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News Wrap: Heavy rain batters Spain days after catastrophic floods killed at least 200

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Monday, heavy rain battered eastern Spain just days after catastrophic floods pummeled the Valencia region, Israel says it has terminated a decades-old agreement that officially recognizes UNRWA, the UN agency providing aid to Gaza and at least 36 people were killed when an overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in India. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

The day's other headlines start in eastern Spain, where heavy rain has battered Barcelona.

0:06.1

It comes just days after catastrophic floods pummeled the Valencia region down the coast,

0:11.2

killing more than 200 people.

0:13.2

The search for bodies continues there as frustration builds over the government's response.

0:18.1

ITV Europe editor James Mates has this report. Deep under a shopping center

0:23.5

in the suburbs of Valencia, the water is as deep as ever. This car park is still barely accessible

0:29.2

to rescue workers. In some places, only a canoe is good enough. It's in places like these that

0:36.1

they fear many more victims are still to be found.

0:39.3

Being caught in your car when the floods hit was often fatal.

0:43.3

Finally now, but much too late, the full resources of the Spanish state are being deployed in the city.

0:49.3

The anger here is that it took five days for the army and its heavy equipment to be on their streets in these sort of numbers.

0:56.6

7,800 are now at work here.

0:59.5

What a difference it might have made to Valencians if they'd seen them the morning after the floods.

1:04.9

Instead, they're not just desperate at the loss of almost everything they own.

1:08.7

They're angry too.

1:10.4

Anger they took out on their

1:11.7

king and queen yesterday afternoon, spattering them with clods of the mud that had invaded

1:17.1

their homes.

1:19.6

We have to give them hope, the king said late last night. Give them hope and guarantee to them

1:25.2

that the state in all its power is present.

1:30.3

Almost unbelievably, it's still raining torrentially on Spain's Mediterranean coast.

1:35.3

Barcelona Airport partially evacuated today, roads nearby turning into minor rivers,

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