Feb 17 Watch News Wrap: Toyota Considering Corolla Recall In other news Wednesday, Toyota is considering a recall of its best-selling Corolla model after complaints of steering problems. Also, NATO troops in Afghanistan continued their offensive against the Taliban resistance in the southern town of Marjah. Continue watching
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading
Feb 12 Aid Groups Hope Showers, Latrines Stave Off Disease in Haiti By Larisa Epatko Preventing the spread of disease in Haiti's quake-damaged cities, where thousands have taken refuge in temporary camps, is a formidable task in a country that already posed sanitation challenges. Continue reading
Feb 12 Watch News Wrap: Bill Clinton Home After Heart Procedure In other news Friday, former President Bill Clinton returned home after an overnight hospitalization following a heart procedure and much of the Deep South was paralyzed as a rare winter storm deposited several inches of snow. Continue watching
Feb 12 Haiti's Farms Sow Hope for Rebuilding A new push to improve Haiti's struggling agricultural sector could provide jobs for many people displaced after January's earthquake. But the nation's farmland is limited in supply and often degraded of nutrients. Continue reading
Feb 10 Two Hours in Haiti: Relief Flights Held to Rapid Pace By Larisa Epatko For weeks following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, a steady stream of airplanes stuffed with medical and other relief supplies shuttled in and out of the Port-au-Prince airport. Adhering to a strict time frame, the workers had just two… Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch In Haiti, Recovery Hinges on Fixing Government Nearly a month after the earthquake in Haiti, the government in Port-au-Prince remains tattered. Ray Suarez takes a closer look at the state of Haiti's government and what it means for rebuilding efforts. Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch Aid Groups in Haiti Launch Massive Vaccination Effort With conditions on the ground ripe for a disease outbreak, aid groups in Haiti have launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 100,000 people against measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Emma Murphy of ITN reports. Continue watching
Feb 05 Friday on the NewsHour: 'A Rift in the Land' By Tom LeGro Michele Voltaire Marcelin, an artist, poet, spoken word performer and teacher, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Since the earthquake struck that country last month, she has been struggling to make sense of the destruction. Continue reading