Rescuers used boats and trucks Saturday to save hundreds of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by a 7-foot storm surge from Hurricane Ike.
CNN's Rob Marciano reports from Galveston where he describes the conditions as Ike moved through.
CNN's Susan Candiotti talks to Texas residents who decided to ride out the storm, but have now had a change of heart.
FEMA is prepared to send 5 million liters of water, 5 million meals, 270,000 cots and rescue teams to Texas for Hurricane Ike.
Buffing his administration's reputation for handling hurricanes, President Bush viewed toppled trees and downed power lines in Louisiana on Wednesday and declared that the government's response to Hurricane Gustav was "excellent"
Authorities ordered most of the remaining residents of this scenic coastal community to leave Wednesday because an out-of-control wildfire, one of hundreds in California
The government may house disaster victims in trailers again this hurricane season as a last resort, despite promises never to use them again because of high levels of formaldehyde found in trailers used after the Katrina catastrophe
Another round of storms headed toward tornado-ravaged areas of Missouri, Arkansas and several other states early Tuesday
FEMA Administrator David Paulison says that his agency has learned from the past and improving its capabilities.
A FEMA plan to transplant Hurricane Katrina victims because of concerns about formaldehyde fumes will not work New Orleans' mayor Ray Nagin said
A staged news conference during the California wildfires last month claimed the job of a second Federal Emergency Management Agency press official, as a review of the incident revealed "a calamity of bad decision-making."
In an internal memo obtained Monday by CNN, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief David Paulison rips the agency's public affairs staff for a staged news conference in which staff members posed questions to FEMA's No. 2 official, Harvey Johnson.
Favorable weather and firefighter reinforcements helped ease the fire danger in parts of Southern California Thursday, but the human toll from the disaster was still coming to light.
CNN's Ed Henry reports from San Diego on President Bush's visit to fire-ravaged Southern California.
CNN's John Roberts interviews FEMA Administrator David Paulison.
Federal Emergency Management Agency officials know the agency's performance in the California wildfires will be watched closely for comparisons to its failures in Hurricane Katrina.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina will be used in the federal government's response to wildfires in Southern California.
The government says they are using lessons they learned from Hurricane Katrina to better respond to the California wildfires.
Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and set sail for Florida on Friday -- the first day of the Atlantic hurricane season.
President Bush assured tornado victims Saturday that help is on the way as he toured towns in Alabama and Georgia that were among the hardest hit by Thursday's storms.
Students inside Enterprise High School huddled in the halls, joking around and waiting out what they thought was a standard tornado drill.
Search parties were going door-to-door Friday in Americus, Georgia, after deadly storms destroyed the town's Red Cross headquarters and shut down a hospital.
Stunned residents, working in the rain Saturday, poked through debris for pieces of their lives deposited the day before by central Florida storms and a tornado whose winds reached 160-165 mph.
Tropical Storm Ernesto shifted toward the northwest Monday, putting it on a possible track for landfall in South Florida by Tuesday, forecasters said.
As many as 110,000 trailers housing hurricane victims on the U.S. Gulf Coast may need additional locks after the discovery that one key can be used to open many of the temporary homes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.
Julie Steele lives 100 miles from the North Carolina coast, but she's still worried about the coming hurricane season.
The Gulf Coast will be widely and quickly evacuated this hurricane season, even if the storm doesn't threaten to smash levees and leave a metropolis under water, state and federal officials said Tuesday.
Nearly three months after Hurricane Katrina forced tens of thousands from their homes, bureaucracy is creating a new tide of trouble for victims of the storm.
Are you ready?updated: Wed Oct 26 2005 14:25:00
We can't seem to shake hurricane season.
Hurricane Wilma battered Florida with heavy rain, widespread flooding and damaging winds for about six hours Monday before heading out to the Atlantic and regaining strength.
David Paulison, who recommended in 2003 that Americans stock up on plastic sheeting and duct tape to be prepared for a terrorist attack, was named Monday as acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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