in clutches from the country say to at least blog bought, funding go buy. no. thank you very much indeed about us. missed talking to some potters that we're going to bring in of the a lot of it. and he's an associate professor of history and georgetown university and catch her as being with us for the last couple of hours or so. and bonded was making the point that although they, the diplomatic representation maybe at the lower level of funds is uh, trying to essentially put deposit positive spending this and say no, at least we're trying to do something. funds is offering a over a $100000000.00 in order to be able to help you monitor in a for the people 11 on. even this 1st step, one would imagine is important. it is important, but i do think that there's still a danger that we, you know, fall into this trap where we just turn this into a kind of, um, you know, an acceptable or given in terms of the level and scale of the atrocities that are be committed, so rather than turn this into a conversation simply about aid as we've seen and guys over the last year as a genocide is unfolding, it's about, you know, quibbling over how much aid is getting in to guys. uh, you know, under these,

these events restrictions, as opposed to talking about stopping the actual genocide and in the case of loving on it's the same kind of conversation that's simply about, you know, how do we assess people who are undergoing some of the most horrific violence i'm given the scale, i mean, why not be thinking about, you know, that the number of buildings that are being designated and leveled in their entirety. the number of villages in the south that are being destroyed beyond any repair recognition. mean, this really should be the emphasis of the international communities to bring an end, as opposed to saying, you know, we're accepting, you know, we're taking for granted the fact that this level of destruction is happening and we're simply offering whatever we can, you know, modest sums of money to help the survivors as opposed to saying this has to stop and it has to stop immediately. and his comments. he basically said, you know, we had the cease fire proposal. they rejected it and we just continue to move on as opposed to saying that there really has to be a much more intense international pressure. cutting off of arms, i think is, is the bare minimum. but there has to be a concerted effort through bodies like the one security council of instance,

which has not really even taken up this question. because there is an expectation that the united states would simply veto any attempt to stop israel's war on 11 on . and i think the other thing to be clear about which doesn't really come across from his comments is the fact that israel's assault is on the entirety of, of the lebanese society, right? that this is not simply a war with his butler, one entity. we're seeing, you know, the love any soldiers that you hit that he praised and commended or being killed in real time. right? we're seeing it on, on the assault on the financial institutions that are, you know, the source of livelihood for, for hundreds of thousands of people in the state. we're seeing the assault on medical workers and hospitals. so i think that this is something that as far as beyond the kind of stated campaign or the stated goals of the, we're going to leave it there. but we will be talking about this laser room. we're going to be back in a couple of the times. this will be we have only 10 minutes to take our belongings

and leave the office so they can shut it down. for the victory for the government, get this one of those containing refugees, the coming the actions of israel's government, the military to take an estimate described as the closing of the policy. we traveled to central mexico to meet the family of a man. went to work on a farm in the united states and never came back. he had died of heat stroke. his case was a start warning, that is temperature sore. working outdoors is becoming more dangerous around the world. we say climate change as a threat, multiply it triple symbols just really increases your chances of getting sicker. and of course from heat you can actually taff or we've been tracking down stories

of workers in the us who lost their lives from exposure to extreme heat. in many cases, their names are not included. some articles about their depths. we reviewed medical examiners reports and police records to locate people. that's how we found the family of salvatore garcia, expedia or the yeah. and the american may see it on the whole. maybe coconut stock or vin number or the other for the pack on the same. ok. my e mail most go where that's why i quarter, i won't be as a fucking all those for the throw her either way. good, etc. it's unclear exactly how many workers are dying in the us through the heat exposure. but the watchdog group, public citizen says it could be as high as 2000

a year. these workers are now having to ask themselves whether to go to work and risk their lives or stay home and sacrifice a peach. there are no federal, he protections for them. more than 30000000 outdoor workers in the united states in florida for salvador died activists have been pushing for years for more protections for workers. but they've been blocked by industry, trade groups, and republican politicians. why would you ask for the government to do more? we get paid by the hour, but when we want to take more breaks, we don't want to work so hard. on this episode of fault lines, we look at the danger of extreme heat for outdoor workers. i really think that we can all agree that we don't want people dying out in the fields. people should not go to work today.

me. this is the small village in central mexico were salvador garcia's p t. p. and maria fell in love this teenagers and got married a few years later. in 2021. they welcomed their 1st child isaac. they weren't financially stable yet for excited to start a family vehicle and what's going on. so if somebody that and dollars and feels economically and what's gonna happen all the more to be out of that outcome, always told you that economic forget guess that it would increase it became more difficult when they're young. son isaac was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and needed specialized treatment and increase the pressure on salvatore's job at the local dairy plant. last, i visit on the west coast office and of course the right of it. i mean, it doesn't look at it on the summer. they decided that salvador would get an age to

a visa, to travel temporarily to do farm labor in the united states where he could earn more money, get it for we get a, have a nice that they don't some quarter. i mean, one thing guess is what are they doing and see can we have what events e can oh or how they know for the community liaison? he was legally here by the united states government, his passport, everything was authorized. so everything was above board to say like a, a, the, any say i left 30 that for it, but up with, compared to may cnn, but a, but us, we whole and then part of our, that sort of expect that the way to get set up. but i'll see me when i sit down they come in thought it was covered on monday. how they did that. in september of 2023. salvatore traveled here to south florida by boss to begin working to get trained to work on a tractor or began his assignment on top of the truck,

planting sugar cane. on his very 1st day, just a few hours into the job. he collapsed due to the heat. no one called 911. and it was his co workers that drove them to a hospital and according to the department of labor, more than 50 percent of workers who die of heat related illnesses dying their 1st day. and more than 70 percent died during the 1st week. there are no requirements for employers to acclimatize their workers to get their bodies used to the environment. there should be a process where the person can adjust to the temperature, understand how much hydration is needed, and over 2 weeks get them acclimatized and not just i hire and you go to work. salvador was put on a breathing machine. and within 3 days, he had taken his last breath. he was 26 years old. according to the medical examiner's report, his kidneys failed,

and he died of heat stroke. this is the medical examiner's report for side, rather as he has to be the. and i was just wondering, you know, as a doctor, is there anything that stands out to you when you're looking at this for body temperature 109 degrees fahrenheit. that is shockey $109.00. that is shocking. that's we see the danger and the breaking down of all the oregon's by one . 07. and he's already at $1.00 oh $9.00. did he have to have a prior medical condition for his core body temperature to reach a 109? absolutely not young healthy people can die from each stroke. no other problems. and you're get exposed. you can die. love your bus. i live. i see, i will know is amazing and we'll just, but i won't. that's all what is the then? yeah, i don't have that in front of me to see as well known as new episode, roberto seal. but when i got it seems that while while the i don't want to and it's

horrible tragedy. i mean he came here to support his family. she would hope that someone would be checking on their workers a little bit more closely. there's a spot that people of color have been built to work outdoors that they thrive, working outdoors. and so there's this kind of mentality and some people that if you're a person of color, you can handle the sheets around 75 percent of farm workers in the us for latino, extreme heat causes more depth than any other weather related event in the us. more than 1000 americans die every year from extreme heat, by 2050, that figures expected to rise to almost 60000 as a result of climate change. stories like solving doors are becoming more common across the united states. there been high profile incidents where outdoor workers

have to come to the heat. when someone has heat stroke, you're burning from the inside. your cooking from the inside, your brain is cooking away. your temperature internally is so high that the organ starting to fail, and you will have major shutdown of the kid to use the heart of receipts this year, the bite, the ministration proposed, the 1st ever federal. he protections for workers, including access to shade breaks and equipment ties ation the heat. it's expected to be challenged by industry, trade groups, and republicans in congress. for the time being employers are only legally required to provide potable water and sometimes they fall short on that. the workers that we talk to tell us that the often times do not have access to clean safe drinking water. they are not allowed to take right. dealer rest breaks to seek shape,

to pull down their bodies. florida is the heart of state and the us and leads the nation and he related illness. 5 years before salvador died, advocates for an outdoor workers and immigrants trying to get the state to pass heat standards, including a training component that could have saved his life. we count farm workers association, florida, some responsible employers, all came together to introduce legislation that would have required a outdoor employers to provide a 10 minute respirator every 2 hours of work. each time your effort was blocked by industry, trade associations, and republicans active as devise a different strategy to pass legislation to protect workers. in 2023, they decided to try to pass the he protections locally in miami dade county,

the largest county in the state. and home to more than 300000 outgo workers. we had hundreds about the workers speaking and support of this effort. and really, you know, we were on track to pass the 1st county wide heat standard in the united states, large trade associations, lobbied republican state legislators to intervene. the heat bill didn't pass. republicans pushed through a different law blocking local governments from establishing he protections for workers. florida lawmakers passed to build the session that would outlaw local mandates, meant to protect workers from extreme heat. they went into effect on july 2024. so at the last minute, when the state stepped in and blocked the efforts of miami dade county, how does that feel? our members really felt defeated. this wasn't an issue about, you know, left wing right way was more of an issue about right versus wrong. and it was very

disappointing to see that the state handicapped our local cities and counties ability to take action on this issue. a similar strategy was utilized in texas, were republicans past a similar bill that prevented local municipalities from an acting protections. it's in human and it's, it's a horrible bill and it's a shame that the government passed this kind of bill not for the people, but instead for the employers of environment for over 40 years. so i'm an a business man and an employer, and we need more business people running for public office. i don't like donald trump, like rick ross cosponsored, the bill pre empting, miami dade county. he also represents bell quaint, the city where salvador sepia collapsed in the field. is there something wrong with mandating a 10 minute water break every 2 hours to mandate it?

yes, i do think is wrong. we don't want local governments setting in their own standards . it's not, it's not the local governments job. should the state of florida pass heat protections for outdoor workers. here's my thought on that, cause i do a lot of research on climate change and other factors. my knowledge base says know that and things are not changed that dramatically. like them news media want you to believe that we're going through a cataclysmic temperature increase, even if there was the hottest day recorded on planet earth was just the other day. i mean, and that we know is just a fact. i think it's overboard. do you have sympathy for these workers and for what they're asking for? yes, of course i do have some of the the, they would like to have easier working conditions. that doesn't surprise me. why wouldn't you ask for the government to do more? hey, we don't want to work so hard. we want to take breaks. we get paid by the hour,

but when we want to take more breaks, we don't want to work so hard. i would challenge representative ross to come spend the day as a former to spend 8 hours in triple digit temperatures. these workers are not asking for more brakes. they're asking for the right to suffice roofing prefer energy. i mean that's those people have steam coming off of their body after one thing outside for hours. you know, i don't know that i want to be a roof or that's, that's pretty tough. um, should they get water breaks? your asked me the same question 3 different ways. this is i may as well they're, they're different. no, it's the same answer. the same answer is that's the responsibility of the employer . but if the employer isn't doing that, then what? i guess you have to go work for somebody else. we have bad history on valley valley in the lives of farm workers that trace back to when people were in slate. dr

roxanne and chico us has spent nearly a decade studying the impact of extreme heat on farm workers. agricultural workers have the highest rate of heat related mortality. 35 times more risk than any other occupational group. what is the long term impact that the heat has on the workers? then we know that once someone has a cube, jenny injury, they are risk for developing chronic kidney disease. part of her work with us collecting data on the body temperature farm workers throughout the day. she hopes this work will educate lawmakers about the dangers of heat exposure. we accompanied her to a friend or e in north florida where they grow the cream leaves that go in flower bouquets. pardon me, workers. they work out doors, but they work underneath this black mass. sometimes people think that the, the master is there to protect the workers to give them shape, but it's not, it's for the protection of the firm because the firm cannot get direct sunlight.

lorenzo not a silly escalade or we're wired with heat sensors before they went to work. they have to bunch together around 20 leaves and get paid roughly $0.50 for each bundle . the workers also work really fast, because that, sorry, please to get on a truck. if it doesn't get to the cooling warehouse within 2 to 3 hours, it starts to weather away, and they don't get paid for that bunch. cindy, similar to the simulink, go see. come with the test thinking the same thing. what took them? what could they be done with 2 quarter? so do research get by the way that the head went, us as a for to say, but i'm a split group. was me a couple of years ago. not special in the office, but i'm still very luck as we could get my mutual i mean look test and look, there's a lot in the game. i'm going to spell it says skin temperature and it was $37.00

which is and that's in celsius in fahrenheit. that would be about a $100.00. i couldn't see your head and take it down. this might sound this might. yeah, a little because since before, in this case this to the keep it on the i c k again, the name of the kind of to come to the bathroom. they're working with a fever, but no exception. and they have very much the same symptoms that you and i have when we have a fever, crab headaches. sometimes they may feel nauseous. roxanne and her team analyze blood and urine samples. they take their vital signs as to workers, questions about how they're feeling and share the results with them. and then i get any of the stuff that i like anything that's out of it. and it says, you know, of course the, this is not that i'm being of as he gets it aside as a lot of which i, which i was that on through the, the husband has diabetes. and she was right at the cost of pre diabetes. so i don't

know said sort of thing that is yes. so what kind of, what's, what's the most that estimate speed i send you? i don't. what's your point of what though a young the choice of that many of the screen feet in. okay, for a cleaning, the husband reported that they, that he went to a clinic, but that he didn't take his medicine. he that he would go back. he will, you look at it. let's get this is definitely at a higher risk of heat stroke to west c 5. it's one of those things before this because they push themselves. they think that they can withstand the seats and they can keep going. but someone like him has diabetes. so that's, that's dangerous to continue to work like that. what do you anticipate seeing with the health, because outdoor workforce, as temperatures keep rising, as the temperatures rise, i'm very concerned about a workers health. you know,

when we have state governments that are pushing back staffing, local counties for protecting their workers to me, that's just, i'm thinkable because they are so essential to our economy, to our society, to our culture receipts a lot of 66 people were dying, but kind of gateways, people don't understand what one actual value of one life costs. jonathan vasquez has worked as a roofer in south florida for more than a decade along with his younger brother wilmer. what is the heat light working on a roof tops to me is have you ever open up a furnace like the oven? and you felt the heat, you know, not only for like, 2 seconds but for like 14 hours a day. a lot of is when he touched the tiles, it burns, her hands touch a single bank to hands and it's, it's just miserable. in august of 2023. the hardest. you on record,

wilmer felt sick after working outside for hours and started experiencing severe he cramps. then i seen his eyes. it went from brown to white. that was my mommy and like he's not coming back from this room or died the next day. it just 29 years old . so any time i ever cried about a was went out the hospital, the doctor let my mom know jesse and my mom's face. to me. i know i went into a deep depression because of it. i don't think no mother should have to bear had her son the you on it and is worried about his own health moving forward. and without any form of protection. he thinks employers will take advantage of workers to add some flowers because some of these people, monkeys, you know, like they don't see them as, uh, as uh, as humans. if they're not human, i don't have to treat them like human face, human animal moving their product. reality is here in america's, he's paying bills,

trying to get by every single week. as for salvador, his case after his death, the federal government investigated the company that hired him, mcneal, labor management, the government investigation, so the employer could have prevented his death by implementing safety rules to protect workers from heat related hazards. in other words, salvatore's death was preventable. the company is contesting government fines. the total roughly $27000.00. we were able to reach the owner of mcneal labor management on his cell phone. hello. he gave us permission to record the call. oh hi. sheila mcneil mcneil accept responsibility for salvador is 50 as death x, because like some of the people, nobody's ever the real problems in many,

many years. some people are healthy and that's where these really just. yeah, i mean, he was, he was 26 years old though, and the, the documents that, that we saw from the medical examiner did not list any kind of preexisting condition. the family told us, he did not have a preexisting condition. it seems like he, he's to come to a heat stroke. you know, it's possible, like i said, it's something else because, you know, nobody else got sick. you would accept no responsibility for his death. if you find that he didn't have any sort of prior health conditions was their responsibility because you things happen to people getting controls and we did everything. right. you know, i know you're saying you all did everything right. but a man did die here. yes. do you think that there should be protections for workers on the local level or other state wide level even on the federal level? because at the moment there are none. you know, there's not any of the problem with it though i'm doing the guidelines. why do you think that other employers do not want these?

he protections past, just because they to cut their productions. i hear you saying you, you guys did everything you did, you could do to, to prevent this. definitely happening. but does that mean that a death like salvatore's is inevitable? i don't understand which one our space is ending. it of it. does that mean that you anticipate that there are more workers that are going to die from the heat? this is very possible in the us are just, you was, were main people to work the it gets when you have to get them this year for the sit eco will thing. they don't that that's a problem and i know you know, and that's where you go here. so for the 2 of us that out of the easy peasy inside of it all

the way i said that you for that for me, let me look in this. is he put a go michigan as i say, what else? the me, you go up what the normal or no the maybe say go in the most affordable and when i mean, you can work with this. maria shared with us her final text messages with her husband the night before. he started his new job in the pony cl mod low sick this watch. so some which you guys don't memory say with windows and what you someone yeah, i mean boy, i don't know mucous concept last home. the use of the way a yes it for a do you want me to? gosh, the

maria filed a workers compensation lawsuit and she was able to receive a lot of settlements for salvatore's family, though his death leaves keeping whole and their lives. the me, what the new provider, the government, what do you have on the plan? the, the, the limits of a whole we bought the company. i know

the unique perspective. we don't want ahead to well, but we no longer have any private spaces on the incident. that's a scary well on heard voices a year into this genocide, it still remains large, one section to connect with our community and tap into conversation you will find elsewhere. but humanity, the number of people who want to stop sending weapons has gone up and up, despite what they hear in the mainstream media in the united states. the stream on out just the or as just as the water begin to restate in the country south is a new city are flooded, hit the country is not displacing tens of thousands across several districts. we don't have any fresh water for drinking. no. can we cook food under these

conditions? it is tough for us. the region is familiar with flash floods, but this is one of the worst spin over 30 years. thousands of people are forced to move homes and farm lands severely damaged. members of the armed forces with the help of volunteers, our leading rescue and relief efforts. we faced real difficult today and rescuing people. i think that was too much water and i'm the current recovery for many of the farmers could take months or even years home. good bad the dentist and both the crops that are planted, cuts washed away. it's a total loss crime. it exports one, but changing rain from happens in the email and region could lead to even more devastating natural disasters. in bung with this is real, is judaism and judaism is israel. many american jews are raised with a one sided view of israel. this is our land. that's what was conveyed to us found in the depths of my family's house. but the tide is shifting as younger jewish

americans learn the reality about these rails treatments of the palestinians. i was never in the palestinian house to lie barge into one in the middle of the night. it's a military occupation is right, is an episode one on als is era. the is writing strikes, target a car outside they route one attacks the border of killed at least $311.00. these soldiers, the robot, this and this is all the 0 life and don't have also coming up to people are injured as long as far from level don't fall on northern israel's several intercepted by israel's air defense system, other settings and northern jobs and face and impossible choice stay starved to death or lee and risk beings.