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Sago Mine – Tuesday 1/3


We got up early to and headed to the reporting site. I dropped of Kimberly near the church so she could talk to people. I went up to the mine to check in with our site producer who had been up all night. When I went back to get Kimberly she had spoken to a

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Sago Mine – Monday 1/2


I was sitting at my computer getting caught up on emails after having been away for the holidays when a wire crossed about 13 miners who were trapped deep below in a coal mine in West Virginia. That was at about 11am. By two o’clock I was headed to my apartment to gather some clothes

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Hurricane Katrina — Karen UPDATE


Silvio, how are you? Are you still in New Orleans? I have finally returned to my home in Kenner. It was wonderful to sleep in my own bed after 3 weeks. Our house has no damage. My family is rather devastated, however. My parents have 4 feet of water in their house in Metairie, my

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Hurricane Katrina — Aftermath Part II


On my third day of producing liveshots with Dan from Canal Street across from Harrah’s Casino — now a New Orleanss police staging area — all hell breaks loose completely unecessarily. Atlanta, the mothership, decides that because FOX News has a liveshot from an exit ramp now being used as a boat ramp to rescue

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Hurricane Katrina — Aftermath


After I returned to DC what I saw in Katrina finally sunk in and left me in a state I had never exprienced before. I felt numb. I felt guilty. It was so easy for me to leave there physically, I was flown out on a chartered jet with others from CNN. It just seemed

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