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You're already getting your conference and you're having protests. meanwhile, what about the predictions from years ago about what will happen if we don't act quickly. maybe flood new york. of course, boulders are going to rise and start slapping us in the head being catapulted and swirling around in thunderstorms >> you're liking at an island. they've had two giant boulders there for many, many centuries. james hanson who is a climatologist along with a geologist from the university of north carolina visited the island and they have theories -- it's near the bahama chain. they get a reason wh...

What do you make of this rain? >> we need it but i wish it would come more evenly spread out instead of all in one night. we just have to roll with the punches. it will be fine. >> well, this single storm won't get us out of the drought, carol, but it's going to help. experts tell us we have to have about five of these major superstorms before we eradicate the drought here in california. the bottom line, it's southern california's problem to deal with. it's moving there very quick ly that area is expected to get a lot of rain throughout the day. carol? >> dan simon reporting live from san fran...

Power from california to the canadian border. but this is certainly a storm that lived up to its hype. you had a lot of trees that fell down. you had parking lots that looked like lakes. things of that nature. roof collapses. but chris, one of the questions that we've been get something lou is this going to impact the california drought. well, this is certainly a step in the right direction. if you talk to experts. if there's one thing they agree on, you'd have to have several more of these kinds of superstorms before you begin to eradicate the drought. certainly not the way you want to do it....

This will make the difficult decisions of getting in and out of some of these very hard-hit areas and very rough airports even more difficult as we speak with these low clouds and rain showers. >> chad, whenever we have a storm like this, whether it strikes in asia or even hurricane sandy in the u.s., people ask the question did climate change play a part. i know it's difficult to make connections like that but we pulled up the commentary end of last year from the chief philippines negotiator at the climate talks that gave a tearful appeal for progress, saying his country was right in the cros...

Worldwide. >> blackouts could last for a month or a year. it could blow out all power "transformers" all at once. gregg: people couldn't survive. >> that is why the damage numbers are so high. not just that you lose power. imagine a blackout lasts past point hospital generators are kicking in. all of your financial trading markets. that is why there is active effort to do much better space forecasting, if you can predict these things, understand why the sun is flipping -- gregg: we're not expecting super storms anytime soon? >> statistically, probably not. we don't really know how to predict t...