CNN announced today that CNN Presents will air a special on children who survived hurricanes Katrina and Rita disasters. The program will premiere this Saturday, October 8th, at 8 pm EST…
Among the numerous stories offered in “Children of the Storm,” CNN Presents follows several New Orleans children to examine how they coped over the past month from surviving a hurricane to experiencing traumatic rescues to living in shelters far from home. The program tells the heart-rending journey of a 6-year-old boy with leukemia from Slidell, La., after Hurricane Katrina disrupts his chemotherapy treatments. The program also looks at how displaced children adjust to new schools with a profile of a high school senior facing a different lifestyle at a private school in Atlanta and a stand-out football player now playing for a different team 400 miles away from home.
In the wake of Hurricane Rita, viewers meet a 9-year-old boy who had an epileptic seizure while his family fled Galveston, Texas. In a look at those who were able to return after the hurricanes, CNN profiles children who started their first day of school in the devastated community of Jefferson Parish, La.