Good evening. I'm William Brangham. Omna Nawaz and Jeff Bennett are away.

On the news hour tonight, this Thanksgiving, residents in Asheville, North Carolina hit hard by Hurricane Helene, reflect on their community and efforts to rebuild.

Then, the Food and Drug Administration makes a major change to cold medicines,

seeking to remove an ingredient that doesn't seem to help.

And this time of year, it is seemingly impossible to avoid.

We look at the history and impact of the ubiquitous and controversial pumpkin spice.

I think the allure of that nostalgic past that pumpkin pie spice conveys through Thanksgiving

and through those dishes that we associate with that nostalgic past. Welcome to the news hour.

The ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held for a second day,

though both sides have accused the other of violating its terms.

Israel launched its first airstrike since yesterday's deal, hitting a rocket storage facility

in southern Lebanon after it says it detected Hezbollah activity there.

And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's instructed the military to be ready to restart the war if the ceasefire is violated.

While these flashpoints remain, it was another day of homecoming, both in Israeli border towns and for many crossing back into Lebanon after fleeing east to Syria. We got displaced to Syria and spent 63 or 64 days in Syria.

We left our work, our homes because of the war.

My feeling is that I'm happy that there is a ceasefire and there is no more destruction.

The enemy does not know

how to distinguish between civilian or military. The strikes were quite random.

In southern Lebanon, cleanup crews rolled in to start the daunting task of rebuilding

what has been completely destroyed. Lebanese health officials say more than 3,700 people were killed by Israeli fire during

the conflict.

More than a million fled from their homes.

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