they have less infrastructure conducive to cooling, less green spaces this is the condition in south bronxtimes we experience it anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees hotter. >> reporter: the sensors were provided by oregon based kappa screen a climate data firm that works with the government local municipalities and non-profits. >> it is important because heat is one of the most insidious killers in cities. it kills more people than any other natural hazard. >>> >> reporter: and he, he says, climate change is upping the ante as local economy is now shut down more often due to deadly heat. >> we are seeing greater intensity of heat, we are seeing longer duration of thosely waves. and we are seeing more heat waves coming through yet we are using one single number to tell us the temperature for a city or a region. >> reporter: the data helps cities target financial resources towards reducing temperatures for example, creating more green spaces, lighter colored rooftops, more space between buildings, and more cooling centers stereo we want to empower the local scientists who participated. so they ow

from the crowded tenment and truck line streets of the south bronx to the open avenues of manhattan'shat poorer neighborhoods are hotter >> as community members who actually fight for justice and social justice and environmental justice, we can now say there is actually data that says we see, you know and feel heat differently than everywhere else. >> bronx native melissa barber has fought for everything from community gardens like this one to redesigning the bronx water front, to literally cool the area around it now, working with columbia university researchers lib yune she uses heat mapping to make a case for change to local officials and real estate developers >> how are data differ from preexisting data we are getting granular data street level what now exist something satellite imagery. >> the heat trackers told a striking story one afternoon in july there was at least a 7-degree difference between the south bronx, one of the poorest parts of new york city with, and the upper east side one of the wealthiest. the difference was even wider between the south bronx and central park

this is an exception in the south bronx. >> when we experience heat here, many times we experience it15 degrees hotter >> the sensors were provided by oregon based capa strategies a climate data and analytics firm that works with the federal government and local municipalities and nonprofits. >> it's really important because heat is one of the most insidious killers in cities. it kills more people than any other natural hazard. >> reporter: and he says climate change is upping the and we're seeing more frequent heat waves come through. ante as economies now shut down more often due to deadly heat. >>> we're seeing greater intensity of heat. seeing longer durations of those heat waves and we're seeing more frequent heat waves come through. and yet we're still using one single number to tell us what the temperature is for a city or a region >> the data helps communities target their financial resources toward reducing temperatures for example, like creating more green spaces lighter colored roof tops, more space between buildings and more cooling centers. >> we want to empower the local

. >> reporter: one afternoon in july there was a 7 degree temperatures in south bronx and manhattan. lined areas certainly they have less infrastructure that is conducive to cooling they have less green spaces. this is an exception in the south bronx. >> when we experience heat here, many times we experience it anywhere from 10 to 15 degrees hotter >> reporter: the sensors were provided by oregon based capa strategies a climate data and analytics firm that works with the federal government, local municipalities and nonprofits. >> heat is one of the most insidious killers in cities. it kills more people than any other natural hazard. >> reporter: he says climate change is upping the ante as local economies shutdown more often from the heat. >> we're seeing longer durations of the heat waves and more frequent heat waves come through. yet we're still using one single number to tell us what the temperature is for a city or a region >> reporter: the data helps communities target their financial resources towards reducing temperatures. for example, like creating more green spaces, lighter

i one schools in the heart of the south bronx, almost exclusively low income kids, almost 2000 students and 5000 on a waitlist. it's not just a theory, how it plays out in school. a number of states are going after it. in preparation for this conversation, i looked at the data. one thing we can agree on is we look at america through the prism of racial oppression, white supremacy, white dominance. if you look at the national assessment for education, the most recent assessment in 2019, the test is given after fourth grade, eighth grade, 12th grade. only a little over one third of all students in the country scored proficient in reading. when broken down by race, fourth grade, eighth grade, 12th grade, there were two muesli 3.7 5 million white students who could not read at a proficiency level. there were 1.4 million black students who could not read at proficiency levels. there are more white students in the population overall. the number of white students not reading at proficiency dwarfs that of black students not reading. it says it must be viewed. systemic racism is not the reason f

. >> reporter: the 15th congressional district in new york's south bronx has a number of distinctionst democratic districts in the country. >> how are you? >> reporter: and something else. >> this is the poorest district in the country. >> reporter: what does that mean? >> more than half the residents in south bronx pay more than half their income towards their rent, and that's before you factor in food and transportation and utilities and prescription drugs. >> reporter: at just 33 years old, ritchie torres represents the 15th in congress. >> we can deliver real people and results that are going to affect their lives. >> reporter: for him, the issues that joe biden has staked his presidency on, reducing inquality,3 overhauling of social safety net, are not as abstract as the build back better term used to describe them. for torres, their personal. >> apartment 2a, above that second floor windows. >> reporter: that's the window you looked out of? >> yes. >> reporter: what did you think looking out of that window when you were growing up? >> thinking there are a whole world of opportun

. ♪ >> rap music began in harlem and the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people wouldatching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the '80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the '60s and '70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of mankind ♪ ♪ god is smiling on you but he's frowning, too ♪ ♪ only god knows what you go through ♪ >> "the message" was the first hip-hop song that wasn't just a party song. it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison. all these things that were hitting these communities really hard. ♪ smugglers ♪ ♪ scramblers, burglars, gamblers ♪ pick pockets, and even panhandlers ♪ ♪ you say i'm cool ♪ >> when "the message" hit it was put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play that again. ♪ don't push me because i'm close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game of changed, and it really opene

. ♪ mad thinking about stomping ♪ ♪ i'm from the south bronx ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] compton ♪ >> you going tog other people money. it's my turn. ♪ tonight's the night i get in some -- ♪ ♪ deep cover on the incognito tip ♪ >> suge knight, who wasn't a real gangster, got into cahoots with dr. dre and said, dre, we should start our own record label, which became death row records. >> knight, 6'3", 330-pound former bodyguard, has become one of the most feared men in the music business. >> you got dr. dre, who probably makes beats better than anybody. this guy delivers a hit. >> dre put out his first solo album "the chronic." not only do you get dre, but then you also get snoop dogg. ♪ one, two, three and to the four ♪ ♪ snoop doggy dog and dr. dre is at the door ♪ >> ooh, boy. snoop doggy dog and dr. dre at the door. it's crazy. they knocked the door down, baby. ♪ g thing baby ♪ ♪ we're crazy ♪ >> 70% of rap music, including gangsta rap, was purchased by whites. >> growing up in st. paul, minnesota, my friends and i thought that compton and south central must be the coolest places in the world ba

concern to the other use cases of crypto that would improve the lives of people of the south bronx. i represent every population of immigrants who often paid predatory fees. what can crypto blockchain web three do for that dominican in the south bronx who is burdened by remittance fees that she cannot afford? how much affordably and quickly can the crypto economy facilitate remittances? mr. cascarilla, if you could take that question and please be specific. >> yes. thank you for the question. i think this is a very important element of the technology which again is that it's opened anybody. you need to have a bank account. you don't need to, in fact, with on any intermediary. somebody who is an immigrant dissent remains to any number of country can do that. there's ways to do it both with crypto and stable coins. all you need to do is download a wallet and then you can set it to can anyone in the world. so this is a really powerful tool for democratization of assets after the axis of spiced those who have difficulty with bank accounts. there's no cashing fees. they are part of this

it is democratic cities and people in the south bronx, aoc's district getting sick.t will not happen to us. the illusion of protection. with a virus, you are only as safe as is your neighbor. now we see these antigovernment, anti-science, anti-public views that a great article exposed have been pumped up by the coke brothers network, have been pumped up by the kind of billionaire class that wants to see white people distrustful of government and billing to vote for low taxes and low public spending because of that cultural politics, white identity politics around the pandemic. we are now seeing many more deaths and infections for the past six months or so in red states than those blue states in cities. this is the point. when we have these lies that say one group of people is better than another, it ultimately ends up costing us all. racism in our policymaking has a cost for all of us. host: running short on time and have a lot of colors. i will take a couple at a time and come back and he ate -- and let you respond to both as we try to work our way through a backlog

it is democratic cities and people in the south bronx, aoc's district getting sick.t will not happen to us. the illusion of protection. with a virus, you are only as safe as is your neighbor. now we see these antigovernment, anti-science, anti-public views that a great article exposed have been pumped up by the coke brothers network, have been pumped up by the kind of billionaire class that wants to see white people distrustful of government and billing to vote for low taxes and low public spending because of that cultural politics, white identity politics around the pandemic. we are now seeing many more deaths and infections for the past six months or so in red states than those blue states in cities. this is the point. when we have these lies that say one group of people is better than another, it ultimately ends up costing us all. racism in our policymaking has a cost for all of us. host: running short on time and have a lot of colors. i will take a couple at a time and come back and he ate -- and let you respond to both as we try to work our way through a backlog

while there are no hbcus in my district of westchester and the bronx, by the way, we may need to talk about that. all the hbcus are in the south am in the northeast. we could get one or two in the northeast. there is one in brooklyn. we need one in the bronx. i have constituent to attend hbcus out-of-state. the opportunity needs to remain for generations to come. i had a question for stem education for dr. baskerville. thank you for your testimony today. i would like to discuss stem investments in hbcus. in addition to sitting on this committee eyes serve as subcommittee chair on energy for the science, space and technology committee. on both committees it is clear to me we need to do more in stem education. not only in higher education but in k-12 as well. studies have shown the percentage of black students earning stem degrees nationwide has declined in recent years. but we also know hbcus play an outsized role in awarding stem degrees to black students. my question is, what do hbcus do differently from non-hbcus in this regard and what lessons can other colleges and universities learn from hbcus about effective stem educati

bronx in new york. good morning, whit. >> reporter: robin, good morning. this new data from pfizer appears to reinforce a previous study by scientists in south africa.t the vaccines still work but are perhaps less effective against the omicron variant. this is all preliminary, though, and we expect to learn a lot more in the coming weeks. a new study in pfizer out just this morning indicates the omicron variant likely chips away at the efficacy of its vaccine, but the shots still provide some protection. especially against severe disease and receiving a third booster dose appears to significantly offset the variant's impact. >> there are a lot of unknowns. >> reporter: pfizer's ceo speaking at a "wall street journal" event saying his company could have a vaccine for the new variant by spring if needed. >> if there is a need for the vaccine we will have a vaccine in march. i don't know if there will be a need for a vaccine. we will know that in a few weeks. >> reporter: this as health officials are scrambling to track omicron in the u.s. cases now identified in at least 21 states but the world health organization pointing to early research suggesting