Kathleen Koch - Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered

Kathleen Koch spent much of her childhood on the Mississippi Gulf Cost, where on August 29, 2005, entire towns were reduced to shoulder-high rubble by Katrina’s roaring winds and unprecedented thirty-plus-foot storm serge. As a CNN correspondent at that time, she was assigned to cover the storm and its aftermath. Little did she know that this assignment became a very personal one. Kathleen reported form the sites of once-beautiful homes - including her own - stripped to their concrete pads. Despite her two award-winning documentaries and countless reports on Mississippi’s recovery for CNN, it is Kathleen’s inspiring new book Rising from Katrina: How My Mississippi Hometown Lost It All and Found What Mattered that truly takes us on a journey of human triumph. The catastrophic hurricane may have devastated the landscape but not the hearts and souls of the communities. Kathleen and I will be discussing a story of bravery and resilience of the Gulf Coast residents coming together as a community of one, and her own personal path to recovery. Please call 347.327.9995 on Tuesday Sept 28th from 10-11am U.S. CDT to join Kathleen and I live on the air with your questions and personal stories.