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A tropical wave moves off the coast of Africa in late August of 1961. Perhaps, it was a large cluster of thunderstorms. We may never know. What matters is this tropical wave moves to the Caribbean. Conditions are favorable and becomes a tropical depression on September 3rd. Then it begins to strengthen into Tropical Storm Carla and becomes a hurricane. It moves between the Yuacatan Peninsula and Cuba and enters the Gulf of Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane with 105 mph winds. Once, it is over the Gulf, it rapidly intensify into a monsterous Category 5 hurricane. Carla's peak...

Houston radio station would Rather not air Dan 03:27 PM CDT on Monday, September 27, 2004 Associated Press HOUSTON -- Dan Rather’s daily CBS radio broadcast is off the air where he grew up. Houston CBS radio affiliate KPRC hasn’t been running it for the last couple weeks in reaction to his “60 Minutes” report questioning President Bush’s National Guard service. * AP “I felt no anchor ... should ever be the story or bigger than the story,” Ken Charles, program director of the news-talk station, said Monday. “I thought it was appropriate to take him off the air.” Rather...