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Greta comes to America

TicToc Tonight
Bloomberg

Greetings, TicToc readers. Congrats on making it to Wednesday. Here's what you need to know:

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Greta takes New York

After a 15-day, zero-emissions sail across the Atlantic, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York to a crowd of supporters. Thunberg is in the U.S. to host and attend climate change talks.

  • The 16-year-old was a bit wobbly as she took her first steps on land after the long voyage. 
  • "If no one has been able to convince [Trump] about the climate crisis, the urgency, then why should I be able to do that?" Thunberg says.
  • She says the Amazon forest fires are "a clear sign that we need to stop destroying nature."

Highly quotable

"I'm never gonna be able to show my children my home." Teen activists waited to greet Thunberg as she docked in NYC. 

"Overwhelmingly a white man's problem." That's how Joe Biden described racism in America to a group of reporters.

"It's important to know when it's not your time.Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced she's dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.

"One hundred years later, the Negro still is not free." On this day in history in 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have A Dream" speech. 

$ignificant figures

5 weeks: That's how long Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to suspend Parliament, bringing lawmakers woefully close to its Brexit deadline. 

75 mph: That's how fast Hurricane Dorian's winds arecurrently blowing as it nears Florida.

60 years: That's how long BP had oil operations in Alaska. The company just sold its assets in the state for $5.6 billion.

What's good

More than 20,000 people threw tomatoes at the La Tomatina festival in Buñol, Spain.

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