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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 12, 2023 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, we look at the rising costs of child care as pandemic-era federal funding is set to end next month. Then, a new documentary goes inside the mesmerizing and sometimes deadly sport of freediving. Plus, a Brief But Spectacular take on expressing feelings through art. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS Newsweekend, as the death toll rises from Maui's wildfire, residents

0:11.3

return home to see what if anything is left in the charred remains.

0:15.7

It's crazy.

0:16.7

We don't know how we're going to live, we don't know how to start over again.

0:22.6

Then with pandemic-year or federal funding set to expire next month, a look at the limited

0:27.5

access and rising costs of childcare across America, and a new documentary goes inside

0:33.9

the mesmerizing and sometimes deadly sport of freediving.

0:52.7

Good evening, I'm John Yang.

0:54.6

The wildfires that devastated parts of Maui are now Hawaii's deadliest natural disasters

0:59.7

in statehood in 1959.

1:02.3

The death toll stands at 80 and is expected to grow higher as federal help arrives to take

1:07.2

the search into damaged buildings.

1:09.4

And the Hawaii Attorney General says she'll investigate why warning sirens remain silent.

1:14.7

Officials say more than 2,000 structures were damaged or destroyed.

1:18.5

The vast majority of them residences.

1:23.1

A somber homecoming for residents returning to the historic town of Lahaina.

1:28.5

Some taking stock of the charred and smoldering remains of their homes.

1:32.8

An eerie traffic jam of incinerated vehicles.

1:36.3

The once vibrant economic hub of the island, now a hellscape.

1:41.1

Johanna and Leo escaped with their two children, but their house and the life date built reduced

1:47.1

to rubble.

1:48.1

We don't know how we're going to live, we don't know how to start over again.

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