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News Wrap: Wildfires threaten homes in southern Georgia

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In our news wrap Thursday, hundreds in Georgia have fled their homes as wildfires threaten areas in the southern part of the state, Warner Bros. shareholders voted to approve the company's $81 billion sale to Paramount and the European Union formally approved a loan package for Ukraine valued at more than $100 billion. 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

We start the day's other headlines in Georgia, where hundreds of people have fled their homes and more than 80 homes have now been destroyed as raging wildfires continue to threaten areas in the south of the state.

0:12.6

My house is gone. Today, distraught residents returned to their properties, reduced to ash and ember.

0:20.4

Georgia's biggest blaze broke out over the weekend,

0:22.6

and at last check it was only 10% contained.

0:25.6

Officials say that dry, windy conditions are to blame,

0:28.6

but also fallen tree limbs still scattered from Hurricane Helene,

0:33.6

which devastated the area more than a year and a half ago.

0:36.6

What we're finding out here, what's driving this somewhat is there's just a ton of old

0:41.3

Hurricane Hulene debris down in the woods, right?

0:44.3

So Silvas laying around and it's just a timber box out there.

0:47.3

So we're definitely seeing some of those flare-ups.

0:49.3

Hundreds of fires have also spread this week in neighboring Florida.

0:52.3

Officials have called it the state's

0:54.4

worst fire season in decades. Warner Brothers shareholders voted today to approve the company's

1:00.6

$81 billion sale to Paramount. It's a major step in a deal that could dramatically reshape

1:06.6

Hollywood and the broader media landscape. The combined company would bring the likes of CNN,

1:11.6

HBO Max, and Harry Potter under the same umbrella as CBS and the Paramount Plus streaming service,

1:18.3

but it still requires regulatory approval. And critics, including some big names in Hollywood,

1:24.0

have said the deal would lead to job losses and fewer options for filmmakers and

1:28.5

moviegoers. Overseas, the European Union formally approved a loan package for Ukraine today

1:34.7

valued it more than $100 billion. The much-needed funds were announced during a meeting in Cyprus

1:40.4

attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The loan comes as Russian oil began

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