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Transcripts For KPIX CBS 20240704

Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is sunday morning. As anyone who has ventured outside knows all too well, weather is the story of this summer, if not our time. Reports of extreme heat and record high temperatures now almost routine. 2023 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded. But it may be that one town scorches them all. Phoenix. One of our Fastest Growing cities can also lay claim to being one of our hottest. David pogue checks out its triple digit woes. More than 100 million americans under heat alerts. Reporter 2023 has broken all kinds of records, but not the good kind. Scientists say july is the earths hottest month in recorded history. Welcome to your future. This is what you are facing in what is being projected to be an increasingly hot United States. We are all going to get hotter. Reporter ahead on sunday morning, a cold, hard look at this summers freakish heat. Actor michael j. Fox has now lived more than half his life with parkinsons disease. This morning ill sit down with him as fox looks back with laughter and tears. Whoa he made it look easy. But not anymore. My life is set up so i can pack parkinsons along if i have to. Reporter at some point, parkinsonss going to make the call for you, isnt it . Every day is suffering, but thats the way it is. Who do i see about that . Coming up, michael j. Fox looks back. As for our martha teichner, you might say this morning she is in hog heaven. Reporter once upon a time, nigel here looked like this. And it was love at first sight. The most delicious little creature you have ever seen. Reporter his breeder said he was a teacup pig and wouldnt get much bigger. But he did. Is there such a thing as a teacup pig . No. Reporter the truth about fairy tale pigs later this sunday morning. From our david marartin, a lookok at newly developed amerin mine clearing equipment being put to the test in ukraine. Elizabeth palmer assesses the dangerous present and worrisome future of the island nation of taiwan. Robert costa catches up with a toughtalking politician taking on former president trump, new jerseys Chris Christie. We will go on a very stylish Pleasure Cruise with our seth doane. Plus, a story from Steve Hartman and more this sunday morning for the 6th of august, 2023. Well be back after this. Politicians may still debate it, but its getting harder to desnie, with temperatures climbing to new heights everywhere. Somethings going on out there. David pogue takes us to phoenix where the heat is on. Reporter the last eight years have been the hottest years ever measured on th planet. July was the hottest month ever recorded. July 6th was the hottest day. All over the planet the heat broke temperature records, including in siberia. One 03 degrees. More than after the u. S. Population was subject to heat warnings in july. Here in phoenix, arizona, the heat has broken all kinds of records, including the longest streak of consecutive days where the temperature hit 110 degrees or hotter. Really cooking in phoenix, 118 degrees. Tomorrow will be even hotter. Reporter and its not just the hot air thats dangerous. Its the surfaces. This Steering Wheel 162. 5. This sidewalk is 144 fahrenheit. Thats hot enough to burn your dogs paws in 60 seconds. And this playground slide for children 182. 8 degrees. People say you live in phoenix, its a tdry heat. 105 is not bad. But i want to stress strongly, nobody is acclimated to 115, 118 degrees. More troublesome, is the fact that the reporter Melissa Guardaro is an extreme heat researcher at Arizona State university. Have there been in phoenix hospitals a rise in admissions . Absolutely. The most number of hospital admissions for heat stress that we have ever had. Reporter what can you tell us about the ways your life changes during a heatwave like this . You dont work out outdoors at 11 00. You go and hike at 5 or 6 00 in the morning. I actually have mittens in my car so when the Steering Wheel is really hot, i put my mittens on. Thats how i drive. Reporter you know you are living in a hot place when you have to keep oven mitts in your glove compartment. Probably not there, because you cant touch the metal tab. Reporter why has so much of the country been scorching so long . Allow me to introduce that breakout weather term of 2023, the heat dome. Its an area of High Pressure way up high that traps the warm air like the lid on a pot. It traps the heat. It stops rain from moving in to cool us off. It just sits there. Unfortunately, not every area under the heat dome suffers equally. You want to know who gets the worst of it . Cities. Cities are where heat comes to stay and comes to live. Reporter becca benner is a director of climate issues at the nonprofit nature conservancy. Cities on average are several degrees warmer than the surrounding areas. Just because of so much pavement, it tends to absorb heat better and reflect heat better. Reporter they call it the urban heat island effect. Too much pavement. Not enough trees and greenery to cool things off. The heat island effect is worst in the poorer areas of our cities where there arent many trees and even the bus stops dont always offer shade. Carlos galves lives in phoenix without airconditioning, electricity, or even running water. The thermometer on his wall registers 109. Are you able to sleep in this heat . Translator if i sleep for half an hour, ill lie awake for an hour after that because its so hot. Reporter do you have some tricks to stay cool in here . Translator i drink a lot of water and twice a day i pour a bucket of water on myself, and i just try to rest in the evening. Reporter in phoenix, you can get Free Transportation to the citys 90 cooling centers. Ever since he collapsed from the heat last month, he is worried about leaving his house. Translator i am afraid i could faint again if i go out during the day, so i wait until the sun is going down to go out to get ice or water are i even for people who have airconditioning, not everyone can afford to use it. The average bill for ac in phoenix is over 450 a month. We have a group of people who have to make very difficult choices. Do i pay for airconditioning or do i pay rent. This kind of heatwave is bringing up all the chinks in the infrastructure. Reporter President Biden announced small steps towards adapting to dangerous heat like expanding access to drinking water, improving weather forecasts, and setting up a heat alert system. We should be protecting workers from hazardous conditions. Reporter but there is much more to be done. City planners should develop heat infrastructure like cooling centers and strategic greenery, and the federal government should start taking sheet as seriously as it treats other climate disasters. Fema has never declared extreme heat as a disaster. Reporter wait. So flooding and hurricanes, all those things designated federal disaster areas, but not heat . Not heat. Standing up more cooling centers, providing Greater Services for people, no, that is not reimbursed by the government because there has never been a fema extreme heat declared disaster. Reporter which climate crcry disaster kills the most people . Extreme heat is the climate disaster that kills the most people. In fact, it kills more people than all of the other disasters combined. We kind of have a joke here that we show a picture of before a heatwave and then show a picture after a heatwave and its the same picture, and thats part of the problem because people see tornados and houses are upended and hurricanes and trees and utility poles, and its this invisible killer. Reporter so it sounds like heat, among the various climate disasters, does not get enough love from the media and the governor . It absolutely does not get enough love. Reporter of course, heatwaves arent the only result of the warming planet. Heat also dries out vegetation and we get fires. Heat evaporates the land so we get droughts. Heat evaporates the oceans so we get hurricanes. The nature conservancys becca benner cautions us not to think of this summers heat as something freakish and rare. Its the new normal. It is no longer a future threat. We are living this now. 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But there is a fairy godmother, as we shall see. But first, nigels back story. He was the size of a loaf of wonder bread. And he was pink and the most delicious little creature you have ever seen. Reporter when they got him in 2016, life coach Nancy Steiner and her husband, writer david michaelis, were cold finale was a socalled teacup pig. 40 pounds max full grown. It really went from love at first sight to a fullblown love affair. We loved him. The bigger he got, the more we loved him. Reporter and he did get bigger. And bigger. And bigger. I would give him a treat for getting out of bed, which was tempurpedic. And i would give him a treat for leaving his room, which was airconditioned. A treat for going outside. Nigel weighed over 250 pounds. He couldnt stand up. Reporter by age 3, so much fat had grown over his eyes, nigel couldnt see. Obesity is a big problem. Reporter enter susan magidson. The fairy godmother in this story. Can obesity kill a pig . Yes. Certainly its proven to shorten their Life Expectancy by six to ten years. Reporter she came and collected nigel and drove him three hours to ross mill farm. The potbelly pig sanctuary she runs in pennsylvania where he has been ever since. They visit him regularly. She put nigel on a diet. And discovered he had an aptitude. Nigel, where is your babies, huh . Oh, here. Look at that. He is a boy. He is not a mama. But, you know, nigel has been a really good surrogate mother for babies. Reporter you have heard that term hog heaven, ross mill farm is it. There are pigs everywhere. Big ones, little ones, kitsch y ones. Susan magidson started out breeding potbelly pigs, but pretty soon shifted to rescuing them when it became clear how many people fall out of love with their pigs. So is there such a thing as a teacup pig . No. Not at all. Reporter i bet you didnt know potbelly pgs are crazy about cheerios. Or how about this . Males can reproduce at 2 months old. Females at 4 months. They keep growing until the age of 5 years. Susan magidson has advice for anyone considering a pig as a pet. Take her webinar. Find out what youre getting into. Im trying to keep people from getting them, but there are pig people who are in love with this species. Reporter which is where vivvie and rayne come in. My daughter was excited she is like, come up stairs, see your room. You have to see what i got you for your birthday. Reporter it was 2014 and respiratory therapist peterson was not expecting what her daughter had hidden in her bed. So she pulled the covers back and there was a pig in my bed. And i was thinking, why would you get me a pig . Reporter vivvie grew on her. In every way. One weekend her daughter borrowed her, took the pig camping. It disappeared. So she brought one of vivvies litter mates, you thinking her mother wouldnt notice the switch. When i got home and saw this other pig, i was just not happy about it at all. And i cried. Reporter she posted flyers and, sure enough, campers spotted vivvie. They said, we did cheerios. On my flyer i said that she loves cheerios. Reporter she was caught and she took her home. The second pig, named rayne, stayed. Now, you have to understand that v she also has, count them, a cat, a fish, a tortoise, and three dogs. So, when her house burned down over a year ago, she had a problem. She sent the pigs off to ross mill farm while she looked for a place to live until her house could be rebuilt. A landlord actually agreed to rent to her. Good girl, baby. Here you go. Reporter sisters vivvie and rayne, have their own room. We showed up this last year on what happened to be their 8th birthday. Their treat . The best looking fruit salad any pig could ever want. Just as in that other three little pig story, there is a moral here. Pigs are not for everybody. But for some people, and pigs, there are happy endings. Why is it all worth it . I love them. Good checkup . 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Everyone agrees it produces some of the worlds finest handpicked tea. And the worlds most sophisticated microchips. It has deep cultural links to china, but is it part of china . Thats where things get messy. Chinas president , xi jinping, insists that it is. And is threatening to impose beijings rule by force. Chinas military has held exercises around taiwan that look a lot like rehearsals for an invasion. But millions of taiwanese see their island as a nation already fully formed. Do you think of taiwan as a country . Yeah, definitely. Reporter this, call it serious difference of opinion, goes back a century to mainland chinas civil war. In 1949, the communists won. They defeated nationalists, fled across the sea to taiwan. To this day, a memorial in the capital taipei honors him. The man who set up a government in taiwan to oppose communist china. 70 careers on, a lively open society has bloomed here. At one of taipeis night markets, friends give me a tour. Busy food stalls catering to serious eaters. In your mind, there is no question taiwan is already an independent country . We have already independence. We have our military. We have our economy system. Our currency. Our people, our policies. Reporter michael cole is a taipei political analyst for the republican institute. For young taiwanese, their only experience is living in liberal democracy, a vibrant liberal democracy with a highly politicized society. Reporter how liberal . Taiwan was the first country in asia to legalize gay marriage. And consider audrey tang, digital minister and asias first transgender cabinet member. I feel blessed that i do not face any discrimination whatsoever in taiwan. Reporter tang is a Software Engineer and a celebrity Whose Mission is to protect taiwans internet from chinese cyberattacks or an invasion. Ensuring proper Communication Infrastructure including the local resilience of the public cloud providers like google, microsoft, amazon in taiwan is our highest priority. Reporter rush hour in taipei. A torrent of commuters head for city center focused simply on getting to work. In spite of chinas looming threat, life ticks along here. Taiwan is a cyclists dream and the tsc bike club includes several expat americans. Is there going to be a war . I hope not. I dont have a crystal ball. I dont think its in anyones interest to have war. I think prevailing heads will prevail and the tensions will subside. Reporter if so, says peter, its going to need some skillful diplomacy. We need to make sure we dont back them too deeply into a corner that they have no choice in their minds dom out fighting. We need to think creatively about how taiwan can position itself in a way not to be too threatening to china. 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