Recovery

For analysts who study such things, the mishap is also something else: a case study yielding insights about how similar mistakes might be prevented in the future.

The final wave of cleanup will last for about five weeks, after which any debris will be removed at homeowners' expense. The final pass comes soon after the Florida Department of Transportation recently announced it would end its debris pickup along state highways on April 15.

Months after California’s most devastating wildfire killed 85 people and leveled the town of Paradise, many former residents find the thought of returning here unbearable. Others have come back to a life of surreal contrasts.

FEMA has approved paying $205 million, but denied an additional $306 million for reconstruction of the dam’s spillways, saying that those funds don’t meet federal eligibility rules.

More rain could complicate plans to drain the flooded stretch of Alabama 101 and Lawrence 406. Alabama Department of Transportation Civil Engineer Dallon Ogle said his department plans to use 6-inch pumps to move water out of the area.

Bay County, Fla., expects to save nearly $350,000 a year by ending annual appropriations to up to eight outside agencies, starting with its 2020 fiscal year.

State Sen. George Gainer said local governments could be waiting years for reimbursements from FEMA and wants to make sure they're taken care of in the meantime.

They're called the Cajun Navy, but they're not just one organization.

In 72 hours, Dayton, Ohio’s water dispatch center received 8,958 calls, or about 20 times the number it receives in a typical week at this time of year.

Fifteen hundred miles west in the high desert city of Palmdale, NASA scientists were preparing to fly a DC-8, equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over the hurricane zone to monitor pollution levels.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Chris Darden said preliminary analysis indicates the main storm in Lee County was an EF-4 tornado packing winds estimated at 170 mph.

The powerful tornado — a category EF4 — cut a path about a mile wide and at least 24 miles long in this pocket of rural southeast Alabama. With wind speeds of 170 mph, it snapped trees and shredded homes.

Project Recovery is a regional program that’s helping flood survivors set priorities, resolve conflicts, manage stress and get emotional support.

According to CBS News correspondent David Begnaud, the Alabama Coroner was anticipating more bodies to be sent to its facilities.

It is not just local churches, city work crews and local volunteers who are helping to rebuild in Columbus, Miss., after the tornado last weekend. Organizations from far and wide have joined together to lend a hand.