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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Hurricane Erin roaring past Bahamas

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

Daily News, News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Monday, Hurricane Erin is roaring past the Bahamas as the East Coast braces for dangerous rip currents, more than 150 people are still missing after flash floods devastated Pakistan, a flight attendant strike at Air Canada entered its third day and conservative cable network Newsmax agreed to pay $67 million to Dominion Voting Systems to settle a defamation lawsuit. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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In the day's other headlines, Hurricane Aaron is roaring past the Bahamas today as a category four storm while the U.S.

0:06.7

braces for possible impacts in the coming days.

0:09.7

Aaron is expected to remain offshore and turn away from the East Coast later this week.

0:14.4

But forecasters are warning of dangerous waves, rip currents, and high winds as it passes by.

0:20.6

Aaron's outer bands hit parts of

0:22.4

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands this weekend when it rapidly intensified from a category

0:27.6

one storm to a category five in just over 24 hours. Experts say that makes Aaron one of the

0:33.8

most rapidly intensifying Atlantic hurricanes ever recorded.

0:38.2

In Pakistan, more than 150 people are still missing after flash floods devastated the country

0:43.6

late last week. So far, the downpours have killed more than 275 people, mostly in Pakistan's

0:49.7

northern regions, where glacial rivers carved through the steep terrain of the Himalayas. Today's search

0:55.9

efforts were interrupted by fresh rains and many villagers fear water levels will rise again,

1:01.7

leaving them with nowhere to go. When we came back to our homes last night, we were afraid

1:08.7

that the rain and flood would enter our houses again.

1:12.5

Children are scared.

1:13.7

People cannot sleep in their homes.

1:15.9

They were up the whole night, fearing the flood could hit their houses.

1:20.2

Monsoon rains have killed more than 600 people across Pakistan since the start of summer.

1:25.4

From floods to wildfires, in Spain, firefighters are struggling to contain

1:29.7

nearly two dozen wildfires that have been fueled by an unrelenting heat wave. The fires have burned

1:35.4

an area more than twice the size of London, the largest area covered in two decades. Scorching

1:41.4

temperatures that have lasted for more than two weeks and reached 114 degrees

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