i mean, literally, i can think about 99 problems and noaa ain't one of them.project 2025 has sweeping plans for noaa agencies to fully commercialize the national weather service, sidelined the national climate assessment and says noaa's climate change research should be disbanded, even though that research helps improve forecasts and keep americans safe. that's why everybody gets up each and every day to come in here and do their research so that the public have the knowledge, the understandin, the information to make decisions that are critical for them and their families. but i am concerned that they don't want to support any of the research that goes into why are these storms getting worse? because they don't like the answer, because it's an inconvenient answer. if you are wanting to support fossil fuels. craig fugate led fema under president obama. and climate change aside, he says project 2025 could decimate communities impacted by disasters by slashing federal aid to just 25% of the total damage. it almost becomes unthinkable that states would ever be ab

are you familiar with noaa? >> >> yes. >> out of curiousity you knew what noaa stood for, when we are trying to prepare for these disasters as they are impending do you rely on information from them getting prepared for a disaster? >> noaa is a critical partner of fema through the national hurricane center to give us forecasts for where hurricanes and the strength of hurricanes are going to hit or the national water center that helps us understand what the flooding impacts are going to be or the severe weather center that talks about tornado forecasts, all of this is important to make sure that one, we can inform individuals that are in harm's way but also help us prepare and pre- position our resources to support immediate response needs >> thank you for that. you would agree to me any administration that would decide it wants to get rid of noaa that would make your jobs that much more difficult? >> without the scientific data, it would make that job more difficult. >> i want to talk about money. i want to talk

are you familiar with noaa? >> >> yes. >> out of curiousity you knew what noaa stood for, when we are trying to prepare for these disasters as they are impending do you rely on information from them getting prepared for a disaster? >> noaa is a critical partner of fema through the national hurricane center to give us forecasts for where hurricanes and the strength of hurricanes are going to hit or the national water center that helps us understand what the flooding impacts are going to be or the severe weather center that talks about tornado forecasts, all of this is important to make sure that one, we can inform individuals that are in harm's way but also help us prepare and pre- position our resources to support immediate response needs >> thank you for that. you would agree to me any administration that would decide it wants to get rid of noaa that would make your jobs that much more difficult? >> without the scientific data, it would make that job more difficult. >> i want to talk about money. i want to talk

noaa is sharing the first images from the goes 19 satellite. it's been monitoring the sun for potentially hazardous space weather that could impact us here back on earth. meteorologist and jpl ambassador vianey arana is back with more insight. vianey i know the satellite launched a few months ago. you were talking to us about it. then what are these images? it captured? indeed. you might have even seen our own rob mayeda got to go and see the launch. when it launched, it was goes you. now it's known as goes 19 as it sits in orbit. and it's the fourth satellite in the geostationary operational environment satellites. that's what it's called to help monitor weather and the environment of earth. now, since its launch, we have started seeing images from some of the several instruments used to detect space weather. and this is the first image from the suv instrument, which stands for solar ultraviolet imager. it helps monitor the sun's electromagnetic spectrum to give us more insight about the sun's flares. having that data allows us to more reliabl

so actually coral restoration is a national priority from noaa and there is coral restoration going onand in the atlantic caribbean. and globally as well. >> reporter: teams are also replicating sea hives in south florida and discussing potential projects throughout the world. freeman's kind designs has more than 50 projects in the pipeline for next year. >> it's almost like a no-brainer to choose something that's more beautiful and has all of these environmental benefits. >> reporter: environmental benefits which could make thousands of miles of coastline in florida and across the country more resilient and better protected. manuel bojorquez, dania beach, florida. ♪ [mozart's eine kleine nachtmusik] ♪ [snap] [snap] [children's laugher] [snap] [four snaps] [snap and double snap] [snap] [snap] [music ends] ever lose your keys? is that normal aging? dementia? or something else? fear often stops us from asking for a simple check-up from the neck up. knowing your numbers: blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol are common. but your cognitive numbers are also important. request our fre

researchers from ucla and the university of colorado and climatologists from noaa found that evaporativeand, or how dry the atmosphere is, has played a bigger role in the lack of precipitation in the last two decades. one of the notable areas of this expansion is through california's central valley, where, when we're comparing the period from 1948 to 1999, droughts were very much driven by changes in precipitation patterns. but after around the year 2000 to 2022 through the central valley, we've seen that shift to evaporation driven droughts. lisenby adds that we could see bigger changes in our soil moisture and faster snowmelt rates, and that droughts in the future may not look like droughts in the past, which may force us to explore different water source options. see the full story on nbc. bay area.com. just click on our climate in crisis page. laura. we'll make sure to check it out. thank you. kari. well, it certainly has our attention here at nbc bay area. the today show naming craig melvin as the new permanent co-anchor, along with savannah guthrie replacing the departing hoda kotb

noaa's latest data has tallied 24 such disasters so far. this year, among them recent hurricanes helene and milton, wildfires and severe storms. american red cross is just one of the organizations helping families, workers say this year has been one of the hardest. they support families with things like housing and emergency supplies and the group relies heavily on donors and volunteers. and as there are more disasters, the nonprofit says that need for help grows. first, let me thank people who have supported us this year, either financially or through blood donations or through volunteering their time. but we know that more is coming. we're not even done for this season, right? we have not finished the calendar year yet, and we have the potential of more disasters to happen in the next 60 days. and if you are feeling the holiday spirit of helping, red cross says it is always looking for volunteers or donations. different kinds of twists and turns are coming to the six flags theme park in vallejo. so right now crews are building a new inter

and according to noaa, the russian river is currently sitting at just over 32ft. that qualifies it for the minor flood stage. for perspective, this morning, the river measured at about 28ft. the east bay also saw more wet weather today. heavy rain and winds knocked out power for several residents, and in the berkeley hills, a landslide shut down part of grizzly peak boulevard. debris blocked a lane of traffic. uc berkeley sent out an alert this afternoon urging people to avoid the roadway. let's bring in ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo, who's been tracking this storm all da. mark. hi there. greg. >> yeah. all week, in fact, we've been talking about the atmospheric river locked up in the north bay, finally making its move to the south today, leading to some real heavy rainfall, some flash flood warnings. and right now, the focus is moving into the south bay. rainfall totals over the past 24 hours. kentfield 3.86. boulder creek 3.74 san francisco. that's pretty impressive. almost three inches of rainfall. concord over half an inch. and finally, in the south bay, san

government, including my own organization at noaa, nasa is the one organization that went all in and said -- in dod terms they call these programs that are fundamental to the mission of the agency. nasa is the only, of all the government agencies, nasa is really one that went all in on this. that actually went all in on this. kudos to them for that. this leads us by a wandering path to the commercial designation program. and what we can expect, both in terms of government consistency and government commitment and in terms of the private sector success, there has been a first round. i think nasa has given awards to three companies to work on their designs. those companies are making progress. nasa, with both the cots issue and here at cod nasa has been open that what they want to do with the programs is free nasa from the commitments they have in leo to allow nasa to use more resources, more energy, more creativity in their bigger mission. the assumption underlying both is there is a robust market which will -- which if not existing today will eventually grow. and with cod i think tha

and i want to point out, has pulled -- noaa has put together a manual for department or agencies to partneroadmap we will have a joint private sector public-sector working group to address a path forward. we are running out of time. thomas: if i could cook -- could conclude with a speed round here. if anybody could do anything to help either of you inv your respective leadership roles what would that be? anne: anybody here, who has showed up, thank you every day for the work you do. it's not an easy field and those of us in the field know that. the persistence, the rigor, the picking up new technologies it needs is something everyone here it every day. -- everybody here does every day. if we could ask for one thing. you have heard about a number of initiatives we are focused on. one key one is the cyber truck smart program. the amount of vulnerable devices from baby monitors, home security systems, energy smart meters. it is in the hundreds of millions if not single-digit billions. we know nationstate adversaries use those compromises to generate and run covert infrastructure. the cyber wor

noaa has pulled together a playbook how to incorporate and contract for that.omething they should look for in terms of the partnership. the other thing is that we will have a joint private sector public sector working group to address a path forward. that's it. we are running out of time. >> thank you. if i could conclude with -- in the speed round at the last here, if industry can do one thing to help each of you in your respective leadership ay roles, what would that be? >> i would say anybody here cares deeply about cybersecurity because they showed , up. thank you for the work you do every day. it's not an easy field. those of us in the field know that. the persistence and rigor and picking up new technologies is something that everybody here does every day. i think if we could ask -- we don't want to ask for one thing. we want to ask for many things. you have heard about a number of the inishives we are focused on. one key one i want to lift up is really the cyber trust mark program. the number of vulnerable internet of thimgs things, it' hundreds of milli

again j according to noaa and hr own experience here are a few event you may not be tracking central africa extremes torrential rains and chad impacting more than 2 million people and resulting in hundreds of. flooding in bangladesh with some of the most severe on record impacting millions and killing dozens. our embassy in hanoi was hit by typhoon on september 7 brought intense rainfall flooding and landslideste to the region for o days and claimed hundreds of innocent lives the caribbean and southds america had the warmest january to august ever. our embassy had to relocate 19 diplomatic families in september due to dangerous fires and the associated smoke. just since august florida and east coast have experienced incredibly severe e storms, to category five hurricanes billions of property damage many lives lost. again we know of the vast economic and human toll the earth's warming and more frequent and severe weather events are having global populations on farming and basic subsistence. and in so many facets of daily life. there is nearly $300 billion in 2023 lost revenue and dama

earlier this year the noaa projected an above normal hurricane season, meaning the level and intensity of storms and hurricanes would increase over this period. 11 storms have developed into hurricanes this year. more than a few years later, the lahaina community is still being built back after wildfires hit the land of maui and recovery operations are still continuing more than two years after hurricane ian made landfall in florida. administrator criswell, what can congress do to make it easier for fema to support long-term recovery efforts and assist with future disasters that strike the united states? >> congressman, we have two pieces of bipartisan legislation that would be very beneficial to our ability to help communities. the disaster survivor fairness act and the management cost modernization act. i understand i'm over the time, but i'd be happy to talk more about those two pieces. they would be critical in changing the way we help survivors. >> i commend you and fema's thousands of staff from across the country who left their homes to deploy to communities that need and provid

. >>> this week, scientists at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, announced thatear 2024 will be the hottest on record. it's a fitting background as world leaders are meeting at the annual summit on climate change which is known as cop 29. it has been the target of protest and criticism from lacking the urgency required to confront what is the most existential threat of our time. this year there is particular urgency given the election of donald trump. a man that has not only denied the existence of climate change but promised to reverse any and all progress that has been made to reduce fossil fuel emissions. joining me is david, opinion writer at the new york times and author of the uninhabitable earth. we learned that trump is aiming to appoint doug burgum secretary of the interior and the chairman of the newly formed national energy council the focus of which is to increase oil and gas production in the united states. he has appointing a climate change skeptic to head the epa. i'm sure you have thoughts. which do you think is most damaging to the climate moveme

the plan includes manipulating census data by adding a citizen question and gutting noaa and the nationalut climate problem that conservatives don't want to admit exist. now, this week we got a first look at what the conservative war on information looks like in the real world. if you followed the last election closely. you may remember reporting on the deaths of two women, amber therman and candy miller. both died because they could not get access to safe and legal abortion care in the state of georgia. the reporting was based on information propublica received from showing both women's deaths could have been prevented. confronted with their abortion ban was outraged they were able to obtain that information now, propublica says the state of georgia dismissed all 32 members of the maternal mortality committee as punishment for leaking the data of those two women's deaths t. is an act of retribution but also one on the public's right to life-saving information. in just a second i will talk to the propublica reporter who broke the story of what it might show for health and safety in donald

earlier this year the noaa projected an above normal hurricane season, meaning the level and intensity of storms and hurricanes would increase over this period. 11 storms have developed into hurricanes this year. more than a few years later, the lahaina community is still being built back after wildfires hit the land of maui and recovery operations are still continuing more than two years after hurricane ian made landfall in florida. administrator criswell, what can congress do to make it easier for fema to support long-term recovery efforts and assist with future disasters that strike the united states? >> congressman, we have two pieces of bipartisan legislation that would be very beneficial to our ability to help communities. the disaster survivor fairness act and the management cost modernization act. i understand i'm over the time, but i'd be happy to talk more about those two pieces. they would be critical in changing the way we help survivors. >> i commend you and fema's thousands of staff from across the country who left their homes to deploy to communities that need and provid

according to data from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa. so you can see just how dire it is. so we're glad to get a little rain this weekend. we are. >> we saw cornell recently with the rain coming down on top of them. so we want to find out what more we can expect tonight. >> sandhya patel is tracking that for us. sandhya. >> yeah, dan and ama. that rain is going to start to spread across the entire bay area. it's already in the north bay. so let's look at live doppler seven right now and we'll talk about what it is like. santa rosa is getting the rain. it is steady with the south wind of nine miles an hour. i'm going to get you into street level radar right now. calistoga road, santa rosa, saint helena area, bennett valley road, getting that wet weather. here's a look at the track of that moisture. it's moving towards the napa area at 707. so be ready. it's coming your way. if it's not there yet. as we look at the radar for northern california, that front is starting to move in with the rain and the snow showers, and it's going to continu

noaa's space weather prediction center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the next 2 days. the best places to catch the potential light show washington, montana and the dakotas as well as minnesota, wisconsin, michigan and maine. don't see california in there. thousands of people are traveling back to their homes today after the cease-fire between israel and the terror group. hezbollah took effect. the fighting lebanon displaced more than a million lebanese citizens and tens of thousands of israelis during the past 14 months. u.s. officials hope the momentum help secure another cease-fire deal in gaza. our washington correspondent jessi turnure reports. >> thousands of people return to their homes wednesday in lebanon celebrating the first day of the cease-fire between israel and the terror group. hezbollah compromise is always difficult but i think the cease-fire. was the right decision in israel. republican senator lindsey graham also celebrated the trees which calls for an initial 2 month pause in fighting. graham said he has a plan to help ensure a permanent out com to

the last question i have is, apparently noaa has an artificial intelligence mapping system where they map on the coastlines what could be tracking impervious surfaces of roadway water are runoff and how inundation modeling can help save lives. a lot of the country has been left out of these a.i. modeling, but we're very prone to flooding. so, i don't know, secretary buttigieg, are you using similar technology for mapping predisaster and water runoff so that you can more accurately see where your vulnerabilities are? >> i'm not familiar with that particular program, but we do have a number of partnerships with sister agencies to try to get an understanding of any weather or climate issues that we need to handle. i would segregate that into two very separate types of operations, things like faa that need immediate real-time information versus what we're doing for the longer term with infrastructure development or response, but happy to follow up and see. >> this is a noaa program. i don't know if i mentioned that when i began the descriptions of it. and what about administrator criswell

noaa estimates that this year will be one of the warmest on record. conference this year will be on financing those climate goals. un climate change executive secretary simon steele opened by saying this. if at least two thirds of the world's nations cannot afford to cut emissions quickly, then every nation pays a brutal price. if nations can't build resilience into supply chains, the entire global economy will be brought to its knees. no country is immune. we will be following more headlines out of the conference this week, both on air and online. for more coverage, visit us at nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate crisis tab. really interesting. thank you kerry. well, next year the top stories we're following today, including a looming strike. the reason graduate workers over at stanford are reportedly preparing to strike as contract negotiations continue, and the changes they are demanding. i'm ginger conejero saab. we're live in pacifica this morning where we're already seeing waves break through the barrier behind me. we'll tell you what you ne

researchers from ucla, the university of colorado and the climatologist with noaa found that evaporativehow dry the atmosphere is, has played a bigger role in the lack of precipitation in the last two decades. one of the notable areas of this expansion is through california's central valley, where, when we're comparing the period from 1948 to 1999, droughts were very much driven by changes in precipitation patterns. but after around the year 2000 to 2022 through the central valley, we've seen that shift to evaporation driven droughts and lizenby. that climatologist says that we could see bigger changes in our soil moisture and faster snowmelt rates. and he says the droughts in the future may not look like droughts. in the past, which may force us to explore different water source options. you can hear the full story, including why dry conditions are impacting rare wildfires right now on the east coast. during our 8 a.m. streaming newscast, be sure to tune in on roku, pluto, and other streaming platforms, and we'll be sure to post this story on nbcbayarea.com. look for it on our climate i

. >>> this week scientists at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, announced therehe hottest year on record. it is a fitting back drop as leaders from nearly 200 countries are meeting right now in baku, azerbaijan, at the summit on climate change known as cop 29. as has happened before, it has been the kargt of protests and criticisms for lacking the urgency to confront what is the most existential threat of our time. this year there is particular urgency given the election of donald trump. a man who not only has denied the exist intelligence of climate change but also promised to reverse any and all progress that has been made to reduce fossil fuel emissions. joining me now, an opinion writer at the "new york times" and author of the uninhabitable earth. thanks for being here. we learned that trump is aiming to appoint doug burgum, secretary of the interior, and the chairman of a newly formed national energy council. the focus of which is to increase oil and gas production in the united states. and he's appointing lee zeldon, a climate change skeptic, to head the e

noaa's space weather prediction center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the next 2 days. washington, montana, the dakotas, minnesota, wisconsin, michigan, and me. >> greetings from the international space station. our crew appear just wanted to say happy thanksgiving. >> and that is just the coolest thing. thanksgiving greetings from 4 nasa astronauts on the international space station. >> and for dinner, yes, but they'll be having brussels sprouts, squash apples and smoked turkey. 2 of the astronaut suni williams and butch wilmore had planned to spend thanksgiving on earth. but but was scheduled originally as an 8 day trip turned into an 8 month trip after issues with boeing starliner spacecraft force them to stay longer than planned. so they go to celebrate the holidays in outer space. nasa says the hope is to have everybody back on earth by february 2025. niners are spreading some holiday cheer ahead of thanksgiving. more than a dozen players including brock purdy, fred warner and george kittle took part in the team's annual feast with the niners at levi stadium yester

noaa's space weather prediction center issued a geomagnetic storm watch for the next 2 days.t places to watch and catch the potential light show is washington, montana, the dakotas, minnesota, wisconsin, michigan and maine. and the niners are spreading some holiday cheer ahead of thanksgiving. more than a dozen players including brock purdy from warner and george kittle took part in the team's annual feast with the niners at levi stadium yesterday the team shared a thanksgiving meal in 100 foot long dining table. 15 families were invited and there was pizza smores and games. >> think really cool. lot of a lot of these families pri haven't had or would have the opportunity to come to levi's and with players. so i think it's cool, obviously for the kids, for the parents to be able to have a home like this with their children with their other family members just really cool. >> the fun didn't stop there. the niners also surprised families with a shopping spree at the team store. >> still ahead, a special surprise for travelers in the south bay today we take a look properties at

current figures show that we're hovering just under 1.5°c, and noaa estimates that this year will bea big topic at the conference this year will be on financing climate goals. un climate change secretary simon steele opened by saying this if at least two thirds of the world's nations cannot afford to cut emissions quickly, then every nation pays a brutal price. if nations can't build resilience into supply chains, the entire global economy will be brought to its knees. no country is immune. we will be following more headlines out of the conference this week, both on air and online, for more coverage, visit us at nbcbayarea.com and click on the climate crisis tab. thanks so much, kari. got a lot more ahead for you at 630 this morning, including more driverless vehicles hitting the bay area streets. we're going to look at the new robo taxis now roaming san francisco, and why you won't be able to ride inside just yet. plus, we're live in pacifica. i've got my head on a swivel because we're seeing some waves crash onto onto where we are right now. we'll tell you all you need to know abou

a new study by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, also called noaa, says acceleratingporation accounted for 61% of the region's drought severity from 2020 to 2022. less rain was responsible for just 39% of these conditions. scientists predict future droughts will last longer, encompass wider areas and be more severe for our warming planet. not good encouraging news? >> no, certainly not. all right, well, let's get a check on our weather. we got a good deal of rain this morning. >> yeah, but it was good to see the sun finally this afternoon. sandhya. yeah, we're all about pleasing everybody. >> so we get a variety of weather there. ama and dan. let's take a look at a live picture right now and you will notice from our sky star camera that we have pretty good visibility out there, but it is not clear across the entire region yet. this is a sky star cam at fisherman's wharf on the sky star wheels. so let's check out the forecast for this evening. if you are stepping out i would definitely grab a jacket or a sweater. inland areas in the mid 50s at 7:00. dropping down to th

at noaa, in the upper atmospheric research department they are looking at the impact of reentering debrison the upper atmosphere. they have in recent missions collected samples of the upper atmosphere and discovered there are exotic elements in the upper atmosphere that should not be there. does it matter? we don't know. since everyone default position is you get rid of them by the orbiting i think it's a question we need to answer. there are a lot of parts of the sustainability. right now it is not even clear who owns this discussion. we have both in the u.s. and internationally on number of people who said i want to do this part, i want to do this part. there's not any real coordination yet. we have a long way to go in defining what it means and who's responsible and how does that eventually translate into requirements or rules for either our team, our regulatory team, or calvin coleman's regulatory team on launch or the fcc. at what point do these goals become regulatory requirements? that is also largely unwritten. thank you so much so much. [applause] >> thank you very much. that was

, get rid of things like the department of education, which trump has mused about, and the epa and noaaget rid of really all the nonpartisan employees in the federal government. remember, there are tens of thousands of people who work in the federal government, and replace them with loyalists a part of it is really to make the federal government an arm of the trump campaign, to make the doj served the pleasure of donald trump and you will remember the supreme court last season gave him this very vague sort of immunity that he could use for anything he wants, and that is so unstructured that he really could just do anything with it. >> the scary part in all of this , as molly was saying, they went through the dry run from 2016 to 2020. they now have a blueprint and certainly a playbook. you have dug vought here talking about creating a shadow legal counsel dramatically affect bearcats, going after them. you know, everything trumpism infects becomes infested. you look at his takeover of the republican party. without at some point the republican party would be able to withstand and stand u

people are frustrated with bureaucracies but noaa, hurricanes, i am not an expert on that.e them wanting to, you know, takes an axe to that and whose interest does that help. elon musk, for instance, the kind of people that don't want regulation in their financial transactions. if you eliminate these people, not only is that going to allow them implement a pretty radical agenda that they didn't run on, didn't get a mandate to do these things, it's also going to thousands of years of experience are going to walk out the door, either be fired or leave because life is so miserable for them in these agencies. we are not going to get that back. so even if trump is gone in four years, the person coming in is going to inherit a government full of maga ideologues and emptied of expertise that allows for the u.s. government to function. >> you layer on to the brain drain that you just described the fact that one of the things that vought wants to do, encouraging president trump so do is to use executive action. i remember during the first obama administration when immigration advoca

for a tv show with hulu i'm in the writers roomom the writers are picking apart might mean character noaamyself from his character. and to cut the cord. the next day no one asked me too do is submit made a formal speech and i said guys, i am no longer enola, nell is no longer mean, i set her free. i did not say it like that but as a very pointed about i do not want you to feel weird because i feelo weird and now we don't he to feeln weird about putting hs character on screen. so glad i did that. i kind of helped pave the way for me as i'm writing my second book. [laughter] thank you. i need that thank you i need that. writing first book is hard but writing second book is harder i wanted spine of this recent dissent but i wonder why dhec i do this a lot of the time for i know why i do it. i love the work. i love storytelling. so much of the narrative from the other black girl was more about who i am or who i was really i feel like i've out grown her in my own way i've had to of had to leave conversations i've had to speak out special make in the tv show because that stuff is hard. i have h

noaa swing states haven't called yet but remember folks, the dark solid colors are those which the associated to be more democratic take longer to count to prove they come on it later on in the night. this map will undoubtedly change it. we just do not know exactly how. i'm going to turn to the big board my colleague ionic, weird things stand in the recent 270? >> ending our political nerd like me. i want to play the game and map out potential paths before kamala harris or donald trump to reach this number, 270 electoral college votes. this is our big board. deep red these art states called for donald trump like texas for the other states which are white or red this is work trump is favored. also the states and deep blue like new york have already been called for kamala harris a light blue states are states where harris is favored to win. if the night goes the way we anticipate it might go we could land at some point around here, 218 electoral college votes to donald trump, 225 per kamala harris. there's one thing you may notice on this map. there are seven states that are grayed out. those a