In the superdome the very building where displaced new portlands residence sought residents your lens sought shelter during Hurricane Katrina. We will look at two new stunning climate studies. One suggests it may soon be too hot in most of the worlds cities to host the summer olympics. Another study estimates the millennial generation will lose trillion in Lifetime Income due to Climate Change. Then to the campaign trail. Pres. Obama africanamerican communities of suffered mr. Trump africanamerican communities have suffered. To those i say the following, what do you have to lose by trying something new like trump . What do you have the louisiana go amy as donald trump has to spend his days, we go to hihis campaign chief created an online haven for white nationalists. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On tuesday, president obama visited louisiana for the First Time Since last weeks devastating floods that killed 13 people and damaged 60,000 homes. The red cross has called it the worst Natural Disaster in the United States since hurricane sandy. It also marked louisianas worst flooding sincece Hurricane Katrina. Some neighborhoods still have up to two feet of standing water. President obama spoke in baton rouge. Pres. Obama i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here i louisiana. I come here first and foremost to say their prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones, as i think anybody who can see just the streets, plus the inside of the homes, peoples s lives haveeeen upenend by t this flood. Amy while many climate scientists have tied the historic floods in louisiana to Climate Change, president obama made no link during hihis remar. While obama was in baton rouge, he also met with the family of alton sterling who was killed by police on july 5 and with the families of three Police Officers who were killed byy former u. S. Marinene in a mass shshooting in baton rouge on juy 17. But while president o obama was speaking in baton rouge, four environmental activists were arrested in new orleans on tuesday while occupying the headadquarters of the e interior departmentnts bureau of oceann Energy Management in new orleans. They were protesting the interior departments decision to go ahead with a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the gulf of mexico for oil and Gas Exploration and development. The sale is being held in the superdome the very building where thousands of displaced residents of new orleans sought refuge during Hurricane Katrina 11 years ago. We will have more on the protests with Antonia Juhasz after headlines. In breaking news from italy, a 6. 2 magnitude earthquake has killed at least people, with the 38 death toll expected to rise. The quake struck the central italy town of norcia collapsing homes and buildings as people were sleeping. Rescue crews are currentntly pulling people o out of the rubble. This comes as deadly extreme weather continues around the world. Inin india, at least 300 people have died in widespread flooding acroross eastern a and central states. The flooding, caused by heavy rains, has closed schools, dedestroyed roadsds and submergd , hundreds of towns and villages. Anwhile,e, in philadelelphia, pennsylvania, at least four people died during last weeks heat wave, which broke four separate temperature records. And in washington state, gogovernor jay i inslee hahas dd a state of emergency in nearly two dozen counties amid raging wildfires, which he blamed on Climate Change saying our forests and wild lands are under attack from Climate Change. Wildfires are also raging across parts of california. We will have more on Climate Change later in n the broadcast with climamate scientist kirk smith. In news from the campaign trail, a new Associated Press investigation has revealed that while Hillary Clinton servrved s secretary of state, more than half of the private citizens she met had donated to the clinton fofoundation. The analysisis shs s at least 85 of 1 154 people Hillary Clinton either had schcheduled p phone r inperson meetingsgs with were fofoundation donors. This does not include meetings clinton held with u. S. Or Foreign Government workers or representatives, only private citizens. These 85 donors contributed more than 150 million to the Clinton Foundation combined. Hillary clilint has slammmmed te investigation, saying it cherrypicked information and that it relies on utterly flawed data. But the ap says it has been asking for the schedules for three years and that what has been released thus far covers only half of her fouryear tenure. This comes as the Clinton Foundation says it would spin off its International Programs if clinton wins the presidency. Former president bill clinton is also said he will resign from the foundation if Hillary Clinton wins. Repeatedlyp has attacked her over the Clinton Foundation, calling fofor it toe shut down. Thisis is trump speaking in austin, texas. Mrmr. Trump it is impossible to figurere out where the Clinton Foundationon ends and the state department begins. Clear thatbundadantly the clintons set up a a business toto profit frfrom public offic. They sold access and specific actitions by and really f for, i guess, the making of large amounts of money. The specific crimes committed to carry y out that enteterprise ae too numerous to cover in this speech. Amamy donald trump himself has donated 100,000 to the Clinton Foundation in the past. A New Washington post analysis of Hillary Clintons august schedule finds that she has raised at least 32 million over the last three weeks through a series of exclusive fundraisers. The events held in wealthy areas such as greenwich, connecticut, nantucket, massachusetts, and beverly hills, california frequently cost upwards of 50,000 a ticket. In news on guantanamo bay, prisoner abu zubaydah has argued for his release at a rare hearing held via video stream tuesday. He has been held for 14 years without trtrial, during which te he was water boarded more than 80 times. When he was captured in 2002, the cia insisted he was a top al qaeda operative. The u. S. Government has since admitted he was never an al qaeda leader, yet his imprisonment has continued. During tuesdays hearing zubaydah declared in a prepared , Statement Read by a u. S. Soldier that he has no desire or intent to harm the United States or any other country. Y. Graduate students won a significant labor victory tuesday when the National LaborRelations Board ruled graduate Student Teachers and Research Assistants at private universities have the right to unionize. The 3to1 ruling stemmed from a case brought by colulumbia graduate students. It overturns a 2004 ruling that denied collective bargaining rights to some graduate Student Teachers. American federation of teachers president Randi Weingarten said the truth is graduate workers are the glue that holds Higher Education institutions together without their labor, classes wouldnt get taught, exams wouldnt get grgraded and office hours wouldnt be held. In news from afghanistan, a u. S. Soldier has been killed in a bomb explosion outside lashkar gah, the capital city of helmand provovince. This comes only days after more than 100 u. S. Soldiers were sent to lashkar gah to fight the taliban in what is believed to be thehe first deployment of u. Troops to the city since 2014. The name of the u. S. Soldier who died has not been released. Turkey has begun a ground offensive into syria, marking a major escalation of its role in the ongoing conflict. The u. S. Military is backing turkeys incursion, which began about 4 00 a. M. This morning with an aerial bombing campaign. Turkey says the offensive is against isisheld areas along the border. But tuturkey says its also concerned about Syrian Kurdish militias a at the borderer. These militias are backed by the unUnited States. In kashmir, another protester has died after reportedly being hit in the chest by a tear gas shell fired by police during a protest sunday. 18yearold irfan ahmad is at least the 69th person to be killed amid the ongoing protests, which began more than a month ago after Indian Security forces killed a kashmiri independence leader. Indian soldiers and Paramilitary Forces have cracked down on the protests against indian rule, opening fire during demonstrations and imposing a strict curfew. Among those who have been killed is a 30yearold professor who was beaten to death in indian army custody. Many others have reported being beaten by troops in their own homes. In mexico, a journalist has survived an attempted assassination in the eastern state of veracruz. Freelance journalist lucia Lopez Castillo was about to enter her home sunday night when she was approached by a masked manan, wo attacked her and then shot her. Veracruz is one of the deadliest areas of mexico for journalists. At least 16 journalists have been killed in veracruz since 2010. Another three have disappeared. In newark, new jersey, a story has surfaced about policice traumatizing a 10yearold child by chasing him through the streets with guns drawn. Fifth grader legend preston was standing outside his home on august 14 when police say they mistooook him for a robbery suspect and began chasing him down an alley. Preston says he thought the popolice were running afafter hm because hed chased a ball into the street without l looking. He says neighbors then surrrrounded him to o protect h, yelling thihis is a child. This is 10yyearold legend preston. Somome police started coming from thiss way with gunsns poing right at me. And d iran into the backyard wil stop i r ran into ththe back. I threwt they thought the ball in the street onon purpose. There e holding guns like this. Amy i in californiaia, judge an perskyky has recused himself frm another sexual crimes case, amid the ongoing controversy over his lenient sentencing of former stanford swimmer brock turner. In june, persky gave turner a sixmonth jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster, saying he was concerned a longer prison sentence would have a severe impact on the Stanford University swimmer. Persky has also sparked controversy over his 2015 decision to give robert chain a fourday prison sentence after he led guilty pled guilty to possessing child abuse images. Persky has now stepped down from chains case, which has a hearing on thursday over whether chains charge will be reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor. More than 1 Million People have signed a petition demanding persky be removeved from the bench. In pennsylvania, immigrant mothers have suspended their Hunger Strike at the Berks County Residential Center citing intimidation by ice officials. The women launched the Hunger Strike on august 8 to protest department of Homeland Security secretary jeh johnsons claims that the average time in family detention is only 20 days. By the end of this month, at least three families will have spent a full year in custody at the berks facility. On tuesday, the women suspended the strike, saying ice officials threatened them saying if their health weakens, their children could be taken away. On monday, democracy now spoke with one Hunger Strikers inside berks. The head of ice for the center came. He can only to threaten us, to tell us if we were a danger for the facility, for the other women who were not on strike, then he was going to be obligated to take action such that they would send us to texas. Simply that they would send us to adult prison, and that if we continue this way, if we continued refusing to eat, simply they would arrive a point at which we would debilitate and then he would be allocated to call the government so they would take away our children. Quitek this is a threat direct and quite strong. I think it is not fair because were only asserting our rights. Amy and in West Virginia, residents are celebrating the permanent shut down of a coal mine near a state forest. The announcement by the West Virginia department of Environmental Protection comes after a twoyear organizing effort by the kanawha forest coalition, which sought to shut down over ththe issues of water contamination and other environmental impacts. This is daile rois of loudendale, West Virginia, whose house sits less than 2000 feet from the mine. When i started this journey, i did not understand the apathy that you cannot fight coal attitude. I do. It is not apathy. It is weariness. It is survivor mode. I would love a victory. That can only happen if people will hear this. We can fight for our personal rights. We can fight for our families, our communities against these Big Companies and a nonresponsive government. Amy and those are some of the headlines. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. On tuesday, president obama visited louisiana for the First Time Since the devastating floods that killed 13 pepeople d damaged homes. 60,000 t the red crossss has cad it the worst natural disisastern the ununited s states since huhurricane sandy. It also marked lououisianas wot flooding since h hurricanene kakatrina. Some neighborhoods still have up to two feet of standing water left. President obama spoke in batonon rouge. Pres. Obama i just had a chance to see some of the damage from the historic floods here in louisiana. I come here first and foremost to say the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones. We are heartbroken by the loss of life. There are also people who are still desperately trying to track down friends and family. Were going to keep on helping them every way that we can. As i think anybody who can see just the streets, much less the inside of the homes here, peoples lives have been upended by this flood. Amy while many climate scientists have tied the historic floods in louisiana to Climate Change, president obama made no link during his remarks. But while obama was speaking in baton rorouge, four enviroronmel acactivists were a arrested in w orleans while occupying the headquarters of the interior Departments Bureau of ocean Energy Management headquarters. They were protesting the interior departments decision to go ahead with a lease sale of up to 24 million acres in the gulf of mexico for oil and Gas Exploration and development. The sale is being held in the superdome the very building where thousands of displaced residents of new orleans sought refuge during Hurricane Katrina 11 years ago. One of the four arrested tuesday was john clark, a professor at loyola university. In a sense im doing this for my ancestors, my children, my grandchildren. And in my lifetime, i have watched an area of the coastline the size of the state of that it disappear and is very painful to me to think about the fact that my grandchildren and their children will not even be able to live here in the future because were going to lose southwest louisiana. Amy to talk more about the flooding of baton rouge and todays oil and gas lease sale at the superdome, we are joined by Antonia Juhasz, an oil and Energy Analyst and author of black tide the devastating , impact of the gulf oil spill. Welcome to democracy now talk about the connections we are seeing today from the in new orleans to the flooding of baton rouge. Having me. U for the timing of all of these events could not be more devastating, really. You have the this torque flood, the president there to offer assistance from fema and hopefully try to assist those on the ground while at the same time the interior department is continuing the problems that help excel the storm in the first place, help make it more for oshas, make the storms more for white and that is the burning of fossil fuels leading to Climate Change. President obama has been very outspoken and in some ways, aggressive and the needs to tackle Climate Change. At the same time as expanding offshore oil drilling, expanding the production of oil and gas to new record heights acro