Bridge Collapse: More notes…
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer is on the scene reporting on the disaster.
NBC’s Brian Williams has been appearing from Minneapolis off and on throughout the day on MSNBC…
FNC’s Rick Leventhal is blogging the story from Minneapolis…
12:30 CT, Minneapolis, MN
The Red Cross has set up a family support center at the Holiday Inn downtown. There are grief counselors and clergy in a ballroom, sitting with relatives who are worried sick over loved ones missing since the bridge collapsed.
Reporters and cameras are being kept outside, but some family members are coming out to talk about the waiting and worrying.
UPDATE: Brewer didn’t work in Minneapolis. It was Milwaukee. So I removed that information from the entry. I got a bad email tip. But it’s not the tipster’s fault as apparently Alex Witt had mistakenly said on the air that Brewer worked in Minneapolis. Still I should have caught this error before it went out because I knew that Brewer had worked in Milwaukee but for some inexplicable reason I had a brain freeze.
After seeing all the resources the networks are putting into this story and the predictable “tales of heroes” plotline, I wonder when the last time a national tv news show did a story looking into faltering infrastructure? Sadly, a disaster likes this makes for better television than a guy with a hardhat pointing up under a bridge.
Comment by DanOregon — August 2, 2007 @ 3:18 pm
The funny thing is the Discovery Times channel aired a show on bridge collapses/accidents earlier in the week…
Comment by Spud — August 2, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
I hate to say it but Contessa is awful. There is really no other way to put it.
Comment by bravesfan — August 2, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
I enjoyed Leaventhal’s blog. It was interesting that 10 FNC staffers, including Shep and Hemmer, got on a predawn flight in a Gulfstream Jet from Newark.
Comment by Objective Analyst — August 2, 2007 @ 9:48 pm