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Do is take the damage and adjust it for gross domestic product and inflation and when we look at that it simply has no trend whatsoever. >> yet more people spend more. >> theres more stuff in the way of the weather. >> john, you dont buy all the scare mongering, but you are scared about parts of it. >> right, absolutely, because the ice sheets are melting, seen the polarized cap diminishing year by year and decade by decade. there are variations in the year, take a seven-year time frame or 17-ye...

Returning early this morning from overseas and still facing questions about government surveillance program that is spooked americans. hes promised more answers. >> what we are going to be doing when i get back home is trying to find ways to declassify further some of these programs without completely compromising their effectiveness. sharing that information with the public -- >> reporter: after revelations about government access to phone records and e-mails, the fbi director facing questions ...

Potentially? >> it is possible because some of the complaints include the fact that according to authorities some of the dental assistants were the ones administering sedation to the patients and werent licensed to do so and thats the problem. so this is part of the civil complaint right now, the state complaint against him, and they will figure out later whether they have enough evidence to charge dr. harrington and possibly those dental assistants criminally. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much...

Off ice floes in latvia. the bigger of the free floating ice sheets was the capital with 180 people on it. one person was treated for frostbite. >> reporter: screenings under way now for thousands of dental patients in this country and oklahoma who may be facing a life threatening health risk. patients were urged to best theed for hiv and hepatitis after visiting this office in suburban tulsa. susan candiotti joins us live now. what kind of turnout has there been of the testing? >> reporter: wel...

rob, help me out here. whats going on? >> theyre filing out, don. theyve just suspended festivities at lollapalooza because of the line of storms thats moving in the last couple years weve had a rash of accidents and unfortunate events with concerts and outdoor venues during summer time severe weather events like were having right now. thats whats happening out at lollapalooza. we have another tower cam showing michigan avenue outside of our cnn bureau there in chicago. traffic at a st...

Understand what the curve is taking you, there are unprecedented changes taking place in the climate, and if we continue on the course, we will see far greater impacts in the future. >> the effort to discredit scientific study is breathtaking, because you talk about the e-mailing hacked into and a sort of, i wont say public witch hunt, but a version of that to really sort of undermine the information that you are putting out there. >> absolutely. i have had a senator denounce my work on the sena...

That. and id like to demonstrate that societies are smarter than just allowing business as usual to carry on. if we do, we will end up, in the phrase of my boss, jim hansen, with a different planet. we will end up with a planet that wont be recognizable in terms of where crops can be grown, that wont be recognizable in terms of where rain is falling, that wont be recognizable in terms of where glaciers are and where ice sheets are and -- >> and to put that in human terms -- >> -- and what the --...

And id like to demonstrate that societies are smarter than just allowing business as usual to carry on. if we do, we will end up, in the phrase of my boss, jim hansen, with a different planet. we will end up with a planet that wont be recognizable in terms of where crops can be grown, that wont be recognizable in terms of where rain is falling, that wont be recognizable in terms of where glaciers are and where ice sheets are and -- >> and to put that in human terms -- >> -- and what the -- >> th...

The test form. >> they are running tests and finding out what is happening on the ice sheets and this is real technology and they are not making it up. bill: it could be the next great break through. is it how nasa gates arounets a funding threats we have reported on, with the space program. >> honestly ill go out on a limb and, as strange as it may look that is the future of human exploration. for, like i said, a hundredth or a thousandth of the cost of sending people to space you can send them...

Even ice sheets for me to stick a net problem for captain dimitri norbu solve this ice breaker can reach almost any location in the arctic ocean. the battle for the arctic is coming to a head russian scientists are concerned about the unique man scape. there for years. more could be more powerful more its so different to break the device. this russian giant isnt the only one here. a good thousand kilometers further south in. the norwegians are moving a different kind of steel done ten to positio...