reporter: the "big ice," as greenlanders call it, is another focus. the impact of global warming on the ice sheet is alarming. angaangaq has long been fighting to raise awareness about the dramatic melting, representing arctic peoples on united nations panels, but to no avail. >> mankind is like a teenager. they don't care about what's going to happen tomorrow. they care about what we have now. it makes me sad that people don't know how to listen. they don't know how to hear. but they listen here, but if they begin to listen here, they will change. but now it's too late. this big ice will melt - in your lifetime. catastrophe is on its way. catastrophe, you and i, we cannot even imagine. reporter: for many participants, first-hand experience of the melting ice is a moving, even life-changing experience. >> i felt almost a weeping from it. you know, the crashing, when the ice breaks and caves and you that h and 's a roar, it's like tnder but deeper and louder and more charismatic. i felt her. >> we all need to become aware of how we are treating the ear

the melting of the greenland ice sheet will also have ramifications for the rest of the planet. it stands to raise global sea levels by 20 feet or more. >> that will impact places like bangladesh. asia. even in the united states. the louisiana coast. the florida coast. >> in will still take several hundred years. but that's many times quicker than anything we've previously seen. and the greenland ice sheet is definitely melting at unprecedented rates. >> throughout the arctic, permafrost, frozen ground below the soil, is melting. >> permafrost which would be a very firm foundation year around on which to build airports, roads, schools, houses, is thawing causing foundations to sink and crumble and having buildings actually collapse. that's not just happening in alaska. it's happening in russia and other places as well. so the engineering and designing and construction of buildings and public facilities has to change. it has to change pretty quickly. >> but permafrost melt is not the only problem. as the arctic sea ice melts, storms produce stronger winds and waves. exposing coas

we are already observing and measuring a decrease in the amount of ice in the greenland ice sheet and the west antarctic ice sheet. now, the climate models have predicted that we shouldn't see that for many decades to come, and the key distinction here is if it's a land ice sheet, a land-based ice sheet, then when it melts, it actually contributes to global sea level rise. that's not the case for sea ice, but it is the case for the continental ice sheets, so the fact that we're already measuring losses of ice from these major continental ice sheets means that they're contributing to sea level rise faster, once again, than climate scientists projected them to. there's a credible body of work now that suggests that if we continue with business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions, than by the end of this century, we could see as much as two meters, 6 feet of global sea level rise. now, that would be catastrophic for many coastal regions. for the u.s. east coast and gulf coast, island nations around the world, some of which will literally be submerged by that amount of sea level rise. the ipcc

it's going to go north and hit greenland. winds at 85 miles per hour. we want to shop you a few--show you a few facts for the storm. this is the first atlantic storm in january since 78, the first hurricane in january since 48 and highly unusual not impacting us which is good news. we have rain on the way. up. >> amy thank you. >>> police in winterville are looking for the people who vandalized the boys and girls club. the building was ran sacked and glass was broken. they got ahold of a pick up truck and the boys and girls club ceo was not working during they are in the process of updating the alarm system and it's been set to activate tomorrow. it's closed today but officials hope to reopen tomorrow. >>> police in italy have arrested a man in connection to the death of an american woman. he was arrested today in the death of ashley olsen. the 27-year-old's attorney said he had sex with olsen and the pair did drugs together. however he says when he left she was alive on her bed. prosecutors say she died from head injuries and was strangled. the islamic

melting on the surface and melting at the base of greenland, as well. there was discuss a few papers that came out saying basically new floodgate has been released in greenland and we're melting a lot more there. parts of antarctica are deaf increasing their rates too so it's not just something we're seeing in little pockets here and there all over the world we're seeing glaciers retreat at pretty alarming rates. >> melting at the basic same rate? >> yeah, the rates are -- it depends a lot on how fast the glacier is flowing but this is pretty comparable. it can be a little slower innant ka because it's a little colder. >> this is just remarkable as we're looking at this. looks like the climbers have made it to the bottom of this massive ice tunnel and i've got my radio here so let's see what they're seeing or hear what it was like for them. good morning, guys. i want to check in with you. this is amy again. you made it to the bottom? >> that's right. standing at the bottom. it's awesome. >> he said it's awesome. so tell me what you're seeing. >> he's se

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he also sought to buy greenland from denmark. denmark was not interested. this idea resurfaced at the beginning of world war ii. america tried to buy greenland to keep the germans from building bases there. our offer was declined. this is the check for the purchase. the idea of buying canada reached its pitch with house resolution 754 introduced by nathaniel banks. assume $85 million of canadian debt, give $2 million, and put another $50 million to shore up the infrastructure. that died a quiet death in committee. some things never change. in the civil war, the british were officially neutral. they just wanted to do trade with both sides. one of the things they did was build ships for the confederacy. they built this amazing ship, this is the captain aboard the ship. 250 foot long, which was propelled by steam or by sale. they boarded 450 union ships and took 2000 prisoners without a single casualty. it was the confederate death star. it sank the uss griswold which was a relief ship that left from boston headed for lancashire filled with supplies. after the

greenland a few years ago and nobody owns any land there. communally owned. your house is leased from the people. if you go out and shoot a walrus of the l or any traditionally hunted animals out there, you bring it to your village's communal ice locker and you put it there, and anybody in the community can as and take some, as much they want, without any accounting. it's a totally different take on have never women been an inueit society in a subserveient role. it's just a lesser role. it never happened that way, and because the 64 outages of drugs and alcohol have been more harsh on the men, the women have been in all positions of power in greenland. bishops to mayors. speaking to the foreign minister, who was telling us a e about this when i was on trip in greenland, and she said, well, here's what you have to understand about us. in the 1700s when the dans came, they said we have a god, he toks like us and we want you worship him. and we looked at each other and said, he? she's now a prime minister of greenland but a different take life.t century these ar

greenland, 2.8. concord a measly .9 inches. the same thing was true in manchester, national, and salem. anything we got melted. barely a dusting in most locations. up north, there are still snow showers in the higher elevations. the heaviest snow is working east, long gone away from us. clouds still overhead, especially in northern portions of the state. the seacoast, in portsmouth, and it is clear for the patriots game now. a couple of systems are at play. that will mean increased clouds. it does not look like we will have snow showers tomorrow. but tomorrow night into monday, we will. that storm system by houston moving into louisiana is going to be a miss for us but will bring in next a cloud cover during the day tomorrow. 30' s across the map. 32 in rochester and portsmouth and nashua. tonight, we will all fall into the 20' s. 22 in concord. portsmouth, partly cloudy. north, we will have mostly cloudy skies with a few mountain snow showers ongoing through the evening and overnight. 8:00 tonight, you can see some clearing in

there's greenland, interesting with this storm it's now going to come back toward eastern canada and help and combine big winds and cold temperatures early next week. pretty fascinating there. winds sitting north and east at 7:00 a.m. increasing high winds start to break up. we're around 50 degrees. then it's brisk and colder tomorrow night. you will need the winter coat again. you'll go down to 32. here's your accu weather forecast. on sunday we will start out with sunshine, it's a close call now with a storm offshore, we might be in the north western fringe. check with us over the weekend because they might have snow showers there. same idea on monday as the frigid air comes in. a few flurries, maybe there's a couple of flurries around the area. one of our coldest stretches. the whole week stays chilly until next week. i still don't see any strong snowstorms with this. in the meantime we start to warm up again. >>> coming up next, can a hardy we have important new tt2w`t3n`&d! bt@q:1d tt2w`t3n`&d! "a@q*= tt2w`t3n`&d! bm@q!6, tt4w`t3n`&d!" dztq #', tt4w`t3n`&d!" entq s#l tt4w`t3n`&d

well alex is a category 1 storm and is likely to move towards greenland, but at this point trying to turn to the west too so we're going to keep an eye on alex but alex not expected to have any issues on us. just very notable and interesting. that's for sure for the month of january. for us, something quite interesting and positive. warmer 14 degrees warmer in cleveland than yesterday at this time brought to you by a nice southern wind of 15 miles per hour but 42 degrees with added closes and i think those clouds will thicken up throughout the day but you'll notice sunshine off the top. 42 cleveland, 39 mansfield, 38 in ashtabula with that wind that is noticeable for all of us. cleveland, 32 ashtabula, 31 in elyria but we keep it quiet until we move to the evening commute. evening commute you may want to plan on having a few delays as the rainfall parks on top of us through about 6:00-10 and then moves out, problem is we switch those winds and snow chances start to appear. snow for the most part going to be real light, real isolated for your saturday as you can see. through sunday ev

northeast will shift north westerly eventually head up into the north atlantic and make a run maybe a greenland or iceland or something sell by then it'll just be a low nine mainly clear but becoming partly cloudy late tonight tomorrow rain at three until at least three am probably more like four or five for most of us and then saturday sunday temperatures start to fall. the latter half of the weekend slight chance of a shower of rain or snow saturday cold here monday tuesday good enough last night scott is here just a couple days away from lots of butt nfl playoff action yet and i was designed by that today my hammock in organs that mean i get a better story from the nfl sunday was in such a good day for biking kicker blair walsh missed a twenty seven yard field goal at the end of the game that cost the vikings a win in the playoffs. it sounded like this the twenty seven yards when tash snap goods lockdown was just kicking the season like that but it's even better and that way for the vikings the story however in minneapolis minn it their class assignment to send the kicker blair walsh sympath

quickly up towards greenland by the time we head saturday. so pretty wild stuff there. let's go a little closer to home now and show you what radar looks like. ere is live first alert doppler. and plenty of rainfall socked in into our backyard here. and these scattered showers will be tipping through the night. we will see that across the keys. heavier stuff pushing into monroe county. and this will continue to cycle to miami-dade and broward, as well. the movement with this, some deep mid level moisture southwest off towards the northeast. and also a few showers with the low level flow going from southeast to northwest. either way you slice it, we have a lot of rainfall on tap for tonight and tomorrow. let's talk about temperatures out there. and they're pretty mild. 71. d really the big difference you feel, the extra moisture in dew points have gone way up. feeling a bit more tropical out there. there is the fetch of rainfall we'll be dealing with. overnight tonight and into tomorrow, this area of low pressururwill skirt across northern florida and swing a cold front

arrington with the most i have seen, four inches. 2.8 in greenland. 2.3 inches and .9 in concord. that was the case into southern portions of the state. manchester international a barely got a dusting. we have a season total of 9.4 inches. on average for this time in january, we would have 25.8 inches of snowfall. we are well below that. last year at this time before the big blitz of snowstorms at the end of january and early february, we had 22 inches so we are running well below not only the average but what we have had in years past at this time. lots of clouds overhead now. i would not be surprised if higher elevation snow showers get going overnight as colder air is getting pulled down behind this system. we have lots of cloud cover toward the west. we are not out of the woods in terms of cloud cover. tomorrow, we are dodging a system to the south. this will move through the carolinas and then out to sea. the clouds associated with it will be moving across the area. sunshine. that fades as clouds moved in. 33 now in concord. 30 in nashua. most of us flirting with the freezing

as we come further to the west notice there's more action working their way towards lawrence and greenland counties and that will make their way into the western midlands. as this system continues to move up the east coast, we'll get more moisture out of it but not a whole lot. low that's going to cause just blizzard, whiteout conditions in and around d.c., that's actually forming off the coast and that's going to continue to track its way to the north. as it does so, we're going to be on the backside of this thing. we'll get winds out of the northwest. with it, there's just not a lot of this air comes from way up here in the middle part of the country and there's no moisture. to get moisture, you need to be near an ocean generally speaking and that's not the case here. we're going to see a couple of flurries through tomorrow morning and that's the whole story. so let's give you the forecast here for tonight. again, temperatures not moving very much down to around, you know, just below freezing, somewhere in there. tomorrow, we start there. again, maybe a flurry early in the day. by aftern

it is passing the azores and if it stays together, it will probably be close to greenland as it moves eventually more to the northwest. since 1938, form the first to occur in january since alice, which formed in late december and continued into january in the atlantic. warm water, warm air, long-term crazy things happen. tomorrow with the rain moving in tomorrow night, lingering into saturday afternoon -- saturday morning. sunday will be cooler, highs near 40, and dropping in the afternoon. martin luther king day on monday will be sunny and cold, and colder on tuesday. it is getting so predictable. autria: you should get a vacation. doug: we are warming above average, and then it gets really cold. autria: coming up on abc seven news at noon, a popular lip balm comes under fire. the countdown to oscar sunday is on. autria: oscar nominations are leaving"the revenant" -- leaving the pack with 12 nominations. jennifer lawrence received her third best actress nomination in sylvester for "joy." stallone is nominated for best ,"pporting actor for "creed playing the same character he played i

that will go toward greenland to a storm over the weekend that, boy, its track should be a rainstorm -- should be a snowstorm but it's going to be a rainstorm but because of the ocean temperatures. there's our studios on 66th and the west side. it's actually a good parking spot available. 37 degrees, a westerly wind at 8 miles an hour. clouds will thin out at times. i want you to notice the temperatures, how they go steady through much of the night, a warm front coming through and holding numbers steady. still below freezing in places like ramsey, new jersey. there are places north and west that got a coating this morning, there's still a little bit of snow around especially near the sides of the roads. might be black ice tonight north and west. be careful of that. tomorrow morning starting out near 40 in new york city, partial sunshine. sun fades during the day tomorrow but a south-southeast wind will help us get into the upper 40s during the afternoon. take it from 3:00 tomorrow afternoon where the clouds are thickening and after a cold morning, 42 newburgh, 48 islip and 49 in belm

going due north here between now and saturday, making it up towards greenland. pretty wild to see something like this outside of hurricane season, but we have seen it before. so there you go. alert doppler. rain to our south. marathon, key west, you're keeling it right now. this is heading north bound over the next couple of hours or so. some of the models saying it's going to move a little earlier, some kind of going in the middle and thinking once we hit midnight, we'll see a few showers. right now, certainly a wet one across the middle and lower keys. the temperatures, big story, as well. 50s in northern florida. we managed to work into the 70s across miami today, but a below average today with 76 the average. another overnight low below average, as well. here's the zoomout. you can see we've got some of that green to work with. moisture will be working in overnight tonight. let's see what this particular model says as far as rain. this one is overdoing it. florida as we speak. working in here overnight tonig. pretty steady once we hit 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 in the

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on a quest for the meaning of life, a trip to the arctic ice of greenland. what our millennium teen enjoys about his life on the islands of the seychelles.