new york. >> people were stranded on the highways, the interstate. >> nick louis, a professor of science at williams smith colleges in geneva, new york. >> i tell my students to imagine a bald top of the mountain. just a little push and that ball goes all the way the mountain. just a little push rices vigorously in the atmosphere and produces intense snow. >> it feels like weather is becoming extreme. >> a lot of research has shown that, as it will become the norm. >> does science suggest this is going to happen more and more. >> i think that's the reasonable inference from what we're seeing. >> when is extreme weather like buffalo's due to climate change, and when is it just plain wild weather. there is a new field called attribution science that tries to assess whether climate change played a role in these extreme weather events. take the extreme heat that caused wildfires in 2013. was it climate change? according to research published in the bulletin of the meteorological society, probably yes. and what about the winter of 2014, climate change or just wild weather? a study out of oxford university said that that event was probably climate chang

>> geneva new york. >> sow -- so you've been having a rough winter. we're ready for a warm-up. for the first time we're not talking act snow in the forecast. we're talking about rain instead. we have it down through texas, heavy in spots like houston. to monday it starts to spread to the east. we are looking far wet day down through the gulf coast states. we could see an inch or two of rain and that on top of just the cold air we've seen lately. a little bit of a shock to the system with houston picking up about 3 inches of rain. but it's a good shock considering we're not >>> good saturday morning meteorologist michelle grossman. finally a quiet weekend. lots sunshine this weekend. temperatures cold today but milder on sunday. today expect a mix yur of sun and clouds. cold with temperatures topping out around 38 degrees. 50 is normal for this time of year. closer to that 50 degree mark on sunned with mostly sunny skies, 46 degrees. more sunshine on monday, 47. 49 with rain showers on tuesday and then into the 50s on wednesday. have a great day. >>> we've got the other half of

>> geneva new york. >> sow -- so you've been having a rough winter. we're ready for a warm-up. first time we're not talking act snow in the forecast. we're talking about rain instead. we have it down through texas, heavy in spots like houston. to monday it starts to spread to the east. we are looking far wet day down through the gulf coast states. we could see an inch or two of rain and that on top of just the cold air we've seen lately. a little bit of a shock to the system with houston picking up about 3 inches of rain. but it's a good shock consider >>> good saturday morning to you. i'm meteorologist anthony slaughter. still dark and early but chilly out there. temperatures in the 40s for the most part. you'll need a light jacket right now. later on even by lunchtime, temperatures are going to be in the 70s. by this afternoon mid to upper 70s. a few of us topping out close to 80 near the tri-valley and north bay. 72 in san francisco. the peninsula and south bay warm mid-60s expected there. if you're hitting the beach today, 75 degrees in santa cruz. do enjoy that. >>> we've

new zealand 3 and fran for the record geneva corp. haeg filed the first 10 i was surprised with the benchmarking of new york that san francisco was 27. >> number 6 commissioner richards. >> couple of things the first one is in this week's chronicle an article on the airbnb people were blaming the process i guess my comment if there are 8 thousand rentals and 7 homicide calls not that many people called to say there's something wrong with the process i think we need 0 have more calls and if there's a process issue we'll fourth but 10 are percent of the people have listing not good enough for me that's my comment on that i move to see how this shapes i in the future a couple of things not a day goes by i pick up a paper about affordable housing and we should put a moratorium on the mission i sit here i can we've talked about did mayor's office of housing work streams when is that going come before us and the emergencies dial we've been hearing about it anyone knows when that is going to come before us. >> okay. you thank you. >> commissioners, if there's nothing further we'll move that on 0 department matter item 7 directors announceme

a year after i saw the coptic codex in geneva, the egyptian owner took it to new york city and triedll it there without any success. >> the owner then departed to the codex in a bank vault. it stays there for nearly two decades until another buyer finally persuades him to sell. >> here i am, opening again that safe. all the pages were glued together. and fragments of the pages were floating around. >> still uncertain what the manuscript is, chacos takes it to yale. >> i say, do you know what you have here? this is something that's only been hinted at in antiquitantiqr the first time ever we're laying eyes on the actual gospel of judas. >> but there's bad news. restoration will cost a fortune. chacos needs someone with very wealthy contacts. enter manuscript dealer bruce ferrini. >> i was told that bruce ferrini was a very reputable manuscript dealer. and that he had bill gates as a client. that sounded good. >> seeing the chance to make a quick profit, ferrini decides to i boo the manuscript himself and sell it on. >> ferrini writes two checks totalling $200 million for the gospel of

new york where he'll be presiding over the u.n. security council. and the word is when we leaves new york he'll be flying here to geneva, so that suggests we're gettingy close to the end, but that's when the hardest decisions need to be made. >> all right. thanks so much james bayes. >>> chile deals with two natural disasters, flash floods and fires on opposite side of the country. >>> and the sri lanka president tries to renegotiate deals with china, and in sport the final lineup for the cricket world cup is confirmed. details still ahead with robin. ♪ >>> it's now thought the germanwings plane was deliberately steered into the mountainside. a french prosecutor who listened to the voice recordings says the plane's co-pilot crashed the plane on purpose after locking the captain out of the cockpit. he is a german citizen with no known links to terrorism. the sharp news comes as relatives of those on board traveled to the scene of the crash. charlie angelo reports. >> reporter: as search teams prepare for another day of combing the vast crash site analysis of the black box has already started to reveal the plane's final moments. listening to voice reco

new york times" or something? >> iran's leaders needed to hear the message loud and clear. i can tell you they are not hearing that message from geneva. in fact if you look at the response of the iranian foreign minister it underscores the need for the letter in the first place. because he made it clear that he does not understand our constitutional system. he thinks inter national law can override our constitution. >> senator, are you planning to contact any other of our adversaries around the country for example, do you plan to check with the north koreans to make sure that they know that any deal has to be approved by the congress? >> bob right now i and most every other senator wants to stop iran. it's important that we communicated with message straight to iran because they're not hearing from geneva this is not parliamentary democracy. they have been killing americans, hundreds of americans for 35 years in iraq and lebanon and saudi arabia. they killed jews around the world. >> schieffer: how does it make america stronger to tell them that any agreement they make with this administration may not be worth the paper it's written

in geneva, and the only group that had no group to caucus with the new york in the general assembly committee this, and we did. in january 2014 after a sustained full-court diplomatic press, we helped secure for is a permanent membership in what's called the western european and others group, the group that we belong to, and in february 2014 we secured israel's never shut in the like-minded human rights caucus in which it had long been excluded in your. now, no one will have to fight those battles again. [applause] unfortunately there are so many more so many more battles to confronting anti-israel bias is part of a long bipartisan american tradition at the u.n. but it is part of the legacy of every single u.s. ambassador to the united nations who has come before me from my predecessor ambassador reiss, who thought highly for is to equal treatment and open place the toughest most lateral sanction regime against iran, from moynihan to kirkpatrick, albright to holbrooke. why does the u.s. put so much into this effort? i would world expedition that president johnson gave shortly after the six da

member states that was excluded from a regional body in geneva and the only group that has no group to caucus with in new york and the general assembly committee that addresses human rights. i was determined to change this and we did. in january 2014 after he sustained full court democratic -- diplomatic press israel got membership in the western european and others group and of february 2 any 14, we secured israel membership in a like-minded caucus which has long been excluded in new york. now, no one will have to fight those battles again. 2[applause] unfortunately, there are so many more battles. confronting anti-israel bias is part of a long bipartisan american tradition at the u.n.. it is part of the legacy of every single u.s. fastener to the united nations. for my predecessor rise who fought in and put in the toughest regime against iran, from one hand to hatchet, from albright to holbrook. why does the u.s. put so much into this effort. i would borrow the exclamation that president johnson gave after the six day war when the soviet premier asked him why the united states was supporting israel, a natio

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