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Hit Time by Yolanda Joe

Prologue

Story Slug = Cold Charity

5 P.M. Show, December 3rd

ANCHOR INTRO

(Dan Reads)

CLOSE-UP

The American Heart Association is telling the Elite Swim Club to go jump in the lake.

Literally.

Once again it's time for the club's annual charity event, the Winter Relay. Club members have collected $10,000 in pledges this year.

WJIV's Georgia Barnett is live at the lakefront with details.

Georgia?

(*********STOP*********)

TAKE LIVE SHOT

CHYRON LOCATION: LIVE/MANNING PIER

LIVE/GEORGIA BARNETT/CHANNEL 8 NEWS

(Georgia Live)


Dan, we are having unseasonably warm weather for December. Today's high was around 50 degrees. But that'll do little to knock the chill off the ice-cold waters of Lake Michigan.

The race is now in its tenth year. A swimmer will start at the pier, go out to that buoy and back, then the next swimmer will take off.

As you can see behind me, I'm surrounded by family and friends of the Elite Swim Club. They're here to cheer on their loved ones for charity.

(natural sound/crowd cheers)

The swimmers are lined up. The official is ready to start.

(crowd counts down/

starter pistol shot)

And they're off! Wow, look at them go!

(natural sound race/

wide shot)

Now if you, the Channel 8 audience, would like to help the Elite Swim Club reach its goal by making a donation call the number on the bottom of your screen....

(pandemonium in water/

wide shot)

Something's...something's wrong...I can't tell...the swimmers are coming back. They're panicking!

(various swimmers shouting)

Oh my God! Help! There's a body! It's a man! A dead body in the lake! Oh my God!

What a tripped-out way to start a workweek.

Monday afternoon I went out to do a live shot about a charity event, a simple feel-good story -- an easy-pleasy I call it. That easy-pleasy turned ugly-wugly right there during my live shot with three hundred thousand viewers watching.

Eyeballing the ugly.

We stayed hot with the coverage. I was live. When the police arrived -- when they pulled the body out of the water. My ace cameraman, Zeke Rouster, was all over the video, getting shots of the scene from various angles. I was hustling. I was giving detailed descriptions about every little thing that was going on. I sounded like a sportscaster except my play-by-play involved divers, detectives, and dead men.

Dead men tell no tales.

Or answer any questions either for that matter.

Like...who was this man? Was this an accident? A suicide? Or could it be murder?

It's like a TV game show, except there's no Regis and no grand prize. The viewers follow the story intently as it unfolds, waiting for the right answers, wondering how it'll all turn out. And it's a hard game to play too except for the people who must...like the police and the press.

In this case that would be my boyfriend Doug and me. Who knows how many twists and turns this news story will take before winding down to the truth. Who knows?


Hit Time: Part 1 | Hit Time: Part 2 | Hit Time: Part 3 | Order Hit Time

   

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