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Concordia, kansas hit 96 degrees, breaking a record set 127 years ago. snow was falling in wichita, kansas as late as april 14. but 20 days later, the city recorded its earliest 100 degree day ever. wichita falls, texas, is so desperate for water, theyve hired a plane for cloud seeding, pumping chemicals into the clouds to help it rain. >> where you see this dirt, that would all be water. >> reporter: the heat wave follows powerful tornadoes that pummelled southern states. the chaos captured in ...

Plane. theyre breaking the ice apart, not using the ships and ice breakers. but 20 bombs. >> you got to love china. nothing a few munitions, a couple of explosives cant fix. >> or break. >> but no cloud seeding from china at this point? >> not today. not yet. >>ing o, thank you for that. see you tomorrow. >> yep. >> that does it for this hour of cnn news room. for our viewers in the united states, stay with us. "early start" is coming up next. for everyone else, stay with us here.

And you can see that over -- well, you can see that right here. it looks like were having a little bit of trouble. here we go, hydropower supplies, 22% of chinas electricity. less hydropower means more demand for other energy resources like coal. china gets about 70% of its power from coal. ubs estimates the country may import 1 million more tons of coal each week. that is to compensate for the loss of hydropower. coal is the dirtiest of all fossil fuels. s there an environmental impact from fos...

in syria. these rikts are set to show demonstrations in dara last friday. although cnn cannot verify when the video was shot. an estimated 1,500 people are unaccounted for in joplin,h. nearly 100 volunteers are working to reunite family and determine whos really missing. the volcanic eruption in iceland thats disrupted air traffic in europe is finally ending. the ash cloud thrown up from the volcano is drifting east and dissipating and most of the airports closed are re-opening. th...

Japan. and what would ever go wrong in china or japan? these elements commonly called "rare earths" are actually fairly plentiful, but extracting them can cause environmental damage. china, china is the world leader in the environment, theyre just great. okay. this guy is wearing a mask because it gets so smoggy there. sure. but i mean, all right. the worlds biggest polluter, you know. pollution has made cancer chinas leading cause of death. but they have got the masks. remember during the summe...

Technology from china and japan. and what would ever go wrong in china or japan? these elements commonly called "rare earths" are actually fairly plentiful, but extracting them can cause environmental damage. china, china is the world leader in the environment, theyre just great. okay. this guy is wearing a mask because it gets so smoggy there. sure. but i mean, all right. the worlds biggest polluter, you know. pollution has made cancer chinas leading cause of death. but they have got the masks....

Just -- youve got to stay focused on what the forecast is, youve got to be careful. cities like philadelphia and new york, theyre opening cooling center. chicago suffered this terrible heat wave in 1995, upwars 700 people died. chicago has taken tremendous steps to warn people when its going to be hot and humid because when youre got high, hume, overnight temperatures, thats when you see really big trouble. >> but you flow whats interesting to me? you think about youve seen movies or talked to s...

That would be pretty nice. but its very difficult to say. >> what about weve heard about cloud seeding. thats the process where you attempt to stimulate precipitation, but im wondering is there anything scientist cans do to alter the activity of volcano or the ash patterns in the skies? >> thats an interesting question. people talk about this occasionally but people are sort of afraid to approach the sleeping giants and sort of tamper with them. first of all, what if it did something unexpected ...

Investigation. nature hides what it has in store for us. but people are looking at it very carefully, and im sure theyre looking at the seismic waves and analyzing the gases that are coming out and trying to estimate how deep the magma chamber is and how fast its rising up to the surface. we cant predict how long its going to last. >> is there anything to be done to alter the pattern of an ash cloud much like the concept of cloud seeding for precipitation? is there anything like that out there s...