, to audit the arizona election results. we reported last night that all 2 million plus ballots arrived in phoenix at the convention center worth are doing this as of yesterday. the official audit led by the cyber ninjas guy began today, the cyber ninjas say they hired a subcontractor to actually physically handled the ballots, the ceo of cyber ninjas, who again is the guy who is the proponent of the theory that u.s. army commandoes in germany stole the real election server and got in a war with the cia and the truth is out there. he says that the company he's hired to handle all of the ballots has drawn their employees for this purpose from a pool of retirees to perform the recount. who is actually going to be handling the ballots? he says don't worry they are retirees the says the retirees veterans, former law enforcements, no further details are available. no word on any trainee they may or may not have received to handle all of the actual ballots cast in the presidential election, but now they've got them. meanwhile jour

the democratic party in arizona filed a lawsuit yesterday to try to stop this from going forward in arizona. they said the whole enterprise was illegal. today the judge in the case agreed to pause the audit over the weekend while the merits of their lawsuit were considered but that pause came with an odd price tag. the judge told the arizona democratic party that if the audit was going to be paused, the democratic party in the state would have to pay $1 million to cover any costs associated with the delay. the cyber ninja ceo running the audit up until now has refused to say how much the audit will cost in total. the controversy of the audit is he's not only taking taxpayer money to do it, he's also taking private donations from undeclared sources to carry this out, which means trump supporters could be paying for this cyber ninjas company to run a recount on whether or not trump won the election. somehow the judge in this case decided that a delay would cost the cyber ninja company upwards of $1 million and arizona democrats had to indemnify them for that. the democrats refused to do that

republicans for doing this to recount the vote in arizona. promising that this same thing, this same kind of audit is going to happen in all of the republican-controlled states where trump lost, wisconsin, michigan, georgia, new hampshire, pennsylvania. he called them all out by name, basically telling them all they need to do what arizona is doing. they need a republican-led private recount hiring just the right kind of firm to do this work with the real ballots. he says they're going to do this in all those states and overturn the results in all those states. yeah f you get just the right people in there to conduct this audit. sure it will go exactly the way you want it to. the firm run by the qanon trump conspiracy theory guy, the firm that's been given the contract recount in arizona, as i mentioned that firm is called cyber ninjas and that firm through their lawyer told a judge this weekend that they will not disclose the means by which they are conducting the audit, nor the processes they are using to handle the ballots or indeed recoun

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this is from the arizona mirror. quote, john pulitzer, a favorite of election fraud conspiracy theorists who claimed to have invented technology that can detect fraudulent ballots, you will have a role in the arizona senate's audit of the 2020 election results. ken bennett, arizona's former secretary of state who's been hired to serve as a spokesman for the audit confirmed mr. pulitzer's involvement although he said he is unsure whether pulitzer himself will be involved, or whether the audit team will only be using his technology, which pulitzer claims can detect fraudulent ballots. mr. bennett said the owner and ceo of cyber ninjas told him that he consulted with mr. pulitzer while designing the process used to test the ballots. pulitzer is an inventor and inventor of your cat. [laughs] and author of dozens of books on treasure hunting! it does not appear to have any background in elections related work, it is unclear whether pulitzer is alleged technology has ever been used on ballots or whether anyone has confirme

arizona republicans hired this guy and gave him two thirds of the actual ballots cast by real arizona residents in the presidential race in november. he says he's going to do some sort of secret analysis of those ballots and then report with the real election results were in arizona. again, this effort is being led by a qanon guy who has supported all of the craziest stop the steal conspiracy theories about how trump didn't really lose the election. well, here's the news. until tonight, the only press allowed inside to report on this so-called audit is the wacky do pro trump news network that's called one american news, which has itself relentlessly hyped the trump conspiracy theories around the election. and it is on air personalities have raised money to conduct the so-called recount in arizona. one of the only real journalists who actually made it into the room to watch some of this audit was only able to get and because she signed up as a volunteer observer and that allowed her to be let in on one day but that was only on the first day of the recount and she wasn't allowed in afte

in the largest county in arizona. and arizona, a majority of voters live in just one county, maricopa county, where phoenix is. in november maricopa county and arizona as a whole voted for joe biden as president. as much as trump supporters may not like that, it's true. there's already been an audit by a federally accredited firm in maricopa county, a forensic audit of the vote. there was a hand recount by four of which were republicans. they voted to certify that joe biden won the election. but not anymore. now in late april, the cyber ninja guy, the cyber ninja guy from the secret server in germany secret commando raid war conspiracy thing, arizona republicans sued to allow his company, him and his company, to have another look at what happened in arizona back in november. and they have actually turned over all of the real ballots, more than 2 million ballots cast in maricopa county, so the trump conspiracy theory guy, the qanon secret server war guy can see what he thinks happened so he can give the real result fro

eyes and arizona trump elector. because he contended that arizona's trump electors should be counted. . because trump should be awarded the state votes in the electoral college. so, he was day that there that. the count, you may recall it was delayed that day by the mob attack on the capital which temporarily stopped the counting. but he was there in person, so arizona would have its electoral votes counted for trump. he was there, january 6th. and he's also now announced that he will be working on this recount of arizona votes that are starting today, organized by the arizona republican state senate. he and the sovereign in just a guy who promotes the secret server germany story. and you know, joe biden is president of the united states. whatever they do in arizona it is not going to make him not president of the united states. but, what they are doing in arizona, what has trump world electrified right now, all newly energized with the fantasy that trump world has yet to be reinstated as president, with a just orde

arizona is the latest circus act for trump supporters in arizona where a questionable florida firm is in charge of the audit of the november presidential election count. from today's "the new york times" reporting on this, quote, almost half a year after the election mr. trump lost the promised audit has been a snipe hunt for skull dug ri. there's death threats for the elected official just the civil war in the gop is a hot one since november with the mccain family and republican governor smeared in the process. the ceremonial audit is conducted by a firm called cyber ninjas. quote the head of florida based firm that republican senators hired to oversee the audit has embraced trump's baseless theories of election theft and suggestioned that mr. trump won arizona by 200,000 votes why the faux audit will be broadcast on one america new just the pro-trump news organization that's under fire for peddling trump's big lie blurring all lines of a trump news channel. one america started a fund-raiser to finance the spectacle. and according to "the new york times" has been named a nonpartisan

california may not want you, we want you to know that arizona does. we are a state that is open for business. we are a state that welcomes business and new people and technology. our governor, governor ducey, had basically opened wide - the arms of our state . to welcome them there and it was a no—brainer. chandler is a hub where - autonomous vehicles are growing and having more miles mapped on our roads than any place - else in the galaxy. it is kind great to be| in the centre of that. chandler, i believe, was chosen because it has very wide streets, it's very clean streets, they are on a grid. and the people would be very accepting of this kind of technology. and so it was that the technology that will one day change our society, our landscape and our lives, found a home in arizona. the makers of self driving cars have flocked to the town of chandler, which has fast become the industry's test—bed. today, i'm taking a ride on one of the most prolific types of self driving cars here made by google's subsidiary, waymo. now, self driving cars come k

california may not want you, we want you to know that arizona does. we are a state that is open for business. we are a state that welcomes business and new people and technology. our governor, governor ducey, had basically opened wide - the arms of our state . to welcome them there and it was a no—brainer. chandler is a hub where - autonomous vehicles are growing and having more miles mapped on our roads than any place - else in the galaxy. it's kind great to bel in the centre of that. chandler, i believe, was chosen because it has very wide streets, it has very clean streets, they're on a grid. and the people would be very accepting of this kind of technology. and so it was that the technology that will one day change our society, our landscape and our lives, found a home in arizona. the makers of self—driving cars have flocked to the town of chandler, which has fast become the industry's test—bed. today, i'm taking a ride in one of the most prolific types of self—driving cars here made by google�*s subsidiary, waymo. now, self—driving ca

katie, how about arizona? arizona's had vote by mail for many years, but did you make any changes in light of covid? katie: well, our top priority and the top priority of my administration has always been to increase voters' ability to participate in democracy. and so, that didn't change with covid, it became more pressing because on top of ensuring that we were expanding that access, we wanted to make sure that voters didn't have to choose between that participation and their health and safety. and so, vote by mail was a key component of what we did in terms of the election and the pandemic and voter safety. so we've had no excuse absentee voting in arizona since the early 1990s, and voters in arizona can either request a one-time early ballot for whichever election they prefer, or they can sign up for our permanent early voting list. and about 75% of registered voters of both parties are on that permanent early voting list, so they're sent a ballot by mail for every election that they're eligible to vote in.

california may not want you, we want you to know that arizona does. we are a state that is open for business. welcomes business and new people and technology. our governor, governor ducey, - had basically opened wide the arms of our state to welcome them| there and it was a no—brainer. chandler is a hub where autonomousl vehicles are growing and having more miles mapped on our roads than any place else in the galaxy. _ it's kind great to bel in the centre of that. chandler, i believe, was chosen because it has very wide streets, it's very clean streets, they're on a grid. and the people would be very accepting of this kind of technology. and so it was that the technology that will one day change our society, our landscape and our lives, found a home in arizona. the makers of self—driving cars have flocked to the town of chandler, which has fast become the industry's test—bed. today, i'm taking a ride on one of the most prolific types of self—driving cars here made by google�*s subsidiary, waymo. now, self—driving cars come kitted with load

these are beautiful hot air balloons in arizona. how gorgeous is that taking to the skies after being grounded by the pandemic and so many tourism businesses are getting back on their feet. we'll talk about it in our next hour. >> that's good to see. >>> a lot of good in the news against covid, including cases falling all across the country right now and new york city, once the epicenter of the virus, now set to re-open this summer. the cdc is reporting more than half the adult population has received at least one dose of the vaccine. >>> also right now, at least 44 people dead. more than 150 injured in that massive stampede in israel. the chaos erupted during a religious festival and it's being called israel's largest peacetime disaster. >>> back here in the u.s., another sign we have turned the corner in the pandemic, disneyland in california is set to re-open after being shut down for more than a year. there are safety restrictions in place and what you need to know before you visit coming up. >>> also ahead, including the major

>> it is arizona. what can i say. you can't spell arizona without a-z. from the night of the election the stop the steal chant began, and in our state, even though there has been no evidence of any wrongdoing, all of the audits done, all of the sample hand counts done, all of the lawsuits done, have turned up absolutely no evidence of a problem. but we have a republican party here that is in the grips of the far right wing. these are people that are deeply into donald trump's pocket, and we have republican elected officials who, simply put, are not willing to speak truth to their own constituents. they're scared to death of them, and so here we are with -- i call them the trump ninjas because the company is cyber ninja and doug logan is their ceo. i call them the trump ninjas. here they are with our ballots. there are no city officials around. there are no state officials are. there are no county officials around. there are just doug logan and whoever his people are with our ballots. he can't tell us who is counting the ballots. he can't reassure us that

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the former president now demands the governor of arizona provide large-scale security for arizona senate republicans carrying out another audit of the 2020 race results there. the former president says in a statement, state police or national guard must be immediately sent out for protection. the democrats did not want to have this information revealed, they will do anything to stop it. it is not clear with the former president thinks democrats will attempt to do. joining us now, i suppose is one of those democrats, democratic arizona chairwoman. i want to get your reaction to former president trump demands for the national guard to be called in. what is he talking about here, for people who have not been following this closely? >> wow. well, our reaction is that, himself and so many individuals well a very vocal group of people as long as they believe that the election was stolen, that includes our arizona state senate president, and republicans in the arizona state legislator who are moving forward with an audit of the maricopa county elections of 2020. frankly, it is very nerve rackin

the cardinal survived a nail biter against arizona. we will have reaction from college basketball's newest national champs. stick around. sports is next. covid has made clear that having health insurance is more important than ever. at covered california, every plan is comprehensive, covering everything from preventive care to mental health. and it's the only place that offers financial help for health insurance. enrollment is open due to covid-19. if you or someone you know isn't covered, now is the time to sign up. covered california. this way to health insurance. enroll now at coveredca.com. >> for the first time in 29 years stanford is the national champion in womens basketball. the first time two pac-12 teams meeting in a national championship game. cardinals off to a fast start. haley jones puts stanford up 16-5. she had 17 points in the game but the cats clawed their way back with defense. pellington gives arizona the lead. and then stanford led it by seven at the break. but too many turnovers in the second half, 21 for the game

arizona republicans, suddenly, stopped trying to pass a voter suppression bill in the arizona house of representatives today. because they might not have all the republican votes they need to pass it. arizona secretary of state katie hobbs joins us next. next. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi. how great is it that we get to tell everybody how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ joint pain, swelling, tenderness. my psoriasis. cosentyx works on all of this. cosentyx can help you look and feel better by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms develop or worsen, or if you've had a vaccine, or pla

but arizona republicans, what do they have to offer? arizona republicans, you do you. you just keep keeping on. i'm sure it'll work. >>> in texas today republicans there have some new head winds as well. this follows on an interesting way from something we reported on last night' show. last night's show we talked about the fact that two huge corporations and huge employers headquartered in georgia, the cockle company and delta airlines, both came out yesterday in strong terms denouncing the anti-voting rights law that just passed the republican-controlled legislature in georgia and was signed by georgia's republican governor. well, those actions however late this were, have seemed to rung a bell. as republicans try to attack voting rights all over the country. tonight american airlines and dell computers both big corporations, both major employers, both headquartered in texas, both dell and american airlines came out tonight to express similarly, sharplily worded objections to a copy cat anti-voting rights bill in texas that republicans in the texas legislature have al

taxpayer funds in arizona to conduct an audit in one arizona county. republicans in the arizona legislature are still really sure that qanon or mike flynn or navy s.e.a.l.s in germany or fidel castro or something, they're sure of it. it's hard to keep track of, but there's something there that explains the real truth about how joe biden really isn't president and he lives on a movie set. so republicans have hired a qanon guy to audit the vote officially on behalf of the arizona state legislature, paid for by the taxpayers of the great state of arizona. good luck, arizona. your state just voted for two democratic u.s. senators and for the democratic candidate for president, but arizona republicans, what do they have to offer? arizona republicans, you do you. you just keep keeping on. i'm sure it will work. >>> in texas today, republicans there have some new headwinds as well. this follows on in an interesting way of something we reported on last night's show. last night's show we talked about the fact that two huge corporations and huge employers headqu

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arizona republicans, suddenly, stopped trying to pass a voter-suppression bill in the arizona house of representatives today. because they might not have all the republican votes they need to pass it. arizona secretary of state, katy hobbs, joins us next. hobbs, joit tide pods ultra oxi one ups the cleaning power of liquid. can it one up whateverhe seriously? one up the power of liquid, one up the toughest stains. any further questions? uh uh! one up the power of liquid with tide pods ultra oxi. i have the power to lower my a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it. once-weekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. most people taking it reached an a1c under 7%. trulicity may also help you lose up to 10 pounds and lower your risk of cardiovascular events, whether you know you're at risk or not. trulicity isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. it's not approved for use in children. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulici

the state of arizona filing a lawsuit. arizona's attorney general mark brnovich joins us. good evening, attorney general. it's great to have you on justice. i have been to arizona many times, i haven't had the opportunity to meet you. but i'm impressed with your lawsuit. you are suing the biden administration on two grounds i'm aware of. one is the president stopped the deportation of those ordered deported by the courts. and also to stop the ending of the public charge counts that requires immigrants have the ability to take care of themselves for a certain period of time before they go on welfare. tell us what your lawsuit entails. >> the two tracks of litigation. one is what i call the biden administration decriminalizing crossing the border. he halted -- all deportations. second track of litigation deals with the public charge rule. this basically means if you are coming to this country. you want to get a green card. want to get citizenship. you have to show you can support yourself. the biden administration by dropping that rule, they have incentivized people coming o

they had a chance to end that drought today against arizona. williams and the cardinal beat arizona twice during the regular season. looked like more of the same. early on. williams hits a three. and stanford has a 14-3 lead. but arizona would bear down. shanna pellington with the steal and the layup. part of a 16-4 run. and the cats took the lead. t dog calling a time-out, her team responded with a run of its own. anna wilson. drains the three. 11-0 run. big weather russell jacked out of his mind. fourth quarter, wilson nice pass inside to cameron brink. freshman. lays it in. cardinal up seven. six minutes left. arizona's star mcdonald strucked shooting but a big three, cats within one point. hailey jones had the answer. spins into the lane. and hits the two. gets fouled. the former star led stanford with 17. final seconds, arizona, down one point. >> lobs it into mcdonald. five seconds left. mcdonald. two seconds. mcdonald -- trapped. heaves. can't hit. that is it! stanford, survive. >> oh did they. barely. stanford beats arizona 54-53 to win

. >> joe biden your projected winner in the state of arizona. >> joe biden wins the state of arizona. >> this circus is a direct result of trump's big lie, claiming widespread election fraud. there was, of course, none. but the republican led state senate tapped an audit company run by an election conspiracy theorist. and a cable company is overseeing it. >> they're making it up as they go along and not following any type of written procedures, not -- trying to close everything off from the public and not let people see the process as it takes place. so there really is nothing out of this that comes out of this that we can see as valid. >> joining me from outside the arizona veteran's memorial colosseum, nbc national political reporter vaughn hillyard. vaughn, what is going on there? >> reporter: alicia, good question. i can tell you i have no idea. that's the colosseum. 2.1 million ballots are inside. to give you an why is, maricopa county makes up 60% of the arizona electorate. there's not a single journalist we are aware of inside, oan, right wing conspiracy theorist outlet is the

with me now democratic arizona congressman ruben gallego. could barely get through the read, so many parts made no sense. election was five months ago, challenges in your state that didn't find evidence of fraud. what is what happening here? >> three things, number one, this is a scam to take money from slow and dim-witted that don't want to accept the results. and way to prop up hurt feelings in arizona because they lost the race and state is turning blue. ironic, trump people supposed to be tough. and stage an issue to pass more voter suppression laws. not unnoticed that one state senator in arizona said i want to wait until the audit is done in order to pass more laws. audit is a sham. why hire anyone named cyberninjas? and we're not clear who is paying for it. judge said we needed to put $1 million bond on it to support the stoppage of this. when initially all the state has given was $150,000. who is paying for other portion of the audit? clearly not just arizona state government, should also make us question what nefarious involvement i

what exactly is going on the ground in arizona? >> there are literally hundreds of thousands of people coming into the country. we know the numbers in march. they talked about 170,000 people. it is estimated two million will come into the country, cross illegally. think about that, liz. that is the size of vermont, of alaska, month, wyoming combined. the desert is getting trampled. trash, danger to wildlife. fires, biden had to reinstitute construction of the wall. the cartels make money off ever single person that crosses the border. they're enriching themselves trafficking in human beings. using it to export drugs across the border. if you talk to the border agents, group of 80 migrants rush the border. apprehend them. process them. they have to be out of field. literally the drug cartels are driving trucks across the border with drugs in them. this will affect everyone in america. this is not just about the border. elizabeth: we hear you. it is a u.s. national emergency. border officials have told us this. it's a border crisis.

they are a volunteer group called the arizona rangers. >> so you're trespassing. >> this man talking to me is wearing a badge from cyber ninjas, the florida-based company being paid $150,000 by the gop-controlled state senate to conduct this election review, but here is what republican jack sellers, the maricopa county board of supervisors chairman thinks about cyber ninjas. >> everything they're doing is unprofessional, it's bothersome. i don't feel that it benefits me to get into the weeds too far on all the craziness that i see going on. >> reporter: sellers knows the difference. he leads a republican majority board of supervisors. they already conducted two audits with bipartisan observers in public view that found no evidence of widespread election fraud. the board of supervisors fought the state senate in court to keep the ballots but lost and turned over the ballots. >> when you accept responsibility for an election it can't be about a party, it can't be about a person. it has to be about representing all the voters. >> reporter: arizona news agencies and their lawyer fought t

arizona state rep john kavanaugh? >> somebody who doesn't want to be registered to vote who doesn't ask for a ballot, who doesn't follow politics who doesn't know the issues is a different voter from somebody like you whose career is politics and knows everything. i'm not saying those people can't vote, but if they don't want to vote, i am not shoving ballots in front of them and forcing them to be registered against their will. they have freedom. >> their will is to be on that list and, sir -- >> and i'm not taking anybody off the list to -- >> this is our right. this is our right as americans. sir, i'm going to have to leave it there. i'm going to have to leave it there, sir. >> they're not going to turn your power off if you don't mail your bill in. >> i'm going to have to leave it there. >> great. good. >> okay. so we're just hours now away from a big event here on cnn. it's a town hall on the climate crisis. how does the biden white house plan to deliver on the promises the president just made on emissions. >>> a

we could probably use some in arizona. this national security piece it was the first time i heard president biden use such a high profile platform to make the point about what the enemies see when they see after three counts in arizona, after the certification, the secretary of state said from a republican attorney general, a republican governor, seeing this dodge ji firm with the hands on 2.1 million ballots of arizona citizens, this looks terrible in places that would like to see the democracy this chaotic and weak. >> the image you see often in foreign propaganda is american democracy is corrupt and flawed and that we lecture them about free and fair elections. look, the elections in america are flawed and elections stolen and cheated and the fact of the matter is the system is the envy of the world. it's decentralized. it is hard to hack. it is very hard to steal an election. and in this case in arizona and georgia, there was no problem on the gop side with the laws and rults as they existed in two states until the gop

, that's not good for arizona. he's getting a lot of pressure. we're hoping if this gets to his deaf desk that he will veto this bill. remember, he himself said the elections are secure, the systems work, and we need to make sure that people are voting. >> let's be very clear about what's in this bill. initially it would take people off this permanent early voting list, which is something arizona has, if they had not voted in the last four election cycles including in partisan primaries and if they didn't respond to this final mailed notice. in the end the house amendment says if they didn't vote in the previous two election cycles. you know what this bill is saying. it's about accuracy and preventing voter fraud. what do you say to that? >> you know, we don't know what people's circles are, why they didn't vote, live survival. we say many people affected by the pandemic or simply chose not to vote, but we as a legislature should not punish people for not voting. and the reality is that this is a punishment for not

tell us about the law here in arizona. which proifcvision or provision most concern you and how do they make it harder for people to vote? >> i think it's important foint out that arizonans have enjoyed no excuse absentee voting here in the state for decades. we did it before it was cool. so this is a system in place for a long time. and has been widely popular among our voters. and we have the early vote list that voters can receive and get a ballot in the mail for every single election they're eligible to vote in. they don't have to request a bat lot for every election. it's a great convenience for voters and makes sure that they are getting their ballot not everybody pays attention to elections all the time. and so they're able to get that ballot without having to even think about it. it's been a great convenience. it's how people have grown accustom to voting in the state. but they have options. faen a voter chuss to exercise different option for voting such as showing up on election day at a polling place or voting ea

in arizona. it is 80 miles north of the mexico arizona border there's 30 miles of desert before you reach another town. they had no hospitals, no shelters there, the government, under biden just dumped these people including babies in the middle of a park. and you know what happened is the mayor of gila bend with his wife borrowed some vans drove them up to phoenix with a shelter biden calls this humane i don't think so. this is not any humane policy what is he's promoting, and it needs to stop. this is insanity. eric: finally, you know, you accused the administration of this, but at the same time mexico they're not taking back families if you've got a kid under . 7. how do we deal with that you say remain in mexico. but they don't want them back. even if legally you can sending families back. i mean how is this going to work out do you think at the end? can it? >> well, you know, the thing is -- is that it was cooperating with president trump, so, obviously, there's a policy change under preside

this is going to all be cut off. >> reporter: while farmers have been growing cotton in arizona for a long time with the support of government subsidies, raising such a thirsty crop in the desert has become all the more controversial. either way, cawood have no place but to let 100 acres of intense cotton or more intense alpha fa turn to dust. >> we have to choose what we grow and how we water it. when we watch weather forecasts and see no water coming into the lake and the dam levels continue to go down, we're going to become very concerned. >> reporter: her neighbors share that worry. across the region fallow fields have transformed the landscape, a sign of larger change that may already be here. >> when i'm driving around here and i see all of these housing developments go in, it's almost heart-wrenching. it almost makes me want to cry. it is so sad when a big store comes in or shopping mall or housing development, and it's been put on really good farmland. >> reporter: located about 60 miles from phoenix, this farmland is near one of the fastest population booms in the nation. it

lester >> dasha burns in arizona. thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to our week-long series "the climate challenge" with an exclusive look at the environmental and human toll of a war the u.s. was involved in. richard engel reports on the devastation in northern syria >> reporter: northern syria practically floats on oil. but instead of making the people rich the oil is killing them. a decade of war has left oil facilities here in ruins and created an environmental catastrophe. dozens of rivers and streams now run black. the water is lifeless and undrinkable. and these are the children's playgrounds. abdi abdallah, a village leader, says the land is poisoned "we do not want oil," he says. the people in northern syria are close american allies, the kurds. their oil has long been their curse when isis took over, the terrorists seized when president trump finished driving isis out, he wanted the oil too. >> we're keeping the oil. we have the oil. the oil is secure. we left troops behind only for the oil >> reporter: