There was streaming video -- but not that day, largely. The big US news web sites were struggling to serve up even basic HTML, never mind a stream of any kind.
I was stuck at work and wound up watching the whole thing via a RealPlayer stream from the BBC with a 4x3 inch video.
Someone at CNN spat their closed caption feed into an IRC channel. I didn't have cable at the time, so I had my TV on one of the local channels and my dialup connection with mIRC reading that.
I was stuck at work and wound up watching the whole thing via a RealPlayer stream from the BBC with a 4x3 inch video.