bonamici: the bill re-authorizes noaa's marine debris program. that's very important.n addition to that, i introduced bipartisan legislation with congresswoman herrera beutler to expedite that funding which can currently take about a year from -- about a year. so i urge my colleagues to support our coastal communities by supporting this legislation and the bill before us today. thank you to the chairs and ranking member for your hard work, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from new jersey. mr. lobiondo: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentleman from washington. mr. larsen: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. farr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. farr: thank you. thank you for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today to highlight title 6 of the coast guard and maritime transportation act of 2012 which amends the mar

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it is in that subcommittee that the agency noaa, the noaa -- the noaa noaa is -- the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is funded. it is there the fisheries money is spent. and any fishery disaster in order to qualify for federal assistance must be certified by the secretary of commerce. every single fisheries disaster in this bill has been certified by the secretary of commerce to meet compelling human need, economic necessity, and within the criteria established by law. the gentleman from oklahoma, well intentioned, is asking us to violate the law. he wants to make fisheries disasters under the stafford act. the stafford act, named after tax reform new hampshire, a wonderful -- the gentleman from new hampshire, a wonderful republican, was for fema. if you think you have a fema disaster, you go to the governor, there has to be data collected, it has to go to the president. if you think you have a fisheries disaster, which we coastal senators experience these days all too often, it has to go through the secretary of commerce. and i assure those of you on the floor, those

in addition, even the noaa hurricane hunter planes were damaged. we have three of them, but only one plane was able to work during the 2012 hurricane season, and the two others desperately need repairs, and we're going to do it. also, we need to repair facilities along the coast that were -- nasa facilities that were damaged along the coast. beaches were washed away near the nasa launch pad at wallop's island. the launch pad sits steps close to the beach and workers had to stop testing the rocket that will be used to take cargo to the space station. after hurricane sandy, they said they had not seen this much damage in over six years. this is a very important facility and also other nasa facilities were damaged because of the impact and their closeness to the beach. then there's cleanup. entire coastal communities were washed away. the magnitude was amazing. and right now we have debris from storm damage that can be dangerous to fishing vessels, public health and safety, and to marine life. this fund something important for the communities hit by h

while one week or one season can not tell a climate story, a longer range report card was released by noaa today. the subject ? the arctic, where records were broken this year. in 2012, there was less snow -- and more sea ice melting -- than they've ever measured before. satellites started measuring arctic ice in 1979. since then, half has disappeared. and just this year, 4.5 million square miles melted away, an area the size of the u.s. and mexico, combined. >> melting is a big concern, because that moving water that's currently thawed into the ice, moving it into the ocean. if that continues, that's going to have an impact on people that live in coastal regions. >> reporter: sea levels rising means even more after a storm like sandy. and we learned today that the white house is requesting $50 billion to cover the damage from that epic storm but the states involved say that isn't going to be enough. >> these bulletins just keep coming. >> reporter: right. and they keep finding these reports and records. they will. we started records in 1979 in sea ice melt. they will keep changing. and th

and, so, in this case noaa had a product called the emergency management response application which was very nascent. i told dp, i need everything to get this live within 72 hours. they came up with $200 million and it went live. if i had to bid that through, you know, through our channels, i might see it five years from today. but now we've run the slide. and on the first day that irma was in social media, we had 250,000 hits. on the second day it was over 3 million. and people could actually navigate through this tool. and what i was saying, they could validate using gps encrypted photographs where the response was. but it helped close that public trust gap and that's really where being able to move as much information as we can out into the public domain as we talk about cop. and obviously we need to look about cyber concerns as well. but certainly there is a responsibility to share, and especially with the general public because those are the ones that are going to say yea or nay in terms of how we're responding to an event. >> in the service of managing information during a disaste

no one is going to buy it so if noaa had a regular program called the awesome stuff we do by noaa andone episode was about the fish sniffer, then someone could reference that and be like know the fish never is a guy i saw and he's a nice man. you can't bring a fish sniffer out of nowhere. for me that was hugely important lesson. been the final lesson i learned i think is when you are doing filmmaking like this you have to stop being a filmmaker because being a filmmaker is to eyes want one more shot and to always want to be on the other side of the door. to beat yourself up when you don't and this is not a job where that worked. if the door in the oval office close and i wanted to go to the other side, my own private rule, just relax, don't be a spaz, be calm. as i started to do that i also realized this fly on the wall thing wasn't really working for me. i was pretending i wasn't there, and yet i was with the hair in the camera and the whole mind. i really started to be my authentic self, hang out with the team feel like you are working with people so it became less of a process of d

this is put up by noaa and this is showing the snow pack across the mid-atlantic.ee the well-defined rain-snow line. >> yeah. >> and some three separate storms and looks like it's setting up each time right along 95. >> yeah. >> you can get snow packed to the north and west. if you're one of those that hasn't seen much snow the last week or so and you want some, get off of the phone, head north and west of the city and you should get -- . >> and damascus, an inch and a half. the area ranges from a trace to about two inches. a few spots to the west got more than two inches before you get into far western maryland. oxen hill away half an inch and two inches out toward front royal and up to two inches as well and cold temperatures and a lot of wind. right now, it's 40 degrees at reagan national and not feeling that warm. the winter is blowing out of the north and west gusting to 30. 37 in baltimore. the temperatures falling back 39, wow, changing as we speak. 37 in leonardtown. 36 this evening in frederick and gaithersburg and most of the area will fall at or below fr

president obama and vice president joe biden will be among those paying attribute to senator daniel at a noaa service. yesterday mourners paid their respects to the lodge-time senator from hawaii. senator inouye lost an arm in world war ii and represented hawaii in congress for 50 years. the 88-year-old senator died monday from respiratory complications. his body will be returned to hawaii tomorrow. >>> time now just turning 5:17. a former u.s. marine praised for voluntarily guarding a school apparently lied about his military service. monday craig showed up to hughson elementary school and stood guard. he said he was a sergeant in the marine reserves and deployed to afghanistan. but the marines say he never served overseas and discharged as a private after serving nine months. some of the parents say the school should have performed a background check. >> yust to make sure that they are who they say they are. because anybody can do it. anybody can do it and they be doing just to take advantage and then something. something very bad could happen. >> he told the marine corp times he had been m

the first of a new generation of satellites in a partnership by nasa and noaa are seeing better than ever at night. >> the sensor can detect white levels that are basically below what we can see with our eyes. now you can see by moonlight and each by star light and air glow. >> by moonlight, hurricane sandy. and the potential is just being scratched. >> our weather forecasters now, by look at this new imagery are saying i can do the same kind of things at night. and that enables a whole new class of things being done. >> reporter: a lot more is being tracked by this new generation of satellites. >> we can monitor forest fires. monitor smoke plumes from those fires. and also, data is used to monitor snow packs. sea ice. >> reporter: and it does it globally. the bright spots in australia are wildfires. now from space, the impacts of people are written in light across countries and cont nents. things unseen from this vantage point in sunlight. a lot of illumination for a black marble. alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> and the new satellite is in a polar orbit and is able to scan t

he's analyzed the corpses of all the dolphins for federal investigators at noaa, the national oceanicd atmospheric administration. there now could be as many as ten murdered dolphins, the majority discovered in the last two months. what do you take away from all that? >> well, it looks like somebody is deranged. it's really senseless. it's repugnant, it's illegal. i don't understand what type of person would do such a cruel act. >> reporter: when we first started asking questions about the dead dolphins a few weeks ago, we asked federal investigators if they thought this could be the work of a dolphin serial killer or killers. they told us then that that was not one of their theories, but since then, three more dolphins have washed ashore, and those federal investigators now say they can't comment on an active criminal investigation. you've seen these animals up close. were you able to see anything that kind of leads you to believe that it might have been the work of one person? >> well, it's really hard for us to do, because all we can do as scientists is report the fact, the investi

. >> reporter: in an online web conference, noaa released the latest data that shows an increasing water temperature and record lows in the amount of snow and ice in the region. >> we are surely on the verge of seeing a new arctic. we can expect to see continued widespread and sustained change with new record highs and record lows, depending on the variable you're looking at. throughout the arctic environment system. >> reporter: 97% of the ice sheet covering greenland, another record, that area losing ice five times faster now than it was in the early '90s. >> we know that melting of ice in greenland can contribute to sea level rising around the world. >> reporter: in the last two decades those levels have grown by 20%. a trend scientists say long-term could be devastating. >> most of the people around the world live in coastal areas. that's where ports are. and they are at sea level. even small changes in sea level rise can displace millions of people. >> reporter: a group that includes more than half of the u.s. population, which lives within 50 miles of the coast. jay gray, nbc news.

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stuff, did i mention $120 million in safe water drinking, $62 million for the weather forecasting and noaa, things like that. because of this flotsam and jetsam and pork in this bill, the bill is being delayed, and the people are not getting the money they need. that's what's infuriating. >> larry, there's already $5 billion left in fema's disaster fund. so that money should be flowing. we have money available through the flood insurance. that should be flowing. but you're right, listen, there are no republicans that i'm talking to that don't want to help the people that are in need now. we should be taking care of whatever is an emergency basis, get that money going. again, we do need to be careful. we are bankrupting this nation. and $60 billion is way too high a price tag to be considering on an emergency basis. i saw one cbo estimate, about $9 billion would actually be spent during this fiscal year. let's take a look at about a $9 billion package. whatever the real information is, let's get that information, let's get the money flowing to people that actually need it. i don't want to h

while one week or one season cannot tell a climate story, a longer range report card would released by noaa, the subject, the arctic, record were broken this year. in 2012 there was less know and more sea ice melting than they ever measured before. satellites started measuring arctic ice in 1979. since then half has disappeared. and just this year, 4 1/2 million square smiles melted, an area the size of the u.s. and mexico combined. >> melting on the greenland ice sheet is a beg concern. bah that is moving water that is currently, thawing the ice moving it into the ocean. if that continues it will have an impact on people who live in coastal regions. >> jen jer zee, abc news, new york. >>> there is a lot of folks out there think, global warming or climate change as the it is better called is a hoax or need study. look at pieces like that. and the numbers. i don't know. it is not global warming or climate change someone explain to me what it is then. that's all. >> really truly only been tracking this since 1976 i think it is. >> numbers since then are pretty alarming. >> we are talking abou

for the first time, for the first time, one of noaa's remote monitoring sites, this one in the arctic recorded a concentration of 400 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere, crushing records that go back 8,000 centuries. for 8,000 centuries, mankind has inhabited the planet with an atmosphere with carbon concentration being 170 and 300 parts per million. we have broken out of that for the first time in april, we hit 400 parts per million. by may, it was no surprise that spring, 2012, was a full two degrees fahrenheit warmer than the next warmest spring in recorded history. may was the second warmest ever. june was only the eighth warmest june, but it officially marked the end of the warmest 12-month period the united states of america has ever experienced. across the lower 48, july was not only the warmest july on record, it was the all-time warmest month in america in recorded history. according to the u.s. drought monitor, 62.9% of the contiguous u.s. was experiencing moderate to exceptional drought by the end of the month. nearly two-thirds. 62.9% experiencin

washington the president gave a green light to the national oceanic and atmospheric adminstration, or noaa to come up with a plan for expanding two of northern california's marine sanctuaries. let's take a look at a google earth map. this is a view of san francisco looking north across the city. to the west, off the marin coast is the gulf of the farallones national marine sanctuary seen herer in green. it covers more than 1200 square miles of ocean and includes the farallon islands and the waters around point rays. to the north is the cordell bank national marine sanctuary which includes more than 500 square nautical miles. now, under the proposed expansion the cordell sanctuary would be more than doubled in size, as would the farallones sanctuary which would be extended north to point arena in mendocino county. if approved the expanded sanctuaries would include more than 50 miles of coastline and protect more than 4500 square miles of ocean. northern california representative lynn woolsey has been pushing for the expansions for nearly a decade. >> this area is a national treasure. it nee

bill: noaa pozner and jack pinto, they will be laid to rest today.r, what's the latest? >> reporter: the latest is police are saying local authorities had no contact with adam lanza before friday. the local authorities don't have anything on record of that. they did say there are two adult witnesses recovering from gunshot wounds. their testimony is going to be helpful in figure out what happened inside the school. you heard the police say they have major crime detectives working 24-hour shift. they are going to trace the guns that were used and they will look at every piece of ammunition that was used. hundreds of round from multiple magazines. >> every single facet of the weapons will be analyzed. every round of ammunition will be looked at for physical evidence. i alluded to the volume of round that were seized and recovered. each singular round will be examined. >> reporter: you heard there are many, many witnesses. we are told when they are interviewed their parent will be present and those interviews will be done as delicately as possible, mart

a brand new report from noaa coming out is frightening.hought we would show it to you this morning. the scientists, they have high confidence that global sea levels could rise from eight inches by the end of the century to nearly six feet. they point to the warming ocean temperatures as one cause. one thing we didn't think about is that as water warms, it expands. that already means that the oceans will be higher on our coastlines. add the melting ice sheet. it means you the major potential for a disaster. as much as 6 1/2 feet higher than normal. look at miami. the white area is the dry. the yellow area is the metro area. come over here, the five feet of additional water from the coastal area, look at the water all over miami beach and the water back from the everglades areas. other places that would have trouble, include new york city, new orleans, look at the dry areas. look at the blue, how much additional water with that five-foot ocean rise by 2100 around the new orleans area. that puts most of new orleans underwater if that is true.

. >> new information from noaa out today. if you compare this year to last year.ook this year, barely 6% of the country has snowfall. last year, just about 40% of the country had snowfall. and it was a warm, dry-ish year last year. now, this is a real problem because we need the snowfall for the season. there's several opportunities over the next week to get snow in here, with a little batch of cold air that will continually reinforce itself about three or four times. seattle, salt lake city, aspen. it looks like bismarck, minneapolis, green bay, will have a chance to get a little bit of snow here. and this will happen over the weekend. and maybe beyond next week. here's a quick look at the big board. there is colder air in the northeast. dallas, you're 74 degrees. and orlando, about 77. phoenix, at 77 degrees. and we've got a dry, fairly dry west coast, as well, from san francisco all the way into, probably >> all that weather, all that weather, was brought to you by advil. >> there's a lot, sam. >> it's all going on. >> sam, you got a lot of -- >> i like the gli

make sure you have your noaa weather radio turned on and programmed to your county or parish in louisianaou can. it is christmas so enjoy your gifts and just maybe stay indoors for today. carol? >> and there is nothing wrong with spending christmas in the basement. >> as long as you're unwrapping presents. >> exactly. thank you. we'll take a quick break and be back with much more in the newsroom. oice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news. your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. >>> whether you're a fan of the indianapolis colts

noaa scientists say the oceans are taking up about 1 million tons of carbon dioxide per hour. so in more or less the time my remarks are concluded, the equivalent of more than the weight of the washington monument of carbon will have been dumped into our oceans. all of the extra carbon dioxide humans have pumped into the oceans has caused the global ph of the upper ocean water to change, a nearly 30% increase in the acidity of the oceans. and, as you can see, the curve is not only upward but steepening. where is it headed? by the end of this century, it's projected that we'll have a 160% rise in ocean acidity. as you can see, not only are the oceans becoming more acid, but they are becoming more acidic at a very rapid pace. the rate of change in ocean acidity is already thought to be faster than at any time in the past 50 million years. now, i talk when i give this weekly speech from time to time about the 800,000 years that our planet has had a carbon dioxide concentration between 170 and 300 parts per million. and how long a time period that is compared to, say, humankind h

fisheries are different because fisheries are covered under an agency called noaa, the national oceans and atmospheric agency. it is under the department of commerce. if you think you've got a fisheries disaster, you take that to the secretary of commerce who has an explicit criteria in order to qualify. you just can't say, well, i don't have the fish i used to. oh, my lobster pots are a little rusty. no. you have to have real criteria that you've been hit. and, therefore, you cannot get fisheries assistance unless a fishery disaster has been declared by the secretary of commerce. fishery disasters are necessary and urgent. coastal fisheries -- our coastal communities, our fisheries are part of our identity and they are certainly part of our economy. they certainly are in my state and those disasters that are covered here. so that i hope that the gentleman from oklahoma's amendment is debated -- excuse me -- is defeated in this area. his other amendments i could comment upon, but i didn't know if the gentlelady from louisiana who chairs the committee on homeland security, which fema is

that's why this legislation asks noaa to take a closer look at the tsunami debris and make sure we are putting an accurate assessment and risk in place to protect the west coast. if they decide that it is a severe marine debris event, then they will need to present a specific coordination plan developed to meet that threat and work with local governments, counties and tribes and to make sure that there is a coordinated effort to protect our economy and environment from tsunami debris. we know in the northwest because we have already seen ships, we have seen bridges, we have seen various parts float ashore, oftentimes local communities having to share the burden and expense of cleaning up the tsunami debris. with over 165,000 jobs and nearly $11 billion in our coastal economy from fishing to tourism to various activities, we want to make sure that tsunami debris does not hurt our coastal economies. all you need to do is ask the mayor of long beach who said -- quote -- "an uncoordinated and unmanaged response to debris events is a blow to long beach and the columbia pacific region and we

bill, always good to see you noaa painting a serious picture.urricane sandy? it was pretty serious, right? >> yeah. >> suppose you had two or three of those every year? it would be quite serious. the thing that is happening, the first thing is when the arctic melts, the arctic now, the north pole, bear in mind the ice is floating. so if i say here is ice floating in a glass, what will happen hen that ice melts? many people think the glass will overflow. that turns out not to be true of floating ice. if you have ice falling off the greenland ice sheet and you add ice that we're doing here, then, yes, the glass will overflow. the other thing that is happening is when the water is frozen, it reflects light into space. this seems intuitive, but it's very serious when you have something as big as the arctic ice sheet. with climate change and forest fires, the ice sheets are getting covered with ash. and they reflect less light. and so they heat up even more. and the edges of the ice sheets melt even more. and then it falls off, it calves off even fas

in may, noaa reported that america has just lived through the hottest 12 months ever recorded. and even before sandy and the droughts this year, the united states was still recovering from extreme weather events of last year. in february last year, chicago was shut down with two feet of snow and 60-mile-an-hour winds when a blizzard hammered the city. it caused 36 deaths, stranded 1,500 people on lake shore drive, which i go back and forth on every day and still find it hard to imagine, 1,500 people stuck on lake shore drive. it resulted in $3.9 billion in losses. april was the wettest april in 116 years in the midwest, forcing the mississippi and missouri rivers to flood thousands of square miles. this is 2011 i'm talking about. there were 326 tornadoes in may throughout the midwest and southern u.s., resulting in the deadliest may since 1933. wildfires burned 3 million acres of property across the western states, causing over a billion dollars in damages. and hurricane irene devastated the atlantic coast, causing $4.3 billion in damage. a very small amount compared to sandy b