Washington journal continues. Host our first guest this as weg is andrew light, try to understand the impact in response to Climate Change. Want to start with the paris climate of word. Can you explain what that agreement seeks to do and how . Guest sure. I was on the u. S. Team, i was a negotiator for it with the Obama Administration and what it tries to do is really bring the world together so that you get enough commitments are enough countries with enough time to stabilize an increase so that we dont hit the worst impacts and effectively what it does is create a global regime where every country comes forward and puts forward their own initial target. The targets are not forced on them, everyone picks the wrong target and there are these binding rules that require you to die bulge how youre going to hit the target, your progress along the way, things like that. And then it requires countries to go back to the table every five years to make new pledges we can hit so that these stabi
Social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. A very good wednesday morning to you. You can start calling now. We will begin by taking you back to mondays final press briefing with President Trump at the g7 summit of World Leaders. The final question the president took was on the issue of Climate Change. [video clip] there was a significant talk at the summit about Climate Change. I know in the past you offered skepticism. What do you think the world should be doing and do you harbor that skepticism . Has feel the United States tremendous wealth. Feet. Alth is under its i have made that wealth come alive. Exporting we are the Number One Energy producer in the world and soon it will be by far with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many years. Could be the largest site in the world for oil and gas. Ronald reagan was not able to do it. They have been trying to do it since before ronald reagan. We are the Number One Energy pr
Administration and what it tries to do is really bring the world together so that you get enough commitments are enough countries with enough time to stabilize an increase so that we dont hit the worst impacts and effectively what it does is create a global regime where every country comes forward and puts forward their own initial target. The targets are not forced on them, everyone picks the wrong target and there are these binding rules that require you to die bulge how youre going to hit the target, your progress along the way, things like that. And then it requires countries to go back to the table every five years to make new pledges we can hit so that these stabilization goals that are effectively to try to stabilize temperature increase over what it was in the past at about three and a half degrees fahrenheit and then maybe do better. Host why is that important . Guest david that target . Already we are having tremendous Climate Impact just because of the temperatures humans ha
Meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. [roll call] president yee thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, since this is considered a Board Meeting, a full Board Meeting, i would like you to please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, Lorenzo Bryant and colin cooley, who record each of the proceedings and make the transcripts available online. President yee madam clerk, colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse the five members that are not here . Do i have to name the five members . Clerk yes. President yee can you please name the five members . Clerk that would be mar, peskin, ronen, walton, and safai. President yee okay. Can we take that without objection . Okay. Madam clerk, can you please call items 1 and 2. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. President yee okay. Colleagues, these are these two items are pretty similar
Overall, looking good. Westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze. Southbound 101, San Francisco to sfo, still in the green at nine minutes. Today lawmakers in sacramento will consider big rebates if you buy an electric car. When we say big, we are talking about thousands of dollars. Amy hollyfield is live with the details. Reporter hi, reggie. A state lawmaker thinks cars like these are the answer to saving our planet. He thinks the state should pay you to drive an electric car. Assemblyman is proposing a 7,500 rebate for people that buy electric cars. The current rebate is 2,500, so he wants to triple it and he wants to add urgency to the bill so you have an incentive to make the move now. He had activist on hand at his press conference to talk about the need for electric cars. Gasoline cars are driving us towards climate chaos. We have to stop using fossil fuel vehicles. He wants to boost sales of electric cars that he says right now california is not on track to meet its goals for reducin