NBC News and MSNBC to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with Holt, Al Roker, and Correspondents in the Gulf Coast Region
AUGUST 27, 2015– A team of NBC News journalists will travel to New Orleans as the country observes the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, America’s worst natural disaster in a century, and the scars it left on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Al Roker will report for TODAY on Friday and Saturday, while Kerry Sanders, Gabe Gutierrez and Mark Potter will contribute to coverage across the NBC broadcast network and MSNBC beginning Thursday. NBC News Senior White House Correspondent Chris Jansing will be traveling with President Obama during his visit to the region. MSNBC National Correspondent Trymaine Lee, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Hurricane Katrina coverage at The Times-Picayune, will report from New Orleans beginning Thursday.
Lester Holt will anchor “NBC Nightly News” Friday live from Jackson Square in New Orleans at 6:30pm ET.
Sunday’s “Meet the Press” will feature reporting on the ground from Lee as well as a conversation with author Malcolm Gladwell on the implications of the hurricane’s evacuations.
Full NBC News coverage of the Hurricane Katrina anniversary, including original reporting and video, can be found online at: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-katrina-anniversary.
The latest NBCNews.com story includes an interview with Former FEMA Director Michael Brown: http://nbcnews.to/1EkXhbJ
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Maggie Steenland
NBC News Communications
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