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Event Date(s): 07/13/2004 | Event Location(s): Washington, DC; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Perryville, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; New York City, New York; | Description: 09:00:00 MSNBC Live anchored by Randy Meier and Amy Robach 09:00:01 Meier and Robach voice over preview video of upcoming segments 09:00:35 Meier is joined by NBC News Correspondent Bob Kur live from outside of the White House in Washington, DC. He reports that President George W Bush is going to campaign in states in the Midwest. Exterior day medium shot President Bush debarks from presidential aircraft to tarmac and shakes hands with others. Exterior day wide shot people checking presidential aircraft. Exterior day wide shot people checking presidential aircraft. Medium shot Oak Ridge, Tennessee Bush at podium says, "Although we have not found stock piles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq. We removed a declared enemy of America." Medium shot Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry says, "The United States of America should never go to war because we want to-we only go to war because we have to. That's the standard in this country." 09:02:46 Meier voices over exterior day medium shot John Kerry and Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate John Edwards on stage during campaign rally. 09:03:15 Robach is joined by NBC News Correspondent Carl Rochelle live from Capitol Hill Washington, DC. The Senate is split between amending the Constitution to make marriage reserved to the right of a man and a woman. Interior Capitol overhead shot members of Senate seated. Interior medium shot Democratic California Senator Dianne Feinstein says, "I don't believe a Constitutional Amendment for same-sex excuse me, for reserving the right of marriage to a man and a woman is properly before us because I believe that's an area clearly relative to the states and the states are exercising that right." Interior medium shot Republican Senate Majority Leader Senator Bill Frist says, "Since the 27th Amendment was about regulating salaries of members of Congress, it's not too much to ask that the 28th Amendment be about protecting marriage and children." 09:05:21 Graphic map of Iraq with Baghdad highlighted 09:05:26 Meier is joined by NBC News Correspondent Tom Aspell live from Baghdad, Iraq. He reports the latest on a crackdown of insurgents. Exterior day Iraq wide shot Iraqi children running. Exterior day medium shot people standing next to a building. Medium shot cars. Medium shot Iraqi police officer aiming a weapon. Wide shot an Iraqi police officer aiming a weapon. Wide shot Iraqi people standing. Wide shot Iraqi people standing. Exterior day Baghdad wide shot United States (US) troops carry wounded troop on stretcher. Video clip of Filipino hostage in Iraq Angelo de la Cruz in captivity with armed and masked Islamic militants. Video clip of Filipino hostage in Iraq Angelo de la Cruz in captivity with armed and masked Islamic militants. 09:06:52 NBC News Correspondent Robert Hager reports from Reagan International Airport Washington, DC. There is new criticism about the way the Transportation Security Administration is securing the nation's airports. Just as air travel is increasing again there are new questions about airport screeners. Interior medium panning shot of baggage screeners at screening location. Graphic superimposed "The Seattle Times" newspaper masthead. Medium low shot of screeners (one faces unseen) handling luggage. Medium shot passengers stand in security screening line. Interior in an airport medium shot screeners wanding passengers shrinks to insert. Medium shot insert of screener examining luggage. Graphic with supers"7 million hours of overtime, 3 weeks per screener" Medium shot "Transportation Security Administration (TSA)" logo and badge on screener's (faces unseen) shirt. Interior medium shot in interview American Federation Of Government Employees' Sharon Pinoch says (part voice over)"The fear is that when people are forced to work longer shifts than they need to, when they don't have the proper staffing level there to do the job that the screening of the airports that the American public is depending on this agency to do is not really getting done the way that we expect it to." Medium shot in an airport screener checks woman's bag near others. Medium panning shot of passengers with luggage at x-ray machines. Medium shot in an airport hand (faces unseen) pushes button on control panel. Exterior day at an airport medium shot baggage handler watches luggage move on conveyor as another handler loads luggage on conveyor. Medium shot baggage handler seen inside the plane as he stacks luggage moving into the plane on conveyor. Interior in an airport medium panning shot of screeners examining luggage. Interior medium shot in interview TSA Spokesman Mark Hatfield says "The TSA has met the Congressional mandate to screen 100% of checked bags at every airport in the United States of America. We are at 100%." Interior in an airport medium panning shot of passengers standing in security line. Interior Washington, DC medium shot Hager signs off on-camera. 09:08:35 Meier voices over aerial shot Chicago, Illinois of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Aerial shot Chicago, Illinois of Chicago O'Hare International Airport. 09:08:54 Meier voices over exterior day Athens, Greece medium shot person on a motorbike. Medium shot a traffic light. Wide shot people standing. Medium shot person lying on ground. Wide shot people standing 09:09:11 Meier voices over clips from United States (US) Olympic trials of 100-meter women's race. 09:09:36 Robach voices over aerial night shot Angeles National Forest, California of smoke and flames billowing from a wildfire. Aerial night shot Angeles National Forest, California of smoke and flames billowing from a wildfire. 09:09:47 Robach voices over aerial shot Miami-Dade County, Florida of smoke and flames billowing from brushfire. Aerial shot Miami-Dade County, Florida of smoke and flames billowing from brushfire. Aerial shot Miami-Dade County, Florida of smoke and flames billowing from brushfire. Aerial shot Miami-Dade County, Florida of smoke and flames billowing from brushfire. 09:10:01 Robach voices over exterior day Philadelphia, Pennsylvania various shots of floods. 09:10:22 Robach and Meier are joined by MSNBC's John Elliott live in the studio. He reports the latest in the weather across the United States (US). Graphic US map with weather patterns supered over. Exterior aerial shot Perryville, Maryland of a fire truck caught in a flood. Aerial shot people standing next to flood. Aerial shot vehicles caught in flight. Aerial shot fire fighters rescuing vehicle in flood. Aerial shot vehicle in flood. 09:11:33 Meier voices over graphic with insert still of actress Sharon Stone. 09:11:50 Robach voices over exterior day medium shot celebrity Paris Hilton. Still of Hilton. Still of Hilton. 09:12:14 Robach and Meier voice over preview video of upcoming segments. 09:15:30 Meier voices over split screen shot of Bush and Kerry. Graphic with header, "USA Today/CNN/Gallup: Presidential Election North Carolina," with supers, "Bush/Cheney 49%,""Kerry/Edwards 43%." 09:16:08 Robach is joined by American Enterprise Institute Danielle Pletka live from Washington, DC and by former US Ambassador to Iraq Edward Peck live from Washington, DC. They discuss terror warnings and if they are false alarms and politically motivated. Graphic with supers of Homeland Security Terror Threat level warnings. Exterior night New York City, New York medium shot New York Police Department (NYPD) officers flag down a vehicle. Medium shot security officers standing. Exterior night medium shot NYPD officer. Various shots of NYPD officers standing. Graphic with header, "False Alarm," with super,"(The Administration) didn't say what was new and they didn't suggest any additional measures to be taken?I think that that really attacks the credibility of the government warning system." Exterior night various shots of NYPD officers. Aerial shot New York City skyline. Medium shot of a subway. 09:20:41 Meier voices over preview video of upcoming segments 09:24:48 Robach voices over graphic United States (US) map with weather patterns supered over. Graphic with supers of weather temperatures across the US. 09:25:33 Meier adds a new picture to the "My Hero" wall live in the studio. Graphic with insert of a letter. Graphic with super, "Chad's quick action was the major factor in his father's surviving ?and the reason he is our hero." 09:26:34 Robach voices over preview video of upcoming segments.