(9 Jul 2005)
Havana
1. Wide shot Morro Castle and boats
2. Man sitting on quay with castle in background
3. Men lifting boat from sea
4. Zoom out from sign reading "Closed" to exterior of shop
5. Wide shot men boarding up windows
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ramon La Calle, Havana Resident:
"We're ready, we're always ready. US Cubans are always ready because we prepare in time."
7. Wide shot shop with people waiting in line
8. Man buying drinks
9. Wide shot men removing canvas roof
10. Close up same
11. Tilt up same
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sonia Alamar, Havana Resident:
"As long as the storm surge doesn't come in, I couldn't care less. All you have to do is hide, but if the sea comes through here, that's really bad because a lot of homes will be destroyed."
13. Pan right from divers to people on Malecon Avenue
14. Diver throwing lifebelt
15. Zoom out from rescue vehicle to people on Malecon Avenue
16. Diver in ocean
17. Victim with rescuers
18. Diver on crane and divers in ocean
Cienfuegos province
19. Waves pounding retaining wall
20. Wide shot ocean and large sign on wall reading "Welcome to Socialist Cuba"
21. Wide shot trees and wind
22. Close up same
23. Tobacco house with wind damage
24. Wide shot palm trees and wind
STORYLINE:
Hurricane Dennis lashed Cuba on its way to the Gulf of Mexico Friday, killing at least 10 people as it raked the Caribbean's largest island with torrential rains and 135 mph (215 kph) winds and forced thousands to flee the Florida Keys.
Winds and heaving surf tossed a lifeguard tower into the sea and the spray towered over a razor-wire fence at the
U.S. detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, on the island's eastern end.
Fidel Castro said there were 10 deaths in southeastern Cuba, eight in Granma province and two in Santiago, during an appearance on state television Friday afternoon. .
Another five were earlier reported killed in Haiti, bringing the known overall death toll for the Caribbean to
15.
A top Cuban meteorologist called Dennis an "extremely dangerous" storm.
The eye made landfall on central Cuba's southern coast a second time shortly before 2 p.m. (1800GMT) on Friday near Cienfuegos, Cuba, about 125 miles (205 kilometres) southeast of Havana, the Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Overnight, Dennis crossed a sparsely populated Cuban cape at Cabo Cruz jutting out far west.
Hurricane-force winds extended 50 miles (85 kilometres) with tropical storm force winds stretching another 160 miles (260 kilometres). Dennis was moving northwest near 17 miles per hour (27 kilometres per hour).
It still remains unclear whether Havana will be in the direct path of the storm, but residents of the seaside city prepared for the worse. Along Malecon Avenue, fishermen took their boats out of the water and placed them in safe storage.
Not everyone, however, was cautious. One man had to be rescued after jumping into water.
Hurricane Centre forecasters warned Cuba's southeast Sierra Maestra Mountains could get up to 15 inches (38 centimetres) of rain, with about 10 inches (25 centimetres) falling on Jamaica's coffee-producing Blue Mountains.
In Cuba's southern city of Cienfuegos, expected to bear much of the storm's brunt, residents rushed on Friday morning to board up windows with
anything to hand: plywood, metal sheeting - even cardboard.
Residents fled the city on bicycle and on foot, some carrying pet dogs. Long lines formed at gas stations and at government ration centres
distributing bread.
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