The 74 Million- Campbell Brown
“I was born and raised in Louisiana – a small town called Ferriday, north of Baton Rouge. My family is scattered around the state and in late August of 2005, when word came that a massive storm was bearing down on the Gulf Coast, I headed south, both to cover the story and be with the people I care about. I reported on the unfolding chaos and tragedy for NBC News, returning many times over the weeks, months, and even years to follow up on the city’s recovery and on the fate of the many dispossessed residents and evacuees. Many of those that I had reported about and gotten to know were children. (See photos from the schools left damaged by Hurricane Katrina) I talked with kids in the makeshift street camp outside the convention center where 20,000 people waited three days without food for rescue (no one voiced their anguish better than a little boy I met named Charles Evans) and in the horrifying squalor of the Superdome.”(more)