bill weir is with us, and how is this going to work and maybe more importantly, what does this portendu that every water manager in the west is looking at this math, and the population growth and population drought here, and this is a seminole moment there, because for generation, you could pump the water out of the water, and you would not reach a shortfall, but it is going to be reached within the next few centuries, and you build a home out there in the desert, you have to have the water to supply the water, and once they did the math, they realized it is time to stop building. here is katie hobbs. >> that why required by law, we will pause approvals of assured water determinations relying on pumping groundwater, and assuring that we don't rely on future deficit. >> this could mark the beginning of the end of sprawl, and seeing building of phoenix upward and they want to know that there is plenty of water for other permits that are already permitted, and also, the colorado river is going to agriculture, and a lot of it is feed for cattle. right now, the government is paying them not

cnn's bill weir used the event to call for action to electrify every car in the united states for humanity sake. >> just by eliminating the kind of pollution that comes out of tailpipes and dirty fuel pipes would prevent 2.2million asthma attacks and by 2050 save almost 11 million lost work days. there affects communes of color disproportionately around the country. >> the inevitable intersection of climate and race. joining me steve malloy, trump era transition team member. no one denying it's unpleasant. might eyes were itchy and watery and it might go on a couple days but is the wholly out of the ordinary? >> no, this happens any time there's a wildfire in the west. it's unusual in the east. the air is ugly. it's unpleasant to breathe and a lot of people get anxiety over it but the reality is there's no health risk. epa research has done research on as mate exon children elderly with heart disease not a cough or wheeze from any of them. we have this air in india and china all the time, no public health emergency. >> do you notice the coverage bill weir, the tailpipes, they have never me

bill weir is on the case. >> in big sky country, it is a story fit for a big screen. >> we love you guysoung people from ranches, reservations and boontowns across montana ranging in ages 5 to 22. and then on the other side is montana fighting for three years to keep this case out of court. and they are burning fossil fuels which is alleged to blacken more rivers, and put more ash in the blankets. >> carbon accelerating farmer the future. it all has a plot that the montana constitution that you will have the case dismissed, but none have been successful. >> dr. stanford has been fishing for bull trout and native cut throat trout, and they have been impacted by the fact of what you have saved for all of your life dest destroyed within our eyes. >> how does that make the state make you feel? >> they are visualizing property over people. they are still choosing to make money instead of caring for montanians. >> reporter: while she connecting mental health to the climate, they are mainly saved cross-examination for the cross. >> if we stopped using fossil fuels, would that gets us to the poi

cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now. bill, what is behind this shift?n upper midwest, in the northeast, and in parts of alaska and the pacific northwest as well. we saw what tinder dry canada can do once a few lightning strikes hit and the smoke storms come down the east coast last week. now officials are saying we have to look out for places we don't normally worry about. minnesota had so many fires, wildfires, they reached out for mutual aid to the neighboring midwestern states and they said we're busy we're fighting our own fires. in delaware, rhode island, they had threats of wildfires. two right in a row in places that you normally don't think about in these areas right now. and so, it is a shift, too much water in some places, not enough in others, and not enough moisture, not enough snow packs in the winters right now stressing our forests. >> and, bill, researchers usually say that where there is forest, there is the risk for wildfire. there is an insect that is also making things more difficult, right? >> that's exactly right. there is a spruce

. >> thank you so much for that, and we will go to the cnn climate correspondent bill weir who is joiningas well. you have been covering climate change for a very, very long time, and in california, the fires are burning hotter and faster over the years, and what role does climate change play in all of this? >> well, it is a hotter and drier place, sara. the heat domes parking up in the latitudes above us in canada are decimating the boreal forests, and so it is burning 15 times the average so far this year, and we have not started summer, and so we have to get used to this. the u.n. predicts 30% more wildfires, and those are the nebulous numbers of the fires 500 miles away are going to determine if your kid can play outside, and we have the brace for the future when that is a reality on the east coast. the mindset of my neighbors, this is so bizarre, because they believe of wildfire and drought is the price of living out west, but with canada happening, will it be this bad regularly? this is up to the winds, and it is an abnormal event, and this is a staggering statistic, 60% of the wild

cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir is on the case. >> reporter: in big sky country, it's a storyde, 16 young people from ranches, reservations and boom towns across montana, ranging in age from 5 to 22. on the other side, the republican-led state of montana, which lost a three-year fight to keep this case out of court, but is still determined to let fossil fuels keep flowing, despite the warnings from science that burning them will only melt more glaciers, blacken more skies and ravage more rivers. >> based on the evidence you've seen, there's a point of harm for these plaintiffs, harm now and accelerating harm in the future. >> reporter: and the whole plot pivots around the montana constitution that promises the state shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations. >> they've filed seven different motions to try and have the case dismissed and none of those motions have been successful. >> reporter: while the first week included scientists testifying to the data -- >> dr. stanford, has fishing for bull trout and native cutthroat t

cnn's bill weir is joining us now.an lung association actually come up with the 90,000 people number? >> well, sara, while we focus on the heat trapping pollutions, carbon dioxide and natural gas and they study the stuff that gets into our bodies and our lungs and they look at the emission standards of the current fleet if we were to electrify in the united states by 2025 and it is a stunning thing, just by eliminating the kind of pollution that comes out of tail pipes and dirty fuel power plants would save over 80,000 lives, almost 90,000 lives and it would prevent 2.2 million asthma attacks by 2050. it would save almost len million lost work days overall and save the economy close to a trillion dollars in health savings and just getting off of fossil fuels and the health benefits would pay for the cost of transitioning and this doesn't take into account the impact of wildfire smoke and it is the product of a heating planet in new york city and we just hit an air quality index of 351, anything over 350 is code red for

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cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now.osystem? >> reporter: much faster than the models predicted, even five or ten years ago, boris. the state of the science of the ipc's latest report since this report came out said it would be mid century before the arctic would be free of ice there. now it could be in the 2030s. this is new science out of south korea that basically said the old models were too conservative and we have some, looks like it is going down about 12.6% per decade. we have some stunning animation from nasa over the decades from the satellites and you can just see the top of the earth, that snow cone, melting away over time. the biggest effect is the sun light it reflects. that white surface is so important to deflecting the sun's powerful rays, and open, dark water absorbs it much faster. we know the arctic is heating up four times faster than the rest of the planned. last year a hurricane managed to push warm air all the way that far up north and create a september melt that has never been seen before. now t

climate correspondent bill weir joins us now. the great lakes and new england. what's behind the change? >> well, it's just not enough water in those places. we're used to saying that about california. look at that map. it's rare to see california green and vermont and maine as red. the upper midwest you've got there. almost all of michigan now is in wildfire threat there, the pacific northwest, as well. this is the result of drought, and we saw what the droughts in canada are doing up to their forests now, five times the normal amount of wildfires burned up there and so we have seen in strange places like rhode island and there were two back-to-back fires, the biggest since 1942 and this never happens. in massachusetts, over 800 fires there and that seems small in comparison to the big, mega fires we see out west, but in tight, you know, residential areas, there's a lot more population density in the northeast. so you have to worry about these in places where people just aren't used to dealing with smoke and fires and another th

cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir reports. >> reporter: in big sky country, it's a story fit side, 16 young people from ranches, reservations, and boom towns across montana ranging in age from 5 to 22. on the other side, the republican-led state of montana, which lost a three-year fight to keep this case out of court, but is still determined to let fossil fuels keep flowing despite the warnings from science that burning them will only melt more glaciers, blacken more skies, and ravage more rivers. >> based on the evidence you have seen, there's a point of harm for these plaintiffs. harm now and accelerating harm in the future. >> reporter: and the whole plot pivots around the montana constitution that promises the state shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations. >> they filed seven different motions to try and have the case dismissed, and none of those motions have been successful. >> reporter: while the first week included scientists testifying to the data -- >> dr. stanford has fishing for bull trout and native cut throa

we have athena jones and bill weir standing by. athena, you have been outside obviously double-masked, n95. otherwise it'd be almost impossible to swallow at this point. what are you seeing now? >> reporter: well, look, erin, it's better than it was before, but it's still not good. i'm standing on the eastern edge of manhattan looking over the east river into queens. you can see some of the buildings, you can certainly make out the 59th street bridge. but there are a lot more buildings behind us that you can't see. mayor eric adams gave an update a few minutes ago. at 5:00 p.m., he said the air quality index in new york city hit 484. that is hazardous. >> wow. >> that is the highest, most hazardous level you can have. at this morning according to the tracker on my phone, it's now about 290. but that's still very unhealthy. it means there are risks of health effects for everyone, not just for people who are vulnerable. and this is why city and state officials are urging everyone to stay inside. from new york -- >> i've never experie

cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir is live in brooklyn. this is the sort of things you except on the west coast. not here. >> reporter: not at all. as frightening as the air quality wllevels were here, the were nowhere near san francisco and seattle last year. this is something the east coast may have to get used to now. we thought that maybe fires were a western phenomenon. you like to think that's someone else's problem. on a connected planet, new science shows that 60% of this smoke pollution, people are breathing in the united states, is coming from a different state. that's far away from them. so you really can't escape it now. it's just the beginning of fire season up north. you can see this morning it's cleared out a little bit, a lot better than yesterday. i woke up, the air quality alert index was 191 this morning. yesterday it hit 484. this is a scale of z0 to 500. this is a reminder, this incident, phil, of the glories of the clean air act because in asia the big cities in asia, especially india, what we are seeing is an average

cnn's chief climate correspondent bill weir joins us now. like this in a place as big as phoenix. just talk to me about the s significance of this move. >> reporter: well, it feels like a seminole moment after generations where the west was built by speculators and developers going out into raw desert and saying i can picture 1,000 homes here. these days, there's just not enough water for those 1,000 homes for the next century. that's the law in arizona. you want to build somewhere, you better guarantee a century's worth of water for the people. right now, the governor who ran on sort of a platform of water transparency, says it's time to shut it down. here's governor hobbs. >> that's why as required by law, we will pause approvals of new assured water supply determinations that rely on pumping groundwater. insuring that we don't add to any future deficit. >> reporter: this now forces developers to figure out this well in advance, whether that means buying rights from ranchers or native tribes nearby, maybe thinking about developing higher i

bill weir, cnn, brooklyn. >> reporter: denies smoke has blanketed much of the northeast, portions of the mid-atlantic and ohio valleys today with just incredible amounts of smoke filtering in the city. the pictures that we've seen out of new york city have been i incr incredible. looks like there the smoke is peaking and will start to improve by the time we get into later today. but look at these pictures from wednesday throughout the day, progressively the smoke just got worse and worse. you could barely see the skyscrapers during part of the afternoon. in fact around 4:00 eastern time on wednesday, new york city ranked number one in the world for the worst air quality of any major city. but new york city has been on the top ten list really for the last couple of days while the smoke has really been a problem. and so what is driving all of this is the stagnant weather pattern that we've been in, this area of high pressure to the west, this area of low pressure to the east, and winds are basically being funneled right in between that out of the north, so that northerly wind is just p

he was talking to our bill weir. he was explaining what it looked like down there. i just want to play this for everybody. >> on the "titanic," you have to be part of the "titanic," there's a huge debris field, where you can find a lot of things. things from china, piece of the wreck. it's a same condition, it's totally dark. you have to use some light to see anything. >> as you can hear him saying there, it's totally dark. it's hard to see anything. you have to use special lights. how will they -- let's say they have -- let's say at some point in the next 30 hours, they can locate where the submersible is. how would they be able to actually spot it? how would they be able to find it? >> they are available to have lights that will be shining in front of it, so it can illuminate an image or something in front of it. they would be able to connect that through the open porthole, through the opening. they would see that coming towards them. and that would give them hope also. of course, this rov approaching them, i would have it do two things. the first thing i have it

it also got very dark hours earlier, to the point where the street lights, as bill weir said, turned on here. the authorities in new jersey are recommending that people stay indoors, that they limit their outdoor active 'tis. and here in this part of new jersey, people seem to be heeding that advice. this is a very popular area because of the spectacular river views. on a normal spring day, you would see people here walking around, taking pictures, hanging out at the parks and the plazas. but today, it has been empty here. no one really around, most people are coming by just to take pictures on what it looks like, because it does look like a very eerie movie scene. people who have been working outdoors, we have seen construction workers leave the area, because it's gotten so bad. it's very difficult to breathe. i myself have felt the scratchy throat, the dryness in my throat, and like the authorities say, the best thing you can do at this point is wear a high quality mask if you have to be outside. jake? >> maria santana in the town of west new york in new jersey. thank you so much f

bill weir reports. >> reporter: in big sky country it's a story fit for a big screen. >> you've got this we love you. >> reporter: on one side 16 young people from ranchers, reservations and boom towns across montana, ranging in age from 5 to 22. on the other side, the republican-led state of montana, which lost the three-year fight to keep this case out of court, but is still determined to let fossil fuels to keep flowing despite the warnings from science that burning them will only melt more glaciers, blacken more skies and ravage more rivers. >> you've seen there's a point to harm these plaintiffs, harm now, and accelerating harm in the future. >> and the whole plot pivots around the montana constitution, that promises the state shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations. >> they've filed seven different motions to try and have the case dismissed, and none of those motions have been successful. >> reporter: while the first week included scientists testifying to the data. >> fishing for bull trout and native cut throat throughout imp

>> because we had ph on, as you said, in 2014 he was talking to our bill weir. and he was explaining what it looked like. so i want to play this for everybody. poppy >> there is a huge debris fields where you can find a lot of things from china to piece of the wreck, and anything like that. the same conditions is totally dark and they have to use some light to see anything. >> so bill, as you can see him saying. it is totally dark, it is hard to see anything, so how will they, let's say that they have at some point that the next 30 hours that they could locate where the summer's abilities. how would they be able to spot it? how would they be able to find it? >> they would have some kinds of lights that will be shining in front of it. so that it cut illuminates an image from something that is in front of it. so they would be able to detect that to thatso that they would p forward and see if the rv can go around and release the balance. if it could release the balance of that submersible then you've got archimedes working with you and it's going to start lifting o

joining us, cnn chief climate correspondent bill weir. issues, in relation to new housing developments. what's interesting is the officials are much more public in this case and actually talking about the fact that they are going to stop the permits. why? >> well, katie hobbs ran on a platform of water transparency, accountability, in an age when there is a lot of water math that goes on behind the scenes, shutting down construction is a big hit on jobs in the near term. that's a last resort things most governors don't want to talk about. the bottom line is this is sort of the result of the wild west days. for generations, they were able to pump whatever groundwater they wanted in arizona without any sort of regulations. they tightened that in the cities in recent years. this is a moment in time we are realizing the days of the developer going out into raw desert and saying i am going to build a thousand homes here are over unless you can guarantee that you have the water for those thousand homes for the next 100 years. plenty of cities a

bill weir has more. >> reporter: in big sky country it's a story fit for a big screen.from ranches, reservations and boom towns across montana ranging in age from 5 to 22. on the other side, the republican-led state of montana which lost a three-year fight to keep this case out of court, but is still determined to let fossil fuels keep flowing despite the warnings from science that burning them will only melt more glaciers, blacken more skies, and ravage more rivers. >> based on the evidence you have seen, there is a point of harm for these. >> accelerating harm in the future. >> reporter: the whole plot pivots around the montana constitution that promises the state shall maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations. >> they have filed seven different motions to try to have the case dismissed. none of those motions have been successful. >> reporter: while the first included scientists testifying to the data -- >> dr. stanford has fishing for bull trout in native cutthroat trout already impacted by climate change? >> very defi

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