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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on PBS News Weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, a second day of arrest by a surge of border patrol agents in Operation Charlotte's Web. |
| 0:14.0 | Then the provision in the bill that entered the government shutdown that may threaten the U.S. hemp industry's future. |
| 0:21.6 | And a barista who served coffee in a small northern Italian town since World War II and is still going strong. |
| 0:29.6 | I have customers who are now grandparents and come in with their grandchildren saying, |
| 0:34.6 | do you remember when there was a dance floor outside? When there was a jukebox and pinball machines? |
| 0:40.3 | Those were different times. |
| 0:42.3 | Now they're only memories. |
| 0:44.3 | Good evening. I'm John Yang. |
| 0:58.3 | It's been the second day of Operation Charlotte's Web. |
| 1:01.8 | That's what the Department of Homeland Security is calling the surge of federal officers into Charlotte, North Carolina, to crack down on illegal immigration. |
| 1:10.3 | Masked agents have made arrests outside businesses and on front yards of homes. |
| 1:15.1 | One Honduran-born U.S. citizen was stopped twice yesterday. |
| 1:18.9 | They smashed his car window, forced him out of the vehicle, and threw him to the ground. |
| 1:23.5 | He was released only after he showed proof of his citizenship. |
| 1:27.2 | In a Charlotte enclave of immigrant residents, hundreds protested the administration's expansion |
| 1:31.9 | of raids into another city and state, both led by Democrats. |
| 1:36.3 | Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino said Saturday was a record day with 81 arrests. |
| 1:42.3 | Residents are bracing for more. The impact that's having on this is that |
| 1:46.6 | a lot of people are afraid to go outside. It's terrifying to pretty much know that at any moment, |
| 1:52.3 | a federal agent can just come out and abuse you just because of the way you look. Meanwhile, |
| 1:57.0 | the Pentagon is sending home hundreds of National Guard troops that President Trump had deployed to Portland and Chicago. |
| 2:03.4 | In Southern California, the forecast is for more rain today, but storms eased overnight, allowing officials to lift mandatory evacuation orders. |
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