disaster

The Centers for Disease Control have had a very busy year

I was on the air January 28th, 1986. A visibly agitated Allen Aubert, from our news station, burst into the studio, hopping from one foot to the other like a little boy who needed to hurry to the bathroom. He urgently asked, "When can you break in??"...

Guests showed up to their Airbnb looking like something out of the movie 'The Hangover'.

La. Gov. John Bel Edwards has requested President Donald Trump declare an Emergency Disaster for Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Vermilion Parishes as a result of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey. Gov. Edwards says the state will ask for additional parishes be added to the request as warranted.

"Obviously a major malfunction"...Those words are indelibly etched in my memory. I was on the air at KTDY when the space shuttle Challenger exploded. It was January 28th, 1986...

This one won't spill millions of gallons of crude into the gulf, but it's tragedy on an even bigger scale than the Deepwater Horizon disaster...

This is like something out of a science fiction movie, but It's not. This is the site of a nuclear disaster 29 years later. If you're too young to remember, the #4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine melted down on April 26th, 1986...

The mystery of Malaysian airlines Flight MH370 has riveted the attention of people all over the world, including internet hackers. Links have been popping up all over social media websites with headlines to the effect that the plane has been found, and the passengers are alive and well. People all over the world are hoping and praying for a happy ending to this bizarre story.

Time-lapse footage shows the Costa Concordia being uprighted off the coast of Tuscany.

On Wednesday morning, a four-story building in Philadelphia collapsed unexpectedly, trapping some people under the rubble and injuring others.

A hot air balloon carrying a group of tourists near Luxor, Egypt, exploded in mid-air Tuesday, killing 18 people in the deadliest accident ever of its kind.

Continue following this post as we will update it throughout the day as we receive more information on disaster recovery.

Fukushima 'As Bad As Chernobyl'  That's the latest word from Japanese Officials (AP) Japanese nuclear regulators said they raised the rating from 5 to 7 — the highest level on an international scale of nuclear accidents overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency — after new assessments of radiation leaks from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant since it was disabled by the March 11 tsunami. Read

I was on the air on KTDY when a newsperson from across the hall wanted me to interrupt the music for "breaking News". I thought he was yanking my chain & told him to "Get the H&ll out!"......