something of an epic move of the british antarctic survey, and the reason was, they just british antarcticthat is opening up. it is a risky business operating out there in the antarctic. you can always talk to as on twitter. thank you for being with us. dojoin as next thank you for being with us. do join as next week. thursday brought rain to pretty much all of the uk but the winds were of the story. severe gales in the irish sea cost power outages. the potential for more severe conditions on friday. possibly different areas. for the weekend it could quieten down. still a little bit of rain and strong winds alone. colder mornings and more sunshine but not for long. back to the wind and the rain early next week. from the middle of next week on words we might start to return to that colder and more settled weather that we had just last week before things turned more u nsettled. last week before things turned more unsettled. that is still looking on the cards looked at the moment the weather fronts, bands of cloud are lined up from iberia to the use course in the united states. further bands

a plunge into the freezing antarctic ocean is something you may only want to try once. >> oh!porter: but encounters with the antarctic wildlife are something you may want to do over and over again. these trips are called "expeditions," not cruises, for reasons that go beyond marketing. and with climate change skeptics in the white house, they may be a new model for how scientific research gets paid for in the future. >> and you can clearly see this big trend of increasing temperatures. >> reporter: renowned antarctic ice scientist ken taylor says word is already out that there will be less research money available from this administration. >> well, we've already gotten indications from our federal funding agencies, particularly national science foundation, that we should anticipate budget cuts. it didn't take very long after the election for that word to come down. >> reporter: even when research is government funded, the money often doesn't go far enough, even now. john durban, an employee of the noaa fisheries department, uses a drone to check on the health of antarctic whal

more antarctic ice flowing into the sea would increase the threat to low-lying coastal areas around the world, including in the united states. >> there are several spots ar around antarctica that are believed to be in this situation where the ice on the ground is going to flow into the sea and there's nothing we can do to stop it at this point. >> reporter: eric gouth is part of a scientific study that is proving antarctic ice is on the move. >> this here is the object of your affection? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he's part of the extreme ice survey that uses time-lapse photography to document what's happening. images snapped every hour and then strung together show how quickly the glaciers are flowing. these pictures aren't just useful for science, they have another purpose. >> much of the general public ine visual learners, as am i. rythink being able to see that with your own eyes is a very compelling way of communicating information. >> reporter: arguments over the causes of climate change may be raging again at home. here suggestions of a hoax come , against some cold, hard facts.

they will have to do up to nine hours a day once in the antarctic, carrying everything that they needery, very tough, which is why they need to practise in conditions as harsh as these. there are seven ice maidens. two will be reserves as only five can cross the antarctic, where they hope to break the ice ceiling, putting them in the history books alongside explorers like scott. s ha ckleto n shackleton and amundsen. a little milder than that here, let's ta ke a little milder than that here, let's take a look at the weather prospects. for some of you the weather will be a little closer to norway this week than we have been so far. we started with the spring warmth, 18 celsius yesterday but by the end of the week temperatures take a bit of a plummet. and to get us there we have stormy weather on the way as well. even tonight it turns blowing across the uk, the strongest of the wind just to the north of the uk. we could still the severe gales across the north of scotland during the night. we have heavy rain around at the moment in the north, that will move down to parts of north wales a

i think there are six of these pods being very slowly moved across the antarctic.ide, you have probably heard that we are in fulsome windy weather late on friday, but it will bring even stronger winds into north—west france and not just stronger winds into north—west france and notjust one storm system thatis france and notjust one storm system that is heading in, it is two and of these two storms it is probably saturdays that will be the most ferocious. here is the pressure charts, you can see how tightly packed the isobars are. of these systems, saturday is probably the more powerful and friday is bad enough, it will bring a swathe of really strong winds across the north—west of france, we are expecting the winds to gust to 80 miles an hour, inland may be 60 or 70 miles an hour, it could be enough to bring some transport disruption and call some power cuts. 0n saturday, we could get something get a sting jet, fast wins high up in the atmosphere getting forced down onto the surface, if that happens we could get gusts to about 100 miles an hour. that could bring do

more antarctic ice flowing into the sea would increase the threat to low-lying coastal areas around the world, including in the united states. >> there are several spots around antarctica that are believed to be in this situation wh going to flow into the sea and there's nothing we can do to stop it at this point. >> reporter: eric gouth is part of a scientific study that is proving antarctic ice is on the move. >> this here is the object of your affection? >> absolutely. >> reporter: he's part of the extreme ice survey that uses time-lapse photography to document what's happening. images snapped every hour and then strung together show how quickly the glaciers are flowing. these pictures aren't just useful for science, they have another purpose. >> much of the general public are visual learners, as am i. i think being able to see that with your own eyes is a very compelling way of communicating information. >> reporter: arguments over the causes of climate change may be raging again at home. here suggestions of a hoax come up against some cold, hard facts. ken taylor, the ice scientist

just the refrigerator, and an explosion of scientific research when the antarctic reveals the secrets that have been locked in its ice. >> there's something going on. >> there's something obviously going on. it's very clear. >> reporter: ken taylor runs one of the continent's most ambitious ice research projects. what's going on is the huge crack that's opened up in one of the floating ice shelves that cling to the coast here. >> there's a large berg. it's about to break off. >> reporter: you say large berg. it's the size of delaware. >> and the fraction is breaking off, it jumps about a mile every week or so. >> reporter: it's not the ice from the ice shelf that's worrying. more antarctic ice flowing into the sea would increase the threat to low-lying coastal areas around the world, including in the united states. >> there are several spots around antarctica that are believed to be in this situation where the ice on the ground is going to flow into the sea and there's nothing we can do to stop it at this point. >> reporter: eric gouth is part of a scientific study that is proving ant

cutting through the pack ice near the antarctic circle, it's not just here for the sightseeing, althoughlenty to see. and while nobody shouts "thar she blows" when whales are spotted, people do jump in small boats to chase them, just like in the old days. this hunt, though, isn't about killing whales, it's about saving them. it's about giving them a health particularly good. >> one of the reasons we study top predators, killer whales are the top predator in the ocean, is to understand the health of the ecosystem that supports them. >> reporter: john and holly are modern whale hunters that use the latest tools. they use a drone fitted with equipment to monitor the whale's season. >> a small drone like this, we can fly it just a little over 100 feet, the whales don't know it's there, and the quality of the images are so much better. >> reporter: better pictures but not better whales. the images of this pod of killer whales are not encouraging. particularly for the adult female, the mother of the family. >> she's very, very thin. you can see just following her, you can see her ribs. she's l

british antarctic survey hopes they will return next november. the pbs newshour, i'm julia griffin-- slightly warmer in arlington, virginia. >> woodruff: on the newshour online right now, our job hunting columnist weighs in on why you should always try to make a personal contact with a hiring manager. all that and more is on our website, www.pbs.org/newshour. >> cornish: and that's the newshour for tonight. on thursday, making sense of how the trump presidency is affecting the trump brand. i'm audie cornish. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. join us online, and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you, and we'll see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> xq institute. >> supported by the rockefeller foundation. promoting the wellbeing of humanity around the world, by building resilience and inclusive economies. more at www.rockefellerfoundation.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. >> this program was made possible by the co

two will be reserves as only five can cross the antarctic, where they hope to break the ice ceiling,phil mackie, bbc news, norway. so impressive! louise lear, ifeel cold just looking at those pictures. they need to to practising, staterooms, you might just they need to to practising, staterooms, you mightjust get some. this week we will see the two faces of late february, it was the warmest day of the year so far, 18 degrees, one with sunshine, but look at what is likely to happen during thursday. severe gales, rain

why officials s >>> researches are chasing wails in the antarctic to try to save them. >> we find outow their lives are being disrupted by climate change. >> this is palmer station the u.s. research station in antarctica and i'm mark phillips. if you think whales weren't doing well in captivity. some aren't doing so well in the wild. that's coming up on "cbs this morning." widespread pain drained my energy. my doctor said moving more helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. for some, lyrica can significantly relieve fibromyalgia pain and improve function, so i feel better. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. com

it doesn't have to be the antarctic. their 5k can be their version of antarctica.ind to spend nearly three months together on the ice. there is important research being done as well. no one really knows what it would take to support and sustain an all—female team on a journey like this. it is about the composition of the rations, carbohydrates, protein, and trying to figure out how we can manipulate that, i suppose. and also for a group of women whose nutritional needs are different to men, there has been very little research done and certainly not published. we have little to go on. there are other more personal considerations, especially when they need to answer the call of nature. we have pee funnels, and that is straightforward. we can squat behind a little wall without trousers down and do our business into a bag. we have tissues to deal with. then you can drag that rubbish for the rest of the journey. one of the hardest things will be maintaining morale as each hard day of marching goes by. they have just been for a two—hour march. they will have to do nine h

this was the pine island glacier in antarctic, earlier in january.eparate image showed an iceberg the size of manhattan that broke away on january 31. >> woodruff: a powerful new storm barreled into california today, with what could be the heaviest rain in years. the rain and high winds lashed the southern california coastline, threatening flooding and mudslides, and forcing small-scale evacuations. the storm is expected to skirt northern california, but officials kept watch on the lake oroville dam and its damaged spillways. >> we have a very close communication-- our monitoring teams between our incident commanders-- to make sure that we have all eyes on this and we're ready to take action with our mitigation plan. i don't see that that's a risk at this time. but having said that, we're ready. >> woodruff: another storm system is expected to hit northern california late sunday night and could bring 30 hours of precipitation. >> sreenivasan: wall street headed into the president's day weekend with a lackluster session. the dow jones industrial avera

they will have to do up to nine hours a day once in the antarctic, carrying everything that they needda. she is three years old and she is saying goodbye to the united states. she has been in the national zoo in washington. she is heading on a one—way flight to china where she will bejoining a panda breeding programme there. yes, keepers have a packing list of her favourite foods. they include 55lbs of bamboo, 5lbs of apples and 2le of sweet potatoes! this is how she is going to be travelling. not too much style. but most of the flight, apparently, they‘re hoping she willjust be eating. she leaves behind her younger brother who remains at the zoo, but as with all pandas on loan from china, any pandas born as a result, remaun the property of china. so she is heading back to ta ke china. so she is heading back to take part in their breeding programme in china. they must move to china by the time they are four, by the time they turn four. this is the scene at dallas international airport where the plane is ready and waiting to take her back to china. they are all there waving! on that no

two will be reserves as only five can cross the antarctic, where they hope to break the ice ceiling,lman reports. an entirely unremarkable afternoon in the bronx. a man enters a local grocery store, waves to the person behind the till and starts to shop. he goes to a fridge and picks up some bottles of what looks like water. so far, so normal. little can he imagine what‘s about to happen. he heads to the counter but there‘s one last item he needs. then this happens. caught on cctv from a different angle, you can see a white car ploughing through a plate glass window and crushing the man between two rows of shelves. but look at him staggering free, obviously shocked and hurt but remarkably, amazingly, not suffering from any major injuries. he sits down in the corner. later, he would apparently walk to the ambulances. and what about the people in the car? one of the doors opens and a woman clambers out. she looks around, more than a little shocked herself. it‘s not clear why she or the car she was in took this unusual detour, adding a whole new dimension to drive—through shopping. but

two will be reserves as only five can cross the antarctic, where they hope to break the ice ceiling,en. phil mackie, bbc news, norway. that is quite something. i think we might be getting some snow this week, not as much as they're clearly but doris is on the way. stormy weather to come on thursday, we will get snow but not too much hopefully, but it could cause disruption. for the time being we have rain up into the time being we have rain up into the north and west with wind. a lot of clout and the grey old afternoon, mild old afternoon and yet again temperatures peaking around 14 degrees, way above the average for this time of year but the weather front will straddle its way down through the country, still producing outbreaks of drizzly rain, nothing substantial but a lot of clout, mild and windy, severe gales into the far north of scotland and here colder with a good slice of sunshine. you can see the difference to the temperatures but as we move into thursday, the fourth main storm of the season is expected to arrive which would bring wet and windy weather and there is an amber

antarctic research base at palmer station has been clinging to this rocky shore since the 1960s.ecause these guys are here, the adelie species of penguin that has nested nearby in their tens of thousands. these are the penguins that were the model for the movie "happy feet." they're apparently not so happy anymore. >> we're counting the penguins every year. >> reporter: they call shawn farry the bird man here. lately he's had a lot fewer birds to count. >> these local islands where we've been censusing for 43 years now have declined by 85%. >> reporter: 85%? >> the numbers on this island at their peak were 9,000. this year it was 1,200. >> reporter: at first it was thought that as the weather warmed here, the penguins might have moved further south, looking for the sea ice they need to hunt from, but they haven't. >> we do work other places looking for them. we're not finding them. >> reporter: not just the sea ice is retreating. there's a spectacular glacier next to the base that gets less spectacular every year. they keep a photo showing how it retreated from 1975 to 2013. then

she's on a whale hunt cutting through the pack ice near the antarctic circle.e good ship explorer is not just here for the sightseeing, although there's plenty to see. and while nobody shouts "thar' she blows" when whales are spotted - this time in open water... people do jump into small boats to chase them, just like in the old days. this hunt, though, isn't about killing whales. it's about saving them. it's about giving them a health check. and the prognosis isn't particularly good. >> one of the reasons we study top pedators, and killer whales are the top predator in the ocean, is to understand the health of the ecosystem that supports them. >> john durban and holly fearnbach are modern whale hunters who use the latest tools. they use a drone, fitted with equipment to monitor the whales' condition. >> with a small drone like this we can fly at just a little over 100 feet, the whales don't know it's there, and we're flying a camera much lower so the quality of the images are so much better. >> better pictures, but - it turns out - not better whales. the image

a research station was dragged 14 miles across the british antarctic survey released this video of their research station being dragged 14 miles across an ice shelf to avoid a dangerous crack in the ice. it took 13 weeks to complete this move and it was made possible because the shelter is built as a series of modules resting on giant skis really. now crews will abandon the shelter until the fall amid fears that a second crack is growing. >> what a great shot. >>> well, we know about self-driving cars. now uber wants to bring flying cars to the world's most congested cities, and they have hired one of the brightest minds in the field to make it happen. talented nasa aircraft engineer mark moore has joined uber to make a commercially available flying car. moore says it will take one to three years before concept car takes flight. uber has called their flying car plan uber elevate. they say summoning a car with the capability of a helicopter will cut travel times and absolutely revolutionize commuting. >>> there is a new longest flight in the world, longest time anyway, and it belongs to q

two will be reserves as only five can cross the antarctic, where they hope to break the ice ceiling, putting them in the history books alongside explorers like scott, shackleton and amundsen. phil mackie, bbc news, norway. so impressive! louise lear, ifeel cold just looking at those pictures. they need to to practising, staterooms, you might just they need to to practising, staterooms, you mightjust get some. this week we will see the two faces of late february, it was the warmest day of the year so far, 18 degrees, one with sunshine, but look at what is likely to happen during thursday. severe gales, rain and the potential for snow, which could cause disruption. more on that in a moment. out to the north and west, turning increasingly wet and windy. further south, the rain is fairly light and patchy with lots of cloud around and a pretty grey afternoon with good visibility towards the coast —— with poor visibility. the rain lightand coast —— with poor visibility. the rain light and patchy through the midlands but peps and through north and west england, the isle of man, western scot

antarctic research base at palmer station has been clinging to this rocky shore since the 1960s.cause these guys are here, the adelie species of penguin that has nested nearby in their tens of thousands. the model for the movie "happy feet." they're apparently not so happy anymore. >> we're counting the penguins every year. >> reporter: they call shawn farry the bird man here. lately he's had a lot fewer birds to count. >> these local islands where we've been censusing for 43 years now have declined by 85%. >> reporter: 85%? >> the numbers on this island at their peak were 9,000. this year it was 1,200. >> reporter: at first it was thought that as the weather warmed here, the penguins might have moved further south, looking for the sea ice they need to hunt from, but they haven't. >> we do work other places looking for them. we're not finding them. >> reporter: not just the sea ice is retreating. there's a spectacular glacier next to the base that gets less spectacular every year. they keep a photo showing how it retreated from 1975 to 2013. quickly. normally in places like this

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. >> or antarctical. >> see, they get to choose. >> now it's crazy time. >> show me the island. >> i want to see the island before i break that record. >> i was going to break the record and i was like what island. >> i'm not sure i could complete 40 yards. >> not in 4.2 seconds. >> maybe not 4.2 minutes. 49 in washington and we've got a littleary you sigh every morning and wind direction and winds out of the south. we'll pump temperatures up 0 above normal later today. if you like tropical it's tropical around here later today, tonight and tomorrow. >> okay. >> near 70 this afternoon. and little cloud cover out there early should make for beautiful surprise. we'll give partial sunshine this morning and cloud up this afternoon and i want to mention a few showers in the forecast late this afternoon and t and then it looks like we owe could do a round of strong thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. probably between 1 and 4 . we'll talk more about that. much like saturday a few days ago last saturday when he had tornado and hail let's do that again. >> not good for the skittish dog in your

part of the west antarctic ice sheet that is 220,000 square miles. large chunks broke off in 2014 and 201 is? yep. hump day. it means snow day. look at this. several camels in turkey took a break from the desert. they went out in the snow. camels seem to like snow. look how fast they are moving. check out the moves on the back. rolling around and enjoying it. it was fresh snow. upping and running. they seem happy. change of scenery. snowfall has been heavy in eastern part of turkey and they don't seem to complain. michelle: that is competition for the pandas. really cute. steve: a lot more snow than here. jonathan: that is for the whole season. that right there. steve: not even that much. michelle: not enough to shovel. steve: we are not going to add to it. when you see the ten-day outlook you will say it's springtime. a big warm-up. prolonged warmup on the way. i like it. i'm not going to complain. outside we go. the daylight hours are getting longer and longer. from the national harbor. a few clouds here and otherwise looking good. on the breezy si

. >> palmer was put here because it was a great place to study antarctic wildlife.at for the hen gwynn who nest here in the tens of thousands. these are the bird that brought you "happy feet." they don't seem so happy anymore. >> we're counting them every year. >> they call shawn the bird man. lately, he's had a lot fewer birds to study. >> these look for 43 years now the decline by 85%. >> 85%? >> on this island, at the peak there were 9,000. this year there was about 1200. >> the penguins need one essential condition to thrive, they need sea ice to hunt from and there is less of that around now. >> in the last several decade, the ice has declined by about -- well, three months of sea ice. >> it is three months shorter? >> correct. >> at first it was hoped the penguins moved further south in search of the ice they love. sadly, it seems not. >> we do workplaces looking for them. >> not just the sea ice is retreating in palmer. the base is next door to a spectacular glacier that is less spectacular than it used to be. they have a photograph showing the extent of the