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Welcome back to CNN's Town Hall on the Climate Crisis. I'm Chris Cuomo. We're here with the top 10 candidates for President of the United States. They're unveiling their plans to fight climate change. And as an audience, we will be testing their ideas.

Now right now, Hurricane Dorian is hovering off the east coast of the United States. We're seeing storms that are intensifying, and that's just one sign of the dangerous world that scientists tell us we're entering a few months don't cut carbon pollution in half in the next 11 years. And then to net zero by 2050. So let's deal with the instant

circumstance with Dorian. Let's get the latest on the hurricane and go to CNN Weather Center with Jennifer Gray. Jennifer Gray is the first to be in the United States.

We're seeing storms that are intensifying, and that's just one sign of the dangerous world that scientists tell us we're entering a few months don't cut carbon pollution in half in the next 11 years.

So let's go to CNN and see what we can do. We're seeing a storm that is going to be in the United States by 2050. So let's deal with the instant circumstance with Dorian. Let's get the latest on the hurricane and go to CNN Weather Center with Jennifer Gray. Jennifer, what are we seeing now?

Well, Chris, the latest with the storm. It's almost a category three, just barely hanging onto that category. Two status with winds 110 miles per hour.

The category three with gust of 130 moving to the north at eight right now. It's about 130 miles south of Charleston. They will be feeling the tropical storm force winds tonight.

And conditions will continue to deteriorate as we go through tomorrow already getting those rain bands from South Carolina all the way down through Georgia and even Florida. Still feeling it as well.

This is a category two possibly fluctuating to a category three sometime overnight tonight and tomorrow will have to wait and see.

But Charleston could get quite a bit of storm surge. That's going to be one of the main threats, and then is the storm races.

Off to the North, North Carolina is in it just as much. Chris With a lot of storm surge wind and rain, right. And you have areas that aren't used to taking storm surge or will be stay on the coverage will be needing your help.

Jennifer, thank you very much. And of course, the idea of bigger and bigger hurricanes more and more frequently.

And that's something scientists to worry about and point to as an indication of imminent climate change. What do you say?

It's time to get some answers to voters questions. Let's bring in Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

All right. Let's get right to the audience. What do you say, Senator? Let's bring in Diana Krantz from Philadelphia. She's retired. She's working on her second novel. Diana, what's your question?

Diana, what was the first one? I'm not going to say this was your big. I'm trying to help your Diana. Okay.

Anyway, thank you for this opportunity. Most economists believe that a carbon tax is the most efficient way to reduce carbon emissions.

Would you push for such a tax? And if not, please explain why you don't favor that approach.

So I think of this as what my mother taught me. And that is you got to clean up your own messes.

And that means if you're going to be spewing carbon into the air and messing up the air for the rest of us, it's your responsibility to clean it up.

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