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PBS news weekend, Israel's assassination of the head of Hezbollah marks a major escalation in hostilities.

Then the rising death toll from Hurricane Helene

as the massive storm causes record-breaking flooding across the southeast

and how schools are coping with the end of pandemic era funding.

There are districts that are in pretty good shape right now and some that are really not.

So unless taxpayers are willing to increase taxes substantially in states, they don't have

$190 billion to fill in here. Good evening. I'm John Yang. We're following two big stories tonight, the rising exchange of rockets and bombs between Israel and Hezbollah, and the rising death toll from Hurricane Helene.

We begin in the Middle East where Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrala

is reverberating across the region, raising fears of retaliation from Iran and a wider war.

Tonight, Nick Schifron is in Tel Aviv.

This evening, southern Beirut is still smoldering.

After what residents called the most intense bombing in nearly 20 years on a cluster of high

rises and the bunker beneath them, killing Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's leader for the last

three decades. The group confirmed his death on his TV channel.

After the Israel Defense Forces posted on social media,

Hassan Nasrallah will no longer be able to terrorize the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

At the start of the week, I came to the conclusion that the intense blows the Israeli military struck Hezbollah within the past days

These blows will not be enough

Nasrala's assassination was

a essential condition.

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