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PBS News Hour - Full Show

July 13, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sunday on PBS News Weekend, the search for victims in Texas Hill Country is interrupted by heavy rain and renewed threat of flash flooding. How Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for Putin’s deep-cover operatives around the world. A look at the controversy around the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center in Florida. Plus, why some of the world’s most populous cities are slowly sinking. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, the search for victims in the Texas Hill countries interrupted by heavy rain as officials warn of a renewed threat of flash flooding.

0:15.8

Then how Russia used Brazil as a launching pad for Vladimir Putin's deep cover operatives around the world.

0:23.4

And from New York to Seattle and across the globe, why some of the world's most populous

0:28.2

cities are slowly sinking.

0:30.6

In a place like Mexico City, up to 20 inches a year of sinking in the United States, it's a little

0:35.5

bit less, but it's still the sort of slow motion

0:38.0

crisis that's a whole year across the country.

0:39.7

Good evening. I'm John Yang. A new round of heavy rains and a renewed threat of flooding in central Texas today

0:58.0

interrupted the search for those still missing from the devastating Fourth of July flash floods.

1:03.5

Ten days after the fast-moving waters of the Guadalupe River swept away homes and vehicles,

1:08.9

the full extent of the human toll is still emerging.

1:12.2

The death toll has risen to nearly 130, with more than 170 people still unaccounted for.

1:18.9

Tony Polkowski is a reporter with the Austin American Statesman and Austin television station KVUE.

1:25.0

Tony, what are conditions like right now and any indication of when the searchers will

1:30.2

be able to get back to work? John, we have had flash flood warnings throughout the region all

1:35.7

afternoon as bands of heavy rain and thunderstorms move through this area. Of course, everyone

1:41.6

is looking to the sky given what happened here about 10 days ago.

1:47.3

But with regard to the rescue, as we know, it was halted earlier this morning due to that

1:53.8

flooding threat, that continued flooding threat. But officials say they are prepared to begin

1:59.0

resuming the search for possible victims of this flooding as early as late today and definitely overnight and first thing tomorrow on Monday.

2:08.9

As that search goes on, is there a possibility that some victims may never be found?

2:15.1

John, that is the grim reality that many families are beginning to confront, given the fact that

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