Director's Cut Blog with Frank Macek

New Pictures as of 10/11/07: WKYC Assistant News Director Howard Fencl shares with us several more pictures "behind the scenes" that he captured on his cell phone as events unfolded on Wednesday afternoon: News Director Rita Andolsen helping to get the very latest information on what was happening with Cleveland PD WKYC Education Reporter Kim Wheeler interviewing a witness live "on the air" Students in disbelief following the shootings Reporters & Technicians preparing for the Mayor & School CEO's Wednesday press conference at WKYC in Studio B Various local & national news organizations arriving with their satellite and live shot trucks

New Pictures as of 10/11/07: Here are some of the satellite trucks currently parked in the WKYC Parking Lot that are providing the live coverage you are seeing across the country on this still developing story of the Cleveland School Shooting. CNN Crew at Their Interview Position CNN Satellite Truck WLWT - Channel 5 from Cincinnati Other Satellite Uplink Trucks

Wednesday's big school shooting that has been all over the local and national news happened right across the street from the WKYC studios on Lakeside Avenue in downtown Cleveland. A 14 year old shooter took two guns inside SuccessTech Academy (part of Cleveland School System) & started a shooting spree. 4 people were shot & one additional injury resulted. A fight earlier in the week was observed by a number of WKYC employees outside at the school and captured on our WKYC surveillance cameras. (To Watch, see link below). The shooter was apparently the same person involved in Monday's incident. The drama unfolded about lunch time...and immediately our live coverage started - though getting to or leaving the TV station was impossible because all the roads around the building were closed. Happening about the same time, a train derailed just east of Cleveland in Painesville - causing a major fire. 13 of a 100 car train went off the tracks and caught fire. Evacuations were or...