Yellowstone pushes for reopening as flooded towns struggle to recover

With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park and are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud (David Goldman/AP)

Yellowstone National Park is pushing to reopen to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods.

Park officials said on Sunday that they hope to have most of Yellowstone open within two weeks, as they use a 50 million dollar (£40,909,074) infusion of federal highway money to accelerate road and bridge repairs.