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Kerry Sanders
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He is a correspondent for National Broadcasting Company News. He worked as a general news reporter for a number of Florida television stations including: WTLV in Jacksonville, Fl (where he worked as a paid intern), WINK in Fort Myers, WTVT, the Columbia Broadcasting System and later Fox affiliate in Tampa and Miami TeleVision Journalism (National Broadcasting Company) in Miami.
He is a 1982 graduate of the University of South Florida, from which he received his bachelor"s degree and later a Distinguished Alumni Award.
In 1996, he became a correspondent for National Broadcasting Company News, based in the network"s Miami bureau. He was immediately thrust into a major story, when the ValuJet crash occurred in the Everglades just days after he began with National Broadcasting Company. He is a general assignment reporter and may be seen at news events throughout the world.
He is regularly seen on National Broadcasting Company Nightly News, the Today show, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, and Dateline National Broadcasting Company.
He is well known for his Hurricane coverage, including Hurricanes Andrew, Ivan, and Katrina. He has also been on the front lines in both Desert Storm in 1991 and as an embedded reporter with the United States Marines during the Iraq War in 2003.
He had previously worked with National Broadcasting Company reporter David Bloom at Miami TeleVision Journalism in Miami, who died from an embolism caused by DVT while also covering the Iraq war along with Sanders.
In 2000, Sanders and an National Broadcasting Company cameraman had exclusive coverage of the Federal raid to free Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy held by his relatives in Miami when the Federal Government ordered he had to be returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died in the waters off the coast of Florida while trying reach the United States of America. Sanders" coverage as pool reporter (he is bilingual and fluent in Spanish) on that event was seen on competing networks, such as Univision, Telemundo, and Cable News Network.
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