Dan Rather had a major annoucement this evening "Stay with us on the evening news, on your local station and on CBS radio, as we wlll be keeping a VERY close eye on Isabel in the coming days."
I know the news business and that signals they're gearing up. Dan will be in either Bahamas or Florida monday night.
Get ready. The DELUGE is about to begin.
Important annoucement from CBS NEWS
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Re: Important annoucement from CBS NEWS
rob8303 wrote:Dan Rather had a major annoucement this evening "Stay with us on the evening news, on your local station and on CBS radio, as we wlll be keeping a VERY close eye on Isabel in the coming days."
I know the news business and that signals they're gearing up. Dan will be in either Bahamas or Florida monday night.
Get ready. The DELUGE is about to begin.
ratings ploy..his rating suck...he is just trying to attract the 100 people like us that cant go more than 5 minutes without checking the puter for a new post..hehe
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Josephine96 wrote:what!?! lol... I don't think I've ever seen Dan in harms way.. Please forgive me if I'm dead wrong..
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you're already forgiven but NO he follows hurricanes whereever they go. Remember Floyd and Lili? He was in New Orleans for Lili and for Floyd he was in Orlando, and Wilmington. Stood out in the rain for hours when Floyd hit Wilmington on a live shot with CNN's Larry King Live. He's obsessed with hurricanes too.
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Perhaps Dan will be the kiss of death to Isabel just like Jim Cantore is on TWC!!
Carl Parker on TWC earlier stated "it would totally irresponsible to estimate if and where Isabel may make landfall in the US". I think all of the news stations and meteorologists are becoming as hyped up as we are on this board.
Carl Parker on TWC earlier stated "it would totally irresponsible to estimate if and where Isabel may make landfall in the US". I think all of the news stations and meteorologists are becoming as hyped up as we are on this board.
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Josephine96 wrote:what!?! lol... I don't think I've ever seen Dan in harms way.. Please forgive me if I'm dead wrong..
He reported from Galveston when Carla hit. Talked about it in 2000 when he came down here for the 1900 anniversary memorial.
From his bio at http://www.achievements.org:
After a short stint in the Marine Corps, he was hired by The Houston Chronicle and its affiliated radio station, KTRH. He became news director of KTRH in 1956 and a reporter for KTRK-TV Houston in 1959. By 1961 he was news director for KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston. His coverage of Hurricane Carla brought him to the attention of network executives and he became a network correspondent. As the CBS correspondent in Dallas during the assassination of President Kennedy, his grave but steady demeanor helped to reassure a nation in crisis, and his thorough professionalism won him a national reputation.
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Yeah, ol' Dan honed his chops and made the bigtime back when he was a young whippersnapper at KHOU in Houston covering Carla. That's when CBS stood up and took notice of his um, talent. IMO, his love affair with hurricanes is in part a yearning for reliving the excitement of those young journalist glory days gone by. Dan's most compellingly bizarre moment—and he's had a few (anyone remember "What's the frequency Kenneth?"...it's not just an old REM tune) was during Hurricane Opal in '95, when he flew down from the NY anchor desk to cover landall in Ft Walton Beach/Destin. I fondly recall ROTFLMAO when in a live remote that afternoon, Dan's crew strapped him firmly to a light pole, ala Ulysses in the Odyssey, out on US 98 during the height of the storm. He was a mess of blowing hairweave and contorted facial expressions as Opal's winds were definitely getting him to a high level of discomfort. Pretty sure that was the last time he tried to recapture the old Carla glory. Since then, he usually broadcasts from the nearest relatively large city near where a storm makes landfall and heads out in the aftermath to the affected communites, leaving the actual storm reporting to the younger folk.
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