Case-examples: Natural disasters

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• Flood of Lies (10 min)
  On The Media, WNYC, with Brooke Gladstone. Sept 1, 2017. One of the most widely misreported stories of Hurricane Katrina involved the deaths of 35 elderly residents of St. Rita’s nursing home in a suburb of New Orleans. The nursing home owners, Sal and Mabel Mangano, had decided not to evacuate prior to the storm, and they were charged with negligent homicide. James Cobb, their lawyer and author of Flood of Lies: The St. Rita's Nursing Home Tragedy, tells Brooke about how the Manganos became media scapegoats for the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina.
• Lessons Learned After A North Dakota Flood (3:25)
  Lulu Garcia-Navarro, host. NPR Weekend edition, Sept 3, 2017. Twenty years ago, 50,000 residents were evacuated from Grand Forks, N.D., after a devastating flood. Mayor Michael Brown talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the town's new flood protections.