The Santa Ana winds wreaked havoc in California this past week, knocking over power lines, up-rooting trees and warranting 500 emergency calls to be placed.
"It is possibly one the biggest wind disasters of a generation," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told ABC News.
Footage from David Wright's report shows images of the aftermath that would be hard to imagine otherwise.
"I never in a million years, living here pushing 45, thought that I would see anything like this,"one Temple City resident, whom was not named on camera, said.
]]>In an even that was supposed to mark the grand opening of Cain's state headquarters in Georgia, Cain surprised supporters with his announcement.
"I'm suspending my campaign," Cain publicly announced, "Because of the continued distractions and continued hurt caused on me and my family."
Peter Alexander's report for MSNBC's Today Show highlights footage from the event and also includes analysis from David Gregory.
"His political support was hollowing out," Gregory said. "So yes, the personal became the political."
]]>By December 31 America will end its eight year war Iraq.
"It was very hard to get information, not impossible, but really hard," Anne Barrels NPR war correspondent said."We walked in to the bombing campaign pretty ignorant about the country."
The report weaves the narratives of a war correspondent and an American colonel together to give a broader view on the bombing campaign and the fall of Baghdad.
NPR has broken the war down into event-based segments that will make the topic easier to listen to and easier to understand.
]]>Lincoln Place houses 24 young adults and counsels them on educational and career goals.
"Where is your heart," Mindy Karris said to Liz Collin, "If you don't have a home?"
Even though there was a glitch in the beginning of the tape, the story brought to light an important issue.
Only 30 percent of need is met f all of the shelters in the Twin Cities are filled to capacity.
Chris Robert's theatrical lead for "Art Hounds" pulls the listener in as a thespian reads the first line, and his three interviewees read the following three lines.
"I think you're gonna get pulled into the this romance that is sort of funny and surreal," Lily Troia, the founder of the Invisible Button, said. "Yet, it gets you questioning morality and choices."
Roberts takes stand out quotes from each of his interviewees and ties their narratives together through the use of music.
The goal of Art Hounds to get people interested in what is out there, and I think that it doesn't get more interesting than a story that features a graphic artist, an accordian player, and a play called "How to Cheat."
The U-Haul suddenly accelerated and sped into a field where it then hit other U-Hauls in the lot.
The U-Haul was carrying kegs of beer, according to a report from MSNBC.
It is not uncommon for fans to rent U-Hauls and fill them with food and beer and create elaborate buffets.
Spectators observed a moment of silence during the Yale vs. Harvard game that followed the accident.
]]>Mani Chadaga, a third-grader, walks up the stairs from the elementary part of the building into the middle school division to take Geometry and Algebra II.
When Mani started taking courses upstairs he slouched in his seat and tried to blend in while casually reading his textbook, according to the Pioneer Press.
It didn't take long for this shyness to change.
"He literally taught the rest of them the entire problem," Alex Ford, Mani's math teacher, told the Pioneer Press. "He could stand in front of a room full of eighth graders and describe the solution to problems with poise and confidence and perfect mathematical reasoning."
]]>The co-founders of Fulton had humble beginnings hopping from garage to garage huddling for warmth over the beers they were brewing.
The "Surly Bill," which was signed by Gov. Mark Dayton,will allow other breweries to move their operations into the Minneapolis city limits.
Councilman Gary Schiff plans to eliminate an old ordinance that prevents alcohol from being sold within 300 feet of a church, according to the Minnesota Daily.
"It's bringing our dream to fruition in a way," Diley told the Minnesota Daily. "We always said we wanted to build a brewery in Minneapolis."
]]>The Boston Globe set the scene with strong images of protestors hurling stones and setting armored vehicles ablaze.
BBC paints a similar picture, but with much milder words, saying that protestors lobbed rocks and set police vehicles on fire.
However, both reports cover the actions of the police force in a similar light.
"They were shooting rubber bullets directly at the heads," Malek Mostafa, a protestor told the Associated Press. "I heard an officer order his soldiers to aim for the head."
Mercy for Animals released footage of employees swinging chickens by their feet, burning beaks, and suffocating the animals.
The footage from Mercy for Animals was played by ABC News Sparboe Farms invited ABC to the facilities for a one hour tour, in which, the conditions appeared to much different.
However, McDonalds has vowed not to purchase eggs from Sparboe farms anymore.
The written and broadcast reports have brought attention to the commercial farming industry and called their practices into question.
]]>The austerity measures included increasing the resignation from 65 to 67 by 2026, offering tax breaks to companies that hire young adults, and selling state assets according to the New York Times.
The debt in Italy is $2.6 trillion dollars which Time Magazine reports to 120 percent the country's economic output.
With these numbers being broken down by Time and the New York Times it brings a greater clarity to the 380 to 26 vote that approved his terms for resignation.
]]>The bailout plan rose from 109 billion Euros in July's plan to 130 billion Euros according to a report from Businessweek.
The article outlines the debt of the nation by stating its debt will reach 163 percent Greece's gross national product by the end of the year, and forcasts an even worse fate with this total reaching 198 percent of the gross national product by 2012.
These numbers are telling, but the anecdotes in the New York Times gives these numbers a face.
"I am not a protestor," Giovanni Urciulo, a small business owner, told the New York Times. "But soon the top on the kettle will pop."
]]>CNN broke down the statistics from the number centric day in a palatable manner.
The article contextualizes the 80 weddings for 11/11/11 that the Chapel of Flowers had planned by comparing it to their average of about 20 weddings per day.
The Chicago Tribune let a statics professor take the reigns in explaining the significance, or lack of, for the date.
Though both papers did a good job of breaking down their numbers, there was no hope of breaking down the wishful thinking of those celebrating 11/11/11.
]]>The project involves the use of 200 cameras over a 1,000-square-mile area to capture images of how lions coexist with their habitat.
Yasin Mohamud from the Minnesota Daily did a good job of explaining the idea of "crowdfunding" in his article, but he could have done a better job of breaking down the numbers involved.
It would be more meaningful to read that there is one camera for about every five miles in the park as opposed to seeing that there are 200 cameras in 1,000-square mile territory.
Rocket Hub, the website enabling crowd funding, does a good job of breaking down the costs related to the project, and has infographics that make it clear that they have only reached seven percent of their funding goal.
]]>MinnePhit House explains that EnerPhit is an energy efficiency code that was designed with older houses in mind.
It is clear that the standards listed on MinnePhit will increase energy efficiency by 10 percent, but the list of hard and fast requirements concerning British Thermal Units (Btus) and Kilowatt hours (kWhr) has little meaning to those outside of the renewable energy circle.
The Star Tribune article does a good job of relating numerical values to information that is meaningful to the average reader.
The idea that space heaters will be sufficient to heat a 2,000-square-foot home may hard to believe, it is an idea that is easy to understand.