Isaac Coast

President Barack Obama consoled victims of Hurricane Isaac along the Gulf Coast on Monday and stoked the enthusiasm of union voters in the industrial heartland, blending a hard political sell with a softer show of sympathy on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

As Isaac's drenching rains and cooling winds drifted north of the Gulf Coast, heat and humidity moved back in - along with frustration, exhaustion and uncertainty. People stuck inside stuffy, powerless homes were comparatively lucky. Thousands of others were displaced by floodwaters and had no idea where they would end up next. Some boarded buses t...

Hurricane Isaac battered New Orleans on Wednesday, flooding homes and driving stormy waters over the top of at least one levee, seven years to the day after Katrina devastated the city.

Brent crude futures slipped towards $112 per barrel on Wednesday on expectations Hurricane Isaac, which hit land in Louisiana, would spare Gulf Coast oil production facilities from significant damage.

Hurricane Isaac slammed into the southern Louisiana coast late on Tuesday, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of the devastating Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, hoping the city's strengthened levees will hold.

Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and appeared to be taking direct aim at New Orleans, almost seven years to the day since the Crescent City was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Oil fell in Asia today as crude demand suffered from refinery shutdowns in the US Gulf Coast due to the onset of Tropical Storm Isaac while talk of a release of oil reserves surfaced, analysts said.

Tropical Storm Isaac made landfall on Haiti's southern coast early on Saturday, lashing the impoverished Caribbean nation with driving rain and gale-force winds, US forecasters said.

President Barack Obama consoled victims of Hurricane Isaac along the Gulf Coast on Monday and stoked the enthusiasm of union voters in the industrial heartland, blending a hard political sell with a softer show of sympathy on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

As Isaac's drenching rains and cooling winds drifted north of the Gulf Coast, heat and humidity moved back in - along with frustration, exhaustion and uncertainty. People stuck inside stuffy, powerless homes were comparatively lucky. Thousands of others were displaced by floodwaters and had no idea where they would end up next. Some boarded buses t...

Hurricane Isaac battered New Orleans on Wednesday, flooding homes and driving stormy waters over the top of at least one levee, seven years to the day after Katrina devastated the city.

Brent crude futures slipped towards $112 per barrel on Wednesday on expectations Hurricane Isaac, which hit land in Louisiana, would spare Gulf Coast oil production facilities from significant damage.

Hurricane Isaac slammed into the southern Louisiana coast late on Tuesday, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds, as residents hunkered down behind boarded-up windows. New Orleans calmly waited out another storm on the eve of the devastating Hurricane Katrina's seventh anniversary, hoping the city's strengthened levees will hold.

Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and appeared to be taking direct aim at New Orleans, almost seven years to the day since the Crescent City was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Oil fell in Asia today as crude demand suffered from refinery shutdowns in the US Gulf Coast due to the onset of Tropical Storm Isaac while talk of a release of oil reserves surfaced, analysts said.

Tropical Storm Isaac made landfall on Haiti's southern coast early on Saturday, lashing the impoverished Caribbean nation with driving rain and gale-force winds, US forecasters said.