On April 16th, the city of Winnipeg declared a state of emergency in its riverside neighborhoods as a precaution against the rising Red River. Mayor Sam Katz told residents to brace themselves for several weeks of flooding. (On April 18th, the province estimated that at the height of the flooding, about two-thousand people had been forced from their homes, more than half from First Nations communities. The Manitoba government pegged flood damage at 40 million dollars.)

Date: 2009-04-16
Placeline: WINNIPEG, Manitoba.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 17 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << depending where you live here and you're not impacted in any way shape or form for others it's extremely too it's terrifying to know that you know your your home could be flooded set for your personal belongings and that you watch the water ride >>

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