Aug 22 Haiti latest: earthquake recovery efforts continue as death toll rises By PBS NewsHour The death toll in Haiti topped 2,200 today in the wake of last week’s 7.2 magnitude earthquake. Continue reading
Aug 22 Watch 6:45 Two years after Newark’s water crisis, the city has cleaned up its act By PBS NewsHour When Newark, New Jersey made headlines in 2019 for a lead water crisis that impacted one in five of its citizens, people saw an echo of Flint, Michigan’s colossal public health crisis. But two years later, Newark has replaced the… Continue watching
Aug 22 Watch 5:46 COVID-19 boosters shots ‘a tough balance’ for FDA, epidemiologists By PBS NewsHour The Biden Administration announced last week that COVID-19 booster shots will be available by mid-September for those eight months into being fully-vaccinated. But with many Americans still unvaccinated and vaccine access worldwide varying wildly, are booster shots premature? Stat reporter… Continue watching
Aug 22 Crush at Kabul airport kills 7 as Afghans try to flee By Ahmad Seir, Tameem Akhgar, Jon Gambrell, Associated Press At least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport, the British military said Sunday, as thousands were still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus a week after the Taliban… Continue reading
Aug 22 Tropical Storm Henri makes landfall in Rhode Island By David Klepper, David Porter, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Tropical Storm Henri hit the coast of Rhode Island Sunday, packing high winds that knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes and bands of rain that led to flash flooding from New Jersey to Massachusetts. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 5:47 Haiti reels from latest setback as hurricane relief efforts continue By Ivette Feliciano Haitians are still reeling from last week's devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake that killed over 2,000 people. Survivors are filling hospitals and crowding aid sites awaiting desperately-needed food and supplies. For more on the situation, NewsHour weekend’s Ivette Feliciano spoke with… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 6:15 Afghans desperately try to flee; U.S. evacuation continues By PBS NewsHour Chaos at Kabul airport continued as thousands of Afghans desperately tried to flee the country. At the same time, at least 17,000 people have been evacuated from the country, 2,500 of them American nationals. The Taliban came a step closer… Continue watching
Aug 21 Watch 6:57 COVID-19 surge: Why we need more data on breakthrough infections By PBS NewsHour In May, the CDC made a decision to reduce tracking and collecting data on breakthrough infections to only those involving hospitalizations and deaths -- leaving a big gap in understanding the impact of variants as COVID-19 cases surge across the… Continue watching
Aug 21 Russian police detain journalists backing media freedom By Associated Press Russian police on Saturday detained several journalists who protested authorities’ decision to label a top independent TV channel as a “foreign agent.”… Continue reading
Aug 21 Coastal evacuations urged as Hurricane Henri heads north By Philip Marcelo, Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press Service on some branches of the Long Island Rail Road, a major commuter rail system, will be suspended at midnight in eastern Long Island. Continue reading