Fox News' Mike Tobin practically got hit by 155mm shells in the northern end of the Gaza Strip live on the air just now. His amazingly detailed reporting on the situation there was periodically interspersed with calm "Hold on, there's another shell coming in..." BOOM! "Hmm, that one shook me..." Jon Scott interrupted his report and asked incredulously, "Mike, are you safe there? It looks like those shells are landing just a couple hundred meters away...[NOTE: Jon Scott later noted it was actually closer to a hundred meters]" To which Mike replied, "Well, they are pretty precise...hold on, here's another one..."
If you're not a Tobin fan yet you have got to check him out. His reporting under fire and everywhere is jaw-droppingly good. Check out this video of his live shot from Gaza during Studio B with Shepard Smith yesterday...
Here's Tobin's latest must-read Reporter's Notebook...
...As soon as I hung up the phone with [our bureau chief Eli] I could hear the wind-like sound of an F-16 over Gaza at high altitude. Within minutes jet engines roared, backed up by the sound of propellers from Israeli drones. The sound of the aircraft would fill the sky then fade away. The music from a wedding across the street stopped and the streets emptied. Hundreds of Hamas gunmen took up positions armed with rifles and RPG’s. They put homemade bombs into the ground and in a futile effort they hid behind sand berms, which they hoped would slow an Israeli advance. The silence between the over flights was eerie — like watching someone in a horror movie walk into the abandoned house. You knew something violent was going to happen. It was just a matter of time....
Great anchoring on the Gaza situation by Jon Scott, and terrific commentary by former Senator John Breaux this morning too..
