Nights during a blackout in a big city offer a scary vision to some. But this new video shows how London’s architecture would be set off by the night sky, if city lights weren’t obscuring the view. Meanwhile, across the Channel, France has decided to pay foreign victims sent to Nazi camps in French trains. And China asks for US help to crack down on corrupt fugitives, in this weekend’s Global Scan.
Tropical Storm Lee was downgraded to a tropical depression overnight, after dropping more than a foot of rain on parts of the Gulf Coast Region. New Orleans kept above water, but there was flooding in other low-lying communities near the bayous.