Melting Fast News Today

- whatre we doing? - i dont know. . this morning a startling look at the devastating effects of climate change, switzerland has been warming at twice the global rate across the world famous alps, glaciers are melting fast, 500 are gone permanently. keir simmons joins us live. whats it like? >> reporter: hi steph, spectacular to be live on msnbc on the top of a mountain in the swiss alps, the roane glacier is beautiful. it is also under threat. you should be able to see in the water pieces of t...

>> reporter: ive never done this before in a snowstorm, i got a chance to pull off the big, heavy jacket. but the sun is nice and wonderful, its beautiful and its doing a job on melting some of this snow and the air is dry we are sob the little breeze that comes along is helping to dry out the roads. thats here in harrisburg where we only had 5 inches. off to the west in some of the hills, its up to a foot. you can see the beautiful state capital here in harrisburg. this is probably one of the n...