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PBS News Hour - Full Show

May 18, 2024 - PBS News Weekend full episode

PBS News Hour - Full Show

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Saturday on PBS News Weekend, with nearly 115,000 people waiting for a new organ in the U.S., we look at what can be done to improve the transplant system. Then, why students and teachers are pushing for climate change to be taught in schools. Plus, we examine what's behind the recent popularity of Japanese comics and animations in America. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Tonight on PBS

0:07.0

PBS News Weekend, nearly 115,000 people are waiting for a new organ in the US can more be done to improve the

0:15.3

transplant system. Then why students and teachers are pushing for climate change to

0:20.7

be taught in schools and the growing popularity of Japanese comics and animations

0:26.8

in America.

0:27.8

It is not an outsider subject anymore.

0:30.8

Readers have definitely stayed and continued to buy content in a way that shows that they're staying power. Good evening. I'm Laura Buron-Lopez. John Yang is away. Tonight there is

0:56.2

turmoil within Israel's government. Benny Gans, a centrist in Benjamin

1:00.4

Netanyahu's war cabinet, is threatening to quit if the government does not

1:04.4

adopt a new plan for the war in Gaza by June 8th. It comes as a ceasefire deal remains

1:09.9

elusive and no new hostages have been released since November.

1:14.8

And earlier today Israeli airstrikes fell in northern Gaza, toppling buildings in

1:19.8

Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's refugee camps, killing 15 and wounding dozens more.

1:26.0

Meanwhile, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is in Saudi Arabia tonight

1:31.0

to discuss the war with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

1:35.0

He travels to Israel tomorrow.

1:38.3

Back here at home, deadly storms that killed seven people this week in the Houston area have moved on, but a new threat

1:45.4

remains dangerous heat. Temperatures are expected to go above 90 degrees and in

1:51.2

many places including Houston it will feel above a hundred.

1:55.4

The heat and humidity throughout the weekend could be dangerous for the nearly half a million

2:00.1

homes and businesses in the officials say repairs could take weeks.

2:13.2

Temperatures are soaring in other parts of the world too.

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