That’s the approximate running time of the first VO or voiceover package I edited for TV Patrol World.
This was Monday, September 28. Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana had passed, and we were now taking a sober look at the damage it left.
How long it took to edit the piece? Almost an hour. We started to lay the audio by 5:35 p.m. and had it ready for airing just before the headlines ran at 6:30.
Residents in submerged Pasig areas still await help. Report by Jorge Cariño, ABS-CBN News, for TV Patrol World, September 28, 2009 (Click on screen grab to watch via ABS-CBN News Online)
Our Electronic News Gathering Van 4 was set up in Pasig’s De Castro subdivision, which hours earlier was knee-deep, and days before head-high in flood.
Reporter Jorge Cariño had then joined police riding a rubber boat to move displaced residents. Where he stood for his live report that night, the waters were gone.
They left behind tons of garbage–a lot not even from the place–strewn in mud. Carcasses of cats, dogs, and birds mingled with the refuse. What effects families did not move up they piled in the street, all wet and rendered useless.
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