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PBS News Hour - Segments

News Wrap: Hurricane Erin strengthens into Category 5 storm

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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In our news wrap Saturday, Hurricane Erin rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm in the Atlantic Ocean, rescue crews search for survivors after devastating flash floods and mudslides in Pakistan, and the Canadian government ordered thousands of striking Air Canada flight attendants back to work and sent their contract dispute to binding arbitration. 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

In tonight's other headlines, Hurricane Aaron, the first of the season, has rapidly

0:05.5

intensified into a Category 5 storm.

0:09.1

Aaron has maximum sustained winds of 160 miles an hour and is churning in the Atlantic north

0:14.7

of Puerto Rico.

0:16.1

The storm strengthened from Category 1 to Category 5 in just 24 hours. While Aaron is expected to stay

0:23.2

east of the United States, the National Hurricane Center warns it will produce life-threatening

0:28.2

surf and rip currents from the Bahamas up the U.S. East Coast all the way to parts of Canada.

0:34.4

In Pakistan, rescue crews are frantically searching for survivors from devastating flash floods and mudslides.

0:41.6

Heavier than usual monsoon rains in Booneer in northwestern Pakistan are responsible for at least

0:47.7

220 deaths, and officials say only a fraction of the bodies have been recovered.

0:53.8

Survivors said rising waters

0:55.5

overflowed riverbanks and sent boulders from surrounding mountains slamming into homes.

1:02.0

I was going to work and on the way I saw that there was a lot of water coming down. When I saw

1:07.7

this I turned back and people were shouting, save your life, save your life.

1:12.5

Many people climbed the mountains and some people went to the sides.

1:16.0

In this way, they saved themselves.

1:18.9

Heavy monsoon rains are expected to continue in the region through next week.

1:23.6

The Canadian government has ordered thousands of striking air Canada flight attendants back to work and sent their contract dispute to binding arbitration.

1:31.7

The nation's jobs minister said she acted to protect Canada's economy, which is already buffeted by President Trump's tariffs.

1:39.3

The strike lasted only about 12 hours, but in anticipation, Air Canada canceled more than 600 of its about 700 daily flights.

1:47.9

That stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world.

1:51.5

Air Canada said it could take days to get operations back to normal.

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