As Americans and as journalists, we just feel this is a story we want to stay around.

The combination of Aaron and Anderson gives us fire and ice. Anderson is about visceral experience. Aaron is kind of about the cerebral analysis.

We cover international news better than anyone. Why not give our U.S. viewers a real opportunity to see the type of stories they cannot see anywhere else?

I think it's heroic and laudable and praiseworthy. I'm proud to work with a guy who would do something like that. It's a cliche at this point, but we are human beings first, and if you are the only thing standing between another human being's life or death, you really don't have much of a decision to make.

It's such arduous duty physically and mentally that you can't ask people to spend too long there.

That's why we're preparing this special, to help our viewers understand that there are many ways they can contribute and volunteer.

We'd love to expose him to as many viewers as possible. He's really kind of in the mold of what television journalism ought to be about today.

An America that paid attention to Natalee Holloway (the teenage tourist who vanished in Aruba) is going to remain interested in real issues confronting millions of their fellow Americans.

People here and around the globe have been overwhelmed by Katrina's destructive wake, and they want to know how they can help, ... That's why we're preparing this special, to help our viewers understand that there are many ways they can contribute and volunteer.