Jeffrey Charles Kofman is an ABC News correspondent covering Florida, the Caribbean and Latin America. Since joining ABC News in January 2001, Kofman has traveled extensively to report on developing stories and political events in Florida and the Southeast. He has covered every major hurricane of the last seven years and was in New Orleans before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.

Kofman has also done six tours in the Middle East since September 11, 2001: four in Iraq, one as an embedded reporter aboard an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea during the Afghan war, and one in Pakistan during the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl.

While in Iraq, Kofman was embedded with US Marines in the southern part of the country. He also traveled extensively to some of the most troubled regions, including Fallujah and Samarra. In July 2003 Kofman reported on the declining morale of US troops in the region as their tours of duty kept getting extended. The story was picked up by outlets around the world when one soldier called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign.