A Sneak Attack!

So I'm working from home this afternoon and the plane crash in New York happens and I follow a lead to ABC-TV live video. What a hoot! I guess they don't think that they are "on the air" so they say all kinds of stupid, inappropriate things. First of all, their copter picture is really bad, hazy and lacking in details and you hear them complaining that they are not being allowed close enough to the crash site to take really good video (the CBS photo shown here is much better than what we were getting from ABC).

At one point the helicopter pilot gives out the phone number of the agency to call for clearance and the name of the guy they need to yell at. He says something like "Take down this number Ed. Call xxx-xxx-xxx and ask for Bob Jones. Yeah, tell him we need to get in closer."

Later on we start hearing what sounds like a local anchor person who is watching the video feed and she is constantly complaining about the picture. "Is that smoke or fog? Is this from a chimney or is this the crash? I can't tell." At one point she is told that the reason they are not letting them in closer is that the radar in the area is down and she says, "What? We can't go in because the radar is down? Well if they can't see us tell them we're not there. Tell them we left then go in closer."

It would have been a sneak attack by the local ABC affiliate.