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It took the mother more than an hour to meet up with Jack and the kid. She met up with him at the Ontario airport at about 8:40am. The opening identified the oilfield as being near Mojave, California which is 80 - 100 miles from LA.

The real timing issue on the premier was the time from Palmer's assassination to the TV reports. He was shot about 7:05 am, but the TV news had it within 10 minutes. If he had been killed in a public place, perhaps, but he was killed in his brother's apartment.

The media would only know that something bad had happened in the brother's apartment, not that the former president had been shot and killed. News would have leaked out quickly, but the news cycle would go from reporting that something had happened in the home of the former president's brother to unconfirmed reports that the former president had been injured and finally after some time that the former president had been killed.

The current President and CTU would have known immediately, but the outside world would have been in the dark for at least an hour.

Additionally, how would CTU know about the attack on Tony and Michelle so quickly?

I love the show, but sometimes I need a crane to suspend my disbelief.

I understand where you are coming from but to be honest with you, things happen so fast and furious that while viewing it you really don't give a thought to the time frame. Thats why I need a DVR for this program.

I love the show, but sometimes I need a crane to suspend my disbelief.

I have two hypotheses for why this happens.

The writers don't care too much about the timing issues.
The writers originally wrote the screenplays with proper timing, but then decided that the story dragged too much in places. They didn't realize this until they wre in the editing room - too late to come up with & shoot a new story thread to insert into the slow parts. So they had to do a quick rearrangement of the existing threads to punch things up.