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PBS News Hour - Full Show

July 5, 2025 – PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, rescue workers urgently search for the missing after deadly flash floods in central Texas. How complex tech scams are infiltrating the American workplace and helping fund North Korean weapons programs. A look at 250 years of innovations that have shaped the U.S. and where the country goes next. Plus, what’s behind the boom in shopping at thrift stores. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS News Weekend, on paper, they seem like ideal job candidates, but in reality, they're North Korean operatives.

0:13.6

Complex tech scams are infiltrating the American workplace and helping fund North Korean weapons programs.

0:20.8

Then, with the nation's 250th birthday a year away,

0:23.6

celebrations have begun.

0:25.6

We look at the innovations that have shaped America and where the country goes next.

0:30.6

There was no time at which we stopped innovating and changing.

0:33.6

And we have to go and use those examples to help us in a conversation today about what we can do as citizens to do better.

0:44.0

And what's behind the boom in secondhand shopping as more Americans turn to thrifting? Good evening.

1:03.0

Across the hill country of central Texas today, rescue workers are urgently searching for the missing after a wall of water

1:12.4

rushed through an area known as Flash Flood Alley in the early morning hours of July 4th.

1:18.6

At least 32 people are dead. Still unaccounted for are 27 children who were attending a Christian

1:25.7

summer camp on the Guadalupe River.

1:28.3

Officials say it's unclear how many are missing from other locations.

1:32.3

Ali Rogan has our report.

1:34.3

Months worth of torrential rain fell in just a few hours in Kerr County,

1:39.3

leaving houses and trees submerged in the floodwaters. Nearby, the National Weather Service tracked

1:46.8

the Guadalupe River as it swelled 22 feet in two hours. At 29 and a half feet, the gauge

1:53.6

failed. The rushing waters dumped debris on roads, which made it hard for emergency vehicles

2:00.6

to get through.

2:03.0

Crews worked overnight to locate people who were still unaccounted for.

2:07.5

People were screaming.

2:08.9

Others like young camper Peer's Boyett were left to their own devices to escape the fast-moving

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