Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched, |
Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched. |
There is elation at this moment. The news just coming a short time ago that the 12 miners are alive. |
There is nothing sadder to see people who lived a good decent life dead on the side of the road. I used to go overseas to report on that but now I'm doing it at home. |
There's a value to bearing witness to what hundreds of thousands of people are going through. I see nothing wrong with a reporter going through it with them. I've never pretended to grab onto something. The audience knows when something's real and when it's not. |
These people deserve to have the world watching what is happening to them, |
They all took drugs together, this was a mutually enjoyable experience, |
This is going to be a difficult week ahead, for families watching at home and for first responders collecting the people and trying to restore them some dignity, ... There's not a lot of dignity to be had in these floodwaters. |
This is going to be a difficult week ahead, for families watching at home and for first responders collecting the people and trying to restore them some dignity. There's not a lot of dignity to be had in these floodwaters. |
Those of us who were here and have had the privilege to cover it, and to witness these triumphs and these tragedies, will never forget it and will carry it with us. That's part of the fear of leaving, that people will forget and coverage will go elsewhere. And there are so many answers we need to get. |
To me, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. I think a lot of people here are furious at mine officials. If officials knew [the initial report] was incorrect, why didn't they come forward? |
To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up. |
We heard church bells ringing. We heard people yelling, screaming, clapping. A friend of one of the miners came over, crying, to tell us that he had heard and just been told in the church that 12 of them (miners) had been found alive. |
We talk to mothers holding babies, some of these babies three-, four-, five-months-old, living in horrible conditions. |
You do what's in your gut- if you've been doing it long enough, what's in your gut will be appropriate. |