Katrina: Audio of Jeanne Meserve

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Katrina: Jeanne Meserve Cries On CNN; "Most Riveting, Heart-Wrenching Phone Report

Meserve audibly broke into tears in a several minutes-long telephone report with Aaron Brown in NewsNight's second hour," another e-mailer explains. "As she slowly and soberly spoke of victims with severed legs, live dogs electrocuting in power lines, people crying for help outside of the reach of rescue boats, and bodies floating in New Orleans, the show became quieter and quieter, until Meserve finally wept.