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Piracy off the coast of Somalia, Monday's Story of the Day, saw follow-ups from Mombasa by both NBC and ABC. That port is where the Maersk Line's Alabama is docked and where her crew awaits a reunion with their captain, the onetime hostage Richard Phillips. ABC's Jim Sciutto showed us how easy it is for pirates to board a freighter: "Even very large ships are very low in the water," he explained, with the deck no higher than 15 feet above the water line. "Some rely on homemade defenses, even greasing the sides. We saw one ship ringed with mannequins dressed as security guards." NBC's Keith Miller narrated footage from Somalia where "there is no lack of recruits to join in the plunder…Everything on land has already been looted." CBS had Lara Logan cover the pirate story from Washington DC. The zone of danger is 1.2m square miles, she showed us--the size of a rectangle bounded by Houston, Chicago, New York and Jacksonville. Her Pentagon sources told her that military planners are "looking at every option, even striking pirate dens onshore."
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