one place where it's happening is antarctica. the ice shelf is melting. science and technology correspondent jacob ward is delling us why it's a concern. >> western antarctica is facing dwindling ice shelf. the speed is shown by colour red trains fast blue slowly green the slowest. it's not just the glaciers melting, and the places where they flow into the sea. they form ice solves floating extensions of the ice that hold back the glaciers. scientists determine that the ice shells have been melting 70% faster in the last decade than before. in the places denoted in red, the speed into the ocean is increasing every year. scientists say the smith glacier, one of the smallest is changing fastest, and it's a good way of understanding why the scientists are worried. not only is it melting, the bounding loin the place where they rock well beneath the water is melting away and moving inland. here is what the bounding line looks like in 1996. check out what it looked like in 2011, five years later. it mooed 35km or 21 miles inland. this is the source of greater a

we were talking about the -- obviously we have this issue with antarctica.telling us that the temperature on the same day in san francisco was a degree cooler than it was actually in antarctica. have we got him back now? >> and glaciers have been melting there, as well. >> okay. >> thank you. >> so there we are. >> okay. >> amazon's new gadget lets you order your favorite products with just one push of a button. >> it's called amazon dash and many wonder if this is the future of online shopping. here's our jake tapper with more. >> beautiful. >> reporter: too early for an elf clip? nah. because christmas has come early for amazon customers. now that the company has introduced some shiny new buttons. it's called amazon dash. >> a simple way to reorder the things you always run low on. >> reporter: it's a button you can sting anywhere in your house for a convenience push of product purchases. it's just the latest way the company is learning your habits and honing its selling power. >> with prime shipping, you'll get new products delivered to your door. >> repo

say more than 5,000 people died in saturday's quake, it registered on monitors as far as way as antarctica. dozens have been arrested for looting ruined homes. >> on the mt. everest side climbers on the nepal side of the mountain are now safe. 18 people including 4 americans, died in the avalanche, which destroyed the everest base camp. 21-year-old spencer dickinson was on the mountain. his family hadn't heard from him. he got in touch with his father. who called everyone else. [ sobbing ] >> that is a great scene. some relief there. tears of relief in california. the climbing season on mount f rest has been declared over. >>> well saudi arabia says it foiled an attack on the u.s. embassy there. nearly 100 people with ties to isis were arrested. they planned a series of attacks. on the embassy and residential compounds where foreigners live. >>> also in the middle east growing tensions between the u.s. and iran. the pentagon has sent a destroyer and a plane to the strait of hormuz. after the iranian military tried to intercept a ship. no u.s. citizens are believed to be aboard the ship. >>

then you find yourself in antarctica looking for investors further out on the fringe.t gets harder and harder. basically, if you are a high burn company and you can't raise a round of financing, you literally go bankrupt. or you have to do a down round, which could be very damaging to a company's internal moral. emily: why stop short of using the word bubble? mark: we don't think it is a bubble. first of all, every bubble in human history that has been called a bubble by historians always had widespread participation. you always had a frenzy. you had the shoeshine boys or the taxi drivers hyper enthusiastic about putting every spare penny in the stocks. there is none of that today. valuations are running hot. but i do not think there is some mass mispricing here. i think it has more to do with cash burn. how much money you are raising and spending. emily: how does this play out in your portfolio? obviously, you have companies you think are the exception. you are an investor in airbnb, which has a $10 billion valuation. pinterest, a $5 billion valuation. how are you bal

he loved -- we went to antarctica together, trekked in patagonia and those are the kinds of places that inspired him. >> reporter: google executive dan fredinburg there to build a virtual tour to help the world see this great mountain. and from new jersey, base camp doctor marisa eve girawong. so many come here to marvel at and to conquer the world's highest mountain. tragically for so many, it has conquered them. hamish macdonald, abc news, london. >> and in the midst of tragedy, we are hearing some amazing stories of survival. chicago mother loretta land says her 52-year-old son andy was climbing mt. he ever rest was climbing when the quake and avalanche struck. she's relieved but still worried about how they'll get down from where they're currently stranded. >> my concern is getting down the avalanches and the rock slides. and they have indicated several times that the structure of the mountain has changed. >> andy land is a hospice nurse in wisconsin and spent months training for the climb. everyone in his climbing group was spared but some in the group just ahead of them were kille

he loved -- we went to antarctica together. we've trekked in patagonia and those are the kinds of places that inspired him. >> tom taplin was 61 years old and had been running his own film company since 1981. >> and stay with abc news for the latest on the earthquake in nepal. live team coverage is coming up on "good morning america." >>> and here at home mother nature unleashing her fury in the form of severe weather across much of texas and the south. >> that's right. there are reports of several tornadoes touching down overnight in the dallas/ft. worth area. >> this was caught on video by storm chasers. elsewhere, other areas got large hail some of it the size of baseballs driven by damaging winds and flash floods. >> the latest weather radar imagery is putting the storms into stark perspective and at that storm moves along the gulf coast from houston to mobile alabama. >> the bulk of that system is stretching across 750 miles from southwestern texas into central arkansas. >> russian hackers may have penetrated deeper into p

say more than 5,000 people died in saturday's quake, which registered on monitors as far away as antarctica. estimates are that the number of dead could actually double. dozens of people in the devastated capital of kathmandu have been arrested for looting ruined homes. >> on the mt. everest side, climbers on the nepal side of the mountain when a deadly avalanche struck are now safe. 18 people, including 4 americans, died in the avalanche, which destroyed the everest base camp. 21-year-old spencer dickinson was on the mountain. his family in california hadn't heard from him since the avalanche. then he got in touch with his father, who called everybody else. >> i just heard from spencer. he just called me. [ sobbing ] >> that is a great scene. some relief there. tears of relief in california. the current climbing season on mt. everest has been declared over. >>> well, saudi arabia says it foiled an attack on the u.s. embassy there. government officials say nearly 100 people with ties to isis were arrested. they say the islamic fighters planned a series of attacks on the embassy and resident

we went to antarctica together. we trekked in patagonia. and those are the kinds of places that inspired him. >> reporter: and dr. marisa eve girawong. this evert base camp was demolished by the avalanche. teams of climbers and guides marooned on the slopes. >> we have to get down. >> reporter: relief supplies are now pouring into devastated nepal and the race is on to keep the death toll at more than 2400 from soaring higher. the capital of kathmandu is a waistland of death and destruction. time is the enemy as rescuers dig for survivors in the rubble. they snatched this man from a collapsed building and found this young girl still alive. this woman was in a shop when the quake struck. >> the building on top of it completely collapsed. if we hadn't moved ickly, we would probably also be in the pile of rubble. >> reporter: hospitals are swarmed. there were major aftershocks on sunday. >> as you can see, everyone's running through the streets. >> reporter: authorities warn the worst damage and higher casualties could can be near the quake's

ok, number two, in antarctica, source of a red river known as blood falls -- tom: this is not the walle of thrones?" brendan: this is not. this is iron oxide leaching through a salt river, if i understand correctly running through the glaciers in antarctica. there's also some sort of bacteria in there. tom: yeah, my puny brain would get me there. brendan: it was attached to a helicopter which is totally awesome flowing over the antarctic. all right, here's the number one photo. on the left is tom keene in london. a police officer poses with royal baby fanatics outside st. mary's hospital. duchess kate middleton now several days past her due date with whom, tom keene? tom: william. is that a quiz? brendan: today marks a couple of anniversaries. they're expecting their second. i might add, by my fourth wedding anniversary, i had three. they are amateurs. tom: there they are. this is exciting. do we know if it's a boy or girl? brendan: no, but you can get odds on how much the child is going weigh. most likely, eight to nine, i think. tom: and this is like any moment? brendan: i mean, don'

1996 he spent six weeks collecting meteorize with national science foundation sponsored team in antarctica. he gave an excellent talk about this. in 2000 he was honored by the international astronomical union for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of as city erode 4597 con con con -- console manow. he is the author of 200 scientific papers, including "would you baptize an extra at -- extra terese central. --" extra terese central. up here we're selling copies of the book in our store. they will be available after brother guy's presentation as well and brother guy will be signing copies of the book at the main entrance afterwards. so last week brother guy was awarded the 2014 carl saggan medal in tucson for his decades long record of communicating plan tear science to the public while maintaining an active science career. his unique position within our profession as a credible spokesperson for scientific honesty within the context of religious belief and for being a rational spokesperson who can convey exceptionally well how religion and science can c

show you what's happened in antarctica in recent days. potential record hottest temperature ever observed on the continent. a 63.5% fahrenheit or 17.5 celsius, more than double what is considered normal for this time of year. in fact, on the 24th of march when the temperature occurred, rosemary and errol, it was 62 fahrenheit in san francisco. it was warmer in the antarctic peninsula than in san francisco. that happened for two consecutive days in late march. stark stuff there. >> stunning. those fluctuations are all part of climate change over a long time. places gets warmer, more dry in california. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> thanks a lot. >>> we're going to take a short break. we want to let you know we are continuing to cover this breaking news out of kenya where garissa university college has been stormed by gunmen, we understand perhaps six to ten gunmen holed up there on the campus. police and military are on the scene trying to contain this situation. about seven casualties at this point. we don't know how serious that is at

subject you can imagine-- building your own nuclear reactor; stopping cyber-bullies; exploring antarctica. but what sets ted talks apart is that the big ideas are wrapped up in personal stories, and they're mostly from people you have never heard of before. and it is those stories that have captured the imaginations of tens of millions of viewers around the world. giving a ted talk can be life- changing, even if some speakers don't always realize what they're getting into. >> bryan stevenson: i'd never heard of ted and i didn't know what a ted talk was. >> rose: but bryan stevenson was exactly the sort of person the people at ted wanted. he was an attorney who'd spent years trying to reform the criminal justice system. they thought he'd have a lot to say. he said yes, then he remembered a serious conflict on his calendar. >> stevenson: it was scheduled two weeks before i had an argument at the u.s. supreme court. and i told one of my young staffers somebody named ted wanted me to come and do a ted talk and i told them no. and my staffer went crazy, said, "what are you talking about? you h

he spent six weeks collecting meteorites with the national science foundation sponsored team in antarcticaseveral years ago he gave an excellent talk about this here at the adler by the way. in 2000 he was honored by the international astronomical union for his contributions to the study of meteorites and asteroids with the naming of asteroids 4597. he is the author of more than 200 scientific papers as well as a number of books including the one you'll hear about tonight which he baptized and -- "would you baptize an extraterrestrial?" and other questions from the astronomers in-box at the vatican observatory. co-authored with father paul bullard traded and we are selling copies of the book in our story. they will be available after rather guy's presentation and rather guy will be signing copies of the book at the main and entrance. last week he was awarded the 2014 carl sagan medal at the division for planetary sciences in tucson for his decades long record of communicating planetary science to the public while maintaining an active science career. his unique position within our professi

been the bedrock of culture in asia, africa, europe, north america, south america australia and antarctica. admittedly, there've been periods in history where homosexuality has flourished including the biblical cities of and gomorrah imaging reason during the roman empire. none of these civilizations survived. only in the last few years as what has been called gay marriage and given equal status with biblical male-female unions. in fact, today only 18 countries in the world recognize the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. america appears to be on the verge now a dean number nineteen. god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represent the very foundation of human social order. every enough value since i'm not a period in the two shins, governments, prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on stability. when it is weakened or undermined, the entire superset or can begin to wobble and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the american people didn't demand

like travis mchenry ak his royal highness the grand duke of west antarctica.es over the republic of malo style. molossia >> grant lodes: founded in 1977 at existed mainly in his bedroom until he bought an acre of land in northern nevada building of bill road and private phone company. in albuquerque his majesty the grand duke jacobs felt is in charge of ross bros libya there are five sentences they claim to have a voluntary military soldiers armed with cardboard copies of ak-47s that rubber tire rubber bands. there are many other one from sweden organizers the meant most so-called countries consists of only their leader. >> catherine heenan: sports system highlights of sports is coming up next. >> gary radnich: >> reporter: 21 year-old jordan's state is still in the show at the masters. the big crowds rushing in for today's second round up no running allowed. spays started eight under he drains the birdie putt 10 under. 17th hole tiger woods 3 under par for tiger these two under par overall. three under par for the day were mcelroy the for the favored for toda

the deniers usually also leave out the melting of the great ice sheets of antarctica. remember sea ice floats on the sea and its melting doesn't much raise the sea level. ice sheets rest on land and their melting adds to the seas. scientists now warn that the melting of some of these massive antarctic ice sheets may have -- quote -- "passed the point of no return." mr. president, rhode island has already experienced nearly 10 inches of sea level rise. the implications of antarctic ice sheet melting are measured in feet, not inches. many thought the alaska purchase was a mistake. some called it seward's folly. but secretary seward had vision when he secured alaska for the united states, and now it is a treasured part of this great nation. we in congress and the senate should try to see through the haze of polluter influence and muster some vision ourselves on what scientists and world leaders alike call the greatest challenge of our time. the u.s. should be leading not stalled by special interest politics. secretary kerry knows we should lead. he's made fighting carbon

saturday's quake so powerful it was detected by monitors as far as away as antarctica and argentina.apparently foiled plot to attack the u.s. embassy in saudi arabia. government officials say they arrested nearly 100 people with ties to isis. the fighters planned a series of attacks on the embassy. the state department has not provide any details about the plot or the arrests. >> supreme court decision is expected in late june on the question of guy marriage after a day of arguments, the justices left both sides of the issue with something to worry about. here now jonathan carl. >> reporter: >> you're not going to be judged by the constitution. >> you're not going to hell. >> outside the supreme court, a ca ca phone nil of voices while the justices debate whether to make marriage equality the law of the land. at stake, two big questions. do same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry and if not must states that ban gay marriage have to recognize same-sex marriage licenses from other states? the chief justice framed this way. >> if sue loves joe and tom loves joe, sue can ma

. >> would you rather be naked in antarctica or wearing a snow suit in the desert?uld you rather go forward or backward in time? i guess backward so i would get to have more life. >> what answer is that? >> but then you would lose -- you'd lose veil? >> i would not. i would get to start over and re-live it. >> if you're going back. >> we're out of time. >> i'd go back and i'd restart. >> go forward in time and get the next apple product that's in front of everybody else. >> last one. would you rather eat wrangler's food or eat wrangler's crate? i'd go with the food. that's what's trending today. >> kind of deep, too. >>> meantime, we have talked a lot this week, have some really remarkable stories about the transgender movement. tonight bruce jenner is expected to join this conversation in a highly publicized interview. nbc's kate snow is here with a look at how people are already responding. kate, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. in a broadcast interview to air tonight, bruce jen ner will speak out on what he's calling his personal journey. it's the

. >> would you rather be in antarctica or wear a snow suit in the desert? >> that's a good one. >> i guess backwards so i get to have more life. >> selfish. what an answer is that? >> i'm saying then i -- >> but then you'd lose vale. >> no. i'd get to relive it. >> we're out of time ladies and gentlemen. >> you go forward in time get the next apple product in front of everybody else. >> last one. would you rather eat wrangler's food or sleep in wrangler's crate? as a guy who spends time in the dog house already, probably go with his food. that's "what's trending" today. >>> meantime we have talked a lot this week had some really remarkable stories about the transgender movement. tonight bruce jenner is expected to join this conversation in a i highly publicized interview. kate snow is here again with a look at how people are already responding. >> reporter: good morning. in a broadcast interview to air tonight, bruce jenner will speak out on what he's calling his personal journey. it's the latest step on a path that has seen him go from olympic athlete to r

in case you are just back from a antarctica, or missed this morning's washington post or missed the storyrom bloomberg, i will recap it for you. the irs budget for fiscal year 2015, 10 $.9 billion, less than $1.2 billion it was five years ago. the irs is at its lowest level of funding since 2008. if you adjust for inflation, our budget is comparable to where we were in 1998. while our budget has been shrinking, the taxpayer base has grown by millions. we've also taken on many new responsibilities, such as implementation of the foreign account tax compliance act and the tax related provisions of the affordable care act. since 75% of the budget is more or less personal, the agency has been absorbing the budget reductions mainly by shrinking the workforce. as a result, we entered fiscal 2014 with more than 13,000 fewer permanent full-time employees compared to 2010. we expect to lose another 3000 more or less, through attrition by the end of this year. you might think that shrinking and agency will force it to do more with less. that may have been true for us in the early going. we have hear

the bedrock of culture in asia africa, europe, north america, south america, australia, and even antarctica. admittedly there have been periods in history where homosexuality has flourished including the biblical cities of sod dom and go morrah in ancients greece and during the roman empire. none offers these civilizations survived. only in the last few years has what has been called gay marriage been given equal status with biblical male-female unions. in fact to date only 18 countries in the world recognize the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. america appears to be on the verge now of being the number 19. god help us if we throw the divine plan for humankind on the ash heap of history. to put it succinctly, the institution of marriage represents the very foundation of human social order. everything of value sits on that base. institutions governments prosperity, religious liberty and the welfare of children all depend on its stability. when it is weakened they're undermined. the entire superstructure can begin to wobble. and that is exactly what has happened during the last 45 years. the

but in case you're just back from a few months in antarctica or missed this morning's "washington post" or the release this afternoon of the story from bloomberg, i'll recap it for you. the irs budget level as ted noted for fiscal year 2015 of $10.9 billion is $1.2 billion less than it was five years ago. the irs is now at its lowest level of funding since 2008. if you adjust for inflation our budget is now comparable to where we were in 1998. while our budget has been shrinking, however, the taxpayer growth -- taxpayer base has grown by millions. we've also taken on many new responsibilities such as implementation of the foreign account tax compliance act and the tax-related provisions of the affordable care act. since 75% of the irs budget more or less is personnel the agency has been absorbing the budget reductions mainly by shrinking our workforce. as a result we ended fiscal 2014 with more than 14,000 fewer permanent full-time employees compared with 2010. we expect to lose another 3,000 more or less through attrition by the end of this year. you might think that shrinking an agen

you see a big ice shelf melting off of antarctica. are seeing huge planetary shifts in how our water systems are working. tornadoes, hurricanes, we will see more intense hurricanes, but we are a planetary trend which i believe the icc has been clearer. up to a degree celsius if we do not do anything to reduce emissions and reduce our fossil fuel consumption. they call it catastrophic to society. you can look at it and say it will not happen now so let's not worry about it. that is kind of what nick is saying. the marginal cost and benefit of addressing climate change now does not really help. if you look at the long term, if we do not start now by reducing the amount of fossil fuels we use and the amount of co2 we e-mail -- we emit, we will not be able to stop climate change and will not have the resources to mitigate and adapt to a changing world. you look at miami, new orleans, new york city. these are big economic hubs in the u.s. that will be impacted i sea level rises caused by climate change. that is already counting the islands

they have the pyramids and the sphinx tra faga square isn't london antarctica haley 6 expedition and the word because there's -- there's so much families bianna carrie, with a situation like this. >> goes to show when you look at the pictures autism doesn't discriminate. the numbers, at least $17,000 more per year to care for a child with asd. >> it's average, in a city like new york it's about $60,000, and in some places of the country, it might be $35,000. but the standard of living, cost of living we've been trying -- getting insurance bills passed to reduce some of that pain and we have 40 states. just this last month had georgia, mississippi. we have -- three or four more that are coming on but we have we'll have 42. it's been -- that's been something we had to do here in this country. outside of the united states that's not the fundamental issue, because they have universal health. they may not provide a lot of services, but people expect services, and they get some services. >> right. >> the problem with universal health is, people do not want to lobby them. they feel that thi

the fact is that antarctica has had a heat wave, the hottest it has ever been recorded.hat is a fact. that is not a story. that is not somebody trying to make a point. it is a fact. host: next up is a caller from california. thomas, you're on the air. caller: i would like to disagree with the last caller. it is not a fact that the water issue out here in california has in labeled a climate change issue. in fact the distraction of the water dams and everything, they have the water flowing out to the ocean. it could be regulated in a way where the farmers get the water, instead of protecting the little one inch fish called the delta smelt. president obama came out here last year labeling the problem with climate change, when in fact it is water regulation. the farmers cannot grow crops out here, the jobs are lost, the issue is really a climatic problem that is economic. and yet, the people are just labeling it climate change. the problem continues. it is a political problem. it is not really a climate change problem out here. nobody wants to admit that. host: thomas in cal