jim powell is already eager to use it as a safe-house for his research, out of reach of the trump government. climate change studies have already disappeared from the epa's website. jim: the federal government as far as what i'm seeing and reading and what i've heard from my colleagues and scientists -- we are very, very concerned about data-sets and information that's not being collected. i mean, not even to talk about perhaps what's being done with the existing data-sets. reporter: powell intends to keep a close eye on the data in the future. here in alaska, it's impossible to overlook the effects of climate change. and yet, eran hood still has so much to do to make his fellow americans really understand what his research on melting ice means for their fures. host: even if many u.s. citizens refuse to acknowledge it, climate change is happening, and it's affecting low income countries in particular. in paris, the international community agreed that industrial nations must now pay $100 billion annually to alleviate the effects of climate change. over the past few years, hundreds of billions

powell set to take over in february. fed is expected to raise rates a quarter percent, jim and rahel. >>> for years people have been saying malls are a dying business we need to write them off but you say not so fast. >> reporter: well, on line sales have eat's way at stores but traditional shopping centers aren't dead just yet. westfield corporation which owns high end malls in the u.s. and europe agreed to the take over for $15.7 billion. the buyer is unibell, real estate bell, they say the deal amounts to a luxury mega malls can compete with the likes of amazon and on line retailers: i would say they are not down for the count just yet. >> i don't know if you have ever been to king of prussia, have you ever been to kop. >> i have been to philly tons of time but never been to king of prussia. >> it is better than on line shopping. >> yes, luxury stuff people like to touch that stuff. >> yes. >> customer service, ambience. >> yes. >> a lot of retail experts say it will be high/low that wins out, in terms of is what left for brick and mortar. >> we will check in with you next hour. >>> arctic air we have been warning but

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think jerome powell s been warned by donald trump to keep a close eye on the economy and the financial markets as far as the speed with which the fed proceeds with -- charles: but to jim'ss a hard road map if it never existed. everything they do is trial and error. >> but the fed still has it within it power not to be too aggressive with downsizing its balance sheet. not tool anything too manyish -- not to do anything foolish. charles let me shift gears because bitcoin is all the rage, and now warren buff met's right-hand man charlie munger says avoid it, quote, like the plague. jim, do you agree with it? >> yeah. i think bitcoin's on its way back to the 20,000 because of the manipulation of minors and the whales. the minors and the whales are in a position to manipulate the market through wash sales, so they've got to get new suckers into the game. it's definitely a ponzi or a fraud, depending how you want to describe it. get new suckers in the game, and they short futures and then dump the bitcoin on the exchanges, tank the price. whatever they lose here, they make up on the futures. charles: so wall street's involvement with the cme and chicago board, that's actually