While I sympathize with those who lost loved ones on Comair, my question is this: just how many "openings" have to be filmed to cover any eventuality that may occur before a show of this type is aired? And how would they segue from the pretaped part to the live show? What script would be used? I'm just turning the question around.
Hey, I like your username. Are you the original? ;-)
Anyway, I don't expect them to have multiple openings in the can. However, someone brought up an interesting question on Mike Gallagher's show this morning (Steve Malzberg was sitting in)... What would they (the show's producers) have done if a big-time Hollywood actor/producer/etc. was on that plane and died? And, no, Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson don't count.