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News Wrap: 7 dead after storms and floods in Midwest

News Wrap: 7 dead after storms and catastrophic floods in Midwest

8/17/2026 | Expires 9/16/2026

News Wrap: 7 dead after storms and floods in Midwest

Clip: 8/17/2026 | 4m 22sVideo has Closed Captions

News Wrap: 7 dead after storms and catastrophic floods in Midwest

In our news wrap Monday, a week of heavy storms and catastrophic floods in the Midwest has killed at least seven people, Hurricane Lala left a trail of destruction across the Big Island of Hawaii and the other Hawaiian islands and U.S. envoy and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner left Israel without a breakthrough on the president's stalled Gaza peace proposal.

8/17/2026 | Expires 9/16/2026

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