August 16, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, I'm the Navas, is away. |
| 0:08.7 | On the news hour tonight, the death toll from the devastating Maui wildfires rises as |
| 0:14.2 | search crews comb the disaster area and fire containment efforts continue. |
| 0:19.7 | The Congressional Hispanic Caucus pressures President Biden to investigate the separation |
| 0:24.6 | of fathers from migrant families at the southern border. |
| 0:28.8 | And we go inside Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex 12 years after a catastrophic meltdown |
| 0:35.6 | to check on the complicated cleanup. |
| 0:38.5 | This is a multi-billion dollar a year effort being spent at Fukushima right now. |
| 0:43.6 | It's going to take some time to complete this work. |
| 0:57.9 | Good evening and welcome to the news hour. |
| 1:00.0 | As disaster recovery efforts ramp up across Maui, so too has the painstaking search operation. |
| 1:06.4 | The confirmed death toll now stands at 106 people, but with most of the victims still |
| 1:11.7 | unidentified, families and friends of the missing are left fearing the worst. |
| 1:18.5 | It's been one week since the first fires tore through Maui, turning vibrant communities |
| 1:23.2 | like Lahaina into scorched ghost towns. |
| 1:27.2 | Days after evacuating, residents are gradually returning to survey the damage and rebuild |
| 1:32.7 | their homes and their lives from the ground up. |
| 1:36.3 | It's not just me, lost everything, everybody, everything's gone. |
| 1:46.8 | Officials say two regions of the island are still ablaze. |
| 1:50.1 | As of Tuesday night, the Lahaina fire on Maui's western coast is 85 percent contained. |
| 1:55.8 | In the upcountry coolifier, only 75 percent contained. |
| 2:01.4 | In Lahaina search teams, aided by cadaver dogs, have been recovering human remains from |
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