About

Kevin Sites has spent the past decade reporting on global war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, and Yahoo! News. In 2005, he became Yahoo!’s first correspondent and covered every major conflict in the world in a single year for his website, “Kevin Sites in the Hot...

Contact

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Dive Across America-Gilboa Quarry, OH

Rare fish and flying machines dwell together in Gilboa Quarry, the deepest body of water inside Ohio. It’s a mecca for divers for its unique blend of aquatic life, including the once endangered paddlefish and a virtual salvage yard of submerged vehicles. Check...

Dive Across America-Bonne Terre Mine, MO

When the worlds largest lead mine in Bonne Terre, MO closed down in 1963 after nearly one-hundred years of operation, the miners were understandably pissed. They left their tools and walked out. The company then shut off the pumps that kept the mine dry—and the acres...

Dive Across America-Lake Tenkiller, OK

Lake Tenkiller State Park, OK This lake was created when a dam was built on the Illinois River in 1953. Now it’s a water sports wonderland, complete with Scuba Park. But because of poor visibility, my first dive is a murky potential death trap of submerged tree...

Dive Across America-Bottomless Lakes, NM

I’m driving cross country from my home in Los Angeles to Cambridge for a journalism fellowship at Harvard. Since I love diving, I decided I try to dive all the sinkholes, quarries and lakes I could get to along the way. Thought I’d share them with you for...

Rolling in the cash – the tumbleweed tycoon

All Linda Katz had to do was step outside of her house to make thousands on the Internet. Now the Midwestern entrepreneur is building a business selling a piece of the old west online: tumbleweeds. Produced by Jamie Rubin. Shot and edited by Didrik Johnck.

Teenage Millionaire

Ashley Qualls is a 17-year-old self-made millionaire. Find out how she struck gold on the web. The whole story is here: http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/52250/teen-millionaire

Amazing Art

When we posted this story about Phil Hansen and his incredible works of art our viewers were blown away; some even compared him to da Vinci.

Extreme Pumpkins!

Halloween fanatics meet your guru. Tom Nardone is putting the fear back on the faces of jack-0′-lanterns with a little help from pyrotechnics and power tools. No more “cutesy” pumpkins allowed. The grosser, the scarier, the better.

The Invisible War

Los Angeles Times reporter Jill Leovy is on a mission to cover every homicide that occurs in L.A. County this year. Her tally so far? Over 700.

The Things They Cannot Say

In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics—they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has...

In the Hot Zone

Kevin Sites is a man on a mission. Venturing alone into the dark heart of war, armed with just a video camera, a digital camera, a laptop, and a satellite modem, the award-winning journalist covered virtually every major global hot spot as the first Internet...

Documentary: “A World of Conflict” Ch.1

This is the powerful opening montage to the documentary “A World of Conflict” which follows reporter Kevin Sites on his journey to cover every major war zone in the world in one year. His book, “In the Hot Zone” has just been released by Harper...

Swimming with Warlords

As a journalist for NBC News, Kevin Sites made his first trip to Afghanistan in October 2001, crossing the Amu Darya River at night, traveling with Northern Alliance fighters as they toppled the Taliban regime with the help of American forces. In that first hundred...

The Umbrella Movement

MSNBC.com’s exclusive feature-length documentary “The Umbrella Movement” reflects on the hopes, clashes, symbols, guardians, memories and frustrations of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests with commentary by President of the Legislative Council...

The Things They Cannot Say (Trailer)

In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For each of them it means something different: one struggles to recover from a head injury he believes...

Raven

In Afghanistan, war is increasingly waged by robots, unmanned aircraft and remote control. In this video a soldier based at Ghundy Gar, a dusty hillside combat outpost in the Zhari district of western Afghanistan, launches the Raven, a remote-controlled surveillance...

Robots Clip 2

After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William Cook, a from Waynesville, Missouri — goes to work. Cook is the...

Robots Clip 1

After six hours on the road, Afghan National Army soldiers wave down the convoy and tell them about what they believe is a bomb in an abandoned building near the roadside. Staff Sgt. William Cook, a from Waynesville, Missouri — goes to work. Cook is the...

Tourniquet? Combat Aid Station Clip 1

At the table with the patient with the leg wound, Staff Sgt. Ben Swob, part of the newly arrived group notices the injury site is beginning to bleed again—heavily. He decides, unilaterally, to apply a second tourniquet just above the first. The Afghan man, sedated...

TT-James Sperry

GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their wars. For each...

TT-William Wold

EXTREMELY GRAPHIC IMAGES: VIOLENCE, WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND DEAD BODIES. NOT NOT NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN. In The Things They Cannot Say, eleven soldiers and Marines display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics — they share the truth about their...

The Fighting Season

A report originally filed for Global Post concerning the advent of summer (2010) and the NATO offensive to push the Taliban out of their strongholds in Kandahar and Southern Afghanistan.