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bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s r ....
Could get this passed in the senate, but right now we can t get all 50 democratic senators to move in the same direction. senator joe manchin torpedoed it after months of negotiations. how upset is president biden at manchin right now? what i can say is there is no stop in joe biden when it comes to climate action. that s been the case since day one of this administration when i walked through the doors. it s been the case every single day as we moved out to accelerate clean energy, electric vehicles, boost our ability to withstand these impacts. just to go to the topic of heat, you guys were talking about the urban heat island effect. the president secured funding to go after the urban heat island effect by addressing the pavement and getting trees planted. you talked about cooling centers. we re literally sending out money that will help expand ....
Retains that heat. we don t have the vegetation. many construction companies now are building, putting a climate vegetation, a climate friendly grass, greenery, something to help absorb carbon dioxide and keep it cooler. sometimes they re painting the roofs white. but buildings and the concrete retain it. it s worse as night. many times cities are two to seven degrees warmer. the problem is there s homeless, some are staying in their cars. sure, there s cooling centers but that s not enough. many don t have air conditioning as well. there s also pollution in the ozone so respiratory issues are exacerbated because of this high heat. it s very dangerous in the urban areas all across the world. thank you so much, tom sater. just minutes from now president biden will discuss his administration s response to the climate crisis. he s trying to regroup and he s scaling back after fellow democrat senator joe manchin walked away from a deal to ....
And blistering temperatures across much of europe have broken records and claimed more than 1,000 lives already. next hour, president biden discusses his next move to fight the climate crisis with or without key support from congress, including members of his own party. meteorologist tom sater is here to walk us through this. tom, how bad are things here in the u.s. and overseas? it s historic, to be quite honest with you, ana. over the next week, 87% of the u.s. will have temperatures over 90 degrees. 20% will be over in the triple digits. look where we are, boise, 101, chicago, st. louis. here are the advisories, but now they re extending eastward to the ohio valley, the tennessee valley and to the larger cities up in areas of the northeast. emergency right now set for boston as well. sure these temperatures in the desert are hot. phoenix, your average is 107 so continuing to have days at 114, 115 is just staggering. ....
In the coming weeks? the president increasingly upping the ambition and scope and scale of what he intends to get done on climate. this is a crisis. this is something that demands action, and it s something where if we take action, we unlock tremendous economic opportunity. and that s going to be a display when the president visits massachusetts today. an opportunity to revitalize manufacturing and create jobs in communities that, frankly, had been left behind. it seems like an emergency declaration would help accelerate some of his ability to take action. it would allow him the power to redirect some spending when it comes to accelerating renewable energy. it would also give him legal power to block oil and gas drilling or other projects. why does he not feel those steps ....