was absent from today s cobra meeting discussing the heatwave. so let s begin. the heatwave, it is on the front of the sunday times, warning of chaos looming as we approach the big a0. and a warning from network rail not to travel on monday and tuesday. don t forget, this is the southern half of the uk, so i m sure anybody watching this programme further north is probably sitting thinking is lovely and hoping the sun will come out tomorrow. it is a crisis, we have never had an emergency to declare the because of the sea in the country, yes, we have had hot summers in the past, notably 1976, but this is serious, this is a0 degrees, we are not used to it, our infrastructure, our homes, ourjobs, our methods of getting around are not geared to it. we have to take it seriously. it is notjust for human beings and the fact our bodies can t cope with this, particularly if you doing any physical exertion, it is all the other things, like we haven t got schools and hospitals and houses
infrastructure, our homes, ourjobs, our methods of getting around are not geared to it. we have to take it seriously. it is notjust for human beings and the fact our bodies can t cope with this, particularly if you doing any physical exertion, it is all the other things, like we haven t got schools and hospitals and houses geared to these sort of temperatures. but it is also the effect that this sort of way there has on food. we already have a cost of living crisis. that is going to get worse if we have food shortages and you only have to look at the parched gardens and parched fields and the wilting flowers and every thing else to think, oh, what are the animals eating? there isn t any grass for them. farmers have to buy hey, it puts the price up for the cost of living for other things. it all comes back to us. we have to
a stretch. these are people who are my grandfather was a chemist for the government for 50 years. he was a die-hard conservative. he only followed the facts. and what his science told him. one more institution that is preparing for climate change that doesn t question the science? the u.s. military. the defense department. yes. look how they re handling it, what they re doing. and they re not exactly wilting flowers. great point. thank you, romans. we appreciate it. this climate report in particular, paints a grim picture for farmers in the midwest. jamie beyer, vice president of the growers association. this is not about politics for you. you take a nonpartisan stance. when you look at the stats here, that the quantity and quality of the crops are to be depleted because of higher temperatures and droughts and flood nth midwest, you could see up to 75% less corn produced, lose more than 25% of soy bean yield,
wide variety of news. going to pack a lot of it in. with these three wilting flowers of no personality, you ll have a lot of us as well. she called us wilting flowers. suzanne, i saw on the reaction shot you were startled wi by we have a lot of international news. i did that shift when i was covering the white house many years. i saw her face. she was like international news? does that mean i m going? you know it s not pretty in the morning for me. you re always pretty, suzanne. i toent believe that for a second. one of the big gets you guys had, michaela, chelsea clinton. had a great conversation. we flew to chicago yesterday. had to compete against mother nature trying to get into chicago which was a challenge. we did have a wonderful sit-down with this woman who has a lot of passion, a lot of drive. we ve really watched her grow up. it s been interesting to see now that she s 33, married, what she is kind of thinking about for