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Search results for "flood" ...
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The Long Island Power Authority
Superstorm Sandy struck the Northeast in late October, leaving much of Long Island damaged by the most severe flooding in memory and wind gusts reaching 96 miles an hour. A total of 90 percent of the Long Island Power Authority’s 1.1 million customers lost electricity -- tens of thousands of them for weeks.
Tags: Superstorm Sandy; Long Island; electricity; New York
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ABC News Brian Ross Investigates: Money Trail 2012
While most of the political press followed the usual rapid spin cycle of the 2012 presidential campaigns, Brian Ross and the ABC News Investigative team instead focused on the corrupting influence of the unprecedented flood of big money on politics, exposing details of Romney’s hidden wealth, ferreting out the identities of secret big money donors and exposing political pay-offs to Obama’s top donors in a series of original investigative reports on ABC World News, Nightline and a year’s worth – more than two dozen front page print stories on ABCNews.com.
Tags: politics; political press; presidential campaign; Obama; Romney; wealth
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The Great Mortgage Cover-Up
These stories reveal one of the hidden causes of the financial crisis- how corporate codes of silence helped lenders to flood the nation with toxic mortgages. They document evidence that major banks and lenders systematically muzzled whistle blowers who tried to fight against forged documents, falsified appraisals, and other frauds in the mortgage industry.
Tags: financial crisis; mortgages; forged documents; crisis
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MSD
Corruption in the Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District. The MSD oversees sewer treatment, storm water management and Ohio river flood control for the several hundred thousand people who live in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky. Throughout the investigation, The Courier-Journal discovered that MSD board members owned companies that they were doing business with the agency they served, excessive bonuses to top officials, and a secret $140,000 lawsuit with an HR chief when he threatened a whisteblower lawsuit.
Tags: Louisville Metropolitan Sewer District; MSD; Jefferson County; Kentucky
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Inland Tsunami
The story investigates the man-made causes of the deadly flash flooding that killed 24 people in the Australian mountain-top city of Toowoomba.
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Pod Camera
The story examines a police video that seems to indicate that police officers turned a camera away from a street just moments before they flooded the street en masse.
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A Failure to Warn
The investigation shows why flood predictions for Nashville have been very inaccurate. The Army Corps of Engineers and the National Weather Service had not alerted the government or the public that water was being released into the Cumberland River. The reporter finds that the two agencies barely communicated during the floods, leading to the spread of incorrect information.
Tags: Army Corps of Engineers; floods; National Weather Service; dam; flood prediction
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Hung Out to Dry
FEMA is currently in the “final stages of revisiting all of the flood maps throughout the country”. The investigation revealed major problems in the mapping and these mistakes could be costly to the residents in these areas. These residents living in the “flood zones” must pay flood insurance or risk losing their homes. Many of the residents believe they should be excluded from the flood area and come together to prove FEMA wrong.
Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency; South Central Los Angeles; Oxford; Southern California; disaster; relief; help; flood base level
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The Deadly Choices at Memorial
Reporter Sheri Fink takes a close look at the course of events at Memorial Medical Center in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The hospital was "cut off from the world" and doctors took drastic measures, some admitting to injecting gravely ill patients to quicken their death.
Tags: Katrina; hurricane; hospital; medical center; Louisiana; New Orleans; flood;
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American's Neglected Levees
Scripps reviewed the federal and state level system of levee oversight and found that no one at any level of government knows where all levees are, what they protect or what shape they are in. Thousands of communities are being forced by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get levees certified under a national upgrade of flood hazard maps, but even FEMA admits the standards are outdated and don't accurately reflect the risks to people behind them.
Tags: FEMA; levee; flood; Army Corps of Engineers; infrastructure; National Levee Safety Committee; insurance