Fox News anchor Shepard Smith hears that the levees have broken in New Orleans and prepares for the devastation that would befall the city. He positions his satellite truck on an interstate overpass and provides extraordinary reporting of flood victims.

In the early hours of Aug. 30, 2005, Robin Roberts arrived in Mississippi for her first look at what was left of the Gulf Coast. The Mississippi native, who gave an emotional live broadcast for "Good Morning America," describes her shock at the scope of the devastation.

With Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on New Orleans, NBC News anchor Brian Williams explains why he had to ride out the storm inside the Superdome. The story he found there was not at all what he expected.

CNN correspondent Jeanne Meserve, like every reporter in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, thought the city had been spared. When the levees failed, her early eyewitness reporting gave the national television audience a powerful warning of the scope of the flooding that was under way.

Jim Amoss, editor of The Times-Picayune, called the news staff together to draft coverage plans for Katrina. Noting that journalists run toward danger, Amoss and the staff bunked at the office. By morning, it appeared the city had been spared. They had no idea of the devastation that would follow.

"Forgive me, sir. I have to stop you here." Anchor Soledad O'Brien pointedly interrupts FEMA chief Michael Brown's positive assessment of the government's humanitarian response in New Orleans.