Jul 12 Haiti a Patchwork of Starts and Stops on Quake Recovery By Ray Suarez Six months after a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti, more than one million people are still homeless and the people of Port-au-Prince and surrounding regions continue to suffer the economic, physical and mental after-effects of the devastating temblor. The… Continue reading
Jul 12 Monday: BP Installing New Cap on Well; Twin Bombings Kill 64 in Uganda By Tom LeGro BP continues to install a tighter cap over its leaking oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, saying it is ahead of its schedule to get the new, better cap in place. Continue reading
Jul 12 Watch Politics and Aid Intermingle in Haiti’s Recovery Margaret Warner talks with Ray Suarez, who has returned to Haiti six months after a devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Six Months After Quake, Haiti Still Rebuilding Ray Suarez reports on the still-recovering Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where some one million people still remain homeless. Continue watching
Jul 09 Dispatch From Haiti: Getting Back to Work in Port-au-Prince By Talea Miller PORT-AU-PRINCE | Renette Saintjuste stocks a dizzying mix of items for her tiny makeshift shop in the Centre Sportif Dadadou tent camp in Haiti's capital. Fresh eggs, dried pasta, soap, earrings and cookware are all for sale to her… Continue reading
Jul 09 Watch News Wrap: Bombings Kill Dozens in Pakistan In other news Friday, suicide bombers targeted an office building in Pakistan, killing 62 people and wounding more than 110 others. Continue watching
Jul 08 Scenes From Haiti, 6 Months After the Earthquake By Talea Miller An estimated 1.5 million Haitians were displaced in January’s earthquake. Six months later, the majority of that population is still living in tent settlements and the medical infrastructure is still fragile. A reporting team from the PBS NewsHour, including… Continue reading
Jul 07 Heat Wave Causes Kinks in Rail Tracks The Massacusetts Bay Transportation Authority has had to repair so-called "heat kinks" during recent high temperatures. The triple-digit temperatures pummeling the East Coast this week present many dangers: heatstroke, dehydration and power outages. This week, the Washington, D.C.,… Continue reading
Jul 07 Ray Suarez: Returning to the Scene of the Quake in Haiti By Ray Suarez Haitian washes clothes in tent camp. Photo by Thony Belizaire/AFP/Getty Images When I left Haiti in February, just three weeks after the earthquake that took 250,000 lives, I knew I would have to come back. The destruction had been so… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch Scorching Heat Wave Waylays East Coast States Scorching heat and humidity gripped the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, pushing electricity use toward record levels and disrupting train travel. Gwen Ifill reports on how people are coping with the temperatures topping 100 degrees. Continue watching