September 17, 2024 - PBS News Hour full episode
PBS News Hour - Full Show
PBS NewsHour
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amna Navas on the news hour tonight in an apparent Israeli attack |
| 0:10.0 | hundreds of Hezbollah pagers explode across Lebanon, killing at least eight people and injuring thousands. |
| 0:17.0 | With seven weeks until election day, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hit the campaign trail in critical swing states. |
| 0:24.0 | And we explore the deepest depth and efforts to mine valuable metals from the ocean floor. Welcome to the news hour. It was an unprecedented and shocking attack. All across |
| 0:48.0 | Lebanon today pagers used by members of the militant group Hezbollah exploded. |
| 0:53.4 | Lebanon's health ministry says 2,700 people were injured |
| 0:57.1 | and nine were killed, including a young girl. |
| 0:59.9 | Hezbollah blamed Israel for the attack. |
| 1:02.3 | Israel has not made any public statement. |
| 1:04.6 | It comes as tensions between Israel and Lebanon |
| 1:07.4 | have been near boiling for almost a year |
| 1:09.8 | since just after the October 7th Hamas terror attacks on Israel. |
| 1:14.2 | Days later Hezbollah stepped up fire into northern Israel. |
| 1:17.9 | The two sides have had near daily exchanges of artillery |
| 1:21.0 | and rocket fire since forcing thousands to flee. |
| 1:24.4 | Nick Schifrin is here with more. |
| 1:26.0 | So Nick, walk us through your reporting and tell us more about what happened. |
| 1:28.7 | Jeff, experts I spoke to all day describe this attack as audacious, never seen before anywhere in an |
| 1:35.0 | almost unbelievable scale and you can really see that even from the videos that |
| 1:39.0 | immediately come out. |
| 1:40.3 | Lebanese Hezbollah members and markets going about their days. |
| 1:43.6 | All of a sudden, the pagers they're wearing on their belts, |
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