Staff writer Mel Bracht can be reached by e-mail at or by calling 475-4106. That was the larger part of the population base." The viewer, who was not being affected by these storms, wanted to watch the damage. "The difference was, we didn't cover the damage in Oklahoma City. KWTV general manager David Griffin said, "We decided to stay with covering the tornado warnings, which were going off in Mulhall and other areas. by devoting more coverage to damage than KWTV did. KWTV's coverage, headed by longtime meteorologist Gary England, led in the early evening, but KFOR took the lead at 7:15 p.m. The combined ratings of the three stations showed that more than 70 percent of the market's televisions were tuned to the tornado coverage. KOCO-5, which doesn't have a helicopter, was a distant third at 8.2. Two rival male news helicopter pilots embroiled in a bitter feud over OJ Simpson’s infamous car chase have. KWTV-9 finished at 24.8, topping at 34.2 at 7 p.m. Dana Vahle (formerly Dirk) and Zoey Tur (formerly Bob) Facebook.
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For prime-time, the station earned a 38.3 rating (percentage of TV homes in the market), reaching as high as 42.8 at 8 p.m. The video supplied from Chopper 4 helped KFOR compile record ratings that night. I don't know if we're coming out of this one.' We ended up making it back at 12:30 that night." "At one point, I told my cameraman, 'You better pray to who you love. He said a miscommunication with the KFOR news desk put him too close to a tornado near the Texas border last summer. Gardner has experienced some close calls, however. He credits meteorologist Mike Morgan and his staff for watching the radar and steering him in the right direction. On May 3, he said he flew as close as a half-mile to the tornado while at an altitude of 2,000 to 2,500 feet.Īlthough Chopper 4 has a top speed of 120 mph, the helicopter could quickly get sucked into the tornado if it gets too close. Tracking tornadoes requires Gardner to keep the helicopter out of the storm's path but still get close enough for good video. 'Do you get me? Do you see me?' 'Yeah, Leroy, I've got you covered there.'" "He (Tatom) always kind of cracks me up, because he'll always call me. In comparison to Oklahoma City, Gardner only has to keep tabs of KWTV-9 helicopter pilot Leroy Tatom when covering a news story. Gardner said 35 helicopters were in the area during the riots, and 7 to 13 helicopters cover most news stories. "It's very competitive, with a lot more helicopters."
"It's totally different from out here," Gardner said. Gardner flew charters and for movies before serving as the morning pilot for a Los Angeles TV station for five years. Gardner, 43, a native of Wynnewood, became a helicopter pilot after he moved to Los Angeles in the early '80s with his first wife, who was a singer. "When they actually see it on TV, it takes on a whole different significance to them." "When people look at the radar screen, it's just another tornado," he said.
Gardner said the helicopter video of the damage played a big role in viewers taking quick action to avoid the tornado. After discussion with Zoey, we've decided that "he" will be used to refer to everything pre-May 6, 2013, when Bob started hormone therapy, and "she" will be used to refer to Zoey after that date."The next day, when I landed at places, people were shaking my hand and talking to me," he said. (NOTE: This post has been edited to fix pronoun inconsistencies. Today, after not seeing Zoey since our first interview, I met her in Santa Monica, and we talked about the transition (it's going well, but the drugs do much more than she expected), men (she's being relegated to the "girls' table"), dating (she and her girlfriend both decided they didn't want to date a woman, and she thinks straight men don't want to date MacGuyver), and Bradley Manning (she blames the Army as much as Manning).
So far, Zoey has been taking the drugs for the transition, and there are definite physical changes starting, but the big changes will happen with surgery, the first of which she says she'll undergo in a few weeks. Inside, she knew she was a woman, christened Zoey at the suggested of two close friends, and she started hormone replacement on May 6, 2013.
That summer, 95 million people watched OJ Simpsons slow-motion chase down the. Much of that behavior, Zoey told us, was acting out. The backyard lemon trees shuddered in the wake of Fosters chopper as he. In June, Off-Ramp welcomed Zoey Tur into the studio to talk about Gender Identity Disorder, also known as gender dysphoria, which she'd suffered, as Bob, her entire life.Īmong other macho exploits, Bob Tur piloted the helicopter that hovered above Reginald Denny's beating during the LA Riots and found OJ Simpson during his slow-speed chase.
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