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>> reporter: the video is dramatic. passengers bloodied, bruised, some with broken bones. thrown around the aeroflot boeing 777 from moscow to bangok. just look at the mess left behind. 25 hospitalized, four children, including a baby. several passengers undergoing surgeries. the plane slammed midair by something called clear air turbulence. this happens when there's a disturbance between two jet streams and the plane flies in between them. passengers on this flight saying they were hurled onto the ceiling. the pilots unable to give any warning. many were out of their seats when the turbulence...

Heat. as we head into the months of june to august, you can see how kind of the roles reverse across understand anesthesia. we start to see wet and cool conditions overspread that condition typically with el nina. even the amount of rainfall and hurricanes impacted with la nina seasons. that's something to consider here for our friends in north america. jet streams in the el nino system shift southward and that increases the understand sheer that rips apart hurricanes. but when we see a la nina system develop, that jet stream moves north and we start to see an increase in atlantic hurricanes d...

Levels. multiple waves of arctic air, 25 to 30 degrees below average. a major football game taking place across that area. the seahawks, the vikings. game time around 1:00 p.m. 15 or so to 22 below zero. in five to ten minutes, frostbite begins to set in. five minutes of windchills at 50 below zero for frostbite to set in. pattern going to persist for a couple of days. hard to believe, it's counterintuitive when you think about extreme cold or climate change and global warming. there's studies done that the melting of of the ice caps displaces the jet streams. the cold air drops south. certain...

Dump record amounts of rain. emergencies declared in south carolina, virginia and new jersey. chad meyers with more on this extreme weather. >> this is turning into a rain event. and i know we talk about this in the winter times. sometimes we call it pineapple express where a jet streams comes from hawaii into the california and it rains for days. we'll call this the coconut or the conch shell express. because this comes from the bahamas where we now have all of that moist chaur this is still the category 4 hurricane. raining from new york into the carolinas now. it continues. this is the futu...

Decade. two incidents occurred at or above 30,000 feet. it is not necessarily at takeoff or landing. what make turbulence so dangerous it typically can not be seen even by radar. can happen when the skies are blue, jet streams, mountains or thunderstorms or warm front. earlier this week as you said, jenna,, turbulence injured five on a flight from denver to billings. most injuries were minor. recently a flight attendant was securing galley and lifted in the air and body slammed on her back. hospitalized for a week. most of us can avoid it to wear the seatbelt even when the light is off. jenna:...