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{{Midnight City News|{{Timestamp|Midnight City|7/17/14|2:15 CDT}} [Soyer]: Hello, I'm Diamond Soyer. Its been two days since the defeat of the aliens. Clean-up as begun here in Midnight City, as well as the rest of the world. Currently, the death toll is still unconfirmed, though many are saying that at the moment, there seems to be about 4 million dead here alone in the city. New York City has about 5 million dead, while other major cities are still counting. Congress has recently passed legislation to pay for the damages done to the country. In fact, even celebrities across the country are now effortlessly spending money on the cities they live in, and the hometowns they are from. We've asked people if they planned to attend a church, temple, or mosque. All of them have said yes. Now, in a few moments, we're going to be cutting to a live feed, where the President of the United States plans to make an address to the country. After his speech, we will be commenting on it. Oh look, it appears it is about to begin so let's start watching.

-The report cuts to a camera outside the damaged Capitol Building in the capital of the country, Washington D.C. -

{{Timestamp|Washington D.C.|7/17/14|3:20 EST}}

[Man]: Ladies of Gentlemen, the President of the Unites States of America.

[The audience of reporters and citizens clap, as the President of the US stands before a podium. ]

[President]: Today... I stand before you, not as the President of a country, but as a representaive of the human species. Over the last 300 years, Americans have endured much. We fought for freedom, for men and women, white or black. We protected liberty, and the rights that all men and women of the world deserve to have. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of the Press, the right to protest and the right to assemble. Our men and women in the Army have fought many wars, overseas and on american soil. We stopped a man who attempted genocide, we stopped the Soviet Union from spreading communism. We killed the terrorist who dared to try and break the American Spirit, only a few years ago. Even ignoring who we have fought, we have faced the dangers of nature. The Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Sandy, and many others. But never... never has America faced such a challenge, as it has this year. We were invaded, attacked, by different species and different races who had different purposes. One was to control the Earth, another armada attempted to destroy us.

Three days ago, a race of extraterressials, known as the Nikon'ali, came from Outer Space with their ships, advanced technology, and "Demon Snakes", and began a multi-city, multi-nation attack across the world. At the same time, we had natural disasters occur. Now, I don't believe that this is a coincidence. The devasation in Los Angeles, in Lower Manhattan, Brookyln, and Staten Island, and many other cities and towns was not by chance. I was informed that the cause of the natural disasters, and the alien invasion, was by a being of evil. A father, who had nothing but hate in, and wanted to destroy everything in sight. Our world, our precious world was indeed the site of an attack. But it wasn't just against us, it was against the entire galaxy. Other worlds faced similar challenges, as we did. All because of an alignment between our solar system, the center of the galaxy, and a mysterious planet that I do not know of its name.

Many cities were hurt. New York City, the Capital, Midnight City, Fellson City, Dallas, St. Louis, Detroit, and even some cities not in America. Oakwood, Paris, Toyko, Athens, Rome, and Cairo. Now I plan to work with the United Nations to come up with a plan to fix everything. But the United Nations will not be helping us completely. We have to fix our country, and to do that, I have asked Congress and my administration to work together, put aside our differences, and unite as one. In fact, I ask this to all countries of the world... to all peoples, genders, all sexual oriendations, and races. Unite. It doesn't matter your political beliefs, your religious beliefs, or anything. We are all human. This is the only world we have, and we have to make sure we can live in it. We aren't Americans, Germans, Iranians, Indonesians, Chinese, Japanese, French, British, Spanish, Egyptians, Israelites, Syrians, Lebanese, or any of that. We are Humans. We are ''homo sapiens. '' To ensure that we survive, rebuilt, and protect ourselves, we must become one.

Now, we have to make some choices. These choices will be hard, and difficult. Now, secretly for the past 10 years, we have been storing seeds, plants, food, technology, and other items in hidden vaults, in many of our military bases across the country and the world. I've decided to open these vaults up, to help supply resources. But these are limited resources. Since the project began, the American Population has risen by about 20 million. We don't know how many are dead, but we have to be careful. We can't waste any resources anymore. Not like we used to. That is why we will be giving out rations to citizens, instead of letting them eat what they want. You will get food, and you will be expected to eat the food and deal with whatever it is. We'll be giving out military rations, in the form of First Strike Rations and Meal, Ready-to-eat rations. Your news networks will be providing more infomation about these rations, and where to find them in the next 24 hours. We have 10 billion rations ready to serve. At the pre-invasion population of about 314 million Americans, this is less then a year's worth. We would have had more, but with our troops overseas, and the economy crisis, we haven't been able to add more. Other countries have other plans to deal with the crisis of food, water, health, and homing. This is ours. Speaking of Health, after having a meeting with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, we have decided something. Starting at 1 AM tommorow Eastern Standard Time, any remaining hospitals will not be allowing citizens the age of 55 and above to enter for emergencies, at least not now. Its a hard choice, and one I'm sure many of you will not like, but population control is neccessary.

As of this moment, I am declaring Martial Law, and am appointing military leaders to each state, to work with the governors, the police force, the army, and the national guard to help the clean-up process. The Martial Law will, and shall only in effect for the next 3 weeks, I promise you with my life on this. A national curfew will begin at 9 PM for each timezone, and will last until 6 AM the next day. This curfew will remain after martial law, at least for the next 6 months. Thank you for listening. God bless America.

[The President leaves the podium, as the reporters begin asking questions. The camera feed returns to Diamond Soyer. ]

{Timestamp|Midnight City|7/17/14|2:35 CDT}}

[Soyer]: There are you have it, folks. The President has officialy declared Martial Law, a curfew, and as of now, citizens the age of 55 or older will not be admitted to hospitals. We'll have more on this breaking news shortly. I'm Diamond Soyer of Midnight City News. }}