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High winds from Hurricane Milton tore off the fiberglass roof of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, home of the Tampa Bay Rays.

High winds from Hurricane Milton tore off the fiberglass roof of Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, home of the Tampa Bay Rays.

Noah travels to the coast of Maine, near Mount Desert Island, for a lesson in how the nation gets much of its fresh fish. He talks with Des Fitzgerald, the head of a salmon farming company called Atlantic Salmon of Maine. The fish are raised inland at a hatchery and then are put in tanks and are transported to ocean pens. Noah also talks with a group of people from Blue Hill, Maine, who are opposed to salmon farming and to having salmon pens in Blue Hill Bay. Salmon farming is a growing industry in Maine - but it's a much bigger industry in Iceland, Chile, Norway and Scotland. Most of the salmon Americans eat now are farm raised, not wild.

For many along the Gulf Coast, the holiday season brought a welcome chance to see family. But it didn't stop efforts to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Between events, the Bordelon family has been stripping out and cleaning up their two-story home in their St. Bernard neighborhood.

Scientists recently discovered a freshly laid bald eagle egg on an island off the southern California coast. If a chick emerges a few weeks from now, it would be the first successful bald eagle nesting on the northern Channel Islands in more than 50 years.

In a bid to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs, Los Angeles police, backed by the film industry, have placed surveillance cameras in Santee Alley, a block of L.A.'s Fashion District that a movie honcho calls "one of the biggest pirate havens on the West Coast." The ACLU objects.

Andy Palacio's album Watina is an effort to document his people's culture and prevent its extinction. Palacio is of the Garifuna people — descendants of shipwrecked slaves who settled on the east coast of Central America.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Ed McDonald, director of exhibit projects at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, about moving a 252-foot long, 700-ton German submarine to its new home in an underground exhibit hall. The U-505 submarine was captured during World War II off the coast of Africa and has for years been resting outside the museum. McDonald describes how they will move the boat to its new home 1,000 feet away and 42 feet below ground.

Native people from up and down the West Coast gathered in San Francisco Monday to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. They also commemorated an important event in the history of Native Americans. It was the occupation of Alcatraz Island that began 50 years ago this month — an action meant to draw attention to the plight of Native Americans across North America.

The 19 year old was on a wooden fishing hut off the coast of Indonesia when it broke loose from its mooring and drifted to waters around Guam. About 10 ships passed him without stopping.