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COY WIRE: Hello, hello.
Terrific Tuesday to you.
I'm Coy.
Grateful to be spending part of my day right here with you
on "CNN 10."
Today is the first Tuesday in November,
and that means Election Day across America.
Millions of Americans head to the polls
to cast their ballots.
But they won't be choosing the next US President.
Americans will cast their votes for representatives in Congress
and candidates for state and local offices.
Every two years, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives
are up for election, while only about a third
of the 100 seat Senate are up for grabs.
These are called midterm elections
because they happen two years into a US
president's four-year term.
The midterms are the first chance
for voters to weigh in on President
Biden's term, policies, and vision for America.
All eyes are on Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia,
and Pennsylvania, four states that President Biden flipped
to Democrat in the 2020 election but are
now battleground states that Republicans could win back.
Issues at the top of mind for voters
are the economy, social issues, immigration,
concerns about violent crime, and
concerns about election security and the election
process itself.
This year, early voting has surged in some key states,
including Georgia, which shattered records
for early voter turnout.
But rain forecasted across the country today
could impact voter turnout on Election Day.
We'll hear more now from CNN's Karin Caifa
about today's elections and what Americans might
expect as results come in.
KARIN CAIFA: President Joe Biden isn't on the ballot,
but for most Americans, it's their first chance to weigh
in on his party and policies.
JOE BIDEN: This election isn't a referendum.
It's a choice.
It's a choice between two fundamentally
different visions of America.
KARIN CAIFA: Among states taking center stage in the battle
for the US Senate, tight races in four
that President Biden flipped in the 2020
presidential election--
Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania--
where Biden and former President Barack Obama stumped Saturday.
BARACK OBAMA: Democracy itself is on the ballot.
The stakes are high.
KARIN CAIFA: And former President Donald Trump
also rallied--
DONALD TRUMP: This election is your chance
to make your voice heard.
KARIN CAIFA: --underscoring how 2022 may foreshadow
the 2024 presidential contest.
Polls indicate most voters are looking at the economy
right now as they cast ballots.
Democrats touted Friday's October jobs
report and unemployment still near a half-century
low as a sign their economic policies are working,
while Republicans point to the highest inflation in 40 years.
- The inflation crushing our pocketbooks.
Can't fill up our tank, can't fill up our grocery cart.
KARIN CAIFA: Democrats hope the Supreme Court's decision
to overturn Roe v. Wade in June will motivate voters,
especially women, while Republicans have
accused Democrats of being weak on crime,
especially in major cities.
Both parties eager to drive turnout in their favor.
COY WIRE: 10-second trivia.
Name the peninsula in Egypt located
between the Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea.
Sinai, Iberian, Arabian, or Yucatan?
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Sinai Peninsula is the answer here,
and at the southern tip is where you'll find the Egyptian city
of Sharm el-Sheikh.
This week and next in Sharm el-Sheikh,
Egypt, tens of thousands of world leaders, representatives,
negotiators, businesses, and citizens
will gather for the COP 27 conference.
27 because this is the 27th year that the global climate
summit has been held.
The focus of these conferences is climate change.
The UN says this was a fringe issue when the summits began,
but it's now a global priority, though different nations
have different levels of commitment to it.
Carbon dioxide emissions are front and center here.
Most scientists say these emissions are harming
the global environment by causing Earth's
average temperatures to rise.
A smaller group of scientists says that climate change
happens naturally and that the Earth can
absorb human carbon emissions.
But the goal of these UN summits is for member countries
to lay out new plans to reduce their emissions
of carbon dioxide.
Let's take a look now at the history of these COP
conferences as nations continue to debate
the issues that relate to the health of the planet.
- "COP" stands for "Conference of the Parties."
The gatherings are intense technical negotiations
brokered by the UN.
Countries are meant to work together
to coordinate a global effort to reach
net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050.
But progress at successive COP summits has been limited.
RAUL ESTRADA-OYUELA: This is a very long process.
It will take decades.
PUALA DOBRIANSKY: We will go forward and join
consensus in this today.
LEONARDO DICAPRIO: Now must be our moment for action.
- The first climate COP summit took place in Berlin in 1995,
and representatives from more than 170 states or territories
attended.
Two years later, progress.
The parties at COP 3 in Japan agreed to the Kyoto Protocol,
in which 37 industrialized states
or territories were legally bound to start
reducing their emissions.
But the biggest polluter at the time, the United States,
refused to ratify the agreement because it
didn't oblige developing nations like China to cut emissions.
In the following years, climate change slipped
on and off the global agenda.
After 9/11, the world's attention shifted to fighting
international terrorism.
Climate issues took a back seat.
All the while, greenhouse-gas emissions continue to soar,
and without the United States and China on board,
the Kyoto Protocol began to crumble.
Successive climate summits produced few results.
COP 15 in Copenhagen in 2009 was highly anticipated
but fell short.
BUYELWA SONJICA: It's not acceptable.
It's definitely not acceptable.
It's disappointing.
- Then at COP 21 in Paris, there was a breakthrough.
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- In 2015, the Paris Agreement was adopted
by more than 190 parties, including the US and China,
and effectively replaced Kyoto.
Its ambition was to limit global warming to well below 2,
but preferably 1.5, degrees Celsius
above pre-industrial levels.
But the watchdog Climate Action Tracker shows
that all major economies are off track
to meeting their obligations to contain temperature rise.
And as governments lagged in fulfilling their pledges,
a new wave of youth-led environmental activism
was born.
GRETA THUNBERG: All you can talk about
is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.
How dare you.
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DONALD TRUMP: It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio,
Detroit, Michigan, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
before Paris, France.
- Then US President Donald Trump withdrew the United States
from the Paris Agreement, only for his successor,
President Biden, to bring the US back into it.
JOE BIDEN: This moment demands urgency.
Good ideas and good intentions aren't good enough.
- At COP 26 in Glasgow, developed countries pledged
$100 billion annually to support developing countries
in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions
and adapting their economies.
But the conference also had its shortcomings.
India successfully demanded that the final agreement
would commit countries to phase down
rather than phase out coal.
- That's according to science, sir.
That's according to science.
BHUPENDER YADAV: No, not at all.
- Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas emit heat-trapping
greenhouse-gas emissions, and if we don't cut those emissions
dramatically, scientists predict global
temperatures could warm by 3 degrees
by the end of the century.
COY WIRE: Now for today's 10 out of 10,
we're bringing you a tasty story that's going to wake you up.
People deep-fry chicken.
They deep-fry potatoes.
I've even heard of deep-fried Oreos.
But coffee?
How do you even do that?
James Hoffmann, a coffee connoisseur and author,
deep-fried the coffee beans for 14 and 1/2 minutes,
and he says it created a soft and buttery cup of joe.
Rich but not greasy.
I guess you could deep-fry just about anything.
I think my weakness is French fries.
I could eat them all day, every day.
What's your weakness?
Like, if you were a superhero, what would your kryptonite be?
Let me know at Coy Wire on Instagram,
Snapchat, and TikTok.
Shout-out time now.
Many High School in Many, Louisiana, we
wish you and everyone watching around the world
many blessings.
My team and I are so grateful to spend part of our day with you.
I'm Coy.
This is "CNN 10."
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