"They've lost contact with the space shuttle and it's breaking up over Texas," he reported. A few minutes later the news said that the accident had ocdurred shortly after 8:00 AM, CST.
It's just erie to think that the talking heads on Fox & Friends had been lightheartedly joshing about the re-entry and landing just minutes before the whole thing exploded and burned.
At 8:00 a.m. NOBODY in the media had any knowledge what was going on. When 8:15 arrived, Mike JARRICK mentioned that we were within a minute of the landing...
At 8:17 a.m. he mentioned that there was no word about the landing yet, and that this was unusual since the Shuttle is NEVER off schedule...8:16 landing means 8:16!
As the minutes went by and no shuttle was landing, Jarrick kept mentioning "Something isn't right here," and "This cannot be good."
DO NOT insinuate that the FOX & Friends crew were making inappropriate comments in jest over a tragedy, for as you said, you were busy watching Animal Planet for 45 minutes while the story was develloping.
I know you're just relaying what you heard the guy on TV say, but there was no sonic boom across Texas (at least in my part) the last time I watched a shuttle approach. If there was one, it wasn't even loud enough to upset the dogs and they hear everything. The folks in Florida hear one because the shuttle is at a lower altitude by then.
We did hear a boom or loud noise this time though... which points to something extremely out of the norm.