and from the former mayor carmen yulÍn cruz.his comes as climate week kicks off in new york city, alongside the united nations general assembly. we will also speak with climate scientist michael mann of the university of pennsylvania, author of "the new climate war: the fight to take back our planet." then to london for the state funeral of queen elizabeth ii. we will speak with kehinde andrews, the uk's first professor of black studies. author of "the new age of empire: how racism and colonialism still rule the world." he says his grandmother would have mourned the queen, but he finds that difficult. >> i guess it depends on what you think being a good job of being queen is. if it is to represent white supremacy and the elite of colonialism, she has done it very well. if you consider the royal family -- weathered some heavy storms including prince andrew. how she kept the images of the royal family established, then yes she ascended good job. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the wa

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. >> all right, former san juan mayor, carmen yulin cruz, thank you so much for your insights. we know you've learned a lot and hopefully those lessons will get learned. cnn's chief climate correspondent, bill we'ir joins us now. bill, just to dovetail off of what the former mayor was saying a few moments ago, she was saying this power grid in puerto rico needs to be rebuilt, it needs to be fortified with climate change, with the realities of climate change in mind. and we're seeing this island -- we're in the initial stages of all of this, keep in mind. but we're seeing potentially this island going through what happened during hurricane maria. and i know you covered that. what's going through your mind right now as we see this island get battered once again. >> incredible frustration, you know? just the frustration of a thousand suns, because everything you're saying now, everything the mayor just said, we heard four years ago. that this was going to be an opportunity to rebuild this island nation of americans, and do it in the right way, in a smart, sustainable way, and use