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York from flooding after major storms . Hari sreenivasan examines that as part of our coping with Climate Change series. As people continue to clean up from Hurricane Sandy, we look at what it could take to keep this damage from happening again. Brown ray suarez updates the Health Care Reform law, as the Obama Administration issues new rules governing what insurers must cover. Woodruff and we close under the bright lights of High School Football, where a trailblazing coach puts her players studies ahead of practice. You wont be playing football. We like to think we have a lot of life to live s...

Ourselves from the consequences of global warning. If youre not convincedif youre not convinced, you will be, i hope, after watching this show. My first guest is scholar Richard Muller. He joins us to tell us once and for all what exactly made him change his mind. And then Bill Mckibben. The day after the election bill hit the road with the dodo the math tour. And finally filmmaker ken burns hes back on the show with his perspective on that other manmade disaster, the 1930s dust bowl. But first up Richard Muller joined by his daughter elizabeth. Together they founded best, the berkeley earth s...

Pam the state still fighting to fill its reservoirs. Find out how much rain we will need to deep six the drought. Pam now at eight pam the first of two winter storm systems on the way. Hitting our drought stricken state with some much needed rain. We have Live Team Coverage tonight. Pam first im in the Weather Center with our chief meteorologist jacqueline bennett. Pam jacqueline. When can we expect the rain. And how Jacqueline Leiter lanes steady into the afternoon picking up with intestacy to see the yellow here moving towards ocean beach and San Francisco including along the san mateo coast...

This afternoon we are watching the thunderstorms. Were trying to figure out how much rain will fall and whether or not it will have an affect on our drought. This is a graphic by his noaa and the Climate Central which shows how much rain is needed in order to end the drought in california. Along the north coast at 10 to 15 in. Of rain would need to fall in order to in the drought. In the central part of the state, 15 to 20 in. Of moisture is needed. The southern portion of the state would need only 5 to 10 in. Of rain. Along the coastline, between the San Francisco bay and the mexican border, ...

The causes of ocean, this causes ocean waters to expand and in addition, mountain glaciers are rapidly retreating which adds water to the oceans. The Sleeping Giant however in the Sea Level Rise occasion has been ice in the main major ice sheets of greenland and ant antarctica. Both ice she is are losing mass. How quickly they melt over the coming decades will determine whether we have an additional one foot of Sea Level Rise or up to four feet and perhaps even more. Another major change in our climate brought by about humaninduced warm something the increase in heavy downpours. This is clearl...