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Dave Price explains why local stations are covering Hurricane Rita as a “big local thing”
This is the closed captioning text from WCBS this morning, the audio can be found here.
Reid Lamberty:
Do you have a light on your head?
Is that one of the ways you kept yourself safe and were able to see things?
Dave Price:
Yeah. I'll show it to you. We each have these lights on the top of our heads similar to the lights a coal miner wears or a runner at night in Central Park wears. We simply strap it around our heads. When we go and confer these stories we try and do things right but the things we're doing To stay safe, all of you at home ought to be doing each and every day. Even those of us in the Tri-State Area.
If you wonder why we cover a story like this and why we make it such a big local thing, it's because even though we may not have a hurricane very often, we are in a time when we need to be prepared for emergencies, and part of preparedness are buying things like this, keeping batteries in your house, having a radio which is hand-held and which you can wind to gain power.
Making sure you have extra cell phone batteries, a phone chain, an ability to keep in touch with family once you're separated to be able to regroup once again. All these things are basic, and every time there's a national emergency, and we're watching in New York or we're covering if, we ought to be taking note at what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong.
We looked at what has become the blame game in Louisiana between municipal and state and federal officials, and we've looked at faults here In Texas, even. A lot of people are saying they didn't start the contra flow early enough. We need and our government officials in New York need to be thinking of how we can make it safer back home. And that's one of the very important aspects of covering this story.
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This is the closed captioning text from WCBS this morning, the audio can be found here.
Reid Lamberty:
Do you have a light on your head?
Is that one of the ways you kept yourself safe and were able to see things?
Dave Price:
Yeah. I'll show it to you. We each have these lights on the top of our heads similar to the lights a coal miner wears or a runner at night in Central Park wears. We simply strap it around our heads. When we go and confer these stories we try and do things right but the things we're doing To stay safe, all of you at home ought to be doing each and every day. Even those of us in the Tri-State Area.
If you wonder why we cover a story like this and why we make it such a big local thing, it's because even though we may not have a hurricane very often, we are in a time when we need to be prepared for emergencies, and part of preparedness are buying things like this, keeping batteries in your house, having a radio which is hand-held and which you can wind to gain power.
Making sure you have extra cell phone batteries, a phone chain, an ability to keep in touch with family once you're separated to be able to regroup once again. All these things are basic, and every time there's a national emergency, and we're watching in New York or we're covering if, we ought to be taking note at what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong.
We looked at what has become the blame game in Louisiana between municipal and state and federal officials, and we've looked at faults here In Texas, even. A lot of people are saying they didn't start the contra flow early enough. We need and our government officials in New York need to be thinking of how we can make it safer back home. And that's one of the very important aspects of covering this story.
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