Promise To Maui, Climate Change Backdrop, Emerging Economies Summit

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

President Biden visited Maui, where wildfire survivors worry about finding permanent housing. Climate change forms a backdrop for a summer of extreme weather-related events. And leaders of five emerging economies will talk cooperation and competition at the BRICS summit in South Africa.

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0:00.0	President Biden makes a promise to Hawaii.
0:04.4	As long as it takes, we're going to be with you.
0:06.5	While fire survivors say housing must be a priority.
0:09.5	I mean, Martinez, that's Michelle Martin, and this is a first from MBR News.
0:15.8	It's been a summer of extremes from wildfires to flooding what part does climate change play?
0:20.7	Plus, the leaders of five emerging economies talk cooperation and competition.
0:25.5	Our world has become increasingly complex and fractured.
0:29.7	As it is increasingly polarized and competing with each other.
0:34.8	How will they confront those divisions?
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1:23.3	President Biden is making a promise to survivors of one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history.
1:29.8	For as long as it takes, we're going to be with you. The whole country will be with you.
1:33.2	The president traveled to Maui to pledge federal help in rebuilding the historic seaside town of
1:38.1	Lahaina. That's where the death toll has now risen to 115. Most of those victims remain unidentified.
1:44.8	And PR's Jennifer Luggan is in Maui and she's on the line with us now to tell us more.
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