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Candy Drop Flop: Where's the Candy?

Aired August 07, 2003 - 05:49   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.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It was billed as a reenactment of the Berlin airlift. Instead, CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a candy drop that was enough to turn a kid's sweet tooth sour.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They paced, they chased, they played pattycake waiting for candy to drop from heaven.

(on camera): What are you waiting for?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm waiting for the candy.

MOOS (voice-over): Candy that would fall from the sky as it did 55 years ago during the Berlin Airlift. Chocolate suspended from parachutes made of handkerchiefs floated to kids on the ground.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So today you are part of reenacting that experience.

MOOS (on camera): You guys ever hear of the Berlin Airlift?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

MOOS (voice-over): History wasn't what was on their minds.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What type of candy is there going to be?

MOOS (on camera): Well, I think there's going to Babe Ruths. You know Babe Ruths?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

MOOS: And then they told me something called a Fifth Avenue. Did you ever hear of a Fifth Avenue?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I live on Fifth Avenue in Queens so.

MOOS: Do you?

(voice-over): The candy drop at an old airfield in Brooklyn was supposed to publicize an Air Force exhibit on flight at Rockefeller Center. Kids came equipped with everything from Sponge Bob backpacks to Halloween bags to garbage bags to carry off their manna from heaven.

MOOS (on camera): How much candy are you expecting?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of it.

MOOS (voice-over): But just like with the Berlin Airlift, the weather wasn't cooperating. Low visibility kept the kids waiting for hours, getting hungrier and hungrier.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kitty, kitty.

MOOS (on camera): Well this is the Brooklyn Airlift, right? Starving children marooned at an airport.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's get some movement.

MOOS (voice-over): Suddenly an old C-54, the type of plane used in the Berlin Airlift, broke through the clouds. The resulting stampede was deja vu all over again 1948. But just as suddenly as the plane had appeared, it vanished.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guess what, the pilot can't see.

MOOS: And couldn't swoop low enough to make the air drop. Taking candy from babies may be easy, but not giving it to them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've had a bad day.

MOOS: A bad day, but it got better. Franks Pizza to the rescue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pizza.

MOOS: Plus, the kids were hand delivered candy. Nevertheless,...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This stinks on ice. It wasn't fair. I wanted -- I wanted to see them drop the candy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

MOOS: Stinks on ice. An airdrop that flopped makes the Berlin Airlift seem like child's play.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Brooklyn, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: How embarrassing.

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Aired August 7, 2003 - 05:49   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It was billed as a reenactment of the Berlin airlift. Instead, CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a candy drop that was enough to turn a kid's sweet tooth sour.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They paced, they chased, they played pattycake waiting for candy to drop from heaven.

(on camera): What are you waiting for?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm waiting for the candy.

MOOS (voice-over): Candy that would fall from the sky as it did 55 years ago during the Berlin Airlift. Chocolate suspended from parachutes made of handkerchiefs floated to kids on the ground.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So today you are part of reenacting that experience.

MOOS (on camera): You guys ever hear of the Berlin Airlift?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

MOOS (voice-over): History wasn't what was on their minds.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What type of candy is there going to be?

MOOS (on camera): Well, I think there's going to Babe Ruths. You know Babe Ruths?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

MOOS: And then they told me something called a Fifth Avenue. Did you ever hear of a Fifth Avenue?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I live on Fifth Avenue in Queens so.

MOOS: Do you?

(voice-over): The candy drop at an old airfield in Brooklyn was supposed to publicize an Air Force exhibit on flight at Rockefeller Center. Kids came equipped with everything from Sponge Bob backpacks to Halloween bags to garbage bags to carry off their manna from heaven.

MOOS (on camera): How much candy are you expecting?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of it.

MOOS (voice-over): But just like with the Berlin Airlift, the weather wasn't cooperating. Low visibility kept the kids waiting for hours, getting hungrier and hungrier.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kitty, kitty.

MOOS (on camera): Well this is the Brooklyn Airlift, right? Starving children marooned at an airport.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's get some movement.

MOOS (voice-over): Suddenly an old C-54, the type of plane used in the Berlin Airlift, broke through the clouds. The resulting stampede was deja vu all over again 1948. But just as suddenly as the plane had appeared, it vanished.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guess what, the pilot can't see.

MOOS: And couldn't swoop low enough to make the air drop. Taking candy from babies may be easy, but not giving it to them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've had a bad day.

MOOS: A bad day, but it got better. Franks Pizza to the rescue.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pizza.

MOOS: Plus, the kids were hand delivered candy. Nevertheless,...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This stinks on ice. It wasn't fair. I wanted -- I wanted to see them drop the candy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

MOOS: Stinks on ice. An airdrop that flopped makes the Berlin Airlift seem like child's play.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, Brooklyn, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: How embarrassing.

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