is this the greatest way to cross antarctica in record time -- greenest way? david cameron's father has died after suffering a stroke. he died shortly after his son arrived at his bedside. mr. cameron described his father as a huge hero figure. >> today david cameron left his deputy in charge as he rushed to his father's side. the father was 77 and joined his father on the campaign trail. while on holiday with his wife he suffered a stroke. she called the prime minister this morning, and with the help from a helicopter mr. cameron flew immediately to the hospital. >> we wish him, his father and their family the best wishes. i am absolutely certain he has made the right decision to be where he knows he has to date with his father and family. >> a few hours later downing street announced be in cameron had died. -- announced ian cameron had died. his son spoke often about how he had been inspired by his father's courage. >> my father is a huge hero figure because he is amazingly brave. he never has let him -- let it affect him. this great sense of optimism. i hop

first though, a team of explorers and scientists will set out to antarctica for what they hope will be the fastest land crossing of the continent. under way, they will test new equipment because it on at the way, they will test new equipment. -- on at the way, they will test new equipment. >> it is not a car or a plane, but it is with this unique contraction in the british expedition is hoping to cross antarctica. >> absolutely. >> the vehicle runs on bio- ethanol. there are extreme dangers ahead. >> some of the crevasses can be a kilometer date. once you go in, no one is going to get you out. >> this will carry the crew and their massive and equipment designed to exactly monitor the environmental impact of their journey. >> i am looking at how we can try to reduce the overall impacts. >> unfortunately, i cannot go to antarctica, but i have been offered a quick look around. let's go. we are climbing around a congested city. you can just imagine the wild landscape of in the arctic. for those lucky enough to go on this mission, it will be the road trip of a lifetime. what they will find

we're seeing more and more of these failures and we saw part of antarctica, shed off in a few days. somebody was looking at satellite map's and away it went. that caused sea levels to rise. that mechanism is not well represented in models or understood very well. sea level rise by itself is gentle three feet of rise may not do too much but when it's couple with high tides and storms and el nino, by maybe close to a foot do things like this. this is 1983 in san diego area. and well, let's go on to the next one. that shows the actual sea level record. in the pay delta, it's not just sea level rises but the fact that we have fresh water floods. this is the level that ice street water gauge in sacramento. darn this thing. okay. those are tides. mostly a summer period, but these are floods so you can see, you know the water levels get up to nine meters there. there's a book called, conquering the inner sea which is a history of levies in sacramento valley and trying to contain the water. the fact is, this sort of thing could potentially get more frequent and potentially higher. i don't w

the overall impact of the expeditions like this in the future. >> unfortunately, i cannot go to antarctica, but i have been offered a quick trip around. we are climbing around a congested area. you can just imagine the wild, bleak landscape. for the explorers and scientists lucky enough to go on this expedition, it will be the trip of a lifetime. what they will find on that trip is one of the last remaining places on our planet where humankind has yet to make an imprint. the hope is that with some of the equipment brought on the journey, it will keep it that way. bbc news, central london. >> the latest headlines on "bbc world news." be a report from the oil giant bp says several companies were responsible for the gulf oil spill. and hundreds of prisoners have escaped from a jail in central nigeria. sri lanka's parliament has resoundingly approved constitutional changes that extended powers of the president. he now has the power to appoint senior judges and stay in office an unlimited amount of time. we have this report. >> early in the day, government supporters showed they can make their

secondly, we all here about the poles shrinking in antarctica, based on this you see they play a bigger roll with respect to water and reflection from the sun. there are things you need to know. we don't need fearful people. many of us are managers that make hard decisions in investments we need to be empowered and knowledgeable. this looks at a state of the art of what's fake, real , fact or fiction about global warming. we have to make up indecisions, it may go 25 feet but some of us won't be here in 150 years. we have to know what's available to us in the next 25 years so you have to get in your mind the range of possibilities. finally the worst thing we can do and i'm a general manager of a water district, is to believe we are not going to have to build this investment because we could flip the switch and the trends we see will continue from ten to 20 years. you understand that? we're not going back to our customers and say we're going to do greenhouse emissions and do things to stop it. first of all, we don't control the whole world, we can only do what we can do and that's a lot s

they were intended to support operations in antarctica. with global warming and the increasing opening of the northwest passage, the arctic, canada is debating refurbishing its fleet. the russians have come over and planted flags on the north pole. this is an area of future interest for all three nations. but the coast guard is not getting the resources it needs to recapitalize that icebreaker fleet. what will happen there? will we just be shut out of the arctic and have to depend on the canadiens to get there? >> not at all. because guard cutter healy is above alaska, asserting our sovereignty, mapping out the ocean floor, and working with the canadiens up there. but you bring a great question. that is why i got back two weeks ago from a trip up there. we were conducting something called arctic crossroads, the third year of a project we are doing to exercise of their in the greater open water that we have to test our coastguard assets and our resources to see what the might -- the right mix might be of their -- might be up there. we found

. >>> an american scientist working in an arguments ca has -- antarctica has been evacuated to new zealand this was working on a face run by the national science foundation. he is now recovering at a hospital in new zeeland. >>> breaking news from paris where the hiefl tower and the area surrounding it -- eiffel tower and the area surrounding it have been evacuated. police officers were under the famous tower. tourists are still on the nearby sidewalks land road traffic continues to circulate. we, of course, will keep you posted. >>> the bay area gas explosion that killed at least four people is causing worries about gas pipelines all over the country and the latest images from thursday's explosion shows how horrible it was. we have the report from san bruno, california, with the latest. >> reporter: new images are now emerging. cell phone video that captured the sudden violent nightmare on the ground. >> i don't want nobody to go through -- i thought it was an earthquake but thought this was worse. >> reporter: it looked like an earthquake from this surveillance video. customers fall to t

the ozone hole in antarctica hasn't gotten smaller, yet, but they think it will continue to get smallergo on, 50, 60, 70 years down the road. >> it's all good now. >> there's the ozone level. ozone hole is still as big as the united states but nobody really lives there except the brave people in antarctica. >> thanks so much. >>> coming up from his first day on the job, he knew what he wanted to do. but folks aren't always ready for an outsiders idea. we are talking to theolice chief in san francisco credited with shaking things up a bit. it's possibly working. stay with us. >>> from beat cops to detectives, most of them wanted their chief promoted from within. instead, they got george, the first outsider since the '70s. he marked his first year on the job. marked with stubbornness and scandal. thank you forring with with us. what would you point to as your proudest accomplishment? >> there's several. one is quite frankly the work of the men and women of san francisco have done. a lot of people were apprehensive of having an outside coming in and how well it was going to fit and what wa

. >> antarctica. >> no, up in the northern -- i'll show you. stay tuned.oing to make a point of talking about that. very nice today out there. temperatures have been responding nicely this afternoon. we had some fair weather clouds at times today. we've been mostly cloudy. but it's not too terribly bad out there right now and plenty of sunshine this evening. and you see the temperatures are warming up and for some reason on our computer here the temperatures aren't coming up. there they are right there. they just popped in. 81 degrees for the city. that's the warmest point so far. gaithersburg cooler at 73 degrees. frederick 75. fredericksburg 82. folks along i-81 with the exception of winchester in the 70s. not sure where winchester's temperature is right now. maybe it will pop in here in a second. not going to. let's move along. the forecast for this evening as laurel was hinting at very, very nice to dine outdoors this even or just about any plans you have nor later on. should be real, real good. the winds have been gusting this afternoon. gusting up to

he works for rate i don't know, american company that supplies a research base in antarctica.ne tried the rescue flight over the weekend but encountered blizzard conditions. greece. [horns] >> truck drivers striking for a second day across the nation. many of them parking their big rigs on news and blairing their horns. they are protesting government plans to let nonunion workers take truck driving jobs. the greek government has been struggling with a huge debt. india, floodwaters threateningening one of the seven wonders of the world the ta taj mahal. it sits right on the banks of a rain swollen river. flooding has hit more than a dozen districts in the region. japan. california governor arnold schwarzenegger taking a ride on a bullet train. the governor there with nearly 100 business leaders from his state pushing tourism, wine, and other california goods while seeking help for the golden state's own multibillion-dollar high speed rail project. the governor hopped on a bullet train in tokyo and took a short ride to a city north of the capital and that's a wrap on this fox tr

. >> does like it's in antarctica. no up and down in space. all three dimensional, right? china, how do they stay on the world because they should be upside-down, wouldn't they fall off? >> oh, you're only 5. i got to figure that one out. hold on. get that in a little bit. igor, category 4, 135 miles per hour. what a storm. it was 150 yesterday. i don't know how you tell the difference, other than the tops were more purple. the purple is coming back in. maybe 135 will be upgraded to 140, 145 later on. what you might know. the most important thing. draw a line as much as i can east to west. notice how it's come off that east to west line. it finally made that wobble to the north, that turn we wait for. it's going to turn, going to turn, going to turn. you go, really, really, really? finely it did. the problem is, can't see it. under that, too, is bermuda. literally under the 2, at 105 miles per hour on sunday bermuda could be making some direct landfall hit here with igor. we always say, it has to turn left to get to the u.s., turn right to hit the u.s. it has to turn left

. >>> a daring medical rescue mission is under way this morning in antarctica despite intense blizzard new zealand plane landed on the runway and evacuated the science base. the worker is said to be in serious condition. >>> take a look at what's brewing in the atlantic. it's hurricane igor, a huge and p powerful category-4 storm about 100 miles wide as seen from space. it' cool to look at, but do not be worried because it's not expected to reach the united states. >>> it is now 8:05, get another check of the weather from chris cimino who's in for al this morning. hey, chris. >>> a beautiful-looking storm as long as it fades out to sea. the story from the renaissance faire. >> the mayor of sterling, yes. >> yes, i do, yes. >> no jousting with it over there. get a look at our pick city today. buffalo, new york. temperatures in the upper 60s this afternoon, 67, the forecast high with a mix of sun and clouds. nice day there. through most of the northeast, in good shape. drier trends. the severe weather, the rough weather, the high plains, the north central plains, anywhere from south dako

mcmurto base science base and at this time of year in antarctica there are only about 1 1/2 hours ofane to land, load the patient and refuel. >>> that is the news at 8:02. let's get another check of the weather from al who is outside. >> thanks a lot, ann. got some nice folks here. buckeyes. where it near? >> the most southernmost point of ohio you can go. et>>he> l c'sckou cr weather and see what's g.ppinen boston, massachusetts, nbc 7. scattered showers, 67 degrees today. as we look at the rest of the country we've got some clouds and showers working through the northeast. also some heavier thunderstorms through the great lakes. that will clear up and they'll have plenty of sunshine today. risk of strong storms in >>> it's a pretty gray start to the bay, all around the bay area. san jose, low clouds, misty skies on the coast. as we head through the afternoon, places like san jose should arm up, mid-70ss later on. the temperatures about 75 san jose, 79 around morgan hill and 78 santa cruz. 80ss around lakeport. a mild start to the workweek, then we warm up inland thursday and friday

. >>> a daring medical rescue mission is under way this morning in antarctica despite intense blizzard new zealand plane lande on the runway and evacuated the science base. the worker is said to be in serious condition. >>> take a look at what's brewing in the atlantic it's hurricane igor, a huge and p powerful category-4 storm about 100 miles wide as seen from space. it' cool to look at, but do not be worried because it's not expected to reach the united states. >>> it is now 8:05, getnother check of the weather from chris cimino who's in for al this morning. hey, chris. >>> a beautiful-looking storm as >>> a very pleasant september morning under way. good morning. i'm tom kierein. right now we have temperatures climbing into the upper 60s and near 70 in washingt right near the bay. elsewhere it's in the low to mid-60s in most locations. we have a few high clouds that will be with us from time to time throughouthe day. low humidity in place. looks like more of the same on wednesday. increasingly cloudy on thursday. there's a small chance of a shower on thursday night into friday morni

. >>> a daring medical rescue mission was carried out this morning in antarctica. blizzard conditions, a new zealand plane landed on an icy runway and evacuated an american worker from the science base. and take a look at what's brewing in the atlantic, hurricane igor, a huge category four storm. the good news it's not expected to hit the united states. >>> it is now 8:05. let's get a check of the weather from chris who sin for al. >> good morning, ann. it's a beautiful storm as long as it stays out to sea. we have friends for the renaissance fair. >> dr. d. >> you could hurt yourself. >> no jousting. i see they left the sharp objects home. let's look at our pick city. buffalo, new york, temperatures in the upper 60s this afternoon. 67 the forecast hi, with a mix of sun and clouds. through most of the northeast we are in pretty good shape. looking at a drier, cooler trend. severe weather the rough weather in the high plains, north central plains, from south dakota through nebraska into kansas, portions of oklahoma. the rest of the country quiet, southeast, southwes