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Jon, the iowa caucuses one year from this month. back to you. jon: david, thanks very much. >> reporter: sure. jon: as southern california continues to recover from last years devastating woolsey fire, the area is now facing troubling new weather patterns. a live report on that coming up. plus, a dramatic move by the united states and russia sparks jitters of a new arms race. the latest diplomatic standoff ahead. and the latest on the political crisis in venezuela as vice president pence say...

Jon, the iowa caucuses one year from this month. back to you. jon: david, thanks very much. >> reporter: sure. jon: as southern california continues to recover from last years devastating woolsey fire, the area is now facing troubling new weather patterns. a live report on that coming up. plus, a dramatic move by the united states and russia sparks jitters of a new arms race. the latest diplomatic standoff ahead. and the latest on the political crisis in venezuela as vice president pence say...

>> to more intense storms, extreme rain events and floods, are already a serious threat. and getting worse. >> its rising way too fast. >> i just was in such denial on anything else. i didnt grab anything. >> i saw the water mark in my basement, it was up to my nose. the drive down here was almost -- its hard to see my place gone. >> glaciers are disappearing and arctic ice melt is producing rising sea levels and rewriting global weather patterns. all five of the warmest years on record in the a...

Wildfires. >> we lost a lot. >> to more intense storms and floods already a serious let the and getting worse. >> its rising way too fast. >> i was in such denial. i didnt put anything up, didnt grab anything. >> i saw the water mark in my basement, over my nose. the drive down here was almost -- hard seeing my place gone. >> glaciers are disappearing and arctic ice melt is producing rising sea levels and rewriting global weather patterns. all have come since 2014. and the rising temperatures ha...

Climate change is also altering the weather patterns immediately in north america and other parts of europe and asia. heat waves being an example. heavy rainstorms, storm surges with hurricanes. these are the types of events, and fires, i cant emphasize fires n s enough in light of th recent events in california. these are being made more severe. these are rather independent of the arctic but theyre tied together through the same phenomena, which is were putting a lot of carbon dioxide in the at...

Arctic ice has melted, the scientists say, and all of the heat coming from the arctic is impacting normal weather patterns, which will likely cause more deadly storms. this marks the second trump administration study in just a few weeks, warning about dire climate change consequences. remember, president trump said he didnt believe the first one. right now leaders from around the world are in poland at a u.n. summit, trying to find solutions to the crisis with the u.s. delegation literally being...

Quote, the human fingerprint is more evident today. tell us why. >> well, part of this has to do with the ongoing warming that the planett is experiencing. even in the seven years in which this report, im linking climate to weather patterns and extreme events. in that seven years, we have seen the global temperature rise about a quarter degree celsius. sounds like a small number, but it has a huge effect on not just extreme weather but the way those weather patterns are impacting society. >> und...

Wrong. all of them. >> the reality is people are seeing the impact already. its not a problem we havent seen. if you talk to people in the ever glades, in california, in parts of the middle east where famine is rising because of the heat, these are real issues that are happening now. this report -- >> we have had famines before, heat waves. >> arent there -- >> you go back and look at weather history. we have had fluctuations in weather patterns forever. the idea that the california wild fires a...

That can be from any kind of elimination of regulation, improving the growth rate. look what donald trump has done in the last year to improve growth in this country. hes blown away any impact of climate change over the next 100 years -- >> there is a reason that 97% of scientists feel this is a huge emerging problem. not emerging, its been a long problem. you talk to people -- >> all the predictions have been wrong. all of them. >> the reality is people are seeing the impact already. its not a ...

Others. the death of planets that irene looks like you get the same kind of windy weather we have on earth one viewer bismark the tumor had a question about. where does wind come from. the. wind is moving air and theres usually a lot of it over the sea what makes it blow is that the air over the land heats up faster than the air over the water. the warm air rises while the cool air over the sea flows in to fill the space the air pushed out over the water cools down and sinks and its this circula...