- Huntsville has long been rated a number one city, but can it withstand the pounding that it, along with the rest of the South is taking in the year of 2010?
- With all the media coverage of the BP oil spill disaster, the Nashville flood has got little proportionate attention. But it is the largest disaster the city has suffered since the Civil War. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
- Thousands have lost their homes and thousands more have lost their jobs. (AP Photo/(M. Spencer Green)
- Gaylord Opryland Hotel is not expected to reopen this year. They alone will distribute nearly 1,800 layoff slips and that will be within weeks. (AP Photo/Gaylord Hotels via The Tennessean)
- Patches of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill are burned in the Gulf of Mexico. As of June 8, 2010, the cap over the broken BP wellhead is collecting more gushing crude day by day, but that's about the extent of the details known as authorities try to pinpoint how much oil is escaping, where it's going and what harm it will cause. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
- Vacationers enjoyed the sun even as clean up boats worked to clean up oil just off the Gulf Islands National Seashore on Pensacola Beach Fla. That area is now closed to tourists. Depending on how the clean-up goes and the oil spreads, as many as 200,000 tourist industry jobs may be lost on the Gulf Coast (AP photo/Michael Spooneybarger)
- A mixture of oil and seaweed has washed up along the coast in Alabama. Officials cleaned the beach Sunday but left the bags of sandy oil behind. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
- This image from video provided by BP PLC June 12, 2010 shows oil continuing to pour out at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists have estimated that anywhere between 40 million to 109 million gallons of oil have gushed into the Gulf since a drilling rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and triggering the worst oil spill in U.S. history. (AP Photo/BP PLC)
- Ultimately, the most helpless among us will be the most violently affected. A Brown Pelican is seen on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast after being drenched in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The Environmental Protection Agency has not yet fined BP for the Gulf oil spill, details of possible penalties will be worked out later. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
- With the Shuttle already targeted for retirement, Florida residents have Federal aid coming to help ease their job losses and worker transitions. As many as 12,000 more will lose their Shuttle related jobs in Alabama, Colorado, Texas, and Utah.
- The future of the Ares I and Ares V rockets is uncertain and although proposed for cancellation in the 2010 Federal Budget, the debate continues.
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