a fact confirmed by the 2012 noaa arctic report card.ort reveals an unprecedented loss of summer sea ice and record melting of greenland's ice sheet. to understand why, polar 6 lands at another site six weeks later. they drill deep into thousands of years' worth of ice. soon, the first ice cores emerge. long before the official lab analysis, one scientist can identify some unique patterns even with his naked eye. >> what we can see here definitely are prominent melt layers, so they are so prominent, i have never seen them so far. and steff, who was here 30 years ago, he doesn't remember any melt layers at that time. we had one or two centimeter thick melt layers, and they indicate that we had extremely warm summers here. >> the ice cores are essentially compressed snow that fell here over tens of thousands of years. each layer holds a record of the climate in a certain era. the further down they drill, the further they go back in time. one of those taking part in the drilling mission is trevor popp, a climatologist from the university in

endangered now, doomed by the federal budget acts, and here to try to save it is the former head of noaaficial sturgeon general, silvia earl. >> great to see you. >> reporter: thank you for having me in. >> welcome aboard. >> reporter: do you ever forget that you're 60 feet deep? >> it's easy to forget that you're not a sea creature. it's just so peaceful. >> reporter: yeah. >> until somebody makes a meal of somebody else. >> reporter: right. she has spent almost an entire year of her storied life underwater. over 6,000 hours climbing into massive suits, piloting tiny subs, diving deeper and longer than any woman and most men ever. she took her first breath of compressed air 60 years ago. and when harvard launched a two-week underwater project in the '60s, she was among the first in line. >> the head of the program, he said well, half the fish are female, i guess we can put a few women in, and they couldn't just leave it alone. we have the alpha babes. we were the alpha chicks. and even this great name, the aqua naughties! >> reporter: she is 77 now, thirty for understanding, giddy that

be sleeping and the risk of more tornados so if anybody can leave on their television screen or an noaaor tonight. you can the get the warnings to you right away and know when you need to seek shelter and take appropriate action when there is a possible tornado in your county. >> they're going to rerack this video because we want to take a look at this. it's unedited and raw and if you run a clock on it, this thing stays on the ground for a minute, maybe longer. you'd have to to be clairvoyant to know when it's going to hit. here is hattiesburg, this sort of thing moving across the region and people needs to be prepared as the sun sets, you can't see them moving around the horizon as you can in kansas and iowa. we'll take another quick break, a severe weather breakout, a boy, a busy weather weekend and a dangerous one. stay with us. r detergent. boom. clothes look amazing, and daddy's a hero. daddy, can we play ponies? right after we do foldies. tide boost imy tide. what's yours? but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announ

noaa is working with the river forecasts center in salt lake city and others to make certain that we are clear on what that looks like. to be perfectly honest, given the uncertainty, there are issues in our insurance. where the conservation reserve program come in his admission that we are uncertain about the future and it leaves us the flexibility. that is the richest contribution from the standpoint of what weather and climate is doing. >> thank you, madame jo. >> thank you very much. senator, welcome. >> thank you, madam chair. i am pleased to join this honorable committee today. the last time a massachusetts senator sat on the committee was in 1879. i am only a third senator to serve on this committee. so if you are wondering why i'm here, i want to tell you that we in massachusetts are not unfamiliar with our culture issues and the importance of our culture to this nation and the commonwealth. personally i have spent most of my childhood in north carolina on my great grandparents working on. everything that we ate was almost always grow more born on a farm. although massachusett

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

this was a no-cost restructuring that would have centralized noaa's work on understanding the climate, including its observations of climate change. the national climate service would have helped meet the growing local demand for climate change science information but this proposal was blocked by republicans over in the house who simply don't want to hear about climate change. that kind of thinking will not get climate change off the high-risk list. according to g.a.o., and i'll quote again "the nation's vulnerability can be reduced by limiting the magnitude of climate change through actions to limit greenhouse gas emission s while implementing adaptive measures may be costly, g.a.o. continues, there is a growing recognition that the cost of inaction could be greater, and given the government's precarious fiscal position increasingly difficult to manage, given expected budget pressures. mr. president, congress has been asleep long enough. we have a tradition in this body of taking the accounting of g.a.o. our nonpartisan watchdog seriously. and of taking g.a.o.'s high-risk list seriou

noaa incidents on 95 or 395 up to and across the 14th street bridge. -- no incidents.. >> thank you. we will hear from the labor department about the january jobs picture today. >> absolutely. one thing we know is americans are working later in life. sunny hostin has more. >> good morning. even before this morning's gingrich jobs report, payroll company 80 pieces private employers added 192,000 jobs last month. that's better than much of last year. a new study says almost 2/43 of american's plan to delay their retirement. that's more than a few years ago. the reasons our financial losses layoffs, and income stagnation, in short, recession. millions of bottles of triaminic syrup and theraflu creeks on with the baltimore ravens live from the super bowl. -- >> i am with the baltimore ravens. good morning, washington. >> thank you to him. >> send us t a us to 15 second video clip of your "good morning washington" greeting and we will play it on the air. make sure and you end it by saying good morning washington at." new orleans is not the only place where they are gearing

noaa officials said the city had 18 minute warning before damaged strike.eeing anymore reported injuries and no fatalities. martha: thank you, elizabeth, very much. bill: we have more on the resignation of the pope. we'll get to that in a minute. there is a new push to have the judge gives a thumb's up on any drone attacks on u.s. citizens overseas. we'll examine that. martha: a big issue right now. the l.a.p.d. is offering a million dollars for any information that leads to the capture of one of their own former officers. we're going to look inside the mind of triple murder suspect christopher dorner who is still out there at this hour. he's apparently declaring war on the los angeles police department. >> this is a largest local reward ever offered to our knowledge. some may ask why so large? this is an act, make no mistake about it, of domestic terrorism. this is a man who has targeted those that we entrust to protect the public. his actions can not go unanswered. bill: this is breaking news. will hinge ton -- wilmington, delaware. word out of lobby of t

noaa released this photo before the storm ens phied and grew even larger. let's get the latest from the forecast and snow totals from nbc meteorologist bill karins who had a long night. good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. wouldn't it be nice if one of the forecasts didn't live up to the forecast and hype? are we say these storms are coming and they delivered, if not more. i've seen reports of two feet of snow from new york state, rhode island, connecticut and new hampshire. and i've seen the latest radar of the storm. east of boston, up in the gulf of mexico of maine. that's good. the storm is pulling away for the morning. storm completely over with. the catskills new york city area, done. maybe a few flurries, but no more accumulations. the back edge moving through the berkshires of massachusetts and through connecticut as we go through the morning hours, and by noon today, the snow should begin to shuttle off providence and boston, that's the timing. our friends in maine, it will be later than that. we're getting nailed, i-95 from new hampshire th

but the right wing media doesn't play by those rules, do they noaa? >> no, they don't. in fact, this is their favorite kind of tried and true tactic as you ask a question, you make a statement with a question mark on the end of it, and then you use that to pillory folks and say, you know, what is your answer to this? you're not going to answer this? aren't you going to disclose this? we've seen this throughout this hearing, this confirmation process with senator hagel. and it's actually delayed this confirmation for a month when we actually need, you know, senator hagel on the job as the secretary of defense. and so it's a very serious problem. it's not just a partisan issue. i mean, this is about the core integrity of the functioning of government. >> what does it mean for hagel, do you think, quickly? >> i think it means that hagel should be confirmed absolutely. this is over and they need a vote to confirm hagel as secretary of defense as soon as they come back into session. >> all right. "wired" magazine reports that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell asked the

here to try to save it is the former head of noaa, unofficial sturgeon general, sylvia earl. >> goodsee you again. >> good to see you, too. >> reporter: thanks for having me in. she originally fell in love with ocean plant life, the microscopic algae responsible for every fifth breath you take. but over the years, her wonder has been steadily replaced with worry. once vast pockets of thriving teaming life are getting increasingly hard to find. a warming planet is changing the acid levels in the sea, killing coral reefs, pesticides running down the mississippi and the deep horizon water accident has stressed the gulf of mexico and she's determined to stounldz the alarm on the overfishing that's driven some species to the brink. >> you can't imagine the farmer taking apples by lowering down the apple orchard that's what we're doing to the ocean. >> reporter: she's concerned about the pesticides and mercury floating out here. one reason she says ocean study is more vital than ever. but research money is drying up. florida international university scraped enough to save acquire use for n

caller: i am under noaa. i am a senior staffer. have been in natural wild -- natural resources management. all the resource agencies of the federal level, i've worked for 10 years, i worked for the park service, i worked for the fish and wildlife -- we have been seeing cuts since basically the clinton administration. i have not seen programs growing. the talk about government waste, i do not get it, because in the natural resources management agency, there is none. we're all struggling to provide services to the public. from the worker level and entry- level jobs all the way up to management, i do not see a period -- see it. it makes me angry when people talk about government waste because we are about trying to provide services to the public. maybe other agencies that do not work with natural resources have a lot more waste, but we sure do not. host: if you are furloughed and others are, what is the impact? what will they feel? caller: i do not know. i can only speak for myself and the folks i work with. host: will americans outsi

. $4 billion to $5 billion of the department of congress -- commerce is noaa which provides all of our weather information, virtually all of it, has the satellite in the sky, tracking what is going on to some extent in the oceans too. what do you do to that 4 to $5 billion? i know now because of the work we do in the book publishing industry the department of commerce is over there in a china trying to make sure the chinese government understands when we sell books, when we bring books to china, they will do everything they can to make sure they are not being sold or pirated or copied or sold somewhere else. the department of energy, that was one of the three. the department of energy regulates oil and gas drilling. if you eliminate that department, what happens? the department of education funds 12% of the u.s. k-12 educational system. the department of education, what happens? those were the questions that should have been asked of rick perry because those are the questions that might break through the differences people have, the federal government is too big, eliminate the departme

in a stamtd a noaa spokeswoman toldtold cbs news is to continue providing review to those asking. plans include trying to move up the launch date of the satellites or relying temporarily on defense. even with that they say there will be a satellite gas. the next >>> very chilly this morning. gale all around the bay area, skies cleared out nicely that storm system has made its way into southern california. but we're going to be nice and dry outside today but a cold start as those temperatures have plumed into the 20s in the -- plummeted into the 20s in the north bay valley. 41 san francisco. and some widespread frost. by the afternoon, today it will be dry and warmer, 50s and some low 60s. next couple of days just a few passing clouds but a little bit warmer, staying dry now right through the weekend. >>> stopping deadly melanoma can come down to early detection. dr. holly phillips shows why the battle just got some much needed help. >> this is the newest design to fight against skin cancer. we'll show you how it works coming up on "cbs this morning." [ alarm clock ringing ] [ fema

we are on in new york, boston, miami, and on the noaa -- the west coast as well.aller: i have the two points. the first one, i would like to remind your guess that one under 74 republican congress people vote for the sequester. they knew that the effect would be on women, children, the lower middle class and the point. the tea party people would not feel this until it that up into the defense area. a second point, due to redistricting and gerrymandering, it is creating political segregation. they should rename the republican party the dixiecrats, the separate but equal crats. i was wondering what your guess thought about that -- guests think about that. guest: the president is not putting a strong position on the table they can negotiate off of. there is an argument about how clear the president's plan has been. the president remains fundamentally popular. he just won an election and he is popular around the country. why is the president frustrating republicans with campaign style speeches and traveling to newport news and chicago and other places around the count

our recommendations to noaa have been to put in place contingency plans to address those gaps. >> what do you expect those contingency plans to include? >> a couple things. one is you could look at, one, extending the current life of the existing satellites. there's things you could currently do with that. there's a possibility of moving up the launch of the current dates. those are unrealistic in some ways, but there's possibilities if you look at those various schedules. and then if you look at the contingency plans that need to be put in place, various things. you can use other government satellites from dod, foreign satellites are an option, orr weather observations are an option. but all those have certain things that go with out. so, for instance, if you use european satellites, there's changes to our ground stations. so there are associated costs with all those different contingency plans -- >> do you think there is a reasonable probability of a gap, a gap that would have significant consequences to us? >> right now there is a high probability of a gap that could be 17 months. >

the forecast that noaa's put out suggests some improvement, more improvement in iowa, creeping into thewelcome back corn belt. but -- western corn belt. but the plains, i think, till look like they have -- till look like they have a persistent dryness. now, that has some immediate implications for the winter crop. hard red winter crap in kansas, oklahoma and nebraska currently about 50% of that area just doing a weighted average of the area and looking at the state crop conditions reports, 50% of that is poor or very poor or condition. so, obviously, spring runs are going to be very critical -- spring rains are going to be very critical to see how that crop improves, otherwise i think we could be facing some serious abandonment issues. so rain's, obviously, very, very critical. what about the other, for the other crops? well, what we're looking at at least in our analysis is a return to trend yields. i think tomorrow's commodity sessions will have, certainly grains and oil seeds session we'll have a paper there on our yield models and explaining how we incorporate weather in those yield

noaa says the russian heat wave of 2010, which killed tens of thousands of people, was the most severe since records were first kept back in 1880. and this type of heat wave is now more and more likely. go to the land down under where warmer and more acidic oceans have fueled a widespread coral bleaching in the great barrier reef. the great barrier reef is a natural wonder. it is one of the great wonders of the world. and economically, it's the basis of a $4 billion tourism industry in australia. and it is dying before our eyes. scientists say that climate change heightens the devastation from other natural disasters in australia, like the 2009 bush fires that claimed 173 lives, the 2011 flooding that killed dozens, and the wildfires that have already damaged hundreds of homes and displaced thousands of australians this year. europe is getting hotter with increased risk of summertime droughts in central europe and in the mediterranean. tree lines creep higher in european mountain ranges, glaciers in central europe shrink. alpine ski areas have been forced to adapt to higher temperature

for example, faa's operation of the national airspace system, nasa's space exploration program, and noaa's work on necessary new satellites. these are weather satellite programs. these are sequestration's negative impacts. the diverse group of leaders here with us today is going to be attesting to this. regarding the overall economy, about six months ago we released a study conducted by dr. stephen fuller of george mason university. the study's methodology is sound and its conclusions are grim. if sequestration is going forward, it will put 2.1 million u.s. jobs at risk. these are defense and non- defense-related jobs, and include nearly 1 million small businesses. it will cost the unemployment rate to rise about 1.5%, and reduce expected gdp growth by $215 billion. $215 billion. the latest congressional budget office forecast reinforces the conclusion, that sequestration will undermine economic growth. today we are re-releasing dr. fuller's study and his analysis of the impact of impact of sequestration. let it be noted no one can say that they were not forewarned about the full consequen

we need to make sure that noaa has contingency plans in place.e are not going to go dark, but there will be gaps in the information. how would they fill the gap and how are they making sure that integrates into the climate models? that is the risk associated with weather satellites. host: chris mihm with the government accounting the lady -- accountability office. lee. georgia. republican. lee, are you with us? we lost lee. jerome. and filling it. democrats line. -- pennsylvania. democrats line. caller: thank you for taking my call. thank you to the 2 -- cable companies for c-span. i do not know if i can articulate this right, but one of the things that has affected revenue in society has been the advancements in machinery and tax write-ry it's a off -- gets a tax write off and it might be taking the place of three or four workers, maybe more in the machine does not pay any taxes. it gets a tax write-off, which is just the opposite of paying taxes. that is the only thing i would like to say. thank you. guest: there is a report we are working on t

of the 2,600 noaa employees expected to be furloughs and 2,700 positions not filled which will affect managing, our natural resource, and ability to address climate change. climate change is real. according to the fesk island regional climate assessment, across the pacific island region the frequency and intensity of extreatments are changing. hawaii is usually thought of as a lush green dare pies, but droughts have been more frequent and prolonged. earlier this month the big island of hawaii was declared a natural disaster due to ongoing extreme drought conditions going back to july of 2008. this is causing havoc for our farmers and ranchers. by kiki, a well-known treasure around the world, would be wetlands with beaches gone by the end of the century. we must take action. we afford to ignore this problem that is currently and will continue to wreak havoc across the glob for generations. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona rise. i'm sorry. for what purpose does the gentlelady rise. >> america is facing some very serious pr