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Rolling Stones to Play Toronto to Celebrate SARS Elimination
Aired July 30, 2003 - 15:51 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.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: SARS free and ready to rock. That's what concert organizers are trying to prove at a massive, star- studded, outdoor bash in Toronto today with no less than the Rolling Stones headlining the event. Our Kendis Gibson is at the SARS-stock as they rock on. This is really what they're calling it, Kendis?
KENDIS GIBSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's a little bit of a party. Maybe you might have heard one or two things about it and maybe they have also.
Take a look at this crowd. It's really amazing standing here and seeing how it's grown over the last few hours. The concert started at 12:00 Eastern time. Take a look from above and you'll see the size of the crowd. The estimates we're getting right now about 350,000 people have already gathered here in the north of Toronto. They expected to get upwards of 400,000 people or at least that's how many people bought tickets for this big event.
Which is really amazing when you think about it because they only started planning this about a month ago. The Rolling Stones said, Hey, you know what? We want to do something to try to help out the city that they like a lot. We actually to the promoter for the Stones and he continued to express the Stones' feelings about this city.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of them were positive at the go with the idea, with the suggestion. And then it was just -- so they were committed actually long before we could actually do it, long before the government committed and long before we were able to move the dates around in Europe. We had to cancel a show, we had move a show. It was very complicated.
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GIBSON: So we're back now live and you see, once again, a better view of the crowds that have come here to listen to many of the acts. Fifteen, acts in all. Rolling Stones, of course, being the headlining act. But you also have AC/DC, Rush and Justin Timberlake, of all folks, here at this rock fest for Toronto.
That's the story live from north of Toronto. I'm Kendis Gibson. Let's go back to you, Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Kendis Gibson, thanks so very much from Toronto today. 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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Aired July 30, 2003 - 15:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: SARS free and ready to rock. That's what concert organizers are trying to prove at a massive, star- studded, outdoor bash in Toronto today with no less than the Rolling Stones headlining the event. Our Kendis Gibson is at the SARS-stock as they rock on. This is really what they're calling it, Kendis?
KENDIS GIBSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's a little bit of a party. Maybe you might have heard one or two things about it and maybe they have also.
Take a look at this crowd. It's really amazing standing here and seeing how it's grown over the last few hours. The concert started at 12:00 Eastern time. Take a look from above and you'll see the size of the crowd. The estimates we're getting right now about 350,000 people have already gathered here in the north of Toronto. They expected to get upwards of 400,000 people or at least that's how many people bought tickets for this big event.
Which is really amazing when you think about it because they only started planning this about a month ago. The Rolling Stones said, Hey, you know what? We want to do something to try to help out the city that they like a lot. We actually to the promoter for the Stones and he continued to express the Stones' feelings about this city.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All of them were positive at the go with the idea, with the suggestion. And then it was just -- so they were committed actually long before we could actually do it, long before the government committed and long before we were able to move the dates around in Europe. We had to cancel a show, we had move a show. It was very complicated.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: So we're back now live and you see, once again, a better view of the crowds that have come here to listen to many of the acts. Fifteen, acts in all. Rolling Stones, of course, being the headlining act. But you also have AC/DC, Rush and Justin Timberlake, of all folks, here at this rock fest for Toronto.
That's the story live from north of Toronto. I'm Kendis Gibson. Let's go back to you, Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Kendis Gibson, thanks so very much from Toronto today. 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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