Disasters

Ex-Wild player among 43 killed in Russian jet crash
A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team.
A wild year for weather
Severe drought in Texas and an active hurricane season in the Atlantic are just the latest events in what has already been an active year in meteorology. MPR chief meteorologist Paul Huttner joins Midmorning to discuss what's going on with our weather.
Texas wildfires destroy 1,000 homes
State officials say more than 1,000 homes have burned in at least 57 wildfires in Texas over the past week.
As we near the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Midmorning revisits a 2006 interview with Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission.