Rivers of floodwater sweeping across roads and through homes. Late today, president obama signed a disaster declaration, making federal funding available for flood victims in three counties. Reporter searchandrescue teams, some on foot, some by boat go door to door in rainelle, west virginia, looking for survivors from thursdays historic flood. It looks like a war zone. Reporter state trooper c. S. Hartman worries among the destruction will be more bodies. Thats the last thing i want to do but were prepared for it. Reporter the onceacentury flood left the small town of clendonin nearly under water. Counties were inundated. The National Guard and fema have been called in to help. Thousands are without power. At least 100 homes suffered significant damage or were destroyed. Everybody lost everything. Reporter Becky Mcclung struggled to take in the destruction as she waded back to her home ofrl only to throw out most of whats left. We never thought it would be this bad. Reporter once the
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Evacuations start tomorrow. Hurricane matthew first making landfall in haiti. As the most powerful hurricane in decades pounding the region with torrential rain and dangerous storm surges is on the move after drenching jamaica, cuba and the bahamas, now bracing for more heavy wind and rain that could trigger massive mud slides and devastating floods. I pray that everybody is safe, and and its not as bad as they are predicting. Reporter the american coast also on alert. Take a look at these empty store shelves and this long line outside of a costco in florida. Residents are stocking up after warnings from officials in florida to the carolinas urging the public to be prepared for the worst case scenario. You dont want to take a changes. Youve got to listen to local officials. Look, they are you have a great team here. They want to do the right thing. They want to do the right thing and everybody is going to listen to them. And because of Hurricane Matthew, president barack obama announce
Mr. Harris there was no good record on how that work had been done. Many reporters do not know about it. I wanted to write it for journalism students, but also i wanted to write and for general readership, the same people who might have enjoyed all the president s men, who might have liked how journalists worked at their very peak. What i found was that very little has been written about these prizes. It is interesting, because you would expect the pulitzer would be well known, but the stories of how these articles were written is not known. And all the president s men is the exception. Everybody knows a lot about them. I did have to do a chapter on it, because it was a Public Service a winner. And i got to spend some time with bob woodward and bradley. But it was the lesserknown stories during those years, where i found the real treasure. The first prize of went for the coverage of world war i. And it showed how newspaper journalism has been playing a role of exposing problems. In the
Prize winning reporters Elizabeth Mehren and Sacha Pfeiffer. They focus on the future of community and Public Service journalism, which they deem fundamental to service life. This was recorded in Brookline Booksmith in brookline, massachusetts. 2016 marks the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize in this years crisis will be announced on april 18. Thank you all for coming. This discussion of pulitzers gold behind the prize for Public Service journalism will from st. Louis. It is something we have to adjust to. I am roy harris, the author of the book, and i am honored to have two top new england journalists, a list of his marriage to my far right, and Sacha Pfeiffer to my immediate right. Part of our goal is to look at the powerful contributions of this centurylong body of work. It was 90 years when i started work on it. We are almost up to a century. The Pulitzer Prize started in 1917. We look at the powerful contributions of this work, this body of work, that is represented in the book, bu