Apr 29 President Obama Tours Storm Damage in Alabama, Death Toll at 300 By News Desk 12:45 p.m. ET | President Obama met with local officials and survivors in Tuscaloosa, Alabama Friday morning and said he had "never seen devastation like this." The president vowed residents would be given aid to help recover from the… Continue reading
Apr 28 Watch Birmingham Police Chief: Alabamians in Shock, Despair After Major Storm Jeffrey Brown talks to Birmingham Chief of Police about the deadly tornadoes. Continue watching
Apr 28 Violent Storms Rip Through Southern U.S. Violent storms and tornadoes flattened towns and injured or killed people throughout the South on Thursday night. Alabama was the hardest hit as storms tore through Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. Casualties also mounted in Mississppi, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia and Kentucky. Continue reading
Apr 28 Death Toll at 280 as Storms Hit South, Syrian Politicians Quit in Protest View a slide show of the storm damage in southern states: 5:40 p.m. ET| Edgar Treiguts of Georgia Public Broadcasting reports on the storm's aftermath in Georgia, where 13 people were killed: 5 p.m. ET | Officials… Continue reading
Apr 26 Watch Many Gulf Coast Residents Still Frustrated by Handling of BP Oil Spill Tom Bearden reports from the Gulf on residents' attitudes. Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch Deadly Storms Pummel Midwest, Spawning Floods, Tornadoes Severe flooding, high winds and tornadoes swept across the Midwest, leaving at least 10 people dead in Arkansas after a spate of violent weather on Monday. Jeffery Brown has the latest on the rescue operations and emergency evacuations. Continue watching
Apr 21 Watch Technology Failures, Perils of Deepwater Drilling Among Gulf Oil Spill’s Lessons In his new book, "A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea," Washington Post reporter Joel Achenbach chronicles the 2010 struggle to stop what would become the nation's worst off-shore oil spill. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Achenbach about the battle… Continue watching
Apr 21 Deepwater Horizon Survivor Chris Choy: ‘I Can’t Go Back Onto a Rig’ By Dave Gustafson With this week marking the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and start of the Gulf oil spill, we checked back with Christopher Choy, a roustabout who survived the blast on the rig, to see how he is… Continue reading
Apr 21 ‘Louisiana Water Stories’ Documents the Culture and Curses of SOLA In southern Louisiana, life revolves around the water. Half of Louisiana's residents live in coastal areas, and nearly 30 percent of America's seafood comes from the Gulf region. Jon Bowermaster's latest documentary, "SOLA: Louisiana Water Stories", looks at… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Along Gulf Coast, Cautious Optimism for Future a Year After Oil Spill Began Compensation Disputes Among Lingering Impacts of Gulf Spill… Continue watching