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Disasters

U of M to admit students from colleges damaged by Katrina

Officials at the University of Minnesota say college students whose schools have closed because of Hurricane Katrina can take classes at the U. The Twin Cities campus is scheduled to start classes in less than a week. The emergency policy would allow students to attend provided they are academically qualified. Morning Edition host Cathy Wurzer talked with Wayne Sigler, director of admissions at the University of Minnesota.

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Congress prepares to send emergency aid to disaster zone

The Bush administration intends to seek more than $10 billion to cover immediate relief needs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Thursday, and lawmakers made plans to approve the request by the weekend.

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Fights and gunfire break out as New Orleans slips into anarchy

Fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flood-stricken New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.

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Doctors plead for help as hospitals run out of food, power; 'please help us,' one tells AP

Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.

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Some 25,000 Louisiana refugees headed to San Antonio

After opening the Astrodome in Houston to hurricane refugees, the state of Texas has agreed to take in 25,000 more evacuees from Louisiana and house them in San Antonio, the governor's office said Thursday.

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President Bush speaks to nation in wake of Katrina disaster

President Bush says the first priority in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is to save lives. Saying the recovery from the storm will take years, Bush announced a cabinet-level task force to coordinate a massive response by the federal government.

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Risk management and the weather

Katrina took more lives than any other recent U.S. hurricane. Is the destruction a result of poor disaster preparedness? Are people pushing the limits of coastal habitation? Can we ever truly brace for natural disasters?

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