shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
Wildfires in Canada are breaking records this year, and one effect has been days of haze and unhealthy air in Pennsylvania. WPSU spoke with Erica Smithwick, a fire ecology expert and distinguished professor of geography at Penn State, about the fires and what role climate change is playing.
thick clouds of wildfire haze, they are once again descending from canada now enveloping the midwest. people in chicago masking up, in fact, to combat health risks from the smoke, and severe storms have stranded thousands of travelers in airports from georgia to new york. dozens sleeping on terminal floors with more than 9,000 flights canceled or delayed in just the last 48 hours. a barrage of lightning, flash floods and high powered winds bringing down trees crashing across this country, demolishing homes, blocking roads and crushing vehicles. in detroit, we re going to show you a car that was entirely flattened right there by an overnight storm, and then spreading north right now, a record heat wave that already has 40 million folks on alert in the south, and so there you have it, we re going to get you a weather picture in just a bit. we re going to go right now to chicago and take a listen to president biden, certainly the economy s on many people s minds. here you got bidenomics,