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Tackle climate change, we simply cant do that if we dont save the great trees of the amazon. with that in mind, it is interesting that in the communication that the leaders and ministers did manage to agree, they talked about trying to avoid they talked about trying to avoid the point of no return for the great forest. for many years, scientists have been warning that if you chop down a certain proportion of the trees, you do cross a kind of threshold beyond which the forest cant recover. and th...

For safety. the humanitarian crisis that started at the southern border is reaching further across the entire country. officials in at least two northeastern states now demanding that the biden administration step in. and a history-making mega millions jackpot. details on the single winning ticket in last nights billion dollar plus drawing. and we begin this morning with the results of a special election in ohio that could have national implications for the battle over abortion rights. ohi...

Ohio last night. voters soundly rejected a referendum to raise the threshold for amending the state kons from a simple majority to 60%. it was a republican led effort to make it harder to pass a november referendum that would protect abortion rights. >> ohio, we did it. we did it! tonight is a major victory for democracy in ohio. the majority in ohio. and the peoples power has been preserved. >> coalition leaders also saying that the work to enshrine abortion rights in the states constitution be...

Sounded the alarm about comments the former president made on the trail and on social media. major? >> major: a key word in that memo: deprive. robert costa, thank you. we turn now to a closely watched battle over abortion. supporters of abortion rights in ohio are claiming victory after voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have made it more difficult to add abortion protections to the states constitution. cbss caitlin huey-burns reports on the political impact of the vote....

The state legislature is controlled by the republican party, and the measure that theyve been voting on is called issue one. it would have raised the threshold for any amendments to the constitution to 60%. thats instead of a simple majority. and so any amendments would have been much harder to pass. secretary of state for ohio frank leros told the bbc constitutions offer fundamental rights, widely held beliefs and not just a controversial issue that may have 51% support. and so what does this h...

Thoughtful way. and im afraid this was rushed a little bit. because we had to make a certain deadline to be able to get it done. and i think it could have borne a little more debate. and im not sure if i would have voted to put it on the ballot if it wasnt in that rushed format, if it wasnt a special election. if it didnt seem pretty hypocritical based on what we had done just a few months by eliminating august special elections. >> big elections in wisconsin, kentucky, kansas, michigan, montana...

National emergency with respect to climate change. >> i have already done that. >> peter: he hasnt. which has the sunrise movement a climate focused youth group saying hmmm so just do it? still no emergency, but lots more taxpayer funding for green energy. >> thats bidenomics. >> peter: president biden wants to talk about the transition to greener energy and he picked a good place to do it. the factory where they set up a microphone for him now makes wind towers but they used to make something t...

All that stuff, pushing to change the threshold to make it harder for people to vote for abortion rights in november. but on the other side of the fight, is this the democratic party taking the lead in the organizing, or is this a sort of more organic or more broad coalition than that in terms of people on the other side? >> this is definitely more organic. you have doctors organized in a way they never have been before, to protect reproductive rights. youve got organizations like red wine and b...

>> just, and we have now learned the former vice president, mike pence has qualified for the first republican president shunt bay later this month in milwaukee. thats according to his campaign and there is a question on whether or not he would meet the threshold for donors. and were pulling that all candidates must meet again on that stage. of course it all set to sign that loyalty pledge that could set up a face-off with his former boss and running mate donald trump. we should know trump has no...

Going to overturn, theyre going to vote to overturn ohios abortion ban when they go to vote on it in november. everybody knows that. ohio pro choice people know that, ohio pro life people know that. people voted against republican abortion bans in every state where anybody has voted on it since dobbs, including in states like kansas and kentucky. so its safe to say that voters are going to vote against republican abortion bans when they get the chance to do so in november in ohio. unless -- unle...