The Story

The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season begins today, and researchers expect it to be intense. Jeff Masters has a lot of personal experience with hurricanes. He spent 4 years flying through the most extraordinary weather on the planet as a flight meteorologist with the Hurricane Hunters at NOAA. Dick talks with Jeff about what he saw flying into Hurricane Gilbert, and the time he was nearly killed flying into Hurricane Hugo. Also on the show: a Catholic tradition helps a Jewish woman find her husband - a rabbi.

Clyde Butcher's color photographs of natural settings were a commercial success. After he moved his family from California to Florida, he got curious about taking black and white photos in the swamps, but he shied away from doing so because he feared those photographs would never sell.  Then Clyde's son Ted was killed in a traffic accident. A few months later, Clyde went to the dump with $300,000 worth of commercial color photography equipment and threw it out. Clyde went straight to the swamps of the Everglades and started photographing in black and white.  They were among the most successful photographs he's ever taken. Also in this episode: writer Cynthia Barnett, author of the book "Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S." And, a man who admits to committing mortgage fraud.

Take a small plot of land in a community park, divide it up among neighbors and, well, things get dicey. Katie Davis tells the story of her neighborhood community garden in Washington D.C.