NBC Treks to Arctic Alaska to Find ‘America’s First Climate Change Refugees’ ‘Living in Fear’

Curtis Houck | September 1, 2015
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As part of President Barack Obama’s visit to Alaska this week to promote climate change, Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News showcased investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s trek to Arctic Alaska ahead of Obama to meet “some of America’s first climate change refugees” due to rising seas near their villages.

In one of two teases, anchor Lester Holt told viewers to stay tuned for a look at “[t]he vanishing happening at the top of the world” with “[f]amilies bracing to flee what would be the first American refugees of climate change.”

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