DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: But first, today's "CNN 20" segment: the often difficult role for journalists reporting on tragedies.</s>ED GARSTEN, CNN DETROIT BUREAU CHIEF: The river has come and surrounded the district. To give you an idea how deep the water is, those trees over there are about 20 feet high, now they are barely peeking out of the water.</s>GARSTEN: To cover a natural disaster, your adrenaline really rushes. Things are happening. The pictures, many times, are obvious, and the people, you want to get the stories of the people. And that's when it really hits home to you, when you talk to the individuals. That's really what makes the story. The disaster itself is of course part of it, but you develop some sort of empathy for the people that are involved. You just wonder, how? how could they possibly make it?</s>CHESTER BELECKI, PHOTOJOURNALIST: I don't know what it is about floods, though. When you see what a flood can do, and you're just standing there, and you see just thousands of acres you see under water. Everything is gone. Everything these people have lived for everything is just gone. And there's nothing you can do.</s>GARSTEN: Will life ever be normal for these people ever again? They don't know where to go, their house is gone. Just people, totally, totally lost. They don't know what to do. And you wonder at what point do you know what to do.</s>BELECKI: But when you go to these stories and you see communities helping each other, and that's the only way these people survive is they all help one another. And to see that on these stories is amazing. It's so nice to see that still exists in our country because you always think just we are losing it, but the human spirit is alive and well when you do these stories. It's great.
CNN 20: Covering Floods, Journalists in the Field