ROBERT DURST: PARTICIPATING IN DOCUMENTARY 'THE JINX' WAS 'STUPID,' PUT HIM IN JAIL

A close friend of Robert Durst told prosecutors for months that the real estate heir did not confess any killing to him.

Lawyers for Durst presented transcripts in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday (17 FEB.) that showed Nathan Chavin denying that Durst indicated he killed their mutual friend Susan Berman.

Chavin says he waffled for months because of a struggle between loyalties to Durst and Berman.

It took seven months before he told prosecutors Durst told him: "It was her or me. I had no choice."

Defense lawyers suggested Chavin made up the story to curry favor with Durst's brother.

Chavin did business with the New York real estate development empire headed by Douglas Durst.

Chavin says the brothers hate each other and Douglas Durst feared his older brother and wanted him locked up.

Robert Durst told Chavin he was stupid to participate in the documentary about his life "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst."

Durst told Chavin in a recorded jail phone call played Friday in a Los Angeles courtroom that the filmmaker had put him behind bars.

Chavin reminded Durst on the call that he counseled him not to participate in "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst." The film unearthed new evidence implicating Durst in three killings.

Durst has pleaded not guilty to murder in the 2000 killing of death of Susan Berman in Los Angeles.

Chavin is testifying in a hearing to record testimony from witnesses who are old or fear for their safety in case they're not able to testify at a trial in the Berman case.

POOL

FILE: Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

ROBERT DURST PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO MURDER IN LA COURT

Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday (7 NOV. 2016) in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles - 7 November 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

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Real estate heir Robert Durst pleaded not guilty to murder Monday in the death of a friend who authorities said Durst wanted to keep from talking to investigators looking into the disappearance of his first wife.

The 73-year-old Durst, wearing a neck brace and seated in a wheelchair, entered the plea during a long-awaited appearance in a Los Angeles courtroom in the death of Susan Berman 16 years ago.

"I do want to say here and now though I am not guilty," a pale and frail-looking Durst said in court. "I did not kill Susan Berman."

Durst's statement came after his attorney unsuccessfully argued to ban news media cameras from the courtroom.

Prosecutors said they would not be seeking the death penalty against Durst.

Durst was already a well-known figure in his native New York. But he became a national name when HBO aired the documentary "The Jinx" that followed his life and cast suspicion on him involving several crimes.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have been seeking to bring Durst to California since shortly after his arrest in March 2015.

POOL

Los Angeles - 7 November 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, defendant:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

DURST APPEARS IN NEW ORLEANS COURT; POLICE SAY HE HAD A REVOLVER WITH HIM WHEN ARRESTED

Millionaire Robert Durst agreed Monday (16 MARCH 2015) to return to Los Angeles to face a 15-year-old murder charge after muttering that he "killed them all" in a documentary about his links to three sensational killings.

Robert Durst, 71, appeared before a judge in New Orleans after FBI agents arrested him before HBO's broadcast of Sunday's final episode of the documentary.

He is charged in the shooting death of Susan Berman, a mobster's daughter who acted as his spokeswoman. He has also long been suspected in the death of his wife, Kathleen Durst, and was acquitted years ago in the death of an elderly neighbor.

In the finale of the documentary that authorities hope will finally lead to a conviction, he muttered that "killed them all, of course."

He shuffled into the courtroom with his hands shackled at his waist, wearing sandals and an orange jumpsuit. He turned to the gallery and smiled, then appeared to fall asleep just before the hearing started. Later, he answered "yes" to questions from the judge about whether he was waiving extradition from Louisiana state to California.

But one of his lawyers, Dick DeGuerin, said the trip may be delayed because New Orleans prosecutors are considering other unspecified charges. He wouldn't elaborate, and spokesman Christopher Bowman said the Orleans Parish district attorney's office won't comment.

A police report said Durst was in possession of a revolver when he was arrested. In Louisiana, a person needs a permit to carry a concealed weapon, and it was not immediately clear if Durst had a permit.

A former prosecutor who reopened one of the cold cases against Durst years ago, Jeanine Pirro, said Monday that his own words, recorded during and after a lengthy interview he gave to the filmmaker, are enough to convict him.

In the finale of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst," Durst acknowledges similarities in the handwriting of a letter he wrote and another one sent anonymously to Beverly Hills Police alerting them to his friend's "cadaver." Then he went to the bathroom, still wearing his live microphone.

What followed was bizarre rambling in which Durst said, apparently to himself, "There it is. You're caught" and "What the hell did I do? Killed them all of course."

Jarecki and his co-writer and cinematographer Marc Smerling answered some of the many questions raised by Durst's audiotaped comments in a New York Times interview published Monday.

They said they never confronted Durst about what he said in the bathroom, but that they did share what they found with authorities last year as they were preparing the film to be aired.

Durst willingly talked with Jarecki on camera. They met after the filmmaker told a fictionalized account of Durst's story in "All Good Things," a 2010 film starring Ryan Gosling.

The making of the documentary took three years, and the bathroom audio was discovered by an editing crew last June, Jarecki said.

For the filmmakers, the audiotape tipped the scales - they not only believe he's responsible for the murders, but that he's capable of more violence. Jarecki told the Times that they hired security and were relieved when Durst was finally arrested.

Berman was the daughter of an associate of Las Vegas mobsters Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky who spoke out on Durst's behalf after his wife disappeared. She was killed at her home near Beverly Hills with a bullet to the back of her head.

Durst then lived as a mute woman in a Texas boarding house until 2001, when dismembered parts of Black's body were found floating in Galveston Bay. He fled house arrest, then turned up shoplifting in Pennsylvania.

Lewis told that jury that Durst shot Black in self-defense, and he was acquitted of murder, despite admitting that he dismembered Black's body.

AP Television

New Orleans, March 16, 2015

1. Various of attorneys for Robert Durst leaving the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

2. SOUNDBITE Dick DeGuerin, Attorney for Robert Durst:

"let me just say that we came here to waive jurisdiction and go back to California and get it on. Bob Durst didn't kill Susan Berman. He's ready to end all the rumor and speculation and have a trial. But we were frustrated because local authorities are considering filing charges on him here and holding him here. We're ready to go to California and have a trial. See you later."

3. Various of who is believed to be Robert Durst arriving by sheriff's vehicle transport at a secure back entrance to the Orleans Parish criminal courthouse complex, which is next to the Orleans Parish jail

4. Various exteriors of the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court

ROBERT DURST PROSECUTOR SEEKS VIDEOTAPED TESTIMONY, CITING FEAR FOR WITNESSES

Prosecutors who charged New York real estate heir Robert Durst with the murder of his best friend in Los Angeles want to videotape testimony from witnesses they fear could die or be killed before trial.

Deputy District Attorney John Lewin said Wednesday that prosecutors fear for the safety of witnesses because Durst is accused of killing a witness in the 1982 disappearance of his wife.

Lawyers for Durst objected to taking conditional testimony and suggestions the 73-year-old Durst, who is using a wheelchair and in custody, is a threat to anyone.

Lewin says Durst is worth $100 million and is suspected of killing Susan Berman, who was allegedly killed in 2000, before she was expected to be interviewed by police about the suspected murder of Kathleen Durst in New York.

Pool

FILE: Los Angeles, 7 November 2016

Los Angeles, 7 Nov. 2016

1. Robert Durst enters courtroom in a wheel chair and is seated next to his lawyers

++Off Camera++

2. UPSOUND "We enter a plea of not guilty."

Judge: "Not guilty plea will be entered."

3. Various of judge

4. Tight of Los Angeles County prosecutor

5. Various Durst with attorney Dick De Guerin

6. Wide of judge

7. Tight De Guerin

8. SOUNDBITE Robert Durst, suspect:

"Your honor, I'm willing to waive my rights. I do want to say here and now though, I am not guilty. I did not kill Susan Berman."

Judge: "Thank you. And do you in fact waive those rights at this time?"

Durst: "Yes."

9. Various Durst

Ellen Strauss, a friend of millionaire Robert Durst's first wife Kathleen Durst, said she is "over the moon" about his arrest.

Strauss has been investigating the death of her friend for over 30 years and feels vindicated by Durst's arrest.

"I will take his going to jail anyway I can, I'm not fussy, he can only go to jail once. What I would like is for him to tell us, on his death bed if he has to, where he put Kathy's body or pieces of it," said Strauss.

Strauss said she has spoken to Kathleen Durst's family and said they are "very happy" with the arrest.

"They've finally seen an end to it. You know she has a mother that's 101-years old living at home, 101 and not knowing for the last 33 years where her daughter is," said Strauss.

Durst was charged Monday in Los Angeles with first-degree murder in the shooting of Susan Berman, the daughter of a prominent Las Vegas mobster. Durst has also been suspected _ but never charged _ in the disappearance of his first wife in New York.

He could face the death penalty under special circumstances that allege he ambushed Berman and murdered a witness to a crime.

Authorities found more than a quarter-pound of marijuana and a revolver in Durst's hotel room when he was arrested over the weekend, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Durst appeared before a judge for a second straight day on Tuesday to face the drug and weapons charges.

In 2003, he was acquitted of murder in a dismemberment death in Texas.

In a documentary that just wrapped up about Durst's troubled life, he mumbled about how he "killed them all," providing a dramatic kick to the end of the series. But a law enforcement official said his arrest on the murder charge was based on words he wrote.

Analysis linked a letter Durst wrote to his friend Susan Berman a year before her killing with one that pointed police to her body, and that was the key new evidence in the long-dormant investigation into the 2000 killing, the official not authorized to speak publicly told The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing.

AP TELEVISION

New York - March 17, 2015

1. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I'm over the moon, absolutely over the moon. That's why I agree to do all these interviews, I'm exhausted. I wish my friend Eleanor Schwank, who worked with me on this, who just passed away could see it."

3. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I will take his going to jail anyway I can, I'm not fussy, he can only go to jail once. What I would like is for him to tell us, on his death bed if he has to, where he put Kathy's body or pieces of it."

5. Ellen Strauss, Friend of Kathleen Durst

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"They're very happy. They've finally seen an end to it. You know she has a mother that's 101 years old living at home, 101 and not knowing for the last 33 years where her daughter is."

7. Ellen Strauss, Friend of Kathleen Durst

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I haven't thought that far ahead, I mean I don't expect he is going to get off scot-free, I really don't. I think this time we've got him. He stabbed himself. He hoisted himself on his own petard whatever you want to call it. I am not thinking that way at all. I really think this time we've got him."

9. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst, walking outside

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"I think the trial is another chapter. I mean I'm waiting for that to be the nail in his coffin. He's got to squeak out of this one, that would be really amazing."

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

"How hard everybody worked, how hard all of us worked and it now seems that maybe it paid off, that it did pay off. I know that that the last chapter isn't written yet, but that is what life is all about surprises."

12. Ellen Strauss, friend of Kathleen Durst:

SHOTLIST:

Tape One

30 mins approx

1. MS Matrix Reloaded poster

2. VS exterior and fans

3. B-roll Din Davis, composer, being interviewed

4. SOT Din Davis, composer

5. WS red carpet

6. B-roll photographers

7. MS Collin Chou with wife on red carpet

8. B-roll Collin Chou on red carpet

9. CA press

10. MS Leslie Bibb posing for photographs

11. B-roll Leslie Bibb being interviewed

12. MS Collin Chou being interviewed

13. SOT Collin Chou

14. Zoom in Clayton Wilson being interviewed

15. VS press

16. Pan from press to Collin Chou being interviewed

17. SOT Clayton Wilson

18. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

19. Pan up Kikaru, singer

20. MS Daniel Bernhardt on red carpet

21. VS red carpet

22. SOT Daniel Bernhardt

23. B-roll actor being interviewed

24. B-roll Anthony Wong posing for photographs

25. Zoom in Anthony Wong being interviewed

26. CA press

27. Pan from interviewer to Anthony Wong being interviewed

28. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment on red carpet

29. SOT Anthony Wong

30. B-roll Rob Zombie on red carpet

31. B-roll Rob Zombie

32. SOT Rob Zombie

33. CA cameraman

34. SOT Oswald Botang

35. Zoom in Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

36. MS Rob Zombie being interviewed

37. WS red carpet

38. MS Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment being interviewed

39. CA crowd

40. VS red carpet

41. B-roll Neil Rayment and Adrian Rayment posing for photographs

42. SOT (L-R) Adrian Rayment and Neil Rayment

43. B-roll Hugo Weaving on red carpet

44. CA press

45. B-roll Harold Perrineau being interviewed

46. SOT Harold Perrineau

47. MS Christina Milian

48. MS Hugo Weaving being interviewed

49. B-roll Fred Durst on red carpet

50. MS Jon Voight

51. B-roll Fred Durst being interviewed

52. SOT Fred Durst

53. B-roll Monica Bellucci

54. MS Tom Arnold

55. B-roll Keanu Reeves on red carpet

56. SOT Hugo Weaving. Including soundbite:

"Well, I've always thought that the Matrix was a totally imagined world that was fully realized on screen over the three movies - it's fully realized. You get a very strong glimpse of the Matrix in the first one and this one you're seeing Zion, you're seeing more of the architecture of the Matrix and you get to meet the architect of the Matrix and in the next one there's greater development as well."

57. VS Monica Bellucci being interviewed, including pan up body

58. B-roll Keanu Reeves

59. SOT Monica Bellucci. Including soundbite:

"I learned so much because even though it's just a supporting character I had the chance to play something really strong because Persephone, I mean, she's dangerous, she's mysterious, she's sensual and she's sad."

60. MS Keanu Reeves being interviewed

61. MS Jada Pinkett Smith posing for photographs

62. B-roll Will Smith

63. MS Laurence Fishburne

64. SOT Keanu Reeves. Including soundbite:

"I don't know couldn't distill it down to one thing. I wouldn't want to. It's given me so much - as an actor, as a performer, in my life in films and things, the challenges that it had - the people that I got to work with - it was beautiful. There's so much there."

Tape Two

8 mins approx

1. B-roll Sandra Bullock

2. Medium WS Laurence Fishburne and wife being interviewed

3. Zoom in Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

4. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss posing for photographs

5. CA press

6. Pan from press to Keanu Reeves being interviewed

7. B-roll Carrie-Anne Moss

8. MS Laurence Fishburne being interviewed

9. SOT Laurence Fishburne. Including soundbite:

"What have I gained personally? Well, aside from the stunning woman that you see next to me - I have perhaps gained a little bit more confidence with regard to my physical body-image."

10. SOT Jada Pinkett Smith

11. Pan up Carrie-Anne Moss being interviewed

12. SOT Carrie-Anne Moss. Including soundbite:

"What haven't I gained? Truly. It's been the most incredible ride. I feel really honoured to be party of it. It's kind of emotional for me because it's been a really profound time of change for me which has come through the work as well and I just really love playing this character and being part of this team."

13. SOT Nona Gaye

14. B-roll Lance Bass

15. MS back of Carrie-Anne Moss

16. MS Joel Silver, producer being interviewed

17. SOT Joel Silver, producer

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SHOTLIST:

LARGE TAPE

79 mins approx

1. SOT Norah Jones

2. SOT No Doubt

3. SOT David Silveria, from Korn

4. SOT John Mayer

5. SOT Dixie Chicks. Including soundbite: "This is thrilling and it reminds you that you are still in the game. Every year that goes by you wonder if people are going to forget about you. We take a lot of time off to have babies and stuff like that. We are most proud of this album so we are most proud of these Grammy's."

6. SOT Rafael Saadiq

7. SOT Tony Bennett

8. SOT Faith Hill

9. SOT Michael Kamen

10. SOT Harvey Fierstein

11. SOT Sheryl Crow

12. SOT Fred Durst

13. SOT Robin Williams

14. SOT Jesse Harris, songwriter

15. SOT The Roots

16. SOT Usher

17. SOT Kelly Rowland

18. SOT Ashanti

19. SOT Foo Fighters

20. SOT Norah Jones. Including soundbite: "I don't know, I'm going to have to move first, get another apartment. It's amazing, career wise this is probably the biggest ever thing that I will ever do. I don't expect another record like this. It kind of happened, it's exciting that it happened but it doesn't happen every day."

21. SOT head of the Grammys

22. SOT Peter Gabriel

23. SOT Simon and Garfunkel

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TAPE FORMAT: NTSC

SHOTLIST:

1. Wide of clock

2. Close-up of clock digits

3. Set-up shot of granddaughter of debt clock inventor Helena Durst

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helena Durst, granddaughter of debt clock inventor:

"If you notice the dollar sign, we actually had to add a dollar sign and a one. It looks a little bit squished together. We had to squeeze everything together."

5. Close of clock

6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Helena Durst, granddaughter of debt clock inventor:

"And also highlight the amount of debt that each child is born into this nation which is about 30-thousand dollars"

7. People walking

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Catherine Jones, Vox pop:

"It's pretty scary, it's a pretty big number."

9. Close of clock

10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Avi Goldenberg, Vox pop:

"I think we'll be able to handle it, we've got a strong economy, we'll walk through it, just got to have a strong stomach, steel up."

11. Pan from Internal Revenue Service building to clock

12. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Grams, Vox pop:

"I'm starting to wonder when we're going to start questioning the US government's credit rating. And you know the Federal Reserve's balance sheet is going to be just as risky as all the banks they're saving because they're taking on all this stuff."

13. Close-up of clock

STORYLINE:

In a sign of the times, the National Debt Clock in New York City has run out of digits to record the growing figure.

As a short-term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near Times Square has been switched to a figure - the "1" in 10 (tr) trillion US dollars.

It's marking the federal government's current debt at about 10.2 (tr) trillion US dollars.

The Durst Organisation says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits.

That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.

The late Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up in 1989 to call attention to what was then a 2.7 (tr) trillion US dollars debt.

Helena Durst, the inventor's granddaughter, explains the recent modifications: "if you notice the dollar sign. We actually had to add a dollar sign and a one. It looks a little bit squished together. We had to squeeze everything together."

The clock was briefly retired, for two years, from 2000 to 2002, because the clock couldn't display a declining number.

In a time when young people are moving back in with their parents, Hurricane Florence is turning the tables on Garland and Katherine King.

The New Bern, North Carolina, couple had to be rescued from their home by boat Friday as the storm dumped torrents of rain along the coast.

They spent the night with hundreds of others in an elementary school.

On Saturday, the retired Marine and his wife waded back out to the house to collect some pictures and papers.

Their daughter, Billie Durst, came with family and a boat to help.

The couple will be living with Durst for a while.

Their home will likely have to be gutted.

Durst says her mom is a great cook, so she's happy about the arrangement.

New Bern - 15 September 2018

1. Wide shot of Garland King floating out of neighborhood in boat

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"I was going to ride out the storm. And it just got to be a little too much. When it started coming in the house, I thought it was time to get out of there."

3. Wide shot of flooded neighborhood, with King's house in distance

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King: Retired Marine:

"Last night, we left. We had a boat to come by and take us over to Trent Park Elementary, and we spent the night there. This morning I got up and said, `I'm getting back to the house.' And we walked this thing, chest deep, holding hands out in the middle of this road. And we made it to the house. And it was tough. Wobbling. I was looking for water moccasins to hit me at any time. But, you know, being a Marine, we gotta get there, you know what I mean? We're mission oriented."

5. Wide of newspaper box above water

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"We're a tight couple. So we're in it together. We grabbed hands and just walked it. And I said, `Let's do it, baby.' We give each other a kiss and made it on to the house."

7. Wide of Katherine King with arm draped on boat

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"The carpets. The floors. Everything is soaking wet."

9. Mid of road signs

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"We're going to have to redo the whole inside."

11. Mid of branch caught on power line

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"Oh, the smell is terrible right now."

13. Wide of two people walking out into flooded neighborhood

14. Mid of people walking in water

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"Well, when I bought this house, that's one of the reasons I did. It's on a crest. And they said this house is the only one on this road that's never flooded. So I said, `I got it made.' And the first storm, we got through it. But this one, it beat all. Florence don't play."

16. Ground level shot of water lapping on pavement

17. Wide shot of daughter helping Katherine King into truck

18. Wide shot of truck driving off

In a time when young people are moving back in with their parents, Hurricane Florence is turning the tables on Garland and Katherine King.

The New Bern, North Carolina, couple had to be rescued from their home by boat Friday as the storm dumped torrents of rain along the coast.

They spent the night with hundreds of others in an elementary school.

On Saturday, the retired Marine and his wife waded back out to the house to collect some pictures and papers.

Their daughter, Billie Durst, came with family and a boat to help.

The couple will be living with Durst for a while.

Their home will likely have to be gutted.

Durst says her mom is a great cook, so she's happy about the arrangement.

New Bern - 15 September 2018

1. Wide shot of Garland King floating out of neighborhood in boat

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"I was going to ride out the storm. And it just got to be a little too much. When it started coming in the house, I thought it was time to get out of there."

3. Wide shot of flooded neighborhood, with King's house in distance

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King: Retired Marine:

"Last night, we left. We had a boat to come by and take us over to Trent Park Elementary, and we spent the night there. This morning I got up and said, `I'm getting back to the house.' And we walked this thing, chest deep, holding hands out in the middle of this road. And we made it to the house. And it was tough. Wobbling. I was looking for water moccasins to hit me at any time. But, you know, being a Marine, we gotta get there, you know what I mean? We're mission oriented."

5. Wide of newspaper box above water

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"We're a tight couple. So we're in it together. We grabbed hands and just walked it. And I said, `Let's do it, baby.' We give each other a kiss and made it on to the house."

7. Wide of Katherine King with arm draped on boat

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"The carpets. The floors. Everything is soaking wet."

9. Mid of road signs

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"We're going to have to redo the whole inside."

11. Mid of branch caught on power line

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Katherine King, Wife:

"Oh, the smell is terrible right now."

13. Wide of two people walking out into flooded neighborhood

14. Mid of people walking in water

15. SOUNDBITE (English) Garland King, Retired Marine:

"Well, when I bought this house, that's one of the reasons I did. It's on a crest. And they said this house is the only one on this road that's never flooded. So I said, `I got it made.' And the first storm, we got through it. But this one, it beat all. Florence don't play."

16. Ground level shot of water lapping on pavement

17. Wide shot of daughter helping Katherine King into truck

18. Wide shot of truck driving off

++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE UPDATED STORYLINE WITH CORRECTED OFFICIAL TEMPERATURE++

While a large part of the county is freezing under Alaska-like conditions, parts of the nation's northernmost state were basking in balmy conditions Tuesday.

The official temperature tied a record 44 degrees (Fahrenheit) in Anchorage, set in 1981 and 2011. Some parts of Anchorage had temperatures closer to 50 degrees.

The National Weather Service says it's about twice as warm as the normal high of 24 degrees thanks to high and low pressures working to push tropical air to the north.

The warm weather won't last long for Alaskans, temperatures are expected to drop Tuesday night.

Anchorage, Alaska - 2 January 2018

1. Various of ice skaters at Westchester Lagoon

2. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

"I am from the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and it's colder there today than it is here in Alaska. And my children that are there are jealous because I've got 40 degree temperatures here."

3. Wide of skaters on lagoon with the Chugach Mountains as a backdrop

4. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

"I expected to come up here and freeze to death all winter. I'm heading home in the spring. And I hoped I lived through the winter. And now it's like, Hey! This is great."

5. Wide of ice skater

6. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

"It's nice to be out in the fresh air and looking at the mountains and the sky. It's beautiful here."

7. Various of people enjoying warm weather

8. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

"I guess for January it's pretty unusual. Usually it can be like negative 30 around this time of the year, January, February time frame. This is a little warm right now."

9. Medium shot of guy riding a bike

10. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

"No, I just think maybe it's time they get their little taste of it for awhile."

11. Medium of Durst walking off with her dog, Bayla,

12. Medium of bike rider

13. Wide of dog walking on the ice

14. Close ice skaters feet

15. Medium of man taking a walk

16. Close ice skaters feet

17. Wide of family playing on ice

18. Wide of Father and son playing ice hockey

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While a large part of the county is freezing under Alaska-like conditions, parts of the nation's northernmost state were basking in balmy conditions Tuesday.

The official temperature tied a record 44 degrees in Anchorage, set in 1981 and 2011. Some parts of Anchorage had temperatures closer to 50 degrees.

The National Weather Service says it's about twice as warm as the normal high of 24 degrees thanks to high and low pressures working to push tropical air to the north.

The warm weather won't last long for Alaskans, temperatures are expected to drop Tuesday night.

Anchorage, Alaska - 2 January 2018

1. Various of ice skaters at Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage, Alaska

2. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I am from the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and it's colder there today than it is here in Alaska. And my children that are there are jealous because I've got 40 degree temperatures here."

3. Man running outside with sleeves rolled up

4. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I expected to come up here and freeze to death all winter. I'm heading home in the spring. And I hoped I lived through the winter. And now it's like, Hey! This is great."

5. Various of ice skaters

6. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"It's nice to be out in the fresh air and looking at the mountains and the sky. It's beautiful here."

7. Various of people enjoying warm weather

8. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I guess for January it's pretty unusual. Usually it can be like negative 30 around this time of the year, January, February time frame. This is a little warm right now."

9. Various of kids playing on frozen lake

10. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"No, I just think maybe it's time they get their little taste of it for awhile."

While a large part of the county is freezing under Alaska-like conditions, parts of the nation's northernmost state were basking in balmy conditions Tuesday.

The official temperature tied a record 44 degrees in Anchorage, set in 1981 and 2011. Some parts of Anchorage had temperatures closer to 50 degrees.

The National Weather Service says it's about twice as warm as the normal high of 24 degrees thanks to high and low pressures working to push tropical air to the north.

The warm weather won't last long for Alaskans, temperatures are expected to drop Tuesday night.

Anchorage, Alaska - 2 January 2018

1. Various of ice skaters at Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage, Alaska

2. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I am from the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and it's colder there today than it is here in Alaska. And my children that are there are jealous because I've got 40 degree temperatures here."

3. Man running outside with sleeves rolled up

4. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I expected to come up here and freeze to death all winter. I'm heading home in the spring. And I hoped I lived through the winter. And now it's like, Hey! This is great."

5. Various of ice skaters

6. SOUNDBITE, Patricia Bierer, Visiting from Montana:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"It's nice to be out in the fresh air and looking at the mountains and the sky. It's beautiful here."

7. Various of people enjoying warm weather

8. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"I guess for January it's pretty unusual. Usually it can be like negative 30 around this time of the year, January, February time frame. This is a little warm right now."

9. Various of kids playing on frozen lake

10. SOUNDBITE: Ashley Durst, Anchorage Resident:

++PARTLY COVERED BY VIDEO++

"No, I just think maybe it's time they get their little taste of it for awhile."

SHOTLIST

1. Various wide shots of warehouse containing drug tunnel

2. Close of armed Federal Agents

3. Mid of entrance to area of warehouse where drug tunnel was found

4. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent climbing down into tunnel entrance

5. Agent pointing out hydraulic buttons that open door of tunnel

6. Various of tools and shovels used to dig tunnel

7. Mid of monitor showing night vision image of tunnel below, panning to ICE agent preparing to climbing down hole

8. Mid of tunnel, following ICE agent

9. ICE agent Bob (no last name given), showing stairs built in tunnel

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent:

"This is the stair system, it's about a 70 foot drop. And you can see where they cut the stairs out, obviously coming up. And this is how they get from the level of the tunnel and the rail up into the level just underneath ground level."

11. Tracking shot following ICE agent climbing up stairs in tunnel

12. Various of tunnel

13. Various of rail track and electrical cables in tunnel

14. Various of entrance to tunnel

15. SOUNDBITE (English): Tim Durst, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent:

"To an extent this is somewhat of a cat and mouse game. As long as there's demand for the supply of drugs in the United States then the drug smuggling organisations will continue to find a way to smuggle drugs into the United States."

16. Mid of monitor showing night vision image in tunnel

17. Mid of night vision camera in tunnel

18. Tracking shot of ICE agent climbing back toward entrance

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Tim Durst, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent:

"They're looking to find new ways to move drugs and we're looking to find the ways that they're moving drugs. Their hope is they get a tunnel completed, they can move a lot of drugs into the United States and get a good return on their investment. Our hope is we find tunnels or the boats or whatever next they're next going to before they get a return on their investment."

20. Tunnel Task Force members from ICE, DEA and Border Patrol entering border warehouse

21. Tracking shot of agents walking through business

22. Mid of ICE agent "Ryan" interviewing business owner, Ron Soto

23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ron Soto, Warehouse Business Owner:

"The last tunnel that was found was next to one of my associates and he was shocked. There was nothing that he could have noticed before or made him think there was something going on."

24. Wide of border fence by warehouse complex, panning back to wide of warehouses

STORYLINE:

US federal authorities were on Thursday knocking on doors and asking for help from warehouse owners and tenants close to the border with Mexico after two major underground passages were discovered last month.

The cross-border tunnels - housed in warehouses in San Diego's Otay Mesa industrial area - were used to smuggle huge amounts of drugs from Tijuana, Mexico, according to the authorities.

Agents hope to learn more about the 12-thousand businesses that occupy Otay Mesa's non-descript warehouses and low-slung office parks near one of nation's busiest border crossings for cargo.

The streets hum with cargo trucks by day and fall silent on nights and weekends.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who visited two offices on Thursday peppered managers with questions before asking to look around: What line of work are you in? Who is your landlord? How many neighbouring suites are leased?

The tunnels discovered last month ran about 2,000 feet (600 metres) and were equipped with rail car, lighting and ventilation systems.

According to US authorities, both were the work of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, headed by that country's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

The discoveries produced some of the largest marijuana seizures in the United States.

A passage discovered on 2 November (2010) which ran between warehouses in Tijuana and San Diego resulted in seizures of 30 tonnes on both sides of the border.

A tunnel found on Thanksgiving Day which ran from a Tijuana home to two San Diego warehouses produced seizures of more than 20 tonnes on both sides of the border.

Outlets for the tunnel found last week were in bustling office parks, only 800 feet (245 metres) a part.

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SHOTLIST:

Captain W. Henderson selects the mice to be used in the experiment. He inserts a mouse into a anestesia tube. Henderson and Sergeant Harry Durst pick up a container holding the mouse with the radio transmitter saddle on its back. CU Mouse on table. Same picked up and placed on top of a small receiver.