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PBS News Hour - Full Show

August 31, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, why families are being forced to pay transaction fees to fund their children's school lunch accounts. Then, how extreme weather events cause an increased risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. Plus, Paralympic wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden on her goal to become the most-decorated track athlete in history. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Tonight on PBS

0:05.0

PBS News Weekend, families forced to pay transaction fees to fund their children's

0:10.7

school lunch accounts. Then why extreme weather events mean an increased

0:15.3

risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and Paralympic wheelchair racer Tatiana McFadden on her

0:22.2

goal to become the most decorated track

0:24.4

athlete in history. I am commuting for every single person that has been

0:29.0

discriminated against sports. You know for me it brought healing so that's what I want to

0:34.4

bring to the other generation as well as equality and equity for people with

0:38.9

disabilities. Good evening. I'm John Yang. Aid workers began the first phase of their drive to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza

0:58.0

where doctors diagnosed the first case in 25 years.

1:01.0

A small number of children got the oral vaccine today and the

1:05.0

U.S. Health Agency will try to dramatically increase those numbers starting

1:08.9

tomorrow. That's the first day of Israel's promised three-day pause in fighting around vaccination

1:14.4

distribution sites. In the past 24 hours Israeli airstrikes killed 89 people

1:19.7

and injured hundreds more. The debt included at least six children and a doctor

1:23.9

sheltering with his family. As strikes continue in Gaza, Israeli Defense Forces

1:28.4

moved into the Janine Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank.

1:32.5

The IDF says it's searching for Hamas militants in hopes of preventing future attacks.

1:38.4

Russia is blaming Ukraine for the deaths of five people in the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod.

1:44.0

Shelling late Friday also injured at least 37 others in what Russia's foreign ministry

1:49.3

called a terrorist attack.

1:51.5

Belgorod is about 100 miles south of Kursk

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