sentences:  He had previously worked with NBC reporter David Bloom at WTVJ in Miami, who died from an embolism caused by DVT while also covering the Iraq war along with Sanders.In 2000, Sanders and an NBC cameraman had exclusive coverage of the Federal raid to free Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy held by his relatives in Miami when the Federal Government ordered he had to be returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died in the waters off the coast of Florida while trying reach the USA.Sanders' coverage as pool reporter (he is bilingual and fluent in Spanish) on that event was seen on competing networks, such as Univision, Telemundo, and CNN.