blew it out of the water, as far as i was concerned. that chase in the l.a. river with that truck and, oh, my god. you watch that chase today, it s powerful cinema. come with me if you want to live. it s okay, mom. he s here to help. it s okay. it s got heady ideas about time travel and about the space-time continuum, all that fancy stuff. but it is also a story about being relentless, and jim as a filmmaker is relentless. when james cameron got to t2, he was interested in expanding his palette, particularly to include these new digital tools. it was wildly groundbreaking. cameron was working with industrial light and magic.
brackish water to drink. listen to him on this point. this technology is much older than i. it is much older than each and every one of you and the reality is we need to be more creative and we need to be more aggressive in terms of not just promoting this technology, but delivering on its promise, moreover delivering on its potential. reporter: so it is about creating new sources of water but reserving the water we get. here in august, we have a few inches of water in the l.a. river. but amara and boris, in the winter months, this channel would be raging, feet and feet of water, flooding in the winter months the goal is to capture the water and save it for years to come. back to you. mike, thank you so much. puerto rico is facing a climate emergency. officials say that beaches are eroding at an alarming rate because of destructive hurricanes, flooding and, of course, rising sea levels. cnn s leyla santiago has
you. most of this plan is about saving water, conserving it and building more storage space rather than channeling water out of california and southern california. that s one of the reasons why we wanted to show you this spot in the l.a. river. we have miles of concrete infrastructure that is built to channel water out to the ocean, just looking south right here, this goes on for 20 miles. and what governor newsom is proposing here is to build storage space, cisterns, reservoirs, to keep water in california, rather than sending all of it out into the ocean. so to put up his bullet points of what he s proposing, 4 million acre feet of storage space. reservoirs, cisterns, to keep water in when it rains, sometimes heavily across california in the winter months. also recycling waste water, water that goes in your neighborhood drains and comes up to rivers. channels like they also wants to recycle. third point taking salt out of ocean water, taking salt out of
confirming for cnn they have never heard about this individual outside of the coverage that has been making rounds around the world now for the last 24 hours. so again, it still leaves that key question here as to what drove, what motivated this attack and whether or not his decades long fight for freedom of speech or freedom of expression potentially made him a target when he walked on to that stage yesterday morning, fred. it is extraordinary. all right, polo sando val. thank you so much. still ahead, the california governor is making dramatic plans to help the state face a stunning drain on their water supply. we re live alongside the l.a. river, next. she s in austin between a fresh bowl of matcha and a fresh batch of wireframes. and you can find her, and millions of other talented pros, right now on upwork.com hey dad, i m almost out. i got you.
welcome back. california is expected to lose 10% ever its water within just 20 years. that alarming estimate is prompting the state to take action as it battles a long running drought. hotter temperatures and impacts from climate change. the governor has just announced a new multi-billion dollars plan to preserve the state s water supply. mike polario is in los angeles and in the los angeles river, what most people know as the river. it is very dry. so what kind of steps is the governor suggesting? reporter: well good morning to you. one of the biggest steps being proposed here is creating more storage space to keep watter that falls in the winter months and save it for the summer months and for this environment that we re in right now, so we wanted to bring you here, fred, just to show you that this is