jane arraf you were telling me this is a situation building for many months. >> it has. i think while the west was ignoring iraq, essentially the country has become partitioned. and in fallujah, fallujah is less than 40 miles from the center of baghdad, right, but to get to fallujah, you have to pass roadblocks, the army has essentially sealed off the town, the same way they sealed off other sunni areas. it's been a year of grievances, a year of protests. and as the american military always used to say and the american state department, there's no military solution to this. but the political solution that people feel we should have been seeing just hasn't been there. >> woodruff: and what has been behind prime minister maliki's move to isolate, to seal off the sunnies in this part of the country, the an bar province. >> it's really easy to see this, i think, as a sectarian conflict, sunni versus shi'a but i think it's oversimplifying it in a very complicated country, in a really complicated, increasingly complicated region. at the heart of maliki's decisions, i think, ha

really have the data to connect the dotsment we tend to look at one individual weather event and say jane arraf, is that a cause or a result of climate change. >> the game isn't over. what should be the rainiest months are yet to come. >> it's possible that we could pull out of the dry conditions that we are in now, and get something that is closers to normal. >> the last good rain is more than a month ago. now the weather looks like this. >> couldn't come soon enough. >> state officials are giving more rain to farmers impacted by the drought. they are hiring more firefighters ahead of a dangerous wildfire season. from bone dry to underwater, flooding in northern italy is getting worse. the flooding spread through towns and villages. 100 peel had to evacuate. the flooding engulfed parked cars, submerging them. others were trapped in their homes unable to get out. more rain is expected in the coming days. >> did you watch the games on sunday. we are locked and loaded for a sturp sunday. >> it was a wild day of play-off football. the upset that has n.f.l. fans pumped up for the big games in new y