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Hurricane Katrina — Part Three


We got into the crew car, emptied out the car we had to abandon and left for the hotel. We kept hearing that the water was still rising. We had had a difficult enough time getting to where we were, how could we possibly make it back to the hotel? We drove straight on I-10

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Hurricane Katrina — Part One


I was deployed to New Orleans to work with Adaora Udoji, a reporter out of New York by CNN’s National Desk. Our task was to find a hospital and report from there starting at 10pm until 10am. Adaora got a hold of a woman at Tulane Hospital name Karen Troyer-Caraway. She was wonderful and went

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My Ride on Air Force 1


So I started my first morning in Crawford by jumping on AF1 to Salt Lake City. Nothing out of the ordinary occured and it was a fairly uneventful flight — that includes the movie which was The Interpreter (I had higher hopes tho in it’s defense it was interrupted by the gaggle to which I

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“Eyeballing isn’t even a verb!!!”


These are posts from my time in Baghdad working for CNN (2/26-3/25): One of the cool things you get to cover sometimes are raids conducted by the military. They can comprise of many things from, a sweep of an area to an all out night shoot out raid that we’ve all seen in the movies.

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