A number of news watchers have been speaking out on social media, questioning why media organizations allow their employees to work from potentially unsafe areas. “Why would you have reporters standing potentially in harm’s way who are telling people to do exactly the opposite?” CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann, who has been covering the hurricane from hard-hit downtown Miami, asked in a recent interview cited by the Times. He praised members of the U.S. Coast Guard for “going into winds that the media would not go into” to rescue people affected by the storm. Take a look at the clips below, which show some of the reporters who covered Irma from Florida and beyond ― through torrential rain, floods and extreme winds. Here’s Weather Channel meteorologist Mike Bettes struggling to stay standing in the storm:

Source: Huffington Post September 11, 2017 00:22 UTC