For the better part of three hours Saturday, most of us who work in the News-Dispatch newsroom sat around and twiddled our thumbs. 

Occasionally, those thumbs were spent rapidly typing on phone keyboards, trying to text our contacts for the information we so desperately desired. 

What we had all been waiting for, what we had planned to receive in moderate updates Saturday, took some time to develop. 

If you listened closely Saturday, one could have heard the plethora of exasperated sighs from re...