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News Wrap: Tropical Depression Debby forecast to bring flooding to mid-Atlantic, Northeast

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In our news wrap Thursday, Tropical Storm Debby returned to shore and weakened to a tropical depression as it's forecast to move up the East Coast, a third person has died from a listeria outbreak linked to Boar's Head deli meats, Israel ordered more mass evacuations in the Gazan city of Khan Younis and Wall Street stocks surged after a reassuring report on the U.S. jobs market. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

To the day's other headlines starting with the latest on what is now tropical

0:04.2

depression Debbie the slow moving cyclone returned to shore hitting the

0:08.8

Carolinas today it's expected to remain inland as it moves up the east coast where it could dump several inches of rain as far north as Vermont by this weekend

0:19.0

Officials in North Carolina said today a seventh person was killed when a tornado hit Wilson County

0:24.8

that's east of Raleigh. It tore through this middle school overnight and

0:28.6

residents woke up to a scene of destruction. You could tell it changed from heavy rain to something else.

0:37.0

And when we came out, we found out that it had damage to school.

0:40.6

But it was so dark because all the yard lights were out. You really couldn't tell how badly it was damaged until the sun came up this morning. And it's just, I don't, it's a mess. Meantime neighborhoods in Florida like this one in

0:56.0

Sarasota are still submerged in floodwaters three days after Debbie drenched

1:01.0

the peninsula. Thousands of Floridians are still without power.

1:05.0

Federal food officials say a third person has died

1:08.0

from a Listeria outbreak linked to Boer's head deli meats.

1:11.0

43 others have fallen ill.

1:13.8

Late last month, Borshead recalled 7 million pounds

1:16.9

of deli meats after a liverwurst sample

1:19.5

in Maryland tested positive for Listeria

1:22.0

that included more than 70 products including liverwurst,

1:25.0

ham, beef, salami, and baloney.

1:28.2

Consumers should not eat the recalled meats and should instead discard them or return them

1:32.0

to a store.

1:33.2

Experts also advise people to thoroughly clean and sanitize their refrigerators to prevent contamination.

1:39.2

Turning now to the Middle East, Israel has ordered more mass evacuations in the Gazan city of Con Yunus.

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