i have to ask, who are these climate service providers? >> these companies range.ometimes they are conglomerates of engineering firms. in other cases they are startups. some of whom are bringing true innovation and discipline services that are consistent with scientific consensus. others are much more experimental. i think the question going forward among central banks and a broader ambition of greening and browning asset classes, we need technology to set those benchmarks for what is advancing climate change and what is pushing us in the other direction. what we need to be careful of his modes of transparency, quality control and quality insurance as to how these technologies are driving investment decisions. caught in ane interesting moment. --want to support private support proprietary technologies through r&d. we need to question what is in some of these black block -- lack box models. we have strong reason to believe there are good actors. that is causing problems in terms of market share and market development. forhat is your prescription bringing more transp

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. >> the youth climate service is the first of its kind for the united nation. ges of 18 and 29 invited to talk. >> the climate an ecological crisis is the political crisis of our time. it is the economic crisis of our time and it is the culture of crisis of our time. >> activists from around the world also presenting the united states with a solution to the climate change. >> the app is a one-stop solution. >> the summit will be followed by climate conferences at the united nations general assembly. >> and i hope they will be successful. >> he has been invited to speak at the un general assembly monday where she is expected to bring her pleas to climate change solutions to global leaders. in new york, fox news. >>> the california coastal commission is calling attention to pollution and trash on the state's beaches. the state agency organized the clean-up day yesterday. local and state leaders joined tens of thousands of volunteers in pitching in to pick up more than 250 tons of trash and repsychable material. the mayors of oakland, san francisco, and san jose al

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with energy so of of course if you use fossil fuels to run the service then it wouldn't be good for the climate but this is more at topic of the energy source and gemini we have 30 percent of data sent us that are already running on renewable energy so now if you have data that run by when you get energy and cannot be harmful for the climate still data produces c o 2 some one way or another. anything that uses electricity produces c o 2 can we do anything to minimize public consumption in the sector of course we already have many solutions like artificial intelligence to lower them ound off. yet climate or a conditioning in the data sent us so there are solutions that are being worked on already we can also. yeah i work on the heart for hardware that it's better that it's more efficient so they are already many things being done and of course we're not at the end yet there is still more innovation to cop. you hardly ever hear people talk about the fact the video content is so do so much of it is actually video and nobody realizes that it's produced so much c o 2 is this being swept under the ca

their concerns are about climate, the health service and education.d to get the language right of cooperation and respect and of love of one another. just to give one example, the prime minister has been criticised for talking about the surrender act as he calls it, but he has been defending that, saying he is perfectly entitled to describe it as a surrender act and that is what he thinks it is. well, as people in public office we have to take seriously that our words have impact. as christians we believe we should love our neighbours as ourselves, even if we disagree with them. it is notjust our action, but it is our words. when there is so much heat in a subject isn't that the right time to change our language to one of peace, collaboration and respect? thank you so collaboration and respect? thank you so much for being with us. the right reverend dame sarah mullally, the bishop of london. cleveland police has become the first force in england and wales to be classed as ‘failing in all areas.‘ it's been placed in ‘special measures' after the inspect

[inaudible] construction monitoring, environmental planning, dredging support services, and climate change. at this price, i will invite alisa to speak. >> i just want to do a quick introduction. we had a recent rotation of our compliance staff, from various department. the outgoing compliance officer has moved on to reassignment at the department of public works. however, i also want to introduce you to elizabeth alexander, who is your new compliance officer, stationed here at the port. prior to her stationing here, she was working as a compliance officer overseeing contracts of the public utilities commission. she's also one of the program managers for our mentor protÉge program. she is ready, willing, unable to help the design to cater towards benefiting the port mission. prior to her arrival, in the city, she worked for the tenderloin housing clinic, where she was a program manager there. also the vice president of local 1021. at this.because, i will call her on and she will continue on. >> thank you for that lovely introduction. it is wonderful to meet you are. i look forward to worki

isn't even paying lip service to climate change efforts. we're not even going to these meetings.en the world leaders get together around these issues, do you think they are shaking their hands in anger or simply shaking their heads because they have gotten used to how this administration acts? >> well, i think to be fair to the president you've got a number of countries now dragging their feet. china and india should be doing far more than they're doing. brazil is trying to turn its rain forests into development. so there are other countries. but the absence of leadership from the united states, the withdrawal of the united states from the conversations and the paris accords has meant that there's no international leadership as there should be. time is runneling out. the people who seem to understand this best are the young. this 16-year-old greta thunberg is a sensation because she started out every friday by herself, standing in front of her parliamentary building in stockholm and gradually other people started copying her. and this weekend over the last couple of days we had 4

this is an agency that aside from the national weather service does a ton of climate work. >> a ton. >> and there has been from the moment the trump administration took over worries about precisely this. would they be able to maintain their scientific integrity and independence amidst pressure and we've seen them do things at epa, usda and they've moved some client scientists out of washington to get rid of them. does this concern you? about the future of noah? >> absolutely. absolutely. these storms are getting more and more severe. we've seen five category fives in the last three years. this is critical that we have this climate information that we need that we actually need to grow the weather service to be able to handle this kind of stress. the storms are coming out of the floods, the fires. we don't even have the ability to do the kind of fire forecasting that we have for tornadoes and floods and hurricanes. we need to expand the weather service, strengthen them, empower them, give them more resources to take on this incredible challenge that we have ahead of us. >> what does i

toward universal health care coverage for everyone including access to health care services medicines and vaccines. >>the climate crisis took center stage today at annual united nations general assembly, dozens of heads of states gave their proposed ideas for helping the environment. one of the nation's capital protesters voice, their concerns karen caifa has details from washington. >>president trump was expected to skip the un summit on climate change entirely but decided to make a brief appearance. >>a >>session on religious freedom scheduled to overlap but it ended for about 15 minutes. the climate summit speakers invited to come with from proposals for change. >>from the beginning i said that he could do nt is not the beautiful speech, but complete action. >>and for example pledged to double germany's climate protection funding internationally. >>we sell increase funding for global climate protection from 2 to 4 billion here is that. >>summit comes on the heels of friday's youth climate strike killed worldwide 16 year-old activist berg told leaders monday to take the crisis more seriously. >>the ice of all

there are -- this week alone there are three climate change hearings, one is in the financial servicesnomic effects of climate change. kennedy: what are they going to talk about, banks going paperless? >> i don't know. [laughter] one is in the foreign affairs committee because, about the amazon burning. and then one is on the, is in the committee that was made up by nancy pelosi just to placate her base, but it's the committee on the climate crisis. of course, they're having a climate hearing. so no less than three hearings on the so-called climate crisis this week. you know, americans, they want a secure border, they want liberty, they want jobs, they want infrastructure, yet we're wasting time on these issues this week. kennedy: yes, and more people actually support the rescheduling and legalization of cannabis which, you know, if you get the federal government out of the taxation business, that could be a big boost to communities across the country, but they're not doing that. they're not rationally tackling the parts of health care where congress could have an impasse, and i think

climate change, we're in trouble. according to the literature, northwest montana is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. before and after photos displayed by the national park serviceghtening example of the now in climate change. for the man who measures the glaciers for the u.s. geographical studies, it is disappearing every day. how much more is the climate change changing? it's on the t-shirt now. >> yes, we do science for the world and world changes and we will keep doing the science to document that. the mission is provide the best possible science for the leaders and public to manage a park like this going into an uncertain future. >> reporter: this woman studies forest fires and etymology. >> it's changed the entire way i have to do my research. i never had any intent in studying climate change. 80% of my work is climate change driven because i don't really have an option. >> reporter: here in the corner of the northwestern park, people travel he hundreds of miles to see the jackson glacier. nothing escapes the issue and the signage even explains what's going on behind it. >> it's gorgeous and we're worried about the receding glaciers. every time we come, we

this project represents the willingness of the african nations to fight against climate change and the great green more service a beautiful reminder and an inspiration to continue our efforts in the fight against climate change what a positive start in are when you 1st have heard about the great 3 war can you remember what your 1st reaction was i was really surprised because i was born and raised in mali and living in the faher i. know everything about what's happening and i just heard about this project 3 years ago and i couldn't believe it because so ambitious and thought bald that. i wanted to know everything about it so now you are madam ambassador so you tell us in a nutshell as we show a map going to show a map of the continent of africa where this great green wall will be when it is finished which may take many generations but in a in a nutshell what is it. actually the great green wall is most like the community project from senegal to djibouti so it's really from west africa and the idea is to bring communities together and help them restart degraded in length and to help with the scarcity of resource

climate agreement by the year 2040. chief executive geoff a source says it is triggering to make changes across the global economy. —— jeff bezos. it will drive the economy to build products and servicest these large companies need to make those commitments. the bbc has more on amazon's announcement. amazon is calling this the climate pledge and it is making three really big goals. first they want to decarbonise and they will be issuing a lot of strategies in order to do that. they will be tracking their emissions and reporting them on a regular basis. they will also do things like offset. for the instances they can't fully do that, they will do other things to combat climate change. for example, one thing the company is aiming to do by 2040, they only want to be using renewable energies. they even bought a new fleet of delivery, 100,000 in total, and they are all electric vehicles. this is a big company taking a big step forward in trying to do their part to combat climate change. samir hussein reporting. this comes as more than 15,000 of the company's workers have pledged to take protest against amazon's environmental record was not the first walkout by staff in its seattle headquar

climate change using technology. is dropping details of its revamped services. we will hear from the ceo next. s bloomberg. ♪ tom: mike is using his platform to fight climate change. he sat down with us tuesday to discuss climate and why the future needs to be ready for more disruption. complicated very business sector when it comes to this. in finance and insurance and other areas, we are very worried about climate change going forward. , if you mining sector look at the opportunities for world,ia, in a green what do we make? we have a phenomenal amount of opportunity in mining. that doesn't mean the fossil fuel parts of mining are incompatible with the future climate. we can transition out of them. about elon musk a couple of years ago, he said he could build a battery and 100 days and he did. he is the standard bearer of sorts for being more green and environmentally friendly. it's representative of a lot of people in the industry who are making claims about where we should be heading. muskere a problem like mr. who is so aloof and otherworldly that it's hard for the average person to relate

talking about other issues including how we get investment in public services after a decade of austerity and how we tackle climaterophic for our members, whether they are working in car plants or public services. we wa nt car plants or public services. we want no deal off the table. the government are saying that they have abandoned austerity, effectively. the whole policy has changed? what we have seen in the latest spending statement is exposing the fact that austerity was a political choice. you can tell that there is potentially a general election coming. we need to see a sustained investment across public services. you mentioned the £25 billion spending gap in local government but the reality is you can put more money into the nhs and education, but if you have to cut drug and alcohol services and local councils, that impacts the nhs. if you cut services supporting laypeople —— make young people in our services, it impacts on schools. services rely on each other and we need long—term and sustained investment in public services. in the poorer part of the country, this has been decimated by a decade of needles

and the danger it would be no action on climate change, more wars, a sell—off of public services likehe government's own documents tell us, no deal could create civil unrest, public disorder, and undermine our ability to tackle crime and terrorism. international crime is rising, but with a no—deal brexit, it would mean we would lose the european arrest warrant, we would lose real—time access to important europe—wide databases lose real—time access to important europe—wide data bases on lose real—time access to important europe—wide databases on criminals, terrorists, and justice and security cooperation would be threatened. nobody who takes the security of these countries seriously can support a no—deal brexit. applause by by contrast, labour will defend the safety a nd by contrast, labour will defend the safety and security of all our citizens, and that includes job security, a secure home, safe streets, security from international crime. the tories have failed on all these fronts. just ask the victims of violent crime and the people who watch their neighbours burnt to death in the g

service and a subscription gaming platform. now the european commission's incoming president set fighting climate change is one of the top goals of her post cabinet a shift on the law and unveiled her choices for a new commission is in brussels today the 27 strong commission is the most gender balance since its inception and must be approved by the european parliament before it can take office. tackling challenges on the climate tax and jobs that looks at the top personal affront to lions agenda because e.u. commission president under the newly named team position to the german conservative got elected during to make europe greener and the man cert to oversee the task is dr socialist france to mamma he's been tapped as executive vice president for the so-called european green deal i want the european green deal to become 0 hole mark. at the heart of it is our commitment to becoming the world's 1st climate neutral continent. it is also a long term economic imperative because those who act 1st and fast will be the ones who grasp the opportunities from the ecological transition fund our land pledge to present the european green d

climate change using technology. dropbox is dropping details of its revamped services. we will hear from ceo drew houston next. bloomberg. ♪ taylor: mike cannon brooke is using his platform to fight climate change. he sat down with us tuesday to discuss climate, tech, and why the future needs to be ready for more disruption. >> we have a very complicated business sector when it comes to this. in finance and insurance and lots of other areas, australia is very progressive about this and worried about climate changing moving forward. even in the mining sector, i'm incredibly pro-mining. if you look at the opportunities for australia, in a green world, what do we make? panels, batteries, nickel, copper, we have a phenomenal amount of opportunity before you get to sun and wind. that doesn't mean the fossil fuel part of is incompatible with future climate . ,> he talked about batteries and you lost a battle with elon musk where he said he could unseen and hey did. -- >> you talked about elon musk a couple of years ago, he said he could build a battery and 100 days and he did. he is the standard bearer of sorts for

climate change, we're in trouble. according to the park's own literature northwest montana is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. the before and after photos displayed by the national park servicea frightening example of the now in climate change. for dan who measures the glaciers for the u.s. geological survey his field of study is disappearing at an unprecedented rate. how much more is your job every day defined by climate change? it's on the t-shirt now. >> yes, we do science for a changing world and the world does change, and we're going to keep changing the science to document that. the usgs' mission to provide the best information to figure out how to manage going into the future. >> reporter: her work is now too consumed by the changing climate. >> it's changed my entire way i have to do my research. i never had any intent on studying climate change. you know, 80% of my work is climate change driven because i don't really have an option. >> reporter: here in the northwest corner of the park people travel to see one of the last 25 remaining glaciers, this the jackson glacier. and in this part of the state nothing escapes the issue, the signage even explains what's going o

we have franz being promoted being in charge of climate policy and the third executive vice president. he'll oversee financial services economic matters these three individuals, it is important to note all of them have been members of the outgoing commission. that should help in the task as president, the first female president of the european commission we have the former italian prime minister leading the portfolio we should note the disappointment from italy given that the next kmircommissioner the expectation is that the next commission is not going to seek confrontation when it comes to spending plans the next cabinet is expected to focus on reforming fiscal rules. when it comes to distribution, perhaps the biggest win went to ireland. we have phil hogan as the next trade commissioner he is expected to be conducting trade deals with the uk. we also saw from france, being appointed as the internal markets commissioner she will oversee the reform on the front and that was also seen as a good victory for the french president macron and the youngest commissioner of this team. his age, 28. he comes from lithuania. he'

climate policy. i'm at the school of foreign service because the u.s. with countries all over to address this issue. >> what did you think of the discussion today about the international dimensions? because we kept coming back to that, obviously it's an enormous part, the u.s. is about 20% of emissions at this point. were there ideas there you liked, ideas you didn't like, things that stuck out? >> i did appreciate there was an international discussion, climate change is a national security issue. we saw that especially from julian castro looking at climate refug refugees. plans are great. will this be their top priority, will they use their political capital in their first year to enact comprehensive climate change? and how will they do that if it's a divided congress? it comes down to if they can make it happen. >> do you feel -- we're pushing everyone on is it a top priority, some people said yes, some people kind of wavered. did you feel -- did anyone convince you clearly, yes, this will be the first issue, this is the first piece of legislation the

climate change club downs are picking up steam with the number of planet protecting moves being in motion for one a swedish daily newspaper is banning all advertisements of fossil fuel based products and services with immediate effect papers and cited environmental concerns for his decision we go after the biggest mass climate protest in history and separately a 3rd of the world's banks have signed up to a un initiative on efforts to tackle climate change such as cutting back on investing in fossil. your projects among them are major players deutsche bank city group and barclays in total $130.00 financial institutions in $49.00 countries have signaled that they are on board but notably 7 of the world's 10 biggest banks are missing from that list the un initiative calls on banks to harmonize their strategies with the paris climate agreement and work towards a sustainable future from being seen as an overdue move to mobilize the influential finance sector to a fad that will cause more problems than it solves we put the issue up for discussion here on r.t. international. what we really need to be looking out looking at is eliminating the funding of fossil fuels as quickly as possible and the key

at the economic research service when the tsa statistician and produced research their found politically inconvenient. about climate change and food stamps. the usda had a purge of people there. saying people had a month or so to move across the country. we won't tell you where we're making you move. somewhere in the kansas city region. and something like 80% of the people said they weren't leaving. this is not unprecedented and one might worry about what happens when the other agencies that answer directly or indirectly to ross happen to cross him. remember commerce department is effectively the department of statistics. it's not just noah. it's the census. and of course we already got a whiff of what it means for this administration in particular ross. to try to politically manipulate data. through the attempt at putting in a citizen ship question. you had the bureau of economic analysis. which produces the gtp numbers. inflation and trade data. to my knowledge this administration has not been doing anything to put political pressure on the hard working experts there. but they might be trying. or maybe things hav

climate change and terrorism. who needs to all in a car that's a growing question and big cities where public transportation and ring services are often widespread and younger people typically more concerned about their carbon footprint now we send one such car skeptic our own mark to overcome on to the frank for motor show to see if he could be convinced to finally get behind the wheel. i'm almost 30 and i've never owned a car and why would i like living in berlin means i can get anywhere pretty much any time by bus or train. and if i do need a car i can just rent one through a car sharing service i'm perfectly fine without my own car. i'm going along with this only one 3rd of young german city dwellers say a car is important to them and i'm wondering what is the car industry going to do about that. well what better place to find out than at a motor show at the i.a.e.a. in frankfurt major car companies from all over the world a showcasing their latest models one of them is opal the brand my parents have driven since i was a kid trying to reach young urban customers with the course eat a new electrically powered version of a

climate change their password. >>> uber customers will soon see more services crammed into the ride hailing company's app. tells r tells can discreetly text for help through the app's safety tool kit. >> it brings me to a prepopulated text message which shows me my vehicle information, my current location, my destination and we designed this message in partnership with law enforcement. they told us what the message needs to have so they can dispatch help easily. >>> in another major change, uber will now have a second version of its home screen that will allow immediate access to its eats food delivery service. they also announced plans to laung ch more virtual kitchens which just sell food for delivery. working exclusively with rachel ray for one of our own. you think of uber as basic transportation, point a to point b. their goal is to get much, much bigger than that. >> i know a few people that use the uber eats consistently. >>> a new report shows the monetary value of buying a home. those who bought a home in 2012 when prices reached their lowest point followig the great recession, they've earned $14

the before and after photos displayed by the national park service, a frightening example of the now in climatehe public to figure out how to best manage a park like this going into an uncertainty future. >> this professor studies forest fires andent model. her work is consumed by the changing climate. >> it's changed my entire way i have to do my research. i never had any intent in studying climate change. 80% of my work is climate change driven because i don't really have an option. >> here in the northwest corner of the park, people travel to see one of the last 25 remaining glaciers, this is jackson glaciers. in this part of the state, nothing escapes the issue. the signage even explains what's going on behind it. >> it's gorgeous and we are worried about the receding glaciers. every time wedge we hope there will still be as much but they're disappearing slowly. >> i think the, oh, my god, moment is going to be seeing the places they love, the places close to them go down and realizing that their kids are not going to be able to experience that and that the quality of the lives of their kid

service thank you for your insights. airlines are battling a growing backlash against the impact of their industry on the environment climate change protesters took their fight for the planet to the skies today they've been deploying drones to shut down europe's busiest travel hub heathrow airport in london. you could call it fighting fire with fire valery and linder a part of a climate activist group that planned to use their own flying machines to tackle what they see as the scourge of air travel we heard earlier this week they set out their plan to guide their drones into the exclusion zone of europe's busiest airport just before is opened basically with this footage posted online and the arrests of 2 men close to heathrow early friday morning suggest campaigners attempted to go through with their threat. in terms of c o 2 that travel is the least environmentally friendly of the mainstream forms of transport the train carrying the average load of $150.00 passengers emits 14 grams of carbon per person per kilometer that compares with 42 grams per person for a car carrying 4 people or 68 grams per passenger for the average

climate change using technology. dropbox is dropping details of its revamped services. we will hear from the ceo next.loomberg. ♪ you have to have both regular connectivity in all parts of society. in australia, we have a lot of examples. more people sleep per capital under solar panels in australia than anywhere else. that's a movement that can be made. you understand this. when it comes to batteries, we have more batteries in australia. that anyplace else in the world. the rest of the world put together, more residential areas. -- batteries. we have engaged population that understands the issues. we've got to get that aligned with policy. >> the government needs to do more to position the country and the business sector for this sort of wave of technology that will comment disrupt. not just tech and retail, in every industry eventually. are they doing enough? >> we are working with the government on this area, trying to push forward. we are centering on technology. we have encryption and other things. we still need to be moving that stuff forward. we need to have a viable tech industry and tech enab

climate. meanwhile trump use the general assembly the you and take a side swipe at iran's saying he wants friends not at the service. and the u. k. supreme court overturns the suspension of parliament eleven judges. ruled the prime minister boris johnsons prorogation of the house was illegal speaker has says summit and please back to work on wednesday. another body blow them to johnson n and his. e ext plans. top of the business that means kate moody the breaks the countdown continues despite the routing by britain supreme court how the markets reacting to all this as you might expect mark we sought sterling balance as the suspension of the u. k. parliament was ruled unlawful. a reminder of course for investors the worst case scenario is a disorderly or no deal for exit and the british currency tends to rise whenever a deal seeeems more likely. to some games for pound it's trading just about one dollar and twenty four cents at about one euro thirteen there the hope of course is the argument will be able to take action to prevent the u. k. from rushing out of the u. at the end of october. without a deal and we can t

service to the community. we are proud to continue the tradition by co-hosting the conversation tonight about climate change with experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. this event is brought to you through a collaboration between drake university and the philanthropic we funded, -- philanthropically funded free service for journalists to accurateore credible, research-based news stories. we are just wrapping up a boot camp at drake where journalists from around the country received briefings from experts on issues that will be prominent in the presidential campaign. to acknowledge and thank the provost in the front row who is herself a scientist. also the former "washington post" science reporter and the entire team of scientists and science communicators who have worked so hard to organize this event. remind folksnt to here and watching remotely that they are welcome to ask questions and join the conversation via twitter using the #unitedstatesofclimate. andse turn off your phones please do not use flash photography. introducepleased to tonight's moderator, miles o'brien, an independent journ

service of electricity. the areas that the city's climate focus to cetera now, are really moving towards transportation and the building stock. that is where we see gasoline, diesel and natural gas being consumed. we will see less and less reliance on natural gas, more and more reliance on electricity for powering building functions, and out electricity service that we provide over 50% renewable and greenhouse gas free. we are very compatible with the city's objectives there. . >> clerk: for thank you. >> supervisor safai, any questions or comments? . >> supervisor safai: that last one was important to us. i think we delayed the project almost over 1.5 years. the cost the project almost an additional million dollars, and people do not understand. when you try to explain to them we are having an argument about transformers, equipment and they are saying, we are just reopening a pool. they don't understand. a lot of these things are extremely frustrating to users and neighborhood groups. we have done everything we can to work with you, and your team, and pg&e. it got so crazy to the point you all weren't a vendo

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service. you said before that the gold standard of climate plans came from washington governor jay inslee, butthing, he's dropped out of the race. he wasn't even polling at 1%. given that truth, how much of a priority is climate change really to the american voters? >> hey, stephanie. i think governor inslee made an important impact in that when he entered the race his entire focus was on climate change. therefore we brought the conversation of a lot of this primary process to the issue. and when he exited the race, he left his six very detailed climate proposals as open source material for other candidates to emulate and use and if they're president to implement. while he didn't have to polling numbers, i think that his impact on this election process has really been felt. >> in terms of implementation, of all plans out there, which policies stand out to you as not just the most effective but the most possible to get passed and implemented? >> i think the thing here is democrats really need to use this primary process when climate change is having such a big moment and is being talked about l

climate protest on friday. fox news correspondent geraldo rivera. former secret service agent and fox contributor dan bongino.atless mondays, public schools. and i'm like, no kid wants meatless mondays. he said, i know it is a hit because the kids love it and sean hannity hates it. then i said, well, i will put my menu, monday mcdonald's, taco tuesday, wendy's wednesdays. thirsty fridays, margarito's. no kid wants his menu, no normal kid wants his menu. now, they can offer it, but let kids decide, no? >> well, i love chocolate milk and you talk about it right now, but the serious aspect of my childhood obesity is a real problem and it is an epidemic. and the school lunches -- >> sean: hold on, your mike is giving us a heart. dan bongino. >> listen, i don't know where geraldo was going to go with that, and whether chocolate milk is good or bad, chocolate milk is not that bad for me. i'm not a nutritionist scientist but all of the problems in the country, the opioid crisis, street chaos and some of the inner cities, some family struggling through the manufacturing being hollowed out, i'm pretty sure that chocol