May 19, 2026 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. I'm the Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, authorities work to establish a motive in the fatal shooting at a San Diego Islamic Center that's being investigated as a hate crime. The Trump administration seeks to roll back regulations on toxic forever chemicals in drinking water. |
| 0:21.6 | And the higher education landscape continues to evolve with a growing number of colleges offering |
| 0:27.6 | students the chance to graduate in three years. |
| 0:30.6 | Higher education is in time of crisis right now. |
| 0:33.6 | People are struggling to find the value in a college education. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome to the news hour. Investigators are looking deeper into the motives of two suspected teen gunmen who opened fire at an Islamic Center in San Diego yesterday. |
| 1:00.9 | Law enforcement officials say they were radicalized online. More than 30 guns, along with a crossbow, were found at their residences, as was a manifesto with hateful and white supremacist views |
| 1:11.9 | targeting a range of groups. All of this comes as the community there grieves its losses. |
| 1:18.2 | A growing memorial in San Diego's Claremont neighborhood reflects a community in mourning |
| 1:23.4 | after a deadly attack on the city's largest mosque. The attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego began yesterday just before noon local time, |
| 1:32.3 | when two teenagers opened fire, killing three people. |
| 1:35.3 | Authorities said today the two gunmen met online and that law enforcement had found a manifesto |
| 1:40.3 | targeting many groups, including Muslims. |
| 1:43.3 | We also identified writings and various ideologies, outlining religious and racial beliefs |
| 1:48.6 | of how the world they envisioned should look. |
| 1:51.8 | These subjects did not discriminate on who they hated. |
| 1:56.5 | And let me be very clear to anyone that thinks that they can end the world through violence, |
| 2:02.6 | they are sorely mistaken. |
| 2:04.2 | Imam Taha Hassan paid tribute to the three victims, Mansour Khazihah, Nadir Awad, and Amin |
| 2:11.0 | Abdullah, all he said were closely tied to the mosque. |
| 2:14.2 | My community is mourning. |
| 2:17.1 | My community is keeping our three heroes in their prayers. |
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