After eight long and windy days in Washington County, Operation Migration was able to fly on Tuesday. The 17 whooping cranes and their ultralight pilots are now safely in Russell County, about 65 miles away.
Just after Good Morning America repackaged my stories on Michala Riggle's autism research funding, one of the many phone calls to the Riggle home was from Los Angeles.
I emerged from the "edit bay" at WHAS11 with tears in my eyes, having just watched our raw video of 11 year old Michala Riggle get the check to meet her goal of $200,000 for an autism research study.
After WHAS11 reported on an amazing Louisville family's fight for autism research, Good Morning America plans to report on that effort Tuesday morning, 12/4.
The 17 endangered whooping cranes that have been making news in Kentuckiana are stuck here, indefinitely. It's just too windy for the ultralight led migration. Here's the latest from Operation Migration:
Most anyone can write one decent newspaper column or host one good radio talk show. The real test is doing it repeatedly and consistently. That's Joe Elliott's legacy at WHAS Radio.
