For bailout to work, housing market needs to mend
NEW YORK - Washington's financial bailout plan is now law. So the credit spigot will start flowing again, banks will resume lending, and an economic recovery can begin, right?
Nations:U.S. People:Henry Paulson Activities:2008 U.S. Financial Rescue Source:(AP)
2008-10-04
45,000 given go-ahead to return to Galveston
GALVESTON, Texas - One week after Hurricane Ike wiped out whole neighborhoods and nearly every basic service in Galveston, there is a plan to start letting some 45,000 evacuees back to their hobbled hometown.
Nations:U.S. Mexico People:Chris Duncan Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike Source:(AP)
2008-09-20
Some of Ike's missing may have just washed away
GALVESTON, Texas - The death toll from Hurricane Ike is remarkably low so far, considering that legions of people stayed behind as the storm obliterated row after row of homes along the Texas coast. But officials suspect there are more victims out there and say some might simply have been swept out to sea.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2005 Hurricane Katrina 2008 Hurricane Ike Source:(AP)
2008-09-18
Miserable post-Ike life won't change soon for many
GALVESTON, Texas - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff was due back in hurricane-ravaged Texas for a second time to check on recovery efforts Wednesday as misery dragged on for many going into their fifth day after Ike.
Nations:U.S. People:Chris Duncan Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike Source:(AP)
2008-09-17
Nearly 2,000 brought to safety in Texas
GALVESTON, Texas - Rescuers searching the waterlogged streets and splintered houses left behind by Hurricane Ike said Sunday they had saved nearly 2,000 people -- many of whom then boarded buses to shelters without knowing where they were going or when they could come home.
Nations:U.S. People:Chris Duncan Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike Source:(AP)
2008-09-14
It's race against time to save Texas stalwarts
GALVESTON, Texas - Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to save those who spent a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2008 Hurricane Gustav
2008-09-14
Rescue crews comb Texas coast for Ike victims
HOUSTON - Rescue crews navigated flooded and debris-strewn streets Saturday to search for those who insisted on staying and riding out a fierce Hurricane Ike, which shattered skyscraper windows, cut power to millions and flooded thousands of homes as it sloshed across the Texas coast.
Nations:U.S. Mexico People:Chris Duncan Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2008 Hurricane Gustav 2005 Hurricane Katrina
2008-09-13
Hurricane Ike slams Texas coast with major floods
GALVESTON, Texas - Massive Hurricane Ike ravaged southeast Texas early Saturday, battering the coast with driving rain and ferocious wind gusts as residents who decided too late they should have heeded orders to evacuate made futile calls for rescue.
Nations:U.S. People:Chris Duncan Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike
2008-09-13
Ike floods roads, whips waves along Texas
HOUSTON - Hurricane Ike, a colossal storm nearly as big as Texas itself, began battering the coast Friday, threatening to obliterate waterfront towns and give the skyscrapers, refineries and docks of the nation's fourth-largest city their worst pounding in a generation.
Nations:Mexico U.S. Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2005 Hurricane Katrina Source:(AP)
2008-09-12
Houston decides to stare down Ike instead of leave
HOUSTON - As a gigantic Hurricane Ike steamed through the Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast, officials in America's fourth-largest city made a bold decision: Instead of fleeing, residents here would stare down the storm.
Nations:U.S. Mexico Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2005 Hurricane Rita 2008 Hurricane Gustav 2005 Hurricane Katrina Source:(AP)
2008-09-12
Hurricane Ike closing in on Texas coast, Houston
GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people fled coastal areas in the path of Hurricane Ike on Friday as the storm gathered strength on a collision course with the Texas Gulf Coast, threatening to swamp populous areas around Houston under a massive wave of water.
Nations:U.S. People:George W. Bush Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2008 Hurricane Gustav 2005 Hurricane Rita
2008-09-12
Thousands flee Texas coast as Ike approaches
HOUSTON - Authorities in the Houston area and along the Southeast Texas Gulf Coast ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike lumbered toward the coast and threatened to grow even stronger.
Nations:U.S. Activities:2008 Hurricane Ike 2008 Hurricane Gustav
2008-09-11
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