if you went to antarctica and pulled the ice off, in the region of west antarctica we looked at, you's what makes this ice at risk for rapid loss. the ice is;hzo thick it displas the water and sits on the bedrock. what's happened is that it's retreated away from it's coastal area and, as it retreats and thins, it floats on the water and thatç allows it to speed up and flow more rapidly into the ocean. >> woodruff: so consequences, what do you project? what do you see? >> so the modeling study that came out today in science actually says that we could, within the next century, jump from, say, a quarter millimeter a year out of this one glacier to over a millimeter a year. that's one of five glaciers just in this area and this is just one small area of antarctica. >> woodruff: that sounds like not much, from a quarter of a millimeter to a millimeter. >> but when you ask someone to model, in 100 years from now. in the new york area in the last 100 years we've seen over a foot of seaç level rise, which is damaging things up and down the east coast. the next century, we're looking at m

the glaciers are melting in antarctica. some are saying to the point of no return. >> we have been warmed that the continent is melting and now two studies are painting a picture of what is described as unreversible and unstopable melt. previously thought to be stable is retreating and this shows the six glaciers and the seas that are affected and the reasons say the researchers is global warming. the glaciers below sea level and low motion waters ice along the coast to thin from beneath and as it melts the ice retreats to the sea. the six glaciers hold enough ice to raise the sea levels but destabilizing the ice sheathe. >> we are talking ten to 15 feet and affecting millions if not billions of people around the coastline throughout the world. >> and it is areas such as these are most threatened. every year people on the low lying coastal nations and islands see the land disappearing. the fear is that one day all of it be under water. most scientists agree that a rise in ocean levels is inevident able and urging the people

there's no way to stop the retreat of the ice in this part of west antarctica. it will contribute a metre, three or four feet in the coming centuries, and it could force the rest of west antarctic to fall to sea as well. the calculations will have to be revised. they'll have to be revised upward. if you look at the most recent projection, the revision will push the projection to the upper end and beyond. if you include the changes we see in app dark ticka at present -- antarctica at present. we are talking four feet in the coming two centuries. if it prolongs into the collapse of the ice sheet, 10-15 feet. this will affect millions, if not billions of people around the coastline, throughout the world. >> let's have a look at our home page on the website aljazeera.com. that's where you'll find news, sport and business news even. the search for the school girls - the lead story. the scale of india's elections demand words that struggle to contain it's vast size. will indians and the world sues superlatives about the outcome? that's notice story. --that's "inside s

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narrator: during the 1950s and '60s, ambitious drilling programs in the remote ice caps of antarctica and greenland provided an impressive record of past climate, such as ice ages and warming events, going back hundreds of thousands of years. but these records only provided part of the climate's history. as a young man, thompson's interests lay outside the arctic. he set a goal -- to drill ice where no one had ever drilled before. in the polar regions at the time, there was a lot of competition, and no one was looking anywhere else. and so i'm thinking, "well, here's the rest of the world. why not?" and then, of course, if you start thinking about it, you realize that we got 6.5 billion people on the planet. 70% of them live in the tropics. and then you also realize a lot of the big weather phenomena that impact people -- el niÑo, monsoons -- those are tropical phenomena. and if you really wanted to look at the history of those, you need records from that part of the world. and i will never forget a rebuff when we proposed to drill the quelccaya ice cap. and it basically said, "the ic

there is west antarctica and there are the dmrashi the gras .he temperatures remain very much as they have been. i have been looking tell japanese station, an elevation of 3,800 meters. the temperature is minus 64 degrees celsius as we speak and the temperature tonight will probably go down to about minus 74 degrees celsius. so, if that's the coldest place in the world, where do you think the warmest place in the world? where are we going to? libya? ethiopia? doha, someone says in my ear. correct. the hottest place in the planet, at least a couple of hours ago was the military base out in the desert. here in doha, itself, the temperature was a mere 35 degrees because we get the breeze off of the desert and it will cool off a little tomorrow. so here, we are going to enjoy it. a glorious day of sunshine and 35 degrees. >> richard, thank you very much indeed. >>> exit poles in india are predicting al winner, the front runner to become india's prime minister and the bjp is forecast to the win 270 seats. the ruling congress party is expected to take

this video from nasa shows the part of western antarctica. the ice sheet is made up of six massive glaciers that are melting into the sea. the color coding all of a sudden how fast they are melting, red fast, blue slower and green the slowest. the scientists may they have already passed the point of no return. the water beneath the area is getting warmer, causing the grocers to pull away from the bedrock. we explain. >> the last point at which this big glacier is attached has come loose, there are no pinning parts left. the whole thing is infiltrated by ocean water underneath it. it's going to continue to melt. this isn't going to happen immediately, we're talking 200 years to 500 years before the whole thing goes. >> the fastest melting gabe sheer of the smith, that retreated more than 20 miles over the 20 year period. the scientists say the cause of the warming waters is global warming. a build up of man made greenhouse gases affects wind patterns around antarctica pushing warmer waters toward the content. >> the sea level rising four feet,

two studies confirmed worst fears that the melting of the frozen continent of antarctica is irreversible and unstoppable. >> we passed the point of no return. at this point it's a matter of time before the glaciers completely disappear to sea. >> the study is by n.a.s.a. and universitiy of irvine and washington show a glacial system in west antarctic previously thought to be stable is starting to retreat. they hold enough to rise waters by 4 feet, over a number of centuries, from 200 to 1,000 years from now. it will destabilize ice sheets and coastal places. >> this will affect millions, if not billions around the coast, throughout the world. >> the n.a.s.a. animation comes from satellite data showing antarctica and six thawing claysiers that will melt -- glaziers that will melt into the sea. this is how it happiness. an ice sheet is attached blee levels. warm waters erodes the ice, causing it to drop into the sea. it's happening at an alarming rate. >> we are seeing this here where we don't see it anywhere else, retreating at rates of a kilometre per year. it may not seem much to people

takes you down across antarct a antarctica, the western ice sheet. the bedding, under side, grounded here. melting is taking place beneath the surface. we're spinning the layers beneath the surface holding the ice sheet together. gravity takes a toll. and then you have the float bed in place. the ice sheets one by one separate and move into the sea across this portion of antarctica. all of the areas indicating the retreating process that are taking place. larger than california, for example, and putting it together. that's how large the ice sheets are as they begin to separate as they move into the ocean waters. they tamper with the salinity of the ocean waters. let me take this back. scaling back all the ice across antarcti antarctica. the areas in yellow and green are above. it's slamming into some of the areas and more rapid melting than expected. >>> thank you for that. when we come back, a bombshell in the oscar pistorius trial. >> why the track star may be heading from the dock to a doctor. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm rose marry chu

in another important story today, scientists warn that a large part of antarctica is melting and cannot be stopped. new evidence from the south pole implies a big rise in sea level. elaine quijano reports. >> reporter: researchers at nasa and the university of california irvine looked at 40 years of data, including observations made from planes and satellite images of a glacier the size of california and texas combined. eric rignot is lead author of the study. >> at this point, we'll say it's just a matter of time before this glacier completely disappears to sea. >> reporter: sea levels could rise by four feet, but not before 2214. it would open the way for greater losses of south pole ice, which could raise sea levels by another six feet. tom wagner studies glaciers for nasa. >> what we have found is that it in fact looks like this weak underbelly of antarctica is in fact starting to flow out into the sea and there's not a lot to hold it back. >> reporter: here's why. the land anchoring the glaciers sits below sea level. as ice melts, more of the glacier comes into contact with warmer

. >> and a new report is finding that antarctica's melting glaciers have passed the point of no returnll nye the science guy is going to join us live and we will talk about the future impact of all of the u.s. cities and what it means for us. >>> and a brand new michael jackson album dropped a few hours ago actually and it is all never before released songs, and review later, and we are going to play a little bit for you. plus, here is a look at what is happening today, tuesday, may 13th. the st. louis rams will officially introduce all 11 draft picks, including michael sam today. >>> tonight in phoenix the american legion is holding a town hall with the vet families following the reports that veterans died while waiting for care at a veterans affairs hospital in arizona. >>> today, in the "money minute" a look at wall street. america's newest real estate brand is all ready the brand of the year. berkshire hathaway home services. good to know. you always get the lowest price book any flight or hotel and if you find it for less we'll match it and give you fifty dollars back that's the e

. >> scientists sound the alarm over the ice melting in parts of antarctica. >> the video blowing up the internet. what the sister of beyonce did to jay z another ros brings flooding to our area. we'll have the latest in a *live report. to teenage girls seriously injured after a hit and run. >>and -- clippers owner donald sterling is speaking out. why he says magic johnson should be ashamed of himself. good morning, i'm dan ponce. and i'm erin mcelroy. let's go to demetrius ivory for a check of the weather. >> the big old storms yesterday more storms possible into today. the radar shows those shares continuing. the good news is, the cold front is out to the west. what that means is it will move out of here later today but be on the lookout some areas have seen over 2 in. of rain since sunday. we are talking about water in such a short amount of time. it's progressing towards the east which is good news for us. today, 60 degrees is ever temperature. we fall down to 55 degrees by 9:00 p.m.. tomorrow morning we are at 48. chance of rain each day through saturday. trulls high 57. friday

the collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica has begun and unstoppable. and marco rubio is probably running for president. >> it seems obvious you're moving closer to running for president? >> i've said it is something i'll consider at the end of this year. but i'll look at personal factors and also whether i could best promote this message and actually put in place these ideas that i want to see put in place. >> senator marco rubio says she's ready to be president, if the platform will allow him to promote his ideas. one idea is climate change denialism. >> you don't think human activity has caused warming? >> i don't believe human acting is causing these dramatic changes to our climate the way scientists are portraying it. and i do not believe the laws they propose will do anything about it except destroy our economy. >> it is now officially the price of entrance into the 2016 republican field. you either need to literally know nothing or pretend you know nothing. back in 2007, rubio treated global warming as an accepted truth. >> on the issue of energy

sort of like antarctica only a little worse. melissa: worse than antarctica, the ideal choice i.ly what you're saying. first when elon musk said this, regular people like my sell were laughing. more and more folks are jumping on the bandwagon of this idea, this is really out there to the point now there is a nasa suit. have you seen this? i think we have photos of it. >> the suit. melissa: what do we need? can i order this from zappos where i pretty much get everything? >> this is high-tech outdoor gear. tough go to mars. you have to have spacesuit protection for lack of an atmosphere, very thin on mars. you need micro meteor protection. this incorporates all the new shuttle technology. the suits i walked out on spacewalks this is 40-year-old technology. this has latest life-support and technologies that help you do a better, more productive jock. melissa: we'll all be wandering around in suits like that. >> before you see on asteroid and moon nearby and eventually evolve to the be capable of mars work. melissa: just to be clear, you're a former senate, and you take this seriousl

guys go to antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the samesion. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on >> >>> this is it al jazeera america, i'm richelle carey in new york with a look at the top stories >>> two key cities in eastern ukraine are hours away on voting for a breakaway referendum. >> my husbands and i are outraged and heartbroken over the kidnapping of more than 200 nigerian girls. >> outrage and overwhelming heartbreak as nigerian girls spend another day in captivity. >>> n.f.l. history - an emotional moment for

as you lose ice in one part of antarctica, request there be growth of other ice elsewhere and offset the balance of what we're losing? >> well, look, the western antarctic ice shelf is a massive, massive formation of ice. really the implications are poorly understood for what it means. it means rising sea level. take a place like miami where if you see a 5 foot rise of sea level, you lose miami beach and put a quarter of miami underwater. you see a 10 foot rise of sea level in miami, and all of miami is gone along with the beach as well. so really the implications of this large body of ice entering into the ocean are literally catastrophic, and it will play out over years, possibly decades. the fact is that now is the moment to step up efforts to building resilience in communities not just in the united states but in after rake ka and asia and latin america and europe as well. really committing real resources to get around the problem, and now is the moment to dial out of the old 20th century technologies and really ramp up investments into the new 21st century technologies that we k

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you mentioned the study about antarctica. i talked to some leading experts. what it basically says is we are faced with the worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, and we're talking maybe five or six feet of sea level rise by the end of the century. that is going to depopulate southeastern florida, but the other point is, you cross a point of no return, sea levels keep rising and rising to the point where most of florida ultimately would be underwater, and -- >> i want to stop you there. that's obviously superdensing. let's try to address that. -- one of the things that is so nefarious about the rubio answer is this republican denialist front, climate change is not happening, and then they're starting to move immediately from that to, well, we can't do anything about it, because we have stalled long enough, it's got son bad we're screwed so we shouldn't pass your measly cap and trade and you saw rubio pull off the one-two dance move in the interview. >> that's a sweet one, going from denying there's a problem to saying, oops, it's too late to do anything abo

guys go to antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the samesion. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on >> >> >>> eastern ukraine's controversial referendum on self rule gets under way. >>> hello, welcome. i'm steven cole in doha. had this is al jazeera -- this is al jazeera. the top stories this hour. >> i'll tell you how the jordanian authorities are trying to improve securityies in the refugee camps of syria. >>> plus, another five years in office - jacob zuma declared the winner of

scientists reported today based on close and constant examination, large parts of the the western antarctica ice sheet appears to have collapsed. the area shown here in red, scientists say further degradation is certainly unstoppable. they say global warming is accelerating the pace of disintegration. nasa researchers said quote, this is really happening. there's nothing to stop it now. the scientists say the ice sheet can add 13 feet to global sea levels slowly at first and more over the next 100 years or so. >>> the picture and story that might be the most forwarded on all the web today has to do with a very rare set of so-called mono-mono twins born on mother's day. they shared a single amniotic sack. here's their birth 45 seconds apart, they appeared to find each other's hands and hold on. a sign perhaps they've become quite close in their month together before being exposed to the wider world. when we come back, one extraordinary young woman, bright idea attracting the attention of some big names. >>> finally tonight, no pressure but a lot of us pinned and hoped dreams, hoping they will

the show last night that scientists are now saying-- two different papers saying the glaciers in antarcticast sliding into the sea, and there's nothing to be done. you can go back to the carbon of 1700 and it's still going to happen. shouldn't we just pop the champagne and kind of like "last night on earth" kind of thing? just give up? ( cheers and applause ) just give up and mask of the red death, and wait for death. >> the challenge we have in this climate series is if you do present it that way, people say let's party. >> stephen: right. what's the use? >> and if you don't-- if you try to mobilize them-- i think the way to think about is it is this-- our challenge now is to manage the unavoidable and avoid the unmanageable. what we want wee don't want to unleash is truly unmanageable climate change. there is a climate scientist dana meadows who said everything we do, we have to approach as we have exactly enough time starting now. and that's i think has to be your approach. we have-- >> stephen: now just pass pd. now there's no time. >> now we have exactly enough time starting now. >> st

guys go to antarctica if the summer. >> absolutely, different planes, different technology, but the samesion. >> hopefully techknow can join them on that too. >> hopefully. >> join us next time. >> dive into these stories and go behind the scenes at aljazeera.com/techknow. follow our contributors on facebook, google+ and more. >>> this is al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey in new york with a look at the day's top stories >>> overwhelmed by emotion, parents of the kidnapped girls in nigeria learn how some were able to escape. in a few hours parts of the eastern ukraine vote on whether to secede. >>> michael sam is the first openly gay player to be drafted by the n.h.l. >>> we take a deeper look at growing old in america, the changes facing so many

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. >> scientists warn a large part of antarctica is melting and cannot be stopped. >> jon: that sounds interesting. how do we know it's not apocalyptic? >> we're past the point of no return. the science is real, it is rue. >> jon: we're all gonna die! you know it's serious if someone on fox news just said "climate change is real"! i believe that is a sign of the apocalypse! (applause) i believe that may be a quote from revelation! and lo, i spied a pale anchor upon a fox, and he spaketh truths. and then the seas part, swallowing up the people... (laughter) the bible gets high-pitched when it gets like that. how floody will these rising sea levels get? >> a 10-foot rise in sea level would submerge tunnels and subways here in manhattan and parts of queens and brooklyn >> jon: new york doesn't need subways, not with the new program. that looks fun. i'm already looking forward to this sea level extension. >> this won't happen immediately. we're talking 200 to 500 years before the whole thing goes. >> jon: oh. well, i'm not going to know any of those people (laughter) got any global catastr

of antarctica? have you heard about how all of the ghaish sheers on top of -- the ghai sheers on top of green shall the glaciers on top of greenland are now falling off the sea thus causing the sea rise? now, i want to flip it back to the senator from rhode island with this comment: in the hearing that we had of the commerce subcommittee in miami beach -- i chose miami beach. why? because it's ground zero. at high tide, they're already having flooding in the streets of miami beach. at a seasonally high tide that they expect coming up in october of this year, they expect constant flooding. and, as a result, we had the mayor of miami beach tell us about the efforts of them trying to redo the infrastructure to get rid of the water when high tides come in. what we also had testify was a scientist at nasa, a fellow who is a four-time space flyer. he left the astronaut office. he's back at the goddard space flight center in maryland. he is a scientist, and what he testified to us was not foreca forecast,

new studies show that the ice sheet at the bottom of the earth, in eastern antarctica, is melting so fast, it's now unstoppable. 40 years of data shows the glacier has retreated so much that the global sea level will rise three feet or more by the end of the century. and that threatens low-lying coastal areas, like florida. >>> barbara walters, retiring on friday after a groundbreaking career of more than 50 years. to honor her, the abc news headquarters now bears her name. disney's ceo bob iger led the ceremony, dedicating what is now called the barbara walters' building. barbara said she is honor. but her true legacy is having paved the way for many women who now work in broadcast news. she certainly has. >> she also said she wasn't going to cry. she's good at making everybody else cry. >> yep. >>> coming up, the new kids on the block. the nfl has two rookies now selling the most jerseys. >>> and lashing out. donald sterling talks about his controversial comments for the first time. he had some harsh words for someone other than his ex-girlfriend. >>> it's rare, deadly and making i

climate change" says it might take a while, but if global warming melts a certain chunk of eastern antarctica, sea levels could rise as much as 13 feet, with profound consequences for life on earth. look at this animated chart from cires, the cooperative institute for research in environmental sciences. in just a minute and a half, it shows 800,000 years of carbon dioxide emissions and their sudden, dramatic jump in just the last few decades. greenhouse gases, now burning up our planet. nonetheless, david suzuki tells us on next week's broadcast that the situation is critical, but it's not hopeless. >> a lot of my colleagues have now said it's too late. we've passed too many tipping points to go back. my answer is, "thank you for the message of urgency. we don't know enough to say it's too late!" and this isn't some kind of pollyanna-ish idea. i base that notion of our ignorance on reality, and i believe that nature has many more surprises if we can pull back and give her room. and that's the basis of my hope. and that's all i'm left with. i see where the curves are all going. but i still cli

an alert about falling ice in the western part of antarctica. they say 40 years of data showed the glaciers are melting so fast, it is now unstoppable. they project the global sea level will rise three feet or more by the year 2100 and low coastal areas much like florida will be the hardest hit. >>> a story breaking tonight in brentwood, new hampshire. in what looks leak a house fire. flames shooting into the sky and explosion. a new hampshire state police official confirmed an officer was involved in a shooting. watch again as video as it happened. >>> authorities are studying a frightening moment on a highway in southern california. a pickup truck koreans into the next lane hitting a car. both vehicles tumble off the road. now a theory has emerged. road rage. abc with what we're learning tonight. >> reporter: a pickup truck swerves into a car and flipping it on its side. this dangerous crash on a san diego freeway happening saturday afternoon during busy traffic. the drivers both women and the and watch as the truck pulls alongside and loses c

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glacieroppable melting in antarctica.ay not be too late to stop some of the potential disasters. we will talk to the head of the environmental defense fund. on bloomberg television and streaming on your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com and streaming live via amazon fire tv and apple tv. ♪ live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers" with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> welcome to "market makers," everybody. i'm erik schatzker. >> i'm julie hyman in for stephanie. >> on the verge of a multibillion dollars settlement with credit suisse over allegations it helped americans evade taxes and in addition to go quickly it would pay two $.5 billion to the department of justice and other regulators. our reporter has been following this story from the outside -- outset. $2.5 billion, that is new. >> that is new. it is a lot of money and it seems to be welcomed be the starting point of pretty intense negotiations going down. although we do expect it to be coming around the corner really soon here. these se

from the shores of antarctica, the pacific ocean stretches north over 9,000 miles

scientists have over estimated the stability of east antarctica. >> a state of emergency in effect for 36 counties in central oklahoma as firefighters battal deadly wildfire. it has burned more than 3,000 acres and destroyed at least 30 buildings. firefighters say the whit wildfs 75% contained. the flames have been fanned by high winds and temperatures today will reach 100 degrees. a 56-year-old man who died in the fire sunday night refused to evacuate his mobile home. >> it has been dust bowl like conditions out there. for more, we turn to nicole mitchell. dry is the understatement. >> much like california, that south central portion of the united states, extreme drought conditions, so that combined with the extreme heat we've been seeing recently is a tinder box. it was supposed to be a controlled burn, but there were a number of fires across the region, this one in oklahoma. conditions add to that. you get heat like again today, we could be setting more records, more temperaturion in the hundreds. that dries out vegetation, and then on top of it, temperatures in the 90s, significant

want to think of a great analogy is what is life like for the scientists that work at antarcti antarcticahink about an environment like that, it is very much the same. you can live in doors and go outside as long as you are well protected. so we're talking about people that are very, very hardy, and have sort of an ingrown sense of what it is like to live in these kinds of environments where they are self dependant on their own survival and they are willing to accept that. >> what does this group know about the latest data or research about how you find people that have that right dna, the right stuff as the movies talked about, to be able to live in such close quarters, and then literally spend the rest of your life on a planet with a few people until more come along? >> it's a very unique individual. as you said 200,000 people have applied. they have cut that back to a thousand so far. but these are the kind of people who are representative of those people who explored this planet very, very early on. we have to think back in time when people were just beginning to circumnavigate the oc

west of antarctica. take a look at pictures here. these are from nasa. this is settled science.entists say that the warm waters have been eating away at these six glaciers. one, two, three, four, five -- six glaciers. eating away at them for decades. the melting water is flowing into the sea. but it's happening much faster than even these scientists predict. they say those six glaciers alone could cause a rise in seas toups four feet. and they say this glacier which is called twaite glacier is beginning to collapse. they've just seen signs of this in the last few days -- i should say, few weeks. here's a overhead shot of the same area. the glacier that's collapsing. researchers say the melt cog cause sea levels to go up ten feet in the coming century. we could see changes in the next few decades. that's because the -- i don't know why they have to name things so difficult. anyway, this glacier here, scientists say powerful winds have been pulling the warmer waters to the surface for years now. and that even if the warm waters went away, it would still be too little, too late. th

it's not taking into account all the other stuff that is melting in the antarctica. it's scary, a dark press conference. >> 4 feet of sea level, that's extraordinarily. earlier in the programme we heard florida republican senator marco rubio take issue with the notion that manmade climate change exists. he said it's not because of what humans are doing. is this report enough to turn the conservative skeptics around? >> i don't cover politics. 97% of scientists agree on the issue of manmade climate change. whether it caused this, we do know that when this glacier melts, whoever represents florida will have less territory to represent. it's all it comes down to in the end. >> remarkable news from this ice sheet. jacob ward live. thank you very much. >>> i'm michael eaves. thank you for watching this edition of al jazeera america. "inside story" is coming up next. for more news and updates around the world and in the u.s. head to the website - >> the world's biggest democracy has come to the end of a month of voting. the scale of india's elections demand words that stru

weeks they discovered that this weird burping noise they had been hearing have been from whales in antarctica all we need to do is rule it came from mh 370. we can do that in the detection radius of pingers. they can only go about a mile. >> the pinger locator was drug behind the ship at six miles. were they pounding out where the ship was or the pinger was? do we have the information? >> that -- >> but they are not down, geoffrey thomas has a good point. >> they're not done. >> one of the most important things here is pinger location number one, about six miles north of where they have been searching is deeper than the bluefin can get to. that's where they heard the ping for two hours. that's the best ping they got and we have not searched in that area yet. we have to wait for the orion to do that. we have a long way before we cancel it out. >> it seem like the authorities have cancelled it out. the australian prime minister is scaling back. they have to get new tools. >> they sent the ships -- >> mary, do you want to get in on this? >> well, there's a phenomenon called multipath propagation

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and countries around the world except antarctica has picked up the practice.the garden. if you do, you will be in the minority that have actually given mom flowers that were locally grown. let's imagine the world flower trade as a bouquet of 100 roses. 60 of those stems would have been processed in one country, the netherlands, and most of those traveled through here, the world's largest auction, called the wall of wildflowers. here it covers one of the largest buildings in the world by floor space, roughly as large as 200 football fields of flowers. the flowers, which have been flown in around the world, are paraded around for auction, sold and then shipped all around the world. the 20 million flowers and 2 million plants sold here each day have to make their way to the airport by noon to get in that beautiful bouquet for your mom the next day. whatever you think of the environmental impact, globalization is clearly blossoming in the netherlands. the correct answer is d, greece. according to a pugh research poll conducted last spring, 87% of residents saw cli