To compete. Weekend drama over which House Member could be next. At no time in the history of a select committee of america as to what had Speaker Pelosi done ever happened before. The idea that shes going to pick and choose . Youre not going to get an outcome. More violence in d. C. This week after a shooting on one of the citys busiest strips, and as crime steadily rises across the country, tension is growing over how to curb the violence. Its happened where People Cant sit down or walk down The Street with their kids, thats when people start to speak up about the issue. Ive been talking to residents along the way, and people are mad as hell right now, and i dont blame them. I am too. And extreme weather taking over the country. Historic fires, heatwaves a md floods. More storms and Heat Set to come this weekend. Is the worst yet to come . All righting good morning, everybody. Its saturday, july 24th. The olympics are here . The olympics are here. Its like the Lauryn Hill olympics. Im kendis gibson. Sorry, lauryn. First Lady Jill Biden is overseas participating with the american delegation and she met with the french president Emmanuel Macron for the Opening Ceremony. It is the cauldron, the Olympic Flame that was lit by naomi osaka, which was a wonderful Moment Yesterday to watch all of that, and also this is the Rainbow Bridge as they call it in tokyo. The rings where the Opening Ceremony is taking place. Its sunrise here in the u. S. , but The Sun is setting on the first full day of the pandemicdelayed olympics. Heres a new number. At least 127 people linked to the olympics have tested positive. One match has been canceled. A tropical storm is now threatening to disrupt the competition. Cicadas are going to be there. Stephanie gosk has more. Good morning to you. Reporter it hardly seems fair, right . This country grappling with the pandemic, having to delay the games for a year, and now a possible cyclone . Well, right now its a tropical storm. If it does strengthen and come here, it will reach tokyo on tuesday or skirt it. But theyre already concerned about some of the effects. Theyre rescheduling the rowing that was supposed to begin on monday. Theyre now going to row tomorrow instead. You know, the forecast is still uncertain as these storms are, but there are some growing concerns. Back on that on the issue of covid, which will continue to be a story throughout these games, you mentioned the number 127, and i keep on reminding people that its important to put this in context with the thousands of people that are credited for these games. So thats 127 among the Tens Of Thousands of people that have accreditation for the games. The Positivity Rate within that group then is really low. Less than 0. 2 . So we havent seen the kind of spike that officials were concerned about. There is one small pocket with a czech Republic Team that has drawn some concern. Theyre investigating a possible charter flight problem. They flew over here. The local press says a doctor onboard that flight was not vaccinated and may have spread the virus to a number of coaches and athletes on that flight. Among them, the Beach Volleyball players who say they couldnt compete today and they had to forfeit their match. This really could be the beginning of, you know, a string of competitions that are affected because of covid. People certainly have their eyes open. But, you know, the competitions began today. 23 sports, 11 gold medals. The first one was give on the a chinese shooter, one gold. China thats won a couple of golds today. Jill biden is going to see a couple of events including soccer match. The u. S. Womens team has to kind of redeem themselves. They lost the other. Guys . I know youre only allowed to leave your hotel for a 15minute Walk every day. How many more days till you can explore tokyo a little bit . I wish it was right now to be honest. I have this beautiful view over my shoulder. All i want to do is go find some restaurants and walk The Streets. Unfortunately i cant. Understandably, i get it. I have another week on a quarantine. I had an opportunity go on a Boat Tour that was governmentsponsored. Theyve done a couple of those for the media who are quarantined. We get it. We understand the restrictions. They want to keep everyone as safe as possible. Even though i want to get sushi. Youre quarantined but not in a prison. Youre not stuck in one location. Great to hear at least. True. Stephanie gosk, thanks so much. Joining us now is somebody who knows the struggles here and the shadow the covid is playing too well. As a vaccinated person in japan, he caught covid. Taylor, first to you, i cant imagine how disappointed you are. Youre wapping the Opening Ceremony in quarantine. Areasymptomatic . And what happens, and how are you feeling about all of this . Well, obviously im devastated. Thats the biggest one. I tried to take all the right steps to get me here and to get me here safely and to be able to perform and go out for my country, but i guess thats how this is the hand i was dealt, and im trying to deal with it as best as i can. Ive had a tremendous amount of support from obviously my family and friends, but all my fans have been a big help. Taylor, we know youre devastated. We can only imagine the level of devastation. You have been so brave in saying youre going to support your partner in whatever way you can from the sidelines, but take us back to how all of this happened. Obviously you were vaccinated. When did you get tested and when did you find out, and when you first found out about the positive test, what were the emotions you went through . Four and three days before we flew, we had to get tested. They were negative. My first test is when i landed in japan at the airport, and they actually didnt tell me right away. They looked at me, asked me my name, and they separated me from everyone else while we were getting our bags. Right then when they separated me, i was in disbelief. I knew that was kind of the reason why, but they never told me you tested positive. It kind of took them about, i think, an hour to actually tell me i was positive. Then they took me to the village at a Fever Clinic to get a pcr test, and that one was positive too. And then since then ive been in isolation. Taylor, youve been training and waiting for this for five years, you dealt with the Pandemic And Quarantine and still keeping up being olympicsready. Do you have any resentment about the fact that the games are going on when it feels like one athlete after another match after match are being impacted by this . I mean no matter what you believe, thats my brother. I love him for having my back. I need that support right now. This is Uncharted Waters for everybody. Nobody knows how go about this really. Everyone is trying their best. I want to thank japan and the ioc for continuing on with this and trying their best to keep us all healthy and safe. Taylor, Hang On right there, because i do want to bring into the conversation ken belsin. Do you kind of do you think they regret the decision at this point . I think they should. I think that the vaccines have proven in a wide number of settings to be effective. It ontario takes one person to spread the risk. I dont know how they would have done it with the number of countries, but it should have been a fairly low bar. They could have acquired more vaccines on their own and distributed them much earlier in the process, and unfortunately were now paying the price for it. Ken, stephanie walked us through some of it. Beach volleyball, they have at least four positive cases on their team. Do you anticipate this happening more and more, and how ultimately could that impact the games . This is unusual. When everybody came back from around the country, its natural to see a lot of cases at the beginning. The problem with the olympics is the events are happening in staggered format. If youre not ready in the first three or four days, thats it. Theres no long season to recover. People will unfortunately i went to weight lifting, they have literally two hours to participate in the olympics and go home. If they cant participate in that twohour window, theyre done. Thats an unfortunate consequence. Theres nothing they can do it. Thats the way the olympics are structure. It raises the stakes. Ken, really quickly we have so many issues with these games. We hear theres a typhoon headed toward tokyo. Are these games just cursed . Its been an unfortunate cascade of events. They decided to hold the tournament in the Sum Eric and we just finished the rainy season here, and this is whats going to happen. The olympics back in 1964 was in october, which is actually one of the nicest months in the year. Theyll elected not do that. This is what happens when you put it in this time period. Taylor, one more question to you. Any more final thoughts you want to share . Now is the time. Taylor, we just heard ken say, for weight lifters, you have two hours and thats it. Is that the case for you . Basically to medal is over . Im completely out of the games now. Beach volleyball goes the whole length of the olympics, but our preliminary rounds are only one week. I had to make the decision whether i thought i could pass a negative Test Or Sub myself out for someone who could play and my partners would get a chance to still play in the olympics. I didnt know if i could pass the test and make a negative, so i decided to pull myself out and let my team continue and put someone else in my spot. What a Selfless Agonizing decision. Taylor, were thinking of you. Its so, so incredibly sad. Youre still young. You can make it to paris three years from now. But in the meantime well be rooting for Jake And Team usa against italy. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks, ken. Taylor crabb and ken belson. We have dr. Irwin redlener. Thank you for being here. Should players like taylor who you hust just now who are asymptomatic be allowed to play . Its probably as good if not better than a covid asymptomatic player. Well, its a tough call. Its heartbreaking to hear a player whos been training all these years and this is the ultimate activity they want to do, and theyve been so prepped for physically and mentally. This is a blow. But at the end of the day from a public Health Point of view, we have to isolate and separate people who are covidpositive testing, even if the at the moment theyre asymptomatic. The reason is they can still transmit the virus to other people unfortunately. Doctor, Team Usas doc has revealed that 100 of the 613 athletes are still not vaccinated. It is a higher Vaccination Rate than the national average, but does that number still concern you, and does that put other athletes at risk . Well, it considers me a lot and the reason is we should not be having events or opening up businesses or other kinds of organizational activities without having mandated vaccine and being able to establish that and prove it. The problem is the states are not requiring people to be vaccinated and they are allowing people to go back to work. I think thats a big mistake. Especially with the olympics, when you have coaches and a huge number of people supporting the teams, coming into tokyo, gathering together in one place, No One should have been allowed anywhere near the Olympic Village without having to prove they are vaccinated. Its unfortunate, but here were in a situation that could have been avoided in my opinion. Doctor, back here in the u. S. , the Delta Variant is ripping through states. A new model says we could be seeing triple the daily Death Rates were seeing by midoctober that were seeing now. Do you think the cdc needs to impose the Mask Requirements . The cdc and the federal government has a great deal of difficulty actually imposing from washington, d. C. , a mandate in the country because really those are decisions that are up to states and individual organizations. So this goes for every guideline that the cdc puts out. Theyre guidelines, advice. Theyre not mandates. I think now its up to states and mandates to say you cant come in the door unless youre vaccinated. Thats what as a public health person, as a doctor i would recommend going forward, and maybe well be able to overt some of those dire predictions of the models that might manifest in october or even november. Those models have been fairly precise for much of the last 18 months. Dr. Redlener, thank you for your time. I think it is up to the vanillas. Weve implemented it at my household, mask again, literally in my house. We brought it back because those breakthrough cases are scary. Yes, definitely. Still, lots to come. Nancy pelosi going to war with the gop after blocking kevin mccarthys picked for the gop committee. Who will win in the search for truth . Our panelists have some thoughts. Coming up on cross connection, Stacey Plaskett and Joaquin Castro join tiffany cross. Flooding and roads no longer sustainable. Were going to dive into that in a little bit. Ive into that in a little Bit Paper tickets. Were off to a horrible start. But we can overcome it. Were not gonna point out our houses, landmarks, or major highways during takeoff. Dont buy anything. I packed so many delicious snacks. Theyre nope. Would you say, ballpark, when Group Two is gonna get boarded . 2 hours and 58 minutes. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents, but we can protect your Home And Auto when you bundle with us. 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Our focus on capitol hill. The house select committee, its moving forward with its first public hearing on tuesday without any members nominated by republicans. Speaker pelosi rejected to two republican picks by kevin mccarthy, prompting the Minority Leader to pull all of his picks and essentially boycott the committee. But Nancy Pelosi may be looking at new ones. Speaker pelosi is floating the idea of adding republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger as a member, also former republican Congressman Riggleman from virginia as an adviser. What is happening and what can we expect from the first hearing this week . Reporter good morning, guys. Like you mentioned, Speaker Pelosi now has room to add more republican members if she wanted to because republican leader mccarthy pulled all of his picks when Speaker Pelosi rejected Jim Jordan and jim banks, two of former president trumps fiercest allies for their role in the January 6th insurrection. Speaker pelosi has not revealed her cards. She met with denver riggleman, the former republican from virginia. He told reporters when he met with her he would be honored to serve as an adviser if she asked. She has not revealed her cards on either of those picks. This all comes as we gear up for the hearing on tuesday. Going to be an Eightmember Panel as it stands now. All democrats and Liz Cheney named to the committee. All republicans shes submitted have a common theme. They were critics of Donald Trump and voted to impeach him right after that. So as this hearing comes along on tuesday, were going to hear from four officers who were here on this day defending the capitol. This comes as they have a new boss, a new chief of capitol police. He was sworn in yesterday, tom manger. We spoke with him. Take a listen i was enjoying retirement, and if you asked me on January 5th do, you want to be a Police Chief again, i would be, no, im fine. January 6th changed that. I was riveted to the television, what was going on here, and it was the first time since i had been retired that i wished i was not retired. Now, manger has a big job. He supports the testimony of the four officers on tuesday. He wants them to be heard and he wants them to speak out at tuesdays hearing. I was texting with one of them overnight. He told me hes a full bag of emotions as he prepares his testimony. Hes still recovering from his physical injuries and hasnt been able to make a full return here on capitol hill. Guys . Just incredible. Tell us a little more about some of those texts you just got in terms of emotion. Reporter those four officers, many of them have spoken out before. Theyve been on tv. Theyve shared their stories, but this is different. Its the first time theyre going to be testifying at a hearing. Their testimony is not ready. The one i was texting with told me hes not ready. We saw them as they walked out of the building. Theyre really, really nervous to tell their story and be in a public setting for the first time. He said he was a full bag of emotions. Many of these officers returned to work. Some of them returned and had to go back on leave not only because of the emotional stress theyre under, but the physical injuries they faced, being pushed and crushed that day. Guys . Just incredible. Julie tsirkin. Thank you. Joining me now are our guests. Speaker pelosi has said she made the decision to reject those two members in part with respect for the integrity of the investigation and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these members. Representative Liz Cheney told reporters that Reps Jordan and banks essentially disqualified themselves. Do you agree . I do. She needed to protect the integrity of this process. They were witnesses. They should be subpoenaed to testify before the select committee because they were part of meetings heading into the January 6th insurrection, talking about ways to try to overturn the election results. This has been part of the process. Kevin mccarthy in selecting the five hes selected, he wanted it to be successful. As were moving forward, we know that we may have other members of the republican party join on the select committee, but its, again, against kevin mccarthys choices. I think Speaker Pelosi made the right choice here by saying the republicans can go their own way. We will have Liz Cheney. We can potentially have adam kinzinger, and those are people who will be actually interested in finding the truth. So, cynthia, trump called the crowd who gathered that day in the January 6th riot loving in an Audio Clip of two authors who wrote the book, i alone can fix it. It was a loving crowd. Ive heard many m people tell me, that was a loving crowd. You know, it was too bad. It was too bad that they did that. Lets talk about the testimony here from the Police Officers. We heard julie say she was texting with one of them about all of the emotion thats going to go into it. How crucial will their testimony be . Well, i think it sets the stage, right . It creates the video. It puts to bed the lie that everybody was loving. It begins the process. The real crux of this, though, most people realize they were not loving. Most people realize those Police Officers were beaten and attacked and hit with sticks and Bear Spray. Most thinking people know that. But it does lay the foundation and provide the video to december emanate that information. But the key in this the key in this investigation is how did they get there . Why did they get there . Who asked them to get there . Who paid for them to get there . Who paid for them to stay that day . Who paid for the Bear Spray . Did they get organized before . Those are questions that are more important, but a foundation is important as well and that begins this week. Cynthia, if you turn to mainstream channels, they dont necessarily agree with the fact that day was violent, even though we have video and testimony to refute that. Before we let cynthia go, i want to turn to tom barrack. He ran the inaugural committee. Hes acting as an unregistered agent. Hes expected to plead not guilty. But if you take a look at this here, Bare Rack is the 11th Trump Associate to be charged with a federal crime since trump declared his candidacy in 2015. Tell nikolai, cynthia, trump is the victim since barrack is accused of spilling u. S. Secrets. Could it spell any trouble for trump . I dont think it does. Hes basically charged with, you know, being a spy. Hes charged with an espionage light charge. Youre right. Essentially the White House and the united States Government and trump are the victims of that, that he was a spy for the united arab emirates. I dont think hes going to try to deal some other secrets. Theyve certainly been in discussions with the fbi for a couple of years, so i dont think it does Spell Trouble for trump, no, i do not. Cynthia Alksne And Alaina beverly, thank you. People were running for their lives as gunshots ring out nearby. Despite that, across the country, one thing a big city Police Chief says is to blame for the violence. Ef says is to for the violence remember its a Business Dinner not a Costume Party. On a spotty network this is what she heard. Just wear something crazy, remember its a Costume Party. A Costume Party . Yes anybody want to split a Turkey Leg . There are no more Recovery Cruise at the surfside site. Members of the Miamidade Fire Search rescue were honored at a ceremony. The site itself has been swept flat. Forensic scientists will continue to study the debris. Dozens of diners were running for cover after gunmen started shooting on one of the busiest streets In The City of d. C. Its the latest in a string of incidents. Gun crime surging across the country this week. Nbcs Tom Costello with the story. Reporter on The Streets of washington, a burst of gunfire. Restaurant customers running for cover. Two victims down, one thought to be targeted, the other, an innocent bystander. Both survived. Police say the suspects who jumped into a getaway car, still missing. The evidence is still on The Street. The broken glass, evidence paint, and the blood and bandages medics used to save the victims. Washington is reeling from gun violence. Over the Weekend Baseball players and fans ran at a shooting at a nasals ballpark. A 6yearold was killed in a driveby. Murders are up this year after a dramatic 19 jump last year. I see people doing violent crimes and i see them back in my community months later, and it breaks my heart. Reporter the Police Chief walking the neighborhood. Ive been talking to residents along the way, and people are really mad as hell right now. I dont blame them. I am too. Reporter its happening nationwide. Philadelphia on pace for its most murders ever. Jackson, mississippi, likely to set another record. Portland, oregon, reporting a pandemic of gun violence. In chicago, 50 shot, 11 last weekend. Whats behind the surge . Experts cite the pentup frustration over covid, more guns, less cops, all of that fueling Americas Summer of violence. Our thanks to tom and the Police Chief, by the way, in d. C. , who also said they connect the surge in crimes to marijuana and said its something residents need to look at right now. They seem to feel theres some sort of Drug War taking place even though its legalized In The City. Oh, wow. Coming up, Trump Launching into campaign mode. The first pivotal test for his agenda, of course, posttrump. Are voters buying what hes selling . And Jasmine Crockett joins velshi live on voting rights. Watch velshi later on msnbc. A. And one we explore. One thats been paved and one thats forever wild. 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Mr. Biden traveling to virginia, speaking at a rally in support of democratic nominee for governor terry mcauliffe. The appearance serving as a pivotal test of the president s political clout ahead of the 2021 2022 elections. Nbc senior white House Reporter Shannon Pettypiece has more. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Were finally seeing President Biden out on the campaign trail. I guess i shouldnt say finally. Were only six months in. But the way politics works these days, campaigning and the midterm elections really starts the day the president goes into office. Were seeing President Biden out there. This virginia race, you know, is quite notable. While virginia has been a pretty solidly Blue State recently, sort of making that shift from red to purple to blue, typically in these offyear elections, the petr that controls the White House does worse. So thats why youre particularly seeing President Biden coming out here in virginia and campaigning for mccollough. But this is not the last were going to see by any means of the president on the campaign trail. Heading into 2022, the White House and White House officials are very aware that come the midterm elections like offyear elections, the party that controls the White House often fairs rather poorly. We have seen that, you know, with former president trump, with former president obama, and theres an anticipation the democrats could lose the razor thin margin they have in the White House. The mentioning they hope going into the midterms is going to be showing the Infrastructure Plan they can get through, showing the president s accomplishments with Covid And Covid relief package, but a lot depends on whats going to happen the next couple of months in washington in congress with regards to these big Spending Proposals the president has as to whether or not hes going to have that as a tool to sell going into the midterm elections. Shannon, both kendis and i notice theres a light on you or sunrise. Its beautiful. You say finally were six months in. But you get into office and it starts right up again. Very little time to get things done. Shannon pettypiece, thank you so much. Coming up right now, smoke from the western wildfires making its way across the country, all the way to the East Coast. Is the result of the nationwide haze the new normal . Our next guest has the answer. M . Our next guest has the answer. Its the easiest because its the cheesiest. Kraft. For the win win. Experience our advance Standards Safety Technology on a full line of vehicles. At the lexus golden opportunity sales event. Get 1. 9 Apr Financing on the 2021 rx 350. Experience amazing. New dove men, plant based Body Wash is different. With plant based cleansers. And moisturizers for healthy and hydrated men, skin, relax your body and mind, shower with new dove men. 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Thats why firefighters are alarmed by the intensity and frequency, which they say is a direct result of Climate Change. They point out that the land in that region has never been this dry in 150 years. The average temperatures there are way above what they should be for this time of year, and thats causing the permafrost to melt, which is fueling these fires. And, of course, kendis, these kinds of disasters go Hand In hand. As the fires rage, the forest keeps shrinking, which means it cant mature. It has a devastating impact on the ecosystem. And, of course, those flames are emitting very harmful Carbon Emissions that is making Air Quality in that region dangerously poor both for people and for wildlife. We also saw some devastating flooding in germany earlier this week and, of course, china, some horrific images coming out of there. How likely are they to recover, and will they see this type of flooding again in the near future . Reporter thats right. Theyre still reeling from the catastrophic devastation in germany and china. Theyre trying to recover and rebuild after entire villages in germany look like they were washed away by the floods. In china, theres very distressing images of people trapped in submerged subway stations, calling out for help while roads outside have been turned into raging rivers that were gobbling up cars. That, again, scientists say is global warming. More specifically is the dramatically raising temperatures in the arctic. Thats decelerating high winds there like Jet Stream winds, which is causing storms like the one weve seen in China And Europe to move much more slowly, dumping an intense amount of rain in a very concentrated area, causing, you know, these dramatic floods. And scientists say, look, if something isnt done very quickly to tackle these floods to deal with this devastating climate regular factor in all of our lives, cities and villages that are coastal will disappear and this is a problem that needs to be tackled straight away, and not put on the back burner. Already, the Weather Forecast is not good for China And Europe in the next couple of days. More rain is forecast. Here in the uk where i am, you know, last week the weather was up in the high 80s, early 90s. Now its back down in the 60s. A lot of rain is forecast for the next few days. Thats just not normal. Not at all. Many of these buildings and structures over there in germany surviving several world wars but didnt stand a shot at Mother Nature in 2021. Thank you for joining us from london. Joining us is a professor of Atmospheric Science at texas a m university, andrew dessler. This is the second year in a row, as far as the situation here in the u. S. , smoke from the west that has traveled all the way to the East Coast between the constant massive wildfires and now the worsening Air Quality will this be the new norm . Same questions that was posed by ali just there. Yeah, you know, weve had about one degree celsius, two Degrees Fahrenheit of warming so unfortunately this is not the new normal. The new normal is a lot worse than this. The warming is going to continue. And its going to continue until we take action. And so, you know, this is a small preview of whats going to come. Okay, Well Action is obviously not necessarily being taken, as you mentioned it is a political thing. But you also mentioned that if there is no action this world could turn into sort of like a mad max landscape, post apocalyptic wasteland of deserts. Why do you say that . Well, you know, scientists have been predicting for the last 50 years that if we keep dumping carbon into the atmosphere were going to get more extreme Heat Waves, more extreme precipitation events, Sea Level rise, Ocean Syndication and then all of the knock on effects from that. People say well adapt but theres so many things we have to adapt to. You have to adapt to smoke, you have to adapt to extreme storms like hurricanes. And its not going to be easy and its going to cost a huge amount of money, and that money is going to come from our pockets. And so were going to end up in this world with this degraded environment and a world in which we are a lot poorer in because were spending all of our money trying to stay alive, rebuilding infrastructure, running our air conditioners. Were not going to have money to do the other things. Its hoovering money out of our pockets if we dont take action now. We can solve this problem. So a lot of people are going to say, hey, listen, it is late july, heat happens. On top of the wildfires there is, however, another Heat Wave thats heading for the great plains, midwest and parts of the east next week, bringing temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above average, this follows of course that Heat Wave in the northwest that killed nearly 200 people in oregon and washington. Is Climate Change making these Heat Waves more deadly . Yeah, absolutely. So one of the most confident conclusions we can draw from Climate Change is that Heat Waves are going to get worse. So we can be 100 certain that every time you see a Heat Wave now, Climate Change has made it worse than it would have been. And the impacts of this are not what we what we call linear. Its not like every degree of warming gives you a very small amount of impact. What happens is, the warming occurs, and then it really doesnt have much of an effect until it passes a threshold. When it passes a threshold, the impacts get much, much worse. And as a world were passing these thresholds right now where the impacts of Climate Change are subtly looking a lot worse because theyre passing the ability of our infrastructure to handle them. And andrew, really quickly here, curious about one thing, obviously all over the world places are building new subways, and there have been subways built for hundreds, for more than A Hundred years. If youre a person, what should you do if youre in a city and thats your main mode of transportation . These subways are increasingly turning into death traps. How do we avoid being in a situation like this, given the sort of climate that we live in . Yeah, i mean, as an individual i dont know that theres a lot you can do, but i do think that the cities have to take Climate Change into account when they build anything thats going to last for decades or a century because climates changing, the worlds changing, you cannot build infrastructure for the past century, which is unfortunately whats happening. They look at the rainfalls of the last 50 years and say, okay, well, this is what we have to deal with. Thats not what you have to deal with. You have to deal with something much worse. Because the next 50 years is not going to be the same as the last 50 years. All right. Were going to leave it there. Andrew dessler, thank you so much. All right, maybe with all of that news here on earth we should go to space. Millionaire the Millionaire Space Race just reached a whole new level. Elon musk getting into the fray, securing funding for a new project. Well tell you the plan. 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