Aug 29 How did Katrina change how we evacuate pets from disaster? By William Brangham The fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind -- as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded -- prompted major changes to state… Continue reading
Aug 29 Watch 5:46 How Katrina changed the laws about evacuating pets in natural disasters By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 29 When Louisiana lost its foster children By Laura Santhanam Hurricane Katrina scattered thousands of Gulf Coast children nationwide. A decade later, are children in foster care safer in the event of a disaster?… Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch 5:31 Wiped out by Katrina, New Orleans church finds sanctuary in a living room By PBS News Hour The Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As members of the neighborhood slowly return, Rev. Charles Duplessis leads church services and bible study in his own living room,… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch 12:24 Shields and Brooks on Biden's presidential pondering, voter perceptions of Clinton By PBS News Hour Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including whether Vice President Joe Biden will join the 2016 presidential race, whether Hillary Clinton has stumbled as a frontrunner and… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch 10:03 Prep school rape trial raises questions about teen consent By PBS News Hour Nineteen-year-old Owen Labrie, a former student at a prep school in New Hampshire, was accused of raping a freshman girl in 2014, but a jury cleared him of felony rape, convicting him on other lesser charges. Jeffrey Brown discusses the… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch 8:08 In reforming New Orleans, have charter schools left some students out? By PBS News Hour Ten years ago, New Orleans public schools were headed for academic rock bottom. And then Hurricane Katrina came, a disaster so devastating that it offered the rare opportunity to start over. Charter schools, empowered to take over, have raised test… Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch George W. Bush honors New Orleans educators 'who stared into the eye of the storm' By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Aug 28 EPA says new rule will protect drinking water for 37 states By Matthew Daly, Associated Press The Environmental Protection Agency says it is going forward with a new federal rule to protect small streams, tributaries and wetlands, despite a court ruling that blocked the measure in 13 central and Western states. Continue reading