(6 Feb 2004)

Day shots
1. Various of exterior of Boca Raton Resort and Club, where Group of Seven (G7) meeting is set to begin on Friday
2. Sign on door in hotel indicating the office for the Italian G7 delegation
3. Boat emerging from under drawbridge
4. Boca Raton's beach with hotels
5. Man sitting on beach with children
6. Boca Raton Resort and Club (pink building) amid other buildings
7. Workers setting up barricades around Boca Raton Resort and Club
8. Worker holding up mesh barricade
9. Worker tying off mesh barricade to tree
10. Workers hands tying ropes
11. Truck driving slowly down side of road along barricades
12. Worker filling portable barricades with water
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeff Kelly, Spokesman for Boca Raton Police Department:
"We've had the hotel in this city now for many many years, and dignitary visits such as this are quite common, and we're well versed and trained in handling it. In this case you got a combination of local, state, and federal officials on hand. You will notice a marked increase in the police presence around the area, and that's just one of the high-visibility stand-points that we try to get across to people, that we are here."

Night shots
14. Boca Raton Resort and Club
15. Car pulling up to Boca Raton Resort and Club
16. Flags
17. Boca Raton Resort and Club

STORYLINE:

Preparations were under way on Thursday for the arrival of finance ministers and national bank officials from the Group of Seven (G7) countries who will meet in Boca Raton, Florida on Friday and Saturday.

The financial officials world's seven leading industrial nations are expected to discuss issues including how to keep money out of the hands of terrorist groups.

Local authorities in the Florida beach town are getting help from state and federal law enforcement agencies to secure the event.

On Thursday afternoon the Boca Raton Resort and Club, which is hosting the meeting, was being barricaded off with the exception of one guarded entrance.

The G7 countries are the United States, Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, France and Japan.

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