one of the programs it will help station that collects atmospheric data. the picture you are looking at, the station. >>> you may see v dot crews out on the roads working to improve your safety. v-dot will start installing traffic signal back plates on major roads in the heart of you can kind of see in this picture the back plate helps make the lights easier to see. the roads they are going to put these on include route 29, 460, 220 220, 58 and 11. v-dotv dot says drivers can expect possible lane closures when they are doing this work. it is scheduled to start this week. >>> you definitely are going to george is forecasting a 100% >>> i have got to tell you, i am actually looking forward to a big downpour tomorrow, i have not had a chance to wash the salt off my car. i am hoping that will help it a bit but won't get under it. >> george: a lot of us will enjoy the full car wash for tomorrow and melt away some of the big snow piles that are still left in some of the parking lots. some of that rain will be heavy, and the rain will be moving in during the morn

one of the programs it will help is the land atmosphere research station, which collects atmospheric data. the picture you are looking at is the 120-foot research tower at the station. 3 pattie box a potential change is coming for home school students... both chambers of the general assembly have approved legislation to allow home-schooled students to participate in public school sports. the measure is commonly known as the "tebow bill." it passed in the senate yesterday. and passed in the house last week. a similar measure passed governor terry mcauliffe. he says the legislation creates a "double standard" for student athletes. 3 pattie plasma now that the iowa caucuses are over, the presidential candidates are setting their sights on new hampshire. the candidates have been rallying voters, now that we're less than a week away from that state's primary. bazi kanani has the latest. 3 for the victors in iowa, the celebration is short-lived. (clinton)i am so thrilled to be in new hampshire after winning in iowa!just a week before the next round of voting-- both hillary clinton and bernie sa

researchers at the national center for atmospheric research took data from 1979 to 2014 and identified broad storm patterns linked to wet weather. they noted the three patterns most connected to precipitation have become increasingly rare. the leader of the study said in a press release http://www.prweb.co m/releases/2016/02 /prweb13198090.htm: "a normal year in the southwest is now drier than it once was. if you have a drought nowadays, it will be more severe because our base state is drier." (video via cnn https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=a5ofng0rz-a)but 35 years of data may not be enough time to consider the shift to drier climates abnormal.california, which is in the middle of a drought, is a good example. scientists told the new york times http://www.nytimes. com/2015/04/14/sci ence/californias- history-of-drought- repeats.html?_r=0 last april if you look at california's history, the state had droughts that lasted not just years but decades. in at least two cases during the last 1,200 years, droughts have lasted roughly two centuries. (video via cbs times http://www.nytimes. ence/

>> if you look at the temperatures measured in the lower atmosphere, by satellites, or you look at all four analyse of the weather balloon data5,000 to 20,000 feet in the atmosphere. the disparity between the average of the 107 united nations computer models, the disparity between the trends predicted by them, average trends, and what is measured by weather balloons and satellite is stunning. >> first of all there's not 107. there are 25 of general circulation models. all this stuff about layers in the atmosphere, and all that, it's a question that we do not fully understand. where is the heat going? the big surprise in the period when the surface temperature stayed relatively constant is the temperature of the oceans is still going up. to stick your head in the sand and say everything is all right when it's not - that is foolish. >> we talked to patrick michaels at the cato institute, who has a bit of press for his belief that the federal government has no business mitigating climate change. >> i think he's just wrong about that. obviously i strongly disagree. it's a little like the arguments that used to go on about tobacco

one of the programs that will help is the land atmosphere research station that collects data. you are looking at the research tower at station. >>> a potential change is coming for home school students the chambers approved legislation to allow home schooled students to participate in public school sports. measure is known as the t let bo bill. passed yesterday and the house last week. a similar measure passed last year but vetoed. the legislation creates a double standard for student tleetsz. >>> you can weigh in for a new city manager in lynchburg. describe the characteristic of a good candidate. give candidates an idea what challenges they could experience. hear the profile at february ninth council meeting or go online at wset.com, current city manager will retire at end of june. >>> still to come, president obama is visiting a mosque today. we will tell you why in today's looking ahead. >>> looking ahead to the weather, tell be rainy. you can see it starting to move in and it is cool. 42 roanoke. 51 in danville. >> melissa: tell be a wash out wchdz here is what you can ex

. >> and process data, predicting changes in the atmosphere and ocean. >> predicting what our ocean does, so scientists can use this as part of the climate model. >> humans can see what computers missing watching wildfires and pollution on the forest. >> this is number 11 in the world. >> it takes rows and rows of processors and storage. >> there are millions of stimulations you can go and look at that give insights into the space launch system nasa is working on. now, nasa does have a wind tunnel and if you're in the middle of the room, you think you're standing in it. it's rushing air and chilled water to keep processors cool enough to operate. but it's tiny machines. >> these are being developed that are critical to long duration robots. >> now, the next one. >> this can operate overnight and take measurements. >> the research could >>> ands also, helping the economy. >> a woman nearly got sent to a collection agency. how michael finney take care of everything. >> signing up for a home monitoring service can . >>> going live to new hampshire, supporters are waiting for trump at a rall

. >> and process data, predicting changes in the atmosphere and ocean. >> predicting what our ocean does, so scientists can use this as part of the climate model. >> humans can see what computers missing watching wildfires and pollution on the forest. >> this is number 11 in the world. >> it takes rows and rows of processors and storage. >> there are millions of stimulations you can go and look at that give insights into the space launch system nasa is working on. now, nasa does have a wind tunnel and if you're in the middle of the room, you think you're standing in it. it's rushing air and chilled water to keep processors cool enough to operate. but it's tiny machines. >> these are being developed that are critical to long duration robots. >> now, the next one. >> this can operate overnight and take measurements. >> the research could help. >>> ands also, helping the economy. >> a woman nearly got sent to a collection agency. how michael finney take care of everything. >> signing up for a home monitoring service can . >>> going live to new hampshire, supporters are waiting for trump at

. >> were to pretty much lawless atmosphere right now in terms of data collection. johnson's proposed bill the app stack would change that requiring developers to inform you about what information there collecting and set standards for how they secure it. we need to know what the data broker what the app developer plans to do with that information we need to understand the security of how it will be secured and we also need to know have the ability to opt out.just in previously propose a bill back in 2013 but he tells me he thinks is more support this time around because is more awareness of the dangers of identity theft. money approved to improve local roads and bridges but charlie baker asking lawmakers to authorize $250 million spending bill for transportation projects and upgrades to small bridges. baker also looking for money from emergency homeless shelter programs and legal services for low-income residents. >> city challenged upland casino summerville billing the to give wind resorts a permit last month when looking to build a $1.7 million resort casino in e

data. >> reporter: in other words, forecasters need to get closer to the action, scanning parts of the atmosphere that traditional radar, weather balloons and sophisticated weather towers can't reach. that sweet spot is called the lower atmospheric boundary layer, a zone roughly 1,000 feet off the ground. phillip chilson is a professor of meteorology at the university of oklahoma and is also involved in the project. >> there has been a need for high quality measurements of the lower atmosphere that's been known by the meteorological community for decades. the lowest level of the atmosphere is so dynamic spatially and temporally, that it's very under-sampled at present. >> reporter: so to get more information about that part of the atmosphere, students at oklahoma state aren't just building the planes, they're designing the sensors and writing the software that processes the data gathered in the skies. 21-year-old nicholas foster is designing a small pod that aircraft-like maria may one day carry into a storm. >> essentially it's just a packet of sensors. so what i'm doing is these will go inside

>>reporter: process data about our own planet predicting change in the+d atmosphere and ocean. >> resultsnd scientist use this as part of the climate model. >>reporter: displaying data human can see what computers miss watching impact of wild first an pollution on our forest. >> the super computer currently is no. 11 in the world. >>reporter: it takes rows and rows of processors and endless aisles of storage. >> there are millions of simulation on the shuttle you can go and look at that actually give us insight into the s o s or space launch system that nasa is working on. >>reporter: nasa has a whipped tunnel at the research center and in the milt of the room you would think you are standing in it. rushing air and chill water that it takes to keep the process ors cool enough to operate. >> one building over it's the tiny machines. >> technology developed critical to long duration space flight. >>reporter: robot aboard the space station 10 years old. >> they operate overnight and take co2 measurement. radiation measurement all these kind of things that are automated. >> mars still decade

atmosphere. >> a huge accomplishment for one group of engineering students who began with one goal, to collect weather data from high altitudes while learning to work as a team. >> the whole purpose of the class was to have different subgroups and our team of twelve people working on different parts of the project. >> the team work paid off and >> the launch itself went smoothly. one of our balloons popped below 100,000-foot. and the other reached over 120,000 feet. >> these students built much of the equipment launched by the weather balloons themselves. spending countless hours perfecting their designs. >> i'd say it was easily over 500 hours. >> and they had to consider many environmental factors as the balloons traveled more than 20 miles into the atmosphere. like harsh temperatures and wind. after the balloons popped. their equipment was recovered. more than 100 100 miles from their launch location. >> this landed in a bog in eastern north carolina. >> and now comes the analysis of the weather data. >> all the data here is 12,000 lines of data that we collected. >> and although it maybe tedious, these

legalization of marijuana, colorado data just came out they've got the highest marijuana use among young people in the country now but all of this contributes to a atmosphere of being able to use drugs. >> -- mdges use. >> doesn't lead to other drugs also. >> right but the line towards marijuana and increase of marijuana, marijuana and the type of drug overdose that you can see that can be fatal that we're talking about with heroin is not the same. as a recovered addicts there are absolute distinctions. >> absolutely not true. children who use marijuana and they practice unsafe sexual practices more than kids who don't. i think you have to look at the total package here. if needle exchange programs are going to be implemented they should have a strong legal component, getting people off the drugs getting them into health care. i was a president of an emergency medical rescue squad for many years department with many heroin overdose situations, they are very tragic, certainly we should go to anything we can do to save people's lives. but in the long run we should get back to drug prevention, we should get back to spending money on drug prevention so we don'

atmosphere. >> a huge accomplishment for one group of students who began their project with one goal to collect weather data from high >> the whole purpose was to have these different subgroups in our team of 12 people all working on different parts of the project. >> their team work paid -- paid off ande t was a a success. >> it went very smoothly, this was a homemade antenna. >> they built much of the equipment launched by the weather balloons themselves spending countless hours perfecting their designs >> i'd say collectively, you know, 12 people working on the two balloons easily was over 500 hours. >> and they had to consider many environmental factors as the balloons traveled more than 20 miles into the atmosphere like harsh temperatures and wind. after they popped their equipment was recovered more than 100 miles from their launch location. >> this one land in a bog out in eastern north carolina. >> and now comes the analysis of the weather data. >> and although it may be tedious these students eager to share their findings. >> we set up a website and hoping to publish as open source material if anyo

data is not there. >> he is right. the rubio campaign, if they are effective, they have to take this debate atmosphere and start using itg upon this strategy they have at going right at donald trump here through the march 1 and march 15 contest. >> the play going into super tuesday is you can't trust donald trump because he wants to be a washington deal maker. that is also a sleght to marco rubio. he did the gang of eight. it looks like he is going frontally at trump. >> i think the gang of eight will come back to him. i think the vicente fox thing. this was not a small thing. this is trump's hot button issue. this guy has stirred it. this is poking a hornet's nest for the american people. i'm sure insulting him. saying we have the right to flood your border and we don't care. >> that's not what he was saying, but okay. i think what you will see tomorrow is you are going to see donald trump focus his cannons straight at marco rubio. until tonight, you had not seen that. for the last few weeks, donald trump has been focused on ted cruz. building up the liar narrative that he is not worthy. he doesn't live up to his socia

data. >> if you were to tell these rowan university engineering students the sky is the limit on their education, you would be wrong. some are about to embark on learning beyond the atmosphere experiments in space. >> i really, really am excited. >> reporter: but since electrical and computer engineering professor chin just got a grant from nasa to send research project in orbit. it is about a type of experimental electrical circuit that could be used to store incredibly large amounts of data using very little power. >> probably in the near future, i would recommend, flash memories and ram, any type of computer. >> reporter: rowan doesn't have a device just yet, but getting in touch with nasa was step one and competing with the likes of mit. they have to build an cube satellite. >> there is research activity and there is an opportunity. >> reporter: when project is complete satellite will be only a size of the softball but there will be lots offhanded in its development. in fact they expect two dozen students will take part. >> the opportunity to have their work, their signature on a cube satellite in space, i think it is one that will stay with them for a very long time. >

atmosphere and likely exploded over the south atlantic ocean. =!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0>and the calculated total impact energy released from that explosion was reportedly about what you'd get if you detonated sounds like a pretty big deal. but as far as meteor impacts go, this one was pretty tiny. to put things into perspective, researchers say the meteor that exploded over chelyabinsk , russia, in 2013 was equivalent to the detonation of about 500,000 tons of tnt. as an astronomy blogger for slate put it, "events this size aren't too big a concern. had it happened over a populated area, it would've rattled some windows and probably terrified a lot of people, but i don't think it would've done any real damage." damage."you can now follow newsy on your tv or favorite streaming device. device. they wanted votes -- instead, they're looking at jail time! time!the fight