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FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

Hurricane Helene's Deadly Warning

FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track | PBS

FRONTLINE

Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Documentaries, Frontline

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

How Hurricane Helene became an ominous warning about America’s lack of preparedness. FRONTLINE and NPR draw on a decade of reporting on disasters and their aftermath to examine how and why the U.S. is more vulnerable than ever to climate change-related storms.

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audiocast, the audio version of our documentaries.

0:06.5

We also produce a podcast, The Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.

0:12.8

Right now, here is the audio cast of Hurricane Helene's deadly warning.

0:43.3

Music deadly warning. The full extent of Hine's destructive toll, just now coming into focus. All of a sudden we get a notice that says the dam is at critical level.

0:47.3

Get the high ground immediately.

0:49.3

The water started gushing down the side of the mountain.

0:52.3

He was found right along the bank. This is not

0:56.2

how anybody deserved to go. The whole community is just destroyed. Everything's gone. Drawing on a

1:03.8

decade of reporting on disasters and their aftermath. This is Laura Sullivan. NPR correspondent Laura

1:09.6

Sullivan investigates America's continuing vulnerability to climate change-related storms.

1:16.0

You've had several major storms in the past couple decades.

1:19.8

What makes you think a storm like this won't happen again?

1:22.6

There's no guarantee a storm like this won't happen again, but I think everything is a risk.

1:27.0

The cost to society, to our country for these storm events is astronomical.

1:33.4

Now on Frontline, Hurricane Helene's deadly warning.

1:39.3

Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.

1:45.0

Thank you.

1:46.0

And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1:49.0

Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.

1:54.0

Park Foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.

1:59.0

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation committed to building a more just,

2:03.1

verdant, and peaceful world.

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