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Apart from that, pickings were slim…
All three networks reported on a hotel fire in Houston that was essentially a local story. For CBS it was literally so, using a stand-up by Doug Miller of KHOU-TV, its local affiliate. ABC folded local coverage by Tom Abrahams of KTRK-TV into Ron Claiborne's narration from New York. On NBC, Anne Thompson handled all the chores remotely. No guests in the hotel were hurt; four firefighters were found dead in the smoky ruins.
ABC's Gio Benitez filed a follow-up on his Wednesday coverage of that mother of seven from Phoenix who was thrown in jail in Mexico after twelve pounds of marijuana were found under her bus seat. She was released after surveillance video of her boarding the bus showed her stashless.
CBS' Anna Werner followed up on the three letters that were laced with non-toxic castor bean paste, the raw ingredient for the poison ricin, if properly refined. Werner reported from the village of New Boston in Texas, where police told her that a wife had reported on her husband for sending the letters, to which the husband responded by blaming his wife.
The only political story of the day was filed by NBC's education correspondent, Rehema Ellis. NBC has made a habit in the last couple of years of covering the mounting post-graduation debt load from college loans taken out by students. So it was no surprise that when President Barack Obama staged a photo-op to urge Congress to keep the interest rates low for Stafford Loans, Ellis should be the lone reporter to grant him publicity.
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