in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of those tricky power point graphs and this is where i pretend i'm al gore. now we're taking longer point of view and these three traces here at the bottom is global temperature, surface temperature of the earth. this is made out from proxy records and we did not have thermometers a hundred and fifty years ago so this is reconstructed from sediments and ice ansisotopes and so forth and the top is co2, so this is in hundreds of thousands of years and it's interesting that you see this pretty remarkable sigh lick or cycles and this is the climate and other periods of earth history we would be huddled in a cave right now or something. the - one of the primary factors in causing this period or rough period is the fact that there are orbital properties of the solar system and planets resolve around them and in this case the exintrinsicty of the earths budget that changes and that goes, it has about a hund

in sort of a broad base of different impacts ranging from water resources to forest, human health, beeches, coasts, agriculture and so on. let's go on to the next one. okay this is kind of one of

. >> it is very tough and i'm going to take pie talent to the beech and join the miami heat. >> lehrer: ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> . >> woodruff: the justice department formally announced completion today of the largest exchange of spies since the end of the cold war. it unfolded at sites across europe. two planes, one from russia, the other from the u.s. arrived within minutes of each other today in vienna, austria. they lined up on the hot tarmac waiting for the swap. then a procession of convicted sleeper agents flown from new york climbed the steps to the russian plane. some had their children with them. meanwhile on the american charter, four russians convicted of spying for the west awaited their flight to freedom. two were dropped off later at a military base in england before the plane headed bac

from local storage while hiking with his family to south the gulf of beech tree officials say it happenedr noon today. three of the boy's family members were with him when he fell and 2 where the parking lot nearby beach. live in the newsroom dan curbing kron 4 news. >> the latest a mile and receive a look to the floor of the gulf of mexico the cap is holding rate now. their small amount of oil and gas leaking the pressure still climbing on the cap they fit into place last week. the government top man on the oil spill said there are no plans to let any major amounts of oil escape from the wild. it's a >> collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepage as we're fighting right now to not represent any indication that there's a threat to the well if we think that was what happened we would take immediate action. >> it crews have been able to skim most of the oil away from the site to some of the crews are now being sent out to look for oil elsewhere. present >> know, is really frustrated with republicans for blocking and extension of unemployment benefits.

beech nut, which produces baby foods a tremendously powerful economic engine in the mohawk valley, their jobs are 156, 52 in management and 54 in new factly positions. these are workers that will be producing on the line. it is a strength to our region. x-ray optical. the x-ray optical system said they feel that they need to share with the world that throughout this recession, they have maintained their work force, and their order of business, they believe this is a monumental feat. so we're thrilled they are able to have survive through this economic climate without any layoffs, without any firings. certainly the jobs in the capital region are plentiful, become manager plentiful. the albany medical center has more than 400 openings including nurses, technicians and other specializations. general electric needs some 200 engineers, researchers, financial analysts. comfort tech is hiring 400 people since may and looking for 15 additional workers this time last year, the state labor department in new york reported there were 3,800 registered job openings in our area now it's reported 600 jo