moving towards the outer glaziers of greenland.pening. altitude. glaziers. >> okay. thank you for coming, back to the seat. >> collecting airborne data over flying. >> the aircraft is over the previous spot. otherwise we can't compare the measurements. we had to invent a technique to place the aircraft where it needs to be. we have computers computing the position using gps. the computers are mounted, you probably saw it. it looks like a video game. the pilot steers to keep the icon over the path where we want it to be. >> so i managed to get into the cockpit, which, for a mechanical engineer, is a dream come true, and we are heading towards the glaziers. the views that i see are absolutely beautiful, and that's enough in itself for me. the mission is about collecting data and understanding exactly how the environment in the harsh area of the world is changing. gas emissions cause earth service temperatures to rise, and here they are rising twice as fast on average than anywhere else on the world. this is resulting in the melting o

onight "techknow" on the road in greenland. >> we are on our way to the air base. i'm nervous. >> we are on board for n.a.s.a.'s operation icebridge - flying over some of the largest ice sheets on the planet. >> i managed to get into the cockpit, which, for a mechanical engineer, is a dream come true.

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 ice cap is too high f

six days in greenland and four in iceland and you see the beautiful houses, that's the last of civilization we'll see because the rest of it is just the wild. he got video and it's spectacular. a will the of beautiful images he was able to capture while he was there. >> that's number one on my list. to go to iceland, ride a motorcycle all over the place and see that. >> it looks like it shouldn't actually exist or happen. it looks magical. >> what's cool about being in the middle of nowhere as well as there's no light pollution just seeing the stars is amazing. >> you do see some falling stars and some air traffic but it's lovely. you're there by yourself with just your equipment. >> really, really long days as well. you saw when the sun was setting it was going down. >> very cool. >> you're going to need some warm clothing. >> major traffic jams on a road in mexico because of that. huge smoke up ahead on the other side of the highway. that's a rupture's pipeline. look at that. >> oh. >> just landed there. >> look at it go. >> it looks like a bomber attack. the highway not closed. at that p

maritime that's the kind of project to approve that makes sense wear a port next easiest the lighter greenland areas fairly easy to get approvals mostly approved for the giant project piers are much more difficult and diane with the original waterfront plan it is fair to say an important project to align our ears from admission creek and exemption that the city in 1978 from the bay bridge really others immediate piers on a regulatory are from the bay bridge to pier 39 and outside of area it is more difficult from a prospective to get to our question commissioner ho how much are available for that development 44 percent of port is dedicated to planned maritime uses 20 percent is dedicated to current or planned open space, you seem to have a great deal of consensus about that in terms of real estate for development projects currently and plans 26 percent and those are moscone but to the maritime component how much is left after all of that this is what exists exists or is planned we're seeing 5 percent that we're clear or our mixed use opportunities the piers in the northern waterfront area and

russian claims saying the area surrounding the north poll is connected to the continental shelf of greenlandirlines executive who delayed a flight over improperly served macadamia nuts may have done the nut industry a favor. a south korean auction site says sales of macadamias surged nearly 12 fold over the past five days. other sites report being sold out. >>> well, some other stories that we are following right now. an improved economy and low gas prices will combine to make this holiday travel season the busiest on record. over 99 million americans are expected to travel more than 50 miles for the holidays, up 4% from last year, which previously broke the record. >>> and in ten days the hawaiian iowa could see a big explosion. encroaching lava is only 1 mile away from reaching a shopping center with an attached gas station. it is not certain where the lava will hit. the island already has evacuation plans in place. >>> president obama was greeted by new jersey governor christie when he flew in for a thank the troops event. the president said one of the reasons he was there to simply say,

is it greenland or russia's continental shelf?se are up for grabs in the international arena. >> of course, because it's how you find your treasure. think about going back, i always bring it back to iceland. think about it, their big wars were over cod with the british. it was basically what was funding their budget, basically fish. this is not something new in battling over the waters. >> bloomberg visual graphics just did a great visual of the melting ice cap. whatever anybody thinks about climate change, to your point, it is a whole new international relations when geography gets changed. it's just that simple. >> canada as well. canada held naval exercises two years ago up there and brought the international press and what came to light is it was woefully undershipped up there. it needs a big navy, because all the sudden it has a bigger frontier. >> previously scenes too cold. >> where is santa's place, do we know? >> that is literally what we're talking about right now. canada has claimed it. denmark has claimed it. >> i thin

and greenland is a country within denmark. a final decision from the united nations could take decades. >> i thought it was santa claus and not these guys. >> and some customers are facing confusion over health care costs. and now they are cutting slack and allowing them more time to get their premiums. and what is the white house saying about this? >> they realize there might be a wrinkle here. it white house said health care.goff is working better. but behind the scenes they are saying 6.7 million customers, there is confusion about the government and insurance companies. and there is question of whether if you will get renewed. and they are working through that. and the president has been doing interviews and that is a concern about not enough wounding people showing up. >> they are happy about how it is going so far. they are starting out in their career. and they stand to benefit from the strategy. and put in place for making sure they have access to the coverage. they are available to them. >> and despite the i cuts. the

asidifying with plumes rising from the ocean floor, extreme weather events and the west antarctic and greenlandce sheets melting at unprecedented rates decades ahead of scientific projections. none of this is rhetoric and hysteria, it is fact. john: fact. extreme weather event, methane plumes rising up. all scientists agree we got to cut back on the use of fossil fuels, but then i see this book, "the moral case for fossil fuels." how can fossil fuels be moral? alex epstein wrote the book, what are you talking about? >> you have the i love fossil fuel t-shirt. >> look at the magnitude of the risk and benefit. john: what's remarkable about your book is the dogma that earth is perfect without us and we don't mess it up, but, in fact, as we've made the world warmer, assuming we have. >> uh-huh. john: climate deaths are down? >> yeah, the idea of perfect exactly right. i started call together perfect planet premise. nature gave us a perfect planet and all we can do is mess it up. if you ask someone we have a perfect climate compared to now? they were terrified, it doesn't give you water and temperat

a severe weather system has swept in from greenland creating gail force wind and 40-foot waves.ow! blackouts have also been experienced throughout the country. that is amazing. >>> over to sweden where a police raid brought down infamous web site, the pirate bay. it is a file-sharing site used by millions often to exchange movies and tv shows. sweden says the raid was part of an operation to protect intellectual property. >>> landing in france where the government wants stores open on weekends. doesn't sound crazy to us in the states but the french always kept their weekends work-free with strict regulations in place to protect them. the french economy slowed so much that officials are open to new ways to create jobs and growth. hmmm. >>> why get one when you could settle for two? one lehman trader was so unhappy with his $84 million bonus that he is suing for double the amount. >>> plus, getting ready for the storm. california stocking up on sandbags and supplies as it braces for some of the worst weather in years. more "money" coming up. ♪ she's still the one for you. and cial

now he is in greenland which is way off course. >> he still has a couple of hours to make it to us. >ream winds that blew him off course. >>> north america's domestic oil production is growing and most of it is going by train. the oil is coming from the oil fields across north dakota, montana, and canada. >> but without a pipeline to california, supplying bay area refineries means more trains on the tracks. the growing concerns that all the tanker cars are an accident waiting to happen. >> hey! hey! >> reporter: the sound of a catastrophic explosion. quebec, 2013, a 74 car train carrying crude oil derailed resulting in the destruction of half of a town and the loss of 42 lives. the train was carrying backen crude. moan to be more volatile. it is transported by rail. this is the video of the richmond rail term terminal which is the destination of the trains. each train is 100 cars. each carl landry res over 28,000 gallons of crude oil. a scene that will become a common site in california. >> that is a common train full of a much more volatile type of crude oil than we typically see on

and the map, it looks slightly larger than greenland. that is not really the case. this is a very serious challenge for the united states, obviously. our action here is going to be mogadishu in the southern part of somalia. we will talk about the humanitarian crisis circa 1989, and it will continue to about 1995. we will start there, shoots south, and go into kenya. they call this the trying goal of death, where the worst humanitarian crisis at the time was taking place. let's look at what we decide to do. this is an oversimplification, right? this is not the history of somalia. there are lots of things that caused the humanitarian crisis in somalia. i can hit a couple of the quick ones here. wrote a really neat book. very controversial book. it is called "road to hell." he wrote a couple of pieces in including irature, believe "rolling stone." and he was charged with his -- he charged from his experience in somalia, that somalia became addicted to humanitarian aid ultimately. the story therefore goes to the relationship between somalia and ethiopia. if i can backtr

pretty strong storm system coming right out of greenland, affecting the whole area.es are upwards of 12 meters, nearly 40-foot wave heights over the region in the next couple of days. kind of showing you the wind speeds to go along with it. 50 to 70 kph. the model is almost like the tropical feature as organized as this is coming in between wednesday and thursday. so certainly travel issues across western and northern europe and also across western and northern parts of the united states, as well. heavy rainfall, 15 to 20-foot surf across the coast of california. this is the olympic mountains of northwestern washington state. models here showing the possibility for ten or more inches of rainfall in the next couple of days. this region, by the way, is the only region around the town here famed in the twilight movies known for the rainfall there. this is going to be a pretty impressive event, of course landslides something to watch in the region, as well. >> all right, i know you will be tracking it all. pedram javaheri. >>> right now, more on the hostage killed in yem

obviously on our maps, africa looks slightly larger than greenland. not, clearly, the case here.looking at roughly about 40% the size of india. this is a very serious challenge for the united states, obviously. our action here is going to be mogadishu in the southern part of somalia. we will talk about the humanitarian crisis circa 1989, and it will continue to about 1995. we will start there, shoots south, and go into kenya. they call this the triangle of death, where the worst humanitarian crisis at the time was taking place. let's look at what we decide to do. this is an oversimplification, right? this is not the history of somalia. there are lots of things that caused the humanitarian crisis in somalia. i can hit a couple of the quick ones here. michael maron wrote a really neat book. very controversial book. the aid community hated it. it is called "road to hell." he wrote a couple of pieces in popular literature, including i believe "rolling stone." he worked in the aid community for a number of years, and he charged from his experience in that part of the reason we had a h

. >> greenland will be a jungle in five years. >> actual reduction targets. >> they can talk about the for countries are the mix of financing run mitigation. the facts is copenhagen crashed and burned and went down in flames -- what will be different in paris from what we observed in copenhagen? >> there are three things i could be different. one there is stronger evidence than there was in copenhagen that there is public support a run climate negotiations and that the actual scientific evidence is more born out over the past several years. is much more positive momentum and realistic achievements made by important countries -- including the china and u.s.. in maybe last week lima has been something of it is appointment but the fact that the u.s. and china came to an agreement really could have been the possibility -- >> but the game changer was the elections we had in the united states. we have to solve problems one at a time but our negotiators looking to who will sign off on this? >> to some extent but bear my the agreement that they reached which on the china side said we plan to p

copenhagen says greenland's continental shelf is connected ,o a ridge in the arctic ocean giving denmarke ice. that claim will be delivered to a u.n. panel, which will ultimately decide control of the area. iang maypremier li keq achieve his 7.5% growth target this year, after all. that is thanks to a bit of fine-tuning. --s is what me why call might call creative accounting. >> i will leave it for the viewers to decide, but they are theng a look at the echo -- latest economic senses. this is the senses of beijing puts out every five years. in thes at services street, over 70,000 small and medium-size businesses in china. they may help the chinese government achieve that 7.5% gdp growth target this year. in 2013, we may see gdp revised 1%.rds of that is about $300 billion in additional economic growth, and the 2014 number says growth may be revised upward by about 1/10 20.3%. it paints a picture of a chinese economy that is growing at the pace the government expects. is it really? you have to look at the numbers that accompany it. >> what are the key obstacles for china's leadership to s

is it an extension of greenland? is it coming back the other direction from russia?idge, owns the north pole. >> this is all about money. >> you are kidding? >> who's going to control all of those oil rights and gas rights. who takes it over? >> right now they are too expensive to worry about. >> not so much on gas. nasa's looking favorable. >> natural gas futures this fell below three dollars. >> i will i i'm not in a minisub planting flags. >> elon musk takes to twitter and gives an act update on the tesla roadster. he will release more detail today. what do you think about tesla i think thek? >> car is gorgeous. it's a great looking car. this is an interesting channel of distribution. you've got a bite through an agent somewhere. i drive out to long island every weekend and i'm not sure i can get out there without a stop. that still bothers me. >> he is trying so hard to figure out how to sell these cars. we were talking about this program he has in china which is cash for clunkers. he is offering a trade-in value. i'm not sure what your used car is worth in china