Midday Report: December 28, 2005

Federal officials order a shut-down of Vermont’s largest slaughterhouse. And our Year in Review series continues with a look back at Vermonters helping others in the wake of the Katrina disaster and others.

2005: The Year in Review, Part 6 – Tragedies

Disasters occur when a sudden shocking event takes lives and destroys property. Tragedies occur when disasters are made worse by human error. There were some of both in the past year, but as Steve Delaney reports in this section of our year in review, the year’s leading tragedy was so intense that its ripples were felt half a continent away.