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cleaning and call for help as it waves through its latest catastrophe. the deluge following the destruction of a huge hydro electric down these thousands of people homeless. the antonio medical welcome to the program. the at over much of the northeast of the united states has turned into sick red smog following hundreds of wildfires burning in canada officials and many cities urging residents to stay indoors as pollution levels 10 hazardous the white house called the 5 an alarming example of climate change in upstate new york fuel kelly is blanketed by the keys. smoke from hundreds of wild fires burning neighboring canada. a few 100

kilometers further south. the smoke has triggered unprecedented air health alarms in new york city, affecting millions of the bud sounds. i come through the mid roofing difficult, new yorkers are advised to wear face masks when outside to filter out high levels of polluting particles found in the year. new york is or smelled of something that has never impacted us on this scale before we had dangerously high levels, a wildfire smoke from thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away. the elderly and people with health conditions have been told to stay in doors. like today, i'm not going to go to the park. i usually go to the park every morning. i'm gonna stay home and i have to go because i live somewhere that's there. but otherwise, i stay home with over 400 fires, still burning across canada,

the pollution will likely continue to impact bordering us states. as canadians experienced their worst of early seasons fires many see the trail of smoke as a sign of the climate crisis, which can include more frequent and even more extreme. wildfires for us get more on this from its earlier just matthew, pushy in washington dc. matthew, thanks for joining us now. your in dc also in the northeast, but south of new york. what's it like where you are to yeah, correct. i gotta say i've never seen wildfire smoke this. take your nation's capital, leasing a code red issued the 1st time since 2018 meaning. that's how thick this smoke is. we saw the visibility is below about 4 to 5 kilometers today where i am, i can see the washington monument, which is easily in view on ordinary days. the sky is milky white,

the sunsets of vibrant orange. it looks almost apocalyptic outside, but nothing compared to what new york is seeing with the worst air quality they've seen ever recorded up there, worse than 1985 worse and every wildfire episode. since this is very high end event affecting millions of people. okay, you mentioned these air quality a let's and, and, and what exactly does this mean? we hear about the equity index. how about measured? yeah, so the air pulling index is measured based on how much p m 2.5 are fine. particulate matter is an a cubic meter of atmosphere and ordinarily there should be less than about 50 micro grams. so 50 units, we're seeing values between 20400, which is really enough. because danger, not only for vulgar populations, i the elderly and deals with respiratory and heart issues, but anyone in the general population this is covering about 15 to 20 different states and the eastern united states. these fires up and get back with the smoke is wanting self. thanks to a counter clockwise spinning,

low pressure system overhead. fax, nova scotia. so for another 24 to 36 hours, that's mobile funnel cell. and really it will get worse before it gets better. what you're seeing some images that just the next to you and though seeing the people wearing face masks of those, the kinds of precautions we expect, that people should take to avoid serious health implications to yeah, definitely. you know, yesterday my eyes were staying my throat was a little bit sore. i've heard that from a number of people around the area. alternately, the best thing to do is minimize outdoor exposure. mitigate the amount of air coming into your home. turn off the air conditioners or set them to re circulate the air inside your home rather than ingesting air from outside. but someplace, for example, new york state leasing visibility is below one kilometer. that's enough to make it so airplanes can take off or land j. f. k airport l, a ga airport in new york city, some the busiest in the world had drowned stops earlier on because the airplanes literally couldn't see it's a very problematic thing affecting all walks of life. and one other thing i want to

note, you know, this smoke is toxic, obviously we're not seeing a ton of super dense smoke what it is, toxic. and there have been peer review papers that have connected episodes like this to an increase in excess mortality. in other words, additional people who might have underlying conditions to unfortunately perish and episodes of this nature. so really a high impact event. and one that is tied to climate change and these are the smoke coming from canada. i'm in the fire as well as we can over a month ago. if i, if i recall how big is the the area affected and do you expect this smoky situation to get was yes, about 3 and a half 1000000 hector's and burn so far this year. it's a record start to the year for canada's wildfires. and across the northern hemisphere is a whole this is not an isolated incident that can part of his climate monitoring service base of the european union has said the northern hemisphere has seen a record, emissions does spar. now part of the issue has been a sheet dooms or big sprawling reaches of high pressure to bring the huts thinking,

errand, dry conditions. that's a breeding ground for wild fires. we see a 3 of these were record heat during the setup in park over canada, festering and fostering these wildfires to be kindled and break out and grow even more. and that's why you know, the past 34 days of it seen in the outbreak of fires, we saw that about 2 weeks ago. we saw that roughly a month ago, as you said. and unfortunately, climate change is sort of tipping the scales towards more of these higher end. he threw them events. and so what we can connect a single wildfire to climate change, the conditions that make them bigger, worse and more frequent are very closely tied to human action. so we expect that they could be more of this kind of event. yeah, at least here in the nation's capital here really across the northeast, new york, philadelphia, baltimore. i don't think things will wind down until probably friday afternoon into friday evening. there should be a change in the weather. this weekend with northwesterly winds. were pushing the smoke off shore, but that said the fires are still burning. there's nothing to really extinguish them any time soon. i know i don't see any real. a rain falls signal soon. so if we

get normally wins again, it'll push this mode right back down. and so i wouldn't rule out another episode perhaps not quite this bad, but at least more in searches of smoke reaching the lower 48. right? metallic just matthew cookie. thank you. as always for speaking to us and bring us up to speed. thank you. it's a to ukraine way, a president village, and there is a landscape is called for more international aid for people affected by the destruction of a major dam. now, the breaching of the called cut down as a flooded dozens of towns and villages in the country, south tendencies and rescue teams, or racing to evacuate people from the area, many of whom were without water, food or medical supplies, volunteers and rescue workers. use motorized continues to pick up people down stream from the destroyed them trapped by the rising flood waters along with their pets. residents along the right bank of the dundee, pro river,

controlled by ukraine, are being taken to temporary evacuation zones by road and by rail. one of them is in the city of nikolai, of 100 kilometers from the flood zone in his son. 2 there are paramedics, as well as volunteers, to help the back you, we use find food and shelter. the collapse of the dam has brought further misery for tens of thousands already caught on the front lines of the war between ukraine and russia. 65 year old hon as a root in yeah, emerged from a bomb shelter after 3 days of russian shelling to find her home submerged a body shop where you could, your musical, the city is like a ravine, completely flaunted it's impossible to drive through the people who are trapped and what became like an island. i was taken away by my friends. i had to leave because

having spent 3 nights in a bomb shelter, i just couldn't take it any more. but how does that route and yet is luckier than most her ordeal has ended on a bright moment. a zip company, your color, her sister's lives in nicole. i have so she has a place to stay and shoulders to lean on. well those living along you cranes lower than the parole river are now dealing with the immediate consequences of the dams collapse. the impact may be felt for generations with thousands of homes and livelihoods swept away in the disaster. dw correspondence on. yeah, it's on a car, send an update from the flooded city of house on risk unit by cation operations, all still going on in the city of cancelling the entire neighborhoods like this one

that i completely underwater the near the to the pro river. i'm not able to see teams here that are using rubber boats and special vehicles to, to get into the water and try and get the people out. do you printing all me is here on the ground that will include some volunteers. local officials said we have set up a declaration of shelters for, for people who have had to leave the homes for the, for the humanitarian operations. here it is also complicated, but the fact that this is a war zone, a deep sort of a behind me that is the front line and even without the slightest, oh, you know, destructive flooding. a pencil in is a city that is related to sleep shows by the ocean forces on, on a daily basis. the sound of author re file is, is, is very familiar to a residence here. and that really hasn't stopped even while this operation is going on. local officials have said that a russian forces have continued shedding the secret, even as they try to evacuate the population from the west bank,

which is under acquaintance control. and let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. so the thailand coast guard said it's rescued over $1400.00 migrants from overcrowded vessels in the mediterranean sea. in the last few days, dozens of people including 2 children, needed immediate medical care. it li has been cracking down and irregular migration which has increased significantly since last year. the vatican says both frances has successfully undergoing abdominal surgery to treat handy a pain that says a 3 authoration passed off without complications. the 86 year old positive is expected to remain in hospital for several days. the united nations is carrying out a dedicate operation to drain over a 1000000 barrels of oil from a decaying tank off m and the f. s o staff or has been abandoned for years threatening and ecological disaster. but after years of fundraising,

a salvage mission is finally getting underway. a roosting rack off the coast of yemen, fedex. but site is a catastrophe. waiting to happen for stuff is coming. move in a 1000000 barrels of crude oil, and that's concerned. it could break apart at any moment for tank. it was being used as a floating storage facility for oil when human civil war breakouts in 2015 since then is being left to rot. in 2019 a team went on board and took these photographs. they shaved the extensive and neglect even van pipes were leaking and valves rusting through a smooth adult from space. the stuff could have a big environmental impact, a spilling the red sea with depth of states wildlife, li,

fishing communities destitute and would disrupt trade. 3 of us who is canal you people have been talking about it and kind of been not doing anything about it . this group has been able to do something about it and i believe will be successful. will continue to push forward until we succeed. for united nations raised money from establish operation for members, states private companies, and even the public through a crowd funding campaign use. so if it proceeds to bias own time to go on to the north dakota fis on a nation show, use the plan for north. it moves in close adults with the stuff the engineers board and gain access to its tanks. they low a pumps and transfer the oil to the nautica. once it's empty, the tank will be towed away to be scrapped the risk, so something going wrong are real. the palpable. and this is something where to go

wrong. indeed, many questions would be asked the only way we could onset question as well. walking away is not an option. it wouldn't be easy, but the un saves you a ton to see if could be the biggest oil spill the world has ever seen. coming up, business news with robots and he looks at white chinese export plummeted in may. don't forget you can get all the latest news and information on d, w dot com. i am told me a lot of going barely you against the doors. the scoring we say they were about never giving up.