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Jobs, Debt And Home Prices Since The Crisis, In Five Charts

Five years after the financial system imploded, we graph five key measures of how Americans are faring.

As Colorado Floods Continue, Rescuers Help Stranded Evacuate

Rain and flooding continue in Colorado today. Thousands of people have been evacuated and rescue crews are making their way to those stranded in buildings behind impassable roads.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band On World Cafe

Creative director Ben Jaffe discusses the band's new album — titled That's It! — and spotlights four live songs, recorded live at City Winery in New York City.

A Global Hawk unmanned aircraft comes in for a landing at the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., on Sept. 7, 2012, after studying Hurricane Leslie. The remotely controlled planes can stay in the air for as long as 28 hours and fly over hurricanes at altitudes of more than 60,000 feet.

Spy Drones Turning Up New Data About Hurricanes And Weather

For the past couple of years, NASA has been using remotely piloted aircraft to study hurricanes. And they are turning up new information about things like how dust from Africa can determine whether weather systems become hurricanes in the Atlantic.

New York musician Dan Kaufman (third from right) traveled to Rome to learn more about the city's Jewish community and the Italian resistance during WWII. The result is a new album by his band Barbez, based in part on the lost melodies of Roman Jewish music.

Barbez Mines Resistance And Tradition Of Italian Jews

Inspired by an ethnomusicologist, musician Dan Kaufman revives forgotten melodies on Bella Ciao.

Pereira and Luckman, Los Angeles International Airport Original Plan, 1952<strong> — </strong>The original design for LAX had a single, centralized terminal under a glass dome, a plan which was nixed by both the airlines and city engineers.

In Los Angeles, Showcasing A City That Might Have Been

A exhibit at L.A's Architecture and Design Museum focuses on eye-popping buildings and structures that were imagined for the City of Angels — but never actually built.

President Obama's speeches about Syria have at times seemed to reveal his own internal struggle on the topic.

In Syria Debate, Obama's Internal Dialogue Becomes Audible

President Obama's approach to Syria has taken a number of surprising twists and turns in the weeks since a poison gas attack in August. A surprise agreement between Russia and the U.S. on a timetable for destroying Syria's weapons is the latest in what appears at times to be an unscripted drama.

Veterans Andrew Sullens and Nate Watson scale the western wall of Half Dome with help from Tim "Timmy" O'Neill, co-founder of Paradox Sports, and volunteer Pat Warren.

For Wounded Vets, Climbing Half Dome Only Half The Mission

This week, a group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, many with disabilities, marked Sept. 11 by climbing two peaks in Yosemite National Park. Climbing as a team, they say, gives them an opportunity to recapture what they miss about the military: a sense of camaraderie with a shared challenge.

Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin is surrounded by security as she shouts at President Obama during his speech at the National Defense University in May.

Medea Benjamin's Anti-War Activism: Wearing Pink, Seeing Red

The possibility of U.S. strikes in Syria brought Code Pink protesters to Capitol Hill, holding signs and disrupting the proceedings. Leading them is Medea Benjamin, an anti-war activist who, as it turns out, didn't even like the color pink when she started the group.

Diplomats Sing For Peace

A group of five United Nations diplomats has gone beyond talking and taken up singing in their effort to achieve world peace. Host Scott Simon talks to several of the ambassadors, whose album, Ambassadors Sing for Peace, came out on Tuesday.

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