Hurricane Florence sat on top of North Carolina for four days, battering the state with relentless rain and wind. The WRAL documentary, 75 Hours, tells the first person accounts from 64 journalists who covered the storm on television, web and social media.
WRAL, Raleigh’s NBC affiliate owned by Capitol Broadcasting, is airing a 30-minute documentary tonight at 7 that takes viewers where they’ve never been before, inside live coverage of a hurricane.
Hurricane Florence sat on top of North Carolina for four days, battering the state with relentless rain and wind.
WRAL streamed live continuous coverage for 75 hours during those four days.
The documentary, 75 Hours, tells the first-person accounts from 64 journalists who covered the storm on television, web and social media.
They gave life-saving information while trying to survive the storm themselves.
One crew gets trapped by flooding, one rides out the storm in their car in the middle of the night and another gets shot at. Each of them was changed forever.
75 Hours is available to livestream any time after the premiere at WRALdocumentary.com.
WRAL Documentary is one of only a few dedicated documentary units in local TV. Its mission is to provide in-depth coverage of topics and issues relevant to North Carolinians.
NOTE: After this story published this morning, I got a note from Shelly Leslie at WRAL.
We’re excited to see what happens with our first Facebook premiere that will have our journalists watching and interacting with our viewers in real time. Here’s the link if you want to follow along.
We also launched a companion podcast. Click here to listen.
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