HAITI / TROPICAL STORM EMILY

Tropical Storm Emily is gathering strength over the island of Hispanola and could drop up to ten inches of rain as it approaches Haiti, threatening the more than 600,000 people still living in displacement camps after last year's earthquake. MINUSTAH

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:00
• Production Date: 3 August 2011
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: HUMANITARIAN RELIEF; REFUGEES; DISPLACED PERSONS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTER PREPAREDNESS; DISASTER RELIEF; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
• Geographic Subject: HAITI; UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U110803e

Description

STORY: HAITI / TROPICAL STORM EMILY
TRT: 1:00
SOURCE: MINUSTAH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CREOLE / NATS

DATELINE: 3 AUGUST 2011, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Shotlist

1. Pan left, cameraman onto wide shot press conference
2. Close up, woman talking at press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Minister of Interior, Haiti:
“The announcement of Emily’s arrival has triggered a big national mobilization. Our main message to people living in camps who are able to join their family or friends in some safe place should do it as soon as possible.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Kennedy, Deputy Special Representative of United Nations Secretary General in Haiti:
“We have propositioned stocks, food, medical kits, cholera kits, tents, tarpaulins both here in Port-au-Prince and in departments to prepare for the storm. And we have additional supplies on call from Panama if needed. Some 360 evacuation sites have been identified just here in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, and we can host up to 50 000 people for two days.”

STORY:

Tropical Storm Emily is gathering strength over the island of Hispanola and could drop up to ten inches of rain as it approaches Haiti, threatening the more than 600,000 people still living in displacement camps after last year's earthquake.

At a press conference today (3 Aug) in Port au Prince, Haiti’s Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime called on “people living in camps who are able to join their family or friends in some safe place should do it as soon as possible.”

The United Nations (UN) Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) is preparing for immediate humanitarian support.

The UN’s Deputy in the country Kevin Kennedy said “we have propositioned stocks, food, medical kits, cholera kits, tents, tarpaulins both here in Port-au-Prince and in departments to prepare for the storm” adding that “some 360 evacuation sites have been identified just here in Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, and we can host up to 50 000 people for two days.”

Tropical Storm Emily, the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, intensified on Tuesday (2 Aug) as it churned across the Caribbean on a path likely to take it over the Dominican Republic and Haiti.