i flew into noaa. noaa has also a g 4 jet that goes high above the storm. the specialized instrumentation on noaa hurricane hunter aircraft provide critical storm data. the dual channel taylor doppler radars provide three dimensional views of the storm. these advanced technology tools -- a aa's fleet a fleet safe course. there is no doubt this has been a challenging hurricane season for the country. with hurricane harvey flooding in louisiana and texas. hurricane irma impacting florida. and hurricane maria devastating puerto rico. noaa's aircraft have performed tirelessly throughout these events over a four-week period. two noaa hurricane hunters flew over 300 hours and dropped over 500 weather probes into these storms. fter the hurricane passed, noaa's work has just begun. noaa's fleet of light aircraft perform post storm damage assessments. taking high resolution images that enable limited emergency responses, emergency responses to be delivered to the most critical areas. noaa's king air aircraft emergency response efforts to hurricane harvey, irma, and

we have a new report that has come in from noaa. nbc meteorologist bill karins is with us now. what did you learn from it? >> they said the northern eye wall was moving on shore. however strong nate is, we're going to find out in the next hour and a half. if we don't hear of really high winds or no recorded high winds in the next hour and a half, that's better news for everyone in alabama and north georgia that has to eventually go through the storm, too. still reporting 85 mile-per-hour winds. this graphic over here is the satellite view of the storm. i'm going to put on the current stats. this is the 11:00 advisory just in, says 85 mile-per-hour winds, a solid category one, it's moving to the north at 20 miles per hour, still moving pretty fast, 60 miles east of new orleans and about 30 miles south every biloxi. i know we're focusing on the landfall, that's where the most monetary damage is going to be, that's where the people will have to deal with power outages for a couple days after this is done. this storm will eventually move further to the north. by sunday morning at 7

so we want to make these improvements for better use for noaa and the dod. so i too suggest that we start making plans for the next solar eclipse in the u.s. on april 8, 2024. it's going to be another great opportunity for all of us to learn about the solar system we live in, and i really suggest you get started with hotel reservations. [laughter] they got really expensive for latecomers. thank you so much. rep. comstock: thank you. mel.w recognize dr. ham hammel: madam chair and members, thank you for the opportunity to testify about the total solar eclipse. on august 21, millions watched as our star disappeared from the sky. at the same time, scientists scramble to gather as much data as possible about the sun's famed corona. the sun's corona is the source of solar storms. the term space weather refers to the effects of these storms on the earth and other planets in our solar system. we live inside the atmosphere of an active star. in 1859, a monster solar storm, the carrington event, stunned the world. telegraph systems world wide went haywire, a meeting

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we got another update from noaa. showing it's slowing down? >> slowing down a touch down to 25 miles per hour. still a very fast-moving storm. still a strong category 1 hurricane. again we don't want to focus too much on the category, it's really about the storm surge and timing of it. we're expecting nate to make landfall around high tide around much of the gulf. that has to do with worse case scenario situation, high tide and landfall at the same time. we're already seeing the outer barnds moving on shore. southeast louisiana. lots of lightning and flood threat. we now see the eye on the radar picture. here it is. you can make out that sclgs counter clockwise around the center of the storm. still a couple hundred miles to go before landfall. these are your gusts, gusts near 30 and over 30 miles per hour. biloxi 29 miles per hour. this is just the very beginning. the winds will continue to pick up in intensity throughout the afternoon. here's the latest stats, latest 2:00 p.m. advisory. winds holding steady. maximum sustained winds at 90 mile

steve: the winter weather outlook came in from noaa earlier today. shows for the mid-atlantic we have a better chance of temperatures above average for this winter, typical for a lie niÑo winter. in terms of snowfall, it looks like it will be below average because we will not see as many cold days. i could mean reduced snowfall stopped on average we get about 15 inches of snow at reagan national airport. it is 50 degrees right now at dulles, 59 reagan national. 47 is the cool spot right now in culpeper. early friday morning, waking up, no frost to worry about, upper 50's, lower to middle 50's. heading out the door. food truck friday for a lot of you come around 70 degrees noontime, lower 70's in the afternoon. highs eventually make it into the mid-70's, about 75. much of the area warmer, culpeper in charlottesville could see upper 70's. this saturday, howard university is pulling morgan state university. degrees, and you can always watch that all new's channel 8 if you cannot make it in person. and the marine corps marathon sunday, a little clouds at

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we had looked at the noaa sea surface temperature maps, and it was clear that for 8 months, a hot spot due to climate change sat on that reef and the corals died, and it was striking. van thillo: global warming was well-known, but momost people dd not dare to say this was global warming, although, for u us, ths was a complete sisign that there was global warming. dustan: imagine you as a human being. we increase your body temperature by y two degrees, yu have a fever, r right? we incree it by anotother two dedegrees, d you'u're dead. that's what's happening to the reefs. if you recover from your fever, you can go on to be a perfectly healthy person. the reef can gogo on to be e a perfy healthy reef if this was just a one-time stress. if it bececomes a chronic stress, and every year it gets worse, slowly those corals that survived this year might not survive next year or the year after or the year after or the year after. narrator: scientists hahave confifirmed a dramatic ririse in ocean t temperatures over t thet two decades. every day, humans are pushining more thahan 100 millioion to

we are sta >>> satellite images from noaa show the thick sm coating northern california.an also see some of the active flames burning. >> we are starting to hear more stories about heroic rescues over the past three days from the fires burning in napa and sonoma counties. katie nielsen joining us now to tell us about how the california highway patrol has stepped in to help. >>> reporter: it's incredible, anne. it's something we have talked about over the last couple of days how fast these fires are moving. that's why chp helicopter pilots have become unwitting heroes rescuing almost 50 people, five dogs and a cat. in one case, they rescued a group of vineyard workers from a winery. those workers were picking grapes overnight and when the atlas fire roared closer they were trapped at the top of a ridgeline. it was a situation these seasoned pilots have never seen before. >> flying light aircraft for 30 years panned never been tossed around like that. >> under night vision goggles it looked like a big bomb went off. >> reporter: these pilots had no radio communications usin

let's talk about the news today in the weather world, noaa's prediction or outlook for the winter comingp. for our area we could see warmer temperatures looking to the winter around here. if we see warmer temperatures, and lower precipitation amounts that means lesser snow for us. that is what we are c average with the precip here. the average snow we get in d.c. and the winter is 15 inches. it will be warmer and drier. we could look at less snow this year. up in the air. keep with us. we'll keep you updated through the winter months. tonight, looking good. fairfax around 52. manassas will drop down to 49 early tomorrow morning. now tomorrow going to launch food truck friday for many of you. 70 at noontime hour. lower to lower 70's at 1:00 and 2:00 and it will gradually warm up moving through the later afternoon hours and warmer yet come saturday and sunday. forecast highs tomorrow are fantastic. around 75 degrees. grab your sun glasses if you head out the door. you will need them for the morning and the afternoon and the early everything. light jacket comes tomorrow night. howard univer

. >>> a new report from noaa says the sea arctic ice coverage is 70% less than it was between 1901 and 2010. alaska faces some unique challenges. one of them is the thawing of the perma frost. jeff gluer recently traveled to alaska, and brings us this report. >> we're flying over the tundra. >> reporter: for the past decade, sunateli has been taking trips deep into the remote corners of alaska's wilderness. >> the area has been thawing for several decades now. >> reporter: her mission? monitor how warming temperatures are impacting the froze earth underground. >> right now we're not far from denali national park. about 40% of the area includes permafrost. >> it's ground that remains below 0 degrees celsius for two or more years. >> reporter: the area below this frost is anything permanent. it has warmed 2 degrees celsius in the past two decades, and predicting 20% of it may thaw by 2040. it starts a few feet under the surface, and can extend hundreds of feet down. it contains organic materials from dead, and partially decayed plants and animals. >> this is a permafrost core. >> he yeah

and you've got the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, involved in a lot of that planting and monitoring. >> the red line is a sanctuary boundary. >> you've got the corps of engineers involved and planting substrate. you've got the university of maryland involved with their oyster hatchery and producing seed oysters. a non-profit, called the oyster recovery partnership, planting those seed oysters on that ground. and you've got the state of maryland's department of natural resources pretty much serving as the quarterback for all of that. >> the first targrgeted tributay was harris creek in talbot county on maryland's eastern shore. the plplan calls for restoririn7 acres of oyster reefs in harris creekek at a cost o 1 million n dollars. >> we chose harris creek because it had the greatest likelihood of success. the water quality is good, we have good salinity here for oysters. there's not much runoff compared to other areas of the bay. it's a different approach than we've been taking in the past having these small scattered projects, have one very large project, and so we t

. >>> the forecast is in for winter and the folks at noaa say for most of the country get ready for a warm one. not hot, of course. it is still winter. they say should be a mild season. not quite as the warm as the last two winters. they say la nina is to blame for warmer temps to come from california to maine. but it will be a colder than normal winter in the pacific northwest. >>> still ahead tonight, walmart's new weapon in the shopping wars. how the retail giant plans to redefine the american mall as we know it. what it means for rival amazon and more importantly your wallet. >>> also the shocking moment a food truck explodes. flames quickly spreading to other cars. what caused it? >>> we're back now. with orders already rolling in for the holiday season, retailers are joining forces in unexpected ways to tray and capture your dollar. so what happens when low priced giant walmart teams up with a high end department store? the idea, a new kind of shopping mall experience. nbc news business correspondent jo ling kent explains. >> reporter: america's biggest retailer on the cusp of m

the federal agency noaa put it together. the wildfires burned more than 245,000 acres. the death toll remains at 42. >>> many of the people who lost everything in the fires are sharing their stories about what they managed to grab. these were the hectic minutes when fleeing the homes. anything really with value. that include that is lost t-ball trophy. posted on our facebook page her 4 called son took it. patty took a christmas card from president obama. more items that people managed to save. we post-ed the pictures and the facebook post on the website at nbcbayarea.com. >>> day one in the trial of a murder case that sparked national immigration debate. we're talking about the kate steinle case. the focus today was did steinle's killer mean to fire the gun? sam brock joins us live from the haul of justice in san francisco with more. sam. >> reporter: jessica, good evening, the opening statements we heard today were faithful to the arguments@jky we heard for couple of years now. the defense saying that weapon was fired accidentally on pier 14. the prosecution on the oth

folks at noaa say get ready for a warm one, not hot. of course still winter. they say should be a mild season. not quite as the warm as the last two winters. they say la nina is to blame for warmer temperatures california to maine. but will be a holder than normal winter in the pacific northwest. >>> still ahead tonight. wal-mart's wech upon in the shopping wars. how much the retail giant plans to redefine the american mall as we know it. what does it mean for rival amazon and your wallet. >> shocking moment. the food (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even a swing set standoff. and we covered it, july first, twenty-fifteen. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. when it comes to strong bones, are you on the right path? we have postm

we just got the latest from noaa and they put in some changes. anything major? >> nothing major. they knocked the winds down a little bit. not the sustained winds of 85. that's the maximum sustained winds of the storms. it was saying 115 miles per hour was the possible gusts. now they're saying the max gusts about 105. so we're waiting to see where the strongest winds will be and how much damage they will do. some around pascagoula to biloxi in that area. it will probably occur in the next hour as that northern portion of that partial eye moves on shore. our kerry sanders is in biloxi with the crew. they're giving us the pictures here. and they're kind of the litmus test for everybody else. the power hasn't really gone out. and if we don't get -- this next half hour's is when the strongest winds will be going through biloxi, mississippi. if they don't get the 90-mile-per-hour winds and a lot of people remain with their power on, that's a good sign for everyone else. it doesn't mean everyone will get lucky and a tree won't fall and knock down a power pole, but maybe it won't be as

gusty winds expanning wild fires in california's wine cunt ray threatening homes and wineries in so noaa threatening thousands more to evacuate. this body cam video shows sheriffs deputies bearing off a daring rescue of a couple engulfed in flames. firefighters and officer putting their lives to door evacuating the area. normal is going to take a very new meaning here in napa as we see our way out of this. painful times for thousands of californias who have lost their homes, in this moment i'm realize realizing you don't put your booths on and your gloveses on than a go shit through stuff there is nothing to shift through. while conditions have improved, the situation still dangerousment we're under a red flag currently for wind and low humidity so we're not the out of the woods and have work to do. we have taken 224 reports ofepof people since the beginning of this incident. we are currently looking for or investigating the cases of 74 people. throughout the weekend, cadaver dogs will continue to pour through antibody moods like this this that have been decimated through the fire. we'll

i'll have a way to get weather information from a battery-powerrerred noaa weather wadeio. and i will have a way to charge my cell phones. and i will have standing by some gloves in case i get a tree down in the yard or down on the house where i can work to get the tree off the house with my gloves. back a few years ago we had devastating tornadoes in alabama. one of the things that happened after those storms came through on april 27 of 2011 is people would come out of their homes and they would step on to glass and also harm tree limbs. so keep those shoes by and keep those gloves. kelly: charlie neese bringing us a lot of good advice. and so charlie we appreciate all that advice and certainly a lot of people along the coast are just breathing a sigh of relief. but as he stated, the worst is not over yet. we'll watch it throughout the night. and we'll see what happens throughout the night. so be careful where you are and watch what this storm does as it moves all the way through in parts of those areas all the way into monday. strong winds and heavy rains and serious stor

you will have to watch our midday show because noaa should have their forecast later today.atch today here on abc 7. you can channel 8. traveling today, no issues whatsoever. .ry and quiet everywhere a great week and for traveling. today, we easily climb to the lower to mid 70's by 4:00. a chilly start right now, in the 40's for most governments. pumpkin picking, green light. hiking, evenly p-- even leaf peaking. degrees ande to 80 still drive. we will be tracking that rain, something changes coming our way. we could get more than an inch of rain. more and that on news channel 8. it is tuesday into wednesday morning rush that look ready sloppy. julie: on the roads this morning, very busy. we are dealing with a crash on democracy boulevard. a single car two dead, closing democracy boulevard. use bells mill as the workaround. 395, tractor-trailer crash pulled of the shoulder. 21 minute commute across the 14th street bridge. in maryland, a car fire coming into jessup eastbound 32 after route 1 blocking the far right lane. that is our traffic watch. back in 10 minutes for troubl

guess what, noaa, they came out, so the national weather service came out with their winter outlook yesterdayst to give you a teeny hint at what they're thinking. it will be cold in the places it should be cold. northern plains and pacific northwest. much of the country is going to be warmer than normal. for us, right now, now this could change with the november update. 33% chance of above average temperatures for the three winter months coming up. that's not too shabby. let's take a look at our ten day on ten. 77 tomorrow, 74 on sunday. 78 on monday. again, rain moves in late. then we see showers, maybe a thunderstorm on tuesday. cooler there. 60s move in. wednesday we could see a shower and then low 60s by the time we get into the end of next week. guys? >>> next a family affair. how the opioid crisis is changing the family dynamic in our area. how a local couple is coping with the unexpected challenge. chris brown: a fighter for the working men and women of atlantic county. brown fought for what's right by taking on trenton special interests and standing up to chris christie's takeover of

. >> among others today, the weather forecasters including from noaa who said 2016 type of blizzard isven behavior of la nina. >> the early indication we have fewer cold snaps than we usually have. sam: the city spent $7 million for better equipment for snow the host is with the forecast they won't need it that much this coming winter. reporting from northwest washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. steve: all right. talking about winter. alison: i know. at least it felt like fall today. for the first time. steve: tomorrow you are waking up and you will be like what happened? alison: really? steve: a definite chill, a change on the way. but thankfully no snow to speak of. that is the good news. part of the area later tonight and tomorrow morning. first of the season. alison: i guess it's time. steve: it's time. can't wait any longer. here it is outside. looking to tysons corner. the clouds dissipate as the cold front swept across the d.m.v. this morning. with it, it brought the clouds. now the clouds have eased. we have quieter conditions. little on the breezy side moving through the next

operational lead by the air force and know what so this gave the said chance to test the model against noaa to see if with a predicted was close to the truth or not to enable us to do better in the future. >> i yield back. >> i recognize myself. i am sitting in for the subcommittee chairman. and closer than we have never been to the sun with that technological advancements, what do we go. >> this is the they were trying to pay your out? it is not clear that really are for erecting the sexology but what is a space. >> that is either very hot on the front or in the back at room temperature. and then the high a temperature solar panel but those that were developed on that mission that were sustaining so were at that close solar distance and that work so they enabled technologies but some standout in my mind. . . >> do you have any good predictive models for this? what are we currently doing, one big topic today's infrastructu infrastructure, the electric grid whether it be man-made or some natural disasters have been like this, if you can answer this i could appreciate it one of the activities

in fact, this is the recent outlook by noaa. they put their outlook out every fall and spring, what's is going to be like for the winter and summer. at this point, temperature wise -- they will adjust this in november, because we're going into a la nina year which there could be variables with that. it will be cold in the typical places, northern plains and far northwest portion of the upper midwest and northwest. then the rest of the country looks like it's going to be warm. where you don't see any coloration, that's supposed to be average. so what about us here in philadelphia? well, it looks like we possibly could see temperatures that are above average. there's a 33% chance that we will see above average temperatures. and that's a pretty good chance when they factor it into these types of climate forecasts. even warmer for the folks in new england. we'll have to wait and see if this actually pans out. we'll talk in the days ahead about what type of snowfall it looks like we might get. we're not talking about the cold and sno

. >>> noaa bowman is expected -- noah bowman is expected to make his raiders debut tomorrow night evenf jack del rio isn't about ready to admit it publicly. >> probably. >> reporter: how was he in practice? >> looked good. >> 53 on the field tomorrow night. i can't believe it's been 36 years since wyatt clark pulled down the cats against the cowboys that led the 49ers to the first of five super bowl titles. sunday with dallas coming to town it's been deemed dwight clark day. clark was diagnosed with als in march. >>> game five of the alcs, tanaka tossed steven shutout innings. aaron judd had his sixth r.b.i. in the last three games. that guy is hot. yankees won 5 -0. they've one three straight to take a 3-2 series lead, but now it shifts back to houston where right now home field advantage seems to be what counts. the warriors last night, pretty interesting because that was where the rockets run off the court and half the team ran past me thinking they had lost the game. other rockets yelled to me hey, get them back in here. >> we're still playing. >> yeah. they came back, found out th

washington post" also broke the news today that the president has chosen a new administrator to lead noaa, the trump pick for that job is a businessman who has long sought to privatize the national weather service. specifically, to limit the amount of information the weather service provides to the public for free, so his family business instead can do that for profit. a for-profit national hurricane center, right? what could possibly go wrong? we have a story coming up at this hour about one of the disaster medical assistance teams that has been dispatched to puerto rico as part of the response to hurricane maria. this story that we've got coming up on that tonight is not a good news story but it is, as far as we know, the latest trump administration i'm quitting in protest stories. so we've got that story coming up a little later on. i want to start tonight, though, with some stuff that's been a little swamped in the news over the last couple of days but it's now starting to feel like you ought to be aware this is going on. adam schiff, the top democrat on the intelligence committee, is

that's actually what noaa is saying. first off i want to show you what they're looking at.here's their winter outlook. what this tells you is probability of it being warmer or cooler than average. parts of the northwest cooler than average, parts of the southeast, including mid atlantic area, 33% chance it will be warmer than average here. i do expect that to be the case here around our area for this winter just like it was last winter. february last year, incredibly warm, one of the warm est febz of all time. will that happen again? we're still crunching those numbers. what about snow fall, what about rainfall, what about precipitation? this is where it gets interesting. much dryer towards florida. look at us here. equal chances of wetter or dryer. what does that mean? about average here. yeah, about average. last year we got about 3 inches. now, my winter forecast comes out in about three weeks and i'm going to take a better look at our area to show you what i think is going to happen this winter, winter forecast has been doing pretty well the last couple years. hopefully

wearum is nominated, along with noaa states that, and i quote, carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas that is contributing to recent climate change. close quote. this consensus is held by published climate scientists, by scientific agencies and societies, by all of our national laboratories, and by universities in america and around the globe. as i said, every one of us in this room, every senator i expect -- haven't found an exception yet, and i've looked -- has a home state university that doesn't just know this to be true, but it teaches it in its curriculum. but hack two sees no evil. he knows nothing. wearum's disregard for well-established science provides a grim preview of what we can expect from him if confirmed. his predictable dodging falls in lock step with administrator pruitt who has stated he does not agree that carbon dioxide is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. that puts him in a very small circle of people, i think, every one of whom is connected by money to the fossil fuel industry. i asked mr. wearum what he believes is a healthy standard

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. >>> a new report just issued by noaa says september's arctic sea ice coverage was about 25% less thant was between 1981 and 2010. as america's only arctic state, alaska today faces unique challenges. one of those is the loss of permafrost, frozen earth that serves as a foundation for huge portions of the state. as we discovered on a recent trip to alaska, the permafrost is thawing, presenting multiple threats. >> we're flying over the tundra. this is an area of sub arctic tundra where permafrost degradation is under way. >> for the past decade, they've been taking trips like this, deep into the remote corners of alaska's wilderness. >> this are for several decades now. >> her mission, monitoring how warming temperatures are impacting the frozen earth underground. >> we've come up via help copper to to see the alaskan tundra from above. right now we're not far from denali national park, about 25% of the land area includes permafrost. >> permafrost is frozen ground. it's ground that remains below zero degree celsius for two years. >> water, rocks, soil. >> everything. everything is perm

this recent graphic from noaa shows above-average temperatures in our oceans. the -- anything that's pink is above average. if it's reddish, it's much warmer than average. if it's this real red like here, that's a record. that is a warmest record. so as you can see from 2015, 2016, 2017, the oceans have warmed significantly, and warmer oceans means stronger storms. it's as simple as that. so in this hurricane season, hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria have all struck the united states. it's the first time ever the u.s. has been hit by three category four atlantic storms in one year. hurricane ophelia, now out in the atlantic, became the tenth consecutive hurricane-strength storm. that ties a record nafs set way back in the 1800 -- a record that was set way back in the 1800's. we have gone more than a century without this kind of a storm. it's a rarity, but it will be less of a rarity because the ocean warms up and powers up and brings the big storms. those storms destroy businesses and homes. away from the coastline, other aspects of climate change bring an an

this is a map that was produced by noaa. you can see where the fires were and you can see how the winds carry the smoke. the red shows the most intense areas of smoke. the lighter green, the intermediate and then the darker green shows where the least smoke intensity walz. but this map really illustrates how fires in certain areas, the smoke gets picked up by the wind, it gets carried to different places across the country. when i look at this map from the western united states and me being from arkansas, some might ask, how do these fires effect forestry in arkansas? well, we've talked about fire borrowing. when we take money from one account in the forest service budget and put it in the fire fighting account, that takes money away from management practices that could take place on forest in arkansas and other places to the east, where we don't have as many catastrophic fires. on top of that we see how the smoke drift effects many, many parts of the country. when we think about the smoke, what is that smoke? it's mainly ca

noaa has satellite video of the california wildfires. you can see the active hot spots in red. let's take a look what's left after the fire swept through santa rosa's hidden valley neighborhood. authorities say wildfires in both southern and northern california remain active and the number of people killed now stands at 13. an estimated 1,500 homes and businesses have been destroyed in orange county since the fire began monday. in the north, wildfires have been going through wine country. vice president mike pence un

. >> attractsmen to that we all know -- >> -- get over them, we have to get over them noaa i agree withountry i would disagree that it has anything to do with bet anything to do with some kind of feeling on the left i think the black players feel they have been ignored by democrats and republicans trying to -- >> do you think standing getting to the knee is working in terms of impacting the issues that you are upset with? >> i think that we are having a conversation with this right now, because players started to take a knee i think all country people are having conversations they might not be having sometimes having uncomfortable conversations is part of making progress. maria: good point. >> all right good point great conversation thank you so much thanks for talking about this we appreciate it we will see you soon gentlemen thank you general electric major cost-cutting jeff i'm metal flying empty jet next to his jet as backup during 16 year tenure when he traveled in case he got mechanical failures stuart varney will give his take on fewest of ge next step aside amazon technology tit

noaa in january updated global sea level rise estimates based on the latest peer reviewed scientific literature. ice sheets are raising faster than expected raising global sea level rise estimates in this era. under the we do nothing under climate change scenario, by around 20 more inches on average. apply these findings to the u.s. coast and the news gets particularly harsh for the northeast atlantic coast, including my home state of rhode island. rhode island's coastal resources management council is now telling us that we need to plan for as much as 9 to 12 vertical feet of sea level rise by the end of this century. the refusal of the republican majority to do anything serious about climate change is going to have a big effect on the very map of my state. this is the present upper narrangansett bay, including providence up here, our capital city, down to gren niche bay down here, and warwick. that's on the west side. and over here we have bristol and warren on the east side of the image. and it still looks actually very much like it did when early explorers first came to rhode isl