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Hospitals under pressure. it also means places like city zoos have had to find creative solutions to keep animals cool. translation: we have a frozen watermelon mix for the giraffes| and that we have types of blood for the carnivores and here we have blocks of ice mixed with meat for the lions. the sweltering heat also has farmers in italy worried about crops as record droughts are drying up rivers, forcing some towns in the po valley to ration water. translation: the situation could even get wo...

Have had to find creative solutions to keep animals cool. translation: we have a frozen watermelon mix for the giraffes and that we have tabs of blood for the carnivores and here we have blocks of ice mixed with meat for the lions. the sweltering heat also has farmers in italy worried about crops as record droughts are drying up rivers, forcing some towns in the po valley to ration water. translation: the situation could even get worse. it could cause damage to fauna, to agriculture, to everythi...

>> former texas congressman beto orourke turned presidential candidate has managed to amass a substantial small donor list and strong name recognition. he also got criticism for not revealing many policy specifics. that was before he rolled out an ambitious plan to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. >> its hard to argue that there is anything more important facing this country, this generation today, and, more importantly, every generation that follows. here we are in ca...

One is because the effects are immediate. most americans know we are suffering through record droughts, wildfires, events the likes of which people have never seen before. people realize clean energy is more affordable and more accessible than ever. theres more than half a million families that put solar on their own roof tops. there are millions who get their power from clean energy. there are dozens of fortune corporations that get 100% of their power from solar and wind. people are realizing,...

Country from one end to the other and find nothing" he walked back into his office. >> do you believe the administration cooked the books to sell the war in iraq? >> i didnt know it at the time, and i fought myself for that. ill go to my grave with that mass failing on my part. but, yes, in retrospect, having done all the research and work that my students and others have done, plus myself, im damn sure that the bush administration cooked the books. >> colonel lawrence wilkerson, good to have yo...

Troops into iraq and comb the country and find nothing. he walked back into his office. >> do you believe the administration cooked the books to sell the war in iraq? >> i didnt know it at the time, and i fought myself for that. ill go to my grave with that mass failing on my part. but, yes. in retrospect, having done all the research and work that my students and others have done, plus myself, im damn sure that the bush administration cooked the books. >> colonel lawrence wilkerson, good to hav...

Year on record. we had record droughts. were seeing disruption across the planet. its important for people to understand this. we started putting carbon at industrial scale into the atmosphere starting in the industrial revolution. theres already more than 100 years of that in the air. weve already warmed the earths temperature by about 8/10 of a degree. people will look at this and say, well, there were bad storms in the 1930s. indeed, there were. the best way to think about this is to think ab...

>>shepard: a great day to an football fan who loves bacon. hours after we learned the nfl refs are headed back to the school, the global bacon shortage will not affect us in the united states. early this week you may have heard of a coming apocalypse because record droughts caused farmers to raise fewer pigs so there would be less bacon. an economist says that the fears across the pond are overblown. of course, bacon is not even a meat according to the usda. bacon is just a fat which has no plac...

air bags and cushion them with air bags and land it on the surface. that was the tried and trued method. but this rover is the size of a car, 2,000 pounds. its too big to do it any other way than what theyre going to attempt in 36 hours. never before happen. and what they will do is hit the atmosphere at 13,200 miles an hour. theyll begin to slowdown. theyll be maneuvering through the atmosphere and then at some point will deploy a parra chute which will further slow the vehicle but no...

>> i didnt know it at the time, and i fought myself for that. ill go to my grave with that mass failing on my part. but, yes. in retrospect, having done all the research and work that my students and others have done, plus myself, im damn sure that the bush administration cooked the books. >> colonel lawrence wilkerson, good to have you on the "ed show" tonight. thank you so much. appreciate it, sir. >> thanks for having me, ed. after record droughts, freak snowstorms, and of course sandy, a m...