there's no joy in that." Nyad plunged into the water on Saturday afternoon in Havana and lasted longer and made it further than on her previous attempts, her team said. She first tried the swim in 1978, in a shark cage. She tried twice last year, without a shark cage, but again and again the record eluded her. Australian Susie Maroney successfully swam the Straits in 1997, but she used a shark cage. In June, another Australian, Penny Palfrey, made it 79 miles (127 kilometres) towards Florida without a cage before strong currents forced her to abandon the attempt. Monday night proved the most challenging of all for Nyad, with team members fending off sharks, waves crashing in stormy weather, jellyfish sting after sting, and Nyad fighting off a lowered body temperature and the threat of hypothermia. Nyad had been training for three years for the attempt. She was accompanied by a support team in boats, and a kayak-borne apparatus shadowing her to keep sharks at bay by generating a faint electric field. A team of handlers was on alert to dive in and distract any sharks that made it through. 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Lost Boy Found (01/26/1997)
A Florida family is together again after a major search for a lost boy. Last night sixteen-year-old Christopher Allen lost his bearing in the dense Ocala Forest in Florida. Three search agencies conducted an eight hour search using every possible means to find him. Christopher and his dog Butterscotch were found last night around midnight with the aid of an infrared camera in a helicopter. Christopher's parents were thrilled to see their son again and the dog. Christopher told authorities that the dog chased some animals into the woods and when he gave chase, he got turned around and lost. So much for man's best friend.
DICKINSON case: the importance of DNA testing
Beached Dolphin (02/24/1997)
A dolphin in distress was rescued from the waters off North Miami Beach today. the Bottlenose Dolphin weighing over 600 pounds was found on the beach last night. It is now being cared for by F-I-U's Marine Rescue unit. The dolphin is believed to be suffering from a disease that attacks the immune system.