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Youre already getting your conference and youre having protests. meanwhile, what about the predictions from years ago about what will happen if we dont act quickly. maybe flood new york. of course, boulders are going to rise and start slapping us in the head being catapulted and swirling around in thunderstorms >> youre liking at an island. theyve had two giant boulders there for many, many centuries. james hanson who is a climatologist along with a geologist from the university of north carolin...

What do you make of this rain? >> we need it but i wish it would come more evenly spread out instead of all in one night. we just have to roll with the punches. it will be fine. >> well, this single storm wont get us out of the drought, carol, but its going to help. experts tell us we have to have about five of these major superstorms before we eradicate the drought here in california. the bottom line, its southern californias problem to deal with. its moving there very quick ly that area is exp...

Power from california to the canadian border. but this is certainly a storm that lived up to its hype. you had a lot of trees that fell down. you had parking lots that looked like lakes. things of that nature. roof collapses. but chris, one of the questions that weve been get something lou is this going to impact the california drought. well, this is certainly a step in the right direction. if you talk to experts. if theres one thing they agree on, youd have to have several more of these kinds o...

This will make the difficult decisions of getting in and out of some of these very hard-hit areas and very rough airports even more difficult as we speak with these low clouds and rain showers. >> chad, whenever we have a storm like this, whether it strikes in asia or even hurricane sandy in the u.s., people ask the question did climate change play a part. i know its difficult to make connections like that but we pulled up the commentary end of last year from the chief philippines negotiator at ...

Worldwide. >> blackouts could last for a month or a year. it could blow out all power "transformers" all at once. gregg: people couldnt survive. >> that is why the damage numbers are so high. not just that you lose power. imagine a blackout lasts past point hospital generators are kicking in. all of your financial trading markets. that is why there is active effort to do much better space forecasting, if you can predict these things, understand why the sun is flipping -- gregg: were not expectin...

Just what we saw a few days ago. the baltimore area has recovered from at least three confirmed tornadoes now all three classified as the weakest category with maximum wind speeds, 65 to 80 miles per hour. they packed a mean punch on monday. one of them demolished a homeowners garage. scattered debris over half of this four-acre property. >> tornado came through the back here. right over the garage. went down through here and disappeared. its just so intense and so quick. you couldnt really se...

That encourage as more, levels out our, the extremities in terms of weather-related events, if we can in fact do that. >> well, youre right. and in fact, we should think of the $400 per household federal spending as our extreme weather tax. in addition, we put together this estimate, the federal government doesnt even know itself how much money its spending on federal disasters. but most importantly, and the recent years weve cut money to help communities become more resilient, to tornadoes, sup...

Climate change. are we going to have his back? >> well, the words "climate change" were not said during any of the three 2012 presidential debates. the majority of the republican party refuses to accept the scientific reality of climate change. ignoring the issue didnt stop. record temperatures, droughts, rising sea levels, super storms, and extreme weather events. and lets not forget that bobby jindal says republicans need to stop being the stupid party, anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-science. >...

>> well, the words "climate change" were not said during any of the three 2012 presidential debates. the majority of the republican party refuses to accept the scientific reality of climate change. ignoring the issue didnt stop record temperatures, droughts, rising sea levels, super storms, and extreme weather events. and lets not forget that bobby jindal says republicans need to stop being the stupid party, anti-woman, anti-worker, anti-science. >> if this endeavor becomes a bidding war to see ...