
WaPo’s Heidi Levine Speaks Out After Brutal Attack by Israeli Settlers
Clip: 10/30/2026 | 19m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine recounts being brutally beaten by West Bank settlers.
As Israel awaits the outcome of an inconclusive election, violence is escalating in the West Bank. Journalists documenting attacks by Israeli settlers are increasingly at risk. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine recounts being brutally beaten by settlers while reporting there two weeks ago and reveals what has happened since. Some of this conversation is difficult to hear.
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WaPo’s Heidi Levine Speaks Out After Brutal Attack by Israeli Settlers
Clip: 10/30/2026 | 19m 22sVideo has Closed Captions
As Israel awaits the outcome of an inconclusive election, violence is escalating in the West Bank. Journalists documenting attacks by Israeli settlers are increasingly at risk. Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine recounts being brutally beaten by settlers while reporting there two weeks ago and reveals what has happened since. Some of this conversation is difficult to hear.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> SO, AS ISRAEL AWAITS NEWS ON AN INCONCLUSIVE ELECTION, MANY PALESTINIANS IN OCCUPIED WEST BANK SEE LITTLE HOPE FOR POSITIVE CHANGE.
NOW, THE OLIVE HARVEST HAS BEGUN, AND WITH IT, A NEW SPATE OF ATTACKS BY ISRAELI SETTLERS, SOME WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF ISRAELI FORCES, THAT IS ACCORDING TO THE U. N. AND AS THE VIOLENCE GETS WORSE, SO TOO DOES THE DANGER TO THOSE DOCUMENTING IT.
JUST LAST NIGHT, WITNESSES SAY AN AMERICAN JOURNALIST AND A RUSSIAN IS REALLY ACTIVISTS WERE ASSAULTED BY SETTLERS.
BOTH HAVING BEEN ALONGSIDE VETERAN WASHINGTON POST REPORTER HEIDI LEVINE WHEN SHE WAS BEATEN BY SETTLERS TWO WEEKS AGO.
WELL, HEIDI TAKES MICHELLE MARTIN BACK TO THAT BRUTAL DAY AND REVEALS WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE, AND WE DO WANT TO WARN YOU, I HAVE HAD TROUBLE WATCHING THIS VIDEO MYSELF, THAT SOME OF THE DESCRIPTIONS IN THE VIDEO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, YOU CAN FIND QUITE DISTURBING.
>> THANKS, PAULA, HEIDI LEVINE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.
CAN I JUST START BY ASKING YOU, HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN COVERING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SITUATION?
I MEAN, YOU CURRENTLY LIVE THERE, YOU LIVE IN ISRAEL, SO HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN COVERING THIS?
>> I HAVE BEEN COVERING THIS SINCE 1983.
THAT'S A LONG TIME, IT'S DECADES.
OVER FOUR DECADES.
AND SADLY, I JUST THINK THINGS ARE GETTING WORSE.
>> I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE SEEN QUITE A LOT OF THINGS, I MEAN, YOU HAVE SEEN CONFLICT AND YOU ALSO SEE DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.
I KNOW THIS IS NOT EASY TO TALK ABOUT, BUT COULD YOU JUST TAKE US BACK TO THAT FRIDAY MORNING IN THE VILLAGE ?
YOU WERE THERE, PHOTOGRAPHING THE OLIVE HARVEST.
WHY WERE YOU THERE THAT PARTICULAR DAY?
>> IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A TIME --A JOYOUS TIME FOR FAMILIES.
IT IS THE LIVELIHOOD FOR THE PEOPLE , THE OLIVE HARVEST.
THEY DEPEND ON THE OLIVE OIL AND OLIVES FINANCIALLY .
IT'S A PART OF THEIR CULTURE.
AND WHAT WE ARE SEEING NOW IS ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS JUST WHEREVER YOU LOOK ON THE HILL, YOU SEE AN ILLEGAL OUTPOST.
UM, AND I ARRANGED WITH ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES TO GO TOGETHER, BECAUSE SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK FOR JOURNALISTS HAS BECOME EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
WE NO LONGER PUT PRESS SIGNS ON OUR GUARD LIKE WE USED TO, BECAUSE OF THE FEAR OF BEING ATTACKED BY SETTLERS.
THERE WATCHING YOU WITH DRONES, THERE WATCHING YOU WITH BINOCULARS.
THEY ARE ON HILLTOPS.
THEY RADIO AHEAD TO EACH OTHER.
IF THEY SPOT A JOURNALIST IN THE AREA.
THEY AMBUSHED PALESTINIAN CARS ON THE ROAD.
SO BASICALLY, WE MET EARLY MORNING.
WE LEFT TEL AVIV AT 6:00, WE ARRIVED IN [ INAUDIBLE ] TO MEET OTHER JOURNALISTS AROUND 7:15.
WE WANTED TO CONVOY TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE WE ARRIVED SAFELY.
THE DAY BEFORE, THE IDF TOLD THE RESIDENTS ABOUT THE FLOOD , THAT THEY HAD PERMISSION TO GO TO THEIR TREES AND HARVEST.
SO, THIS WAS ALL COORDINATED WITH THE IDF.
WHEN WE GOT THERE, WE DIDN'T SEE ANY ISRAELI MILITARY IN THE AREA.
AND IN THE BEGINNING, LIKE FOR THE FIRST HALF AN HOUR, 40 MINUTES, THINGS SEEMED OKAY.
UM, IT WAS ONLY REALLY MEN WORKING.
IT'S NOT LIKE YOUR TYPICAL OLIVE HARVEST IN THE PAST WHERE PEOPLE WOULD MAKE A WHOLE DAY PICNIC OUT OF IT, BRING THE CHILDREN, BRING NEWBORN BABIES, THEY WOULD BE SLEEPING UNDER A TREE ON A BLANKET.
IT WAS REALLY SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE AND IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.
BUT ON THAT DAY, THE MEN WERE WORKING LIKE AT TRIPLE SPEED.
TO TRY TO HARVEST TREES.
THERE WERE A LOT OF JOURNALISTS.
AND WE WERE ACTUALLY UNDER THE SHADOW OF AN OUTPOST ACROSS LIKE --ACROSS THE WAY.
AND YOU COULD SEE, UM, LIKE A TENT.
AND AFTER ABOUT 40 MINUTES, WE ALL STARTED TO NOTICE THAT MEN WERE GATHERING ON THE HILLTOP.
THEY WERE WEARING BLACK MASKS, THEY WERE HOLDING SLINGSHOTS, AND THEIR NUMBERS , WITHIN LIKE HALF AN HOUR, JUST KEPT GROWING AND GROWING.
AND THEN HE BASICALLY LIKE FILLED THE WHOLE TOP OF THE HILL.
>> ABOUT HOW MANY DO YOU THINK THERE WERE?
HE SAID THE NUMBERS KEPT GROWING.
>> I MEAN, WE STARTED WITH MAYBE LIKE THE DOZEN, AND I WOULD ESTIMATE ABOUT 70 AT THE TIME.
>> AND HOW OLD WERE THEY?
YOU COULD TELL --YOU SAID THEY WERE WEARING MASKS.
[ INAUDIBLE ] >> YOU COULD SEE THE SKULLCAPS.
YOU COULD TELL THAT THEY WERE YOUNGER, THEY LOOK LIKE TEENAGERS.
>> DID THERE SEEM TO BE SOME SORT OF SIGNAL OR SOMETHING OR WHAT HAPPENED?
>> WELL, THEY STARTED TO BURN TREES, OLIVE TREES ON TOP OF THE HILL.
AND THEN THEY STARTED TO MOVE DOWN LIKE ABOUT 100 METERS AND TAKE A POSITION IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HILL.
AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, MEN STARTED TO GATHER UP THERE TARPS AND ALL THEIR BAGS OF OLIVES THAT THEY MANAGED TO COLLECT, AND TRY TO LIKE START TO EVACUATE THE AREA.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, THEY CHARGED DOWN THE HILL.
THERE WAS --TO THE LEFT OF ME, I COULD SEE TEARGASSED AND, UM, IT LOOKS LIKE MOLOTOV COCKTAIL EXPLOSIONS.
BUT IT COULD HAVE ALSO BEEN FIRECRACKERS ON THE PALESTINIAN SIDE AS A RESPONSE.
AND ALL THIS COMMOTION, AND I WAS TRYING TO LIKE, UM, MOVE TO BE LIKE BEHIND THE PALESTINIANS , SAFELY.
BUT IT WAS VERY CHAOTIC AS WELL BECAUSE I WAS ALSO HEARING GUNSHOTS.
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, LIKE, UM, HUNDRED METERS AWAY FROM ME , I SAW THEM.
AND THEY HAD CLUBS IN THEIR HAND AND THEY JUST RAN TOWARDS ME.
AND I CAN'T REALLY REMEMBER IF I TOOK THE POSITION ON THE GROUND OR STORMED TO THE GROUND FIRST, BUT ALL I KNOW IS I PUT MY HEAD --FACE TO THE DIRT, AND IT WAS LIKE I HAD CAMERAS ON EACH OF MY SHOULDERS, AND I WAS TRYING TO HOLD ONTO MY CAMERA GEAR.
LIKE THEY YANKED IT OFF.
AND THEY WERE JUST KICKING ME AND HITTING ME , AND THIS WAS LIKE GOING ON FOR OVER 10 MINUTES AT LEAST.
LIKE I ESTIMATE.
I KNOW THEY WERE TRYING TO ROB ME AND GET MY GEAR AND MY BAGS , AND IN THE PROCESS, THEY ALSO BROKE MY NECKLACE OFF ME, AND, UM, I HAD TWO RINGS ON THIS FINGER WHICH ARE TOTALLY SQUISHED FROM THEM SMASHING ME.
THIS FINGER HAD SURGERY AND DOESN'T HAVE ANY SKIN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT ANYMORE.
[ INAUDIBLE ] ANYWAYS, SO, WHEN THEY STOOD ME UP, IT'S NOT TRUE WHAT THE PRIME MINISTER SAID IN HIS TWEET THAT IT APPEARED THEY WERE HELPING ME.
THEY ONLY STOOD ME UP SO THEY COULD --THEY COULD ROB ME.
AND THEN THEY THREW ME BACK ON THE GROUND AND STARTED TO KICK ME AND --AND HIT ME, AND I HAD FOUR STAB WOUNDS IN MY PELVIC AREA.
I HAD TWO DOCTORS AND A NURSE, I BELIEVE, IT COULD HAVE BEEN A NIGHT OR IT COULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT WAS ATTACHED TO THEIR STICKS.
>> DID THEY SAY ANYTHING WHILE THIS WAS HAPPENING TO YOU?
WERE THERE ANY WORDS EXCHANGED?
>> NOT REALLY.
NOT REALLY, NO.
AND LIKE I KNEW THAT WASN'T GOING TO REALLY HELP ME TO HAVE A DIALOGUE.
THEY ARE MONSTERS, THEY ARE NOT HUMAN IN MY OPINION.
I HAVE BEEN REALLY INVESTING A LOT OF TIME LISTENING TO, UM, MEETING OTHER VICTIMS AND LISTENING TO THEIR STORIES.
NOW I CAN -- I CAN REALLY UNDERSTAND.
>> DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE PRESS WAS SPECIFICALLY TARGETED OR WERE THEY ATTACKING EVERYONE THERE?
>> I REMEMBER BEING OUT AND CNN WAS ATTACKED.
THEIR CAR WAS ATTACKED.
I MEAN, THEY DEFINITELY WILL ATTACK ACTIVISTS, THEY WILL ATTACK JOURNALISTS, THEY WILL GO AFTER PALESTINIAN GRANDMOTHERS.
I MEAN, THEY WILL GO AFTER EVERYONE.
I MET A MAN WHO HAD BEEN ATTACKED, A DEAF, DISABLED MAN IN HIS 80s, OKAY?
CAN YOU IMAGINE, LIKE HOW DO PEOPLE DO SUCH A THING TO PEOPLE?
I MEAN, IT ALMOST FEELS LIKE WE ARE GETTING TO SEE WHAT ACTUAL POGROMS WERE LIKE FOR THE JEWS, AND HOW CAN JEWISH PEOPLE BE DOING THIS OF ALL PEOPLE, YOU KNOW?
>> DID YOU SEE ANY ISRAELI POLICE OR ANY ARMY, DID ANY AUTHORITIES INTERVENE AT ANY POINT?
>> NO.
THEY WERE VERY CLOSE BY BECAUSE I SAW THE IMAGES LATER THAT MY COLLEAGUES TOOK.
THEY SHOT A MAN.
I MEAN, THEY CHARGED FORWARD WITH THE SETTLERS, AND THE QUESTION IS WHERE WERE THEY THE WHOLE MORNING?
WHY DID THEY ALLOW THIS GATHERING OF THE JEWISH SETTLERS TO EVEN HAPPEN?
THEY GAVE THE PALESTINIANS THE PERMISSION THE DAY BEFORE TO HARVEST THEIR TREES, SO THE ARMY KNEW THIS EVENT WAS HAPPENING.
IT WAS COORDINATED WITH PERMISSION.
>> SO, ARE YOU SAYING THAT WHEN THE ISRAELI ARMY OR THE AUTHORITIES SHOWED UP, THEY ATTACKED PALESTINIANS ALSO, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?
>> THEY SHOT A MAN IN HIS LEG.
>> THEY SHOT A PALESTINIAN?
>> THEY STARTED FIRING TEAR GAS, BUT THEY HAD THE SETTLERS ALL AROUND THEM.
INSTEAD OF LIKE TRYING TO ARREST THE SETTLERS, WHO ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE THERE, [ INAUDIBLE ] THE WEST BANK.
UNDER ISRAELI LAW, THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BE THERE, BUT I MEAN, THE ARMY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING TO THEM.
>> HOW DID THE ATTACK END, DID THEY FINALLY RETREAT?
>> ON, TWO OF MY COLLEAGUES, TWO TRIED RESCUING ME, AND WHEN THEY DID --AND THIS WAS AFTER LIKE WATCHING THIS FOR 10 MINUTES, UM, AND NOT BEING ABLE TO DO ANYTHING TO INTERVENE.
BUT WHEN THEY DECIDED TO MOVE FORWARD WE CAME UNDER ATTACK AGAIN BY THE SETTLERS.
AND A GROUP OF MEN, PALESTINIAN MEN, STEPPED IN FRONT OF US, AND TRYING TO FIGHT THE JEWISH SETTLERS , ATTACK OFF.
AND I COULD BARELY WALK.
THEY WERE TELLING, COME, COME, LET'S RUN, RUN.
IT REALLY WAS A SCENE OUT OF THE BIBLE.
>> WE CAN STILL SEE THAT YOU ARE RECOVERING, YOUR FINGER REQUIRED SURGERY.
I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ALSO HAD BROKEN RIBS, BROKEN VERTEBRA, YOU HAD STAB WOUNDS, WHICH I THINK REQUIRED STITCHES.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE?
>> A SMALL FRACTURE IN MY ANKLE.
THE ONLY THING --PLACE IN MY BODY THAT DIDN'T HURT WAS MY HEAD.
I THINK BECAUSE I WORE MY HELMET AND BLACK JACKET, IT DEFINITELY SAVED MY LIFE.
I KIND OF FEEL ALMOST LIKE I HAVE A LITTLE SNEAK PREVIEW OF MY FUNERAL, BECAUSE --IN A REALLY STRANGE WAY, BECAUSE THE SUPPORT COMING FROM SO MANY PEOPLE.
FROM MY COLLEAGUES AT THE WASHINGTON POST, MY COLLEAGUES HERE, BOTH PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI AND A LOT OF ISRAELIS HAVE BEEN REACHING OUT TO ME .
THERE WERE LETTERS SENT TO ME, FORMER MOSSAD PEOPLE, COMMANDERS.
>> AND WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
WHAT ARE THEY SAYING IN THESE LETTERS?
>> HOW EMBARRASSED AND HOW THESE PEOPLE DO NOT REPRESENT THEM.
AND THAT IS THE THING.
I MEAN, I THINK SADLY, WHEN ANYONE IN THE WORLD THINKS OF ISRAELIS, THEY DO THINK OF THEM, RIGHT?
BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE NEWS ALL THE TIME AND THEY ARE DOING SUCH HORRIFIC THINGS.
IT'S HAPPENING EVERY DAY, THERE IS SOMEBODY ELSE.
AND IT'S NOT JUST ONE INCIDENT.
IT IS MANY INCIDENTS ON A DAILY BASIS, AND NOTHING IS BEING DONE.
>> SO, THE PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU, HIS OFFICE --HIS OFFICE CONDEMNED THE VIOLENCE, BUT QUESTIONED WHAT HAPPENED.
IN ITS ORIGINAL STATEMENT, THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE SAID ISRAEL UNEQUIVOCALLY CONDEMNS VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE, JEWS, ARABS, CHRISTIANS, OR JOURNALISTS.
I PROMISED THOSE RESPONSES WOULD BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE ONCE THE FACTS ARE ESTABLISHED.
YOU ALREADY SAID THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT SHOW THE FOOTAGE SHOWING YOU APPEARING TO BE HELPED AT YOUR FEET BY THE PERSON THAT KNOCKED YOU DOWN AND YOU ARE SAYING THAT IS JUST NONSENSE.
>> IT IS STATEMENT --IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR ME THAT HE STAYED SILENT, BECAUSE ISRAEL SLAPPED IN MY FACE --IT WAS LIKE GETTING KICKED AGAIN, HONESTLY.
I GOT --THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL, [ INAUDIBLE ] , TO APOLOGIZE.
MANY PEOPLE HAVE COME TO VISIT.
THIS WAS --THIS WAS ANOTHER ATTACK ON ME.
IT WAS LIKE ANOTHER BOOT IN MY RIBS.
>> THE ISRAELI POLICE ARRESTED --ARRESTED 10 SUSPECTS IN INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING YOUR ATTACK, AND A SEPARATE ASSAULT ON EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS, BUT NINE OF THOSE WHO WERE ARRESTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ATTACK ON YOU WERE SUBSEQUENTLY RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST .
JUST ONE IS REMAINING IN CUSTODY, AND THAT --I'M JUST INTERESTED IN YOUR REACTION TO THIS .
>> NOT SURPRISED.
BECAUSE [ INAUDIBLE ] CATCH THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MAN I MET LIVING IN THE JORDAN VALLEY THAT WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
HIS TESTICLES TIED TOGETHER WITH ZIP TIES AND PARADED AROUND HIS FAMILY MEMBERS, INCLUDING CHILDREN.
NO, AND I DON'T THINK THEY WILL BE.
NOTHING HAS BEEN FOUND.
NONE OF MY DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN FOUND, NONE OF MY CAMERAS.
I MEAN, I LOST EVERYTHING.
I JUST LEARNED ALSO BECAUSE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE POST WENT BACK TO THE VILLAGE TOGETHER WITH OUR OTHER CORRESPONDENT, AND THEY ACTUALLY MET A FAMILY THAT LIVED VERY CLOSE TO WHERE I WAS ATTACKED THAT HAD SEEN TV FOOTAGE FROM THAT ATTACK, AND SPOKE ABOUT THEIR 10-YEAR-OLD SON WHO TRIED TO STOP THE ATTACK AND WENT OUT TRYING TO THROW STONES AT THEM TO SAVE ME.
CAN YOU IMAGINE?
>> YOU -- >> PEOPLE ARE LIVING LIKE WITH BARBED WIRE SURROUNDING THEIR HOMES AND --TO PROTECT THEM FROM THESE ATTACKS.
THEY ARE SITTING AT HOME, LOOKING AT SCREENS , INSTEAD OF WATCHING SOMETHING ON TV, THERE SURVEILLING, MAKING SURE NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO BREAK INTO THEIR HOME AND BURN THEM TO DEATH.
THIS IS HOW PEOPLE ARE SPENDING THEIR TIME.
>> ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS, FROM JANUARY THROUGH AUGUST OF THIS YEAR, MORE THAN 1000 PALESTINIANS HAVE BEEN INJURED IN SETTLER ATTACKS.
AS WE ARE SPEAKING NOW, ISRAEL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF SORT OF COUNTING THE VOTES OF THE MOST RECENT ELECTION.
WAS THERE ANY SIGN OVER THE COURSE OF THE SELECTION THAT THERE IS ANY WILL TO ADDRESS THIS?
>> [ INAUDIBLE ] CAME TO VISIT ME IN THE HOSPITAL.
AND THE LEADER OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
I KNOW , YOU KNOW, I THINK I ALSO PUT OUT A STATEMENT.
BUT WITH NOW THE ELECTION, I -- I DON'T THINK ANYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE IN THE WEST BANK.
I THINK IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE.
>> WHY DO YOU SAY THAT?
>> IT'S JUST SO LAWLESS NOW, IT'S UNBELIEVABLE.
AND I'M SEEING ISRAELI SOLDIERS , RESERVISTS THAT HAVE BEEN RADICALIZED BY THESE SETTLERS, AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY ON THEIR SIDE .
I MEAN, I HAVE TALKED TO THEM.
AND YOU SEE IT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO --HERE THEY ARE IN THESE ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS, RIGHT, AND THEN I AM PHOTOGRAPHING THEM PRAYING TOGETHER WITH HIS PEOPLE OR HAVING LUNCH TOGETHER WITH THESE PEOPLE, AND, UM, AND -- OR ESCORTING THEM THROUGH VILLAGES WHILE THEY STEAL PEOPLE'S SHEEP AND GOATS, UM, LIKE IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE.
>> THIS IS ALSO ELECTION SEASON IN THE UNITED STATES, AND THERE ARE --THERE ARE PEOPLE --I KNOW, BECAUSE I JUST CAME BACK FROM SORT OF CANVASSING VOTERS, AND THERE ARE SOME WHO ARGUE THAT THIS IS JUST NOT AMERICA'S BUSINESS.
>> BUT IT HAS TO BE AMERICA'S BUSINESS, RIGHT?
BECAUSE A LOT OF MONEY IS COMING TO THE SETTLEMENTS FROM AMERICA.
A LOT OF MONEY IS COMING TO THE WEAPONS BEING USED IN GAZA FROM THE AMERICANS.
SO, HOW CAN THE AMERICANS WASH THEIR HANDS FROM THIS?
THEY CAN'T.
NEXT YOU THINK YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO WORK IN YOUR FIELD?
>> UM, YES.
I'M NOT THE KIND OF PERSON TO LIKE SIT HOME.
BUT I KNOW THAT I NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, BUT I CANNOT WAIT TO MEET THIS 10-YEAR-OLD BOY WHO TRIED TO SAVE ME.
AND I HOPE IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO WEEKS , LIKE, TO BE ABLE TO AT LEAST DO THAT.
I HAVE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE, UM, VICTIMS.
I HAVE GONE TO SO MANY FUNERALS, I CAN'T EVEN COUNT HOW MANY FUNERALS I HAVE COVERED.
AND I JUST WANT TO GO OVER EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE THIS YEAR AND PULL TOGETHER INTO A -- EYEWITNESS STORY.
>> WELL, HEIDI LEVINE, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPEAKING WITH ME.
>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
> >> AND FINALLY FOR US, A 57 YEAR WAIT AND VICTORY FOR THE RECORD BOOKS, THE MILWAUKEE BREWERS HAVE WON THEIR FIRST EVER WORLD SERIES TITLE.
AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING WHAT IT FEELS LIKE, WELL, THIS.
THAT CELEBRATION ENDED DECADES OF DISAPPOINTMENT.
I MEAN, LOOK AT THEM STORMING THE FIELD AFTER DEFEATING THE TAMPA BAY RAYS 4-1.
THE BREWERS FAN BASE IS WIDELY KNOWN AS THE MOST DEDICATED, AND BACK HOME IN MILWAUKEE, THEY WERE CELEBRATING RIGHT ALONG WITH THEM.
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