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The inferno caused by exploding fertilizer in a small town outside of Waco would normally have created the day's major headlines. All three networks sent a correspondent to West, Texas: NBC's Miguel Almaguer, ABC's Steve Osunsami, and CBS' Ben Tracy. ABC's Osunsami noted that the fire that triggered the explosion burned on the 20th anniversary of the conflagration at the nearby Branch Davidian compound. CBS followed up with Manuel Bojorquez' sitdown with Mayor Tommy Muska; ABC with Cecilia Vega on the destruction to the social fabric of the town of 2,800.
ABC sent Matt Gutman to Mississippi, where Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested for sending letters laced with the toxin ricin to Capitol Hill and the White House. Gutman did not cast Curtis in an entirely negative light. He gave him a plug for his book Missing Pieces, in which Curtis lays out the case against trafficking in human body parts, and played clips from YouTube video of Curtis' Elvis Presley impersonation act. In addition, Gutman told us that the ricin in the letters was "non-weaponized."
NBC's John Yang did that silly thing that reporters do when they cover flooding. He donned waders and stood thigh-deep in water in Lisle, Ill. In Chicago, there is a run on sump pumps.
CBS anchor Scott Pelley committed himself to publicizing the gun-control activism of the bereaved families of Newtown Ct before their cause was defeated in the Senate. So loyalty demanded that he should assign Chip Reid to follow up with parent Mark Barden, in the aftermath of Wednesday's defeat.
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