professor kim cobb, — landscape as well. professor kim cobb, award-winning i landscape as well.—winning climate scientist at brown university at a member of president biden�*s intelligence advisory board. thank you for being with us. ., ~' board. thank you for being with us. ., ~ , ., board. thank you for being with us. . ~' i” ., board. thank you for being with us. . ~ ., ., it's been three weeks without clean drinking water for one small central arkansas town as they face a brutal heatwave. helena—west helena, arkansas is set to experience temperatures as high as 97 degrees farenheit or 3a degrees celsius next week, but residents there are still relying upon bottled water provided by the arkansas national guard and red cross to drink, cook and bath. a 25june water line break caused the operating system that runs the town's water to automatically fail, leaving 9,000 without water for over 20 hours on a 32 degree celsius day — that is 90 degrees farenheit. but its 60—year—old water system is still experiencing more leaks. some 20 days later, low water pressure has returned, and

a short time ago, i spoke to professor kim cobb, an award—winning climate scientist at brown universitysident biden�*s intelligence advisory board. thank you for being with us. firstly, i want to get your thoughts on the extreme heat wave that many of us are experiencing both, you know, in the united states and around the world. does this in any way feel different to you? could it potentially be a wake—up call? what strikes me about this year is the rapid pace of climate and weather extremes we're dealing with this summer, just already getting started here, still in earlyjuly, and yet we have had several devastating heatwaves across the united states, we've had air—quality emergencies, we've had catastrophic flooding in vermont, and mindful of the horrific flooding in south korea over the last day, as well and temperatures that are approaching record—breaking temperatures across all of southern europe. so it's really the pace and the extremes that we are seeing right now and the numbers of records that are falling right now that does seem like this summer may be worse than those in rece

for more, i spoke to professor kim cobb, a climate scientist at brown university, and a member on president�*s inteilligence advisory board. thank you so much forjoining us. we heard john envoy pushing for china to reduce its use of coal. what you think you can actually achieve a peace talks? it certainly helps that the backdrop of this relentless spate of ongoing climate change is ongoing across parts of the northern hemisphere now, obviously climate change a clear and present danger to public health and safety, to the economy both in china, here in the united states and abroad, and to national security both here in the united states and in china. high hopes over there for their talks and hopefully we can see the emission curve spike down. what about the us side of this? we know the us president biden has said these ambitious climate goals, a 65% reduction in emissions, by the end of this decade — are we still on track to achieve that? we are not quite on track, but obviously made a huge start, an historic one in fact, with the inflation reduction act, which is really an amazing investment

professor kim cobb, a climate scientist at brown university and a member on president biden�*s inteilligenceard. thank you so much forjoining us in ourstudio thank you so much forjoining us in our studio tonight. we just saw those images of the climate envoyjohn kerry, climate envoy john kerry, talking climate envoyjohn kerry, talking to his chinese counterpart, pushing china to reduce its use of coal. what do you think he can achieve at these talks? it you think he can achieve at these talks?— you think he can achieve at these talks? it certainly helps that the backdrop _ these talks? it certainly helps that the backdrop of this - that the backdrop of this relentless spate of ongoing climate change is ongoing across parts of the northern hemisphere now, obviously climate change a clear and present danger to public health and safety, to the economy both here in china and the united states and abroad, and to national security in china, —— both here in the united states and in china. high hopes over there for their talks and hopefully we can see the emission curve spike down. what about the us

. >> kim cobb, appreciate it.hanks for joining us this morning. >>> you're not getting a break any time soon especially in the southwest. in phoenix, this weekend's temperatures will once again reach triple digits, but in other parts of the country, we're seeing a bit of a cooldown maybe. cnn meteorologist britley ritz joins us now. walk us through the temperatures. >> temperatures like you mentioned, well over 100 degrees across the southwest. we're hoping for that monsoon to kick in. typically it starts in june. we really have not seen much of it. we got quite a bit early on in may, which helped the situation. but now the heat just soars. places like phoenix, the grand canyon, much of southern arizona, where it will push up toward 115 degrees. heat advisories for southern parts of new mexico, texas, el paso under that excessive heat warning. please make sure you're staying hydrated with water. gatorade with electrolytes based on your sodium levels. but look at the testifies over the next three days. salt lake ci