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Channel 9 in Oklahoma, KWTV, is on the story. Maybe they will do a better job this time. KWTV was the station that carried water for Hussain al-Hussaini and cleared him as a suspect in the OKC bombing. Dave Balut was the reporter. Here are a few references from Jayna's book:

p. 28

5:30 P.M.
By nightfall, the APB for foreign terrorits dominate the evening news.
"Police were told by one witness that he saw at last two men in blue jumpsuits running away from a minivan outside the courthouse just before the blast. The witness told investigators the two men fled in a brown pickup," asserted NBC news correspondent Jim Cummins.
"This information is not a rumor," explained Oklahoma City's KWTV news anchor Jennifer Reynolds. "This was a radiogram, authority of the FBI, which was issued over radio channels to law enforcement authorities in central Oklahoma, and it was read aloud to law enforcement authorities."

p. 105

The next day, the local CBS affiliate, KWTV, was among several media outlets trying to backtrack. Reporters statewide scrambled to correct the false spin generated from the FBI's declaration that Johnb Doe 2 had been located and cleared. They collectively conceded it wasn't time to "tear up" the suspect drawing just yet.

I may have found the answer to part of the question I posted. Off Malkin's blog:

A Lincoln Town Car believed driven by OU Suicide Bomber Joel Henry Hinrichs III remains in the parking lot of the apartment where he lived and a U.S. Department of Justice inventory of the contents found by law enforcement officials is visible on the seat, Tapscott's Copy Desk has learned.

Among the items listed on the inventory are "13 plastic bottles" in the trunk. The inventory did not note if there was anything in the bottles, their size or coloration.

Other items on the inventory include a title, insurance certificate, a 2003 Rand McNally Road Atlas and two other highway maps with undecipherable titles. The car's license tag is Oklahoma VUL014, with a February 2006 expiration date. Tapscott's Copy Desk has also learned that a tree near where Hinrichs' bomb detonated displays a number of small round holes and some areas of a metallic substance.