News Wrap: Biden pauses student loan payments as debt cancelation plan faces legal battle

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• Judy Woodruff:

  Good evening. I'm Judy Woodruff.

  On the "NewsHour" tonight: the aftermath. The death toll from an earthquake in Indonesia rises, as rescue workers desperately search for survivors.

• Then:

  lockdown again. China closes many public spaces and resumes mass testing in another attempt to stop the coronavirus under the Communist party's zero-COVID policy.

  And Searching for Justice. Why juveniles in many states are automatically charged in adult court for certain crimes, and how that affects their lives long after being released.

  Andre Simms, Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project: There are so many barriers when you're returning from being incarcerated. The majority of young Black men who've been through this system are still in this system. It's a revolving door.

• Judy Woodruff:

  All that and more on tonight's "PBS NewsHour."

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• Judy Woodruff:

  President Biden is extending his pause on federal student loan payments again until June 30, 2023. He announced the move today, while his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt is on hold. The extended pause gives the U.S. Supreme Court time to hear the case in its current term.

  In a separate move, the High Court cleared the way today for a congressional committee to get former President Trump's tax returns. The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee asked for them three years ago. Majority Democrats now have just a few weeks to investigate the returns before Republicans take control of the House.

  That Republican House majority will now have 219 seats, with several races still pending. California GOP Congressman David Valadao finally was declared the winner in his reelection race last night. He's among the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Mr. Trump. Only two were reelected.

  In Indonesia, the death toll reached 268 a day after an earthquake struck south of Jakarta. And officials warned there may be many more bodies across the shattered landscape.

  John Yang has our report.

• John Yang:

  Endless rubble is all that remains of much of Western Java, as rescuers search for victims. Hope for finding survivors fades with each passing hour.

  So far, this man counts 11 relatives among the dead.

• ENJOT, Earthquake Survivor (through translator):

  This is so terrible, what I went through with this earthquake. I had to lose relatives. And my house was also destroyed.

• John Yang:

  Indonesia's most populous island is still reeling after Monday's magnitude-5.6 earthquake, among the hardest-hit, the rural mountainous town of Cianjur about 135 miles south of the capital, Jakarta.

  This woman recalls the terror.

• PARTINEM, Earthquake Survivor (through translator):

  I was crying and immediately grabbed my husband and children. If I didn't pull them out, we might have become victims. The house was shaking as if it was dancing.

• John Yang:

  Rescue operations are complicated by damaged roads and bridges and extensive power blackouts. Supplies have been slow to make it to survivors staying in makeshift shelters, many of them tent villages in the streets.

• ACENG AWALUDIN, Cianjur Resident (through translator):

  Most of the residents' complaints are about the lack of drinking water and support, things like blankets and medicines.

• John Yang:

  Hospitals are overwhelmed. One mother describes the horror of watching a wall collapse on her daughter.

  SITI FATIMAH, Mother of Injured Child (through translator): I could only see her head. There was a full thermos that was hit by the wall as well, and the hot water hit her buttocks and her leg, burning them.

• John Yang:

  Today, Indonesian President Joko Widodo surveyed the destruction in Cianjur. He vowed to rebuild infrastructure, including an important connecting bridge, and help those whose homes were damaged.

  For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm John Yang.

• Judy Woodruff:

  In Ukraine, a manmade disaster threatens a long dark winter. Officials warned today that rolling blackouts could last until March, as Russian missiles pummel the power grid.

  Already snowy, subfreezing weather is setting in. Authorities are urging the public to stock up on supplies, including warm clothes and blankets.

  The U.N. human rights commissioner reported today that more than 300 people have died in the protests in Iran over the past two months. In Geneva, a U.N. spokesman accused Tehran of violent repression and gross human rights violations.

• Jeremy Laurence, Spokesman, United Nations Human Rights Office:

  The rising number of deaths from protests in Iran, including those of two children at the weekend, and the hardening of the response by security forces underline the critical situation in the country.

• Judy Woodruff:

  The U.N. also voiced concern about reports of Iranian security forces killing more than 40 people in mainly Kurdish cities in the past week.

  Meanwhile, Iran announced that it is enriching uranium to 60 percent purity at a second site that's one stop short — or step short of nuclear weapons grade. State media said its being done at an underground Fordow complex. Another site at Natanz already reached that level of enrichment. The U.N. nuclear agency confirmed Iran's claim.

  Back in this country, top medical advisers are urging Americans again to ignore social media skeptics and get COVID boosters and flu shots. At the White House today, chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said political divisions are fueling vaccine doubters and filling up hospital beds.

  Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Medical Adviser to President Biden: I don't want to see anybody get infected. I don't want to see anybody hospitalized, and I don't want to see anybody die from COVID. Whether you're a far right Republican or a far left Democrat doesn't make any difference to me.

• Judy Woodruff:

  The president's COVID coordinator, Ashish Jha, said in the end — quote — "You can trust America's physicians or you can trust some random dude on Twitter."

  We will return to this after the news summary.

  It's going to be even tougher for investors to recoup funds from FTX. That's the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange. Today, attorneys for debt holders said millions, hundreds of millions of dollars have been stolen from FTX accounts since it collapsed this month. The company estimates that it faces more than 100,000 claims so far.

  On Wall Street, solid earnings reports gave stocks a boost, with major indexes gaining 1 percent or more. The Dow Jones industrial average was up nearly 400 points to close at 34098. The Nasdaq rose almost 150 points. The S&P 500 added 53.

  And at soccer's World Cup, Saudi Arabia scored one of the biggest upsets ever, beating Argentina 2-1, today. Saudi coaches and players celebrated the victory, and the kingdom declared a public holiday tomorrow. But, for Argentinean star Lionel Messi, the loss was a huge setback in what may be his final World Cup.

  Still to come on the "NewsHour": high prices on staple foods have many Americans rethinking their Thanksgiving dinners; we will examine why Black women candidates had mixed results in the midterm elections; a musical staging of the acclaimed novel "The Hours" becomes the opera event of the year; plus much more.