Russia Meteorite 3
AP-APTN-1830: Russia Meteorite 3
Saturday, 16 February 2013
STORY:Russia Meteorite 3- Ice rink heavily damaged by space object, witness turns incident into rap
LENGTH: 02:18
FIRST RUN: 1630
RESTRICTIONS: See Script
TYPE: Russian/Nat
SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/AMATEUR VIDEO
STORY NUMBER: 879773
DATELINE: Chelyabinsk - 15/16 Feb 2013
LENGTH: 02:18
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1. Close-up of large shard of plastic siding that fell from the Chelyabinsk ice skating rink
2. Mid and zoom-out to wide of damage at ice skating rink
3. Wide of ice skating rink
4. Mid of damage at ice skating rink, hole in side of wall
5. Mid of Maria Ishtubaeva, 16 and her friend looking at the damage
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Maria Ishtubaeva, 16-year old student:
"We were all sitting in class at school, and suddenly there was a flash. We all thought, My God, what was that light? We all laughed and then started to do our work again, and then there was that boom, and our windows popped open and the blinds lifted up. We were so terrified."
7. Sign near the skating rink that says: (Russian) "No trespassing"
8. Wide of a brick building with buildings blown out
9. Mid of workers mending the broken window of one of the buildings
10. Mid of broken windows
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11. Various of smoke in the air, followed by loud blasts and screams
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12. Mid of Ilya Shibanov, a music teacher and local amateur rapper, entering his studio
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ilya Shibanov, music teacher and local amateur rapper:
"It's not that we're some kind of barbarians or that nothing touches us. Of course we would have been scared if there was a war of some kind, but this is just a good excuse for some jokes, or a song, or a rap."
14. Mid of a drum in the studio
15. Mid of Shibanov rapping UPSOUND (Russian) "Pow, pow, pow - everything flew and the windows were wrecked in the factories; this Friday the bars are going to be full, so be ready for the aftermath."
16. Mid of saxophone in the studio
17. Mid of Shibanov watching his video of the meteoroid
18. Close of Shibanov
STORYLINE
Residents of Chelyabinsk in Russia's Ural Mountain region were on Saturday assessing the extent of the damage caused when a meteor streaked across the sky a day earlier injuring nearly 1,200 people.
Outside the city's ice-rink a large shard of plastic ripped from the building lay on the ground, a reminder of the force of the shock wave caused by the blast, estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs.
"We were all sitting in class at school, and suddenly there was a flash. We all thought, My God, what was that light? We all laughed and then started to do our work again, and then there was that boom, and our windows popped open and the blinds lifted up. We were so terrified," recalled 16-year-old student, Maria Ishtubaeva.
A small army of workers set to work in the city on Saturday to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor fall, while residents contemplated the astonishing event with incredulity and even humour.
More than 24,000 people, including volunteers, have mobilised in the region to cover windows, gather warm clothes and food and make other relief efforts, the regional governor's office said.
Crews from glass companies in adjacent regions were being flown in.
The scale of the blast can be seen and heard in an amateur video uploaded to the internet by Chelyabinsk resident, Ilya Shibanov.
The pictures show two thin strips of vapour in the sky, then a series of very loud explosions.
The video appeared authentic based on other videos from the event and it was consistent with AP reporting.
Shibanov is a music teacher and local amateur rapper, he wrote a rap song on Friday about the meteor and published it on the internet.
"It's not that we're some kind of barbarians or that nothing touches us," says Shibanov.
"Of course we would have been scared if there was a war of some kind, but this is just a good excuse for some jokes, or a song, or a rap."
40 of the injured remained hospitalised on Saturday, two of them in serious condition, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing the regional health ministry.
Governor Mikhail Yurevich on Saturday said that damage from the high-altitude explosion is estimated at one billion rubles (33 million US dollars).
He promised to have all the broken windows replaced within a week.
But that is a long wait in a frigid region. The midday temperature in Chelyabinsk was minus 12 Celsius (10 Fahrenheit), and for many the immediate task was to put up plastic sheeting and boards on shattered residential windows.
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