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PHILIPPINE Red Cross (PRC) and Rotary Club of Manila (RC Manila) 101 teamed up for the initiative 'Imagine Rotary create hope: Mobility for dignity,' and donated wheelchairs to 162 persons with mobility impairment and senior citizens in Metro Manila. This part of the memorandum of agreement the two organizations signed last May 2023.
breaking records this year. in july one buoy that was off the coast recorded 101 degrees. that is equivalent to the temperature of a hot tub. we'll dig into all this and how it's changing what we're seeing happening in florida tonight. bill weir is cnn's chief climate correspondent. he has in steinhatchee along florida's big bend where hurricane idalia is expected to hit the hardest. bill, thanks for joining us. how are these record-breaking warm waters amplifying the effects of what we're watching tonight? just how quickly this storm is intensifying. >> reporter: yeah, it's all connected, kaitlan. one of the scariest units of measurement i've learned covering the climate beat is hiroshimas per second. that is, the amount of extra energy absorbed by our oceans. a few years ago it was five hiroshima-sized explosions per second, every second of every day being absorbed. now it's around ten due to the heat-trapping pollution that comes from burning fossil fuels.
water temperature modulated a little bit is going across the water and mixing it because cold water is underneath. if the winds are calm you end up with extremely warm water. you might have seen in the keys they measured the water temperature at 101 degrees. not unheard of. it happens. but then a thunderstorms came along and mixed the water and then it was back down to the upper 80s. so it is not all related to some kind of permanent change. sometimes the weather pattern makes it warm in the gulf. this was the case. this storm ran over a pool of very warm water in the gulf so that helped intensify it. >> dana: great to have you as part of our program. >> bret: the best in the business. let's bring in randi campbell live from tallahassee, florida.