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For the second straight day, all three newscasts decided to kick off with the early winter cold snap that stretches from the Great Lakes to Florida. CBS and ABC, which had George Stephanopoulos as substitute anchor, both led off from Florida, where a frost threatens the fruit harvest. NBC chose the Lake Effect snowstorm that immobilized a highway in Ontario, stranding hundreds.

There really was not very much news to be found in the cold. NBC's John Yang demonstrated what frozen sand looks like. ABC's Stephanopoulos brought in his Good Morning America colleague Sam Champion (at the tail of the Matt Gutman videostream) to show us how the jetstream works. CBS' Mark Strassmann checked that oranges will still be juicy. ABC's Gutman worried about the chilly macaws at the Palm Beach Zoo. NBC's Kerry Sanders slipped in a crafty cross-promotion for Universal Orlando's theme park, NBC's corporate sibling, as he filed vox pop on disappointed sun-seeking tourists.

Andrew Tyndall 12/15/10 7:09:44 pm

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