PBS News Hour

November 7, 2021 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

On this edition for Sunday, November 7, COVID-19 vaccinations deadlines loom as legal challenges to President Biden’s vaccine mandates mount, an update on the Houston music festival deaths, a massive building made with new timber technology rises in Milwaukee, and an international mural festival lives on in Cleveland. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York.

Is mass timber the building material of the future?

9m 51s

A new kind of construction with a not-so-new material is taking off in the U.S. Mass timber can replace steel and concrete in large buildings and proponents say it's greener and faster to build with. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Megan Thompson recently visited the Ascent building in Milwaukee, a 25 story mass timber tower that will open next summer.

Previews + Extras

  • International mural festival brings art to Cleveland's walls: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    International mural festival brings art to Cleveland's walls

    S2021 E311 - 4m 39s

    Over a week earlier this summer, artists descended on a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood to paint murals on buildings. Part of an international mural festival that has taken place in cities around the world, Cleveland was the first city in the midwest to be part of the program. NewsHour Weekend special correspondent Karla Murthy reports.

  • Houston music reporter’s account of concert tragedy: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Houston music reporter’s account of concert tragedy

    S2021 E311 - 3m 41s

    A chaotic crush of fans rushing toward the stage at a Travis Scott show at Houston’s Astroworld music festival is being blamed for a ‘mass casualty event,’ that killed at least eight people and injured dozens more. Houston Chronicle music reporter Joey Guerra was there — he joins Hari Sreenivasan to explain what he saw and what videos are showing as the investigation continues.

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