very studio, we think about the fact that we have folks in all 50 states depending on us. we struggle to not have news that s new york-centric or washington-centric, remembering this is a big country. but this was home, it was this area. you can t trade where you re from, nor would i trade with anyone else, so if our coverage seemed personal, it was just because we couldn t prevent it. this was home getting ripped up before our eyes and large portions of it still are. brian, as you go back, then, in the week ahead to look at it one year later, what are your big questions? what have you found? what do you want to know now? who is not being served, who has made the choice not to come back? among new jerseyans with that state motto, the government is stronger than the storm, most people i know wouldn t think of looef leaving, but we know some people who have reluctantly made that
very studio, we think about the fact that we have folks in all 50 states depending on us. we struggle to not have news that s new york-centric or washington-centric, remembering this is a big country. but this was home, it was this area. you can t trade where you re from, nor would i trade with anyone else, so if our coverage seemed personal, it was just because we couldn t prevent it. this was home getting ripped up before our eyes and large portions of it still are. brian, as you go back, then, in the week ahead to look at it one year later, what are your big questions? what have you found? what do you want to know now? who is not being served, who has made the choice not to come back? among new jerseyans with that state motto, the government is stronger than the storm, most people i know wouldn t think of looef leaving, but we know some people
how personal your reporting of katrina was, when you started in this role at nightly news. and yet for you to go home and cover a story that has taken on that magnitude was something different altogether. journalistically and personally. yes, it was something to be with all those folks, what, 10,000 people in the superdome. we decided to ride it out with them and spent weeks in that area and grieved with them, and we still go back and stay in touch. but to have it be home, to have it with all your summer memories. every night when we sit in this very studio, we think about the fact that we have folks in all 50 states depending on us. we struggle to not have news that s new york-centric or washington-centric, remembering this is a big country. but this was home, it was this area.