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Climate Change Crisis 'A Code Red' For Humanity
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:16:40
Publish Date: 2021-08-10 15:10:54
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The CDC warns that young children are at risk of severe Covid-19, with new data showing that children under five years old hospitalized with the virus tripled in the first half of July. Dr Mark Kline, Physician in Chief at Children's Hospital New Orleans, joins to give his experience of treating children who are becoming increasingly infected with the contagious delta variant and how the situation has now developed into a game-changer.

The United States is averaging more than 108,000 new Covid-19 cases per day as Florida Governor Ron Desantis  threatens to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members who disregard his executive order prohibiting mask mandates for school districts. Carly Simon, Superintendent of Alachua County Public schools joins to tell Don why she is standing up to Governor Desantis.

Washington D.C. Police Officer Jeffrey Smith was one of the many who rushed to defend the capitol on January 6th. The 12-year veteran was hit in the head with a metal poll during the riot and became the second officer to take his own life after defending The Capitol. His wife Erin Smith joins to discuss her asking D.C. to recognize her husband's death as being in the line of duty.

Sources tell CNN that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's closest confidants spent the weekend trying to convince him to resign in the wake of the New York's Attorney General's report which alleges the Governor sexually harassed 11 women. CNN Political Analyst Errol Louis joins to talk about Governor Cuomo's attorney's CNN interview in which she addresses the explosive allegations by 'state trooper number one'.

Finally, a new report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, concludes that the Earth is warming much faster than scientists had previously realized, with the U.N. Secretary General calling it "a code red for humanity". The past five years have been the warmest on record for our planet and 18 of the hottest 19 years have occurred since 2001. Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Centre, joins to give her perspective on the report and its implications for our futures.

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