1084 CNN Climate Correspondent Bill Weir and NEWS FROM EARTH ONE
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Today I have your news from Earth One and my conversation with Bill begins at 21 minutes
Bill Weir is a veteran anchor, writer, producer, and host who came to CNN in 2013 after a decade of award-winning journalism at ABC News.
Buy his new book! LIFE AS WE KNOW IT (CAN BE)
In 2019, he was named the network’s first Chief Climate Correspondent, drawing on his experience creating and hosting the primetime CNN Original Series “The Wonder List with Bill Weir,” now streaming on Max.
With his distinctive storytelling style, lush photography and a focus on our connected planet, Weir and his team produced four seasons of the show across 28 countries, highlighting wondrous people, places, cultures, and creatures on the brink of seismic change.
In 2022, Weir earned a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for his CNN Special Report: Eating Planet Earth: The Future of Your Food, and Columbia Journalism Review called his 2020 CNN Special Report: The Road to Change “one of the very best pieces of climate journalism ever run by a mainstream US news organization.” His first book, Life As We Know It (Can Be) will be published by Chronicle Prism in April 2024.
In his network career, Weir reported from all 50 states and more than 50 countries, covering breaking news and uncovering global trends. He was among the first reporters into the floodwaters of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and Japan’s tsunami zone during the nuclear crisis of 2011. He dodged Taliban bullets in Afghanistan, led network coverage from Iraq and was the first American to broadcast live from Tibet. As a writer and anchor, Weir produced several special hours for CNN and ABC prime time on topics ranging from religion, brain science and Woodstock to the business of mail-order brides and the rise and fall of General Motors.
His live shots have come from atop the Golden Gate Bridge and below the waters of the Great Barrier Reef while his adventure reporting includes jumps from hot air balloons, hikes deep into the Amazon and one fun night spent lashed to the side of Yosemite’s El Capitan.
Before joining ABC News, Weir wrote and hosted projects for the FX and USA Networks and was an anchor/reporter in Los Angeles, Chicago, Green Bay and Austin, MN.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello here I am and there you are and welcome to another great episode of |
| 0:06.7 | Stand Up. I've got an awesome guest joining me today former ABC News |
| 0:10.9 | anchor and now CNN's chief climate correspondent and author of a really |
| 0:15.5 | interesting and important new book about climate it's Bill Weir for the first time |
| 0:20.4 | on the show, great conversation. |
| 0:23.2 | And if you want to jump to it, it starts at |
| 0:25.8 | about 21 minutes in. |
| 0:27.5 | But I've got a whole bunch of news and sound clips |
| 0:30.1 | as I do pretty much every day for you so let's get started shall we all eyes |
| 0:35.2 | were on a Manhattan courtroom to watch the disgrace former president close his |
| 0:40.1 | eyes and fall asleep that's right Trump's criminal trial began with jury selection |
| 0:45.2 | yesterday and apparently Trump took a little nappy poo and I'll have some more sound down that |
| 0:50.6 | for you coming up. but New York prosecutors joined the |
| 0:53.2 | disgraced former president and his stupid attorneys in a Manhattan courtroom |
| 0:56.8 | for the official start of the first criminal trial of an American president ever. |
| 1:00.9 | The disgraced former president is facing 34 felony |
| 1:03.7 | counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that he had with a |
| 1:08.0 | porn star during a 2016 campaign if he's convicted he could face up to four years in prison so after |
| 1:14.3 | the judge overseeing the case rejected Trump's latest effort to oust him the |
| 1:17.4 | judge the prosecution and defense began collaborating on the arduous process of |
| 1:21.3 | choosing a jury immediately they ran into problems because more |
| 1:24.2 | than half the pool of 96 prospective jurors were dismissed after they indicated they did not |
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