Mar 26 Watch N.D.’s Red River Valley Prepares for Massive Flooding President Barack Obama declared North Dakota a federal disaster area Thursday due to floodwaters that have closed roads and bridges throughout the Red River Valley and that weather specialists say have yet to crest. The mayor of Fargo and North… Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch Essayist Says a Reluctant Goodbye to Winter Despite the harsh weather that pummeled her hometown, essayist Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune laments the passing of winter and the time of reflection it brings. Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch Other News: Winter Storm Blasts East Coast; Obama Nominee to Pay Back Taxes A late winter storm on the East Coast shut down schools, grounded flights and caused hundreds of wrecks, and Ron Kirk, the nominee for U.S. trade representative, has agreed to pay an estimated $10,000 in back taxes. Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch Other News: FBI Investigates Corporate Fraud, Tornadoes Rip Through Oklahoma In other news of the day, the FBI announced its investigation of more than 500 potential cases of corporate fraud, and tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma killed at least 8, destroying homes and businesses. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Arson Suspected in Deadly Australian Wildfires The death toll has reached 166 in Australia's worst wildfires in its history, and police suspect arsons might have caused some of the fires in the southeastern part of the country. A reporter provides an update from Sydney. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Death Toll Grows in Australian Wildfires The death toll has risen in Australia's worst wildfire disaster in history, and the extremely fast-moving fires caught many off-guard. Independent Television News correspondent Libby Weiner reports. Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Global Economic Growth Slows, Early Voting Begins in Iraq Economists at the International Monetary Fund predict that the global economy will grow by less than one percent in 2009 and Iraqis went to the polls for early voting in provincial elections, with the rest of the country set to… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch Documentary Traces Family’s Struggle After Katrina Herbert Gettridge struggled for years to rebuild his New Orleans home in the lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. In an interview, producer June Cross describes how she documented Gettridge's story in "The Old Man and the Storm" which airs… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch Already Faced With Hardships, Haitians’ Lives Upended by Hurricanes Following the devastating food shortage of the summer, Haiti faced a barrage of powerful hurricanes, which battered the island nation into precarious situation. Fred De Sam Lazaro reports on the struggle that lies ahead as a nation tries to rebuild… Continue watching
Sep 19 Watch Restoring Power to Ike Victims Proves Tough Task When Hurricane Ike slammed into the Texas coast, the storm inflicted major damage to the electrical grid, leaving hundeds of thousands of people without power. Tom Bearden reports on the electrical grids in Southeast Texas and why restoring power has… Continue watching