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The heartland are feeling the effects of climate change. their croplands are drying out faster than they used to. parasites and pests are showing up sooner in the growing season and sticking around longer which requires more inputs, more pesticides and herbicides more mechanical removal of weeds. this is costly. then theres more flooding. so this is the time, everybody, to address this. i just want to disabuse everybody of a common notion. people say to me, bill nye, science educator, guy, what ...

Thanks, david. now i want to turn to the politics of weather. what a big story this week. and this morning in jakarta, indonesia, secretary of state john kerry gave the first in a series of speeches on climate change saying it is threatening the worlds way of life. im going to discuss the debate over climate change policies in just a moment with science educator bill nye and -- the science guy and republican congresswoman from tennessee marsha blackburn. but first, is the growing cost of our r...

Russians yesterday. thats not the end of the story. do you think theyll win gold? >> boy, i sure hope so and i think so. theres such heart and passion with our athletes there in sochi. i know were not getting as many medals as i would have liked to have seen, but i have been very very proud of watching our athletes. when shaun white, for instance, didnt get that medal, he showed a level of maturity and thoughtfulness and sportsmanship that i think was a model for people around the world. so yeah...

Joining me now to go head-to-head, bill nye, science educator and ken hand president and founder of answers in genesis u.s. and the croatian museum. welcome to you. very high profile and much talked about debate on creationism versus evolutionism. so ken hand, let me start with you. who is responsible for this massive snowstorm raging across america? god or science? >> actually, the bible tells us the whole of creation is running down because of mans pull. and so we do have extremes in weather p...

Have a plan. whether you have 13 minutes or 45 minutes of lead time, there has to be a plan for reasons just like this. >> you saw the damage last night. that was shawnee and those were mobile homes. what we see today were not mobile homes. these were real house built structures, nailed to the foundation or to the slab, and they were devastated just like those mobile homes were yesterday. this is a big tornado. >> thats exactly what they will be evaluating of course, is between the ef-4 and whet...

>> it was just unbearably loud and you could see stuff flying everywhere, just about like on the movie "twister." >> students from one elementary school told to hang on to walls as the storm ripped their school apart. teachers tried to protect students by lying on top of them. >> me and four other guys pulled a teacher out. she was on top of three kids. the kids were fine. she was hurt pretty bad. >> rescues still under way at this moment, becoming increasingly desperate. i will talk to witnesse...

Challenging as a science educator, is that people -- i think the people who are claiming that, that the winter storm in eastern north america is disproof of climate change, i think they know very well its not in any way disproving it. theyre just trying to, apparently theyre trying to get their viewers excited about it. and theyre trying to get their listeners excited about it. and i think thats inappropriate. i think they know what theyre saying is wrong. but theyre pressing on anyway. >> do yo...