JOHN YANG: The Carter Center announced late today that former President Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care and wishes to spend his remaining time at home with his family.

Carter, whose 98 survived cancer, but in recent years, he's been in and out of the hospital after a series of bad falls at home, including one that left him with a broken pelvis.

Grandson Jason Carter, who's Chairman of the Carter Center, tweeted that both his grandparents are at peace.

In Turkey and Syria, the death toll from the massive earthquake earlier this month is now above 46,000 people.

The number is expected to climb even higher with many still missing.

But amazingly, rescue teams are still pulling survivors from the rubble of collapsed buildings more than 300 hours after the initial 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, now in Munich, will travel to Turkey tomorrow.

North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the waters near Japan.

Today's missile test comes as North Korea warned of strong countermeasures in response to next month's Annual U.S.-South Korean Joint Military Exercises.

The White House and the pentagon say the missile did not pose an immediate threat, but its range could have reached the U.S. mainland.

Teams from three federal agency arrived in East Palestine, Ohio today as residents' concerns about air and water pollution persist following the derailment two weeks ago of a train carrying hazardous materials.

Many residents are complaining of headaches and eye and skin irritation, and they distrust state and federal officials assurances of safety.

TED MURPHY, East Palestine resident: I am frustrated.

Here I am, I just moved seven months ago.

I busted my ass to make this place look like it does.

And I got to move because I'm not safe being here.

There is no way we are safe being here.

JOHN YANG: State health officials maintain that air quality and municipal water tests show no problems.

Funerals were held today for the three students killed in this week's mass shooting at Michigan State University.

Friends and family bid a final farewell at the funeral mass for Brian Fraser, one of the students killed.

Five other students were injured.

Police are still trying to determine a motive.

And another community, this one in rural Mississippi, is reeling after an alleged gunman killed six people yesterday, including his ex-wife and stepfather.

And the United States and Canada have called off searches after failing to find any remnants of the three objects shot down over last week over Alaska, the Yukon, and Lake Huron.

The U.S. intelligence community says the objects were most likely harmless research or recreation devices.

Meanwhile, today in Munich, Secretary of State Blinken met with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since a Chinese spy balloon entered U.S.

Airspace.

Still to come on "PBS News Weekend," the importance of training people who take care of loved ones with dementia.

And the story of an enslaved man who helped create some of the most iconic monuments in our nation's capital.