82 years old and remembers who was being born in the same hospital as the one she was giving birth to? Yeah, right. “Hey, yo, you over there having the baby. Whass his name going to be?
That may be the reporter's sloppiness.
Mrs. Nordyke was talking about things that have been discussed in recent days, but the reporter writes that she "recalls" things she almost certainly didn't know at the time.
Essentially, there isn't any story or any authoritative information here, but the reporter is trying to make it look like Mrs. Nordyke has valuable first-hand evidence (which she just doesn't have).