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1990MEDICAL
People exposed to a chemical leak in their urban neighborhood are interviewed about the event and their symptoms in a crowded medical emergency room.

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African American male, John Johnson, being interviewed in a parking lot by an unseen reporter.
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Johnson talks from the parking lot of Brookside Hospital to the news reporter about how he noticed a white cloud hovering on the grass of his backyard and the police passing out gas masks and telling people to stay inside. He talks about being overwhelmed by the smell and that it made him dizzy and nauseous.
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Johnson talks about the intense bleach type smell and the symptoms he felt, red eyes and puffiness. He states he's waiting at Brookside Hospital to be checked out and that the waiting room is packed with people.
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Male reporter inside the packed medical office waiting room. He talks with an African American couple. CU on the couple. The woman holds a napkin over her mouth states her chest and eyes are burning and leans against her husband. The man talks about how there was a thick fog, his wife was getting sick, and he started coughing.
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A Hispanic man wearing a mask covering his nose and mouth in the hospital waiting room. He talks with unseen reporter about his symptoms and having heard about the gas leak. Sounds of people coughing.
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Pan the multi-racial folk seated in a crowded medical office room, some holding cloths over their mouths. Reporter talks with a woman holding a cloth to her mouth who talks about the fumes and how she got physically sick from the overwhelming smell.
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More shots of the crowded emergency room, mostly Black and Hispanic women, men and children standing and seated and coughing.
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Nurse assisting African American man in a wheelchair in the crowded emergency room. He coughs into a red cloth and has boxes of medicine in his lap.
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Further pan and WSs of the extremely crowded emergency room, some security guards are seen amongst the folk.
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CU an older Black woman holding a white tissue close to her mouth speaks to unseen reporter at the crowded emergency room. She's coughing a bit as she talks about being outside and suddenly smelling something. She talks about receiving a call from the Health Department instructing her to stay indoors and close the doors. She states she took herself to the doctors office when she starting feeling sick to her stomach and that she saw fog.
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Other African American victims, males, talk to the reporter about their extreme symptoms of burning and not being able to breath, they talk about the "fog" and the events that brought them to the emergency room.
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More shots of the crowded waiting room, children, coughing. The room seems to be getting more crowded, security guards walking about, looks like chaos.
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