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Aug. 25, 2023: Historic year for severe weather; A daughter marches in her mother’s footsteps

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Lucas Faulkner, a meteorologist with the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, measures a massive hailstone with a caliper inside the National Weather Service’s Goodland, Kansas office on Aug. 14, 2023. The hailstone was produced by a severe thunderstorm in Yuma County on Aug. 8.

As the weather extremes continue this summer, what's causing them and what does that suggest about this coming fall and winter? Then, a daughter walks in her mother's footsteps at the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington. Plus, a poem designed to build bridges and unity. Then, a new state program pays for college to fill critical job shortages. And a unique cabin getaway.