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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: 11 presumed dead after Washington paper mill tank implosion

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Wednesday, authorities say the presumed death toll is 11 after an implosion at a paper mill in Washington, peace talks between the U.S. and Iran remain in flux, Hamas says Israeli airstrikes killed their latest military leader in Gaza and Uganda is closing its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as it tries to slow the spread of Ebola. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

We start the day's other headlines in Washington State, where authorities say there's no hope of finding any more survivors from yesterday's implosion at a paper mill near the Oregon border.

0:11.0

We're bracing ourselves for this being the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history.

0:18.0

Officials say two people are now confirmed dead after a tank imploded at the Nippon

0:24.0

Dinawave packaging facility and released a harmful chemical mixture called white liquor.

0:29.5

Nine others remain missing and are presumed dead.

0:32.6

Another eight people were injured, including a firefighter.

0:35.9

Officials said today that some of the contamination entered the local Columbia River,

0:40.3

but stressed that there's no risk to the local water supply.

0:44.3

Peace talks between the U.S. and Iran remain in flux, even as Iranian State TV outlined

0:50.3

an unofficial framework agreement earlier today.

0:53.3

It would restore commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz to pre-war levels,

0:58.0

while the U.S. would withdraw its forces and lift a naval blockade.

1:01.0

The White House called the report a, quote, complete fabrication.

1:05.0

Meantime, President Trump convened his cabinet at the White House,

1:08.0

where he said domestic political pressures,

1:11.1

like the midterms, would not affect his war strategy.

1:14.9

Iran is very much intent.

1:17.7

They want very much to make a deal.

1:19.1

So far, they haven't gotten there.

1:20.4

We're not satisfied with it.

1:21.6

But we will be.

1:23.6

We will be either that or we'll have to just finish the job.

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