2010 - The financial crisis, and government bailouts of Wall Street. What some see as government overreach, leads to the emergence of Occupy Wall Street and The Tea Party’s rise in mid-term elections.
Hundreds of thousands have died, are homeless or hungry in Haiti after a massive earthquake. Anderson Cooper is there to cover it and pulls a boy from a collapsed building.
BP Oil rig - Deep Water Horizon explodes unleashing billions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico killing wildlife, and disrupting the economy and life along the coast.