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News Wrap: King Charles arrives in Washington for state visit

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In our news wrap Monday, King Charles arrived at the White House as he kicked off a state visit marking the 250th anniversary of America's independence from Britain, the fight over redistricting gained steam with Florida Gov. DeSantis unveiling a map that could help Republicans and United Airlines is dropping its pursuit of American Airlines for a possible merger. 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, tens of millions of people remain at risk tonight as dangerous storms batter the Midwest.

0:07.0

Parts of Missouri and Illinois in particular could see hail and possible tornadoes.

0:13.0

Weather officials say more than three inches of rain fell overnight in Kansas City. The downpour

0:21.8

comes after a weekend of violent storms across a number of states, including in northern Texas

0:27.5

where two people were killed.

0:28.9

You could hear the wind. You could hear the sound of a freight train.

0:33.1

Largest hail I've ever seen or heard in Runaway Bay ever since I've been here since

0:37.3

85.

0:38.3

The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado with winds up to 135 miles an hour

0:43.9

tore through Runaway Bay this weekend, a lakeside community northwest of Fort Worth.

0:49.6

Meantime, in Georgia, firefighters are still working to contain two massive blazes even after a weekend of

1:00.3

rain slowed them down. State forestry officials say the damp weather wasn't nearly enough to put

1:05.3

them out. The largest fire has now topped 50 square miles and more than 100 homes have been destroyed.

1:11.6

The national fight over redistricting gained steam today,

1:15.6

with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiling a new map that could help Republicans pick up as many as four seats in Congress.

1:22.6

The map was first reported by Fox News, and it comes a day before the state's legislature is set to open a special session called by DeSantis with the goal of redrawing district lines.

1:34.4

Florida currently sends 20 Republicans and eight Democrats to Congress.

1:38.8

Meantime, Virginia's Supreme Court is debating whether to block a map that was approved by voters last week,

1:45.0

which could help Democrats pick up four seats there.

1:48.7

Britain's King Charles is in Washington, D.C. tonight as he kicks off a state visit,

1:53.4

steeped in history, and set against present-day tensions.

1:57.2

Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, touched down at Joint Base Andrews this afternoon

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