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First and second centuries. now syria says it faces the same fate as other cities have were destroyed earlier this year. lets check in with the weather right now. theres some changing in the weather patterns and one of those changes were looking at the return of the dreaded el nino, which essentially brings back a lot of drought to many parts of the world. >> to australia, in fact. it could lead to more brush fires and lead to an increase or decrease in monsoonal rains over southeast asia, but t...

Million people under age of 60 lost their lives considered because of the air quality across the region. look at why this happens. terrain. exacerbates the issue. you have the tallest walls in world. banking up pollutants come into place. banked up against it there, traps it. we have stagnant weather patterns in place, the fog forms, a lot of fuel being burned in the winter months for heating purposes. they burn foliage, wood. looks look this. portions of india, guys, air quality is bad, akin to...

State. california has maybe 10% of the snow of normal. so youd have to have a lot of storms to make up for that. its going to take time. theyre thinking this may be a long-term change in the climate or at least in weather patterns thats going to deprive california of some of the rain it got in the past. >> so the sense that the changes governor brown is calling for, do people think theyre going to work? >> i think theyll work to some extent and maybe people will respond in the short term. but in...

Jamie: i love space and i love weather. nasa released this incredible footage showing weather patterns. scientists pointing out you can almost see a bands of rain moving across the equator. the video shows every snowstorm rainstorm and hurricanes between august 4-14 of last year. meteorologists hope patterns like this will help them predict future natural disasters. bill: she was there to pay a bill but she made a memory for a lifetime. >> 7:30 in the morning. amber wilkins is pregnant. she feel...

Atacama desert. this is the driest place on the earth, periods of four years without a drop of rain, bone dry if you ask me, average rainfall is about 15 millimeters which is about half an inch per year. the weather patterns have been different for this part of the world creating significant resi area having to bucket oud muddy water from their homes and also having being forced to traverse across flooded roadways. so were talking not only space, were also talking about weather here on earth. so...

And lightning. >> the weather patterns were seeing here the cumulus clouds the cold temperatures the wind speeds at these altitudes, it is typical for this time of year in indonesia, right, were in monsoon season so this is not unusual. >> yes, this is not unusual. >> experts say an experienced pilot would be familiar with those patterns and there is no way he would purposely fly into the thunderstorm. >> yes, there was bad weather ahead. but there was nothing there that said you know you cant g...

Transiting that area right now. in a way theyre going through a crime scene at 10 20 miles an hour. im wondering what they see. we need more debris from the surface. im sort of amazed that we havent heard more about debris fields at this point. >> well supposedly its monsoon season. of course, most of us in the united states dont experience that. what would that be like for those searching in the water? >> im sure its horrible. they should see something. i would think that they would see -- ther...

This is on the equator. its got extreme weather conditions at various times. and the pilots that fly these routes tell me theyre used to it. youve been there, ive been there, you see them weaving through way through some of those storms. what we dont know is what was going on inside this particular storm that may have made it more violent and more virulent than when they went through it. >> it is possible for, you know aircraft management to almost be too used to these kind of violent storms? in...

Has it to do with drift. >> all these factors are important. they have weather patterns thats moving in and i want seems every hour theres a change there. it was better earlier and now bad weather again. they really -- they are not telling us the whole story and they have found some debris or something that they want to follow or trace. keeping in mind that every hour that ticks away if there was impact there are currents. there is wind. there are factors that are going to push this area or this...

The flying hours of the pilots of this flight. the captain had 20,000 flying hours, about 7,000 on the airbus. the co-pilot had something like 2,100 or so. when you hear those numbers what does that tell you, in terms of experience when dealing with the kind of weather conditions were told were happening at the time this flight lost contact with air traffic control. >> well the captain was obviously very experienced. i suspect hes probably seen a lot of these sorts of things before if hes operat...