What this year's hot, wet, extreme weather means for climate change - "The Takeout"
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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.)President Joe Biden said France was America's "first friend" at its founding and is one of its closest allies more than two centuries later as he was honored with a state visit Saturday by French President Emmanuel Macron aimed at showing off their partnership on global security issues and easing past trade tensions.
The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau last week launched an inquiry into what the agency is calling "junk fees in mortgage closing costs." These additional fees, involving home appraisal, title insurance and other services, have spiked in recent years and can add thousands of dollars to the final cost of buying a home.
Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic "Earthrise" photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.