Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: The Fall and Rise of New Orleans’ Levees By News Desk Five years after sections of New Orleans' levees fell or were overtopped with water pushed inland by Hurricane Katrina, the NewsHour is looking back at what we've learned about their failure, what's been done to fix them and how vulnerable… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: The Monumental Tasks of Clean-up and Recovery By News Desk Upon the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, the NewsHour is looking back at some our coverage of what people in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have done to clean up from the storm and rebuild their homes, businesses… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: Housing Concerns and ‘Toxic Trailers’ By News Desk A resident of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward mows his lawn in front of a FEMA trailer in 2006. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) On the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we're looking back at some of our NewsHour coverage… Continue reading
Aug 03 Katrina 5 Years Later: Healing and Rebuilding Through Art By News Desk As part of our look back at Hurricane Katrina five years after the disaster, we examine how art has played a role in the city's ongoing healing and rebuilding process. Here are some highlights of our coverage: Aug. 28, 2009:… Continue reading
Aug 03 Tuesday: BP to Attempt ‘Static Kill’; Floods Spreading in Pakistan Crews hoped to begin pumping mud and cement into the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday in what BP officials said could be the permanent fix to the spill. Engineers planned to… Continue reading
Aug 03 Watch News Wrap: 11 Dead in Shootings in Connecticut, Indianapolis In other news Tuesday, a gunman killed eight people and then himself at a beer distribution center in Manchester, Conn., and another gunman killed two at a party in Indianapolis. Continue watching
Aug 03 Watch Humanitarian Crisis Mounts in Pakistan After ‘Monsoon of Generation’ Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are in need of food and shelter after flooding that has killed some 1,500 people so far. Kylie Morris of Independent Television News reports. Continue watching
Aug 02 Thousands Dead or Homeless From Floods in Pakistan By Larisa Epatko Unusually severe monsoon rains and flash flooding over the weekend left hundreds of Pakistanis dead and even more homeless in the northwest Monday when dams burst and rivers broke their banks, submerging homes and wiping out roads. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Pakistan’s Floods Leave Millions Displaced Widespread floods have driven more than 2 million Pakistanis from their homes while more than 1,000 have been killed. Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News has the latest on the continued devastation. Continue watching
Jul 28 Deadly Floods Ravage Central China So far this year, nearly 1,000 people have been killed by flooding in the central Chinese province of Hubei. Eight million have been evacuated from their homes to avoid rising floodwaters as the Yangtze and Hanjiang rivers reach record… Continue reading