This is cnn Breaking News. We of course continue to follow the Breaking News for you this morning. We have so much going on and so much to share with you. The house is going to vote on a Spending Bill to try to keep the government running, but democratic senator, Dianne Feinstein, the longest Serving Female senator has died. A somber scene there as you can see her desk draped with black and those beautiful flowers sitting on top. Senator feinstein passed away last night at her washington, d. C. , home. She was 90 years old. He is had a long history of being a trailblazer, and the definition of the word. Breaking glass ceilings all over the place, and over and over again, and some of the firsts for the senator is the first woman elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors and the first mayor of San Francisco, and first woman to serve as senator for california and the first woman to chair the both senate rules and intelligence committees and first woman member of the judiciary comm
shannon: she was a pioneer in so many ways. you reference her time out west and where she was from and it was such an interesting back drop to see her become the first female appointed to the supreme court. she often told the story about graduating from stanford and not being able to get a job. no law firm would hire her as a woman in the 50s and 60s. she struggled to make it in the legal profession. to think she came out of school, she found a roadblock to any kind of legal career and she decided to plow forward and ends up on the supreme court. it is a really fascinating, truly american story. she went out and campaigned to become a judge because she saw this is my avenue. she didn t win the first election. she did ultimately end up becoming a judge but another part of her interesting background is she was a lawmaker in arizona in the state senate. so she had a real appreciation for all of the different branches, for fighting her way into the legal profession. she had a h
people to relocate and threatening to create a generation of climate refugees. what s happening here is a bellwether of the planet s future as the world met for the cop 26 in glasgow. i traveled to the pacific islands to meet women on the front lines who are leading the fight against the climate crisis from elders relocating their villages. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. from the first female leader in the pacific islands. building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don t have. to the only current serving female prime minister. there s very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation.
from elders relocating their villages. .. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. ..to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. from the first female leader in the pacific islands. building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don t have. ..to the only current serving female prime minister. there s very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation. fiame naomi mata afa became samoa s first female prime minister in 2021, the pacific islands region has the lowest female representation in politics in the world. this year, she ll be attending the cop 26 remotely. climate change is an existential threat to countries like samoa.
what s happening here is a bellwether of the planet s future. as the world met for the cop 26 in glasgow, i travelled to the pacific islands to meet women on the front lines who are leading the fight against the climate crisis, from elders relocating their villages. .. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. ..to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. ..from the first female leader in the pacific islands. building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don t have. ..to the only current serving female prime minister. there s very low emissions from the pacific and yet we are most impacted. ..who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation.