COMMENTS: Hate California, It’s Cold & It’s Damp
The teeming rain that is drenching California from San Diego to Humboldt County was the Story of the Day. Correspondents in southern California braced for gale force winds and a nightlong downpour. All three newscasts showed rescues from flash floods, mud-lined canyons and vehicles abandoned on highways. CBS and ABC led from the Golden State. NBC, whose sibling cable network is the Weather Channel, departed from its normal practice of giving top billing to nature's fury (211 reports so far this year v ABC 157, CBS 145). It chose to lead with the findings of the 2010 Census instead: all 308m of them.
CBS' Ben Tracy filed from mudslide-threatened La Canada in the suburban canyons of Los Angeles, where NBC's Miguel Almaguer and ABC's Mike von Fremd were located on Monday. "This is the hottest commodity in this neighborhood right now," CBS' Tracy showed us, "a sandbag." ABC's von Fremd followed up from Los Angeles, predicting rains that will break 30-year records. NBC's Almaguer added that the ten-foot snowfall at Mammoth broke a 40-year mark.
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