dangers of a warming planet will become real for millions of americans this week, scorching temperatures across the midwest fires out there across the midwest, fires out west, any storm brewing in the gulf of mexico. and it isn t even sumeria. plus a critical meeting to tell you about in more logo, donald trump sitting down with house speaker mike johnson and other top republican chins focusing on november s election. how they can hold onto that teeny majority in the house and what they ll prioritize if trump wins. and a temporary pause. let s to fighting in one part of gaza. but no break for israel s offensive in rafah. meantime, new fears as human rights groups describe, quote unspeakable list we ve been conditions were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central record breaking temperature is set to scorch a huge part of the us just days before summer begins, parts of the midwest and northeast, places like chicago
with the nation s infrastructure and climate change overall. america reeling from these deadly natural disasters. we are all living through it. the storms in the east, the fires out west, the obvious sense backed up by science that things are getting worse, that this is not normal. as for policy, biden is working with democrats in congress to pass this $1 trillion infrastructure bill and this ambitious $3.5 billion budget which would tackle climate change and expand the safety net in new ways. we have a very special guest on this amidst all this news, i am joined by cedric richmond, senior adviser to the president. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. walk us through what your administration is trying to do both deal with the front line emergency assistance needs, while making the argue we heard this from the president on wider solutions to a climate crisis. well, look, ari, i ll just start with the last part first, which is we want to invest in
the board of public utilities joe has joined us. governor phil murphy, giving an update in new jersey, actually upping the death count as rescues still continue. it has been an exceptionally heavy week here and across the country, and to end our nation s longest war, flooding, devastation, going down across the south and the northeast, fires out west, and of course the covid crisis pushing hospitals to the brink, all of that took place this week. if you are feeling stressed, depressed, your anxiety is on high, maybe that s why, but let s just take a moment before we end this week to remember all of the good in the world, and the good people, the people who stepped up and ran towards danger to help others amid all of these crise, like the cajun navy, very spoke to the volunteer this week, his group rushed into the floodwaters when everyone else was trying to rush out. let s remember him. starting this morning, i m about to be in laplace.
or we re bigger than our differences. it felt like this event that fit the moment perfectly. similarly in the uk right after the shock of brexit and i had been amazingly strong there, too. so over the last few years as you and your viewers know better than anyone, the division, the polarization in our world hasn t gone away. in fact, it s exacerbated. so we do believe that we can program the world with the world. take this week, for example. fires out west, floods in the east. between all the concerns about climate change and the interest in this programming? for sure. i think that that is absolutely true, and i would even take it a step further than just the surface of that, although that is true. i think that the general ways in which people are feeling so rocked by our changing world, so overtaken by the speed in which technology, politics, climate change, urbanization, a host of
year on record. every year you think it s going to be and it s not going to be. you re saying these storms we are seeing are actually getting either larger or stronger, more powerful than we saw 10, 20 and further years ago? let s go back. when you start micking any one storm, that s when the contrarians start cherry picking data. ignoring the bigger picture. let s talk broad context. fires out west. dead trees in montana, because the pine bark beatle can survive the winter, if you re a farmer in the heartland. i have a lot of people my family has a lot of people in the south. i get it, if you re a farmer here in the bread basket, the midwest, you know the par sites, the pests are showing up earlier and sticking around later. and that costs you money. you got to have more inputs and pestici