2008年9月15日星期一

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Nearly 2,000 brought to safety in Texas after Ike (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:46 AM CDT

A Coast Guard search and rescue team heads into the flooded areas of Sabine Pass, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, looking to help victims of Hurricane Ike. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - As teams continued the biggest search and rescue operation in Texas history, a new phase of the disaster wrought by Hurricane Ike was only beginning as thousands of people faced long stays in crowded shelters because their homes were damaged or destroyed.

Remnants of Ike blamed for 13 deaths in Midwest (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 03:19 AM CDT

Farm equipment is surrounded by floodwaters covering a field near Winnie, Texas after the passing of Hurricane Ike, September 14, 2008. REUTERS/Smiley N. Pool/Pool (UNITED STATES)AP - Losing it devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubbed the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters that are being blamed for at least 13 deaths.

Feds: Audio sheds light on deadly LA train wreck (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:43 AM CDT

Rescue personnel work at the scene of a train crash in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. A Metrolink commuter train believed to be carrying up to 350 people collided with a freight train Friday, killing four people and injuring dozens of others. (AP Photo/Hector Mata)AP - Federal investigators said Sunday that audio recordings from a commuter train are missing required verbal safety checks between the engineer and the conductor in the seconds before the train collided with a freight engine, killing 25 people.

O.J. Simpson jury to get testimony in Vegas (AP)

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 02:27 AM CDT

In this Sept. 11, 2008 file photo O.J. Simpson arrives at the Clark County Regional Justice Center as jury selection process for his trial continues in Las Vegas. Simpson faces 12 charges, including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy. His trial resumes on Monday, Sept. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - When O.J Simpson and five other men pushed into a cramped casino hotel room to confront two memorabilia peddlers a year ago they were only trying to retrieve keepsakes and family heirlooms that Simpson hoped to pass along to his children.

Houston inconvenienced, but not devastated (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 07:41 PM CDT

A police car carefully makes its way under a fallen oak tree blocking the street in front of Houston City Hall after Hurricane Ike struck the area, September 13, 2008. (Richard Carson/Reuters)AP - Jeannine Burks stood outside her Houston home Sunday and surveyed the damage from Hurricane Ike: Tree limbs, debris and standing water everywhere. She had no power, no phones, and had only just back got her water pressure.

Houston airports reopen Monday; flights limited (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 06:53 PM CDT

AP - Houston's airports are planning to reopen Monday with limited service after suffering some damage from Hurricane Ike.

Families, neighbors mourn LA train wreck victims (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 05:50 PM CDT

Investigators photograph the mangled inside of a Metrolink commuter train in Chatsworth, Calif. on Sunday Sept. 14,2008. At least 25 people have been killed in the Friday collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)AP - Atul Vyas scored in the top 1 percent on his medical school entry exams, but he was having trouble answering one question on applications to Harvard and Duke: Describe a hardship you've overcome.

Ike evacuees face long stays in makeshift shelters (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 10:30 AM CDT

Louisiana National Guard hi-water vehicles carry evacuees out of Erath, La. following the landfall of Hurricane Ike Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Richard Alan Hannon, Pool)AP - Hurricane Ike's deadly surge has kept thousands of evacuees holed up in cramped quarters — shelters, RVs, even a warehouse — as they face the prospect of returning to flood-ravaged neighborhoods left without electricity.

AP IMPACT: Tons of drugs dumped into wastewater (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 01:18 PM CDT

Bryant Sears, working in a Teflon suit and wearing goggles and rubber gloves, sorts leftover medicines and contaminated packing one-by-one at Abbott Northwestern Hospital, May 13, 2008 in Minneapolis. Items are put into separate barrels and bins, depending on their differing disposal standards and methods. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)AP - U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America's drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

Houston issues weeklong curfew after Hurricane Ike (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 08:43 AM CDT

A boat sits submerged in the waters of Clear Lake near the Johnson Space Center where it sank due to the storm surge and winds of Hurricane Ike in Houston September 13, 2008. (Richard Carson/Reuters)AP - Houston officials have issued a weeklong curfew for the city devastated by Hurricane Ike.

Nearly 2,000 Texans rescued after Ike (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 01:19 PM CDT

AP - Nearly 2,000 people in Texas who refused orders to evacuate before Hurricane Ike have been rescued by land, air and water.

List of victims in LA train crash (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 09:53 PM CDT

National Transportation and Safety board member, Kitty Higgins explains to the media the switch that controls the tracks at the site of the Metrolink commuter train and Union Pacific train collision during briefing on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2008, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Gus Ruelas)AP - An alphabetical list of people killed in Friday's Metrolink train disaster and information known about them.

Rover, call me an ambulance — dog calls 911 (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 04:09 PM CDT

AP - "Man's best friend" doesn't go far enough for Buddy — a German shepherd who remembered his training and saved his owner's life by calling 911 when the man had a seizure.

New Minneapolis bridge practical, not flashy (AP)

Posted: 14 Sep 2008 01:07 PM CDT

The Minneapolis skyline is shown in the distance in this view Aug. 31, 2007 of the Interstate 35W bridge which collapsed into the Mississippi River, Aug. 1, in Minneapolis. The collapse killed 13 people and injured more than 100 others. (AP Photo/Jim Mone,file)AP - The new Interstate 35W bridge, replacing one whose deadly collapse into the Mississippi River scarred the city's image and emotions, may be getting kudos for opening ahead of schedule and restoring a vital traffic link.

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