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NBC substitute anchor Ann Curry thought the New York City weather was such a big deal that she moved out of the studio to Brooklyn, where a tornado hit, to introduce the newscast. "The entire system for moving people into, or anywhere near, New York City--planes, trains, automobiles, taxis, the whole subway system--could not handle it," recounted NBC's Mike Taibbi after a single violent storm. ABC, too, treated this local story as deserving national attention: "Frustrated riders were stunned the system failed with just three inches of rain," ABC's David Muir (subscription required) observed.
ABC's Muir offered the national context by ticking off near triple-digit temperatures in Washington, Chicago and Atlanta. In St Louis, NBC's Martin Savidge noted, residents "were directed to cooling centers" for fear of heat exhaustion. ABC's Ned Potter provided his story on the United Nation's World Meteorological Organization report on extreme weather caused by global warming that NBC's Anne Thompson covered yesterday. Potter, too, rounded up worldwide weather-porn footage of floods in Philippines, rains in Wales, drought in Romania, monsoons in Bangladesh, snow in Buenos Aires--and that cyclone in Oman
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