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Huge Lightning Strike Interrupts Anderson Cooper Report From Joplin

by Mark Joyella | 9:01 am, May 24th, 2011

Reporting from Joplin on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, Anderson Cooper was right in the middle of a live report, talking about the continued threat from dangerous weather in the area, including potentially deadly lightning, when a huge lightning strike lit up the sky and sent Cooper into a defensive crouch. “Whoa. Huge bolts of lightning,” Cooper said as thunder loudly crashed around him.

“Wow. That was scary,” said Piers Morgan. Watch it here, from CNN: