good morning to you, dr. reese. see these heat waves, we always say what is making this happen right now. how is this different than past years? >> well, richard, good morning. this is epic because what's happening is from georgia to florida all the way to arizona and particularly texas and oklahoma are beaten down. we're going back to 1895. we're talking about $3 billion, or 30% of the wheat crop that's going to be forgone in texas. and we're talking about culling hundreds of thousands of cattle here. and you know, it goes deeper and gets thicker than that. we've got billions of trees that are dying. now, trees are the life force, providing oxygen and fresh water. and if we go back to 1970, every decade across the west, temperatures have gone up at least a degree. we're talking about 3 1/2 degrees, richard. and when the trees start to die, that's a very bad signal here. >> dr. reese, as we see this cycle of extreme heat right now, which has gone on for the better part of two weeks, is it just a normal cycle that we