this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, everyone. i'm natalie allen at cnn center in atlanta. our breaking news comes out of portland, oregon. one person has been shot and killed near the site of fierce and violent clashes among protesters. police are calling it a homicide, but to be clear, we do not know if the killing is linked to the unrest. the shooting came after a huge caravan filled with supporters of u.s. president trump rolled into town earlier saturday. and it was met by furious counterdemonstrators. let's go to portland now.

mike baker is a "new york times" correspondent, he joins me from there. mike, you were there during these clashes. what did you witness regarding the shooting that occurred and do we have any information as of yet on the victim? >> yeah, so the shooting occurred while there were a bunch of trump -- pro trump vehicles driving through downtown. as you guys covered there, there was a gathering in the suburbs of trump supporters and they were going to drive around the outskirts of the city, but a lot of them decided to come through into downtown where they met a bunch of protesters who were there wanting to confront them. and sort of during the hours of that happening, there were reports of gunfire, went over to the scene and the police had blocked it off. there was a man who had been shot in the chest, who was being treated at the time, and he

appears to have been wearing a patriot prayer hat, a far right group here in the portland area. >> tell us more about the clashes between these two groups, mike, throughout this evening. and what was the police presence like during this situation? what did they do to try and help diffuse this back and forth between the trump supporters and the protesters? >> yeah, as some of the supporters were coming in and driving into the city there were protesters that were blocking the street and the police came and moved them off the street. and later on, as some of the protesters went -- some of the trump supporters went downtown, you know, some of the protesters were confronting them there. and the police kind of came in trying to redirect the crowd

of -- the right wing crowd to keep the groups away. but at the same time, they're just driving all over downtown. you have trucks going up one street and down another in different directions and protesters sort of going all different directions as well. so it became a bit of an unwieldy situation where there wasn't a central location where the clashes were happening. >> and these -- the protests for the most part have been isolated to a few blocks of portland, as we understand it. and it has been 93 days. tomorrow is day 94. what is the concern going forward here after what we have seen on this night? >> yeah, i mean, the protests have really fluctuated a lot inside. or i mean when -- before the federal government sent in their forces, beginning of july, you know, the numbers were getting below 200 people that were protesting. and then the federal government came and the numbers grew up to

thousands because there was such outrage about the tactics the federal government brought. the last few nights, i've been here most of the week following the protests, and they kind of come back down to the 200, maybe a little more than 200 some nights, people out, and police had largely kept them under control. they let them go out protest, sometimes they would light a fire or spray things on buildings and the police would come in and make a bunch of arrests. so it seemed to be sort of on a path towards something more calm and under control, who knows tonight after something like this. i don't know where we're headed here. >> understood. and as i understand it, the trump supporters, portland is a very liberal city, where do the trump supporters come from? did they come from areas outside of portland and do you know anything more about how they organized?

>> yeah, there were plenty of people from the region around oregon, but also people driven in from other states. this was a group that had been organizing on facebook for several days, getting this event together. and so, yeah, there is -- there is a mix of people, local people and people from outside. and i think that's one other thing that sort of just has been inserted here a lot more the last week. a week ago there was a far right demonstration in portland that was sort of a -- a chance for that group to say they're going to be here and fight local protesters if need be, and that all day turned to a volatile situation as well, where people were shooting point ball guns and fighting in the streets and one person brandished a gun and, you know, it felt like a moment where it could get -- could be something deadly there as well.

and here tonight it was. >> a tragic scene for sure and it is just so disturbing also just to think of americans pitted against each other in the streets, fistfighting, just a tragic scene all around. we really appreciate your reporting for us and your time. mike baker with "the new york times." thanks, mike. we will, of course, continue to track this story and bring you any more information about the death that occurred during these protests. wisconsin is also the site of protests over racial justice and police reform. and after a black man was shot by a white police officer, the key swing state has become a political flashpoint. >> you can't stop revolution. >> chanting there, you can't stop the revolution, the family of 29-year-old jacob blake led a

diverse and peaceful march in kenosha saturday afternoon. blake was shot seven times in the back last sunday and is paralyzed from the waist down. kenosha has seen daily protests in the days since, including one where two people were killed, allegedly by a right wing teenager. u.s. president donald trump plans to go to kenosha tuesday. the white house says he will meet with law enforcement and view damage from recent protests. white house correspondent jeremy diamond has more about his plans. >> reporter: on the way back, as he landed here in washington, the white house deputy press secretary confirmed the president will be going to kenosha, wisconsin, on tuesday. they say that he will be surveying some of the damage from the fires there as well as meeting with law enforcement officials on tuesday. the president earlier in the day had suggested that this was a possibility, but it wasn't clear that plans were actually in action for this to happen.

but now we know that the president will be going to kenosha, wisconsin, on tuesday, and certainly this could be a very combustible situation. the president entering that situation. it is really hard to see how the president can help alleviate some of the tensions there. this is not a president who has chosen in the past to be that consolar in chief for this nation. this is a president who instead seized on divisions happening in the country, including over this reckoning on racism and police brutality in this country over the last several months, seized on those divisions for his own political gain. of course, the president has been seizing on some of the protests, some of the protests that have turned more violent into riots in the country as he's trying to tout this law and order message as he tries to win re-election in the 2020 campaign. so certainly we'll have to see how the president handles this very, very delicate visit on tuesday, and as of now, again, there are no plans for the president to meet with jacob blake or family of jacob blake.

we'll wait and see whether something on that front does develop. as of now, no plans for that. >> our sara sidner spoke with blake's father saturday on the sidelines of that march in kenosha. here's her report on that, plus the latest on the investigation into the shooting in wisconsin. >> reporter: here in kenosha, there was about 2,000 people who came out in support of jacob blake and jacob blake's family. his family leading a protest here in kenosha, several blocks that ended up at the courthouse where they then spoke. we heard from jacob blake's uncle, justin blake, we heard from jacob blake's sister, his father as well, all speaking about a couple of things. one about the peaceful protests, two, telling people they must vote, that is the next thing after protesting in the streets. we also talked to jacob blake's father about what happened in this case, and what he sees should happen going forward

after the police association here in kenosha made allegations against jacob blake he was armed, he was fightinging with the police, he had a police officer in a headlock and had to be tased. his father saying what he sees did not prove an imminent threat to the officer who ended up shooting him in the back seven times. >> how can you in be imminent danger when the person has nothing in their hands? was what was he, superman? he could see the knife through the walls of the car? the police union means nothing to me. a bunch of cats that pay a bunch of dudes to have a title, a union. they do nothing but support their bad cops. he's a bad cop. didn't take seven shots to find out that. the first shot told you he -- the second one was coming. the third shot told you the fourth one he's trying to kill him. the fifth shot said how many

more times you're going to shoot? by the time the seventh shot got there, attempted murder. >> no officer at this point has been charged in this case. we do know that, of course, there is an investigation under way, the state department of justice is investigating and saying they are going to be doing an impartial investigation. and that the police association does not speak for anyone other than the defense of the officers. they are very adamant and clear in that, that they are the investigating agency in this case. sara sidner, cnn, kenosha. joining me now in los angeles cnn legal analyst areva martin. thank you for coming on. >> absolutely, natalie. >> president trump is going to kenosha, wisconsin, on tuesday, to meet with law enforcement and to survey some of the damage from recent protests. what do you expect to hear from the president on this trip? >> i think we're going to hear more of his law and order

message. he's made it pretty clear, natalie, for him, this is an -- this issue isn't about systemic racism, not about police brutality, not about the peaceful protesters, but it is about him beating this drum of law and order and trying to paint the peaceful protesters as mobs, trying to incite in some way s violence, invoke fears an create this narrative with suburban voters who he's not polling well with that if he's not re-elected, that their cities are going to be overrun by looters and people intent upon engaging in violent activity. >> right, he recently sent a message to suburban moms about you better watch out, you're not safe in the suburbs. do you think he sees fear of unrest as his ticket to a second term? >> absolutely, he made that very clear during the four days of that rnc convention that we

watched, we watched speaker after speaker, you know, talk about this -- these mobs that are going to somehow invade the suburbs. even before the convention we saw him actually tweeting to suburban women, again, in this antiquated notion that somehow the suburbs look the way they did in 1950s, that there are all of these white housewives in the suburbs who are fearful of immigrants and fearful of african-americans and fearful of latinx people and he's so termed it when you talk to people who live in the suburbs, the suburbs are so diverse, they have immigrants, they have african-americans, the women that live in the suburbs are educated, their moms and my conversations with them, their biggest issue isn't some myth cal mob that is going to invade their communities, but it is covid-19, which has their kids home from school and which has, you know, up ended their entire lives. he doesn't seem to get that, the suburbs of the 2020 are not the

suburbs of the 1950s. >> trump and pence say biden wants to defund the police, but biden has said clearly he is not for that. do you think biden and harris will be effective in debunking the republicans' claim? >> i think so, natalie. trump and pence and, again, many of his surrogates repeatedly make that statement about the biden/harris ticket being in favor of the notion of defunding the police, biden said it over and over again, that he is in favor of looking at the systemic racism that plays in police departments around the country. he's interesting in looking at how to reform police departments, particularly those that had an issue with police brutality, but he made it very clear he does not support any efforts to defund the police. and trump keeps making that misstatement, keeps getting repeated over and over again, but i think those voters who are listening are clear that is not

a premise of the platform for biden and harris. >> well, as president trump warns of crime taking over streets of america under biden, statistics show a surge in violent crime has occurred this year, in several american cities that would be on president trump's watch, the chicago mayor has blamed guns coming in across state lines for it. how might trump counter that? >> you know, that's the irony, natalie. he keeps talking about this america under joe biden, but the reality is the america that he's painting is happening on his watch. and he hasn't been effective in addressing the violence in the streets of chicago and, in fact, his rhetoric is actually inciting the violence. he hasn't talked about the 17-year-old in wisconsin who walked about brazenly with this automatic weapon and shot three people killing two people. so i think this message that donald trump is trying to communicate is going to back fire. people are far more

sophisticated, they see what is happening in the streets, they can distinguish between peaceful protesters and those intent upon engaging in violent conduct and they can see that this, you know, world that he says is going to exist under joe biden is the world that donald trump is -- we're living today and he's the president of the united states. >> we always appreciate your insights, thanks so much for joining us, areva martin, thank you, areva. >> thank you, natalie. u.s. intelligence has already warned of interference for russia, china and iran in the upcoming u.s. presidential election. but congress will no longer get in person briefings on the matter from the director of national intelligence. john ratcliffe, right there. his officer informed both the u.s. senate and house senate intelligence committees on saturday that future updates will be made only in writing. that means u.s. lawmakers will be denied the opportunity to

hold hearings and question ratcliffe about foreign interference. democrats who had been expecting a briefing next month were outraged. house intelligence chairman adam schiff tweeted, as usual, president trump is lying and projecting. trump fired the last dni for briefing congress on russian efforts to help his campaign. now he's ending briefings altogether. trump doesn't want the american people to know about russia's efforts to aid his re-election. president trump claims it is because classified information is being leaked from the committees, though he offered no evidence of that. independent senator angus king accused the administration of withholding vital information at a crucial time. >> we the people should have the benefit, the knowledge that that intelligence brings. learning about it next february or march doesn't do much good.

we're talking about interference with our election this year, which we know is going on, the intelligence community already told us that. >> president trump's democratic opponent joe biden delivered swift condemnation in this statement. it reads for his administration to constrain the information being provided to the people's representatives in congress as this national security threat multiplies, especially given donald trump's unprecedented welcoming of these assaults on our democracy for his own game is deeply alarming. this should be reversed immediately. president trump visited the u.s. gulf coast to tour the damage left by hurricane laura. we'll have more about his visit there and efforts to help the people. plus, american college campuses are becoming new hot spots for the coronavirus. the latest in the u.s. and around the world just ahead here. you're watching "cnn newsroom." air wick (whisper)

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u.s. military officials say two russian fighter jets made a, quote, unsafe, unprofessional intercept of a u.s. b-52 bomber

on friday. the u.s. flight was taking part in a show of solidarity with nato flying over 30 countries. the close encounter happened over the black sea. cnn's barbara starr has more about it. >> reporter: what apparently happened is two russian pilots, their fighter jets crossed within 100 feet of the nose of the u.s. b-52 bomber multiple times. and that caused turbulence, making it difficult, the pentagon says, for the b-52 to actually correctly maneuver. the pentagon calling this unsafe, unprofessional action by the russians. >> russia has had deadly close encounters before with american aircraft. the storm stricken u.s. gulf coast is cleaning up after the category 4 hurricane laura roared through last week. president trump toured some of the most damaged areas saturday. he talked about how he felt federal agencies were handling

the disaster. >> fema has delivered 2.6 million liters of water and 1.4 million meals and that's a lot of meals, so you're pretty busy, i guess, pete, right? that's incredible. great job. your people are incredible. i haven't had -- pete's done this now for a long time -- i haven't had one complaint, with all of the storms we had in texas and here and i haven't had one complaint. so you've done a hell of a job. >> more than 465,000 homes and businesses are still without power in louisiana, texas and arkansas. and some areas are so devastated, the energy infrastructure will have to be completely rebuilt before power can be restored. for more about it, here's cnn's gary tuchman. >> reporter: this is orange, texas, a small town on the border of louisiana, this area was hit by hurricane laura.

behind me, grocery store company heb, a large company in texas doing something wonderful. they're feeding thousands of people, stores and restaurants are closed because of a hurricane, many people are without water, so what they're doing is they're giving hamburgers, french fries, salads, water and ice to hundreds of people coming in cars, the cars are lined up for blocks to get this food and water and they're very grateful, good to see this. near where we are, president trump was here earlier in the day, he had a meeting with officials here in texas, emergency officials. before that, he was in the state of louisiana, across the border, 40 minute drive away, and the city of lake charles, city of 78,000 people that ma be the most hard hit area from this hurricane. the fact is there are hundreds of homes that have been totally doe m demolished, thousands of homes damaged, and right now there is no power in the city and no water. it makes it very difficult. a lot of hurricanes recover, power goes out, very common, and it takes weeks to get back. but it is unusual to have everyone without water, but water plants were demolished, so

it is a difficult time for people in this very hot weather. they have no water, they have no power. and many people right now are homeless. the president toured an area in lake charles, saw some of the devastated homes, trees down, power lines, he talked to politicians in louisiana, he praised the work of his emergency officials, emergency funding is on its way to louisiana and texas, we can tell you this, it is tragic the death toll, 12 people in the state of louisiana, three in texas, but it is relatively low considering that this was the strongest hurricane to hit the state of louisiana in 1 50 years. and even stronger than hurricane katrina 15 years ago which caused so many deaths between 1200, 1800 people were killed in louisiana and mississippi, from hurricane katrina. so this was a stronger storm, people took it very seriously, still searching for missing people, we hope, we just hope that the death toll doesn't go much higher than this. this is gary tuchman, cnn, in orange, texas.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom." we want to recap our top story, a chaotic night of violence and death in portland, oregon. police were investigating a homicide after a person was shot and killed downtown. the killing came amid fierce and violent clashes between trump supporters and anti-racism

protesters in the city. but to be clear, we're still waiting to hear if police believe the shooting is related to the unrest. fights broke out after a huge caravan filled with supporters of president trump rolled into town earlier saturday. it was met by furious counterdemonstrators. there are now 25 million coronavirus cases in the world. and it took the world less than one year to get there. that according to johns hopkinses universihopkins university which counts the global deaths. most confirmed cases here in the united states, the u.s. is very close to reaching 6 million coronavirus cases and the country has more than 182,000 deaths. meantime, cases are flaring up on college campuses across the country. the university of alabama says

more than 1,000 students on just one of its campuses have tested positive since classes resumed less than two weeks ago. it is not just u.s. college students who don't want to follow public health guidelines, thousands in london came out against covid-19 restrictions and the government's handling of the pandemic. there were similar scenes in paris and zurich. in london's trafalgar square, protesters called for an end to lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing as well as track and trace systems. this even though the uk continues to see a rise in virus infection rates. protests against social distancing and mask wearing also happened in germany. but as cnn's fred pleitgen report, there is a lot more at play here than what you might think. >> reporter: tens of thousands of people came here to the center of berlin to protest against the coronavirus restrictions of the german

government. however, the protesters didn't just come from all over germany. it seemed to us as though they came from all over europe. certainly there were people holding the flags of many european countries and also the flag of russia as well. the people here say they want to get rid of some of the coronavirus restrictions that have been put in place by the german government, like physical distancing, like for instance also wearing masks in areas where you can't physically distance as well. now, the berlin authorities didn't want this demonstration to take place. they originally banned this demonstration from happening. however, a court before the demonstration started said that it can take place, however in the middle of the demonstration the berlin authorities came out and said people weren't physically distancing, they weren't wearing masks and that's why the berlin administration stopped the demonstration from happening. as you can see, many people still here turned out and many people stayed into well into the afternoon to speak their mind and say they believe the coronavirus restrictions that have been put in place by politicians in germany, but in

other countries like as well are excessive. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. >> a recent study published in the british medical journal bmj seeks to fourth expand what is known about kids and covid-19. it looked around the united kingdom and found that severe illness was rare and that death was exceptionally rare. joining me now to talk about it is dr. olivia swan, the lead author on that study, she is also a clinical lecturer in pediatric infectious diseases at the university of edinboro. thank you for coming on. >> good morning. thank you for inviting me. >> that study is encouraging news, especially in a time when we heard more than 70,000 new cases in children have been reported across the u.s. since early august. can you tell us more about your findings regarding children and the effects of covid on them? >> absolutely. so you're absolutely right, this was a large study across the uk,

across england, scotland, wales. we looked at admissions with covid-19 in children under 19 years old. in 138 hospitals. and we found children made up only a tiny proportion, so less than 1% of all admissions across all age groups to hospital with covid and that as you said, death was exceptionally rare among children, so less than 1% of this 1% of children died in hospital with covid. and that -- every death of a child with covid is a tragedy, i'm not trying to downplay that. but what i want to say is that it was staggeringly low compared to the all age group death rate of 27% in hospital. so 1% versus 27%. >> and are the odds of severe disease and death low in children across all ethnicities? >> so that's a really good question. so one of the things that we looked at in our study was admissions to intensive care or critical care units. we found there were a number of factors associated with increased risk of a child

needing extra care. and one of those factors was ethnicity. children of black ethnicity were three times higher at needing critical care. when we're talking about increased risk of three times, if we think of it as the volume control on radio, if you go from zero to 100, these children are not going from 30 to 90, they're going from 1 to 3. the absolute risk is tiny, but, yes, the increased chance is our study appeared to be related to ethnicity. >> what are the underlying causes for children who do become severely ill from covid, even though the numbers are low, but what are the causes? >> so the other factors that we found in our study were -- babies under 1 month of age, children tend 10 to 14 years, the group associated with the inflammatory syndrome, as well as children who were obese,

those born prematurely and those with underlying cardiac and respiratory disease. >> well, another u.s. report, doctor, a joint report from the american academy of pediatrics and the children's hospital association showed child cases increased by 21% between august 6th and august 20th. what is the likelihood that that could be related to young people returning to school? >> so our study didn't look at transmission dynamics, we really are just reporting children who have been hospitalized. i think an important thing is to say that although children do seem to be at lower risk of severe disease, that it is not no risk. and there really shouldn't be complacency about the things we know work, so social distancing and hand washing, for example, i think that -- those messages need to be driven home at the same time as being reassured by the findings of this study. >> well, we know the problem that the united states is having

on college campuses right now. these are young adults who for the most part aren't social distancing, they're going to parties, not wearing masks. that's different from younger children in school, isn't it? talk about how susceptible young children are to getting covid in the first place, and what would you tell the parent who is contemplating sending a child back into the classroom right now? >> so you're right, so our study, you look at children and young children up to the age of 19, we didn't look at children of university age in -- young people of university age in our study. but i think what i would like to say is that i -- i have children myself and a parent, so when the parent and the children's doctor and a scientist, and with all those different hats on, i find the number of the studies in our findings very reassuring and i hope they serve to help reassure parents in being comfortable in sending their children back to school. >> i'm sure it will because as you know, everyone wants their

kids back in school, it is good for them, and it is good for the parents, who have been going kind of nuts the past few months, but want to be able to do it safely. thank you for your research and sharing it with us, dr. olivia swan, thank you. >> thank you. one of the most devastating aspects of the coronavirus pandemic is how lonely it is for people who are sick. no doubt you've read countless stories about that. in hospitals around the world, patients who are living their scariest moments are kept apart from visitors and loved ones. but, one medical center in israel is trying to change that. elliott gotkin has our story about it. >> reporter: israel has been hit hard by coronavirus. more than 100,000 people have contracted covid-19 out of a population of just over 9 million. more than 800 have died. like hospitals the world over,

had medical center isolates its coronavirus patients. they're not allowed visitors except in exceptional circumstances. now, though, thanks to a new in tiff, there is one other group of people who are also allowed in. call them coronavirus veterans. people like shuki who recovered from covid-19 giving them what medical evidence increasingly suggests is at least a measure of immunity for at least a short period of time. twice a week he takes time out from his day job as a tech company product manager to volunteer. >> we go into corona wards here, basically doing two main things, one is just helping out with anything that is nonmedical, getting a cup of coffee for those who can't get out of bed because they're too weak or just taking away, you know, trays of food after lunch, things like that. second aspect is i would say more moral, mental, emotional --

people come in for a week or two, sometimes more, and they are alone. >> reporter: he says his own experience of the virus when he and his wife were ill compelled him to act. >> we were sick for about a month. during that time, we just got so much help from friends, family, that just left food on our doorstep, did shopping for us, and we understood the feeling of being assisted and helped and when we saw this post on facebook saying that, you know, hadassa started this project of having corona veterans going into the hospital and the wards here, we looked at each other and said, you know, this is where we give back. >> reporter: simply being with the patients may seem like a small gesture, but it has a big impact. >> it was really a huge difference for the patients, they don't feel alone, someone can pray with them, someone can give them food, someone can help

the nurses, they are running around with a lot of patients in the departments. >> reporter: shuki who has his blood tested each month for covid antibodies hopes other hospitals in israel and around the world will follow hadassa's example. elliott gotkine, cnn, jerusalem. next here, the migrant crisis on the mediterranean sea is worsening. we'll tell you about the latest rescue and the people with nowhere to go. we'll have a live report for you on this in just a moment. you try to stay ahead of the mess

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a rescue boat in the mediterranean funded by british street artist banksy was so overcrowded with migrants, it needed help itself. after several tense hours, the people and families on board were transferred on to two other

boats. the united nations refugee agency says the migrants stuck at sea must be allowed to disembark in a safe port as soon as possible. cnn contributor barbara nadeau is following this story live from rome. what more do we know about these people, and where they might be heading next, barbie? >> this particular boat is symptomatic of a larger problem. just because there is star power involved in this one that we're paying attention to electronic but we had boats coming in from across north africa, across the sea for the last couple of weeks with greater intensity. and the people on this particular boat need safe harbor. there are storms at sea predicted through this week. italy has been resistant in allowing migrants to come in under the excuse of covid, essentially. and so it is going to be very, very difficult for them to find a safe harbor. but we had over the last 24 hours more than 500 people in 30

small boats arrive on the island. those people were given safe harbor only just to save their lives. this boat will eventually find a home, no question. it will probably be through the collaboration of other european nations, take a dozen here, a dozen there. it is indicative of a much larger problem, as is always the case here, natalie. >> absolutely. the migrants keep coming. thank you so much barbie nadeau for us in rome. a little penguin is the only one of its kind in australia. how caretakers are using technology to connect the little guy with his fellow penguins. we'll have that one for you in just a minute. emorable moments, concentration - in hectic times . and focus to win the day. unlike ordinary memory supplements... neuriva's clinically proven ingredients fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. take the neuriva challenge with our money-back guarantee!

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game officials. now, remember, in normal times the milwaukee bucks arena is in wisconsin, that's less than 50 miles from the scene where jacob blake was shot by police seven times. hurricanes and fires are just some of many threats to the world had to face in this year of 2020. it has been an incredibly difficult year to say the least, not just for humans, but for the planet we live on as well. cnn's bill weir brings us up to date on the current state of our climate crisis. >> reporter: between a shattered gulf coast in the south, a million acre gig fire out west, and 10 million acres of crops in the heartland, you'll be forgiven for not noticing the typhoon that hit asia. the fear of a dam failure in china. heat waves in the arctic. and plagues of locusts from

africa to india. the words biblical proportion come to mind this month. but even the plagues of egypt didn't come all at once. the vast majority of the world's scientists continue to remind us that this is only going to get worse, until humanity can figure out a way to power our lives without using fuels that burn. >> for so long we were studying the future. and now the future is here. >> reporter: watching the republican national convention, if you didn't know, you wouldn't know. >> the democratic party of joe biden is pushing the so-called green new deal. >> reporter: even when senator jo joni ernst that brought up the winds that ripped apart her state, she made no mention of climate change, but mocked joe biden's ambitious climate plan. >> if given power, they would

essentially ban animal agriculture and eliminate gas-powered cars. >> reporter: there is no mention of cow or car bans in the green new deal resolution, but it lays out the urgent need to move to clean power asap and get ready for what the u.s. military long called a threat multiplier. >> something is happening. bill, after katrina, we had rita. >> reporter: 15 years ago, lieutenant general russell ho r honore took control of operation katrina. >> one of your colleagues said do you think we just had two hurricanes? you think any of this has to do with global warming? and i was stunned. and i gave some smart answer and i was haunted for days after that. >> reporter: he says it was the first time he realized the warnings of science are already coming true. and if he could take command now, he would put the nation to

work bracing for what is inevitable. >> most of our dams and bridges are rated d or c. we have one break last year up in michigan. fix the dams. fix the road. raise the highways. start with culture and the economy. i think our future economy can be driven by finding solutions to pollution. >> reporter: often lost in the politics is how much progress is happening between the storms. >> they don't know that 70% of new electricity being installed around the world now is clean energy. they're unaware that solar energy plus storage is actually cheaper than natural gas in california. or that texas has more installed wind energy than any other state in the country, or that texas has the first carbon neutral airport, or the biggest army base in the u.s., fort hood, which has clean energy. >> reporter: a reminder for

future generations that this is the year that america decided how much pain it is willing to swallow. as another example of climate as a threat multiplier, during a pandemic, here in california, folks are being forced to choose between the type of mask that helps protect against smoke but doesn't stop the spread of covid, or the kind that works against covid but is useless with smoke. and one other sort of grim symbol, here in wine country, folks are really worried that the 2020 vintage will go down as the one that tastes like smoke. bill weir, cnn, napa county, california. finally this hour, we got an animal story for you. a good one. it can be a little lonely when you're the only one of your species in all of australia asia. this little fellow named pierre has taken to liking a children's tv series about a family of, guess what, penguins. as well as documentaries about his own species.

look at him looking at the ipad. pierre is a rock hopper penguin. since he doesn't have others to play with, his care takers pull up videos on an ipad and he waddles over to watch them. the zoo says he washed ashore in southwest australia with feather molting issues. hate it when that happens. and it is working to find pierre a new home with other rock hoppers. we hope it happens, but until then he's got his ipad. what can't an ipad do? thanks for watching. i'm natalie allen. up next, my colleague ken brunhuber. thank you for watching. it's pretty inspiring the way families

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