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Title: OETA Story on Flooded Lakes At Lake Sequoyah State Park in Oklahoma
Runtime: 2:34
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is a story that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report in Tulsa Oklahoma as reported by Cathy Tatom and photojournalist Aaron Byrd. For more information or to contact us, please go to www.oeta.tv The verbatim script follows below...

RECENT HEAVY RAINS HAVE MANY STATE LAKES FULL TO THE BRIM... AND THEN SOME.

THE HIGH WATER HAS FLOODED OUT SEVERAL STATE PARK CAMP GROUNDS AND BOAT RAMPS.

OETA'S CATHY TATOM REPORTS from SEQUOYAH STATE PARK WHERE UP TO HALF THE CAMPSITES ARE UNDER AS WE NEAR THE BIG MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. HIGH WATER AND FLOODING FOLLOWING WEEKS OF HEAVY RAINS IS PUTTING A DAMPER ON SOME MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND PLANS AT STATE LAKES AND CAMPGROUNDS.

ND MAKING THIS A SIGN OF THE TIMES.

BUT NOT EVERYTHING IS SHUT DOWN, OR UNDERWATER.

Tony Presley/Park Manager: "Tent sites we still have lots of those available still, there's still a lot of property we can use for...

Title: OETA Story Oklahoma Motto Change? aired 05/18/09
Runtime: 2:23
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is a story that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report in Tulsa Oklahoma as reported by Lori Rasmussen and photojournalist Edwin Wilson. For more information or to contact us, please go to www.oeta.tv The verbatim script follows below...

OKLAHOMA'S STATE MOTTO IS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED TO BE "LABOR CONQUERS ALL."

THAT'S THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF WORDS APPEARING ON THE STATE SEAL.

NOW, WITH JUST ONE WEEK LEFT IN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, ONE STATE SENATOR THINKS IT'S TIME FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

O-E-T-A'S LORI RASMUSSEN HAS THE STORY.THE LATIN PHRASE "LABOR OMNIA VINCIT" WAS PART OF THE GRAND SEAL OF OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

THE NOTION THAT LABOR CONQUERS ALL WAS VIEWED AS A NATURAL MOTTO FOR THE FRONTIERS MEN WORKING TO TAME THE NEWLY OPENED LANDS.

THE PHRASE ITSELF GOES BACK TO THE POET VIRGIL MORE THAN TWO-THOUSAND YEARS AGO.

IT WAS PART OF A POEM WRITTEN TO EN...

Title: OETA Story From Silence to Sound aired 5/11/09
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is a story that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report in Tulsa Oklahoma as reported by Cathy Tatom and photojournalist Edwin Wilson. For more information or to contact us, please go to www.oeta.tv The verbatim script follows below...

AN OWASSO MAN MADE HISTORY BECOMING OKLAHOMA'S FIRST DOUBLE COCHLEAR IMPLANT RECIPIENT.

THE OPERATION CHANGED JUSTIN GARRETT'S LIFE. NOW, HE'S OUT TO CHANGE THE LIVES OF OTHERS THROUGH A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT HIS JOURNEY FROM SILENCE TO SOUND.

O-E-T-A'S CATHY TATOM INTRODUCES US TO GARRETT AND THE MEN WHO CAPTURED HIS LIFE-ALTERING EXPERIENCE.

Jack Polachek: "I wouldn't know that you had been deaf before by the way you speak now."

IT'S BEEN MORE THAN A YEAR SINCE JUSTIN GARRETT, DOCUMENTARY FILM-MAKER CHASE MATTHEWS, AND HIS PARTNER, JACK POLACHEK, HAD A CHANCE TO SIT AND TALK FACE TO FACE.

Jack Polachek: "Your speech has become so fluid and nat...

Title: OETA Story School Drill in Jenks, Oklahoma aired 05/20/09
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: ***THIS IS ONLY A SIMULATION*** ***THIS IS NOT REAL*** ***TRAINING ONLY***

This is a story that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report in Tulsa Oklahoma as reported by Angela Rosecrans and photojournalist Edwin Wilson.

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This is a story about emergency preparedness in Jenks, Oklahoma, that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma Report on May 20, 2009, as reported by Angela Rosecrans and photojournalist Edwin Wilson.

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THIS HOSTAGE SIMULATED EVENT LOOKS... AND SOUNDS... LIKE THE REAL THING.

POLICE OFFICERS AND EMERGENCY RESPONDERS REACT AS IF THIS JENKS SCHOOL BUS IS BEING ABDUCTED.

AND JENKS HIGH SCHOOL DRAMA STUDENTS GET INTO CHARACTER TO HELP MAKE THIS PRACTICE DRILL MORE EFFECTIVE.

Kara Erwin/ Jenks High School, Junior "W...

Title: OETA Story on 9-1-1 Call Kimberlyn Kendricks Death aired 5-18-09
Runtime: 4:20
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is a story that aired on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report in Tulsa Oklahoma as reported by Lis Exon and photojournalist Edwin Wilson and Tim Carson.

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this is a story that aired on OETA Public Television in Oklahoma. About a 911 call made by a woman caught in flood waters. As reported by Lis Exon and photojournalist Edwin Wilson, Tim Carson.

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AFTER VERY HEAVY RAINS IN MAYES COUNTY ON MAY 2ND, FLOODWATERS SWEPT A FORD ESCORT DRIVEN BY 49 YEAR OLD KIMBERLYN KENDRICK INTO FLOOD WATERS.
THIS IS HER CALL FOR HELP BEFORE SHE DIED.
"911 Do you need police. fire or medical? I need.. I'm sinking okay. Where are you at? I'm between pryor I'm on... I've not lived here very long so I didn't know this was going to sink but my car is sinking I'm about t...

Title: OETA Story on Flooding Problems in Pryor, Oklahoma air on 05-01-09
Runtime: 2:23
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is video of a story that aired on May 1, 2009 on OETA Public Television's The Oklahoma News Report, as reported by Angela Rosecrans and photojournalist Edwin Wilson. (This story won a first place award for general news at the Oklahoma Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 02-20-10)

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HEAVY RAIN IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA FINALLY RUNS OUT OF PLACES TO GO.. CAUSING MAJOR FLOODING.
THIS BRIDGE, LIKE MANY OTHER AREAS ACROSS THE STATE WILL SOON BE UNDER WATER.
THE WARNING SIGNS ARE THERE...
YET, MANY DRIVERS ARE NOT HEEDING THE WARNING.
Marty Osborne/ Claremore Fire Department "Stay out of the high water for crying out loud."
BUT THE WORST OF THE FLOODING APPEARED TO BE IN PRYOR.
PRYOR'S MAYOR, JIMMY TRAMEL SAYS JUST TODAY, THEY RESCUED MORE THAN 20 RESIDENTS FROM THEIR CAR...

Title: OETA Story on Pryor Flood Cleanup aired on 05/04/09
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: This is a story that ran on OETA Television's The Oklahoma News Report on May 4, 2009 on Flooding Cleanup in Pryor, Oklahoma as reported by Angela Rosecrans and photojournalist Edwin Wilson.
For more information or to contact us, please go to www.oeta.tv The verbatim script follows below...

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MOTHER NATURE LEFT HER MARK IN MAYES COUNTY.
AFTER LAST WEEK'S HEAVY RAIN AND FLOODING... RESIDENTS IN PRYOR ARE DEALING WITH THE AFTERMATH.
JIM AND MARY CLARK HAVE DEALT WITH THEIR HOUSE BEING FLOODED BEFORE BUT NEVER LIKE THIS.
Mary Clark/ Flood Victim " It was like nothing would stop it it was like a rushing river and it's more than my mind can accept right now."
THE LAST TIME THIS TOWN SAW SUCH DAMAGE WAS MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO. THIS OLD PRYOR NEWSPAPER HEADLINE READS OF THE 100-YEAR RAIN THAT HIT PRYOR BACK IN JULY OF 1976.
BUT THE CLARKS SAY UNTIL YOU ARE PERSONALLY ...

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