September 12, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Omnenevaz. Jeff Bennett is away on the news hour tonight. |
| 0:10.0 | Relief workers respond to dual disasters in North Africa, the devastating earthquake |
| 0:15.2 | in Morocco and now catastrophic flooding in Libya. House Republicans move to open an |
| 0:21.3 | impeachment inquiry into President Biden over his family's business dealings. An updated |
| 0:27.2 | COVID booster vaccine gets the green light as infections from a variant are rising nationwide. |
| 0:34.2 | And a shortage of mental health services for teenagers forces parents to make previously |
| 0:39.6 | unthinkable decisions. I had to try to sell to her that we're doing this because you have |
| 0:45.3 | to get help. We're doing this because mom's trying to keep you alive. |
| 0:57.2 | Welcome to the news hour. Two major headlines share the spotlight tonight. In the U.S. Congress, |
| 1:06.4 | House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has ordered an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. |
| 1:11.5 | And abroad, the interior ministry for Eastern Libya now says more than 5,300 people have |
| 1:17.8 | been killed in catastrophic flooding. Plus, the death toll in the Morocco earthquake has |
| 1:22.4 | topped 2,900. We begin with the North African disasters and special correspondent Alex Cadier. |
| 1:31.6 | There's water as far as the eye can see in parts of Eastern Libya and out there as many |
| 1:36.5 | as 10,000 missing people. Heavy rainfall and flooding from a Mediterranean storm late |
| 1:41.4 | Sunday washed away entire towns and communities. This is the city of Duna, declared a disaster |
| 1:47.4 | zone after two nearby dams collapsed, wiping out about a quarter of the city. Duna is |
| 1:54.2 | literally facing a crisis. Areas have been completely cut off. It's a disastrous situation |
| 2:00.2 | with the flooding in the loss of lives. The city streets are filled with thick mud and |
| 2:05.2 | piles of mangled debris. The coastline, littered with cars, stacked atop one another like |
| 2:09.8 | toys from the force of the deluge. The dead are laid out in the open, shrouded with plastic |
| 2:14.6 | tabs. The reports that we are getting from our teams on the ground is that the situation |
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