PBS News Hour

Season 42, Episode 244

Episode Title: December 7, 2017

Air Date: 2017-12-07

Overview:

Thursday on the NewsHour, California wildfires rage out of of control and thousands around Los Angeles are forced to evacuate. Also: What the Republican tax plan allows oil drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge, Iraq's reliance on Iranian-backed militias, low-wake workers facing sexual assault, a state budget crisis blamed on tax cuts and a Brief but Spectacular take from an award-winning poet.