You don’t have to be at this blog to listen, we want you to take us with you! Click the download button in the SoundCloud player and put us on your smart phone or tablet and bring us with you in the car, on the train or while you’re working out.
(CNN) – Welcome to CNN Radio News Day. Here are some of the stories we're covering in today's show:
"I'm speechless. How did this happen? Why did this happen?...In an instant, everthing's gone."
FULL POST
You don’t have to be at this blog to listen, we want you to take us with you! Click the download button in the SoundCloud player and put us on your smart phone or tablet and bring us with you in the car, on the train or while you’re working out.
(CNN) – Welcome to CNN Radio News Day. Here are some of the stories we're covering in today's show:
"I myself am amazed at the speed of the improvement of our bilateral relations. But there are no permanent friends or permanent foes in international relations."
By Nova Safo, CNN
Follow on Twitter: nova_safo
(CNN) - By the end of the century, cities on the east coast of the U.S. could experience flooding at Hurricane Sandy levels every couple of years. That’s according to a report in the latest issue of Scientific American.
The study sites updated forecast models which predict climate change will lead to higher sea levels than previously thought.
But climate change is not just a concern for coastal cities. Today, the state of Indiana will just begin assessing flood damage to its public infrastructure. The damage was caused by record rain storms last month. Those same storms also brought flood waters to Chicago.
Those are just the latest prime examples of the new challenge many cities are facing: an increasing frequency of heavy storms, which cities are not currently designed to deal with.
To see what Chicago is doing, and how the rest of the country might be affected, we visited the control center where flood waters are managed.
What we learned from David St. Pierre, the executive director of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago, is that climate change has arrived:
[1:00] “We are seeing these extreme rain events that we have never seen before in Chicago. After you get one 100-year rain event, everybody said, 'Well, we won’t see that in another 100 years.' And then two years later, we had another event. And this year, we had yet another. So we are seeing climate change and it is real.”
To find out more about what scientists are predicting will be the new reality for American cities over the next 20 to 30 years, and to find out what states are doing, please listen to our story in the above player.
Subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. And listen to CNN Soundwaves on our SoundCloud page.
By Libby Lewis, CNN
Follow on Twitter: @LibbyLewisCNN
Editor's Note: Listen to the full story in our player above, and join the conversation in our comments section below.
(CNN) – It used to be, if you were gay, you were considered mentally ill.
It’s a good example of how the lines are drawn between what we decide is illness, and what we decide is just being human.
You don’t have to be at this blog to listen, we want you to take us with you! Click the download button in the SoundCloud player and put us on your smart phone or tablet and bring us with you in the car, on the train or while you’re working out.
(CNN) – Welcome to CNN Radio News Day. Here are some of the stories we're covering in today's show:
"What was certainly one of the worst weeks for the Obama administration, but not the worst week Presidents have ever had."
© 2012 Cable News Network. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
| Advertise with us | About us | Help | Advertising Practices
