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The Story of the Day was the earthquake in Peru. ABC sent David Muir to Lima; NBC sent Mark Potter. CBS had Bianca Solorzano go to Passaic NJ where she embraced Lupe Portilla, a Peruvian expatriate, to comfort her because "she was on the phone with her niece when the earthquake hit and the line went dead." By contrast, ABC's Muir went down to the Pacific coastline along the Pan-American Highway to show how the roadway was split in two by the tremor, "asphalt dropping some 30 feet on just one side of the road." He reported that the quake knocked down the wall of the Chincha Prison, allowing 600 inmates to escape. Of the 450 so far known dead, as many as 200 were at worship at a church in Pisco Cathedral, when the roof collapsed, NBC's Potter told us. Most homes in the region are "made of adobe brick--no match for such a powerful quake."
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