In the late 1970s Freedman began his television reporting career at WLKY-TV in Louisville , Kentucky before moving on to WAVE-TV . Freedman continued his career at KDFW-TV in Dallas , Texas and then moved to San Francisco in 1981 to work for KRON-TV . By 1989 , he had risen to creating feature stories for a nationwide audience for CBS News . In 1991 , he began his tenure at KGO-TV and has covered a number of notorious stories nationally for ABC News , including the 1994 Northridge earthquake and Hurricane Katrina . Following the September 11 , 2001 attacks , he traveled across the United States by train , stopping in small towns to find stories of how terrorism has affected ordinary Americans . In 2006 he repeated this trip to mark the five-year anniversary of the attack
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Wayne Freedman