Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean announced today on “America’s Newsroom” that she’s pregnant with a second baby boy. She told anchor Megyn Kelly that she’s due in early February. Video (via J$P) after the jump. Congrats!

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• At 3:39 KMGH/KUSA report no one is inside the balloon. “We know the balloon is down, and there’s nobody in it. Now we wait to find out. What a day this has been” – Shepard Smith.

“I have sat in front of this television and watched things that I never dreamed were possible, and there is this.” – Shepard Smith

This afternoon, the cablers took live feeds from Ft. Collins, Colorado of a 6 year old boy trapped inside a silver disc balloon soaring high through the air. (AP story)

• Local news helicopters from KUSA, KCNC and KMGH are assisting the Sheriff’s office as they track the balloon.

• MSNBC and HLN reported the story at 2:37pmET followed by FNC at 2:40 (coming out of commercial), CNN at 2:42. MSNBC, FNC and CNN had been covering the president’s town hall meeting in New Orleans.

• CNN’s Chad Myers and FNC’s Janice Dean joined their network broadcasts to provide weather reports along with the Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore for MSNBC.

• At 3:35pmET the balloon landed, softly. Shepard Smith asked “is the little boy inside?”

• At 3:37pmET rescue crews circle the balloon waiting to open it, to determine if the boy is inside.

• Gawker reports the boy and his family were twice on the ABC show “Wife Swap.” “The boy is Falcon Heene, son of Mayumi and Richard, who is a scientist and storm chaser.”

• As of 4:08pmET the cable networks remain in continuing coverage of the story as search for 6-year-old Falcon Heene continues.

• At 4:20pmET a neighbor of the Hennes, on MSNBC, describes what happened: “There was a lot of panic in the backyard. The mother seemed very distraught.”

• CNN first to commercial break at 4:25pmET and returns from break with the Situation Room covering other news.

• As for overall coverage, TVNewser is starting to hear from the networks. A CNN spokesperson tells us, “Standard procedure across CNN networks is to put in place a delay. On this occasion it was 10 seconds. The delay was in place from the time we went to air with video through to the discovery that no one was inside.”

• At 5pmET, FNC airs Glenn Beck, CNN returns to continuing coverage of the balloon story and MSNBC is airing Hardball.

• 6:07pmET: 6-year-old Falcon Heene has been found safe, hiding in a box in the garage attic

• 6:30pmET: ABC World News, NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News are all leading with the balloon story.

• Below, the storm-chasing Henne family was featured on CBS4 in Denver.

Janice Dean, The Weather Machine, returned to Fox News from maternity leave today. She had a baby boy, Matthew, on January 24. “Thank goodness [Glenn Beck] made crying okay on television,” said an emotional Dean. (via Johnny Dollar):

> FNC’s Janice Dean discusses her newborn baby and living with MS in the current issue of Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine. “I feel like I’m one of the lucky ones,” she says (via Johnny Dollar).

> Today show anchor Matt Lauer will be the 2009 Senior Class Day speaker at Harvard University. The event takes place the day before commencement.

> CNN’s Anderson Cooper will begin reporting from the G20 Summit live from London tomorrow night. He will be joined by correspondents Nic Robertson and Richard Quest, while Ed Henry and Suzanne Malveaux are traveling with Pres. Obama.

> Jill Dobson wrote on Janice Dean‘s blog Saturday that Dean gave birth to a baby boy earlier that morning. As of Saturday afternoon, no name had been picked for the 7 pound, 10 ounce baby. > Update: Dean’s baby’s name is Matthew Stephen Newman.

> Detroit Free Press’ Sarah A Webster gives her “10 folks to track in ’09” of the auto industry. CNBC’s Phil LeBeau is the only tvnewser to make the list, because “if you live and breathe autos” then “LeBeau is a name you know.”

> FBN anchor Liz Claman appeared this morning on CBS’ The Early Show to discuss the economics behind President Obama’s stimulus plan. Claman was live from the NYSE.

> The Radio and Television News Directors Foundation will honor Susan Grant, EVP of CNN News Services and Cokie Roberts, commentator for ABC News and NPR, during its First Amendment Awards Dinner on March 12.

> The video tribute to NBC News’ former announcer Howard Reig has been put on YouTube. Reig passed away on November 12.

> Although News Corp. canceled its holiday party, that didn’t stop an “America’s Newsroom/Happening Now/Live Desk Christmas party” from taking place. From Janice Dean‘s blog:

Fox News Channel’s coverage of Hurricane Gustav will continue live throughout the night. At 7pmET, Shepard Smith anchors live from New Orleans. Brit Hume will take over an hour later from St. Paul, with discussion of the impact of Gustav on the RNC. From 10pm-MidnightET, Geraldo Rivera anchors from New Orleans.

Gregg Jarrett, Julie Banderas, Todd Connor and Uma Pemmaraju anchor from Midnight-5amET, with Fox & Friends picking up coverage an hour early.

Besides Smith and Rivera, FNC has a full slate of correspondents in the area, with Steve Harrigan (just back from Georgia/Russia coverage), Trace Gallagher, Jon Scott and correspondents from regional bureaus (Kris Gutierrez, Casey Stegall, Johnathan Serrie, Marianne Silber, Phil Keating and Adam Housley). Of course the “Weather Machine” Janice Dean has worked all day today from the Fox Extreme Weather Center.

As mentioned earlier, FBN will be live from at least 7am-7pmET.

> Related: FNC’s VP of news editorial Jay Wallace tells Politico that Gustav/RNC coverage, “Almost feels like having a two-front war.”

FNC meteorologist Janice Dean has announced on her blog (and on the air yesterday) that she’s having a baby.

I promise to post something a little more detailed later today. I’m praying my little baby boy will arrive healthy and happy in January.

The clip is after the jump…

• Earlier: Janice Dean Reveals Her Battle with Multiple Sclerosis…

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