Haitian-American soldier serving with 82nd Airborne
(18 Jan 2010) SHOTLIST
NOTE THIS MATERIAL WAS SHOT BY AP CAMERMAN EMBEDDED WITH THE 82ND AIRBORNE
1. Wide of US troops standing guard as Haitians wait for aid
2. High angle of ruined buildings, pull out to nearby hillside where Haitians wait for aid
3. Close up of Haitians waiting patiently for aid
4. Mid of US Soldier Junior Florestal, who was born in Haiti
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Junior Florestal, US soldier, Haitian-American:
"It''s sad, when I was watching on tv in the States and I could not wait to come here, help out, whatever I can do to help out, it is sad to see. I always want to come, but I don''t want to come in this kind of dire way where it''s a bad situation like that. It is good to be here to help out."
6. Wide of Haitian people waiting for relief
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Junior Florestal, US Soldier, Haitian-American:
"Yesterday one of my cousins, we started talking, I ask him for somebody and I find out he was my cousin and he show me his ID card, I left him when he was a baby. I left him when he was small. He told me everybody is okay, my aunt was okay and my mother is in Orlando right now, she has been crying, because she can''t get in contact with nobody, so I got on the phone this morning, I call her and let her know that all the people she worried about are okay, her sister is fine, her brother is okay, she was happy to hear that."
8. Mid of US Soldier Florestal talking to people waiting in line for aid
9. Mid of US Soldiers handing out food and water
10. Close up of people in line getting their thumbs marked as they go through
11. Mid of US Soldiers handing out food and water
12. Mid of young boy walking downhill with water
13. Mid of of young boy handing water and food over to woman
14. Mid of US Soldiers trying to keep order as people wait for food and water
15. Close up of crying kids, being pushed in line
16. Mid of injured boy with water bottle
17. Close up of US Soldier playing with injured Haitian boy
18. Mid of US Soldier getting out medical supplies
19. Injured boy''s head as bandage comes off
20. Mid of helicopter overhead, tilts down to soldier shielding young Haitian boy
STORYLINE:
A unit from the US Army''s 82nd Airborne has established a base to help some Haitian people desperately waiting for help following last Tuesday''s earthquake.
The army has established a base at a Port au Prince country club at the top of the hill.
At the base of the hill, next to homes destroyed by the earthquake, is a survivors camp that shelters tens of thousands of people.
One of the US soldiers helping on this mission is Junior Florestal, who lived in Port au Prince until he was 13, until his mother took him to Florida.
Now he is a member of the US army.
This is the first time he''s been back to Haiti since he moved away as a teen.
While helping distribute supplies, Florestal learned his family in Port au Prince survived the quake through a cousin who came for food and water.
Florestal is also one of the few soldiers who speaks the local language, French Creole.
Many are concerned that the food was only going to the strongest who can push their way to the front of the line.
They want the Army to cordon off the survivors camp into four quadrants, and then bring food and water to those areas.
But it''s a logistical impossibility, so instead the army invites children and women to come and retrieve food and water supplies.
In order to avoid people getting in line twice, they mark their fingernails with a marker to show they have received today''s food.
As the word spread there was food and water here, the crowd grew bigger and bigger.
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