100,000 people have gotten Food Assistance by now. More is needed. We have a team of reporters in the philippines, including at the airport, Marga Ortigas on leyte, and Harry Fawcett on bohol. We are at the airport here, its a tiny airstrip but is one of the busiest airports in the world. This is where the typhoon came ashore. To the left, a mile away, a week ago. Now the aid is pouring in. Right here we have got three ce 130s on the route from australia, new zealand and the u. S. Helicopter flights are coming in, flying in and out from america. Warships offshore, the u. S. S. George washington off sure. Hundreds of people are here at the shattered airport coming in from villages all around. Theyll be evacuated to tacloban, cebu and some to manila. This region is uterly devastated. We spent the day in this area nothing is left standing. All the people looking for some place to go. Most of these people will have to be leaving. The majority of victims were in leyte, up to 3,000 killed th
Art from Maryland on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art
Stymied in its bid to sell three blue-chip Modern masterworks last fall to help finance its diversity, equity and other goals, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) says it has received three gifts to support such initiatives at the museum.
The museum reports that the philanthropist Eileen Harris Norton has donated $1m to finance diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI) efforts. Half of the gift will go towards outlays for those purposes over the next three years, and half will seed the creation of an endowment to ensure that such efforts continue, the BMA says.