Adam Yamaguchi ( Los Angeles , California ) is an American television correspondent and producer . He is best known for producing the '' Vanguard '' series on Current TV , a former cable network founded by former US Vice President Al Gore . He earned economics and communications degrees at UCLA , where he served as editor-in-chief of the '' Daily Bruin '' newspaper . He then worked at Fox Sports , CNN and TV Asahi Japan , also freelancing for a number of agencies , where he traveled the world in pursuit of stories . He has covered the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster , the 2000 presidential election and subsequent debacle , and the September 11 attacks . He has also focused abroad to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq , indigenous cultures deep in the Amazon , Argentina ’s economic collapse , the Inuit whale hunt , Japanese suicide , Korean defectors , Global Warming , AIDS in Cuba , free press in the Middle East , and the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India . While producing a series of reports on global warming and other environmental issues , he recently traveled to Colombia and Bolivia to produce a series on coca cultivation and changing attitudes toward U.S. policy in the region . A recent edition of the series '' Vanguard '' included an in-depth look at the Northern Mariana Islands and Saipan with the collapse of its largest industry , the manufacturing of clothing . Another '' Vanguard '' documentary featured a look at Japan 's impending population collapse . In the '' Vanguard '' series , he also examines glacier melt in Greenland
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Adam Yamaguchi