RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: NBC4 Reporter Robert Kovacik

Thursday, March 11, 2010

“L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti": NBC4 Los Angeles looks at our local "miracle" makers who helped in the living hell in Haiti. Hosted by Robert Kovacik this Sunday at 5 p.m. on Channel 4, Replay at 11:35 p.m.

My amazing (and talented pal) Robert Kovacik from NBC4 News here in Los Angeles...will be hosting a riviting documentary this coming Sunday afternoon that covers the lives of some very special local heroes who provided miracles during the living hell that is now the nation of Haiti. It will also be replayed at 11:35 p.m. that same day.

On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 earthquake hits Haiti, shattering Port-Au-Prince, the island’s capital and outlying areas. The 72-member Los Angeles County Fire’s Urban Search and Rescue team (USAR) is deployed to help earthquake victims in round-the-clock search-and-rescue missions.

Miraculously, the team, which included firefighters, doctors, structural engineers, firefighters, communications specialists and six search–and-rescue dogs, are able to save nine lives during their two-week mission.

On Sunday, March 14th at 5PM, NBC4 will air “L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti,” a half-hour special featuring exclusive, never-before-seen video taken by the USAR team as they heroically free survivors from the twisted metal and concrete of collapsed buildings.

NBC4 Reporter Robert Kovacik is the host of the special, which will also re-air at 11:35PM the same evening.

The emotional rescue of two sisters and a neighbor entombed by tons of collapsed apartment building concrete will be seen for the first time. USAR video will also take viewers inside the void where bank manager Jinette Sainfort lay helplessly trapped beneath the rubble of the bank’s parking garage. Sainfort lost four fingers and suffered a crushed ankle, but still managed to sing a church hymn upon her release to become one of the iconic faces of the Haiti earthquake.

“L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti” reunites Sainfort and her USAR rescuers for the first time since the earthquake. The touching reunion took place via satellite, connecting Sainfort from Florida, where she now lives, and her rescuers in East Los Angeles at the L.A. County Fire Headquarters.

In addition to interviews with USAR members, viewers will also get to learn more about the canine contingent of the team and their handlers. How do they do what they do? How are they utilized? These and many more questions are answered in the special.

“L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti” is a “Channel 4 News” production. Rebecca Nieto is the Executive producer. Thomas Bravo and Scott Meadows were the videographers for the special. Dino Castro and Lindsey Jackson served as editors.

Make sure you see this amazing documentary.

Meet Randy Economy

You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

“L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti": NBC4 Los Angeles looks at our local "miracle" makers who helped in the living hell in Haiti. Hosted by Robert Kovacik this Sunday at 5 p.m. on Channel 4, Replay at 11:35 p.m.

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Thursday, March 11, 2010

“L.A. Heroes: Untold Stories of Haiti": NBC4 Los Angeles looks at our local "miracle" makers who helped in the living hell in Haiti. Hosted by Robert Kovacik this Sunday at 5 p.m. on Channel 4, Replay at 11:35 p.m.

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