It was another calm early morning in Rockford. The sun was rising slowly, and the city was beginning to stir once more. Birds could be heard singing to one another, the soft BEEP BEEP BEEP of city garbage trucks as they made their rounds. The barking of dogs waking up only to find some raccoon trying to steal from the garbage. All these things could be heard around the city. To the casual eye all in all it was another normal day..... but what couldn't be seen by the average citizen was what set this day apart from all others that had come before it. High above the city, so high that it could neither be heard nor seen an E-3 AWACS  (http://stevejanke.com/archives/awacs.jpg) circled the skies above.<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://girlsspot.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/french-first-female-anchor.jpg)</div><br/><br/><br/><br/>Those Rockford residents who were awake early enough were greeted by a the smiling face of Haley Alls for their morning news cast as normal. Looking right at the camera she smiled warmly as she received the signal that they were on the air. "Good morning Rockford I'm Haley Alls and this is you're morning news. First off we have a breaking news report....we here at RCN have just been informed that there has been a communications satellite failure. And as a result several forms of communication such as the internet, out of town land line, and cell phone calls, as well as satellite and out of town television will suffer from loss of connectivity. We have been assured by the mayor's office that this is at the very worst a temporary problem. And all citizens are asked to please be patient."<br/><br/>The rest of the news cast went on as normal Haley talked about the opening of the zoo's newest exhibit glorifying Monty the oldest elephant in Rockford, she congratulated The Royal Hotel on it's achieving a 5 star rating, and encouraged residents to visit the city park this weekend for the founder's day celebration. What she didn't mention was the story that she'd personally been working on for the past two days. The steady increase in the number of missing animals, as well as several of the city's homeless being reported as missing from their normal places. She'd taken her findings to John, her boss, and wanted him to get a few more people to work on it...but it hadn't worked out. He'd shut the story down without even telling her why...which was very different for him. As she reached the end of the news cast Haley pushed the thoughts from her mind and focused on being 'sunny' "That's all we have for you this morning Rockford...So from all of us here at RCN have a nice day and we'll see you later!"<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>It took 3 minutes for the Police to be alerted of what was going on in the western residential area from there it took them another 7 minutes to assemble a riot squad to quell the 'riots' that were occurring. The Chief of Police was adamant that they contain and control the situation before it got out of hand and hopefully before the press got wind of it. But this was not to be, some man or woman out for a buck, or just some lucky reporter called RCN about what was going on. And anyone in Rockford watching their T.V. was greeted to the following special report courtesy of Rockford City News.<br/><br/>"We interrupt your regularly scheduled programing to bring you this RCN exclusive report!" the news station's narrator announced as the RCN logo appeared on screen only to be followed by the face of Haley Alls "Hello Rockford" she said doing her best to maintain an air of calmness about herself, even though she was a bit worried....something in her gut told her that this was a lot worse than it appeared. "RCN has just received scattered reports of a small riot taking place in our city's western residential area. Our sources indicate that there are a large number of men and women currently participating in the riot. A RPD spokes person has told us that a task force is already on scene to quell the disturbance. Further more the RPD asks citizens to please avoid the western residential area. Rest assured that RCN will be on the scene to bring you the breaking information as it comes......" She paused mid sentence as she got word from the news room "....I'm receiving word that one of our reporters is currently on scene...the police have intercepted the crowd and are now using tear gas in attempt to break it up......the tear gas is apparently having no effect and the rioters are now attacking the officers, I'm getting reports of.....cannibalism within the riot...it seems several of the rioters have taken to biting the officers that they are assaulting....the police are now in full retreat.. " It took Haley all of 30 seconds to regain her composure, her smile had disappeared but she still appeared at least somewhat outwardly calm.  "I'd like to re-iterate that both the mayor's office and the chief of police are asking all residents to please remain calm."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>