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CNN’s American Morning with Soledad O’Brien has started a new weekly series entitled “Children of the Storm.” In the series, 11 kids from all over New Orleans were given video cameras and told to document their lives.
Filmmaker Spike Lee was brought to the project for a little added motivation. “Let them know what’s happening down here, that everything isn’t okey-dokey,” he said.
The series will run until the second anniversary of hurricane Katrina with the first installment having aired last Friday morning.
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Yeah, but wait until you see Matt Lauer run the option!
Former New York Giant Tiki Barber is now a peacock. The running back is the latest addition to NBC’s Today show and perhaps more obviously, as a commentator on NBC’s Football Night in American, when the program returns next fall.
Starting in April Mr. Barber will be a corespondent at Today reporting on things from technology to health to parenting, and all while silently reminding us that he’s way more talented than we’ll ever be.
He isn’t new to broadcasting. He’s spent the past few years as a correspondent on FOX’s morning show Fox and Friends. He also has two shows on Sirius Satellite Radio.
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