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The Atlantic hurricane season started June 1, but people in southeast Louisiana are still recovering after being hit last year by one of the strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the state. Communities correspondent Roby Chavez went back to visit the rural, coastal areas where Hurricane Ida’s 150 mile-per-hour winds left behind a housing crisis.

In our news wrap Wednesday, a white man accused of shooting 10 Black victims in Buffalo will face federal hate crimes, President Biden pushed oil companies to produce more gasoline, Michigan police officer charged with murdering Patrick Lyoya was fired, federal jury indicts man accused of plotting to murder Justice Kavanaugh, and the U.S. will send a $1 billion military package to Ukraine.

In our news wrap Monday, President Biden spent this Memorial Day honoring U.S. service members who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for this country, at least 91 people have died from weekend floods in Brazil, the season's first hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean region barreled ashore in Mexico, and new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. were up 21 percent over the last two weeks.

In our news wrap Friday, children in the U.S. ages 5 to 11 began receiving their Pfizer COVID vaccine booster shots after the CDC gave its final approval, a federal judge rules COVID asylum restrictions must continue on the border, the Justice Department unveiled new efforts to combat hate crimes after the massacre in Buffalo, and Russia claims it's taken full control of the city of Mariupol.

There’s been an unusually early start to the fire season this year, with blazes already burning for weeks in the southwest, mainly in Arizona and New Mexico. The nation’s largest wildfire continues to rage in New Mexico near Santa Fe and has burned nearly 260,000 acres with no end in sight. Stephanie Sy reports on the toll the massive blaze is taking on both its land and its people.

Extreme heat is gripping large parts of India and Pakistan, affecting hundreds of millions of people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world. Temperatures in India’s capital rose above 100 F again this week. The NewsHour looks at how people there are coping.

In our news wrap Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19, Beijing shut down dozens of subway stations and bus routes as it tries to stem a COVID outbreak, Wall Street shot higher after Fed chair Jerome Powell played down talk of even larger rate hikes, and Ukrainian refugees are crowding into a shelter in Mexico City hoping to gain entry into the United States.

This three-day Third Party Summit Livestream event brings together Green candidates, featured speakers, and journalists in a number of sessions covering critical topics facing our communities and our country, including capitalism, the military, Russia & Ukraine, Israel & Palestine, minimum wage, climate crisis, healthcare, reparations, and many more issues.

Past few nights. were seeing something i could have never imagined and the hardest part is to move forward as we try to piece together what the future looks like. >> yeah, now its difficult and so i have to ask you, lets start with these factory workers because i feel like this is a story partly about this country just deciding to ignore climate collapse and pretend like it isnt happening and now were here in the midst of it, fire, floods, tornados, the weather that shouldnt be happening in dece...

Tennessee. tropical storms up and down the eastern sea board that left florida homes bombarded, and new york city subway stations submerged which needless to say is not supposed to happen, and thats just whats happening here in the u.s. around the world, the number of climate related disaster has tripled in the last 50 years, tripled. extraordinary hot and cold temperatures are responsible for 5 million deaths every year. thats about how many people have died around the world from covid. climate...