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Major League Baseball Sends Relief to Japan

Baseball players from Japan are leading a major-league push to send relief to their disaster-ravaged country. After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit the northeast coast of Japan on Friday, Japanese players from around Major League Baseball frantically tried to reach family members. Charles Krupa,...

Nagin and Brown Now Agree: US Not Prepared for Another Katrina

(Aug. 27) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, the city's former mayor, Ray Nagin, and ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown finally agree on one thing: The country remains unprepared for another storm of such magnitude. "I don't see any major changes that we've done in this...

Tents Aren't Holding Up in Heavy Haitian Rains

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (June 25) -- Hurricane season in Haiti officially began three weeks ago, bringing rain to the region nearly every day. More than 1.5 million Haitians remain in the streets. Yet this week, the United Nations completed a study, revealing that 40 percent of all emergency shelters, including tents and...

Rescuers Face Extra Challenges in Haiti

(Jan. 13) -- As emergency teams from around the world head for Haiti, relief agency employees who live in the devastated nation are already working to ease the suffering of earthquake victims. The 7.0-magnitude quake that hit Tuesday afternoon killed hundreds of thousands of people, Haiti's prime minister told CNN. Many...