over greenland was much higher than normal.and the engineer on one of the helicopters took a video during this temperature spike. those are parts of the glacier just exploding with the high temperatures. >> what exactly are we watching and why is it so important? >> the land based ice on greenland would raise the sea level worldwide by 7 feet. the most vulnerable nations are in asia and south asia, by assets at risk. the number one city in the world at risk is miami. i saw a fish in the ocean swimming in the streets of miami beach on a sunny day, simply because it was a high, high tide. bangladesh has millions of people in the low-lying areas. some of them got used to rebuilding their lives every 20 years, now it's once every six or seven years, so the refugees climbing northward. and the migrants from the hardest hit drought areas, climate related droughts, particularly in the mediterranean, but in large areas of the middle east and north africa. right now 20 million people are at risk of starvation, the largest humanitarian c

the temperature over greenland was much higher than normal. the engineer on one of the helicopters took a video during this temperature spike. those are parts of the glacier just exploding with the high temperatures. >> what exactly are we watching and why is it so important? >> well, the land-based ice on greenland would if at all melt raise sea level worldwide about 20 feet. most threatened cities in the world by population are calcutta, mumbai, you can go down the list of many of them in asla and south asia. by assets at risk, number one city in the world at risk is m miami. i saw fish from the ocean swimming in the streets of miami beach on a sunny day simply because it was a high tide. >> kinds of hard to pump the ocean. >> bangladesh, of course, has tens of millions of people in the low-lying delta areas. some of them got used to rebuilding their lives every 20 years. now it is once every six or seven years. and so the climate refugees moving northward have caused india to complete the largest steel fence in the world on their southern b

they're territorial claims with denmark and greenland with norway with russia with canada with the united states the arctic powers and then also the non arctic powers that want to have the right to pass through the northern passage now that you know climate change is creating a ceiling there and so there are going to be competing claims and when there are competing claims in the maritime spear that draws in coast guards and navies and there's going to and there are a bunch of folks that we shoulder to shoulder in the arctic you know russia claims most of the arctic right they right i don't think they're right look everybody has pretty expansive claims that's what you do and there's never been a tribunals to negotiate you know to to rule on those claims that everybody takes we take all our last in khost the russians have the largest close line against against the arctic followed by the canadians and then that the danes of course with greenland people leave that out so there are these competing claims of the russians have legitimate. lames there there are claims aren't as legitimate as far

we will be challenged on our coast, greenland, island, united kingdom, uk gap, we will see u resurge in russia in the atlantic as we see a resurgent china in the pacific. let's turn to third largest ocean, that would be the indian ocean, pacific about 160 million square kilometers, atlantic around 100, indian ocean just a tad smaller but a big ocean. you could take the entire land mass mass of the united states times three and put nit the indian ocean, it began spice routes increasing hydrocarbons, the two geopolitical actors, india on the left and pakistan on the right, have their own kind of cold war manifesting and merit time confrontation in this indian ocean. we see piracy around the edges of it and across the coast of yemen, interplay of shiite, that's irÁn supporting sunni with the united states leading to saudi arabia. a great deal of action is playing out in the merit time theater and we ought to consider the number one challenge in the indian ocean is right here. it's iran. that's the iranian flag, that's co2 missi. iran sees itself as imperil power. they will seek to recre

, and russia on one side of this arctic and five nato nations, u.s., canada, denmark, because of greenland, iceland, northern norway on the other side. this, because of the ice melting, will create real geopolitical challenge. there's something called the arctic council. nato kind of on one side, russia on the oomph let's hope we can find a way to use diplomacy to avoid further conflict in the high north. and we don't have enough ice breakers. anybody know how many the ice breakers the united states has? one. you get the prize. denmark, a nation of 4 million people, they have six. russia has dozens. china has 12 and is building more. we need to step up our game if we're going to operate in the high north. so, lastly, having walked you through a few of the world residents oceans, let me turn to what call sometimes the outlaw sea. the outlaw see, the oceans are the largest crime scene in the world. pollution. dumping. acidification, piracy itself, fishing, underreported, underregulateed. catches of protein down 60% over the last two decades. and the oceans are warming. again, we can have a d

meanwhile, in greenland, a massive and unprecedented wildfire continues to burn nearly two weeks after dried peat first caught fire on the island's southwest. scientists say climate change has led to less surface water in those parts of greenland not covered in ice. in lincoln, nebraska, activists delivered over 460,000 public comments thursday to the state's public service commissioners, urging them to reject a permit for the proposed keystone xl pipeline to cross the state. the pipeline, which was resurrected in march by president trump, has faced years of resistance from native americans, farmers, ranchers and environmentalists. and in new york city's financial district, five activists were arrested thursday as they nonviolently blocked the entrance of the investment giant goldman sachs. the arrests came as about 200 protesters gathered to denounce a conference between goldman sachs and pipeline and fossil fuel corporations. >> i am with new york communities for change in front of goldman sachs' headquarters to send a message they shohould not be funding oil and gas pipelines and co

thanks so much for speaking to us from greenland this evening. thank you. fares will go union with the eu. rail fares will 9° up union with the eu. rail fares will 9° up by union with the eu. rail fares will go up by 3.6% injanuary, the biggest increase for four years. commuter groups say it is the customer who will suffer. the actions of kensington and chelsea borough council will be examined indie investigation into the grenfell tower tragedy. looking at the markets, and this is how london and frankfurt ended the day, and how the dowjones and the nasdaq are getting on at mid—afternoon on the east coast. the northern ireland blood transfusion service has apologised to 120 members of the indian community who were turned away from giving blood. they weren't allowed to do so because of confusion about whether they had been to india and needed a malaria test. peter coulter reports. members of northern ireland's indian community wanted to organise this blood drive to do something positive. around 120 people were due to attend. there are people who travel from d

with great gloss of shadow up to 190 miles wide, cut across the continent from coast of oregon, to greenland. it was the last total eclipse, since the year -- until the year 2017. >> wow, that's so cool. >> i'm tweaking out little bit , i got chills. kansas city couple using the eclipse as a use to tie the knot. >> they've known each other for 20 years, but in the last three they became sweetheart and started a family, then joe popped the question. when it came time to plan the wedding the couple found out about the total eclipse. it seemed like the heavily bodies had aligned. >> we both love, you know, the moon, the stars, the planets >> it will be awesome, once in a lifetime opportunity, that's what i love about it. >> well, don and joe will take their vows before the moon passes between the sun and the earth. they're matching their wardrobes to symbolize light and dark. they even ordered glasses for all of their guesses to watching during the reception. >> seems every someone getting into the spirit of the eclipse , even krispy kreme. >> is offering its original glaze donut in a coat of c

here on the vast greenland ice sheet, the problem is super—sized. in part due to algae growing on the surface of the ice. darker than the ice, it absorbs more of the sun's warmth. nobody as saying that is going to melt in the next decade, the next 100, or even 1000 years. but it does not need to be completely melted for people to be in danger. only a small portion is required to raise sea levels, and the threaten millions of people coastal communities around the world. and in the expansion of renewable energy, this is a landmark development: wind turbines floating off the sea of norway. they will form the world's first floating wind farm. so, you've look down towards the ground, and we've seen equipment measuring the weather at this level. but now we look into the skies. to do that, i am joined by natalie. hi, natalie. talk us through this piece of equipment, here. ok, so this is the cellometer, a laser that takes a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere. this is the equipment that holds the laser. you can't see the laser. it measures outside the visib

the next three years they'll add 100 ships to the fleet we will be challenged on our coast in the greenland and iceland united kingdom we will see a resurgent russia as we see a resurgent china in the10 pacific now looking at the indian ocean with 160 million square kilometers in the atlantic is 100 and indian ocean is that tad smaller you could take the entire land mass to begin as spice routes with the to geopolitical actors to have the cold war manifesting and off the coast of yemen to see the interplay of iran supporting saudi arabia called states with the government of yemen sut so a great deal of the y action is playing out in the maritime theater we should consider read the number one challenge of the indian ocean. as every and sees itself as the imperial power. they created the persian empire. and with a flag afire rand today. we'll get the persian empire. all of this brings confrontation with the i ran nation and the bottom left led by saudi arabia the closest ally is israel in the middle of this the united states so maritimeme activity not only to the south china sea near the atla

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here on the vast greenland ice sheet, the problem is super—sized.art due to algae growing on the surface of the ice. darker than the ice, it absorbs more of the sun's warmth. the more the ice melts, the more sea levels rise. nobody is saying that is going to melt in the next decade, the next 100, or even 1000 years. but it does not need to be completely melted for people to be in danger. only a small portion is required to raise sea levels, and to threaten millions of people coastal communities around the world. and in the expansion of renewable energy, this is a landmark development, wind turbines floating in the sea off norway. they will form the world's first floating wind farm. sarah: so, you've looked down towards the ground, and we've seen equipment measuring the weather at this level. but now we look up into the skies. to do that, i am joined by natalie. hi, natalie. talk us through this piece of equipment, here. ok, so this is the cellometer, a laser that takes a vertical snapshot of the atmosphere. this is the equipment that holds the laser

properly and that means keeping them safe for houses allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland in assembly member and comes in council of the highgate sean barrie about the causes of the housing crisis they also because this capitalism that the market as a has been unregulated and day regulates itself on to deal with say rising costs were saying let's go for the people buying homes sits around my that distorts a little bit and then they develop this business model really is fight. we're saying lots of hands to all belts no no london it could ever fools it's a body that is arrested just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage on supply and it's genuinely bright and either way you've got powers life got a nasty is running back on some of his promises to people in the states to vent when it comes to things like rent patrols and having a buy with a little history lesson however the crisis goes beyond the capital communities across the u.k. kevin judy grew up in school in schools on a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by films like dispossessio

greenland holdings facing repayment problems over a project.is already in default on $30 million of debt. the company is 46% owned by the shanghai government. right, we have a typhoon, and ,ow a signal of number 10 severe gales continue to strengthen. perhaps onet, it is which we are keeping tabs on as the morning exchange has been canceled. that typhoon signal has been raised to number 10 the now. -- number 10 in now. bankers gatherop at jackson hole, investors waiting for a preview from mario draghi, set to give a speech on wednesday in germany. , part of thesehy high expectations is be has mario draghi does use jackson hole as a plat form to indicate policy moves. around saying this time that he will be cautious and it is much ado about nothing. >> that is likely. to useellen has declined jackson hole as a platform to make policy shifts. in theh mario draghi has past, he is in a different situation. data from europe showing strength and the pickup in activity and the bottom line with two .5% growth in gdp in the second quarter, so treading a

and that means keeping them safe but how is this allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland assembly member. comes in counsel of the highgate sean berry about the causes of the housing crisis they also because he's kept his you know that the market as a has been unregulated and de regulates it for the faulty law we're seeing rising costs for saying let's approach the people buying high sits around my distorting little and the big developers business model really is failing and we're saying lots of hands to all belts no no london it could ever fool its a body there is a risk just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage our chances of buying it's genuinely bright and either way you've got powers like you've got the masses is rolling back on some of his promises to people on estates to rentals when it comes to things like rent patrols and having a whether or not you have a stimulus however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k. heavy duty grew up in scotland schools and a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by film

we will be challenged on our coast, in the greenland iceland united kingdom, g.i. u.k. gap that is sometimes called. we're going to see a resurgent russia in the atlantic as we see a resurgent china in the pacific. let's turn to the third largest ocean that would be the indian ocean so pacific 160 million square kilometers, atlantic, around 100. indian ocean just a tad smaller but a big ocean. you could take the entire land maps of the united states times three and put it in the indian ocean, with it began routs today increasingly hay dro are car won, the two geopolitical actors india on the left. pakistan on the right. have their own kind of cold war manifesting and maritime confrontation in this indian ocean. we see piracy around the edges of it. and off the coast of yemen, we see the inner play of shia that's supporting rebels and sunni, saudi arabia, the gulf states supporting the government of yemen with the united states leaning towards scraib a great deal of action is playing out in the maritime theater. and we ought to consider the number one challenge in the in

three years, russia will add 100 ships to their fleet, we will be challenged on our coast, in the greenland, iceland, united kingdom, we are going to see a resurgent russia. in the atlantic as we see a resurgent china in the pacific. >> but let's turn to the third-largest ocean. that would be the indian ocean. so pacific, about 160 million square kilometers. atlantic, about 100 , indian ocean just a tad smaller but a big ocean. you could take the entire landmass of the united states times three and put it in the indian ocean. it began as spice routes. today increasingly hydrocarbon. the two geopolitical actors, india on the left, pakistan on the right. in their own kind of cold war manifesting in maritime countrymen confrontation in this indian ocean. we see pirates around the edges of it. and off the coast of yemen, we see the interplay of shia, that's a ran supporting sufi rebels and sunni, saudi arabia, the gulf states supporting the government of yemen with the united states leaning towards saudi arabia. >> a great deal of this action is playing out in the maritime theater. >> and we ou

greenland alone, just greenland is losing about 200 billion tons of ice by year and fresh water going into the ocean. antarctica was largely stable. the ice sheet was in changing very much. the last five years it's accelerating. step up to about 200 billion tons a year as well. that's going to change a lot. the ice caps are not something we can now stop from melting. they will not melt quickly. i would be a process i think of many centuries but in 100 or so now we will really see some noticeable differences in terms of the coastline. this is not something that has to be the end of the world or the end of civilization. there are ways to even now prepare for it. new zealand, for example, is now accepting pacific islanders as immigrants from islands that we know are not going to be there in 100 years. so we need to be a little bit forward thinking how we start writing cartridges, how would you deal with immigration, how we start preparing for what will be a huge number of refugees. and that can either the massively destabilizing or we could get a grip on this and do this right. then that

some sections of antarctica and greenland have now crossed a point where they will continue melting no matter what. some temperature increases will continue. some of the other changes. -- you sort of like know, if somebody is a heavy smoker and has been for 40 years and says dr., i have been smoking three packs a day for 40 years. i guess there is no point in me quitting now because my fate is sealed, right? and the doctor will say, no that is not right. medical studies show -- if you quit now, your chances improve your by year by year. back to climate, with the scientist telesis -- yes, we put a lot of stuff up there and some of it will be there for 1000 years. , if we could magically stop putting any man-made global warming solutions into the atmosphere tomorrow, how long for half of fate, 50% of it to fall back out of the sky? 20 years. that means a lot of it would still be up there. the truthful, realistic answer to your question is, we have done some damage. but far more significantly, the scientist telesis there is no doubt that we do still have the capacity to avoid the catastro

daylight, great shadow up to 190 miles wide, cut across the continent from the coast of oregon to greenlandast total eclipse of the sun for north america, until the year 2,017. >> and here we are. all these years later. but take a look at this video, of people gathering to watch the eclipse 38 years ago, just a little trip back in time. always good to see. >> our eclipsefest, continues at 6:00 advice for your pet. should you walk your dog during the eclipse or keep your pup inside? a vet answers our questions onto how to keep pets safe on monday. that's coming up at of. >> and every day in every newscast, we will have you covered with all of the eclipse information you need. so stay with cbs-3 and cbsphilly.com for eclipsefest, only here, on cbs-3. >> entrepreneur elan must being has sent into orbit today. reached the international space station just before 7:00 . it brought 3 tons of supplies, and equipment, to astronaunts in space station. the two spacecrafts were hovering 250 miles above the pacific ocean. >> well, local camp is encourage willing girls to pursue carreers in science, tech

while greenland is largely covered by ice, certain vegetation can be found coastal areas.eather. >>> flash flooding is the concern today. remember i showed you the pictures of the tornado yesterday in maryland, they did confirm wit us an ef-1 tornado. even by maryland standards, that was impressive. here's the showers and thunderstorms this morning, down along the gulf cost, outside of galveston. once again the southeast, it's a typical afternoon type stuff, isolated flash flooding, plant south wards, rain totals 1 to 2 inches and for our friends around myrtle beach. let's talk temperatures. we continue with our dry streak from portland to seattle. this is where all of the hot stuff is. but this cool flow out of canada, good thing it's not winter. this would be a cold pattern. but in the summertime it's unseasonally cool for much of the country. kansas city 80 degrees. only 87 in memphis. i say only because typically this time in memphis it should be 90 to 95. thursday, temperatures in the mid 80s which is very enjoyable for the middle of august. and into this weekend even

i've been to greenland several times but going back last year, it was really obvious that the ice meltcreasing dramatical dramatical dramatically. had a huge temperature spike in april of last year. see the glaciers literally exploding with the pressures. >> showed that on the film, literally it looks like an explosion. >> yeah. >> for people who haven't been there, people looking at it, there's still a lot of ice, what's the big deal? >> it's losing i think about one cubic kilometer per day now. the problem is it's accelerating very rapidly and that's driving sea level increases. i went from there down to miami where i saw fish from the oceans swimming in the streets on a sunny day because the sea level rise has gone so much now that the highest of the high tides brings it in to cover a lot of streets in miami, miami beach, ft. lauderdale, norfolk, on up the east coast, galveston, and, of course, in other parts of the world you have these low-lying islands and places like bangladesh where tens of millions of people live in areas that are in danger of being inundated and the number of

. >> reporter: officials say greenlanders park was that designed to take in those flood waters and withicnic tables and benches partially under water, it seems to have done its job but it wasn't enough to completely spare nearby homes. >> i have leaks in five different places and i've never had leaks in my roof before. >> it's coming up from the rear, coming up from the front. >> reporter: just across the street he was assessing the extensive water damage in this residential basement. >> is this going to be a costly job. >> uh -- >> could it be potentially. >> yes, it could be. it could be 10,000 plus for a waterproofing job. >> reporter: in his and 20 plus years doing this job it's not often he says he's seen water damage like this in this area. >> the water was never like this in this area for awhile. >> reporter: officials tell me it will take several days for this water to recede but they are thankful that this park did what it was supposed to do which was prevent further damage to the neighboring homes. reporting in burlington, new jersey, jeanette reyes, channel6 "action news." >>

today greenlanders park was still under water and remains closed. it was actually designed to take in flood waters but it wasn't enough to completely spare the nearby homes. plumbers have already been called in to access the damage. >> the rain just started and then it just kept coming down more and more intensely. >> i never seen it in this area like this. i've done excavations in this area a lot, we're always in here doing excavations and i've never seen that. >> the assessments continue of that damage as at one point during the flooding rescue boats were used to save four cars that were under water. >> all right, time now for a check of the accuweather forecast for your friday afternoon. >> all right. meteorologist melissa magee is outside for us today. i can see the sunshine behind you. she's in for adam. hi, mels -- melissa. >> temperatures are in the upper 80's. it's 88 degrees in philadelphia, 88 trenton, glitch reading and lancaster same thing in allentown. down the coast in cape may coming in at 81 degrees. up in the poconos at 75 so we've

great swath of shadow up to 190 miles wide cut across the continent from the coast of oregon to greenlandhe last total eclipse of the sun untull the year 2017. >> there you go. the year 2017. legendary cbs anchor walter kron kick lead the coverage in 1979. on monday a total eclipse will travel coast to coast for the first time in 99 years. nasa scientists will use specially equipped aircraft to get an up close view. david begnaud is live with special ambitious experiment. david. >> reporter: there are two aft craft that will flying 50,000 feet above the clouds and turbulencele you have two guys on board, the pilot in the front and the journalist in the back. they've taken the nose cone off this. it's go time for nasa's strat s stratospheric air force science team they're going on an atmospheric research ride. their ride is a 1960s air force jet called a bomber jet. during monday's total eclipse, these same planes will serve the very same purpose. >> you're not wearing the moon suit but you'll wear the glasses. >> yes. >> reporter: he's one of four nasa flight crew members who will be chas

we know people from greenland, asia, australia.of us have never seen a total eclipse. >> our team is all across the country. david muir, leading the coverage starting at 1:00 eastern. >>> you have today's other headlines. >> that's right. president trump is hours away from unveiling his new military strategy for afghanistan. he'll deliver a primetime address tonight from ft. meyer, virginia. defense secretary jim mattis wants to send in 4,000 more troops. >>> a woman has been killed after a stolen van plowed into two bus stops in marseille. police say this driver has psychiatric issues and this doesn't appear to be terror related. >>> authorities in spain have identified the man they say was behind the wheel. the 2-year-old moroccan man may have crossed into frans. he was linked to an imam with alleged ties to isis. >>> and tributes for dick gregory who died over the weekend at the inage of 84. he was one of the first black standup comedians. he embraced nonviolence and spent years fighting racism and social injustice. zpncht final

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