Photography News Sacramento Bee -- The Frame LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine police and soldiers searched house to house, in creeks and culverts and even in trees for bodies on Thursday after floods killed at least 57 people in the province and city of Buenos Aires. As torrential rains stopped and the waters receded, the crisis shifted to guaranteeing public health and safety in this provincial capital of nearly 1 million people. Safe drinking water was in short supply, and more than a quarter-million people were without power, although authorities said most would get their lights back on overnight. Many people barely escaped with their lives after seeing everything they own disappear under water reeking with sewage and fuel that rose more than six feet (nearly two meters) high inside some homes. (24 images) People embrace outside a club where the Red Cross set up a center to help flood victims in La Plata, in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, Thursday, April 4, 2013.
P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S Captured Photo Collection ยป Ian Fisher : American Soldier Pho Posted Sep 10, 2009 Share This Gallery inShare7 This is how an American soldier is made. For 27 months, Ian Fisher, his parents and friends, and the U.S. The story was written by Kevin Simpson with Michael Riley, Bruce Finley and Craig F. The multimedia project, including all the photos, video and special features, can be viewed at www.denverpost.com/americansoldier. June 1, 2007. 2:03 p.m. May 31, 2007. 11:26 a.m. June 7, 2007. 3:47 p.m. June 12, 2007. 2:14 p.m. June 17, 2007. 1:24 p.m. June 17, 2007. 8:27 p.m. June 17, 2007. 8:29 p.m. June 18, 2007. 5:23 a.m. June 18, 2007. 11:26 a.m. Ian Fisher's late-night arrival at Fort Benning, Ga., signaled a jarring start to his processing into the Army - and a culture shock that gave him second thoughts about his decision to enlist. June 19, 2007. 12:51 a.m. June 19, 2007. 8:10 a.m. June 19, 2007. 4:17 p.m. June 20, 2007. 10:38 a.m. June 20, 2007. 12:41 p.m. June 22, 2007. 10:56 a.m. June 22, 2007. 11:11 a.m. June 22, 2007. 11:20 a.m.
Afghanistan, September, 2009 Today's entry is the first of a new regular feature on the Big Picture: a monthly focus on Afghanistan. From now on, I will post such an entry at least once every month as long as necessary. Violence in Afghanistan has reached its most intense of the eight-year-old war despite record levels of U.S. and NATO troops being sent to fight the Taliban. July and August were the two deadliest months to date for coalition forces, and September is already the 3rd-deadliest, with 38 U.S. deaths - 68 total including all coalition members. With an apparently resurgent Taliban and over 120,000 foreign troops on the ground, and a recent push for the U.S. to consider sending 40,000 more (beyond the additional 21,000 troops still committed but yet undeployed), the situation in Afghanistan could possibly become even more intense in the near future.