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The State of Texas and FEMA has opened a Disaster Recovery Centers in Southeast Texas to offer in-person support to individuals and businesses in 39 counties included in the Texas federal disaster declaration for Hurricane Harvey and the subsequent floods. Recovery specialists from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Small Business Administration , the State and other agencies will be at the center to talk about assistance and to help anyone who needs guidance in filing an application.
The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston's dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finally stopped. Aerial photos reviewed by The Associated Press show dark-colored water surrounding the site as the floods receded, flowing through Vince Bayou and into the city's ship channel.
Hurricane Maria became a Category 4 storm on Monday afternoon as it barreled toward Dominica in the Caribbean's Leeward Islands and took aim for the US territory of Puerto Rico. "We want to alert the people of Puerto Rico that this is not an event like we've ever seen before," Gov. Ricardo RossellA3 told reporters Monday.
14, 2017, in Pasadena, Texas, where three tanks once used to store toxic waste were flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The Environmental Protection Agency says it has fou... .
16, 2017, in University City, Mo. Earlier, protesters marched peacefully in response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of former St. Louis police offi... .
President Donald Trump is moving toward allowing energy exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the first time in several decades, according to a report Friday from The Washington Post. Interior Department officials are modifying decades' old regulations that have traditionally prevented the agency from conducting seismic studies seen as the first step towards drilling, the report notes .
The southern U.S. was hit by two record-breaking hurricanes this season. Irma was the most powerful hurricane ever observed in the open Atlantic and Harvey dropped the most rainfall ever recorded in the continental U.S. Time magazine editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss how disaster response has changed since Hurricane Katrina and FEMA's strategic pre-deployment of resources.
Flooding poses health risks from regional petrochemical production, agriculture and sewage overflow along the Texas gulf coast. As the rains stop and flood waters recede concerns for public health grow.
President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump observed a moment of silence at the White House, to commemorate the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. The moment of silence was held at 8:46 a.m, the exact time that American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
Harry Dean Stanton, a character actor known for his roles in "Godfather II," "Alien," "Pretty In Pink" and others, has died. His agent confirmed the news to The Associated Press.
Working together, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continue to coordinate with local, state and federal officials to address the human health and environmental impacts of Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath, especially the water systems in the affected areas. The TCEQ has approximately 500 people and EPA has 263 people assisting in response to this natural disaster.
"The ECHO" is a publication of The George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management . This edition covers political activity on Twitter in the United States from September 6-13.
Daniel Brown, left, chairman of the trustees at St. Paul CME Church watches as a couple generators are loaded into a truck Friday morning by Desi Byrd, center, and Edgardo Olivieri at Home Depot. He hopes the generators will prevent the problems at the church when power was lost during Hurricane Matthew.
President Donald Trump returns to the storm-swept American South on Thursday, this time to the Gulf coast of Florida where Hurricane Irma raged last weekend. In the Naples and Fort Myers area, Trump is expected to receive updates on recovery efforts from state and local authorities as well as view damage caused by the monster storm.
President Donald Trump will hear directly from people affected by Irma's fury as he makes his third visit in less than three weeks to the storm-wracked South. Trump, joined by Vice-President Mike Pence, was scheduled to visit Naples and Fort Myers on Florida's southwestern coast Thursday to meet with those affected by the hurricane and learn more about relief efforts.
Many parts of the federal government are hard at work helping state and local officials cope with the massive problems Hurricane Harvey has created. While it isn't the lead agency for rescue efforts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is playing an important role in facilitating recovery from this immense natural disaster.
President Donald Trump and black Democratic lawmakers don't agree on much, but they do agree that FEMA needs to fund houses of worship that assist hurricane victims of hurricanes Harvey and Irma. As the waters slowly recede from Houston and parts of Florida from the two deadly storms, the president and some members of the Congressional Black Caucus are aggressively diving into the murky waters of separation of church and state issues.
Since he sided with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on a deal to tack on a three-month suspension of the federal debt ceiling - and a continuing resolution to fund the government through early December - to a bill that would also include money for Hurricane Harvey relief, Trump has been repeating the "b" word over and over while making more overtures to Democrats than he had throughout his young presidency.
Shortly before Hurricane Irma hit the U.S. mainland, the latest waves of Hurricane Trump hit Washington, reshaping political battle lines in a totally unexpected but potentially productive way. Many analysts wonder if Trump's new alliance with Democratic congressional leaders can persist past last week's success in raising the debt ceiling, funding the government and making a down payment on Hurricane Harvey reconstruction.