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Changes, the upper atmosphere changes all around the globe. it's almost like ringing a bell and the effect of ringing that bell changes in global energy are a shift in wind patterns, it moves the jet stream all over the globe. it turns places like indonesia and australia that normally get a lot of rain into areas that can have really severe droughts leading to crop failures, forest fires. it's associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. it's a global phenomenon. >> okay. so how -- what role does this flooding play in how we calculate whether...

Open. houston is back open for business. school will be in session again tomorrow. and houston maybe can get back to normal tomorrow. back to you, chris. >> all right, nbc news reporter charles hadlock, appreciate it. thank you. joining us to talk about if the severe weather in texas is indicator of el nino, its return, radley horton, scientist at columbia university earth institute. so, i saw this news then i saw a bunch of people saying this is another indicator we may be in store for an el nino this year. i had seen people writing about a month or two ago saying we're getting some indicatio...

It's almost like ringing a bell and the effect of ringing that bell changes in global energy are a shift in wind patterns it moves the jet stream all over the globe. it turns places like indonesia and australia that normally get a lot of rain into areas that can have really severe droughts leading to crop failures, forest fires. it's associated with droughts in india, droughts in northeast brazil. heavy rain in some other areas. it's a global phenomenon. >> okay. so how -- what role does this flooding play in how we calculate whether we are getting an el nino? >> so i don't think we can link t...

Climate related crop failures in the middle east may have something to do with the arrest that started several years ago many we're seeing it manifest itself now. >> there was an historic drought in syria, right before the uprising, a lot of discontent. there's a plausible connection to him failing to deal with the effect the drought was having on farmers in syria. >> you would say the same thing for parts of sub saharan africa as well. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the man deemed obama's secret weapon, what his detractors don't get about the iran nuke de...

Climate related crop failures in the middle east may have something to do with the arrest that started several years ago many we're seeing it manifest itself now. >> there was an historic drought in syria, right before the uprising a lot of discontent. there's a plausible connection to him failing to deal with the effect the drought was having on farmers in syria. >> you would say the same thing for parts of sub saharan africa as well. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead, the man deemed obama's secret weapon what his detractors don't get about the iran nuke deal...