World News Now (ABC) - 2008-05-07 (partial)
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[0:00] it
[0:01] you know, more lives potentially can be
[0:03] lost. The US government is also offering
[0:06] to help. More than $3 million in aid and
[0:09] off the coast of Thailand, three US Navy
[0:11] ships on standby to go if only Myanmar's
[0:14] government will let them in.
[0:17] For now, residents must survive on their
[0:19] own. Some living out in the open. What
[0:22] they need most, food, tents, and
[0:25] drinking water.
[0:27] The hardest hit coastal region is
[0:29] causing the greatest concerns. Before
[0:31] the storm, many areas were already
[0:33] accessible only by boat or helicopter.
[0:36] With virtually no communications, many
[0:38] of the neediest victims are now cut off
[0:41] from the rest of the world.
[0:42] Jim Sciutto, ABC News, Bangkok.
[0:46] And back here at home, Georgia becomes
[0:47] the first state to resume executions
[0:50] since the Supreme Court upheld lethal
[0:51] injections. Convicted killer William
[0:54] Earl Lynd was put to death last night by
[0:56] the three-drug cocktail considered by
[0:58] critics as cruel and unusual punishment.
[1:01] The execution took place less than an
[1:03] hour after the high court rejected
[1:04] efforts to block it. Lynd was the first
[1:06] person executed in the country in 7
[1:09] months. A major bust has broken up a
[1:11] drug ring in San Diego State University.
[1:14] 96 people were arrested yesterday in
[1:16] connection with the ring, including 75
[1:18] students. Those arrests were made after
[1:20] a 5-month investigation that began after
[1:22] the cocaine-related death of a student
[1:24] last May. Another student died of a
[1:26] cocaine overdose during the probe. Six
[1:29] San Diego State fraternities have been
[1:31] suspended now because of this case.
[1:34] Well,