CNN Reports: Hurricane Katrina: State of Emergency

CNN Reports: Katrina-State of Emergency provides a chronological account of the hurricane through a selection of CNN transcripts and photos documenting all facets of the disaster starting from past studies predicting such a tragedy to the path of the hurricane to the consequences surrounding the flooding and delayed rescue efforts.
The book details events in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast in the days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall and the subsequent weeks of those communities recovering from its destructive wake. The book includes first-hand accounts from many of the more than 200 CNN anchors, correspondents, and production members dispatched to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Tennessee to cover the aftermath.
CNN will donate all royalties to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief Fund, with AMP matching that donation.

Dick Durrance II was a photographer with the Department of Army Special Photographic Office until he joined the staff of National Geographic. Durrance has won the National Press Photographers Association's Picture of the Year competition four times, and has been named Photographer of the Year (in 1972 and 1987) by two associations. He is an avid golfer.