John Yang:
Good evening, I’m John Yang. Tonight, U.S. officials say Israeli leaders have essentially agreed to a proposal for a six week ceasefire in Gaza and the release of some hostages. All that’s left is for Hamas to agree to it. Talks to resume tomorrow in Cairo.
In Gaza, three USC 130s dropped 38,000 meals onto the beaches of Southwest Gaza. More deliveries are expected in coming days from the United States, Egypt and Jordan. And in the Red Sea a ship hit by a Houthi missile two weeks ago has sunk the first vessel to be destroyed by Houthi attacks.
The Belize flagged Ruby Mar was carrying tons of fertilizer. Yemeni officials call the sinking an unprecedented environmental disaster.
Fire and ice in two states tonight, firefighters in Texas Panhandle are battling the largest wildfire in the state’s history in increasingly difficult weather conditions. Since Monday, the fire has killed at least two people, scorch 1,700 square miles of prairie, destroyed as many as 500 structures and killed thousands of cattle.
In the mountains of northern California and Nevada, the biggest storm of the season is closed 100 miles of Interstate 80 and knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes up to 10 feet of snow is forecast for higher elevations.
Donald Trump won the Missouri Republican caucuses today continuing his string of early contest victories. In Michigan, Trump won all 39 delegates awarded by today’s state party convention. Idaho Republicans hold their caucuses tonight, tomorrow begins a three day series of 17 contests including Super Tuesday, when almost two-thirds of all delegates are up for grabs. Trump’s last major rival Nikki Haley has yet to win any primary or caucus.
At a self-described geriatric starlet fashion icon Iris Apfel has died. She was a textile expert, an interior designer and a late in life fashion model in her 80s and 90s with an eye catching and audaciously clashing style.
She was the subject of several museum exhibitions, a documentary and major ad campaigns. She even let her expertise to the White House working on restoration projects under nine different presidents Iris Apfel was 102.
Still to come on PBS News Weekend, scientific breakthroughs give hope to save the northern white rhino from extinction. And a Brief But Spectacular take on the importance of bereavement care.
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