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It. we are seeing, we live in food deserts. we are struggling with just basic, just basic survival. and it is nothing new. but unfortunately, but we are seeing across the united states is amplified in our communities. so many of our people have to drive. some of us hundreds of miles just to get to work, to get to school. so that is impacting us with respect to the gas prices in rural america it is again amplified on reservations. so we are just seeing kind of a compounding impact of covid, infla...

Emissions, the root cause of climate change, were facing a losing battle. >> lets make the investments ahead of time so were not just picking up the pieces. >> reporter: the other part of the devastating impact of climate change in the united states is the compounding impact of the frequency of these climate events. in the 1980s, these events were happening every 82 days, and now theyre happening every 18 days. rené marsh, cnn, washington. parts of the u.s. could see the coldest air of the se...