Earlier this week two wildfires started ripping through southern New Mexico.

Within just 24 hours they had scorched thousands of acres.

Fourteen hundred structures had been damaged.

More than 8,000 residents had to evacuate.

At least two people were killed. He was trying to get away from the

fire as fast as he could, you know, but with a broken leg and a brace using a walker trying to carry what you could.

It's heartbreaking to know that he didn't make it.

Again, this all happened in just 24 hours and not long after,

severe thunderstorms dump buckets of rain on the charred area, triggering flash flooding. Talk about whiplash. Elsewhere in the U.S. many cities in the northeast saw days of extreme heat, way earlier than usual.

A tropical storm off the Gulf of Mexico churned up storm surge on the South Texas coast.

Scientists continued to sound the alarm here.

Human cause climate change is making these kind of extreme events more likely.

We're already feeling those impacts on the personal level.

But what happens when climate chaos starts pitting world governments

against each other?

My guest today is CNN's senior climate writer Laura Patterson.

She has the story of how a war over water is already playing out along the

US-Mexico border.

From CNN, this is one thing.

I'm David Rhine.

So Laura, it is absurdly hot in the US this week and I realize like warm

weather in mid-June is not exactly breaking news so can you just explain why

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