The tragic shooting in Colorado is forcing many TV news programs to throw out their plans for the day, what would likely have been a slow Summer Friday.
As we noted earlier “CBS This Morning” is going live into a third hour of programming, a first for the network morning show. CBS also says that Scott Pelley will anchor the ‘CBS Evening News” from Aurora, Colorado this evening.
> Update: Pelley will also anchor a special edition of “48 Hours” in primetime tonight at 8 PM. Jeff Glor is also going to Colorado. He’ll anchor a split edition of “CBS This Morning Saturday” and anchor “Evening News” Saturday and Sunday and stay for Monday’s “CBS This Morning.”
> More: On ABC, David Muir will report from Aurora for “ABC World News,” with Chris Cuomo anchoring a live “20/20” from Colorado at 10 PM ET. Diane Sawyer–who was supposed to be off today–will come in and anchor “World News” from New York.
NBC’s Brian Williams will anchor from Aurora, and “Dateline” will have an hour on the shooting in primetime.
On cable news, Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” is forgoing what was supposed to be a taped special on the economy at 10pmET and will instead cover the shooting. Van Susteren will anchor from Colorado. Also, Fox News Channel’s Jon Scott–a Colorado native–is en route and will report from Aurora for “Fox Report.”
> More: NBC’s Chris Jansing was supposed to be traveling to London today for Olympics coverage. Instead she is heading to Colorado where she will anchor a 4pmET and 10pmET specials on MSNBC. Coincidentally, one of the athletes she profiled for the Summer games is from Aurora.
> More: CNN’s Anderson Cooper will be anchoring from Aurora, Colorado tonight as well.
On HLN this afternoon Kyra Phillips will make her debut on the network during “Evening Express” from 5-7 PM ET.
“Piers Morgan Tonight” EP Jonathan Wald says on Twitter that they will be covering the shooting:
You can bet we’ll be debating gun control live tonight. @piersmorganhas some very strong views.
— Jonathan Wald (@jonathanwald) July 20, 2012
We will update this story with more changes in coverage, as we get them.