-- noaa for evaluating technologies. his research was appropriate and helpful. at the subcommittee markup, mr. grayson added a valuable amendment for a focused hurricane research program. representative stewart, then the chairman of the environment subcommittee, worked with my staff and me on a manager's amendment to add to the tools and programs in the original bill. we drew on expert advice from the weather enterprise and from extensive reports from the national academy of sciences and the national academy of public administration. experts told us that to improve weather forecasting, the research at the office of oceans and atmospheric research, or o.a.r., and the forecasting at the national weather service, had to be better coordinated. this legislation contains important provisions to improve that coordination. this bill encourages noaa to integrate research and operations in a way that models the successful innovation structure used by the department of defense. the bill we're considering today also creates numerous

. >> reporter:this a 3-d sonar image of what noaa says is the wreckage of the city of chester..p is sitting upright 216 feet below san francisco bay, just to the east of the golden gate bridge the ship was found last year by a noaa team that was actually looking for the wreckage of another vessel. the sinking of the city of chester was one of the deadliest accidents ever on san francisco bay. >> reporter:according to noaa, on the morning of august 22nd, 1888...decades before the golden gate bridge was built... the city of chester was leaving san francisco bay headed up the coast to eureka. there were 90 people on board. >> catherine: >>at the same time, the much larger steamer oceanic was arriving in the bay after a long voyage across the pacific. >> this is at the collision point. >> reporter:it was a typically foggy morning and visibility was poor. around 10am the two ships.. now on a collision course.. spotted one another but it was too late... >> reporter:and they tried to reverse engines but that chapter was closed when the oceanic's bow pierced the bow of the city of chest

researchers from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa used sonar. vic lee has the story. >> reporter: the city of chester is resting some 217 feet deep at the bottom of the channel just inside the golden gate bridge. this shot from sky 7 hd shows the approximate location of the shipwreck. this is what the ship's wreckage looks like on sonar images standing upright. unlike today's clear blue skies, a dense fog enveloped the golden gate channel on august 22nd, 1888. the steam ship, 106 people aboard was leaving the bay, the oceanic, a ship twice as large was coming in from asia. >> the oceanic had a manifest of 74 chinese crewmen that were on board, 27 caucasian officers. >> reporter: robert schwemmer is with noaa, the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. >> they had less than a half mile visibility. so they were that close. >> reporter: not only was there dense fog, a flood tide was churning the waters along with a fierce riptide. all of it was affecting the city of chest areas navigation. >> it was fighting that riptide and that current.

a survey ship with noaa discovered the debris using sonar and created this image showing where the ship sits more than 200 feet down just inside the golden gate. >> today with technology using sonar, we're mapping the seabed and in this harbor, we found this wreck sitting upright down in the mud frozen in time. >> reporter: following the collision, the chinese crew was criticized for not helping passengers, but that theory has been debunked by records of witnesses who said the crew performed admirably. noaa plans to create a display showing the story. >> fascinating. >> it is. >> let's bring in our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. nice to see you. we have the whole team back together. >> nice weather to welcome janelle back today. lots of blue skies from the north bay to the south bay. you can see it's dry here, but we have it fired up because we are tracking rainfall very close. we zoom out, you can see across eureka, a few areas of spotty showers developing, part of a larger storm system that's sitting out in the pacific. now eventually once this cold front gets here, we will be talk

i think we all stand up and cheered >> the discovery is giving noaa researchers an opportunity to clearup accusations made at the time about the chinese crew members >> a lot of racism at the time. chinese crew members pulling survivors from the city of chester >> board their ship, diving into the water saving one child. >> this was a sketch on the cover of the "san francisco examiner" that depicted the rescue of the child. >> the oakland a's have broken off talks to extend the lease on the coliseum, rejecting a 10-year deal to continue playing at the ballpark saying the extension doesn't meet requirements. the current lease expires after 2015 season. specifics have not been disclosed but authority chair says a's owe $5 million in back rent but want it forgiven. >> what is $5 million can be used for public safety. it can be used for housing. >> these are complex. they're going to take time. >> in a statement issued today a's denied they owe back rent and say we have nothing additional to offer. and there will be no further negotiations the news comes the week as warrior as announced pur

i think we all stand up and cheered >> the discovery is giving noaa researchers an opportunity to clearccusations made at the time about the chinese crew members >> a lot of racism at the time. chinese crew members pulling survivors from the city of chester >> board their ship, diving into the water saving one child. >> this was a sketch on the cover of the "san francisco examiner" that depicted the rescue of the child. >> the oakland a's have broken off talks to extend the lease on the coliseum, rejecting a 10-year deal to continue playing at the ballpark saying the extension doesn't meet requirements. the current lease expires after 2015 season. specifics have not been disclosed but authority chair says a's owe $5 million in back rent but want it forgiven. >> what is $5 million can be used for public safety. it can be used for housing. >> these are complex. they're going to take time. >> in a statement issued today a's denied they owe back rent and say we have nothing additional to offer. and there will be no further negotiations the news comes the week as warrior as announced purchas

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weather channel meteorologist jim cantore is inside the noaa storm prediction center in norman, oklahoma. what are the next 24 hours look like, jim? >> yeah, lester, the worst of the storms coming in now as the sun is going down. and unfortunately, they are going to be tornado producers throughout the night tonight. a large area, as you can see, that will still be dealing with these severe thunderstorms. large hail, gusty winds, damaging winds in fact, and even tornadoes all the way down into the states of mississippi and into middle tennessee. so a huge concern in addition to the flood risk. a lot of storms have been sitting over places like memphis all day long. we move into monday. cities like birmingham, huntsville, jacksonville and also meridian, mississippi, are facing a similar tornado threat. so a two-day threat for some of these areas. and the storm that is helping to aid these thunderstorms really is not going to move all that much. so look what happens by tuesday. some of the same areas once again under the gun for tornadoes. so it's not only birmingham, jackson, mississippi,

>> natural marine fisheries under noaa they issue our permits in late september. with the government shutdown last fall, basically some of those employees that were deemed dispensable were indispensable to us. they couldn't issue our permit. and by doing that, basically we were forced to fish with a lot shorter season and you don't have time to catch your crab, you're going to fish in probably the conditions you probably do not want to. >> what about this season was the most intense moment for you? >> the way the season opens the u.s. coast guard was working on overtime and overdrive responding to incidents. when you start hearing maydays, boats burning up, it sends almost an ominous and dark warning as it to what the season is going to be like. >> why do you think this show is so popular? >> you have weather, ice, you have the storms and everything else. so that creates tension. and at the end of the day i think what you're seeing, you're seeing a glimpse of what we all have inside us and it's humanity and real and something you can't say about most of the stuff

noaa spent 90 months last year spell -- nine months developing this. the ship went down in the fog after colliding with a much larger ship, the oceanic. 16 people on the city of chester died. >>> a motorcyclist is still fighting for his life after san jose police say he slammed into a car. a witness told officers the motorcyclist ran a red light and hit the side of the car. the motorcyclist was wearing a helmet but still suffered major head trauma. >> we have a witness in the intersection at the time. according to them and what they saw, the motorcyclist did run the red light. >> the two people in the car were not hurt. they stopped and cooperated with police. investigators don't believe drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash. >>> cases of whooping cough are increasing in contra costa county. health officials say a 9-year- old girl is the latest person to come down with the disease. she attends morella park elementary school in martinez. now the county health department is taking steps to protect other students. on friday, the principal notified pa

noaa, the national weather service with a 66% chance by fall and winter.australian bureau a 70% and colorado state university an 81% chance. everyone above a 50% probability of el nino. storm track impacts with an el nino pushes rain toward the bay area. we're going to add caution to this, but el nino can mean added rainfall. so we're hoping for that. the bay area. still ahead, a big change for facebook users. >> of course, we have jimmy. >> kevin costner and danica mckeller are here. a performance from alan cumming and the cast of "cabaret." come on back. >>> changing the way you chat on social media. a new push by facebook will force users to download its messenger ap. facebook is getting rid of the chat service on the mobile ap. the messenger ap looks like android phones. experts say it may be in response from growing competition from other aps like snapchat. menlo park facebook bought what's ap for $19 billion. >> you may have seen somebody who is wearing them. now you soon could own them. google glass will go on sale to the public tuesday. a computer

preliminary numbers in from noaa tonight, saying this is likely the quietest start for tornadoes in more than 60 years. now i wanted to bring back the map for the threat and risk area tonight. anywhere where from southwestern arkansas down through dallas, even austin has to be on alert. watching the abc stations. subtly atmosphere down on tuesday. but the wednesday threat area is much larger through lincoln, nebraska down through kansas, western oklahoma and west texas. this looks like it could be more intense. we'll be watching after it. diane. >>> up next, look out below. baggage handlers caught on camera dropping luggage. a passenger records what happened with his bags when we're back in minutes. hi, i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda app

a new report from noaa shows us what a wild month march has been -- and tells us what's to come. ice on like michigan reached 93.3%, a new march record. in the last four months, the number of people living in extreme drought in texas and oklahoma alone has doubled to nearly 2 million people. in california the above average warmth will continue through summer and the shivering northeast will warm up, too, predicting a hotter than normal summer through july. here in denver, some good news. more rain than normal as predicted over the next few months. there's a drought south of here, and that will be some welcome relief. david. >> the rain would help. thank you. >>> now to texas and to a new video capturing the moment a year ago. you'll remember the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant. 15 people died. so many first responders. just unreal there. that new look of the moment of crisis released one year later. someone capturing it as they were driving through west texas. safety rules for storing fertilizers remain unchanged. across much of the country one year later. >>> an alert of

last year noaa came across the city of chester while they were looking for another shipwreck.en they have used sonar imaging to get a look at the shipwreck that has been in the san francisco basins 1888. the captain took a wrong turn and crashed into another ship. >> as she goes back and flips under the boilers explode. you have people on the decks rushing trying to get to that bow. >> reporter: 1 people end up dying. the oceanic was carrying chinese immigrants. initially the crash was blamed on the oceanic. many chinese lost a number of lives on those ships. >> back then how difficult was it forships to wreck. there is a lot out there. who possibly more common than you would think. we are told there is more than 100 shipwrecks in the san francisco bay or right around it. this is the second deadliest wreck. the first was in 1901. that wreck killed almost 130 people. as for this shipwreck we are told there is no plans to raise this ship wrek but noaa says they plan to put an exhibit onshore. bill: former vortex is gone. there is a possibility of record-breaking weather. how abo

and in 2011, noaa law enforcement seized 112 metric tons of illegally harvested russian king crab that was being shipped to u.s. markets through the port of seattle. so what happens here, mr. president, is you've got -- you've got the russians who are taking -- overtaking their -- the king crab illegally harvesting them, and then effectively dumping them on the u.s. markets. what do you think that does then to the price of the crab that we are catching here lawfully in the united states? it is depressing the price of crab. now, i know this, i mention my family is in the fishing business, we're in the crab -- my cousin is involved in the crab industry. they have seen -- they've seen the prices of crab go down between 20% and 25% because of what we're seeing from this illegal harvesting by the russians. so this is -- this is not just a small problem. this isn't something that has is just happening right now. this has happened, been happening for now decades, and it needs to be arrested. and i do want to take just a moment and express my appreciation for the amazing work that our u.s.a. c

. >> our head of noaa and other senior leaders and a number of agencies, a number of ngo.esentative. the united nation and the private sector with us the commercial sector. the focus was on our efforts to bring our capabilities together as countries who share our futures, our interests, our histories in the asian pacific region. collective capabilities. in particular as we started the day. >> we apologize, we thought he was going to talk about the fort hood shooting. we'll monitor this. if he speaks about it we'll let you know what he said. the headline another shooting at fort hood in texas. several people were injured and the late information we're getting, fox and several other news organizations reporting that four of those people who were injured in shooting of died. >>> hundreds of thousands are returning home after the powerful earthquake that rocked chile but left light damage. tsunami warnings have been lifted. six people were killed in the 8.2 quake. four of them were blamed on heart attack. many deaths were prevented because of strict building codes. they say th

recently a survey team with noaa discovered the ship during the search for another shipwreck. today with modern technology with sonar we're mapping the entire seabed. >> we found this wreck sitting upright, down in the mud, frozen in time. >> reporter: the sonar mapped the city of chester sitting on the ocean floor that reveals the point of impact. >> it's called an ecosystem that sends sound waves down to the bottom. and anytime there's any high points on the ship it records that in different colors. >> reporter: the city of chester's remains are hardly the only nautical bone lying beneath the bay. >> we recorded at least 150 known shipwrecks that occurred in historic times. >> reporter: many of those ships remain forgotten ghosts of bay area hayestry while the story of the city of chester is once again among the living. >> it is fascinating what's down below. researchers plan to create an exhibit of the ship's story at chrissy field. >>> head to san francisco's fisherman's wharf. mark zuckerberg is hanging out. also there, leonardo dicaprio and rheanna. the wax figures show

you really have to live to your noaa radio, right now areas of heaviest precipitation, as we look at a map, our tornado maps coming in started early in the evening for parts of nebraska. then across six states, the tornado threats continued to increase. the focus seemed to be over the little more than two hours, a line of red dots, indicating from just north of little rock this estimated potentially one major tornado, causing most of the damage initially over mayflower and then super-cells continuing to develop up in a line towards the need of, with several tornadoes being produced, which is why we had this directly liven of storms being -- emergency management to be about three miles wide. and in this video we can show you some of the damage that was being sent to us earlier this evening. these storms were definitely predicted. large hail. powerful winds, heavy rain. flash flood reports in parts of texas, oklahoma, and southwest missouri. but we are seeing overnight wear on and we're waiting for daylight to see where the national weather service surveys this damage. >> all right, re

these images were posted on the noaa. the ship sank in 1888, killing 16 people. deadliest shipwreck in the history of the bay. this morning, noaa unveiled three-dimensional images of the wreckage. >> all right. >>> 8:56. back to sal. you are watching highway 24. aren't you? >> yeah, i am. and it is slow. it's improving. unfortunately, nearby, 680 is slow coming in from danville up to walnut creek because of a crash in alamo that's been cleared from the lanes. quickly, let's go to the bay bridge. it's backed up for a 30-minute delay. we have very slow traffic on 85 and 280. 101 might be your better option. let's go to steve. >>> mostly sunny today. a little breezy but not as bad as yesterday. 60s to near 70 inland and tonight clearing and cold increasing clouds, thursday. looks like a colder system with more rain on friday. >> different. >> yeah. >> all right, steve. thank you. >>> that's our report for this morning. we thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. >> be sure to watch the news at noon. we'll have more on the latest controversy involving student

want to show you this picture on the ground because over the past 24 hours the officials from noaa releasing this photograph, a vessel which sunk in the san francisco bay in 1888. they found it half a mile away from the golden gate bridge. that's the perspective right there. you go down beneath the surface. high resolution sonar imagery to show you what it's like some 216 feet beneath the surface. that's a spectral image coming out of the area showing the hull of the vessel sticking some 16 feet out of the mud. this is entirely covered in the mud. the reason they're saying they're releasing this now. they found it a couple of months ago. 216 years later one of the busier waterways and they're discovering it. >> if that's an indication of how long it will take to find the malaysian plane. >> thank you. >>> youtube is marking a path for another turn. nine years since the first video was posted to the website. >> the company says it's not ready to celebrate just yet. jeanne moos has the story. >> reporter: this is the first video ever posted. it was nine years ago where this was uploaded me at

stay with the weather channel, with your noaa weather radio. we want to get through the next four days without loss of life. keep everybody safe. keep in mind some of the tornadoes will occur after dark. that's worst time. people go to bed and they can't see him coming. >> thank you. >> former clippers forward charles smith will join me. also a major shake up in south korea's in the wake of the deadly fer ary disaster. mans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... not so much. but that's okay -- you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car and we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. learn about it at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. marge: you know, there's a

the big concern with this earthquake is the tsunami and now noaa is telling us that there is sighting of at least a 5.8 foot wave that could be heading toward this region, that's a fairly strong wave. because these waves don't just crash on the beach like most of us realize this is a wave that sweeps inland. now we're being told in the heavily populated coastal areas, they are evacuating tens of thousands of people, telling them to get to higher ground. if you look at the region you worry about the west coast of this country. we're being told there's a tsunami watch issued up and down the west coast, from washington state, oregon on down through california and mexico. a watch is different from a warning, a watch means we're on the lookout. what they'll do for the next several hours is look at these buoys, the pacific tsunami warning center has buoys, we will get our marching orders and warnings from there we'll keep you posted. right now they have sighted tsunami waves headed toward the northern coast of chile. >> we're in a watch situation, there's nothing for dpoeks to do other than

hopefully you have a noaa radio. you can't see these tornadoes coming and that's when it becomes dangerous. when people go to bed at night. this system could be, quote, potentially catastrophic. when people most are running away, fred adare chases it. he is joining us right now on the phone and he's near tupelo, mississippi. describe the conditions there. have you spotted anything? >> i'm actually just south of that aerial highway 45. we watched a rotating area go up towards tupelo which produced that tornado that ran through the town and we've got a couple of friends that say a half mile wide tornado ran through the western and northern sections of tupelo. >> you've been in these situations many, many times before, brett. what does your gut instinct tell you about where this storm is going and what is going to half this evening? >> well, i'll be honest with you, we were just ahead of the mayflower tornado and we think the conditions are much more ripe today for tornadoes than yesterday. >> brett, what do you hear ab

noaa says it will be years before the full effects of the spill on marine life are known. continue to show high toxin levels in fish like tuna and oysters. this week the coast guard's man in charge of the response, captain thomas sparks says this chapter of the cleanup is not over by a long shot. helping people affected by natural disasters is the motivation behind today's big idea. it's not the regular kind of help. the idea, giving people the power to rebuild their homes themselves. it's called apparatus x, a recreational vehicle that's been redesigned to serve as an adaptable tool trailer, mobile design studio and laifing unit as well. it can also be used as a first response vehicle. it's an yood dreamed up by a fellow named aaron workman at penn state university. good to see you. what inspired you? where was this idea born? >> well, the idea was born out of my undergraduate thesis work at penn state. i was looking at displaced populations which led me to look at the situation in new orleans. almost the third worldization that occurs due to natural disaster that is stri

researchers with the noaa administration say there is a two in three chance of a wet pattern in the pacific this winter that will create wave after wave of storms during the rainy soap. scientists say there is no guarantee but they were confident enough to raise the odds of el nino from 52 percent to 66 percent yesterday. >> i just planted a lot of plant that don't require a lot of water. >> we will have drizzle but no drought buster. radar shows precipitation expected later this morning along the coast and that is because of the heavy fog that is going to be sticking with us for the day. high clouds coming in off the coast and this is why we have the area of low pressure that is headed our i. it is coming over the pacific and eastbound covering most of the state. that is going to by us cooler temperatures. it will be followed by another high that will bring our temperatures up for the later part of the week and early part of next week and the temperatures, then, come back down again and we will see precipitation, possibly when you hit later in the week. >> thunderstorms are expected around

>> you're absolutely correct and i think what you look is going on with noaa right now -- noah, someeople, religious people are saying wait a second this, is disingenuous. this doesn't necessarily talk to me. but to your first point, about people feeling a distate l tasteful or little odd making money off god, i don't think that is something new that is going on for a long time. melissa: that they have been doing it but don't want to seem like that but doesn't it turn off the very people you're after? >> doesn't seem like you're doing that. that you're spreading the word and sharing the wealth and all in it together, why the movies made that are understanding are ones that make money. melissa: airlines looking to squeeze as much as they can from passengers. now they will squeeze passengers themselves. at airline expo, airlines showed off latest and slimmest designs to help cut down fuel costs. there are face-to-face. passengers sitting diagonally from one another. bruce, i saw one report this morning they said they could save $3 million with one of the planes zigzag, not next to each

down tonight what you need to do in the event of a tornado with harold brooks, senior scientist at noaa'snational stores laboratory. thanks for coming on the show, haired. great to have you here. give me the latest. what is your forecast now? >> today is probably the last big day and threat really isn't quite as high as it was yesterday. it extend more into the carolinas. there are tornado watches in north carolina and another one back down in alabama and mississippi. tomorrow, the system as it moves further east will be along the eastern seaboard. chance of tornadoes tomorrow is pretty low. gerri: that is good news certainly. how many casualties have we had? we mentioned 30 people have actually died in this, unbelievable number. how many people have been hurt or injured? >> we really don't have good counts on injuries at this point. that is something frequently is difficult to come up with because a lot of people get treated at scene and never even get recorded, if emergency medical person can come in and just patch up whatever wound you have it may not get recorded that injuries have oc

. >> frank gonzales or noaa, thanks for joining us. now on the phone lucy jones of the u.s. geological survey. lucy, reuters is saying early reports of landslides partially blocking some roads. is that what we can expect from an 8.2 earthquake? >> they misspelled my name and didn't get the right -- >> i think we lost lucy. we will come back in just a moment after the break with lucy and all the updates on this evolving story. create a three course italian dinner with olive garden's new cucina mia for just $9.99. first, choose unlimited soup or salad. then create your own pasta with one of five homemade sauces. and finish with dessert. three courses, $9.99. at olive garden. and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, which isn't rocket sc

coast and the west coast and the gulf of mexico ships that have been all over the place thanks to noaaut there in the indian ocean, absolutely not. >> thank you, chad myers. let's are bring in our cnn analyst miles o'brien, and pilot expert les abend, and what problem does this pose with no map? >> well, they will make one now in this particular area now, won't they, because if this pinging is verified, they will probably drop in the what they call the side scan sonar which has the ability to map the ocean floor and this is how they discovered the air france 447 wreckage a couple of years after the debris was discovered and ultimately discovered the black boxes on that particular crash. and the side scan sonar is an invaluable tool, but you don't want to plunk it down into the water unless you have a good idea where to go, and the ping ing might do that, and if it is all verified, that is the next step to get that side scan down, there because the pinging is go going the stop pretty soon and maybe it already has, and maybe this is the place that you begin the side scan sonar before the

there's no way the department of interior, the epa, noaa, national democrats and the white house wouldw oil drilling in the arctic ocean. i'm mark begich, i've fought for five years to get the permits so we could drill under this ice. and we won. approved this message because sooner or later, washington will figure out that they don't take no for an answer. >> these are the people who are going to be in control of the government, right? they have no idea what the people who really care about this environment what they really want. and it's simple, all you have to do is take a look at what's happening in washington, d.c. right now. the cowboy and indian alliance, a very interesting group of americans from all political spectrums. we're talking about ranchers, farmers, leaders of seven native-american tribes hosting a week-long protest making a statement against the keystone xl pipeline. joining me now tom jennen, a nebraska land owner and the rosebud sioux tribe. weezy-pond, i want your response to this "rolling stone" report and how encouraged are you that they're reporting that the ad

the department of the interior should not be going forward with the new seismic testing until after noaa's new guidelines have been finalized. -- anyou have regrets regrets from your time at the department of interior, heading of the minerals management service? >> i have enormous regrets. most watch, we had the devastating accident we have had offshore where 11 men died and we had an enormous pollution event in the gulf of mexico, which is perhaps the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history. i believe we need to continue to work to make our regulation of off shoring oil and gas better, and to make sure we can prevent incidents like that in the future. >> finally, the issue of the human factor, reducing the human factor. how do you do that? number ofere a reports which look at what happened on the rig when they made poor decisions, looked at the data from the well and decided they would ignore tests that suggested the well was and under control. those are decisions that were made probably because a very human factors about the fact they had discovered a huge reservoir of oil and wante

the measure calls on the noaa and related bodies to focus on forecasting severe weather, but not exploringne of its likely causes. i'm wondering if you could address this in the overall climate, if you will, in the united states? you are a professor at princeton university. around this push back on whether humans are causing, change? >> clearly, that is an ostrich head in the sand policy. you pretend if you can see it, it's not happening. it won't stop climate change. where people just don't believe in science, that is something that has to change or we can never effectively grapple not only with this problem, but whole raft of issues and are highly technological society. what the future holds in that regard is hard to tell. i'm not the first one to point out to you this country is polarized terrifically politically. this is a problem that if it is going to be solved, goes to the root of our energy system. we need a bipartisan approach to solving it. the political rhetoric and action that is freezing everything these days really gets in the way. before we continue, i would like you to talk

this is the night to have your noaa weather radio on. >>> breaking news in the search for missing malaysianight 370 we are standing by for a news conference in perth, australia. resume the hunt looking in the pink area. they looked in all the gray ones and every day they just try to shift it a little bit to try to look for something new because as we want toemphasize, not a single piece of debris was found. a sub searching underground in a specific area and more information during this press conference. 27 days since that plane disappeared. so far, nothing. no physical evidence of any sort on the families of the 239 families onboard spend each day waiting for an answer on what happened to their loved ones. nic robertson is "outfront" in kuala lumpur. >> we now hear -- what is going on? >> yeah, one of the family members, a cousin of one of the people lost on the plane said that three hours it was very painful to sit through it. they didn't get the kind of information and clarity that they're hoping for. they really wanted to know and understand what happened to their loved ones and they kee

. >> reporter: noaa says patches of garbage between florida and hawaii.re are international laws that prohibit dumping plastics in the ocean. the problem is enforcement. countries need to do a better job cracking down on pollution and another issue, the ocean waters are difficult to police. >> what we have seen in the last five years is an explosion in awareness. >> all over the world people are arealizing we cannot aforce single use plastics and companies need to take responsibility for their products after it leaves their hands. >> what impact will it have on the ocean? ? if it broke up that debris field on the bottom of the sea floor would be massive. >> you are right. the wreckage field could be spread over an extremely large distance. >> reporter: yet as ocean pollution goes the affect would be minimal. >> the debris from the missing plane is a drop in the bucket. 80% of the plastic pollution we find in our oceans starts on land. simple as the debris in the sand. the oceans are vast. so this single tragedy with the missing airplane is not going to ma

>> all mapped, because it's the united states, noaa has done this for us.about the moon or mars. here is the moon itself with just a telescope or two of them, we can see the three dimensionality of anything out there. there are even telescopes that can find where the lunar landers went down. that's what the moon looks like. here's what mars looks like, pretty incredible, as well. all the craters we have here on mars, all because of 3-d mapping. two eyes or two cameras, take a picture of the same thing. it can see three dimensions. we can't see through the water to do the same thing on the ocean floor. >> and you know what, i can only assume it is pretty darn expensive to do that. not every country wants to weigh in and spend that kind of money, especially the doldrums where nobody goes, no shipping channel. so it's fascinating stuff. chad, i knew you would explain this beautifully. thank you. >> i try. >> well, you succeed. every day. thank you, chad myers. appreciate it. >>> another big story weaver been following on this program and throughout cnn's broad

even some of the noaa charts say rocks, but we're talking 100 feet below the surface. >> that's incrediblehat's actually sailed through here before, but why is it such a popular cutthroat? the main way would be to go around, right? >> here's where they have to go, jeju island and that is the shortcut. fuel is expensive, time is expensive. you're looking at they were going 16 to 17 knots here, almost 20 miles per hour, and if you take another route to the south, that would have taken you almost 40 miles out of the way, burned a lot more fuel and time and this would have been probably a significantly different event, but this is the route that they go. this is the route right through here, it's down through here, here's where they rolled over and actually the boat continued to kind of drift in the current on up to here, where the current location is right there, and that's where the rescue and recovery is going on right now. this is going to go for awhile. we know about the currents, talked about the currents with the divers being in them six to seven miles per hour one way or the other, and

new noaa says they will not have access to the servers because ibm -- down,"e back to "cout i am an edwardsds. joining us in the studio is the heads of actually good -- a luxury goods research. why has michael kors been successful? >> the brand has been successful. the appeal to younger consumers looking for affordable luxury goods. ofalso have a large number consumers who cannot afford the high-end gucci. lots of these high end brands have been putting up their prices. there is a lots of pent-up demand for luxury items. >> why isn't european business filling that gap? they are going high-end. why are there not more homegrown markets? brandsink a lot of the are based on the target behind the net worth individual. that's where the money is. brands are clever to get to that kind of affordable luxury racket and be successful. -- kors iscors successful. they have expensive dresses, but have cheaper watches and accessories. very distinct price points. they can keep up the luxury or out. how much can they keep the balloting that? -- balancing that? introducing more luxury goods? >> definitely som

the senate has in the past supported more funding for these programs at noaa.really a question of how to get that money to them as soon as possible, to improve the systems as quickly as possible. but overt years we've cut funding to programs like this. you look at the sequester that was indiscriminate cuts to agency. it didn't really care about tornado prediction. it cult budget for things like that as well. >> this initially got weighed down by some climate change fights and then those were resolved. tell me about that. >> this bill initially when it was crafted would have taken money away from climate change research and put it into this weather program and a lost people balked and said it's really not they're to say those are two separate things. our understanding of climate and weather are all really interrelated and it doesn't make any sense to take funding away from climate and put it into weather. they resolved that in the end. the bill does not take anything away from climate funding but just puts more money into research. that was a positive change it

compare that to the united states and thanks to noaa and a lot of shipping around our area, the entirecompletely mapped up and down the west coast completely mapped. you get farther out, obviously more sparse, still, a much better idea of our area here than, of course, that indian ocean which is so remote. >> very complex region. thank you so much, chad myers. appreciate that. >>> when we come back, we'll have our expert panel with us. what happens tomorrow? in just a matter of hours, when the search resumes at daylight. >> reporter: for schuyler ebersol, high school started pretty normally, but his luck quickly took a turn for the worse. >> i would have sometimes difficulty breathing. i'd have severe dizziness so that i couldn't really walk or see straight. for days at a time. i would faint randomly and go to sleep some nights and not sure if i'd wake up in the morning. >> reporter: at first he chocked it up to stress but then realized something was really wrong. >> no one knew what was wrong with knee. >> reporter: home from school for months at a time, away from his friends and worl

if you've got a noaa weather radio, pay attention, listen to it.d. if a watch is issued, it means conditions are favorable. you can see this spike in the threat for tornadoes through the months of april, may, and into june. they start to taper into july. so fred, we've got a lot on our plate. we're going to continue to have coverage throughout the afternoon. meteorologist jennifer grey will be here starting in the 2:00 eastern time. we have lots to tell you about. lots to stay on top of. >> karen maginnis, thank you so much. folks need to pay attention to those warnings as you mentioned. >>> meantime, overseas, president barack obama has a lot on his plate as he visits malaysia today as part of his asia tour. the missing airliner is weighing heavily on that nation and as obama extends his sympathies there, the crisis in ukraine, a continent away, is also demanding his attention. erin mcpike is live at the white house. erin, let's begin with the missing plane and what the president has said about it while overseas. >> reporter: well, fred, president

noaa was out in five days.iple fractures in both of my feet, and shrapnel wounds pretty much from head to toe. >> reporter: after almost six weeks of treatment, pete was able to go home to new york. rebekah, who was eventually airlifted to a hospital in her hometown of houston, would spend a total of 56 days in treatment. >> recovery's been very tough. my leg was basically destroyed from my knee down. i had chunks taken out of it from the bomb. all of my bones were completely broken. i'm missing bones in my toes, my foot, and my leg. >> reporter: rebekah was in constant pain and says being 1,600 miles away from pete only made things worse. >> one night she said, you know, i really just need you down here right now. i had just had eardrum reconstructive surgery so i couldn't fly, so that was kind of out of the question. the next morning i jumped in my car and i started driving, and it took me about three days and 1,700 miles later, iwas down here and i came down the stairs and, you know, just said, hi, hugged he

into the large-scale appearance of the indian ocean over there in cooperation with the university and noaathe american atmospheric and oce oceanographic agency looking at the currents and this took us seven days nonstop teaming from perth, so very, very remote. >> talk to us about what it means when we say nearly 3 miles deep. that seems almost impossibly deep. when you do get to the bottom, what's the terrain like underneath? >> on the ocean terrain so far offshore, i have not really an idea, but we're talking about 5,500 meters depth. that is just half of the biggest mariana trench where last year, two years ago where deep down the submarines, the pressure down there is so tremendous. it's, yeah, just incredible. i have no idea how the terrain exactly will be, whether it will be caves or big mountains, but i think it's going to be pretty flat. please don't quote me on that one, because we are more interested in the large-scale currents that are occurring over there. >> so, let's talk about those currents, eric. so, when we're talking about trying to find the location of black boxes, data

we know the noaa outlook. probability of average, takes us temperatures-wise, warmer up into maine and parts of new england. we want to check in on the pacific northwest. that low going to create showers in the desert areas that will take anything. even if a quarter-inch falls that would be huge for them. and a little drier as we go to >>> good friday morning. clear in the city but fog along the coast with breezy conditions, upper 50s to low 60s there, upper 60s across the bay and oakland with low to mid-70s in the valley. >> all that weather, brought to you by target. haven't said denver, yet. they have a nice day ahead. >> 78, yeah. >> very much. >> go for it. >> thank you, ginger. >>> coming up, the substance lurking in so many homes that could make your child sick. it smells just like candy. "gma" investigates, just ahead. >>> and the rise of socialer s surrogacy. why a growing number of women are choosing not to carry their own babies. ♪ get $10 off any food or beverage purchase when you spend $50 or more

they work are the noaa to tag almost all of their releases. >> that's big. >>> 8:26. taking care of mother earth. the call to action from one local lawmaker on this earth day as we look at this live picture and the connection between today and the bay area that goes all the way back to the beginning of earth day. >>> and two men are hospitalized this morning after being attacked and stabbed inside a san francisco strip club. we'll tell you about the key evidence police have to go on in this case. >>> good morning. we're still looking at slow traffic all over -- traffic all over the place. this is 580 coming up to the richmond san rafael bridge. about a five, ten-minute wait before you get on the span. coming up we'll tell you more about the bay bridge drive time. >>> if you are just looking out the window, you are thinking it looks like a lovely day. a little chill in the air. it will be breezy. we'll show you how breezy and how cool it will be. ready? happy birthday! it's a painting easel! the tide's coming in! this is my favorite one. it's upside down. oh, sorry. (w