Add Newsfeed to Flash website

Hi,
I have a flash website that I'd like to add a newsfeed to.
Similar to science@nasa (
http://science.nasa.gov/Host/).
Sadly, I've no idea how to do this. Any suggestions?

It appears that the only items in the library are movie clips and a couple bitmaps. Here is a screenshot of my FLA file when opened in Adobe Flash: http://www.flashvideopro.net/images/flash_screenshot.jpg. Any ideas from what you see? I'm fairly new to Flash, but I have never before opened up an existing flash file for a flash website without seeing the layers for the site. Apparantly there are different ways to create flash content? Could it be that the textlayer I am looking for is hidden in a movie clip? And if that's the case would this be editable? I menitoned in my original post that I can actually edit the page in the main.as page as you see in this image. But I have no clue how to add a UIScrollbar without having the textlayer in front of me. The FLA file I am trying to edit is for global and trendy links (dot) com.

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