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Winter weather was the unanimous choice for Story of the Day as all three newscasts led with the blizzard on the northern plains that was followed by frigid cold across most of the eastern half of the nation. Winds whipped waves on the Great Lakes; snow led to white-out driving and stranded motorists in Indiana; frost threatens the winter fruit harvest in Florida's fields and citrus orchards.

ABC's Clayton Sandell and NBC's Kevin Tibbles both led their newscasts from the freezing interior of the Metrodome in Minneapolis--freezing because the weight of snow on top of its inflatable roof had torn a hole through it. NBC's Tibbles spent more time on the cave in, rerunning footage from the local FOX affiliate in the Twin Cities. As Norman Charles likes to complain at The Nightly Daily, ever since the NFL has become a major ratings grabber for NBC Sports on Sunday nights, NBC News has discovered football as regular beat.

CBS tapped Liz Collin of WCCO-TV, its Twin Cities affiliate, to file the Metrodome story. Its lead was from the windswept shores of Lake Michigan, where Dean Reynolds looked very cold indeed.

Andrew Tyndall 12/14/10 10:52:17 pm

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