3:02 p.m. Dave Summers just broke in with more details on the student shooter .. and what may have lead to him opening fire with two handguns today.3:05 p.m. A viewer named Randy just sent me this email:
"I'm strongly objecting to the airing of foul language on your station at about 2:30 today. This made its way into our home via CNN and was extremely offensive."
I'm not sure what he heard, but I do know that CNN took our video feeds live. Again, it's always risky to carry breaking news live because words fly around from people who may not know they're on camera.
3:07 p.m. We've got the best video so far of the train derailment thanks to our chopper. Other stations' choppers have been hovering downtown at the school shooting, but we're at an advantage of being able to cover the school shooting right across the street from WKYC.
3:08 p.m. Reporter Maureen Kyle is at the hospital and just called in with news that one of the students who was grazed by a bullet has been released. The student declined comment but the parent gave a short interview about it. Not sure how soon we'll get that info on the air.
3:15 p.m. Kim just finished several strong interviews with parents and teachers who are talking about the impact this will have on the school's community. Kim also is being honest that she doesn't yet know if all of the students are now out of the school building. She does mention that parents and students are being reunited in the WKYC lobby.
3:18 p.m. I'm sure we'll have Tim White or Romona Robinson jump in the anchor chair for Monica soon .. but right now, I'm not sure if either of them can even get into the building since 13th Street is shut down.
3:19 p.m. We're running a taped interview now with a student complaining about the school's one security guard and whether he's as attentive as he needs to be.
3:21 p.m. Monica now reporting that water is finally being put on the fire .. there were problems getting it out there. We're now doing a live interview with one of photographers, Randy White, who is live in Chopper 3 talking about how long it's taken to get water to the blaze. Randy says fire crews have been using our streaming video to the web to help them pinpoint where the train is on fire.
3:25 p.m. I'm working with Akron producer Kim Graves to write a "shell" for our Akron-Canton News broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Right now, we don't know what the latest will be yet, but we're planning to do two liveshots each on the school shooting and the train derailment. The wildcard in all of this is that if the breaking news continues and Channel 3 needs to stay on the air past 6:30 p.m. , our Akron-Canton Newscast would be compromised because we can't air two shows at once.
3:28 p.m. Romona Robinson is now in the anchor chair, freeing up Monica to do some reporting. Monica has done great work today.
3:31 p.m. Just talked with a lady whose helping us reach security expert Tim Dimhoff. He worked with me on a series of stories in July, including a piece on the Cleveland SWAT team. Dimhoff is in Akron, so I'm having him come to our Akron newsroom to do live analysis of what's happened in Cleveland.
3:33 p.m. Reporter Mike O'Mara just learned that the shooter is 15, not 14.
1 comment:
Eric:
Kim was interviewing a student who dropped the F bomb live.
There was nothing she could do.
In fact, she handled the situation well and wrapped up the interview right after the bomb was dropped.
I don't know how a viewer could complain when the station had no control over what the youth said.
-Don Olson
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