Rita Cosby Quotes
We were not at all solely relying on [information from] family members. The hospital spokeswoman was on my air live saying that she was told that the miners were coming to her hospital and ... they were alive. We had a local fire chief who was told that 12 miners were alive. He got his information from the command center. I interviewed Chris Hamilton, the senior vice president for the West Virginia Coal Association. So we had multiple, multiple sources and multiple official sources. 
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Katrina made a lot of us in the media realize that we can't undersell a hurricane. News organizations, the government, everybody now realizes you've got to take Mother Nature seriously.
- Rita Cosby
We were not at all solely relying on [information from] family members. The hospital spokeswoman was on my air live saying that she was told that the miners were coming to her hospital and ... they were alive. We had a local fire chief who was told that 12 miners were alive. He got his information from the command center. I interviewed Chris Hamilton, the senior vice president for the West Virginia Coal Association. So we had multiple, multiple sources and multiple official sources.
- Rita Cosby