Terrible Time Delay

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Talk about an awkward minute of live television.

Taken from the Today Show broadcast on Friday, March 11, 2011 covering the tsunami and quake in Japan, Meredith Viera struggles to communicate with a live reporter from an affiliate station in Hawaii.

The time delay is so long that it makes talkbacks impossible.

I had to laugh, though.