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A tornado-laden line of storms rampaged across central Florida, leaving at least 19 people dead and 10,000 residents without electricity. While all three networks led with the storm, CBS paid it special attention (11 min v ABC 5, NBC 6) because anchor Katie Couric was already in the state to publicize her network's coverage of Sunday's Super Bowl, which will be played in Miami. She anchored from Lady Lake, where the hurricane-proof Church of God had been dismantled.

Couric toured the rubble with the church's pastor Larry Lynn. "It was used as a hurricane shelter and was designed to sustain winds of 150 mph," she commented. Inquired Couric: "Where is the steeple again?" She found a hymnal opened at I Surrender to Thee. "If you have not, you need to," suggested the preacher. He invited the anchor to attend his outdoor services in the yard on Sunday. "The church will be there. The building will not."

Andrew Tyndall 2/3/07 8:08:11 pm

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