News Wrap: Hurricane Erin strengthens into Category 5 storm

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• John Yang:

  And tonight's other headlines. Hurricane Aaron, the first of the season, has rapidly intensified into a Category 5 storm. Erin has maximum sustained winds of 160 miles an hour and is churning in the Atlantic north of Puerto Rico.

  The storm strengthened from Category 1 to Category 5 in just 24 hours. While Erin is expected to stay east of the United States, the National Hurricane Center warns it will produce life threatening surf and rip currents from the Bahamas up the U.S. east coast all the way to parts of Canada.

  In Pakistan, rescue crews are frantically searching for survivors from devastating flash floods and mudslides. Heavier than usual monsoon rains in Bunir in northwestern Pakistan are responsible for at least 220 deaths and officials say only a fraction of the bodies have been recovered.

  Survivors said rising waters overflowed riverbanks and sent boulders from surrounding mountains slamming into homes.

• Ahmed Khan, Local Resident (through interpreter):

  I was going to work and on the way I saw that there was a lot of water coming down. When I saw this, I turned back and people were shouting, save your life, save your life. Many people climbed the mountains and some people went to the sides. In this way, they saved themselves.

• John Yang:

  Heavy monsoon rains are expected to continue in the region through next week.

  The Canadian government has ordered thousands of striking Air Canada flight attendants back to work and sent their contract dispute to binding arbitration. The nation's jobs minister said she acted to protect Canada's economy, with which is already buffeted by President Trump's tariffs. The strike lasted only about 12 hours, but in anticipation, Air Canada canceled more than 600 of its about 700 daily flights that stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world. Air Canada said it could take days to get operations back to normal.

  Still to come on PBS News Weekend, why eliminating a bedrock air pollution regulation may hurt children's health and how AI generated models are affecting the fashion industry.