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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Delta flight crashes in Toronto, injuring at least 8 people

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Monday, a Delta Airlines flight crashed while landing at Toronto's Pearson International Airport causing eight injuries, at least 12 people have died from severe weekend storms in the South, doctors are treating Pope Francis for an infection after he was admitted to the hospital with bronchitis and a rare artifact from the nation's first president is being put up for sale. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The day's other headlines begin in Toronto, where a Delta Airlines plane crashed while

0:05.6

landing at Pearson International Airport.

0:08.2

Footage from the scene shows the plane upside down on the snowy tarmac.

0:12.7

The FAA confirms all 80 people who were on board flight 4819 from Minneapolis were evacuated.

0:19.6

At least 19 people were injured.

0:22.0

Three of them are in critical condition.

0:24.3

A temporary ground stop was put in place at the airport, though service has since resumed.

0:29.5

It's at least the fourth major aviation incident across North America in just the past month.

0:36.0

Officials now say at least 12 people have died from severe storms that swept through the South this weekend.

0:41.3

One person died in Georgia from an uprooted tree that crashed into a home.

0:45.3

And unrelenting rain that submerged entire communities killed at least 11 more across Kentucky.

0:52.3

Flood waters also submerged parts of West Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee.

0:57.5

Kentucky's governor, Andy Bashir, said that at least a thousand people stranded by high waters

1:02.5

had to be rescued, and he stressed that the full toll of the storm is still not known.

1:08.4

We are still in the search and rescue phase of this emergency.

1:13.6

We are still, we still have multiple different missions that are underway.

1:18.6

There are still people that are in harm's way.

1:22.6

Farther west, the 10th and coldest polar vortex of this season

1:26.6

is descending onto the Rockies and

1:28.7

Northern Plains, bringing what forecasters call life-threatening cold. And parts of North Dakota

1:34.5

temperatures are expected to plunge to 50 degrees below zero when factoring in wind chill.

1:40.8

Northern Texas could feel as low as zero degrees starting tomorrow. In the Middle East, the

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