. >> for 22 years, wayne perryman and a team from noaa have been here from march until may, counting and collecting data on gray whales migrating north...from the breeding grounds of mexico...to the arctic...a trip of 6,800 miles. >> this point is kind of a focal point for them and we're able to see them very very well, they pass often within a 100 meters of the beach so it's a great place to count animals. >> gray whales swim close to land as protection against their main predator... killer whales. even so it takes a sharp eye and strong binoculars to spot the northern migration. once they do, "it's go time" for a one of a kind unmanned aircraft named mobly. >> to the right, to the right, ok now move, they're in the middle of the frame. >> they're right there. >> keep on going up. >> hold on hold on. >> they're surfacing in the middle of the frame. >> good. >> come down a little bit. >> hows that? >> they're moving to the right i see them underwater. >> noaa scientist and pilot john durban is tracking a mother and her calf from a distance of about three quarters of a mile out from w

all about by noaa was the input.hat study found the drought is ultimately caused by a lack of precipitation and that lack of precipitation is ultimately caused but it's really persistent high-pressure ridge of the atmosphere that has been sitting over the northeast pacific ocean and blocking storms from hitting california, now for four years in a row. it is really an abnormal event. they find a connection with the global warming process and that ridge. or the high-pressure region. we look at the other side of the water balance equation, the withdrawal side. evaporation has been increasing because of warming. so even though climate change has not affected the precipitation -- precipitation is widely variable in california from year-to-year -- but underlying both of those variable things that occur naturally is this elephant in the room that is continue to grow larger every year, and now -- when he gets dry naturally, it is now more dry because of climate change. juan: and economic impact on california? we're seeing th

the waters in the north east pacific have warmed up way beyond what we are used to. >> according to noaa a, warmer ocean off of southern california has made it harder for nursing sea lions to forage and as a result the pups are not getting enough nourishment. el ninio is an event scientists have seen several times but this year's temperatures are quite different. >> what's really different is the water in the north east pacific warmed up over a year ago, usually that warming occurs after the el nino developed but in this case it preceded it. >> ocean warming impacts the food chain from the bottom up. as upwelling winds are causing deep water currents typically rife with cold water nutrients to circulate up mostly nutrient depleted warm water. >> so when you talk about nutrients, what is that? >> that biologic material in the deep ocean gets remineralized to inorganic nutrients and so the upwelling keeps that cycle going. so how does it affect the top of the food chain? the whole food chain gets depressed. a lot of those fish species that could move, have moved northward and the food sour

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. >> today just another report from noaa. they have been releasing a el nino report the second thursday of every month. looks like it will be strong into the winter months. very strong. that is important. if it is strong in december, january, when the jet stream slides south we could see a lot of rain. at this time, a strong el nino. we have had five strong or very strong el ninos in the last 40 years. of those five one has been dry and four wet. where will the rainfall? could fall in southern california and santa barbara. depends now. when the systems roll in they will be slanted towards the south. that is the question now, if it is a strong el nino how far north will the rain go, how much could we get. 1998 and 1982 we got 200% of rainfall average. strong el nino is likely. we know about it. it will be likely for the winter and the key is that warm water engaging with the our jet stream. el nino is not a storm. el nino is a warm water -- down here. that fuels our storm. the report by no ah, we are -- noaa we are on track fo

that's according to a new report from noaa. there is also mounting evidence that human beings are probably responsible for california's drought. kron 4's charles clifford is live tonight in san francisco with details. and reaction from governor jerry brown. charles.... >> reporter:the previous hottest july was in 1998, when temperatures were just 0.14 degrees above normal. this year that record was easily passed. july 2015...the hottest month ever recorded. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration says that global temperatures were 1.46 degrees fahrenheit above average. the noaa report also notes that el nion, the warm water mass near the equator in the pacific, is contributing to the high temeratures. the news comes just as another report published in the scientific journal geophysical research letters bclaims california's four year drought is due ,in part, to man made climate change. the authors assert that 8-27 percent of the precipitation changes in california are the results of global warming caused by people. o

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when it comes to the forecast, noaa has a 90% chance of el nino throughout winter. what does this mean for us right now? the way we look at it, again, no exact rainfall totals with this. but the noaa forecast anomalies for december, january, february, all have the potential here of some above-average rainfall. yes, that's in the cards but here comes something totally different. that is the warm pacific blob out here in the west. no scientist knows right now how that is going to play into el nino. so plenty of caution here, at least over the nextsy days at this point. >> very good information, thank you jeff. >>> from el nino to our heat this week, our free nbc bay area app is a good resource for your neighborhood-specific forecast. >>> detectives in sunnyvale are combing for evidence in the city's first homicide of the year. the homicide happened inside the plaza del ray mobile home park. the prime suspect is a woman? >> reporter: that's right, peggy, the suspect is a woman. and we're just getting information from vest investigators that the victim died from blunt f

the noaa says july was the 365th straight month where world wide temperatures were above average. i see audrey nodding. >> it's true. christina: i feel the heat. >> yeah. it's been a global thing, not just here. it's more of across the entire earth that we've seen hot temperatures, record-breaking weather. christina: kind of worrisome. >> we'll have to wait and see. that's a whole other newscast. christina: we'll keep it simple with the forecast. >> let's stick to the tri-state. it wasn't as hot as the weekend. it felt uncomfortable because of the dew point. our high temperatures were slightly above average. mostly into the 80s. we hit a high of 85 in islip. it was 83 in montauk. we were just under 90 up towards poughkeepsie. here's a look at the current readings. we're in the 80s. we have rain-cooled readings in the 70s across poughkeepsie -- monticello and sussex. it's all about the dew points. you can see the readings are in the 60s and 70s. it is uncomfortable for another day. our winds are brisk. they're breezy coming off the ocean between 10 to 20 miles an hour. that will co

july was the hot month ever recorded by noaa. expected to end up as the hottest man known to mandating back to 1880 when they started tracking that stuff. >> after the last few days, i believe that. >> reporter: maybe it's a trend we don't like, i like the warm weather. i'm good with the 90s, keep them coming. 422 eastbound traffic moving okay as you traveled between oaks and king of prussia. in valley forge national park we have issues we've been talking about, but on the highway things look good. watch out for more construction in the eastbound lanes from 9 to 3:00 p.m. between oaks and 23. you'll see delays at that point. the other thing that's out not on construction crews but power is out in north wild along east 1th avenue likely traffic lights are out saturday of -- as a result of it. >> reporter: i can't give you the 90s, matt, but i'll give you the 0s. 88 degrees is the projected high. if you're traveling across the county it is the front that's pushing off the east. a little stuff down by houston. no major delays and no

noaa hurricane hunters are flying through the middle. satellites can track movement and size but for more accurate data the hunters sample the storms directly. >> the data showing that the storm is stronger than we predicted. the wind speeds at flight level were about 125 miles an hour. and at the surface were about 115 miles an hour, making hurricane danny a category 3. >> this is why we put airplanes into hurricanes, because this gives us the best picture of really what's going on. >> ian is the quarterback of the elite team of pilots and scientists and engineers. >> most aircraft in the world avoid the weather, we seek it out and fly through it. >> reporter: a former naver aviator this is the co-pilot's first hurricane. >> in the navy did they tell to you go into the bad weather? >> no. >> how do you feel you did? you didn't crash the plane. >> well, we're having this conversation so i must have done all right. >> reporter: weather sensors or dropsons are critical to the mission. measuring factors like wind speed, direction, humidity

ahead, and what would it take for cuban americans to want to go back, our first guest is armando mower noaareno. why did you leave cuba? >> thank you for having me here. i left cuba 15 years ago, i first went to europe to spain and i left the country because i was not comfortable and i was not feeling really well in a society where my rights were not respected and i left the country also because economic reasons you know like many people and many cubans who have left the country. >> right. would you ever go back as a resident of cuba? >> well, i haven't been in cuba for more than ten years now. and i don't think it's the right time for me to go back to cuba. i don't feel so excited about all the changes that they are promoting or taking that are going to happen. and during all those years, i've been building my life outside the country and i have a part of my -- my life in cuba but i also have a new life outside which is the one that i want to write and develop, you know. >> and part of that new life is being a successful artist in new york city. you've said that artists are pawns to the cu

by having measures we could put them in noaa a statistical model to assess the influence of those facersthing 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 at lobbyists

noaa researchers say the microscopic algae is up to 40 miles wide, 650 feet deep in some places, and now stretches from california to alaska. it has shut down fishories. the unusually warm temperatures in the pacific ocean. >>> the debate for republican presidential candidates is tomorrow and jerry brown has an important question for the candidates. he said longer fire seasons, extreme weather and severe drought are all here. what's your plan to deal with the threat of climate change? the rest of the candidates will debate earlier in the evening. cbs 2's craig boswell reports on thursday night's prime time debate. >> in the first spot directly center stage businessman billionaire donald trump. >> reporter: joining trump will be jeb bush, scott walker, mike huckabee, ben carson, ted cruz. marco rubio and rand paul. governors chris christie and john kasich narrowly made the cut. bobby jindal and rick perry were left out. the split was based on poll numbers. the question is whether donald trump will continue his war of words with fellow candidates. >> i'm not looking to hurt or embarras

for example in the last 20 years know what came out and said -- noaa came out and said the level has risen. we are seeing flooding in miami now. climate change is real and it is caused by humans. host: i will give you both credit because you both came prepared with your charts. the you have a different chart? guest: i have a different chart. i would like to show mine. dan got to show his. nasa putting people on the moon and doing all these wonderful things, however if you look at the nasa generated temperature from their satellites, which cover the whole world, and not just this study which used the from old engine input on ships, for some reason that is the only way they the last 10rming in years. if you look at the satellite data it is very clear. it goes up and down and up and down. it has been static for the last 10 or 15 years. that is the nasa data that i handed you. then --plain to me guest: explain to me then, why have nine of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the past 10 years? now we are on track in 2015 to have an even hotter your? the reality is -- guest: can i a

we'll see how things come into play and what noaa is thinking. today, things are right on target for the -- temperatures high of 84. that's the normal high for this time of year. 84 degrees. on the cool side, especially in the suburbs. 57 in reading and 55 stamford. 64 in greenwich. most of long island 60s. a few 50s out of the pine barrens and low 50s out there. clear sky and light wind. a lot of 50s north and west. wooechb seen a few upper 40s way to the north and west. we've got clear skies to start. high clouds drifting from the south and west ahead of a storm system. it's going to come very close to us. this one in the ohio and tennessee valleys, it's going to drift slowly eastward. we're going to be on the northern fringe of the rain shield with it. best chance for rain tomorrow night will be central and southern new jersey. have to deal with more clouds. sunshine giving way to clouds. comfortable. pretty good. new jersey later on tonight. west. a cloudy and comfortable night with mild temperatures continuing. tomorrow, plenty of clouds aro

while it is too early to tell how much damage danny will inflict, data collected by noaa hurricane hunters is vital. in predicting nature's costly storms. jacob rascon, nbc news, over the atlantic. >>> new video tonight of vice president joe biden's motorcade making a last minute trip to washington, d.c. for meetings today as rumors continue to swirl about a presidential bid. nbc's kristen welker has the latest developments. >> reporter: vice president biden left his delaware home this morning, motoring to washington with a meeting with senator elizabeth warren. further fueling speculation about a biden presidential bid. before vermont senator bernie sanders entered the race, warren had been courted by many of the same progressives who unsatisfied with hillary clinton are now flocking to sanders. the behind the scenes conversations contrast sharply with the splashy moves of donald trump who flew his 757 by a football stadium friday night in mobile, alabama beav before addressing a crowd of 20,000. >> i want to have the election tomorrow. i don't want to wait. >> reporter: trump continuing

for example in the last 20 years know what came out and said -- noaa came out and said the level hasisen. we are seeing flooding in miami now. climate change is real and it is caused by humans. host: i will give you both credit because you both came prepared with your charts. the you have a different chart? guest: i have a different chart. i would like to show mine. dan got to show his. nasa putting people on the moon and doing all these wonderful things, however if you look at the nasa generated temperature from their satellites, which cover the whole world, and not just this study which used the from old engine input on ships, for some reason that is the only way they the last 10rming in years. if you look at the satellite data it is very clear. it goes up and down and up and down. it has been static for the last 10 or 15 years. that is the nasa data that i handed you. then --plain to me guest: explain to me then, why have nine of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the past 10 years? now we are on track in 2015 to have an even hotter your? the reality is -- guest: can i ans

back in may, noaa predictaced a low average activity for the atlantic hurricane season. we want to go to chris now, darlene. it seems, chris, like we haven't had big named storms rolling in years. >> early in the game. peak seasonais mid to late august through september. li lantic gets cranking. it will be interesting how they tweak ttm hopefully it stays quiet. the more immediate picture of our weather, nice. talk about quiet. comfortable this morning. temperatures in the 60s and 50s. even 40s in the suburbs well 40s early august. it looks likesf quiet day headed r way. we're going to have a close call with a storm tomorroe. 'll show you that in a second. >>> times square, not a lot going on. even too many cabs out there. i don't know what's going on. maybe caught between lights. 70 degrees. the sky is mostly clea i tthe park. as we look at the weather headlines. we're talking about sun givrog way to high clouds. it's a nice day. temperatures in the 80s with low humidity. it will feel comfortable. rain is possible from central new jersey hon. south tomorrow into tomorro

noaa vowed to improve their forecasting capabilities for major hurricanes by 50%.ross that. take a look at this graphic. this is what the wind field looked like from the computer models that we have available to us back in 2005. this is hurricane katrina. look how pix lated it is. here is the gulf coast. there is louisiana. here is florida. this just goes to show you how small our super computer abilities really were. our kpu nationcomputation yl al. now look what we have available to us now. look at the resolution. look at details. white and shading of purple. that indicates the strongest part of hurricane katrina. that shows you how improved our computers are now compared to ten years ago. even on the forecast path of uncertainty, this is that cone we talk about every so frequently when we have the big land falling hurricanes. if we were to say ten years ago we had a very large swath of potential land fall areas, if we took the computers available us to now we could actually shrink that area by 50 miles. that is huge. we are talking about evacuati evacuations. th

. >> reporter: president says the pakistani president noaa noz sharif has promised to look into the incident. >>> coming up, what japan after the fukushima melt down. >>> plus a community demands answers as a sex abuse scandal rocks pakistan. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commitment to being on time. every time. that's why if we're ever late for an appointment, we'll credit your account $20. it's our promise to you. we're doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. because we should t into your life. not the other way around. >> in context, it is tuesday morning in japan and officials are expected to start a controversial nuclear reactor. it's been the first time the reactor has been used since the fukushima melt down. meanwhile, hundreds of residents are protesting the move. demonstrators say the decision is being driven by financial interests but electric power which owns the plant says they have added stricter s

higher meant i've contacted the virginia pollution control board, national weather service, oceana, noaa nasa, department of defense, brookhaven national laboratories, department of energy, department of homeland security, female, health department, department of travel, federal agents and operators from the virginia beach police department and even the white house all to no avail. to date, known date, no one date, known for many of the agency has investigated complaints. i was told to talk to my local representatives. every agency responded to my report detailing me of a scene condensation. aircraft engines emit water vapor but they quickly dissipate. was persistent and long-lasting. how can anyone reasonably conclude a particular aircraft emission is a cotton trail without testing it. that is unscientific and are responsible. trails as opposed to calm trails is used to describe emissions. there's a rise in international could turn about the existence of airborne chemical spraying bolstered by a growing body of scientific evidence. what is in the air we are breathing? one practice in ca

trevor noaa takes over on sept. 28. they are more than friends now. everyone was wondering if it was going to happen but jennifer anniston is officially off the market again. robert: the friends star, a top secret ceremony at mansion in bel air. it was a private affair with 70 people in attendance including howard stern, joel c. handler, ellen degeneres, be set to grow, she had been engaged for three years. juliet: congratulations to them. we are couple minutes from the robert: benjamin will be joining us to talk about the gop debate from cleveland. we're coming back at the top of

so that noaa forecast says 90% chance and the strength will be strong to strongest which means we could have an average amount of rain or slightly above average but there are no exact rainfall totals forecasted just yet and the anomalies do forecast that we will have an increase in rain between december to february and may rival once again that '97 el nino or be stronger. back to our weather today we do see some low clouds along the coast and some sunshine inland. as we get ready for a hot weekend we also are getting ready for some hot weather this weekend. our temperatures are rising quickly. in the east bay 77 degrees. san francisco 67 degrees and 69 degrees in the south bay. 81 degrees the high today in the east bay in the peninsula reaching 84 degree. san francisco 74 and the north bay 90 degrees. so we have had a shift in our winds and now coming in from the north. it will be a breezy afternoon. those winds picking up at 15 to 20 miles per hour and along the coast of maybe more windy creating choppy wave conditions along the beaches. if you are going there to cool off keep in mind

. >> at 10:00 a.m., noaa's elite group of hurricane hunters go out over the pacific. their plane, nicknamed piggy, is specialize weather probes, spencers, measuring critical data like wind speed, humidity and ocean temperature. three hours into our journey, outer edges of hurricane danny, we have ridden a plane with cameras. the center of the storm winds can reach 150 miles an hour. but the hunters punch right through. the eye or dead center of the storm iconically is the most peaceful and provide data. >> i think the plane you have your navigator on the right. on the other side, your flight director. sort of the quarterback of this mission. then the very front you have the flight station with two pilots and flight engineer. this is where you can see all of the action. >> hurricane danny is nate kahn's first. >> in the navy did they tell you to go right into the bed weather? >> no, no. complete counter to every bit of training i've ever had. >> the elite team spend most of our journey studying the atmosphere and ocean in front of the storm. and while it is too early t

bound fine, let's go to our other cameras, george washington bridge looks good upper and lower level, noaa issues towards the lincoln or holland tunnel, trains running on or close to schedule. juliet: i want to say hi to frank who says hi to the three amigos who watch the show and went to -- i said hello to him a couple weeks ago. ben: beaver fans, live interviews. juliet: she says no way any more. after trying brookside chocolate, people talk about it online. love at first taste. i would liquify it and bathe in it. curse you, brookside! your nefarious plans have succeeded. nefarious? brookside. talk about delicious. after trying brookside chocolates, at pam cakes five tweeted: leave it to me to drop a brookside down my shirt and lose it. you didn' t lose it. you saved it for later. brookside. ben: we are back. juliet: anna gilligan is here. anna: of heartbreaking stories of teen deion returning to the station las vegas after taking a year lunch break to take care of her husband who has been battling throat cancer, she says he is being fed intravenously for two years. she was torn about go

here a look at the data from noaa. all the areas in red were hodder than normal. you see where we are in the red. nearly all of the state was warmer than unusual. >>> in the red with the stock market, in the red with our temperatures. we're red all over the place. we need something green like a margarita or something. >> we'll be working on that in about 45 minutes, right? >> who's counting? >> well, yeah, you were talking about the global temperatures and july average was nearly 62 degrees, and that was the warmest temperature globally in 136 years, a significant amount, too, a 1.46 degrees above average. and with the july month hitting record temperatures, it was also slightly warmer at about 0.2 of a degree above the historical temperature. sea surface temperatures are also very hot. you may have heard some talk about the blob and the hot weather, the hot sea surface temperatures over the pacific. well, the record warmth continuing along with air temperatures, at the water temperatures are heating up, too. bay averages anywhere from 63.6 in half moon bay, santa

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according to noaa, the first half of 2015 ranked as the warmest period on record.july was the hottest ever recorded on planet earth. records were broken all over the planet, but none as extreme as the middle east. in a city in iran, the heat index neared a world record, reaching 165 degrees fahrenheit. in neighboring iraq, "the new york times" has reported that the heat has even eclipsed war with the islamic state as the crisis dujour, and the crisis has been something miraculous from the government in baghdad, responsiveness. as tom friedman pointed out, officials have been fired. as we discussed on last week's show, major reforms have been proposed. the leaders of the world would be wise to witness and pay heed what happened in iraq. if they don't do something to mitigate the effects of climate change now, protests will be coming to their capitals soon enough. >>> the correct answer to our "gps" challenge question is a bit of a trick. chile, sweden, canada and germany all rank higher than the united states in terms of human freedom according to the libertarian ca

hurricane center and noaa working together and they send aircraft to the developing tropical storms andk with the latest update. pressure isn't dropping for the storm. disorganized but something to monitor closely. tropical storm warnings stretching from antigua to the u.s. and british virgin islands all the way to puerto rico. also tropical storm watches from the northeastern coast of the dominican republic, up to the turks and caicos, as well. latest stats 45 mile an hour sustained winds near the center higher wind gusts. a spread of ensembles. we call it a spaghetti plot because it looks like pieces of pa getty. it shows potential tracks depending which model you look at. it indicates an strengthening, perhaps cat three or four as we work to the first part of next week. the more reliable models show the storm weakening for a brief period before strengthening later on as it edges closer to the u.s. mainland, near the florida coast. here's the official forecast from the national hurricane center. you can see the storm system edging that area. it's going to move in to warm open waters.

here's a look at the data from noaa. all the areas in red were hotter than normal. areas with the darkest red broke heat records. if you look closely, california, nearly all of the state was warmer than usual. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri joins us with a closer look at that. jeff, we did have record-breaking temperatures. >> we have had numbers from 100 to 106 degrees in california in july. a lot was due to that strong ridge of high pressure across the west. when we look at that, we're not talking about an average of 110 to 120 degrees. it's an average accounting in all of the different temperatures and it was 61.86 degrees for july. that is now the warmest in 136 years putting it 1.46 degrees above average. when the earth's temperature raises 1 to 2 degrees above average, that is significant. now, specifically for the united states, it wasn't a huge jump above average. it was .2 degrees before the typical average here at 73.9 degrees. back across the west, what is significant that we have been talking about are the sea surface temperatures. record setting warmt