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Director Johnatan Demme obtained over 200 hours of footage of the Katrina aftermath, and the resulting documentary, Right to Return: New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward will air for five consecutive nights on Tavis Smiley's PBS show beginning this evening. You can check for times in your area by clicking here. The series concludes on June 1.

Last night, Karina told you about Anderson Cooper confronting Senator Mary Landrieu about relief efforts in the devastated areas of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, and now here's the video and transcript.

[via TV Newser]

Two TV stations in Florida may have to pay a fine of $24,000 a piece for not adequately informing their deaf viewers of Hurricane Charley's approach last year. Complaints were filed by one individual and two organizations which claimed two affiliates (one ABC, one NBC) did not provide a visual example of the emergency situation to those who needed it. Based on my minimal experience with this subject (I lived with a deaf girl for a few months) this doesn't come as a great surprise to me. Save for closed-captioning, which is typically sub-par, TV has never sufficiently provided information to the hearing-impaired.