CONTAINING LINKS TO 1280 STORIES FROM THE NETWORKS' NIGHTLY NEWSCASTS
     COMMENTS: Cubs not in Kansas Anymore

There were spectacular images from sports cameras at Wrigley Field of a lightning storm that spawned three tornadoes around Chicago. Fear of funnel clouds caused the Chicago Cubs' game to be called. Yet the storm killed only one person so it was hardly national news. NBC did the right thing, mentioning the lightning only in passing. CBS had Dean Reynolds take time off from the campaign trail to narrate the weather porn. ABC, curiously, decided that the storm should be its lead, dispatching Chris Bury (embargoed link) to tornado torn Griffith Ind.

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