combat the effects of climate change, they re trying to build a sea wall here. that s partially funded by the european union, especially by france. a lot of experts believe it could be too little too late in order to try to save the city and in the long run they might have to abandon the city altogether because it simply isn t enough. really a dire projection here. one of the things i ve heard from experts for a very long time is two things need to happen. on the one hand, of course, global warming needs to occur, but on the other hand also there needs to be a lot of money put into irnfrastructure and they ae causing such havoc in places right here. isa? such important context from fred pleitgen in senegal. thanks very much, fred. we appreciate it. nic robertson, thank you to you. while president biden is overseas, he s also seeing
he escaped from the suv on friday after the shootout in watertown he smashed those two phones before going into hiding. otherwise, it s minor details here about basically the substance of the events we already knew. all right. well, thank you, pete williams for the report on that case. we re going to return to the president s overseas case. president obama is meeting with u.s. embassy staff in senegal. it s his first leg of his trip to africa. the president and the first lady will be honored with a state dinner. earlier today the first family made an emotional island to africa s largest slave trading post for nearly 400 years. nbc news political director and daily rundown host chuck todd is traveling with the president. reporter: been a busy first full day for the president in senegal. began with a press conference
will, some symbolic stops in senegal. he s being centered with a state dinner but he s making it to gore island which is the point of no return, the slave house where many africans for hundreds of years, what was their last place before they were shipped off into slavery across the opening after visiting the door of no return the president made some remarks about how important it was to him personally to step through that threshold and see that particularly as an african-american u.s. president. all right. nbc s chuck todd in senegal traveling with the president. now joining us is dana millbank, a political columnist at the washington post. how are you? good. good. as we look at this president traveling to africa, there is some extra significance with his father hailing from kenya. on the other hand, he s not the first preds with those kind of family ties. james buchanan, thomas jefferson, several presidents
on the continent? right. it s no coincidence that he s going from west africa to east africa to south africa and skipping those? yeah, they re not on the tour. they re not on the tour. i don t think he ll get a t-shirt. he s doing the symbolic visits where mandela was imprisoned, in senegal the slave port. i was on a very similar trip with president bush when he was in the white house. in fact, that whole trip was dominated by yellow cake uranium in iraq. oh, sure. nothing to do with africa. there was the occasional photograph of the president finding an elephant on safari, that sort of thing, but we could have been in france for all it mattered to the press core. that doesn t mean that it s not interesting to africa. in east africa the building of trade ties, where there s rivalry with china. these are important things