May 09 Watch NewsHour Connect: Muddy Mississippi Floods in Memphis Update on flooding of the Mississippi River in Memphis. Continue watching
May 09 Memphis Prepares for Mississippi's Record Crest By Lauren Knapp The Mississippi River is expected to crest at 48-feet in Memphis, Tennessee Monday night, and the river has already swelled to six times its normal width. Residents spent the weekend sandbagging and police went door-to-door asking people to evacuate their… Continue reading
May 09 As Mississippi Rises, Historian Discusses 'Great Flood' of 1927 By Veronica DeVore A flooded power plant at Oswego, Kansas, on the Neosho River on April 23, 1927 (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) As the Mississippi River continues to rise Monday, threatening Memphis and other cities on its shores, we take a look… Continue reading
May 04 Watch FEMA Chief Fugate on Challenges of Widespread Storm Recovery Needs The Army Corps of Engineers is considering whether to blow up more levees along the Mississippi River after destroying a Missouri levee to save an Illinois town. Judy Woodruff talks with Federal Emergency Management Agency Chief Craig Fugate about the… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch Ala., Miss.,Tornado Victims Struggle to Cope With Worst Storm Damage in Decades President Obama traveled to Alabama to meet with tornado victims and tour the devastation left by the Wednesday storms. Ray Suarez discusses the latest conditions and the search-and-rescue efforts with Tuscaloosa Mayor Walter Maddox and the National Weather Service's Jack… Continue watching
Apr 29 Watch NASA Tracks Severe Storms From Space Watch the tornadoes' path across the southern United States. Continue watching
Apr 29 Clean-up Begins After Devastating Storms in the South By Lauren Knapp 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 damage brought by the… Continue reading
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