summit. in the next two weeks they ll hammer out ways to address climate change across the globe, and we ll see if those are concrete commitments. climate change has propelled the earth into, quote, uncharted territory. the u.n. secretary-general driving home the urgency of this crisis moments ago. take a listen. enough of killing ourselves with carbon. enough of treating nature like a toilet. enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. we are digging our own graves. cnn has correspondents on the ground in scotland as the meetings kick off. we have wolf blitzer and kaitlan collins joining us. bill grier is in glasgow. yes, this is a big moment for the planet as we know. this is a very big moment for president biden. can you put that into context for us why it s so important today? it s a huge moment because this whole issue of the climate is so, so critical. it s a lifesaving development over these next several years that needs to be addressed. he has it
we intend to pass both bills through the house in the next couple of days, and we are really looking forward to allowing the american people to see how we fought for them and delivered so their lives could be better. you re going to vote for these two bills no matter what? as i said, we re finalizing the pieces on immigration, on prescription drug pricing and on the details of child care implementation but as soon as those get finalized, yes i believe, we ll have the votes to pass both the infrastructure bill and the build back better act through the house. congresswoman pramila jayapal, thank you. thank you. this is cnn breaking news. brand new hour, good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota, democratic senator joe manchin delivered a blow to the president s social safety net bill. in fact, manchin feels so strongly about this, he held a press conference to say he can not support the legislation until he knows how it would impact inflat
over the last several years. a cleese reference to the policies of his predecessor. now on day one when he s trying to convince these other world leaders the united states is headed in the right direction we re seeing this key moderate senator, and senator joe manchin who has been at the center of these negotiations, potentially talk about delaying a timeline, of course, for advancing what the president says is a critical part of his agenda. president biden issuing an urgent call for action. we meet with the eyes of history upon us. reporter: at the biggest global climate summit in years. the president warning the planet is in peril and the world is at an inflection point. will we act? will we do what is necessary? will we seize the enormous opportunity before us? reporter: biden pledging the u.s. will take the lead on combating climate change as his own climate ambitions face critical tests at home and abroad. my administration is working overtime to show that our
the miracle workers, boy versus beast, is out now, and all profits will go toward pediatric brain cancer research. rene is with us now. good to see you back with us. i know you wrote this while blake was undergoing some intensive cancer treatments. tell us why at that time you decided that you wanted to write a book? first off, thank you both for having me on here to talk about this issue that has now become such a important issue for me. pediatric cancer. victor, when we were in the hospital with blake, you know, every day when i think about just all that we went through with our strong warrior blake, i literally felt on days that i was harvesting hope. i was getting hope from a variety of places, even the sunrise gave me hope. but it was not easy, and i began
Cancer research, she wrote a children s book called the miracle workers: boy versus beast. the book comes out today. it is meaningfully about a little boy named blake who needs a miracle to help him fight off a monster of a problem. renay spoke to brianna keilar this morning about how she started writing at a low point when blake was on life support after a bad reaction to chemotherapy. my little blake is not here today, but after that stint on life support, we did have him for another year, and those are some of the most precious memories i have today. the greater mission of this book is to raise funds for pediatric brain cancer, specifically right now we re focused on raising money for research for the type of cancer that blake had. we learned very quickly that there s no research. what that means is there is no cure. and so that means that blake was probably never going to survive from the day we received that