dr. robert bullard from houston, stay with us. dr. dr. robert bullard is known as the father of environmental justice. he is the author of justice, and equity, currently a distinguished professor at texas southern university. joining us from texas, professor bullard, thank you for joining us on this show, let me start by asking you how are you and your family? >> i'm fine, the family is fine, we had to evacuate on tuesday, but thank goodness i'm back at my home. we did not get any water. the flood only came up to the street. and nothing in the house. so thank goodness i'm okay. >> i'm glad you are well, our hearts of course go out to all of those who have been damaged in any way, lost lives or loved ones in this storm. as hurricane irma is making its way we're told to florida, we start to pray in advance for the families in florida, let me ask a couple of uncomfortable, perhaps politically inconvenient questions. i want to ask them anyway because this is what you do. give me your sense of what happened in houston and whether or not what ha

dr. robert bullard after he returned to his houston home after a mandatory evacuation. >> how can we make invisible communities visible yucca those communities who have been inundated of pollution before the storm yucca when a storm like this, happens, it exposes that vulnerability. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. north korea carried out its strongest-ever nuclear test sunday, just days after the u.s. and south korea wrapped up their massive joint military drills on the korean peninsula. north korea has long objected to the annual drills, which include tens of thousands of troops. north korea claims it tested a hydrogen bomb, although experts have disputed this claim. on monday, the un security council met to address the test. nikki haley accused north korea of begging for war. president trump tweeted -- "the united states is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with north korea." experts say this proposal is next to impossible since ceasing t

dr. robert bullard. these are experts on climate change and they need to be spoken to as well. me personally, i learned a hell of a lot more than i did when i watched "an inconvenient truth." please stop using the polar bear as your motto or logo. just stop. tallahassee thing with polar bears. they may be white, but they don't vote. and finally, i'm going to invite some people to come up here right now to show we have a democrat up here who was serious about addressing climate change and also what we have to do to really address climate change, which is stop taking money from the people who are killing us. stop. so he he has agreed to take this pledge that's going around and really happy to shout out my good friend from climate hawk who is does such amazing work. and counsels me when i call her. we need more black and brown people in the movement. and my good friend emily as well. so this is a good step for us. what does this say? >> it says i pledge to not take contributions from the oil, gas and coal industry and prioritize the health of our families, climate and democracy ov