Kerry Sanders
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Kerry Sanders is a correspondent for NBC News. He worked as a general news reporter for a number of Florida television stations including: WINK in Ft. Myers, WTVT in Tampa, and WTVJ in Miami. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of South Florida from which he received his Bachelors Degree and later, a Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1996, Sanders became a correspondent for NBC News, based in the network's Miami bureau. He was immediately thrust into a major story, when the ValuJet crash occurred in the Everglades just days after he began with NBC.
He is now a general assignment reporter and may be seen at news events throughout the world. He is regularly seen on Nightly News, the TODAY show, MSNBC and Dateline NBC.
Kerry Sanders is a Peabody Journalism Award winner and is well known for his Hurricane coverage, including Hurricanes Andrew, Ivan and Katrina. He has also been on the front lines in both Desert Storm in 1991 and the Iraq War in 2003. He had previously worked with NBC reporter David Bloom at WTVJ in Miami, who passed away from an embolism caused by DVT while also covering the Iraq war along with Sanders.
In 2000, Sanders and an NBC cameraman had exclusive coverage of the Federal raid to free Elian Gonzalez, the six year old Cuban boy held by his relatives in Miami when the Federal Government ordered he be returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died trying to seek a better life in USA. Sanders coverage as pool reporter(he is bilingual and fluent in Spanish) on that event was seen on competing networks such as CNN.
Sanders is originally from the Boston metro area and now calls South Florida home.
As a child he played the Tuba. He also played the part of Fritz in the Nutcracker in Boston while Arthur Fielder was the conductor.
