you are taking a look at the new home for the noaa airport. z26htz z16fz y26hty y16fy >>> legoland is making a big splash into the resort business next year with plans to open a brand-new retreat in winter haven. as mary mcguire shows us, all of your favorite legal fans are heading to the beach with you.>> see you real soon. -- april 7, 2017. >> reporter: construction workers are working hard to finish the legoland beach retreat. transforming this site into a toy wonderland. >> when you stay here, it's as if you are staying among with toys that you played without home as a child. whether you are 10 years old, 30 years old, 50 years old, this will remind you of all of lego bricks at home. >> reporter: this is a very first north american beach themed retreat in the legal and family and is located about a half-mile from the theme park entrance. it is designed with the same details and kid centric features as its counterpart across the street. bold designs, bright colors, and lots of lego toys. >> we are the first legoland resort in north america

just inland from the whaling camps themselves, the noaa observatory measures levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. >> the atmosphere doesn't know any boundaries. some of the pollutants have a long lifetime and may end up reaching far away places like barrow. >> gabby patrone is one of the scientists studying the air samples collected in barrow. what the data reveals is terrifying. >> we are now experiencing the most abrupt change in co-2 in the earth's history. how fast we are changing the abundance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is unprecedented. it's really something that has not been seen in the natural world ever before. >> what is happening in barrow is happening around the globe and it's happening fast. >> so the rate of increase of co-2 at the moment is thayer than it's ever been and also higher than it's ever been in the last 800,000 years. the rate of increase is the highest and the level is the highest ever. >> according to noaa chief scientist pieter tans, the unprecedented increase in carbon dioxide is heating the earth and having a

noaa's fleet of hurricane hunter planes are ?moving to lakeland. the nine planes fly into weather systems to collect critical data. they've spent the last 20 years at macdill. but they have to move because the air force needs the space for refueling jets. so... the hurricane hunters will soon call lakeland linder regional airport home! construction on the new hangar should be what goes ?down... must come up. and that's bad news for drivers. after the break... the big meeting let the christmas season ?officially begin! the most famous this morning. new york flipped the switch on the rockefeller center tree last night. the norway spruce stands 94 feet tall and has more than 50 ?thousand bulbs. the ?topper alone, stands almost ten feet tall. the tree will stay lit every night... through the first and... get ready for higher gas prices the next few months. members of "opec" held a big meeting yesterday, and agreed to cut oil production by about 600 ?thousand barrels a day. it's effective january first, and the deal is good for at ?least the next six mo

noaa spent more than a million dollars, even the smithsonian spent more than $300,000. the d.a. at the top of the list, the biggest spender, at more than $11. >>> the state representative who pleaded guilty to fraud has been sentenced to one year of probation. she was also ordered to serve community service. she was accused of fraudulently obtaining benefits. she dropped an election bid after being indicted. >>> state route 77 between this huge chunk fell onto the road. one of the workers standing there, that's how big the block is. it's 1 >>> a chandler family says don't you dare. >> an armed snowman and a unique signs are bold warnings to stay away. the >> reporter: the traditional holiday season has a relevant new look. especially at this family's chandler home. >> we smile and laugh. >> reporter: not just for neighbors. >> i hear it's getting really bad. the lights off their bushes getting stolen. >> stealing this light is not worth your life. a snowman with the rifle. >> reporter: and this armed frosty. >> just tells them we own a we don't want anything stolen or anyone get

the forecast overall noaa thief six. we had seven in 2016, and major hurricanes are three, we had three storms impact our state, the first was colin and h then hermine, and that name will be retired. and no longer be a storm that we have in the named systems every six years. a very warm month in november is in the 25 out of 30 days we had highs that were above average and obviously very dry, we had a measly 100th of an inch of rain, the dryest month of 2016 which coincidently november is the dryest month of the year, and for areas inlan inland, for a t, there was a surge of moisture from the south and now we are watching and waiting for the on thursday, and produce a cooler and dryer air mass on sunday, and tonight it is warm and sticky and watch out for patchy fog and low clouds. the air behind the front is certainly cooler and dryer but it's not really cold. all this is going to do is knock our temperatures back to average and average this time of year is nice. mid 70's po and 60's for lows. high pressure over the east

noaa will be one of, if not the biggest tenant at the airport. this means millions more in revenue for the airport and beyond for the next 10 years. >> it is a total game changer for us. >> so why lakeland? >> the decision came to cost. >> reporter: plus there will be aircraft and it's within 50 miles of macdill air force base. >> we have 110 people, many have been with us for decades and we could not afford to risk losing any of them. >> reporter: most important, they have a new place to continue to do what they do best. >> our purpose remains the same. serving the nation, providing data for decisionmakers and protecting lives. >> reporter: the goal is to have them move in by may 2017. in lakeland, melissa marino, yesterday. that is the good news. it does start again from june. this year there were 15 named storms and seven hurricanes. >>> a giant lobster, managed to ditch the dinner plate and get back home. it's all thanks to the kindness of a woman that he never met. king louie as he's been called is a 23-pound, caught in the the bay off the c

next year, noaa hurricane hunters will be tracking storms from a new airport. the weather squadron is moving its staff of about 100 and fleet of nine aircraft from macdill air force base to lakeland linder regional airport. that's because the air force chose not to continue its major boost in annual revenue and the airport will become a major center for high- skill and high-wage jobs in the county. for many animal- lovers...getting to be up close to a manatee is quite the experience. but for some who live in pinellas county, their close encounters were met with a lot of concern. neighbors living around lake tarpon noticed manatees in the water after tropical storm colin this summer. the animals got stuck in the lake after officials opened the flood gates to prevent overflows. 10news reporter emerald morrow is live at lake tarpon this morning. emerald, biologists are worried about the manatees now that is coming. yeah, some of you all might have gone up to places like crystal river during the fall and winter to see the manatees when it gets cooler outside. well,

according to noaa, there's a record low of ice and snow. that's affecting animals and plants that live in the arctic. adrienne: new this morning, we're learning more about what happened just moments before someone shot two officers in georgia. tim elliott is tracking the latest. tim, what do we know? tim: the officers were shot after a traffic stop on monday night. now we're seeing body camera footage from one of those officers. the video shows one officer approaching a man. he had been pulled over while the hand. police say they arrested the man responsible about a mile away from the crime scene. the suspect has been arrested more than 20 times in the last two years. back to you. >> thank you, tim. adrienne: a tragic story out of florida. a toddler dies after getting hit by a train. the boy's babysitter is the hospital. it happened in pasco county near tampa. the sheriff says the adult babysitter was on a train bridge with the toddler, a four-year-old girl and another adult. when a train started coming, the friend grabbed the girl and jump

so if you look at nasa or noaa or the u.s. geological survey.they're providing all sorts of climate data that can help us provide solutions to grow food without those crops failing because of climate change and so on and so forth. it is under threat. we do this as a superimportant message that we hope president-elect trump understands. climate science is vital to national security. >> how under threat it is? i guess we haven't been in these territories before. but how much could it be the case that a new administration would just say to the department of energy or the epa, yeah, we're just going to get rid of all of these parts of the government that do all these readings that produce this, what we believe is a hoax? >> i mean, it's certainly hard to quantify exact what that would look like and to the extent that the executive can kind of come in and determine these things, but you know, this isn't without precedent when bush two came to ourself, there was an assault on climate change at that time. we were able to get through that time period by

it enables noaa satellites to accurately track the weather so that communities can better prepare for storms. as i conclude, let me leave you with some final thoughts about what we've learned over the last eight years as well as some issues that i believe need some additional attention in the immediate and near term if we are to ensure that 5g and all spectrum-based technologies reach their true potential. first, there's no longer any question that spectrum sharing has to be a major part of the solution and the only way sharing will work is by maintaining and even extending collaborative and cooperative processes and relationships that bring all affected stakeholders together. second, as the airwaves become more congested, we need to develop and enforce minimal technical rules to protect against unauthorized harmful interference. automated enforcement approaches make a lot of sense but will require increased investment to develop interference analysis tools. i also believe we are going to have to finally address the performance characteristics as spectrum receivers otherwise you can l

according to noaa, there's a record low of ice and snow. that's affecting animals and plants that live in the arctic. >> now to a look at the morning commute. matt? >> if you are headed out, it is quiet on the roadways. warm up. things are looking good on the d.o.t. cams. travel times are looking great. no crashes reported on the system right now. i will check back coming up in just a bit. back to you. >> thank you, matt. adrienne: new this morning, we're learning more about what happened just moments before someone shot two offer tim elliott is tracking the latest. tim. tim: the officers were shot after a traffic stop on monday night. now we're seeing body camera footage from one of those officers. the video shows one officer approaching a man. he had been pulled over while driving a stolen car. that suspect shot one officer under the arm and the other in the hand. police say they arrested the man the suspect has been arrested more than 20 times in the last two years. back to you. adrienne: a tragic story out of florida. a toddler dies aft

noaa put out their outlook for the month of december and they anticipate a colder and wetter than normal month. i have more details in i wrote for you on cbsdenver.com. coming up, ed greene will take you through the forecast from now until the cold wave hits. for now, i'm live in southeast aurora, meteorologist chris spears. >> thank you sir. >>> now, new details of a middle school gym teacher in jefferson county accused of sexually assaulting a child. court documents detail how the alleged incident unfolded. our karen morfitt reporting live from jeffco tonight. karen, what do you have? learned that the teacher did bond out of the jefferson county jail on a $25,000 bond. the victim, a teenaged girl, we are told, according to arrest paperwork, did run away from home and called the teacher for help. 47-year-old michael bueno, a long time teacher and coach is facing serious charges. arrested tuesday night for contributing to a minor and sexual assault on a child. >> these charges immediately on leave. >> reporter: diana wilson is a spokesperson for jefferson county schools where he has been

noaa put out their outlook for the month of december and they anticipate a colder and wetter than normal month. i have more details in a story i wrote for you on cbsdenver.com. coming up, ed greene will take you through the forecast from aurora, meteorologist chris spears. >> thank you sir. >>> now, new details of a middle school gym teacher in jefferson county accused of sexually assaulting a child. court documents detail how the alleged incident unfolded. our karen morfitt reporting live from jeffco tonight. karen, what do you have? >> reporter: well, jim, we just learned that the teacher did bond out of the jefferson county jail on a $25,000 bond. the victim, a teenaged gi, are told, according to arrest paperwork, did run away from home and called the teacher for help. 47-year-old michael bueno, a long time teacher and coach is facing serious charges. arrested tuesday night for contributing to a minor and sexual assault on a child. >> these charges and accusations, the person is put immediately on leave. >> reporter: diana wilson is a spokesperson for jefferson employed since 2011. he

"noaa" says record-breaking ?warm? temperatures over the arctic have triggered extreme melting and a late fall freeze. there's also record low ice and snow cover. they say it's threatening some small animals who live there. the air temperature is currently six degrees higher toss to weather.. 3 ((???1:45 seconds??)) ((???tease ahead??15???)) ahead??15???)) wind chill advisory from 9:00 pm today: mix of sun and clouds and very cold. highs in the middle teens. windy with gusts to 30 mph making it feel below-zero all day. wind chills: 00 to -200.tonight: clear and cold. lows below- zero. breezy with a northwest wind 10-20 mph. wind chills: - 150 to -250.rest of the week: sunny and cold on thursday 10 feeling as cold as -20. snow arrives on friday and stays steady through at least the first half of saturday. over 6" likely. slightly warmer as the snow returns with highs in the 20s.wind chill advisory from 9:00 pm tonight to 10:00 am thursday today: mix of sun and clouds and very cold. highs in middle teens. windy with gust

jonathan: today researchers with the national oceanic and the atmospheric administration noaa express two mini subs that sank in the pearl harbor attack. alison: this is just in the newsroom today. a soldier from takoma park maryland has died after injuries sustained in afghanistan. sergeant first class allen e. brown was one of three soldiers killed by an improvised explosive device. that explosion happened in bagram on november 12. the other two soldiers died instantly. sergeant brown was being treated at walter reed national medical center in bethesda and he died yesterday. jonathan: well, coming up for us here at "abc7 news at air force one pilot at arlington's national ceremony. alison: as plans for water filtration system moves forward find out why not everyone is excited about the change. >> after 45 years, though, it's time to say goodbye to elected office. but not to service. jonathan: why maryland senator barbara mikulski says today's speech on the s >> and what do hockey and baseball have in common? jonathan: back with an update. backyard synthetic ice skating troubles last

according to noaa, there's a record low of ice and snow. that's affecting animals and plants that live in the arctic. now to a check on the morning commute. national avenue under 894. head lights are headed northbound toward is zoo interchange. no delays at this point. time to let the vehicle warm up. that's a look at the morning commute, back to you. >> all in the green, thank you, matt. adrienne: new this morning, we're learning more about what happened just moments before someone shot two officers in georgia. latest. tim, what do we know? tim: the officers were shot after a traffic stop on monday night. now we're seeing body camera footage from one of those officers. the video shows one officer approaching a man. he had been pulled over while driving a stolen car. that suspect shot one officer under the arm and the other in the hand. police say they arrested the man responsible about a mile away from the crime scene. more than 20 times in the last two years. >> thank you, tim. adrienne: a tragic story out of florida. a toddler dies after

of things but it means hurricane season is over and starting next year, the hurricane plains that noaa flies in storms will take off from the lakeland airport. fleet of hurricane hunters spent 23 years at macdill but the base needs the space for refuelling jets. the past hurricane season was the most active and costliest since 2012 and also the deadliest since 2005. we had 15 tropical storms, serve became hurricanes with three reaching a cat three or higher and one of the bad ones was matthew. reached a cat five status at one point. storm killed 1600 people while moving through the it lost a lot of steam before skirting the florida coast but it did a lot of damage. the storm with the biggest impact on this side of the state was hurricane hermine, the first to make landfall in florida since wilma in 2005. it was only a cat one when it hit the big bend area of the state. storm did about $80 million in damage. close to 15,000 insurance claims in florida, a lot came from people who live in pasco, hernando and sumter counties. they had a lot of flooding in systems in the area. those guys ju

earlier this year the air force told noaa they needed extra hangar space and told the agency to move by july 1, 2016. the new lease starts in may and includes $13 million for a new hangar, office and shop space. >>dave: nice. >>russell: it's something now that we can have a chance to look back at it. i mean, we had some really scary moments and some rough days there for a time. >>dave: hurricane tt i was really concerned and of course, it did a lot of damage, too, but it could have been worse if it made landfall. technically it did not make landfall as a major hurricane. that drought continues. wilma was the last time a major hurricane made landfall in the u.s., knock on wood. so round about early next year, we'll talk about the hurricane season. i have some fog to show you and the fog is really kind of to like one or two spots and now you're seeing most inland locations dealing with at least a little bit of fog but like yesterday, boy, it was out of here. just as fast as it came in. i just need you from lakeland to bartow to wauchula to arcadia to sebring, and these spots i need you

into was able to support less than 5% -- noaa was able to support less than 5% of the coastal states' demand. mr. president, climate change doesn't care whether you believe the science or whether you believe the propaganda and nonsense pumped out by the fossil fuel lobby. sure, homes and basements will flood either way. it's not a matter of belief. it's a matter of physics. but for all the denial and diversion, you will notice that the fossil fuel's web web of denial groups doesn't talk much about the effects we're seeing along our coasts. their business is through denial and calculated miss ntion to create phony doubt. that is their mission. and if that's your mission, it's hard to deny water levels that are measured essentially on a glorified yardstick at tide gauges. it's hard to deny measurements from a p.h. test that high schoolers do in their science classes. it's hard to deny readings from thermometers. here in the senate, our choice is clear. we can take action or continue to sleepwalk through history, but we should remember pope francis' warning. pope francis has said that go

and according to noaa fisheries, these mistakes resulted in a salmon kill of 95% in 2014 and a salmon kill of 98% in 2015. we have $100 million in the energy and water appropriations part of these appropriations bill essentially to provide for this and other infrastructure problems so it can be corrected. and we have $43 million of environmentally beneficial bills, some of which can be used to make sure we avoid a devastating loss to salmon. let me tell you what that program includes. $15million for habitat restoration projects. $15 million for fish passage projects. $3 million for a long wanted delta smelt distribution study requested by fish and wildlife, a program to reduce predator fish. let me tell you what a big problem in the delta is. people add predator fish like striped bass to be able to encourage a fishing industry. well, the smelt go where the tush turbid waters are. the fishing magazines say if you want to cash -- catch fish here's where they go so they go to where the spriepped bass -- striped bass are feeding in the endangered species. we have money to eliminate what h

noaa, nasa's s data sets that he services on them. we would love to go and make it so -- not taking snapshshots, bt whole web services get archived such that they can be used as they were in 2016. so we are calling out the federal website masters, webmasters, to go and work with as to archive the whole working systems themselves in snapshot form. amy: in this whole issue of climate change and the trump administration, donald trump a climate change denier, what in particular are you doing? and if you can talk about moving -- well, not moving, but moehring internet archive's in canada, what you're doing that? >> theheir groupups collecting e web ftp s sites. they're going to go in and trying to download all of the different data records that are in these databases. there are groups in toronto, there will be a hack-a-thon on january 7 to try to help tour through the important parts of the federal record that we can then make a record outside of the government to make sure it is permanently available. beyond that, we need to move it to ot

it's called nasa and noaa, the national ocean administration. all donald trump has to do is ask for a briefing by the world's greatest climate scientists for whom he will soon be the boss and say tell me the facts. he told us at "the new york times" that he is open. if you are open, then why not consult the people who know the facts. it goes back to the cia point. rather than sit there and say this is a silly nonsense, why not sit down with the people who have the facts and question them and ask very hard questions. i'm all for that. >> one of the things that his cabinet picks and transition team have told us when they have come on about this is until somebody can definitively tell us if we're five years away from catastrophe or 500, we're not going to ruin people's livelihoods that are in, say, the fuel industry. what is the response to that? >> you know, the best response is to look at the pictures from beijing and new delhi. in case people haven't noticed, people there can't breathe. new delhi shut down a coal plant because the pollution ther

i loved that part with the noaa scientists on the beaches of the prince william sound 12 years after the spill, and they're being tagged by a yacht of exxonmobil-hired scientists who want to know what they're up to and criticize their methods eventually, kind of cast out on the science showing that the oil was still there after all the years. >> guest: right. >> host: and that tactic now seems rampant in our political culture. as a reporter that pays attention to this closely, you're now seeing it, you know, where the science of climate change, you know, is a theory, it's a theory by many, many people, and it's a valid theory, now you're seeing it in areas that were almost lock solid. there's politicians now on the floor talking about the linkage between smog and asthma. >> guest: right. >> host: there's people that are questioning the cost benefit analysis of the epa when it drafts regulations. >> guest: right. >> host: do you, i mean, do you look at exxon's kind of track record on that and be like, hey, exxon is responsible for that kind of, that kind of tactic? because it seems no

jimmy: i worked in alaska on a noaa research vessel off the coast.hen i was here i met a commander who was working at my father's office and said hey, if you ever want to get on a ship, let me know. realizing that my four ream mates at the time here in washington, d.c. had all gone to law school, that sort of inspired me to go to law school. not that i knew they wanted to be a prosecutor, which i came to be, but i knew it was good education to have. but i knew i didn't want to go yet. i got back home and called him and next thing i know i was on a shim off the coast of alaska doing research. the truth is i was an ordinary seamen cleaning a lot of toilets, busting a lot of paint and greasing a lot of lines. but it was good experience. experience as a college graduate being stuck on a 230-foot shim with a bunch of salty sailors who didn't take too confinedly to me at first. you realize you have to do the job and earn their respect. and i did and they asked me to come back and be an officer. but i turned that down and went to research at the institute o

that's not what they were doing -- >> on a noaa ship. >> what are you reading? >> no, i just wanted to tell you because we missed the real headline of carlos slim. if you remember during the campaign -- >> you're talking "new york times"? >> during the campaign, trump condemned the "new york times" and carlos slim as being part of a media conspiracy. >> did he ever officially say it or leak and not say it? i follow that story very closely. >> i believe that was the -- that's what he's saying. >> are you looking for a reference for that? >> i was looking for the exact language to figure it out. >> say it was good cheer and blah, blah, blah. >> the meeting was meaningful in part because in part there was a view that there was something between these two and that he had criticized, trump, therefore, had criticized carlos slim. so it's a bit of a -- >> large ownership stake in "new york times." >> but that's the back story. >> i know it's the back story. but for us -- >> to explain it's a business man and a business story. why wouldn't we explain that? >> to frame i