• News Wrap: Putin says Prigozhin was a talented person who 'made serious mistakes in life

    News Wrap: Putin says Prigozhin was a talented person who 'made serious mistakes in life

    Aug 24, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    Russian President Putin offered his first public acknowledgment of Yevgeny Prigozhin's presumed death as investigators comb through the wreckage of his jet that crashed outside Moscow, a Russian court ruled American journalist Evan Gershkovich must remain in jail until at least November 30 and Tropical Storm Franklin killed two ...

  • News Wrap: Giuliani surrenders in Georgia on charges of conspiring to overturn election

    News Wrap: Giuliani surrenders in Georgia on charges of conspiring to overturn election

    Aug 23, 2023 10:45 PM EST

    ... Resident (through interpreter): I don't know how to survive here in a storm. I have already escaped death from gang violence, and a bad storm will just kill the rest of us. We don't have a good life here. Amna Nawaz: Meantime, in Texas, the remnants of Tropical ...

  • Climatologist discusses extreme summer weather as heat wave brings more record highs

    Climatologist discusses extreme summer weather as heat wave brings more record highs

    Aug 22, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... That's when you get that excessive flooding like we're seeing up in New England, like we saw in association with that hurricane, that tropical storm that made its way into California. And so what that means is that, yes, there are some uncertainties in the science. There are ...

  • August 21, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    August 21, 2023 - PBS NewsHour full episode

    Aug 22, 2023 12:06 AM EST

    Monday on the NewsHour, a tropical storm hits Southern California for the first time in over 80 years, causing widespread floods and fears of mudslides. President Biden visits Maui to survey the destruction as the recovery continues and the death toll grows. Plus, states look to confront the mental health ...

  • News Wrap: Hilary makes landfall along Mexico's Baja peninsula

    News Wrap: Hilary makes landfall along Mexico's Baja peninsula

    Aug 20, 2023 09:45 PM EST

    ... forecasters warn it will still deliver potentially historic rainfall across the Southwest which could trigger life threatening flash floods. By tomorrow morning, the fast moving storm is expected to be well inland over Nevada as a tropical depression. But on its way there, forecasters say the storm could dump up ...

  • News Wrap: California, Mexico feel effects of Hurricane Hilary

    News Wrap: California, Mexico feel effects of Hurricane Hilary

    Aug 19, 2023 09:45 PM EST

    ... a year's rain could fall in a matter of hours leading to catastrophic and life threatening flash floods. Hurricane Hilary, now a category two storm, is expected to become a tropical storm by the time it makes landfall as early as tonight in a sparsely populated area of the ...

  • How communities can improve warning systems and disaster responses

    How communities can improve warning systems and disaster responses

    Aug 19, 2023 09:40 PM EST

    ... to start that very time consuming step of actually evacuating or taking protective action. John Yang: Well, in the Southwest now, they've got a tropical storm, it's currently a Hurricane Hilary bearing down on them, and they're already warning about potentially catastrophic and deadly flash flooding over ...

  • LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Hilary

    LIVE MAP: Track the path of Hurricane Hilary

    Aug 18, 2023 05:53 PM EST

    ... somewhere later,” Johnson said. “I can’t remember a storm like this.”Also Sunday, one of several budding storm systems in the Atlantic Ocean became Tropical Storm Emily, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was far from land, moving west in the open ocean. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Franklin formed ...

  • News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    News Wrap: Former police officer sentenced for his role in George Floyd's death

    Aug 07, 2023 10:50 PM EST

    ... in Niger closed the country's airspace, Russian shelling in Ukraine struck towns near the front lines killing at least seven people and a looming tropical storm is forcing mass evacuations at the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea. ... Amna Nawaz: In the day's other headlines: A judge in ...

  • South Korea to mass evacuate scouts from coastal jamboree ahead of storm landfall

    South Korea to mass evacuate scouts from coastal jamboree ahead of storm landfall

    Aug 07, 2023 01:42 PM EST

    ... K., representing the largest national contingent, while about 1,000 were from the United States.South Korea categorizes Khanun as a typhoon, defined as a tropical storm with winds stronger than 61 kph (38 mph). South Korea’s weather agency expects Khanun to weaken to a storm within the next ...