it's good to have you here. now, i don't think we know why vladimir putin really decided to invade ukraine. who knows what lurks in his hard little heart, but we do know that lots of people who are sympathetic to putin or are at least two inclined to apologize for or explain away the worst of what putin does, a lot of those people had a favorite supposed explanation for why putin felt the need to start that war. a lot of putin apologists and putin sympathizers said that putin felt like he had to

invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries and it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close and therefore he had to invade ukraine. again, i don't actually think that is it i don't think we know all the reasons why does what he does, who knows what is going on in his dictator heart of hearts. but if in fact the apologists are at least partially correct, if in fact putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be worry last about nato and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 countries and nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to

join in april, that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country and now, as of tonight, sweden is going to join nato as well. screen said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really, until today, it looked like it couldn't happen and that is because, for a new country to join nato it has to be a unanimous decision. all the other countries in the nato alliance have to agree with the decision. if one country says no to it, it doesn't happen. in the case of sweden, it was an original nato, a single nato country, turkey who said no. finland was okay with him, but they were not okay with sweden joining. as recently as this weekend, turkey's president was still saying no, turkey would not ascend to this, turkey would not allow sweden to join. but the biden administration, president biden himself kept

expressing confidence that turkey was going to change their mind, that they would allow sweden joining. nobody quite knew why biden seemed so confident that it would happen, but he just kept saying it would be fine and he was sure it would get done and that he and his team were working on it. well, now apparently as of tonight, they got it done. president biden had one-on-one discussions with turkey's president yesterday, president biden's national security adviser jake sullivan was apparently working with both turkey and sweden all day yesterday and today. the secretary of state tony blinken reportedly met with the turkish foreign minister, the counterpart three times over the last five days, including today. so it apparently took a real full court press at the very top levels, the biden administration, but as of tonight they got it done. turkey has relented, turkey now agrees. the president has said that sweden joining nato is fine with him, the turkish parliament does still have to sign off, but they will. and then sweden will become a

nato country number 32. which is a huge win for president biden and the biden administration, this is definitely one of those, they said it couldn't be done situations and it has been done, it is going to happen, that is a huge win for biden. it also has to be said it is they humiliating kick in the tiny hands of president putin. if he started this war in ukraine because you were so upset at the size of nato, well how is that big strategic thinking working out for you now? again, finland is the first country to join nato after russia invaded ukraine. now we know, as of tonight, that there is going to be a second and sweden will join as well. we'll have more on that developing news later on over the course of the show tonight. here at home, in terms of our politics here at home, things are getting punchy, a little puncher than it ever should be,

frankly. and we probably should have known to expect it, this is tape you might remember seeing from a couple of months ago. this was an incident in michigan in april at a meeting of the michigan republican party. a couple of county level party officials getting into a slapping, shoving fight. again, that was april of this year. and then this weekend the same republican party, the michigan republican party, went to back to the same hotel in clara michigan for another statewide republican party meeting and apparently there is yet another punch up. craig mcgirr at the detroit news was the first to report on what happened in michigan this weekend. it is one of those reports that i cannot really improve upon some just going to give it to you as he reported in the detroit paper. a republican man from wayne county michigan, quote, acknowledged he wiggled the knob of one door leading to the

meeting room. while the meeting was underway. the chairman of the clare county republican party heard the wiggling of the doorknob and walked over to the door, where he says he sought someone through a small window in the door flip him of. quote, the clair county republican chairman open the door and says, quote, he kept me in the balls as soon as i opened the door. the scuffle intensified and, long story short, the -- provide this account to the detroit news from an emergency room and claire michigan, an emergency room in which he said you have been treated for what is believed to be a broken rib. the man who did the alleged flipping off and then the alleged ball kicking of the official, he told the detroit news that he took off his glasses before engaging in the fisticuffs, telling the detroit news, quote, when you see me

taking my glasses off, i'm ready to rock. again, statewide republican meeting in michigan this weekend. the news outlet, bridge michigan, has a little bit more after the detroit news was the first to report on what happened. bridge notes that charges are likely to be pressed in this case. they also know that the man who did the alleged flipping off and ball kicking also has his own version of the story in which he says he was not the aggressor. he says the other guy threatened him and that the other guy, quote, came out of the meeting with his ducks up. to say the least this is not how anything in politics is supposed to go, but this is how it is going in michigan republican politics. two consecutive statewide michigan republican party meetings, both at the same hotel in clare, michigan, both resulting in physical fights

among republicans who were there for the meeting. i should note that, i was going to say it's understandable that tensions are high, but it's not understandable. no matter how high tensions are, you do not need to kick anybody in the -- at a political meeting, for any reason. so there is no excuse for it. but michigan republicans, you should know are doing poorly right now in lots of different ways. this was one of the state parties that was just convulsed by former republican president donald trump a demanding that michigan republicans should find a way to overthrow the election results in that state and declare him the winner in 2020, even though he lost in michigan. the implications of that, the repercussions of that have been strange and are ongoing. the state does now have an election denier as its state chairwoman, michigan republican chair party chairwoman says that donald trump's election claims should have resulted in

michigan throwing out the vote results and instead declaring him the winner. she also refused to acknowledge her own massive double digit loss in the statewide race when she ran for secretary of state. in addition to her being the state party chair, for the first time in four decades, michigan republicans hold no statewide offices and neither house of the legislature. they have never been as far out of power as they are now, at least not in the last 40 years. that said, michigan republicans are apparently still capable of breaking each other's ribs in meetings, so they have got that. if you see me taking my glasses off by moody to rock. and, just in today's news, it goes downhill from there in terms of america as a political snapshot at the moment, at least our political snapshot in the states. in the individual state of arizona, that is number one of the states that was just driven by these overthrow the election demand by trump and his

supporters. today, various parts of the arizona republican party were in a panic mode after in arizona group announced that the headline speaker for its next convention is going to be a guy who is a neo-nazi. the group's flyer, for the upcoming conference, listed three different county republican parties on the flyer as if they were co-sponsors of the event with a neo-nazi speaker after one republican party official from maricopa county posted that online and begged for party officials to officially distance themselves from this neo-nazi event. those three counties, the organizations in those counties came out and said they are not part of this event. okay, bullet dodged, three arizona republican organizations are not, despite early reports, sponsoring the

neo-nazi speaker at the conference. that said, this college republicans group from arizona still is, they are the ones who are invited and absolutely still hosting him, so there is that. the group is called arizona college republicans united, hosting the neo-nazi headlining speaker for their next conference in arizona. if this is ringing more than just alarm bells for you, if it is also just ringing a bell for, you it may be that you heard recently about this material that was circulated at the most recent donald trump rally in south carolina. this is a flier promoting what is supposedly a new political party. it has, as the number one plank and its platform, quote, secure a permanent, white majority. we're not going to spend too much time on this group and what they want, but consider also that number four in their platform is, quote, a 2% of stealing on jewish representation.

this flier was circulated at trump's last rally in south carolina, the group that produced the flyer and claims these principles, they have since been bragging online about how well received they were. when they went person by person, in hand, through the crowd at donald trump's plastic rally. again, this is a rally for the republican parties last president, who is also the front runner for the republican 's next nomination. fly are circulating at his last campaign rally, secure a permanent white majority. things are also a little weird right now in the ohio republican party. the former republican house speaker in ohio was just sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in a mass of 60 million dollar private bury's green that he apparently ran

while serving as republican speaker of the house. the former state chairman of the ohio republican party was also convicted at the same bribery scream, he got five years in prison. this is apparently not put a hitch in the step of the state republican party of ohio. you think that you're speaker of the house and state party chairman both getting sent to federal prison for a gigantic prison terms on corruption charges might lead to a little bit of a wall boy moment in the state, but not so in ohio. ohio republicans are plugging away, they've just announced that they no longer want and a independent voters to be allowed to cast votes in republican primaries. it shows you how much they are looking to reach out to undecideds and moderates. they want closed primaries now, no independents, no undeclared voters should be allowed to vote in republican primaries. and they are getting ready to try to change the rules for ballot measures in the state, and that appears to be motivated solely by the fact that they are about to lose a

ballot measure on the issue of abortion really badly after ohio republicans pursued draconian abortion bans, the state of ohio is essentially revolting against those decisions. a ballot measure that would restore abortion rights in ohio looks like it will ramp on the ohio ballot, so they are looking to change the rules of what they are allowed to do by a public referendum in ohio so that, no matter how many people vote for it in ohio, it will be very, very hard to reverse their changes on abortion. when your top leadership goes to jail on federal corruption charges and the people of the state are wildly opposed to how you're governing, no better plan to ensure that people are not allowed to vote against you when they want to. but you know, if we are looking for a top prize here, step right up. -- michigan in contention with the

repeated fistfights, arizona obviously in contention with a neo-nazi college republican speaking tour. but i think, if somebody is going to take in this current news cycle, it's probably not the republican parties and any of the states, it is probably tennessee. you might have seen over the weekend that there was a weekend ruling from a federal appeals court in tennessee, tennessee republicans have been going after trans people everywhere they can. if federal appeals court this weekend on saturday, in a divided 2 to 1 decision, let that state go forward with banning is specific kinds of health care for trans people. and this is not a some kind of distant threat or something that is locked up in the courts now. thanks to that appeals court ruling, on saturday this weekend, for people under the age of 18 that ruling this weekend means whatever ongoing health care they have been getting in tennessee, it is now

officially illegal. that ruling went into effect immediately and any such health care, ongoing health care that you have previously been receiving, it has just opened mediately. but that is also happening in the context of this other thing that republicans are doing in the state of tennessee. i do think it puts them at the front of the line right now. the republican state attorney general in tennessee is using his office to obtain the private medical records, unredacted full medical records for patients who have had care at a particular -- at the vanderbilt medical center. using his office as attorney general to take peoples individual, private, unredacted medical records for the purposes of an investigation in his state attorney generals office. now, vanderbilt university medical center says that they had no choice about to hand over these records after the attorney general demanded them, but they also didn't notify

their patients that they had handed over their records until after they had already started handing them in. none other words, vanderbilt presumably could have told their patients we have received this demand from the attorney generals office, we do not want to comply but we think we are going to have to. we want to let you know before we give them your records. that is not the way it went, apparently. vanderbilt university medical center reportedly started handing over the records in response to the attorney general's demands, of months ago. and just turn instantly let their patience know that those records have been given. so, according to reporting in the tennessee newspaper, the attorney general have taken peoples medical records, he has also taken information on people who volunteer at this particular clinic, he has also taken information on anyone who has written in with a question about lgbtq health care using a website that was set up to field queries on that topic.

he has even taken the names of people who were referred to that clinic at vanderbilt, even if those people never actually got care there. the attorney generals office has collected all of this information, apparently demanded all these records going back to 2018, and now they have got them. now, years ago we covered a similar case, at least a case with echoes of this in kansas. you might remember the story. a republican attorney general their name to phil klein used the power of his office to get individual medical records of women who had been to an abortion clinic and the state of kansas. he and his staff took women's medical records, private medical records, unredacted medical records, took them and use the power of their office to get them from the clinic, and then copied them, and kept them in totally insecure containers and car trunks and garages, trucks them around the state, who left them at a can go with coffee shop at one

point. these are personal, individual, private medical records dealing with the most sensitive possible medical information. the attorney general who did that in kansas was an antiabortion activist who republicans elected to be their state attorney general, his name was phil klein. he ended up having his law license permanently to suspended for doing that about ten years ago. but now here is the tennessee republican attorney general using a page out of the same playbook. demanding and getting unredacted, complete, private medical records for trans people in tennessee. as republicans use every tool they have got to try to make life miserable for trans people and their families in that state. attorney chase -- is the director for the -- at aclu, nationwide. aclu is suing the state of tennessee over the ban of care in that state. chase tells us tonight that

when you have this type of aggressive investigation from an attorney general, combined with legislation, not only does it limit the care that is available. it also chills the provision of care more generally. doctors are less inclined to provide. it hospitals are less inclined to teach it. families, if there is a threat of violence or make it records could be exposed, i am out of there. you have this dynamic in which care is not only being banned, it is also being chilled prospectively, and it will have an effect for generations. margaret wrangell is a journalist who lives in nashville, she wrote this about the situation in tennessee for the new york times. she says, quote, tell me this is not a witch hunt. tell me this isn't an open campaign of terror against already vulnerable citizens who had every reason to believe that their medical records, their medical records, or confidential and every reason to believe that the medical clinic of a major university hospital was a safe space. joining us now is ali chapman,

she leads a local chapter of the tennessee called project, she has a masters degree in science and another public health, she's also the mom of a transgender son who received care at vanderbilt, which is the medical center that has just been forced to hand over patient medical records to the states republican attorney general. miss chapman, i really want to thank you for joining us tonight. it should not take bravery to speak out publicly on an issue like this, but i know that, particularly in your state right, now it does and so i'm grateful that you are here. thank you. >> thank you. >> >> first, let me ask you if i got any of that wrong or if there is anything important that i am missing about what is going on with this sort of nightmare in tennessee right now with the legislation that is affecting trans people and their families, and also the situation with private medical records of being taken by the state attorney general. >> it is really complicated. and just in ferreting, because it does not need to be this complicated, it does not need

to be invasive, and the issue that we have is that they not only violated the trust of the patients and doctors as an institution, but vanderbilt has demonstrated their willingness to share records when they have been compelled by the state, or any reason. so i think this is generally for people who would also be concerned about reproductive rights, health care in general, and while we are waiting and hoping on the courts to be reasonable and make common sense rules, rulings, then we know that common sense is only common for those who have experienced the same things. the reality is that most of the people in the state of tennessee have not interacted with or known trans kids or their families, so there is a lot of misinformation that is shows up in the rulings and the way that they are being written by the judges, it shows up in the debates, it shows up in the arguments and conversations and

the hate speech that is happening through bad actors like matt walsh and ben shapiro. >> on that point about the common understanding and common sense, and i would add maybe common decency, i feel like, as trans people and their families have been attacked and demonized as, as you mentioned people in conservative media, conservative social media have really decided that this is a meal ticket for them to attack this particular population in increasingly intense ways. i feel like there is a lot of differences of opinion, there is a lot of heat on this issue. but one thing i feel like where people do not have to imagine a different kind of life, they don't have to put themselves in somebody else's shoes, they can just think about this for their own experience's private medical records being taken by law enforcement. and, in particular in this case, with the medical center saying it was compelled, it had no

choice but to hand them over but not letting patients know until after they had already handed them over. i have to imagine, or i have to hope, that there is some empathetic reaction among other tennesseeans that private medical records should at least to stay private, that that part of this house to feel over the line of people who may be, otherwise do not see themselves as allies on this issue. >> even among our allies there is still a lot of confusion and misunderstanding and you nailed it. we really need to be talking about common decency, kindness, and empathy, and that is not what we are seeing. so we are fighting an argument when it comes to science and biology, which most people do not understand at a great level. or are we talking about collectively the person owed of someone, and that is what i want to focus on one i am talking about children specifically, these are human beings with lives, that is who i'm focused on.

and when i tried to engage in conversations with people who still, at this point, do not understand, i think that is really challenging because it takes up a lot of energy and time and it distracts people from what we are trying to do, which is to protect trans kids. we do not want the state and we do not want the attorney generals and the governor in their positions of power to abuse it in a way that threatens these kids, because that is the reality of it. and so something that i tried to explain to people, in my case and knowing other support of parents, we are faced with a choice. if you support your child, you are looking at hopefully a brighter future for them. and discovering what that means along the way. if you choose not to accept them, and you choose to push them to the margins and allow people to push them to the margins and you give in, you are faced with two results. one is universal children

again. the second is they die. and people like to say that this is a hyperbolic statement, it is not. i know children who have died of suicide in the last few years and the political rhetoric and just the conversation is so harmful, it is so very, very harmful and we need the backing of our leaders and people in positions of power and we just do not have that. >> we need the backing of leadership, and you also need allies among other people in your state, whether or not they see themselves as directly affected. ali chapman, local leader for the tennessee equality project, thank you for talking to us tonight i know it's a really difficult situation. we would love to have you back. >> thank you so much. >> all right, much more ahead. ore ahead. he irresistible scent. ♪ ♪ huh, huh, so did their dog roger. ♪ ♪ gain scent beads keep even the stinkiest stuff smelling fresh. how are folks 60 and older having fun these days?

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parts of vermont, dozens of people have had to be evacuated or rescued from their home so far. this is the town of -- vermont, which the national weather service said got a month's worth of rain in 24 hours yesterday, they got a six inch rain dump in one day yesterday, that is actually less than what parts of new york got yesterday, same storm dumped nine inches of rain in one day in much of new york hudson valley. at least one person in new york state has died, a 43 year old woman police say was trying to escape rising floodwaters when she was swept away and killed. these images that we are showing of water just overtaking parts of vermont and new york, this may not be the worst of it. rivas across the northeast are expected to reach their highest peaks late tonight or early tomorrow morning, there are still flood watches in effect in parts of vermont and new york. western new england just getting pounded. so that is what is going on in

part of the northeast today, in part of the southwest today it is the killing heat, 110 degrees in phoenix arizona today. and, you know, maybe that doesn't sound crazy, maybe that sounds normal for this kind of year but it is the tenth day in a row that temperatures have been at or above 110 degrees in phoenix. it's on track to be the longest and worst heat wave on record. i gateways as been smothering the southwest and texas, in southern florida extreme heat has been wreaking havoc on the temperature of the ocean. the sheer ocean temperatures across the whole globe has been warming at a faster pace than they have at any previous known year. the average surface temperature in the ocean, off the florida keys this time of year, is usually in the 80s. because of the heat wave we are now seeing surface temperatures of around 96 degrees. in the ocean around the florida

keys. 96-degree ocean temperatures, for context the average hot tub can be heated somewhere around 100 degrees. it is 96 degrees in the ocean and temperatures are expected to get worse as the week goes on. in the coachella valley in california, temperatures this weekend could creep as high as 120. while we are on the subject of california i should also mention landslides. this was rolling hills estates, on the south side of l.a. county, a landslide they're destroying 12 homes. experts say they are not certain what caused the landslide, but they suspect it could be a result of all the rainfall this season, which softened up the ground until it just slid away. oh yeah, and also the sky is the wrong color. as you know, in the last few weeks, parts of the northeast and midwest in the upper plains states have just been choking on smoke pouring in from the wildfires in canada, pushing the air quality into

dangerously unsafe territory that, you know, if you are caught in the middle of it just felt like nothing so much as the climate apocalypse. if you are thinking to yourself, this feels like a lot all at once, these kinds of terrible destructive weather events seem to be happening way more often than they used to. if you're thinking about that, you are not wrong. 40 years ago the average time between billion dollar disasters was about two and a half months. disasters that incurred more than a billion dollars in costs would happen every 82 days. in the last five years, extreme weather events on that scale have happened every 18 days and yes, that is controlled for inflation. 82 days between massive billion dollar disasters versus now, 18 days between billion dollar disasters. we are in a period of chaos being unleashed by the changing

climate. and now that we are experiencing these devastating events with, not just alarming frequency but accelerated frequency. now that we are getting to and experiencing multiple, unprecedented, devastating events at the same time all the time, the question is whether that changes us. have we changed the climate enough that now the climate will change us? have we reached a tipping point in terms of our own consciousness being raised about climate change? have we reached a tipping point where we galvanized to move beyond panic and worry and self preservation into something that is an action to turn things around? next up here on the show you are going to meet somebody on the show who has a very, very personal connection to that question as a professional in this field. his life has just been dramatically transformed and he's going to join us here next to talk about it. stay with us. stay with us

for the past couple of years iowa residents in the des moines metro area torn on their local news every week night to see reports from local meteorologists chris guanine are, here is a sample of that from last week. >> you can see we have moderate drought conditions now in des moines officially for the first time this season. so the drought conditions across the western part of the state, and the eastern part maybe scratching your head

saying there was massive flooding. with these new extremes and the new world we are living, and we go from near record precipitation over the course of the winter to now severe drought conditions. the big swings. >> these big swings. with these new extremes, the new world we are living in, we go from near raptured precipitation over the winter to drought conditions. these big swings. helping iowa residents understand the changing weather in the context of our changing climate. over the course of his time at the iowa tv station, chris -- started receiving threats in response to the type of coverage. threats like this. quote, what's your home address, we conservative i winds would like to give you an i wouldn't welcome you will never forget. that was one email that he re-said he received during his time at that iowa tv station. he's just written a new op-ed for the boston globe in which he writes about the experience of receiving those and other

threats. he says, quote, an anonymous threat on one's life, i was learning, has a profound effect on the body. physically, i was frozen in place, but mentally, my mind was spinning faster than it ever had. this wasn't the first measured i received from this person, but it was the most threatening. the email threat i received was followed by more nasty emails. one thing i knew, this was a direct result of my decision to talk about climate change on television. a man who threatened him was pursued by police and was found guilty of harassment. his off ed was paused -- published by the boston globe and explains why he resigned as chief meteorologist at the tv station. instead he's taken a job at chief scientist at climate amarok -- which is a consulting firm. joining us now is chris, it's nice to meet you, very nice to be here. >> rachel, thank you, and thank

you for covering the existential crisis of our lifetime. >> well, okay. so you are both somebody who is a little bit part of the story here because you have had to make this change in your life, but you're also an expert on the topic and good at communicating about it. i want to talk to you both of those things, first of all, tell me personally about the decision to leave, and to take the job in iowa, and then the decision to leave after getting those threats. that must of been a big professional crisis for you. >> the last three years have been a rollercoaster, i worked for the nbc owned station in boston where i launched the country's first weekly series on climate change a couple of years before i moved to iowa and it was that coverage that helped land me that job as chief meteorologist because they wanted to fill a void. they wanted to cover climate change. my wife and i didn't have any connections there, but we thought, i know this is clichéd, we thought we can make a difference. i thought i could help educate,

find ways to make it palatable, relayed bull so that people could understand why climate change is so important. >> in terms of the lessons learned there, obviously the lesson learned there is not don't try, it is too hard, people will come after you. the lesson learned, apparently, you have decided to take this kind of job where you devoted to communicating risk issues about climate change to people, how do you feel like you are thinking about those communication challenges was affected by the kind of trauma that we went through and the threats that you've got? >> it is difficult. we work weird hours, my wife's home alone from three to 11:00 and that was part of the psychological issues i was dealing with. what is happening when my security system went off and said person at your front door, or a dry -- car driving by your house at a slow speed it weighs on you. i'm somebody who is been engaged and proud of what to do and when you stay engaged and are presenting the weather you

do not fill it with -- and i was finding myself in this place where i was looking for words, something that i've done for 18 years and i've never had trouble doing. but by it's not like i was talking about things that were so off the hook or they were simple tie ins, showing data, and i tried to explain that you mentioned the billion dollar disasters and the rate of return, it is fiscally conservative to adapt to and mitigate these risks than pay for cleaning up the mess. now i was in the state where 65% of the energy was produced by wind, and that is true. energy independents. so all of these positive, farmers were getting supplemental income on these land leases, i was talking about some of the warmest days on record and showing trends. it's not like i was putting my activist hat on and talking about live action. i was getting data and proving the climate science behind it. >> chris, in terms of days like

this, moments like this and there will be a lot of them in which we have got overlapping simultaneous disasters. right now with the heat in the southwest and the, sorry the wildfire smoke from canada, with the incredible flooding and rain that we are having in the northeast, i feel like people, however they may feel about the issue of climate change in the abstract, i think americans by and large are understanding that we are having more extreme weather and it has to be caused by something. i feel like the barrier to people changing, making changes in their own lives or making even political changes about voting differently or thinking about these things differently, some people often don't think like they have concrete things to do about it. it makes people feel helpless. how do you feel about that challenge and how do you plan to address that in your future work? >> i am excited about improving climate literacy, working with environmental justice communities. the black and brown communities are often left behind in these conversations and that is what i was driving to help the

equitable in these climate solutions. and i think you can get caught in the doom of it, but there is so much potential. there are jobs, it can boost the economy, it is kind of exciting when you think about all the possibilities. in the process we are protecting against these wild weather events that you just mentioned with the rain, in your show, that we are having devastating impacts across all four corners of the country. so it made sense that communicating and getting the community involved, if you show up to these meetings where they're working on adaptation plans for the community and your voices heard, when you're showing up on election day and voting for people that take climate action seriously, that is how you can make a difference. you do not need to quit your job like i did and vote 24/7 efforts into working and living it, but you can take those simple steps. just be a voice. >> chris gloninger, former local meteorologist, now the senior scientist in climate and risk communication at -- group.

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