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The Strauss-Kahn media circus begins
Journalists who can fit inside the over-flowing courtroom where the arraignment of IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to take place Monday, May 16, 2011.
(Credit: CBS)At its core, the memorable ones usually concern sex, politics or money.
But unlike Michael Jackson, Bernie Madoff or Bill Clinton, the case against one of the world's most powerful banking figures involves all three.
Tornado victims struggle to move forward
Talmadge Rawlins talks about the afternoon of April 27, 2011, when a tornado destroyed his home, as he looks for personal belongings in the wreckage of his home May 6, 2011, in Pleasant Grove, Ala.
(Credit: AP Photo)
HOLT, Ala. - It only took 20 seconds.
Elaine Davis and her husband Keith huddled together on patio furniture at the bottom of a Cold War-era bomb shelter as the tornado passed over them, just 15 feet above them.
"My husband could feel the pressure," said Elaine, who could see a blast of debris particles stream into the shelter from around the door cracks. "There was a big gust of wind and dust. It's still terrifying to me."
When she felt it was finally safe, she lifted the latches of the rusted metal door, looked through a crack and called to her husband, known to everyone as Butch.
"I said to Butch, 'The house is gone, the truck is gone,'" Elaine said.
That was more than a week ago.
Hope fades for finding survivors in tornado zone
Homeless tornado victims hit with rain, cold
South's tornadoes hurt already suffering economy
Katie Couric's Notebook: Women's uniforms
Katie Couric's Notebook: Reading skills
The statistics are grim. Each school day, 7,000 students drop out of high school - that's 1.2 million every year.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: April is the cruelest month
"April is the cruelest month."
That line from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land" comes back to me every year when I remember the anniversaries of some of the most difficult stories I've had to cover.
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Katie Couric's Notebook: Wedding dress
Katie Couric's Notebook: McDonald's
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Gulf community looks forward, hopes for business
Grand Isle Mayor David Camardelle, center, speaks at a news conference held to recognize the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Grand Isle, La., Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
(Credit: AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)GRAND ISLE, La. - So here we are a year later in the Gulf, on the one-year anniversary of BP's spill. Anyone affected by that disaster, particularly people living and working in the spill zone, will spend today swapping stories of their shared drama and taking stock of how far their recovery still has to go.
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