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For future storms, droughts, wildfires. that means we're going to have to go round congress and we're going to have new rules, new regulations. we're going to spend a lot more money especially on infrastructure, and we're going to set up a committee, a task force largely made up of democrats from the states and the mayors of big cities, and we're going to say -- there you go. that is who we're going to have running this climate change task force, largely democrats. they're going to say we need to do this, this and this. we need to spend this money here, change that rule there. that's what we n...

And i am almost certain that 50 or 100 years from now the only issue that will really matter to people is what we did about the climate. right now i'm joined by phaedra ellis-lamkin, green for all. paul bledsoe, clinton white house climate change task force. francis beinecke, president of national resources defense council and ta-nehisi coates. good morning. >> good morning. >> i was surprised about that speech. were you? >> surprised and excited. we were hoping to get the president's commitment. he made it very strongly. this was not a one line or two words climate change. eight sentences, po...

Realistic. you have to come up with at least a rate of dissent. >> reporter: if the plane went come up on land, trabs minsmitt beacons should be sending a signal. but if it went down in the sea, black boxes should be sending a homing signal. >> these devices are designed to activate in the water. once active, they produce a brief pulse once a second for 30 days at a depth of up to 20,000 feet. >> nbc's tom costello reporting. back in this country and turning to politics, you are looking live at the senate floor. more than two dozen centers holding an all night session to bring attention to c...