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The Wrath of Isaac and Paralympic Stats

Reality Check: LIVE in New Orleans and kicking off the Paralympics.

The Wrath of Isaac

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A New Orleans Sewage & Waterboard worker rescues a pelican

Katrina is of course still fresh in everyone's memory in New Orleans and now, exactly seven years later, the truly weather-beaten folks of New Orleans have got another name to remember.

Isaac, now full-blown hurricane, made landfall in southeast Louisiana on last night, went back out to the Gulf only to return back to land this morning.
Journalist Eileen Fleming wasn't sure if we'd be able to reach her today thanks to power shortages and cell phone networks collapsing but Steve Crilley had a bit of luck and Eileen was able to give us a LIVE first-hand account of what it's like to be in a hurricane...

The Summer Paralympics 2012

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I wish I would have had the opportunity to interview Ludwig Guttmann. The German-born neurosurgeon unfortunately died in his adopted country of England way back in 1980 but he would have made an amazing subject of a Saturday Reality Check Special. Not only was he a brave hero who saved many people's lives during the infamous Kristallnacht of 1938, he dedicated his life to improving the quality of the lives of people with disabilities. And so, in 1948, he started what we now call the Paralympics. Catherine Drew reports from London on the Paralympics which open today...