students worldwide skipped classes a few days ago, demanding the world take action on climate change. cnn s bill weir talked with one of the students. reporter: every friday, alexander walks to the front of the united nations and chooses this bench over 7th grade. it is a one-girl strike. and it started months ago after a trip to california brought her fright flit close to a paradise in flames. because the air quality was the worst in the world. i have asthma. we had to like even roll up wet towels and put them under windows. reporter: her family sent her back early where she began researching how hotter fires, longer droughts are all being baked into her future thanks to our relentless reliance on
pipeline that says don t build the pipeline. he hasn t done any of that yet. what he s saying is okay, i ve had these regulations in effect. i m going to make sure this is one of those things he can do with a pen, as he pointed out in his state of the union speech, without having to get congressional approval so he can sort of check the box on that. he was in northern california last week, talking about the severe drought. right. and he said this. listen to this. unless and until we do more to combat carbon pollution, this trend is going to get worse. even if we do take action on climate change, carbon pollution has built up for decades. the plant is slowly going to keep warming for a long time to come. all right. so how much pushback is the president likely to get on this? he s going to get a lot of pushback, because, you know, wolf, congress has been divided on this, largely along party