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When climate change means a disappearing home in Louisiana

Over the past 60 years, the tribal community of Isle de Jean Charles in the Louisiana bayou has lost 98 percent of their land to coastal erosion. Now, they have received a federal grant to relocate to a new piece of land further north -- the first allocation of federal tax dollars to move an entire community struggling with the impacts of climate change. NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan reports.