How Dan Rather helped invent modern hurricane coverage on TV in 1961

We’ve gotten used to seeing endless hurricane coverage these days, but the real trailblazer in this kind of reporting, the first television correspondent to wade into the water and report from the center of a storm, was Dan Rather, covering Hurricane Carla in Houston in 1961.

Here’s a fascinating glimpse back at how that coverage unfolded and gave him his first big break.