GERMANY: FLOODING FORCES MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES IN EASTERN GERMANY / CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER ANNOUNCES DELAY IN TAX CUTS TO FINANCE FLOOD DAMAGE

Record ID: 647833

  • Title: GERMANY: FLOODING FORCES MORE THAN 100,000 PEOPLE TO EVACUATE THEIR HOMES IN EASTERN GERMANY / CHANCELLOR SCHROEDER ANNOUNCES DELAY IN TAX CUTS TO FINANCE FLOOD DAMAGE
  • Date: 19th August 2002
  • Summary: (W8) LEBIEN, GERMANY (AUGUST 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN ACROSS FLOODED STREET 0.11 2. WIDE OF STREAM CROSSING ROAD, HOUSES IN BACK 0.17 3. MV: RESCUE BOAT RIDING THROUGH FLOODED STREETS OF LEBIEN NEAR THE ELBE RIVER 0.25 4. TRACKING SHOT OF FLOODED HOUSES 0.31 5. MV: TWO RESIDENTS BOARDING RUBBER DINGHY OUTSIDE ENTRANCE TO THEIR HOME 0.35 6. CLOSE-UP OF MAN IN RUBBER DINGHY 0.41 7. SV: MEN ROWING THROUGH FLOODED STREET AWAY FROM THEIR HOUSE 0.50 8. SV: THE TWO MEN AND THEIR RUBBER DINGHY ABOARD A BIGGER RUBBER DINGHY 0.55 9. TRACKING SHOT OF FLOODED HOMES 1.01 10. SV: MAN CARRYING DOG IN PLASTIC BUCKET THROUGH WATER 1.11 (W8) LEBIEN, GERMANY (AUGUST 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. WS: GERHARD SCHROEDER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR, HANS EICHEL, FINANCE MINISTER, WERNER MUELLER, ECONOMICS MINISTER AND GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE 1.24 12. SCU: CAMERA CREWS FILMING 1.27 13. SV: SOUNDBITE (German) GERHARD SCHROEDER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR SAYING: "We have made clear that we want a solid and workable financing of the damage and that is why we have decided to delay by one year the tax cuts due to come into force in 2003." 1.51 14. SCU: PHOTOGRAPHER TAKING PICTURES 1.54 15. SIDE SHOTS OF SCHROEDER SPEAKING (2 SHOTS) 2.02 16. MV: JOURNALISTS LISTENING 2.05 17. SV: SOUNDBITE (German) GERHARD SCHROEDER, GERMAN CHANCELLOR SAYING: "Of course we still can't say definitely how high the damage is. A range of working groups will determine the damage once the catastrophe has been mastered and dangers have been removed. But it is clear that we are not talking about hundreds of millions but rather billions." 2.35 18. CU: JOURNALISTS TAKING NOTES 2.37 19. MV: EICHEL, SCHROEDER AND MUELLER LEAVING NEWS CONFERENCE 2.50 (W8) SCHLOTTWITZ, GERMANY (AUGUST 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 20. WORKERS STANDING IN RUBBLE NEXT TO FALLEN TREE, PULLOUT TO RIVER 3.03 21. MV: DAMAGED CAR IN MUD AND DEBRIS AT RAILWAY CROSSING 3.09 22. WS: DAMAGED TRAIN TRACKS 3.14 23. MV: MAN WALKING ALONG COLLAPSED ROAD 3.21 24. SLV: CAR LYING IN MUD NEXT TO COLLAPSED ROAD; PAN TO PEOPLE CLEARING RUBBLE 3.31 25. SV: STREET SIGN STICKING OUT OF RUBBLE 3.35 26. SV: BULLDOZERS MOVING MUD EARTH AND MUD 3.44 27. MV: VOLUNTEERS STANDING IN RUBBLE WITH WHEEL BARROW 3.49 28. LV: VANS DRIVING ALONG PARTLY COLLAPSED ROAD 3.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LEBIEN & BERLIN & SCHLOTTWITZ, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7DZUF5KXD622IB830OWN34RDT
  • Story Text: More than 100,000 people have been evacuated in eastern
    Germany, fleeing from a flood wave which has killed at least
    fifteen people.


    In Lebien near the Elbe river, most streets were flooded on
    Monday (August 19) as residents moved around in
    rubber dinghies.

    One man was seen carrying his dog through the water in a
    plastic bucket.

    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said tax cuts due to
    come into force in 2003 would be delayed by one year, yielding
    6.9 billion euros for government coffers to help pay for
    repairs to flood damage.

    "We still can't say definitely how high the damage is,"
    Schroeder told a news conference in Berlin.

    In towns like Schlottwitz where the flood wave has passed
    through, the traces left behind are those of devastation.

    Volunteers cleared mud and debris from collapsed roads and
    destroyed railway tracks.

    A heap of mud, gravel and a car completely damaged by the
    force of the flood is all that is left of the towns railway
    crossing.

    Some estimates put the overall costs of the flood damage
    in Germany alone at more than 10 billion euros.
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