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Across the globe young people are skipping school, leaving work today to take part in what is expected to be the biggest climate protest to date. >> we want -- >> all: climate change! >> what do we want? >> all: climate justice. >> all: when do we want it? >> all: now! >> the first of the global climate strikes kicking off in us a tra australia but millions chiming in. we begin coverage in new york with chief correspondent bill weir. what's the turnout been here? >> reporter: it is so much bigger than we imagined. so much bigger than the last one in march which drew about 1.4

Millions of young people are taking to the streets to call for action on climate change. the global march includes events in 150 countries. what started this morning in australia, asia and africa is surging across europe and the americas. in berlin, protesters used a striking visual message to push for action. standing on ice blocks with nooses around their necks. a stark call for change before it's too late. joining me now from new york is savannah. since you're down the road, i'll start with you. what have you seen so far? >> so we have seen a ton of students who are skipping school. here in...

They have a proposal to fight obesity. they want to ban chocolate melts. they are thinking about cutting it out. they are concerned about its high sugar content. jesse, do you love chocolate milk? >> jesse: i love it. i'm going to target on the next break. about the protests, if we only have ten years left on planet earth, juan, why are kids in school anyway? why don't they just go hang out with their parents? think about it logically. they say that miami is going to be underwater in a few years. why don't we just moved to higher ground? it's very simple. the point of skipping school is to dra...

A bag, and then you put it in here and it will cook itself and give it like 10, 15 minutes. i grew up with all girls, so i learned from them. and then most of the times i was by myself because i was always skipping school, so i had to cook for myself. i was basically the same as the kids that i talked to, troubled youth. bad family, you know. father was alcoholic. used to beat my mom. he ran out on us. i grew up around a lot of gangs. and it was just a 15-year-old kid trying to find an identity. didn't have one. i got caught up doing that stuff. skipping school. hanging out. doing stuff like t...

Behind us and. i am her last race before a controversial rule change in track and field caster semenya overwhelms the competition and the eight hundred meters. i'm so me so much god it's good to have you with us we start with the grassroots initiatives around the world that are putting climate change on top of the agenda the environmental youth movement started by the sixteen year old swedish activist to embark has inspired young people in many countries more than a million students have taken part in school strikes to demand action against climate change one group of german students turned ou...