and at this hour, president biden is on his way out west to survey the damage of other natural disaster being made worse by the climate crisis. he's set to visit the national interagency fire center in idaho and travel to california to take an aerial tour of the wildfire damage there. california is in the middle of one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in history. the president is expected to point to the cost of these more frequent and devastating weather events to push the importance of passing his economic plan which includes major investments to battle the climate crisis. joining me now for more on this is white house national climate adviser and former epa administrator, gina mccarthy. so the fires out west, flooding in places that never see flooding in the east, the climate crisis has never been more relevant to people's lives, but how do you translate that to real change? >> well, i think what the goal of the president is he's traveling both last week to new