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Steve Baron
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By popular request - here's another clip from our Bears fans in Iraq seqment!

We've had so many requests for replays of the coverage we did live from Iraq with Chicago Bears fans - we decided to make a page about it here!

Because of the format we use to produce and post our videos, the easiest way to display them is in a player on this page.

They are in .flv format, and if you would like to save them on your local hard drive, you can right click the link indicated, and "save as".

These files will not play on Windows Media Player, you need a "flash" player to watch them.

A good, easy to use, free one, is called FLVPLAYER and you can download it here:

Click here to download FLV player

You'll need to click on the label "Worldwide Content Distribution Network" to download the program" on the next page.

Here are the stories:

Bears fans in Iraq - evening news - Live - right click here to save

Soldiers Raw Footage - right click here to save

Bears Fans in Iraq - morning news - Live - right click here to save

Bears Fans in Iraq - noon news - taped - right click here to save

Two shots from my very cold and snowy morning here in Chicago so far...

We set up our live shot location across the harbor from Soldier Field...to get a nice view of the stadium and of the city. Of course, in snow like today's - you can't see too much of either!!! That's reporter Helen Lucatis in the red jacket by the camera - she and I were sharing the same live truck this morning.


And this is the truck that relayed our signal back to either the Sears Tower, or to the Hancock Building - I can't remember which one...
And the resulting on-air liveshot: (click play to watch)