HURRICANE ANDREW: AS IT HAPPENED (TV)
Summary
This home video documentary, hosted by meteorologist Bryan Norcross, presents edited footage of WTVJ-TV's original live coverage of the Hurricane Andrew disaster in south Florida on August 24, 1992 and the week that followed. Coverage highlights include the following: Norcross tracks what was a tropical storm on August 18th; interviews with locals before the storm, some of whom prepare to evacuate while others stock up on supplies in order to brave out the hurricane at home; "hurricane watch" reports from Dr. Bob Sheets at the National Hurricane Center; Andrew's arrival in Miami around midnight on the 24th; Norcross and WTVJ reporters in various locations describe the storm as it hits; early morning pictures of the massive damage to the Dade County area; reporter Ileana Bravo interviews victims at the emergency ward of Baptist Hospital; a look at the tremendous traffic jams occurring as evacuated people try to return to their homes; reporters talk with residents as they search through their levelled homes for salvageable belongings; President George Bush arrives at Opa-Locka Airport to assess the damage and offer support; looters begin to pillage stores and private homes; a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew is announced for all of Dade County; fights break out as people wait in long lines for water; residents line up to make insurance claims; interviews with angry apartment dwellers whose landlord is demanding rent for uninhabitable apartments; Dr. Roy Alson of the National Disaster Team discusses hurricane-related deaths now occurring due to heat stress and cardiac arrest; a look at a band of escaped monkeys in Homestead who have been ordered shot because they may be carrying disease; post-hurricane rains cause flooding and further destruction of goods in roofless houses and stores; neighbors share resources and people arrive from other areas to donate food, clothing and medical assistance for those in need; news of the crash of a private relief flight on its way to Homestead; storm victims express growing frustration and anger over a perceived lack of federal response; the arrival of army kitchen trailers and a supply ship; the various landmarks, museums, and zoos that suffered damage; and finally, Norcross evaluates what was learned from Hurricane Andrew. (This program was a 1992 Peabody Award winner.)
Details
- NETWORK: WTVJ-TV
- DATE: 1992
- RUNNING TIME: 1:46:02
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:29384
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: News; Education/Information; Hurricane Andrew - 1992; Weather
- SERIES RUN: WTVJ (Miami, FL) - 1992
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Bill Burke … Executive Producer
- Regent Ducas … Executive Producer, For Sports
- Marina Angleton … Executive Producer, For Programming
- Danny Noa … Executive Producer , For Special Projects
- Bruce Perlmutter … Executive Producer , For "News Now"
- Mark Angotti … Producer
- Julie Bennett Iannuzzi … Producer
- Rebecca Blessing … Producer
- Lisa Fields … Producer
- De Quevedo, Louis Garcia … Producer
- Joanne Haddad … Producer
- Shannon High … Producer
- Stu Jacobs … Producer
- Muriel Joseph … Producer
- Jeanne Kelly … Producer
- Yvette Marie Miley … Producer
- Scott Siebers … Producer
- Fred Silverman … Producer
- Bob Woods … Producer
- Jim Goodman … Producer, Sports Producer
- Bernie Rosen … Producer, Sports Producer
- Maria Khalil … Associate Producer
- Rob Leavitt … Associate Producer
- Lenny Daniels … Director
- Cathy Fitzgerald … Director
- Stephen James … Director
- Steven Gregg Kaplan … Director
- Ira Lazernik … Director
- Sharon Scott … Production (Misc.), News Director
- Rey Sanchez … Music by
- Bryan Norcross … Host, Reporter, Meteorologist
- Bob Sheets … Reporter, Meteorologist
- Steve Abrams … Reporter
- Kerry Sanders … Reporter
- Bruce Hall … Reporter
- Jose Diaz-Balart … Reporter
- Susan Wallace … Reporter
- Ileana Bravo … Reporter
- David Bloom … Reporter
- Rob Pierce … Reporter, Photographer
- Beverly White … Reporter
- Marianne Murciano … Reporter
- Frank Mottek … Reporter
- Ed O'Dell … Reporter
- Roy Alson
- Elliot Birch
- George Bush
- Wen Chang
- Lawton Chiles
- de Charbert, Austin
- de Charbert, Pierre
- de Charbert, Saturnia
- Tom Dickson
- Steve Ful
- Tom Gallagher
- Tim Gavin
- Ron Magill
- Jim McDonald
- Buddy McKay
- Tania Smallwood
- Hank Tester
- Lee Webb
- Adell Wilson
- Cheryl Zagacki