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Flood waters are receding in New Orleans, allowing rescue workers and police better access to many neighborhoods. They're finding death, destruction and potential for disease, but some people who weathered the storm and the flood are refusing to leave.

Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Dianne Reeves and dozens more perform in a concert to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina, recorded Sept. 17 at New York's Rose Theater.

Stuart Bowen is the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. His office has just released its seventh Quarterly Report to Congress. The report documents how $30 billion set aside for Iraqi reconstruction was spent -- and how to prevent waste and fraud.

Celebrities, politicians and other mourners flock to Detroit for the funeral of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Former President Bill Clinton and singer Aretha Franklin are among the thousands who paid their respects to Parks, who died Oct. 24 at age 92.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to London amid a flurry of diplomatic activity over Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. and key European nations want to bring Iran before the United Nations Security Council, and they will be trying to convince Russian and Chinese officials to agree on that step.

Officials enacted a curfew for young people and added extra patrols. The shootings took place near an area where thousands had been watching the Bucks play in the NBA's Eastern Conference semifinals.

Director Malcolm Lee's new film is as much about family as it is roller skating. The film is set in the golden era of 1970s roller-skate jams, a coming-of-age comedy starring hip-hop star Bow Wow.

A shooting that injured three women in a hair salon this week may have been a hate crime and could be linked to two other recent shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans, Dallas police say.

September 27 marks the centennial of the most famous equation in the world: E=mc². On this day in 1905, Albert Einstein submitted the paper that laid out the formula. We hear archive tape, and physicist John Rigden, author of Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness, explains the seminal formula.

Following a Monday briefing on Hurricane Rita's effect on the oil and natural gas infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, President Bush says he is willing to use the nation's strategic petroleum reserves to make up for any shortages caused by hurricane damage.