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Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they attacked their friend Payton Leutner in order to please a fictional character. Andrea Cavallier reports

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they attacked their friend Payton Leutner in order to please a fictional character. Andrea Cavallier reports

Backed up by others who believe this is a moment. a real call to arms. the strike is part of a movement being led by 16-year-old greta thunberg who will address the united nations general assembly on monday and sat down ahead of that with our chief climate correspondent bill weier. >> reporter: if today marks an explosion of young climate activism, she was a most unlikely lighter. >> our house is on fire. >> reporter: tiny, soft spoken swede. >> i am here to say our house is on fire. >> reporter...

This morning kamala harris has just released her plan to fight the climate crisis. she aims to be carbon neutral by 2045. five candidates have unveiled their plans ahead of cnns big town hall on this topic tonight. how do the plans stack up? lets bring in bill weier. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> seven hours on the climate crisis. just take us behind the scenes. why did cnn decide to do one topic with this? >> because there was so much cryout from those voters who put this topic at t...

Right, don, this, would for them. i hope democrats are scared and continue to work our bus off to get our people out to vote. but republicans, theres also a danger here. what happened the last time we had caravans on the boarder? the trump trump administration started ripping babies from the arms of their mothers. white suburban republican women as well as decent americans around the country were pissed off at that and did not like that. they already said theyre thinking about doing that again. ...

Itching to get back to work, to get back to their homes, and get on with normal life. its going to be difficult. no power down here. very little communication. in fact, my satellite phone dropped out so i cant hear you anymore. but signs of hope and resolve thus far in the upper keys. ill send it back to you, kate. >> it is so striking. bill cant hear us but how beautiful it is and that image behind him and what a long road the keys, up and down the keys, these folks have to get back into their ...

Cnns chris cuomo was one of the first reporters to make it in. listen to this. >> the farther we get down into the keys the worse the situation is. everything has been touched by the storm. >> the head of fema is backing that up with stunning figures. heres brock long a short time ago. >> 25% of the houses have been destroyed and 65% have major damage. basically every house in the keys was impacted in some way or another. this is why we ask people to leave. >> femas initial estimate one in four ...

Obviously, you go for the big population centers where most of the outages are quickly, one thing we heard from the florida power company, but from a county commissioner down in the keys, chad, we heard that she said we expect it to be ten days before theres power again in key west and also said this morning in the lower keys, kind of bill weier is headed, it would be up to a month before the power is back up. the big reason is exactly what youre saying. theyve got power lines, hundreds of power...

Left a massive path of destruction in its wake. bill weier returned to a restaurant, a bar in key largo, to get a firsthand look at the devastation that was left behind by irmas wrath. watch this. >> ive never seen anything like this before. we did the interview right here. that was the bar. after the interview my crew, we sat right here and ate shrimp tacos. i had cold beers with the folks from the neighborhood. they were so gracious and so wonderful to hang out with. but its all gone. its all ...

Question mark hanging over that chain of islands because they are not fundamentally dissimilar, geographically, top graphically from cuba, from puerto rico and we saw what happened there. >> bill weier in key largo and cant move right now because he doesnt have fuel to get out of his location and so many people who chose to stay are in the same situation. . its a good sign, we see people out here walking, but the recovery just beginning. and poppy, you had the discussion with christine romans, t...