What this year's hot, wet, extreme weather means for climate change - "The Takeout"

This summer has seen no shortage of extreme weather events: Hurricane Ida ripped through Louisiana and Mississippi before the storm's remnants slammed the Northeast this week, bringing devastating floods, winds, and tornadoes that left at least 47 people dead and millions without power across the eastern U.S. In the West, the Caldor Fire — one of the largest in California history — has burned at least 200,000 acres of land along the California and Nevada border and won't be fully contained for weeks.

For CBS News meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff Berardelli and CBS News' senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy, this year's weather is a new phenomenon. "As someone who studied weather my whole life, I've never seen anything like this before. That's how crazy the weather is this summer," Berardelli told chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett on this week's episode of "The Takeout" podcast. "It's not just your imagination. It's not just media or social media. It is the fact that it's actually the case." (conversation between Tracy, Berardelli and Garrett was recorded before this week's weather events.)