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Federal aviation investigators probe why an Amazon Cargo plane overran the runway in Miami, killing 5 people, Michigan families face steep cost hikes for their back-to-school supplies and the 'Learn Without Limits' campaign for California young readers goes live.

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The Public News Service Daily Newscast, September the 8th, 2026.

I'm Mike Clifford.

Federal investigators now probing why an Amazon cargo jet barreled off a runway at Miami International Airport and into vehicles, killing at least five people on Sunday.

The AP notes that video of the landing appears to show the Boeing 767 remaining airborne well down the runway before touching down. will seek to determine exactly where the plane landed, if it was beyond the normal touchdown zone, and if so, why the pilots did not abandon the landing to circle back for another attempt.

Meantime, back-to-school season brings new classes, new routines, and new bills.

This fall, many parents across the country face higher prices for supplies, clothes, food, and transportation.

The pressure hits especially hard in Michigan, where education advocates say a full school year will cost families close to $4,000 per child.

Basic supplies cost about $175 and almost half of Michigan parents expect to borrow or cut essentials to cover costs.

Citing separate research from policy trackers, Michigan State Representative Matt Colasar says families in his state carry the nation's heaviest burden.

The tariff policies coming out of Washington, D.C. have cost Michigan families roughly $5,619 per household.

That puts us at the highest in the nation.

Despite pushback from business coalitions and consumer groups, the Trump administration vigorously defends its tariff approach with new actions this summer.

I'm Mark Richardson.

Starting today, kids at one elementary school in California's Central Valley are getting a special kind of vending machine, one that dispenses free books.

This machine is part of the new Learn Without Limits movement from the nonprofit Save the Children, launching in honor of International Literacy Day.

Lucero Chavez Ramirez with Save the Children California says the kids at Monson Sultana Elementary outside of Visalia will get a head start on building their own personal libraries.

Children will earn tokens for data successes in school that they can then use to choose free books.

That ownership is a really powerful motivator to get kids excited.

Ramirez says reading proficiency by grade three is one of the strongest predictors of future academic success and long-term economic opportunities.

I'm Suzanne Potter.

And a Justice Department memo could imperil New Yorkers with disabilities.

It reinterprets the Supreme Court's Olmstead v.

LC case, which affirmed people with disabilities have the right to community services.

Now, the memo says the Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't require states to provide those services.

Dr. Sharon McClendon-Weir is with the Center for the Independence of the Disabled New York.

If someone who may need supports to maintain that stable housing in the community does not receive those supports, we are afraid that he or she may end up in institutions unnecessarily.

She says access to stable housing is essential for disabled people living independently.

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A record number of women are running for office in 2026, with more than 700 women candidates on the ballot for Congress and governor nationwide.

The surge in representation, however, comes against a backdrop of heightened attacks.

The Center for American Women and Politics reports 36 woman versus woman congressional races this year alone.

In Florida, where women are on the ballot in races from Congress to governor, State Representative Angie Nixon, a Democrat running for U.S.

Senate, says she's been told to tone down her passion to be seen as viable.

I feel the pressure every day.

Someone the other day told me that I need to smile more and I need to have my family around me more because people think of black women as aggressive.

In August, right wing activist Laura Loomer called multiple black women in public life, including Nixon, ghetto, entitled race obsessed and destructive.

The comments were condemned by lawmakers across the political spectrum.

I'm Tramiel Gomes.

And Alaska's trawling fisheries are taking center stage in this year's race for the U.S. Senate.

Fishermen use trawlers to catch pollock and crab, but they also collect bycatch, things they aren't necessarily fishing for.

Linda Bankin, executive director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association, says trawling damages the ecosystem by destroying corals, sponges, and sea whips, which form important fish habitat.

And certainly there's a lot of concern right now about by touch of salmon, giving the state of some of the salmon runs by touch of crab, because we've had some real crashes in crab stocks.

The issue has gotten the attention of the candidates seeking Alaska's seat in the U.S. Senate.

Republican Representative Dan Sullivan introduced legislation earlier this year to limit bycatch.

Mary Piltola, the Democrat running against Sullivan, has also said she will address the bycatch issue if she's elected.

I'm Mark Moran.

Collaboration credit goes to Anna Gustafson with the Alaska Independent.

Finally, September is Hunger Action Month, and Oregon leaders are strategizing how to keep Oregon families fed in the face of dramatic cuts to SNAP and other federal food programs.

Some 70,000 Oregonians have lost their SNAP benefits since the largest cuts in history were made to the program last year.

Andrea Williams, president of Oregon Food Bank, says this has led to an over 50 percent increase in visits to food banks in the last two years.

She adds that the need is now outpacing the supply.

These are seniors on fixed incomes, working families with young kids, all having to stretch their household incomes as cost of food, Rent gas has just continued to skyrocket.

The Trump administration says cuts to SNAP and other food programs are necessary to root out fraud and protect taxpayers.

I'm Isobel Charle.

This is Mike Clifford for Public News Service.

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