Hurricane Frances Coverage

First of all, if this looks familiar, it is essentially a re-post of the information others have mentioned on some US TV sites, but because I think many of you will also be interested, here is a list of some Miami stations that are providing streaming video of their Hurricane Francis coverage:

WPLG-10 (ABC, Miami): home page
WSVN-7 (Fox, Miami): home page
WTVJ-6 (NBC, Miami): home page
WFOR-4 (CBS, Miami): home page

The quality of the streaming video varies.

How are the international news channels doing? CNNI's coverage of Charley appeared to be pretty hit-and-miss (no pun intended), with good coverage coming only during simulcasts of CNN(USA)'s Larry King Live and Newsnight . Perhaps the network, ever cautious to be seen as truly international, did not want to be accused on spending significantly more time on a US hurricane than on, say, an Asian typhoon. During Andrew's 1992 strike, CNNI simulcast its domestic network for much of the (European) afternoon, including most of Daybreak and Morning News .

UPDATE: Tropical Storm Ivan has now formed in the Atlantic.

Stations in other parts of Florida are also streaming their coverage. Here, for example, is WESH in Orlando.

The Weather Channel, which is very popular in the US, especially during major weather events, doesn't have live video on its site, but instead features a large number of clips and video updates.

I've just noticed that someone had started this exact topic on the non-news forum before I did. Sorry!

Indeed, in this thread.

However, I DO wish somebody in authority would make a decision on whether weather comes under the general forum or this one.

Currently weather subjects seem to be split fifty-fifty with NONE getting moved to a different place.

I asked this on the first day of the news forum and was told by Asa that discussion of weather forecasts belongs in the main forum...

However, I guess news coverage of weather phenomena is a different matter ...?

[Personally, I think it makes sense for weather forecasts to be discussed together with news programmes and channels]

In which case, might I gently and politely suggest that the moderators get up off their backsides and move any weather threads in THIS forum over to the correct place, as the current situation is confusing to the user, to put it mildly.