former Vice President Al Gore is in the
middle of a livestream event to raise
awareness about climate change it's
called 24 hours of reality protect our
planet protect our health Vice President
Gore is being joined by a long list of
celebrities to help fill the time get
the message out we want to welcome Vice
President Gore to our broadcast vice
president vice president it's good to
see you good morning it's good to see
you and good morning morning and and you
were being live-streamed at the same
time so we have a little bit of a delay
but I just wanted to before we got into
24 hours of reality you have a unique
perspective being a former vice
president your thoughts on on President
Bush and and what he meant to this
country he left a legacy of
extraordinary integrity and grace and
his service and I remember his personal
kindness I was impressed by his intense
love of our country I remember when I
gave my second and final concession
speech in 2000 I was in the Secret
Service car going back to the vice
president's residence and it was
President George HW Bush calling me on
the telephone and he was overcome with
emotion and he said the the kindness
kindness things it was it was really a
touching call and please I will be at
the National Cathedral at tomorrow
morning after this broadcast tonight
I'll get on a United red-eye and be
there please convey my personal
condolences to the member of year today
show family Jenna Hagar Bush along with
the rest of the family thank you so much
you're in this livestream dealing with
reality there it's a reality show if you
will about climate change about what we
can do on this planet and and during
President Bush's administration they
kind of laid the groundwork for the the
reports that now give us every four
years a look a snapshot of this planet's
health so so
is an indebtedness we have to him as far
as the environment yes I was with former
President Bush in Rio de Janeiro at the
original Earth Summit in 1992 which was
the agreement that laid the groundwork
for the all the meetings that led to the
Paris agreement and the meeting that is
beginning this week in in Poland and
this livestream by the way is also
broadcast on networks around the world
in 180 countries we're in 800 million
homes and more than 50 million online
viewers thus far we're gonna have a lot
of those is of course our numbers went
up during these few minutes so thank you
al for your long attention to the
climate crisis seriously you have been
one of the meteorologists who's led the
way and connecting the dots and thank
you for that mr. vice president are you
at all heartened by where we are right
now in this country in terms of at least
awareness about climate change and the
causes of climate change the effects of
climate change well the problem is still
getting worse at a rate faster than
we're developing and implementing the
solutions but there is an awakening to
this crisis and mother nature deserves
the credit for it because when you think
about the unprecedented and catastrophic
deadly fires in California the
Hurricanes in North Carolina and a
hurricane Harvey last year in Houston
that dumped five feet of rain every
night on the television news is like a
nature hike through the book of
Revelation and people are connecting the
dots and seeing this and of course the
National Climate Assessment came out two
weeks ago in the in the wake of the
International report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change and just last week climate and
health which is the theme of our 24-hour
24 hours of
reality broadcast we go to each of the
24 time zones all around the world and
we'll come back to the US tonight your
time 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on the East
Coast and so you know and answer your
question the problem is still getting
worse this is a global emergency and
people don't like to hear phrase like
that but that's truly what it is and we
have got to recognize it we have the
solutions we need the policies to
implement them all right mr. vice
president thank you so much good luck
continue and stamina continuing for the
next 24 hours we really appreciate it
and and you can find more information
about the livestream on our website at
today.com looks great for a guy who's
been up on there when you did your rope
a thon in these last hours it gets a
little tricky that's right of course
they didn't turn the my audio off when I
went to the bathroom I was I was the
first man to actually ever livestream
yeah it was
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