Month: August 2020

Hurricane Laura unleashed terrible winds on the Louisiana coast, but its effects are “looking relatively tame from an economic perspective” – especially when compared to other powerful storms, according to an early analysis by Moody’s Analytics. Laura is blamed for at least 10 deaths, including five people who died from carbon monoxide poisoning — at least one case involves the use of a generator without proper ventilation. Four people died from trees falling on homes,…

After evacuating to cities like San Antonio, Dallas and Austin, coastal Texas residents are making their way back home in the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. Now there are worries that both evacuations and storm damage could potentially increase COVID-19 numbers in the state. As of Friday, Houston had seen three straight days of fewer than 100 new COVID-19 hospitalizations, for the first time in two months. Daily new cases are on a rough downward trend….

President Trump defies the Hatch Act at the Republican Convention, the Gulf Coast is slammed by one of the most powerful storms in decades, and a police shooting in Wisconsin rocks communities across the country. We’ll talk about all that and more in our weekly news roundup. Guests Jane Coaston, senior politics reporter for Vox, with a focus on conservatism and the American right. (@cjane87) Mary Bruce, ABC News senior congressional correspondent. (@marykbruce) Paula Reid, CBS News…

Updated at 11:45am Hurricane Laura tore through a region that is home to dozens of major oil refineries, petrochemical plants and plastics facilities. Now, residents could be breathing dangerously polluted air from those sites, say public health experts and local advocates. The pollution began before the storm even made landfall. In the two days before the storm arrived, facilities in Texas released more than 4 million pounds of extra air pollution, according to reports the…

FRISCO, Texas (CBSDFW) – The City of Frisco is sheltering more than 2,200 evacuees from the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast in hotels throughout the city. Earlier this week, with the impending arrival of Hurricane Laura, the City of Frisco Fire Department worked with Visit Frisco to secure hotel room blocks at several of Frisco’s hotels for potential evacuees seeking shelter out of the path of the storm. “We are fortunate to have great hotel partners…