Incredible coverage

[melchar]

The only real non-suck about insomnia and an obsession over news is that I've been watching the overwhelmingly awesome coverage of the 8.9 [EIGHT POINT NINE!] earthquake and multuple tsunami news coverage since 11pm.

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[melchar.livejournal.com]

CNN pretty much just showed live feed from Japan from about 11:15 - and helicopter news crews following the tsunami waves that came ashore in Sendai - and followed it inland for more than 50 miles for about 2 full hours. It was the most astonishing coverage.

At 2am they started to repeat the film and divide it up into clip and the newsheads started shoving their faces into screen. Sigh. So I checked and channel 7 ]the world news all night show] was doing some live coverage - same film clips - but they were talking live to a local reporter. That was interesting. At 3 everything started to loop, so I went to bed [KGO radio on, as usual].

Woke at 9am and heard that Santa Cruz took some pier & ship damage - and that part Crescent City was flooded, plus some wave watchers were swept out to sea at around 8am, but that was pretty much it for local news -content-. Coverage is being shown in santitized bits now. SO much less interesting.