NPR lets us know that they are the only news network in Chengdu right now (reporting on the earthquake) and other networks are calling them for interviews and live reporting. Robert Siegel and Melissa Block, co-hosts of All Things Considered, are there on the scene. The airports are shut down and they were near the scene and now driving to the epicenter.

In an interview this morning with host Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition, Block described the scene in Chengdu:

Everyone in all the buildings had flocked into the street as soon as they felt the earth start to shake. We were standing on the pavement and the earth was undulating -- you could feel it moving up and own under your feet. I was right next to a church, and bricks and tile had started falling off the roof of the church. The cross on top was waving wildly. ... Everybody was quite terrified, and had never been through this before. This is not something that happens in Chengdu."