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CNN Live At Daybreak

'The Talk of CNN'

Aired September 10, 2002 - 05:55   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Chad, we've got some new friends to talk to this morning.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We do this morning.

COSTELLO: We certainly do, because it's time for The Talk of CNN, where we find out what people across the country are talking about.

So what are the hot topics in Tennessee?

For that we check in with Andy and Alison and the morning crew from radio station WIVK in Knoxville.

Hi.

ANDY, WIVK CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, guys. How are you?

ALISON, WIVK CORRESPONDENT: Hi.

MYERS: Hey, good morning.

COSTELLO: Welcome to DAYBREAK.

ALISON: Well, thank you.

ANDY: Thank you. And welcome to our show, too.

MYERS: We're on your show, too, I assume, that's right. Yes.

ANDY: That's right.

COSTELLO: This is fantastic.

Hey, what are you guys talking this morning? I'm sure you're talking about 9/11 and how people will remember in Tennessee.

ANDY: We are. And we're just about, in fact, to head to New York today. We're flying to New York to broadcast our show live there from the area around ground zero so that we can cover all the activities that will be going on there. And I'll tell you, it's really interesting to see how everybody, of course, in the country was affected by it. But folks here in East Tennessee always come together to help out and there was a lot of fund raising going on here and a lot of great things that happened.

So we are glad to be a part of all that. COSTELLO: Do you think people want to spend a lot of time tomorrow remembering? Will they watch TV for an extended period of time?

ANDY: We'll, I'll tell you what, if they watch TV, they're going to see a lot about it. I know that, as you guys well know. But I think it's a good thing, though. I think folks need to be reminded what happened then, not that anybody has necessarily forgotten. But a lot of the feelings and emotion and the determination that the country got immediately after that may have kind of waned in these last few months. And I hope that we kind of can regain some of that and our determination in finding the folks who did this and the rest of that.

COSTELLO: Yes, you have to wonder, though, will it really help people heal or will it just sort of depress them?

ANDY: Yes, that's a good point. I think for me, personally, I think it's a kind of a healing thing. And, again, and a great reminder. But, and also you can't help but, you know, get a little depressed when you see all that again and be brought back to the moment when it all happened.

MYERS: I know you guys are going to be broadcasting there basically nonstop all day. Do you have a lot of guests lined up? How are the people in New York responding to all -- I mean there are going to be so many radio requests for tomorrow?

ANDY: Oh, sure, there are.

ALISON: Yes, we're going to be talking to a lot of like firefighters and some of the heroes that were involved in the whole event. And we're just going to kind of get a feel of what's going on in New York and, you know, kind of tell everybody how, you know, folks like in Knoxville, Tennessee are feeling.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: You know, I think that a lot of people don't understand the position that broadcasters are in, because some people feel we're exploiting the tragedy. But what else can we do? I mean we have to remember, don't we?

ANDY: Yes, sure do, and, in fact, I think one of the best things that's come out of the whole thing -- if anything good can come of the September 11 tragedy is that so many great, heroic stories have been uncovered and have been broadcast. And that would not have happened had the media not looked for those stories and made, and turned something that was such a horrible tragedy into at least somewhat of a positive for the rest of the country to rally around.

ALISON: And I think looking at individual stories of the certain heroes and people that were affected by this tragedy kind of makes it real for everybody, you know?

COSTELLO: Andy and Alison, thank you very much.

We really appreciate it.

We're going to do this, what, every week?

ANDY: You've got it, every day if you want. We're here for you.

COSTELLO: Yes.

MYERS: Hey, no balls.

COSTELLO: Exactly. We'll talk of happier things, too.

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