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PBS News Hour - Full Show

July 17, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Monday on the NewsHour, floodwaters rage and dangerous heat waves grow worse, posing serious risks to millions of Americans. The end of a Russian grain deal with Ukraine raises fears about global food security. Plus, police are under new scrutiny for their use of Tasers, less lethal than firearms but a weapon that can still be deadly. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening, I'm Jeff Bennett, I'm the Navasas away.

0:07.4

On the news hour tonight, flood waters rage and dangerous heat waves grow worse, posing

0:12.7

serious risks to millions of Americans.

0:15.9

The end of a Russian grain deal with Ukraine raises fears about global food security.

0:21.7

And police under new scrutiny for their use of tasers, less lethal than firearms, but

0:27.4

a weapon that can still prove deadly.

0:30.2

The reality is, we need an entire paradigm shift around when force is necessary for law

0:36.6

enforcement.

0:39.8

Good evening and welcome to the news hour.

0:51.2

The nation remains at the mercy of nature tonight, but nature is showing no mercy.

0:56.4

100 degree heat stretches from the far west to the deep south.

1:00.7

And a weekend day loose in the northeast has washed out roads and claimed lives.

1:07.1

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, standing water from intense flash floods over the weekend

1:11.6

has all but dried up.

1:13.6

But in the township of Upper Makefield, just north of Philadelphia, the search and rescue

1:18.2

mission is still ongoing.

1:20.2

We have search teams that are assisting us from Delaware, Chester, parts of Bucks County,

1:25.6

New Jersey.

1:26.8

We also have deployed K-9 units, underwater assets, air assets.

1:31.9

And the reason we've done that is weather conditions have permitted that today.

1:36.7

Two children, nine month old Conrad Shields and his two year old sister, Maddie, have been

1:41.5

missing since Saturday afternoon.

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