Jonathan Vigliotti's phone rings in the middle of the night from time to time. It's the nature of his work, as a traveling correspondent for CBS News. Vigliotti flew to Maui to cover the aftermath of the fire that destroyed most of Lahaina, and he had to charter a boat to get there.
After a while, the occasions covering severe weather events piled up, and piled up quite high. Vigliotti recounts what he's seen, and the connections to our changing climate, in his book Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.
Jonathan Vigliotti talks to the JX about his travels--hot and cold, wet and dry--and his first book.
