Without being over-ghoulish, I was looking forward to BBC News coverage of Hurricane Milton overnight, with at least 60 staff now working across the United States. When I hit the 'watch live' button on the News website at 2.30am this morning, I got, without time-stamp, bits of Newsnight, and the Merlyn Thomas misinformation package from the 10.
Elsewhere, I learned Milton had lost speed at landfall near Siesta Key; that preceding tornados, spinning off from the main vortex, had done real damage to a residential park near St Lucie, with hundreds of police, firemen and others searching crumpled buildings before Milton arrived.
This re-running of old stuff is unhelpful; just after 9am we got an overnight wrap package made in London, which still talked about 1m cut off from electricity, and others waiting for Milton. At that time, the electricity was lost to 2.6m - and Milton was heading out to sea across the Atlantic.
Transparency ?
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