April 3, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, a U.S. fighter jet is shot down over Iran for the first time in five weeks of war as attacks on military and civilian infrastructure mount across the region. |
| 0:19.8 | Young conservatives at a Turning Point USA college event share their views on the region. Young conservatives at a turning point USA |
| 0:22.5 | college event share their views on the war in Iran. And Palestinian residents of the |
| 0:28.6 | occupied West Bank, including American citizens, face rising attacks from Israeli settlers. |
| 0:34.4 | They want to take the land. |
| 0:38.6 | They started to expand towards the town |
| 0:40.2 | until they became very close to the houses. |
| 0:42.6 | And by the end, they have reached the boundaries of our houses, |
| 0:45.3 | and you just can't do anything. Welcome to the news hour. |
| 1:02.0 | For the first time in five weeks of war with Iran, two American combat aircraft went down in separate incidents. |
| 1:09.0 | One of two service members on board an F-15E that was |
| 1:12.9 | shot down was rescued, but a military official tells the news hour the whereabouts and status |
| 1:18.6 | of the second crew member is either unknown or hasn't been disclosed. During a harrowing rescue |
| 1:24.4 | mission today for the fighter jet, a Black Hawk helicopter was also shot at but was able to return to base. |
| 1:31.0 | And the pilot of an A10 whart hog was reportedly rescued after being shot down as it was leaving Iran's airspace. |
| 1:38.5 | Stephanie Sy has our report. |
| 1:41.1 | Flying low over southern Iran this morning, American aircraft on an urgent and risky search and rescue operation for U.S. aviators shot down in their fighter jet. |
| 1:52.0 | Iranian state broadcasters televised a U.S. military transport aircraft with two helicopters following closely behind, scouring treacherous mountain terrain. |
| 2:03.8 | The rescue mission marks the first time since the start of the war that U.S. troops were |
| 2:08.7 | known to be inside Iran. |
| 2:10.9 | A U.S. official confirms the down jet is an F-15. |
| 2:15.4 | It's the first aircraft lost in Iran since the war began. |
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