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Claudette Still Threat to Mexico, Not Quite Jezebel It Was
Aired July 11, 2003 - 05:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well, Claudette is still a threat to Mexico, but the storm's not quite the Jezebel it was.
On the phone with the latest is Mario Stoute with the Municipality of Benito Juarez, Cancun.
Thanks for joining us, Mario.
MARIO STOUTE, CANCUN SPOKESPERSON: Good morning.
WHITFIELD: Well, I know it's very early there, but give us a sense as to what the weather's doing right now.
STOUTE: Right now we have some rain, not heavy rain, and some wind about, we have a report of about 32 miles per hour wind.
WHITFIELD: And because Claudette, as a tropical storm, has lost steam, a little bit, are people feeling a bit more at ease or are they still being particularly cautious just in case it does get worse?
STOUTE: Well, it, at the moment, is not getting worse. It's really been -- at 12 o'clock we had the hotel zone advisory that all the tourists should be in their hotels. We close all the discotheques and night centers. We sent them home early, at 12 o'clock.
WHITFIELD: Now, no evacuations have been ordered, but there are other instructions that you've been able to give to the hotels, or at least the tourists in that area.
What are some of those instructions?
STOUTE: Well, the instruction was to be at their hotel and get people off the street. We have no -- it doesn't seem to be anything out of normal, but some rain, some wind and at 8:08 a.m. we will have a reunion in the municipality palace and we believe that at that moment we will have any damage that the storm has produced will be reported at that time.
At the moment, we have 130 public shelters and only seven have been opened in case anyone wants to be in the shelters.
WHITFIELD: And you all are used to bracing for tropical storms or hurricanes, etc. Because of that, do you believe that there's sort of a sense of complacency, that people wait till it gets to a certain level before they feel like this is serious?
STOUTE: No, we have been informed and in touch with the federal government and the state government and we have been on the television and the radio continuously in the last 72 hours.
WHITFIELD: All right, well, good news for now that it appears that Tropical Storm Claudette has lost steam a little bit. But it does still sit along the Yucatan Peninsula, dumping a bit of rain.
Mario Stoute, thanks very much for joining us on the telephone.
Well, you can easily follow the path of Claudette on your personal computer. Just click onto our Web site at cnn.com. the AOL keyword is CNN.
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Aired July 11, 2003 - 05:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well, Claudette is still a threat to Mexico, but the storm's not quite the Jezebel it was.
On the phone with the latest is Mario Stoute with the Municipality of Benito Juarez, Cancun.
Thanks for joining us, Mario.
MARIO STOUTE, CANCUN SPOKESPERSON: Good morning.
WHITFIELD: Well, I know it's very early there, but give us a sense as to what the weather's doing right now.
STOUTE: Right now we have some rain, not heavy rain, and some wind about, we have a report of about 32 miles per hour wind.
WHITFIELD: And because Claudette, as a tropical storm, has lost steam, a little bit, are people feeling a bit more at ease or are they still being particularly cautious just in case it does get worse?
STOUTE: Well, it, at the moment, is not getting worse. It's really been -- at 12 o'clock we had the hotel zone advisory that all the tourists should be in their hotels. We close all the discotheques and night centers. We sent them home early, at 12 o'clock.
WHITFIELD: Now, no evacuations have been ordered, but there are other instructions that you've been able to give to the hotels, or at least the tourists in that area.
What are some of those instructions?
STOUTE: Well, the instruction was to be at their hotel and get people off the street. We have no -- it doesn't seem to be anything out of normal, but some rain, some wind and at 8:08 a.m. we will have a reunion in the municipality palace and we believe that at that moment we will have any damage that the storm has produced will be reported at that time.
At the moment, we have 130 public shelters and only seven have been opened in case anyone wants to be in the shelters.
WHITFIELD: And you all are used to bracing for tropical storms or hurricanes, etc. Because of that, do you believe that there's sort of a sense of complacency, that people wait till it gets to a certain level before they feel like this is serious?
STOUTE: No, we have been informed and in touch with the federal government and the state government and we have been on the television and the radio continuously in the last 72 hours.
WHITFIELD: All right, well, good news for now that it appears that Tropical Storm Claudette has lost steam a little bit. But it does still sit along the Yucatan Peninsula, dumping a bit of rain.
Mario Stoute, thanks very much for joining us on the telephone.
Well, you can easily follow the path of Claudette on your personal computer. Just click onto our Web site at cnn.com. the AOL keyword is CNN.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
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