I started my new job at the American News Project in Washington D.C. last Wednesday. By Friday, I had already shot and edited my first news report. I followed a group of people in front of the U.S. Treasury and White House, in the rain, as they protested the pending Wall Street bailout.
It was a rainy day on Thursday, Sept 25 and a crowd of angry citizens gathered in Pershing Park across from the Treasury Department with signs and bull horns. As they organized, John McCain's entourage passed in front of them and they waved their signs at the motorcade: "Main Street First!"
They marched one block to the White House where they formed a circle and chanted, "New deals for Main Street, no deals for Wall Street!"
Just a few hundred feet away, President Bush was meeting with Barack Obama and John McCain among other financial and government officials to determine the fate of the economic crisis.
Outside, despite their shouts of anger, some felt their voices weren't penetrating the stone walls of the White House.
"I just feel hopeless", one lady said. "They're going to pass it anyway. I feel like democracy isn't working for us here..."
The rain continued to fall and the gloom of the financial disaster far from over.
Watch my report: