Nov 04 Watch Evacuations in Haiti as Tropical Storm Approaches Tropical Storm Tomas is heading toward Haiti, where more than a million people are still homeless after a deadly earthquake earlier this year. Kyle Morris of Independent Television News has more. Continue watching
Nov 04 Storm Threatens to Worsen Haiti Cholera Outbreak By Talea Miller A strengthening tropical storm is predicted to hit Haiti on Friday, bringing the threat of high winds and flooding, which could accelerate the spread of cholera. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Haiti’s Cholera Outbreak Could Worsen After Tropical Storm Ray Suarez talks to a NPR's Jason Beaubien in Port-au-Prince about concerns that rainwater could further the spread of cholera in Haiti. Continue watching
Oct 27 Cholera Outbreak Highlights Haiti’s Ongoing Sanitation Problems By Talea Miller Deaths from Haiti's cholera outbreak are slowing, but health experts warn that the threat of further spread, fueled by chronically unsanitary conditions, is still very real. At least 284 Haitians have died of the highly-contagious waterborne illness in the past… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch News Wrap: Fed Addresses Foreclosure Frenzy, Bloody Weekend in Mexico Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Central Bank is getting involved in the recent foreclosure mess caused by faulty paperwork. In Mexico, 10 people were killed at a rehab center in Tijuana in another bloody episode of drug violence. Continue watching
Oct 22 Authorities Fear Cholera Outbreak Could Spread in Haiti By Larisa Epatko Health officials fear a cholera outbreak in rural Haiti that has killed at least 142 people and sickened more than 1,500 will spread to other parts of Haiti, including the earthquake-ravaged capital Port-au-Prince. Continue reading
Oct 22 Watch News Wrap: WikiLeaks Releases 400,000 Iraq War Documents In other news Friday, WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 secret U.S. files on the Iraq war, counting more than 15,000 unreported civilian deaths. Also, Haiti is dealing with a deadly cholera outbreak. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Eric Lotz of Operation Blessing… Continue watching
Oct 21 Watch Edwidge Danticat on the Luxury of Creating Art Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat speaks with Jeffrey Brown about her earthquake-ravaged homeland, feeling guilty for having the time and security to create art and her new collection of essays, "Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work."… Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch Clinton Gives Advice on Democratic Path to Victory Former President Bill Clinton spoke with Judy Woodruff Wednesday about what President Obama and Democrats must do to sell their message to voters this fall, what the Clinton Global Initiative plans to do to promote job growth in the U.S. Continue watching
Sep 14 Update: Haitian Amputee Gets New Leg, New Reason to Dance By Talea Miller When the NewsHour team first met George Exantus in Port-au-Prince we were immediately captivated by his story: a prize-winning competitive dancer, Exantus lost his right leg below the knee after he was pinned under rubble for two days in… Continue reading