Sep 22 Watch 5:06 Louisiana's parishes feel 'forgotten' in the dark weeks after Hurricane Ida By Roby Chavez, Sam Lane Residents in Louisiana have begun the long process of recovery following Hurricane Ida, which destroyed or caused major damage for about 8,000 homes statewide. While the city of New Orleans has largely recovered, the coastal parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne… Continue watching
Sep 22 Anger, confusion spread over U.K.'s new COVID travel rules By Cara Anna, Danica Kirka, Sheikh Saaliq, Associated Press The British government announced what it billed as a simplification of the rules last week, allowing fully vaccinated travelers to skip quarantine and take fewer tests. But the fine print on who was considered “fully vaccinated” is proving far more… Continue reading
Sep 22 U.N. health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality By Jamey Keaten, Drew Costley, Associated Press The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the public in its first update to its air quality guidelines in 15 years. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: Biden announces U.S. has purchased COVID vaccines to donate globally By Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: CDC Advisory Committee discusses COVID-19 boosters By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, Associated Press The meeting came days after a different advisory group — this one serving the Food and Drug Administration — overwhelmingly rejected a sweeping White House plan to dispense third shots to nearly everyone. Continue reading
Sep 21 WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 2 Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U.N. meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was "on the edge of an abyss.”… Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch 8:29 How COVID-19's death toll and social impact compares to past U.S. pandemics By William Brangham, Ryan Connelly Holmes The death toll from the COVID pandemic has put the U.S. at another tragic milestone — more than 675,000 Americans, overall, have died of COVID as of Monday. That number surpasses the number of lives lost to the 1918 flu. Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 14:08 Bill Gates on vaccine equity, boosters, climate, his foundation and Epstein meetings By PBS NewsHour With world leaders visiting New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is calling on the world's richest nations to take what he says are urgent steps needed to end "the crisis… Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 8:13 Inmates released to home confinement during pandemic fear 'devastating' reincarceration By John Yang, Mike Fritz Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Justice Department has released more than 30,000 non-violent inmates to home confinement to try to limit the virus' spread in prison. But, as John Yang reports for our ongoing "Searching for Justice"… Continue watching
Sep 21 What to expect from COVID-19 this winter By Helen Branswell, STAT A COVID season + a flu season = a whole lot of bad news. Continue reading