this should be noaa's highest priority. another critical part of the weather forecasting improvement act is a joint technology transfer initiative by noaa research and the national weather service. i urge the weather service to throw -- to follow threw on the bipartisan voice vote back in april and transfer the full $20 million authorized in that legislation to noaa research to carry out the transthoifings latest scientific and technological advances into the weather service operation. this will sun set outdated and expensive tools and allow cost effective transfer of new methods and tools into operation. noaa is the only federal agency tasked with providing accurate and timely forecasts. i believe this amendment is a big step forward in reflecting this priority. again, i am grateful for the chairman's guidance in working on this amendment and i'm thankful for his leadership on this issue. i hope that we can work together to keep weather research funding at this level when it comes time to conference with the senate. this a

i think this amendment should be passed so we can send a message to noaa. mr. fattah: the united states taxpayers invested a lot of money in the health of salmon in your neck of the woods, right? i'm all for it, i'd like to make sure whatever we're doing is correct. we've got treaty obligations, hatchery, we have got all kinds of stuff going on with both the native americans and the commercial fishermen operations there. all i'm saying is i don't want to come at the end of the night, after we've been debating this bill for two days, right, and rush something forward that may not be the way to go. it's interestingly worded, right. i know that you have good intentions. i like to work with you, with the majority staff, and see where we are. i just can't support this given the complexities of the issues and my -- the limitations of me being from an urban area, i want to make sure i have a complete grasp on the issue. mr. hastings: if the gentleman will yield if he still has time. mr. fattah: i'd be glad to. mr. hastings: these are issues that i know are unique to m

noaa but i first also want to echo everything that's been said about our great colleague, frank wolf. frank is one of the few members of congress who has visited my district, actually went onto my property in big sur, ended up coming back and saying, now i understand why you're so passionate about the oceans. it's an interesting committee that you've chaired, most of you, ranking and chair of the committee, because it's a committee that has all the department of commerce, has all the department of justice and has the science programs, nasa, n.s.f. and the science and technology policy, office of science and technology. essentially the science of america is in your hands and this bill has a lot of it in there, particularly i'd like to talk about noaa. noaa is the national ocean atmosphere administration and what's been happening is that as we've gotten interested in the weather and as we've gotten interested in sort of the sky, we're putting a lot more money into it, sucking it away from the oceans and yet what's happening in the oceans is they're dying. . in the ocean dies, planet ear

noaa is of our work at to deliver environmental intelligence. this kind of action oriented information that people need to prepare, plan for and respond to changes.d of we strive every single day to make sound translations and put that kind of actionable information into the hands of these decision makers, the need it.o really with regard to this national cloiment assessment for us that findingsnslating these too into actionable information that we build into tools like coast, our forecast for el known why, all of our suite of environmental intelligence products. from the national weather arvice, helping to shape weather ready nation, providing coastal intelligence tools like surge, sea level rise tools, tide and current information to navigators. work every day to take science off the pains of our thisals, off the pains of assessment and connect it directly to people's lives mosering, as susie saiders the foresight they so urge ebbly seek him let me come question that closed the last panel. and i too will say that what the pathhope about forwar

the core of our work at noaa is to deliver environmental intelligence.this kind of action oriented information that people need to prepare, plan for and respond to these kind of changes. we strive every single day to make sound translations and put that kind of actionable information into the hands of these decision makers, the people who really need it. with regard to this national climate assessment for us that means translating these findings too into actionable information that we build into tools like our digital coast, our forecast for el known why, all of our -- forecast for el nino, all of our suite of environmental intelligence products. from the national weather service, helping to shape a weather ready nation, providing coastal intelligence tools like storm surge, sea level rise tools, tide and current information to navigators. we work every day to take science off the pains of our journals, off the pains of this assessment and connect it directly to people's lives providing, as susie moser saiders the foresight they so urge ebbly seek him le

we are lucky to have for leading noaa at this important time. and we are lucky to have her here today to talk more about the national climate assessment and what it is such a critical component of a larger work we're doing to tackle this challenge. so with that, kathy sullivan. [applause] >> thank you, mike. i'm delighted to be here with all of you today to visit between these two really intriguing and very a lustrous panels that we have. i want to paint a little backdrop before my colleagues on the second panel dive deeper with you into what lies ahead. when the last, when the second national climate assessment was released in 2000, think about where we were. the country was still recovering from the worst economic crisis, the great recession. the deepwater horizon oil platform had literally just exploded in the gulf of mexico unleashing a train of consequences to really write havoc on the economy and the environment in the gulf of mexico. -- wreak havoc. across the us of the world people were taken to the streets in countries like tunisia, egy

cut of 24% to noaa climate research. as the national climate assessment shows, storms and weather events are becoming more frequent, more severe and as a result more costly. we should be investing in research to combat the threat of climate change, not sticking our heads in the sand, pretending that science is wrong because combating such an obstacle would be too costly and inconvenient. while far from perfect in its current form, this is a reasonable bill that i can support. however, it is imperative that no poison pill policy righters -- riders be included during house consideration. and as i close i want to say to the chairman, chairman wolf, and ranking member fattah, this really is an example of bipartisan cooperation. you work so effectively in putting this bill together and i want to congratulate you. but before i close, i also want thank the retiring chairman for your amazing service to our country. it really has been a pleasure for me to work with you and we know there is never a doubt when frank wolf gets up to

leadership came from noaa. the heavy lifting by 60 person federal advisory committee writing team included some 300 individuals. i wouldn't even care to count the number of reviewers and probably one of the most extensive and transparent multistage review processes in the history of government reports. and that effort, that extra effort which included experts from government at all levels from academia to business from nonprofits has really produced this exceptionally detailed disaggregated accounting of what climate change is overdoing in every geographic region of the united states, and the most effective sectors of our economy. the single most important bottom line that shines through all these hundreds of pages is that climate change is not a distant threat. it is something that is happening now but it is affecting the american people now in important ways. summers on the hold or longer and hotter with extremely. wildfires in the west start earlier in the spring and continue later into the fall. rein in man

i join the committee calling for greater accountability over noaa fishery stock assessments. it is simply insufficient and they are not being responsive to the needs of the fisheries. if noaa fisheries is to receive a federal appropriation at all for scientific data collection, it must prove that it will vastly improve the methods with which it conducts stock assessments. including taking into account the relevant habitats and bilogical features of the stock in question, and produce a stock assessment that can truly account for our fisheries resources. i appreciate the gentleman's attention to this matter and i thank him for his time. i yield back. mr. wolf: thank you. i appreciate the gentleman's concerns and we will continue to work. the chair: the gentleman yields his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia -- mr. wolf: would the gentleman yield? strike the requisite number of words. we had a colloquy going. i tell the gentleman i thank him for his comments. we'll work with you. the chair: the gentleman can remain on his feet. mr. wolf: for the appropriate

so noaa goes down once every year and monitors this and other ships out there, and one of the things they said that makes them feel good about u-701 is that the boat is completely full of sand now. if you see on the slide, just the ongoing currents have buried it and that will protect it from being plundered by greedy divers. here you can see the main deck begun on the u-701. so that's it. any questions? >> ed, were the american air crew awarded a decoration for sinking the u-boat? >> yes. all five crewmen received the distinguished flying cross. and -- one of the things -- made any laugh -- when harry cain and his crew went to meet commander degen they were met by the chicago newspaper publisher running the show and by humped cain's hand and said i'm going to make sure you get the gave distinguished flying cross, and he said, that's great. and then got back to north carolina and found out there wasn't any such thing. but he meant well, i guess. yes, ma'am? >> on the u-boat after it was sunk were explosives ever removed from that? >> no. i don't believe -- no, never been salvage. the

on your screen is kathryn sullivan, the noaa administer. they have been discussing the release of the report for the last 45 minutes -- noaa administrator. they have been discussing the release of the report for the last 45 minutes or so. >> the import for citizens across this land directly to them. and i hope you will find also that this new report is an added and very valuable tool in your toolbox as you help our citizens across the land better understand what these changes are, how they're going to affect them in their region and what it means to them in their community. all of you here from the business community, including those that serve, we can learn a lot from you as well as i hope you taking some good notes from this report. tackling climate change and protecting the environment over the last several years have become much more prominent factor both in evaluating return on economic investment and in driving factors in many corporate social responsibility programs. that's another change that bodies well for the -- that bodes well f

at fort pulaski, noaa measures that sea level has risen over eight inches. projections at 2,100 put most of this region under water. this chart shows that sea level rise of three feet will devastate the area. here is fort pulaski, georgia, and the coast around it. that's what's left with three feet of sea level rise. on tybee island, i had lunch with city officials and council members, representatives of the georgia conservancy, noaa scientists, georgia garden club members, local sustainability directors. the message was clear -- sea level is rising. oceans are warming, infrastructure and ecosystems that georgians depend on are being threatened. one example, according to university of georgia biologist, sea level rise will affect the state's oyster crop. the oysters in georgia thrive at the tidal edge, sometimes above water, sometimes below water as the tide goes up and down. as rising sea levels come up, it will cause the oyster habitat to shift or leave them vulnerable to predation as they spend more time under water. being out of the water actually protec

by having measures we could put them in noaa a statistical model to assess the influence of those facersou have something here in this case. you have .18 differential and a .22 differential of the interest groups. when you use those as independent variables they differ dramatically but if you are going to try to strongly relate those by correlations because they are so close, doesn't that suggest you have a multicola lynn -- linearity problem. >> oh, my gosh. >> jon: i don't know what i just said. the question is: do the elites, is the variable enough from what the nonelite public wants to what the elite want? did you find a large spread between their aims? >> yes, yeah. there's some very important issues including social security deficits, economic regulations, taxes. >> jon: are you able to calculate how much of a difference money makes or how much of a difference, you know -- can you look at different interest groups and see -- almost calculate what their effect is? what who is the effective private lobby group? what is the most effective money? >> with our data not really. we looked

uh-oh, noaa, national ocean graphic aeronom cal administration, right? here is what florida is estimated to look like in the year 2100. whoa! three foot sea level rise. see ya, miami. all of this red area will be under water. see that? this is all going to be affected. it's estimated that $31 billion in florida real estate will be simply wiped out. you can fix this problem with mitigation? you can only fix this problem with long term solutions, which rubio doesn't believe in and he is very short on. here are some other things that rubio can't mitigate. this week, 20,000 homes in san diego, california were evacuated after 700 acres of land were torched by a wildfire. ah, just another bad day at the office, huh? an extended drought and high temperatures are to blame for this blaze here. they are more frequent and more severe. the temperature in san diego today was over 100 degrees. the average high this time of year is only 70 degrees. ah, it's an anomaly, right? nut sg happening to the planet. let's go to texas. they are seeing the worst drought in 500 ye

the prediction from noaa is people living along the gulf and east coasts should brace for 8 to 13 tropical storms. 3 to 6 of those storms could become hurricanes. the numbers are considered near to below average. in 2012, hurricane sandy was one of the largest gobal disasters costing $65 billion. a popular gas station name will soon disappear on the east coast.. marathon petroleum is buying the hess chain for $2.8 billion dollars. the hess gas stations and convenience stores will be re-named speedway. it means marathon's operations expand from 9 states to 23. states... and unilever is selling it's ragu and bertolli sauces to japan's mizkan group for $2 billion. ragu is the top selling pasta sauce in the u.s. the final flight of airtran airways is scheduled for december 28th. the low-cost airline was originally known as valujet-. but the names was changed following a merger and a notorious 1996 crash in the everglades. southwest airlines bought airtran in 2011 for $1.4 billion dollars. some airtran jets will join the southwest fleet-- others will be sold to delta. best buy reported an earni

forecasters with noaa now say that there is a 78 percent chance of el nino by the end of the year when the pacific waters warm up which means wetter than average winter in california. in november they thought there was only 36 percent chance of this being el nino year but the odds are growing. >> and now, driving to pick up the kids, bam, the windshields were wet. >> it rained a little yesterday. and during the overnight. good morning, everyone. el nino bringing significant rain it must be strong so we have to watch. if it is moderate to low or weak, it will have no bearing on our weather. we have to want strength. here is live doppler 7 hd, hard to pick up direction chill is close to the ground but it is out there. watch out through the morning rush hour for wet spots and even if it is not drizzling there could be slick spots. mid-to-upper 50's loan the peninsula and a lot of us in the mid-to-upper 50's, and mountain view is 61, and 51 in larkspur and santa rosa. drizzle is possible in the morning and the day planner shows brighter by noon with temperatures in the 50's at the coast an

any land areas, which does bring us into the topic of conversation regarding the predictions from noaa the atlantic hurricane season. they're predicting average to below average season. the important numbers are the hurricanes and major hurricanes somewhere between three to six and one to two. we don't know if any of those will hit land or not. hopefully they won't. >>> bill, thank you very much. x-men soars and blended bombs at the box office. "x-men: days of future past" pulled in $110 million in the u.s. the adam sandler and drew barrymore ended in third. second place, "godzilla" took a steep drop. >>> it's kanye's first and kim's third. yes, their wedding. it happened and reportedly went off without too much drama saturday in florence italy. step dad bruce jenner escorted kim down the aisle. followed by a 20-minute speech or some are calling it a rant by kanye. >> i think a 20-minute speech by every groom in every wedding. >> he called the kardashians the most remarkable people of any time. jay-z skipped the ceremony. more important, to spend time with the family in the hamptons an

and we are told the marine mammal center, noaa and the coast guard will be out to help tomorrow morning. that's the story from near half moon bay. alan wang abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. >>> over the weekend a couple of paddle boarders in san francisco good rare a rare trea you can see them playing in kelly's cove. the man who posted it to youtube happened when he and a friend headed from fort point to ocean beach even splashing one of the paddle boarders. what a thrill. >>> a plan that would end door-to-door mail delivery for millions of americans passed a test on capitol hill. the house oversight and government reform committee calls for the postal service to transition from doorstep delivery and communal boxes down the street for 15 million addresses in 10 years. the plan is already getting a trial run at places like strip malls and business parks. >>> we are working to volume voluntarily allowing us to do that. so far they understand the economics of it and they understand the business of it. they understand that. we are not getting much resistance at all. >>> there would be except

and we are told the marine mammal center, noaa and the coast guard will be out to help tomorrow morning. that's the story from near half moon bay. alan wang, abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. >>> over the weekend a couple of paddle boarders in san francisco good a rare treat. you can see them playing in kelly's cove. the man who posted it to youtube happened when he and a friend headed from fort point to ocean beach even splashing one of the paddle boarders. what a thrill. >>> a plan that would end door-to-door mail delivery for millions of americans passed a test on capitol hill. the house oversight and government reform committee calls for the postal service to transition from doorstep delivery and communal boxes down the street for 15 million addresses in 10 years. the plan is already getting a trial run at places like strip malls and business parks. >>> we are working to volume voluntarily allowing us to do that. so far they understand the economics of it and they understand the business of it. they understand that. we are not getting much resistance at all. >>> there would be exceptio

and we are told the marine mammal center, noaa and the coast guard will be out to help tomorrow morning. that's the story from near half moon bay. alan wang, abc7 news. >> alan, thank you. >>> over the weekend a couple of paddle boarders in san francisco good a rare treat. you can see them playing in kelly's cove. the man who posted it to youtube happened when he and a friend headed from fort point to ocean beach even splashing one of the paddle boarders. what a thrill. >>> a plan that would end door-to-door mail delivery for millions of americans passed a test on capitol hill. the house oversight and government reform committee calls for the postal service to transition from doorstep delivery and communal boxes down the street for 15 million addresses in 10 years. the plan is already getting a trial run at places like strip malls and business parks. >>> we are working to volume voluntarily allowing us to do that. so far they understand the economics of it and they understand the business of it. they understand that. we are not getting much resistance at all. >>> there would be exceptio

more sophisticated instruments like those used by noaa are usually placed in a stilling well -- a pipe -- that protects a float connected to a recording device from waves. as the tides rise and fall, the float's motion is recorded." not complicated. good luck denying that. when you fly over the north carolina coast, you see lots of investment along the seashore, lots of houses, lots of hotels, condominium, restaurants, an entire seafront economy that the larger nort north carolina econy very much depends on. what are my colleagues from north carolina going to tell them about climate change? don't worry? it's not real? good luck with that. they're already measuring the sea level rise. mr. president, those small businesses in north carolina want to protect their storefronts from sea level rise just as v.h. corporation wants to protect its cotton supply from drought. these north carolina companies get the economic threat that climate change presents. the frustrating thing here is that we can strengthen our economies and businesses by tackling the problem of climate change and sea level ri

and as far as, you know, we're kicking off the hurricane season on june 1st, noaa made the official forecast. an average to below average season. notice that six is the number of average hurricanes per season. they're saying there's a 70% chance we'll get three to six of those. we haven't had a major hurricane hit this country since wilma in 2005. it's like one of the longest droughts ever, and hopefully continue this is year. sooner or later, it's going to catch up. >> it's going to catch up. hopefully not that time around. >>> an interview, and pope francis making progress in a push for peace. [ dennis ] it's always the same dilemma -- who gets the allstate safe driving bonus check. rock beats scissors! [ chuckles ] wife beats rock. and with two checks a year, everyone wins. [ female announcer ] switch today and get two safe driving bonus checks a year for driving safely. only from allstate. call 866-906-8500 now. [ dennis ] zach really loves his new camera. problem is...this isn't zach. it's a friend of a friend who was at zach's party and stole his camera. but zach's got it covered... wi

sullivan, the administrator of the undersecretary of commerce, who you will hear from later in the noaa, and her predecessor, who regrets she could not be here, but i spoke with her last evening, and she handed the reins over to kathy sullivan from jayne's earlier involvement in this extraordinary effort, and, 'sain, without noaa partnership, and, needless to say, money, this study would not have been completed. the chair of the national climate assessment development advisory committee, affectionately called the nac a dac fac. jerry in aar from moment, as well. at the jacobs, who was the first executive director of the assessment, whose vision and made this thelly most transparent climate assessment ever and who kept the trains running on time for more than two years. she was a great contributor, and then her successor, who seamlessly picked up the ball and saw this report over the finish line with dedication, focus, and competence. i think to these folks and to the entire national climate assessment team, the 300 authors, the even more numerous reviewers, i think we owe them a big vot

we have a strategic partnership with noaa that fits in with the strategic earner ship strategy. we also are interested in the arctic. most of you know it is a big open area that needs to be addressed from a number of points. we have missions that have to be done up there. how can the academy help deliver intellectual research and then capacity to help the coast guard. and we have a center for maritime strategy and policy that help reform decision-making. i brought along today the united guard art of strategy right here. available in the back. on your wayvailable out if you want to grab a strategy. ciber, we at the coast guard academy trying to decide are -- trying to decide where we can deliver cyber skills and cyber education so our cadets have the skills they need in an ever-changing world. as a senior person, knowing where you want to bring the organization. making sure you communicate expect haitians up and down to seniors and people. you cannot just come in and start this. you have to get the great ideas. to inform people of what is expected. give them leeway to help you to

. >> reporter: reminding all of us that now is the time to prepare for what noaa says will be a season with 8 to 13 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and 1 to 2 major hurricanes. >> three to six hurricanes. and you always point out, don't be fooled by the number. >> right, because all it takes one to hit land. all of them could be in the ocean, or several could hit land. they're just probabilities not specifically how many can hit you. >> and this weekend? >> we do have some tropical moisture coming. that's why i wanted to bring you. in pacific, the remnants of amanda. and saturday into sunday, a little tornado risk for south dakota, severe weather, damaging winds into the panhandle of texas. >> thank you. >>> and tonight, more signs hillary clinton is mulling a presidential run and talking and fighting back about benghazi. with a new book coming, politico reporting she is taking on her critics. what is she writing? here is abc's chief global affairs corespondent, martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: the revelations in "politico" are the first indication of how she would handle the fall

. >> the marine mammal center is working with the noaa and the coast guard and it is not known if the mammal center and performance autopsy until they get here. it is the responsibility of them to dispose of it according to the harbor master but the scientists are expected out here today. low tide is expected at noon today, around noon today so maybe that can help scientists and push the whale closer to shore. reporting live in half moon bay for abc7. >> we have a look at man southern california police accused of holding a woman captive for a decade. i gas -- isidro garcia held the woman cap different and forced her into marriage and now she is speaking out. we have the interview you will see only on abc7 news this morning. >>the woman and her daughter are at home with her per and sister. she found the courage to go to police after finding her sister on facebook and because she feeder her daughter was in danger. talking to kabc in los angeles the 25-year-old said show was raped repeatedly over ten years and beaten when she tried to escape and was brain washed because she was only 15 w

national oceanic and atmospheric administration or noaa. the contract will create 45 to 50 jobs. >>> pat sajak says a controversial tweet he sent was adjust croak. he posted a tweet -- joke. he posted i believe global warming alarmist are racist, misleading. that prompted outrage on social media. he said he was just trying to get a rise out of people. >>> sharks and other ocean creatures could provide clues about hurricane activity. for 10 years scientists have been tagging censors on sharks, tuna and other wildlife in the gulf. they record and feed back key information about water temperature. that could be used to forecast a hurricane strength. >>> looks like the weekend will be different than the one we just left behind. now to our chief meteorologist bill martin. >> timing is right for the holiday weekend. last weekend was chilly, monday was chilly. temperatures warmed up today. these were the numbers outside. 70s, 80s popping up. temperatures tomorrow warmer still. 82 in antioch. 81 livermore. highs tomorrow warmer. look at this system

and noaa's statutory role of remote licenses. although the licensing process is independent the fcc consults with agencies as needed. consultation is often related to status of cases in the progress of licensing activities. the fcc's regulations and licensing mail make use of scientific and technical work done by nasa. like much of the commercial satellite industry the fcc main sources of tracking data are dod j. spock as well as the satellite operating themselves derive from the radio links with satellites. the efforts to improve space awareness of the operators through such mechanisms as a space data association are an important element to an overall debris mitigation strategy. to be clear data-sharing between j. spock and commercial operators is on a spacecraft operator to spacecraft operator basis. in conclusion i think the committee for this opportunity to describe the roles concerning orbital debris mitigatiomitigatio n the authority on these rules and the fcc's interaction with other federal government agencies considering

good news for those on the east coast, noaa is predicting have below normal atlantic hurricane season13 tropical storms and three to six hurricanes. the six months or season starts june 1st and run through the end of november. instrumental is what virgin america calls its flight attendants's push to unionize misrepresentation by the transportation workers union faces similar vote two years ago and failed. version america is the only non-union airline in the u.s. industry. sony is refusing to throw in the title on its money-losing television business. speculation of sales mounted as sony spins off the business into separate entities. the ceo says he would not will not equity partners, sony's tv business racked up losses every year for nearly a decade. that is the latest from the fox business network. melissa: more proof that when money talks everyone listens including apple. the drug dealing game was the top seller on itunes getting yanked from the apps store after we brought you the story but the game's creators are not going quietly. they vowed to bring it back to the public. good lu

the student reached out to noaa and worked with it to successfully send the drone toward its rightfultion. the engineering student called the whole ordeal a cool experience, but admitted he should have called the number before posting all the pictures on the sbernlt. >>> nature calling is not an excuse for breaking and entering. two florida police detectives are accused of manipulating a door lock into city hall. why? they say city hall has cleaner bathrooms than the ones attached to the police station. the door was left open for the entire weekend. one of the detectives is no longer employed there. the other has a hearing scheduled for june. >>> we are now in the midst of commencement season and the annual outcries over political correctness versus free speech. james rosen tells us about some of those fights. >> reporter: after campus protests branded her a war criminal, former secretary of state condoleeza rice withdrew as the commencement speaker. >> when you think of a commencement speaker, you think of someone who you can look up to. >> the left claims to be the side of tolerance

according to the national ocean at most firework administration noaa april tied with the 2010 record. now at the same time antarctic sea ice grew 21 percent to 3 and half million square miles. that's the most since they started keeping records in 1979. then there's this. cold weather system over northern california tonight spring snow is the result to like tahoe, early today. there was a mixture of rain and snow above 6000 feet. motorist were advised to watch for slick roads and winter weather conditions. weather expected to clear by the weekend. but, you know, 10 days until we hit june those are not the kind of pictures we are used to seeing. pretty wild. higher elevation several inches. >> 5 to 7 inches over the pasts today on may 20. >> go figure. >> this is the new normal i guess. >> true. >> if there is. >> strange weather the new normal. >> l here's live doppler 7hd. >> i claim it and own it. here's few more clouds around especially along the coastal area than earlier. still mainly clear in the bay area. over into our east over in the central sierra around lake tahoe beyond on t

noaa says it's recovering the parts, and u.p.s. says it's investigating what happened.nd the student is enjoying his moment of notoriety. >>> the word of the evening now, influenced by the creation of the house select committee on benghazi. it now appears we've entered a new phase in the investigation of the benghazi scandal and arrived at an inflection point. the word this evening is vicissitude. it means a change in variation in direction or course. >>> joining me now, a very good friend, former d.e.a. agent, special agent with the florida department of law enforcement and my co-author on the new thriller novel "border war," james o. born. jim, great to have you with us and congratulations to us on the book going on sale today. how you feeling? >> i feel great, lou. it's nice to be here. thank you. >> so let's go to the idea that we can write a fiction book about something that you and i know a little something about, which is the bad guys and the good guys along the border and what's really happening there. how are you feeling today? about that part of the story and

forecasters with noaa say that there is now a 78 percent chance of el nino by the end of the year whenc waters warm up at the equator, a strong el nino means wetter than average winter. in november, forecasters thought there was only 36 percent chance of this being el nino year but the odds have grown each month since. last month, there was 65 percent chance. >> mike, what is interesting the odds for the year? >> the water getting warmer and they forecast it will get warmer, but how warm does it get? if it is weak or moderate there is no correlation between the health winters and that has to be a strong el nino. we will watch that through the summer where it will be bone dry five miles is our visibility at half moon bay. the ceiling down to 300'. that is what you will find in a lot of areas, clocking hanging low this morning and letting go of drizzle from time to time. if you take bart it is 52 in daly city, and mid-to-upper 50's at the other stations and, again, maybe just a little wet. temperature this morning is running one to six degrees warmer than yesterday because of clouds. pat

again, without noaa's partnership, this study would not have been completed.eri, the chair of the advisory economy, affectionately called the nacadacfac. he ensured rigor and sign tifpk endeavor every step of the way. kathy jacobs, who was the first executive director of the assessment, whose vision and dedication really made this the most trance parent national climate assessment ever and kept the trains running on time for more than two years. kathy was a great contributor. and then kathy's successor, fave yen, who seamlessly picked up the ball and saw this report over the finish line with dedication, focus and competence. to those folks and the entire climate assessment team, the 300 authors and more numerous reviewers, we owe them a big vote of thanks, and i want to lead that. [applause] >> i asked each of you to carry it back and share it with your constituencies and your communities. this is in a sense a new beginning of this effort to reach out all across the country and innocent advise and organize the kinds of actions we need. tell folks to visit glob

noaa is predicting as many as 13 named storms, with at least two major hurricanes. the six-month atlantic hurricane season starts on june 1st. >>> good news for drivers heading into a busy travel weekend. gas prices are not expected to leave you feeling as robbed this summer. aaa predicts prices at the pump should start falling, yeah, you heard that right, falling. prices now averaging around $3.65 heading into memorial day. about average for the last three years. it all depends, of course, on where you live. drivers in the central u.s. are paying the least. i'm jealous of them. because those of us on the coast are paying a bit more. >>> that leads us to a spin and a toast heard round the world. this is how presidents vladimir putin celebrated a gas deal between russia and china yesterday. it comes after nearly a decade of negotiation, which in putin's style requires a shot with china's president and everyone else in the room. the deal gives russia struggling economy a wooboost. blunting the u.s. and other countries' sanctions over the ukraine crisis. the sanctions

and out of respect for those who have pulled together here in new york during superstorm sandy, noaaent here in new york for the first time. >> our chad myers is here to tell us all about it. and given the weather year that the united states has been having, we certainly hope the atlantic hurricane season which starts june 1st is mild. please tell us you got some good news. >> i do have some good news. the news is that there will be hurricanes. and i can't tell you where it's going to hit or how many will hit. but the number is three to six. three to six hurricanes in the water in the atlantic. the average is 6.4. last year we had 2. so major hurricanes, 1 to 2. you should have 2 to 7. last year, 0. let's go back to 2012. this number was 19, 10 and 1. that's the real number. 1. what was that number 1? sandy. so you only technically need one storm to make a big season. and there will be at least one. near normal, 40% chance. below normal, 50% chance. above normal, about 10% chance of that. so there's where the numbers come from. it doesn't matter whether we get one or a dozen. it matt

local example of where national ocean policies worked as the army corps of engineers, navy, noaa, and u.s. geological and nasa have all worked on sensitive shorelines just north and south of houston in key destination and they were able to resolve the critical conflicts between these agencies and also would impact on the port of houston. so there are reasons why you want to do -- avoid conflict of interest. this is a great one to do t we do it in law enforcement. we do it in firefighting. we ought to do it in our conflicts in the oceans. oppose this amendment. mr. fattah: i would like to yield some time to the gentlelady from the great state of maine. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. pingree: thank you very much. thank you for he yielding the time and recognizing that it is a great state of maine. i want to oppose this amendment which would block funding for the implementation of national ocean polcy. this important policy seeks to improve the coordinated management our oceans and coasts to address the most pressing issue facing our oceans, our resources, and coastal commu

very quickly, noaa put out their atlantic season forecasts.r below average numbers of hurricanes and tropical storms. . >>> good morning. low clouds pull back to the coast keeping you around 60 to 66 in downtown. high clouds and sunshine for the rest of us with 70s around the bay, 70s and 80s inland, even >> all that weather, brought to you by big lots. and just a reminder, hurricane season starts june 1st. >> it does. thanks for that reminder. thanks. >>> coming up, "gma" investigates. wedding nightmares. how to protect yourself from losing thousands of your -- if your venue suddenly shuts down. >>> also, the shocking study this morning changing everything we thought about gluten-free foods. why they not make as big a difference as you thought. >>> and then, our party bus is cruising to the park. lady antebellum onboard. so many of our service members. can't wait to get this live concert started. look at those selfies. stay with us, everybody. "good morning america, so i'm trying best foods with olive oil. let's see what happens. that's not b

noaa has endorsed it, fish and wildlife has endorsed it, e.p.a. has endorsed it, the corps of engineers has endorsed it. and thanks to that wrda water resources development act authorization, a $706 million project will become the reality over the next five years. why is it important? it's important for this reason. as we sit here and talk today, the nation of panama and widening and deepening the panama canal. wane few months they're going to be taking through the panamex ships of the 21st century. ships that carry not 9,000, not 11,000 but 14,000 containers. and ports along the east coast of the united states, like the port of savannah, are not go to be able to take that deep a ship. they'll have to wait until high tide to bring it in and then wait for it to come back to take the ship out. that causes money and causes people to divert to other ports and countries and it hurts us. so over the next five years as we deepen the savannah harbor and river, we improve the opportunity for the intiets southeastern united states to grow and prosper and be

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senator chambliss worked for 16 years to go through all the steps at noaa, epa, omb, corps of engineers, fish & wildlife to get every approval we could get including getting the vice president to join us on the docks in savannah and make his famous quote that we were going to get it done come hell or high water. i'm not one that kills the messenger. but on a sunday night right before the budget came out you delivered the news to senator chambliss and i that we weren't going to be able to move forward based on a plan we thought through conversations with others, not with you, that we included the right language in the appropriation bill to move the savannah harbor expansion program forward. at the last minute we got the bad news that wasn't going to be the case. in the last two days you and i have had discussions about how important this is to my state. and to my country. it's an issue for the entire trade of the united states of america and the economy of the united states of america. it is a net positive export port. it has met every requirement needed whatsoever. and i don't want you

or 15 other agencies that are very active in research and development, and they range from nasa to noaato even the department of justice, places where you wouldn't or don't think that they do research but we want to focus on these agencies because in some ways they are either the most basic or some of the largest, et cetera. so we want to thank you for your service and your dedication. you know, it's a great honor because in maryland we have some of the greatest federal labs that have ever been created in the world, the national institutes of health, the national institutes of standards, the fda, goddard space agency, and i could just go on. the other is i can look out my window and see johns hopkins university, and i'm within walking distance of the telescope institute. event a week away from the university of maryland and the great and wonderful breakthrough work that they do. i'm essentially within walking distance of nobel prize winners. it's great to see these people, and what most of all when they talk to me is they want to make sure that they can do the job that they were educate

i talked with the noaa administrator katherine sullivan on tuesday.se of sequestration. it's a backlog. they acknowledge it. but any critical positions, they have worked on filling those first. so they know it and they're trying to fill those positions. >> takes some time. >> good news for meteorologists looking for a job. you know where to send your resume. >>> coming up next, jenna bush hager is going to share the story of a mother-daughter reunion 77 years in the make. >>> plus, the cast of the broadway hit "mamma mia!" performs live on our plaza. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >> sing it, natalie. >> i love this song. >>> we're back. it's 8:40. a touching memoir is coming out in time for mother's day. "the waiting" tells the story of a 102-year-old woman, minka disbrow, and her lifelong quest to connect with the baby girl she gave up for adoption. jenna bush hager has the story. >> for 77 years, minka disbrow cherished the only photo she had of her little girl. >> that was my baby. it was very hard for me to give her up. >> but at the age of 1