Rita: Power Bars & BlackBerries

NBC’s Brian Williams drove to Baton Rouge this morning. “The damage is obviously greater the farther west we travel, but it’s not that simple…and our charge today is to set up a network base station to service several broadcasts,” he blogs. Nightly News is expanded to an hour tonight, “which would explain the fact that our friends back at NBC News headquarters are calling and e-mailing at twice their normal hurricane rate. No power here, but Blackberries are operating. In its role in helping us cover storms, it ranks right up there with the invention of the Power Bar.”

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