Sep 14 Watch Living with Hurricanes As the Southeast prepares for a hurricane for the third time in fewer than five weeks, essayist Roger Rosenblatt considers the trials of living with this weather. Continue watching
Sep 13 Hurricane Ivan Batters Caribbean, Threatens Florida By PBS News Hour After Hurricane Ivan brutalized the Cayman Islands over the weekend, causing extensive damage and two unconfirmed deaths, the storm swept through western Cuba Monday forcing hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate low-lying areas. Continue reading
Sep 10 Watch Hurricane Ivan hits Jamaica, Approaches Florida Hurricane Ivan began battering Jamaica with winds of 145 mph. The center of the storm is forecast to hit the island nation Friday night or early Saturday and then strike South Florida as early as Sunday. Ray Suarez gets an… Continue watching
Sep 09 Hurricane Ivan Devastates Grenada, Threatens Jamaica, Florida By PBS News Hour Tourists and residents were told Thursday to evacuate the Florida Keys, as Hurricane Ivan grew into a Category 5 storm after leveling homes and killing at least 15 people on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch Hurricane Frances' Fury Slow-moving hurricane Frances, now downgraded to a tropical storm, hit the east coast of Florida early Sunday morning causing severe flooding and damages estimated at over $2 billion. Florida's Secretary of Health Dr. John Agwunobi discusses France's impact and existing… Continue watching
Aug 16 Hurricane Charley Slams Florida, Kills At Least 17 Florida residents returning to their homes Monday dug through wreckage left by Hurricane Charley's 145 mph winds as it swept across the state and up the East Coast over the weekend. Continue reading
Aug 13 Two Million Ordered to Evacuate As Hurricane Hits Florida Coast Florida officials ordered nearly 2 million people to evacuate from the path of Hurricane Charley, which was bearing down on Florida's coast Friday. Continue reading
Aug 13 Watch Tracking Hurricane Charley in Florida Hurricane Charley churned the seas off the west coast of Florida and brought torrential rain and 145-mile-per-hour winds. Terence Smith reports on the track of the Category 4 hurricane AccuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi. Then Florida's Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings discusses… Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch Predicting Earthquakes Scientists are learning more than ever before about the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and upper mantle -- bringing them to the brink of discoveries about earthquakes that could one day save millions of lives. Continue watching
May 28 Watch Caribbean Disaster: Floods Hit Haiti and the Dominican Republic Two weeks of heavy rains triggered fatal flooding in the central region of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jeffrey Brown discusses the devastating floods with Marko Kokic of the International Federation of… Continue watching