american economy hostage. lifesaving health care denied or delayed, we will talk to one of the doctors behind a new study showing a pattern of serious health complications caused by post roe abortion ban. and a dire warning from the u.n. s top weather and climate scientist and what we can do about it. plus the velshi banned book club goes to court. this week we ll talk to two previously featured authors of banned books who have joined with free speech activists, parents and the largest publishing house in the country and hauling book banners to federal court. velshi starts now. good morning, it is saturday may 20th, i m ali velshi. as the old saying, goes if i don t succeed, stop following the republican playbook. you would think that after one bad election cycle the gop would have regrouped and reassessed its shortcomings so it could rebound. it s been nearly seven years since the republicans last truly significant wind. donald trump s electoral college victory in 2016. sinc
you hear that? the herschel walker exception. republicans want to eliminate all access to abortion in america for you. but if herschel walker or any other rich republican or republican at all was involved in an abortion, well, we re just going to have to pretend it never happened. plus ron johnson s statement that january 6th was no armed insurrection, that did not age well. it was refuted in the on earth keepers trial the day before he said it. cori bush s challenges to make it to congress, and why the midterm afflictions five weeks have so vitally important. we begin the reidout with president biden and the first lady touring the damage florida today, one week after hurricane ian made landfall. the storm killed more than 100 people and left thousands without a home to return to. president biden met with some of those families whose lives were upended, promising to help them rebuild. today we have one job and only one job, and that s to make sure the people of fl
this latest report by the w. m o finds the earth will likely cross that threshold by 2027, but it will be temporary. it won t cross the long term threshold just yet. but this marks an alarming acceleration of the human impact on the global climate system. if you ve been at all concerned with the gradual human induced degradation of planet earth, then you are probably familiar with this figure. 1.5 degrees celsius. no, even though we re in america, and i know we re not switching to fahrenheit for this number because it s important that we all understand this exactly the same. way the temperature rise we ve all been warned to avoid for all costs. this is essentially the doomsday threshold for global warming. so let s remind ourselves, why this little number matters so much. when you think of climate change or global warming, you might think about those searing hot summer days when this temperature exceeds 100 degrees fahrenheit in new york. i would another degree make so much of a differ
stay. the question is, jim and erica, what we do collectively to stop that trajectory. back to you. remarkable weather events seemingly every day. lucy kafanov, thank you very much. wild to think it was 75 where lucy is yesterday. chad myers, cnn meteorologist joining us with more on this. these intense shifts as we have seen and the storm prediction center calling the storms unprecedented. the can concern is they become more common. what we this is the jet stream in the right place for almost a spring type storm. we had a very warm gulf of mexico and you want to talk about climate change or global warming, the gulf of mexico is very warm. that adds humidity to the air, pushed up to the north. if you want to add something in there, would this have happened anyway, yes. we had all this warm air and warm water making humidity, that s why these storms have been so big. bigger than they should be anytime of year for that matter. 77 in wichita.
decline and fall. what we need to do is to ensure that at the cop summit next week, that world leaders come together and make the commitments necessary, not to halt climate change or global warming, because we can t do that, it s too late, but what we can do is restrict the growth in temperatures. in terms of countries you re trying to pull together, china are vital to this, are you disappointed with what they have come forward with so far? the point i made to our chinese friends is, look, they have made progress on overseas financing of coal, that is a good thing. what i think china needs to do is to find ways of making a more ambitious national. they are not going to do that, what they have said is not enough, is it? let s see what we can get to. i think what the whole world needs to understand is you can reduce