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Only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. there is no exaggerating here. 2012 broke all records. it was the hottest year ever recorded in the continental u.s. >> one out of every three americans had at least ten days where they had to deal with temperatures at or above 100 degrees. thats a lot of heat. >> nbcs chief environmental correspondent ann thompson joins me now. we enjoy it now in january, but its a serious problem and indicator of how ala...

>> i believe in evolution, but i also believe when i hike the grand canyon and see it at sunset that the hand of god is there also. >> that sounds right to me. brown back, huck key and tancredo dont believe in evolution. theres a couple things going on here. obviously business types think if they accept the fact theres a man kind influence on climate changes and they have to change laws and deal with that. it will hurt their freedom in the marketplace, right? theres the other thing about the rel...

>> yes. >> is there anybody on the stage that does not agree or believe in evolution? >> may i just add to that? >> sure. >> i believe in evolution, but i also believe when i hike the grand canyon and see it at sunset that the hand of god is there also. >> that sounds right to me. brown back, huck key and tancredo dont believe in evolution. theres acouple things going on here. obviously business types think if they accept the fact theres a man kind influence on climate changes and they have to c...

I would be aping gree if he was on a -- angry if he was on a plane and they threw him sov the plane. >> not cool. the father of all sorrow will im arrived at oxford university in a private helicopter. the 186 trip released three quarters of a ton of co two into the atmosphere. i even took a picture of his hip hop. >> a professor claims that will im is helping create a better understanding of climate changes. basically it is okay to create climate change to raise awareness. >> he is not participa...

Mandates are great, they work. you dont hear him saying that anymore, do you? gee, i wonder when the political climate changed, i guess governor romneys climate changes. >> nooewt gingrich is keeping h focus the south. gingrich says hes taking his campaign all of the way to the gop convention even if he loses the primaries in alabama and mississippi on tuesday. mitt romney is also spending time in alabama. romney rallied republicans in mobile on friday. >> this presidents comfortable with trilli...

could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. theyre working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrows pivotal iowa straw poll. and theyre taking direct aim at president obamas handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls...

shopping sprees, but are still out there spending and thats good. the dow fell to the lowest level in 30 years, but we are not seeing the wild swings we saw all week. the dow closed down 600 on monday and up 400 on tuesday and down 500 points on wednesday and up 400 yesterday, and it was the first time in the dows history we have seen closing numbers like this. drew? >> you could probably measure the heartbeat of traders the same way, up and down. tell us what happened in europe? they ...

Plus newt is blowing more hot air on climate changes. he flip-flop makes tonights "con job." is the palin act coming to an end? her movie is tanking. is her political career going straight to pay-per-view? welcome to the show. im al sharpton. tonights lead, the white house signals it may veto john boehners debt plan, but its not clear that boehner could even get his own party to support it. in a speech last night, he tried to selling his vision to skeptical republicans by pinning the blame on th...

Steamboat springs, colorado, where im attending the weather summit we have every year. a handful of meteorologists from around the country get together with the top scientists and we get up to speed on the latest an greatest. climate changes are high atop the priority list. weve learned a bunch of stuff on that as far as where the computer models, what theyre doing with climate change. and you know, all the question marks that are still there. every time we know more, we seem to need to know mor...

Than it was 20, 30 years ago. >> and speaking of washington, d.c., and the climate of a different kind there. politics has often screwed up serious scientific concerns. is there any way for the scientists to win out on this issue. >>? it very frustrating as a scientist. so many people i talk to seem to de side the science based upon their political beliefs. if theyre conservative, they dont believe in it. if theyre liberal, they believe in climate warming. there is a lot of disinformation that h...