Featured: 00:00 Wild Winds
Desperate Hours looks at the destructive power of wind. It looks at the devastating power of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the destructive Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, the 1960 storm Hurricane Donna in Florida, Tornado Joplin in Missouri, Hurricane Sandy in New York.
25:46 Epidemics
Desperate Hours looks at major epidemics including the African Ebola outbreak in Sudan which eventually led to cases in the United State and England, the Indian Smallpox outbreak in Bihar, the African Cholera outbreak, the SARS outbreak in Guanghzhou China, and the Bird Flu of Hong Kong.