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“Bloomberg Surveillance” anchor Lacqua remains calm while set falls

“Bloomberg Surveillance” anchor Francine Lacqua is normally in London, but on Monday she was reporting from Rome, leading the show’s referendum coverage.

She was mid-question when some of the set came crashing down. Her guest, Luigi G. Zingales, a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, jumped in and helped her.

Lacqua made a joke and continued on with her question.

“This is a live show, people,” said Lacqua. “This is what happens when there’s a little bit of wind on a rooftop.”

The incident can be watched here:

#Italy on the brink…and so is our set. @zingales saves our @flacqua #ItalyReferendum #SurveillanceSurprise #Rome @tomkeene pic.twitter.com/pBvNIJwqTR

— BSurveillance (@bsurveillance) December 5, 2016

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.