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israel owes it's technical existence toel chemistry, a qui of chemistry, a want of acetone in the north atlantic ocean. [applause] >> my point was as it were from soup to nuts, from sheep to israel, the atlantic ocean has got it all. and i'd be delighted if i can to answer any questions you may have but thank you very much indeed for coming along. [applause]ery >> i believe so, there's microphone over there. super. >> thank you. i read your books and listened to them on tape and i'm hoping that this one will also be narrator by you. >> it is, yes. >> i'm looking forward to that. i think it really touched our souls with those stories. i wonder as you travel around the globen we all live these mundane lives day-to-day and you pick up on extraordinary stories and i'm wondering what first propelled youpr in that -- in tt direction to move from the natural sciences over to really, you know, one of our greatest popular historians? >> well, it's a very nice question. thank you. i think i got -- my initial thought was i wanted to be a sailor. as a schoolboy, my image of myself -- i'm now 66 years old is

nearly a century after the disaster, the ship is vanishing from the bottom of the north atlantic. scientists are saying the ship that was once called unsinkable may disappear in 15 to 20 years. >>> and three months before the royal wedding we have interesting news about prince william and kate middleton. it involves an invitation from queen elizabeth and it's an offer probably none of us would refuse. they are likely mulling it over. >>> and an update on a very inspiring story about a group of kids we first introduced you to a few years back. the children all stutter and like in the golden globes nominee "the king's speech" they have found a remarkable way to face the challenge and have confidence. >>> we begin in tucson. later mourners will gather for the funeral of dorwin stoddard as the supermarket where the tragedy unfolded re-opens. miguel almaguer joins us with the latest from tucson. good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning. this grocery store was the ba backdrop for bloodshed and a symbolic gesture to move forward. no longer a crime scene but still a place of sor ar

contain cassettes with which you can trace the evolution of plantain in the english channel the north atlantic. one hundred seventy thousand samples of plankton that has been trapped over five million miles a spider's web woven over almost one hundred years. these devices have provided some unexpected and precious scientific proof. to us that one of its catching planktonic organisms maybe is catching small pieces of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples we sampled from the nine hundred sixty s. the one hundred seventy s. the eighty's and ninety's and then compared abundance through time and that's where we we showed that adding three significantly when you compare the one nine hundred sixty s. and ninety's. this british scientist has proof of the increasing pollution of the channel and they planted. in fact plastic never decomposes into the environment it just breaks down into smaller bits over time so even if we stopped producing plastics tomorrow which is not something that i would advocate because i actually think plastics can bring many benefits to society that

. >> cross the north atlantic in january, feel your ship rolling as you are even in bed, and much like in a military situation, thinking about divine support and sustenance can become very basic. it is not an abstraction for a seafarer on a bad day. being out at sea can be beautiful or haunting, and seafarers know both realities. their perience ogod n become very basic, either god's presence or god's absence, and they know that in the depths of their soul, and, again, in some small ways, we're privileged to hear their stories. >> beseeching him to uphold you and fill you with his grace. >> reporter: for "religion & ethics newsweekly," i'm saul gonzalez at the port of new york and new jersey. >>> finally, on our calendar this week, western christians and some branches of eastern orthodoxy celebrated the feast of the epiphany on january 6th. for t westernhurch, this mkshe vis of the se men to the infant jesus in bethlehem. the eastern orthodox associate the holiday with the baptism of jesus as an adult. also on january 6th, armenian orthodox churches celebrated christmas. many other orth

scientists untangle a north atlantic white whale wrapped in 50 feet of rope. the whale was first spotted on christmas. scientists tracked her since then with a satellite tag and they used a sedative to calm her down. they cut off the road and she swam off. >>> and now to a story we first covered in november. a pet store with hundreds of pet rats. and since then, they have encountered a growing problem. >> reporter: the owner didn't separate three male and female pets, they have multiplied into hundreds of rats. cages are filled in some cases the rats are literally on top of each other. >> would you like to take a couple dozen home with you. >> i worked in maternities since the early part in november when they first came. and there's been about 400 babies. >> reporter: the girls and boys are now separated. >> from here we're going to be moving out of state from michigan to oregon, washington, arizona and nevada first. >> reporter: volunteers have named many of the rodents to make them more adoptable. >> they are like little dogs. you can potty train them, you c

the first story is from the north atlantic from a group of islands which the brits like to go to. they are 60 degrees north from shetland to iceland and there are 18 islands and they all belong to denmark and they are populated essentially by 50,000 people and can fairly be said to the vikings. the last stronghold of the vikings. linguistically viking kong. it is hard wired to sack and pillage and do all sorts of violent things but the frustrating thing, the islands are at war with nobody. they are big strapping chaps. the superabundance of testosterone and they clearly need to purge themselves of it and they do in this peculiar way which i will attempt to describe. topographic we 18 of them, layers of volcanic rocks, over to the east so that on the western side of these 18 islands there are very steep and high cliffs in the world, and from the summit, and angle of 30 degrees and it bleeds on to the eastern seaboard where there are no cliffs. the cliffs are the key to this story and the islands i went to, an island in the westernmost of the pharaohs. cascading water, dotted all ov

[laughter] >> as you will see the first one was something that i came across in the north atlantic, and that was in the faroe islands. the faroe islands, maybe so you have been, a group of 18 islands between shetland and iceland, way up in the high altitude, very foggy, very rainy, quite cold that the kind of place an englishman likes. we flourish in places like that. and the long as it were more, but they are but the last, the vikings. has the reputation of the vikings, very strong, sacking all the time. unfortunately, or fortunately no one is at war with the faroese. there are 50,000, population 50,000 faroese, and the men are big strapping chaps. no one to fight. and so they're absolutely bursting with super abundance of testosterone, and clearly need to get it out in ways that you can imagine. what am going to describe to you is one of those ways. but don't worry, it's not dirty. [laughter] the islands, there are 18 of them. they have been tilted from west to east such that on the west side there are enormously tall cliffs. some of the tallest cliffs in the world, 2000 feet high. in

whatever happened to north atlantic, you know? so i think -- i spent some days last year in april of 2009 at the no to war, no to nato protest in stausberg. i haven't been teargassed that badly in a pretty long time. >> host: how many times have you been teargassed? >> guest: i don't know exactly. but in my youth, as a student activist, teargas was fierce and flying a lot. >> host: but back to stausberg. >> guest: but back to stausberg, we were managed to get away from the most of it but it was a pretty bad back. we had to hike back to 8 miles to the hotel because the whole city was under armed control of the military. it was a joint french and german military. they had 30,000 troops there. not police but troops to, quote, secure the city. and we had a legal place for the mobilization but when the teargas started we were blocked off and we couldn't get back to where we needed to go so we had to hike essentially around the entire city. it was a pretty interesting day. but it was -- it was fascinating because there were people from

do a passion-- >> and we talk about the titanic the last time i gave this lecture i was in the north atlantic>> memories! let us do it again. >> and the easy way to go w w w . david perry .com and later this year, we reported to won a gorgeous ship the gauguin. >> south pacific! >> thank you, david. i love your enthusiasm and you are a great lecturer. you have a passion. and i am also passionate about with glamour. clamor in the movies including gentleman prefer blondes it is the walt disney family museum on a sunday. with food, wine, food and wine in the movies and www . walt disney got worand also the great uvm and david. .com check it out. let us go back to isabel. >> and david, i can carry your luggage. >> and i even help carry luggage. all [laughter] >> and let us check-in with henry. >> the newest star of the cooking channel is not only a fabulous cook but she is dressed to kill. thank you. can i say this and kitchen. she is in town to tell you everything about wine. but will tell you all about that coming up on kron 4 news this weekend. (music) >> we are back, 9:48. this is video from

except over on the atlantic ocean, we have a completely separate weather phenomenon known as the north atlanticscillation and that means the sea surface temperature between the eastern united states and northern europe plummet so it's colder as well and translates into precipitation that would normally be rain into snow. we have both oceans dipping in their water temperature and so, essentially, that means this part of the country is seeing a lot of snow and also why we have seen flooding in australia and brazil and portions of southeast s asia. we know what it is but don't know when it will end. >> unfortunately, we cannot control it. >> unfortunately, we can't. >> but at least we know what it is. marysol castro will have a closer look at the forecast for the rest of the country coming up later. chris, over to you. >>> the latest on the amazing recovery of congresswoman gabrielle giffords starting rehab three weeks after shot in the brain. the man who is accused of shooting her looked up information about assassinations before the tucson attack. don teague is with us for the latest in houston.

. >> forecasters say that same system is expected to head north, hitting the mid atlantic and the northeastrting tuesday. just how severe that storm is will depend on the track that it takes as it moves up the east coast. katie. >> elaine quijano, here in new york. elaine, thank you. >> the unclaimed remains of 20 u.s. armed forces veterans were buried today with full military honors. the service at a national cemetery on new york's long island was with the largest of ever of its kind. they all died with no known relatives to claim their remains. >> and still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," the very latest on the tucson shootings. discover customersl are getting five percent cashback bonus on travel. it pays to switch, it pays to discover. you should get some custom fit orthotics. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center. it recommends the custom fit orthotic >> couric: updating our top you'll get immediate comfort... ... and, you could save a couple hundred bucks. for locations see drscholls.com just got more powerful. introducing precise pain relieving cream. it blocks pain signals f

atlantic. in charlotte north carolina and duke energy reported power outages in the thousands. and it led to georgia several inches of snow froze overnight thousands of flights were canceled out of jackson airport stranding passengers from all over the country. >> we are stuck since yesterday. >> i didn't come prepared because we don't gets no over there. >> vehicles littered the side of the road with the storm's not done and, in new england could see blizzard conditions that as much as 2 ft. of snow as a system travels up the east coast. new york city is already preparing after christmas snowstorm paralyzed some streets for days. >> we do know that the job but new yorkers expect of us in the loss storm. we intend to make sure that that does not happen again. >> flight disruptions are expected to continue with delta air lines said it will cancel flights to atlanta wednesday as well. in washington some at his kron 4 news.

whatever happened to north atlantic?suspend some days last year in april of 2009 at the know to wore no to nadir of protests in strasbourg. i haven't been teargassed that badly in a long time. >> host: how did you get here guest? >> guest: i don't know. as a student activist, it was flying a lot. >> host: but back to strasbourg. >> guest: we got away from the worst of it but it was a pretty bad batch. we had to hike about eight miles back to our hotel because the whole city was under armed control of the military. it was a joint french and german military. they had 30,000 troops. we had a legal place for the mobilization but we were blocked off and couldn't get back to where we needed to goes so we had to hike around the city. an interesting day. it was fascinating because there were people from all over europe saying not only now to the war in afghanistan which was the major focus at that time but no to nato as a military alliance saying we don't want the u.s. telling the military what to do and we don't want our milita

boundary coincides with a rise in temperature of nearly 2 degrees in north sea waters between 1977 and 2001. if the trend continues, atlantic will no longer be able to live in the north sea by 2080. the heavy pressure our industrialized society puts on earth drives climate change. whole ecosystems are modified, forcing species to fight for survival in different surroundings. if we understand the rapid changes our activities force the natural world to respond to,

while the midwest mid-atlantic and the north reese in a deep freeze, we are experiencing a winter warmup. doesn't really feel like it at this hour. 36 degrees in some of our coolest areas in the north bay. 44 as you head out the door. there is some patchy fog in the inland valleys and at the coast. that's all expected to burn off. still quite mild inside the bay from. mild to incredittably nice today. 68 degrees the daytime highs inside the bay. 67 in our inland areas. and check that out. 65 degrees at the coast. it will be amazingly beautiful. high pressure continues to build over the pacific. the winds were slowly beginning to shift to the north and northwest. so it won't bring the windy and gusty conditions that we saw yesterday that's going to keep those low pressure system well to our north bringing rain to washington state and oregon completely out of our forecast. we will see 61 degrees for daly city, 65 at half moon bay, 66 degrees in san jose and 67 for los gatos. 60 in pittsburg. tule fog is still expected to build just a little bit. that will keep temperatures cooler inland. 6

and then the storm continues to build north and east as we head towards groundhog day, affecting the mid-atlantic with an icy mix through wednesday. back to you. >>> when we come back, what the crisis in egypt is doing to the overseas stock markets this morning. >>> and christiane amanpour's return to cairo. what she found when she arrived. >>> plus, we'll take you to last night's s.a.g. awards which belonged to the golden girl, [ female announcer ] alli works when you work. if you skip this latte and opt for the smaller low-fat one, you'll cut about 12 grams of fat. then take alli with it to help boost your weight loss. so for every 2 pounds you work to lose, alli can help you lose 1 more. alli. how healthy works. >>> the protests in egypt are causing jitters among investors. asian stocks fell sharply today as investors worried that turmoil could spread to neighboring countries. the unrest also sent oil prices higher on concerned access to the suez canal. a key route would be blocked. in japan, the average tumbled 1.2% today. hong kong's hang seng fell .75%. on london, the ftse fell 48 points, t

propaganda today and seized the fantasies of the kaiser marching across the atlantic to establish the german power and north america. when one sees the propaganda about the german on atrocities in belgium which was blown out of -- there were not in ebitda was blown out of proportion by the british propaganda office one realizes that little more one was not the same as world war ii in terms of any threat to the united states. and coming more recently, in a way this self-defense doctrine is the notion that self-defense means defending the last established imperial outpost. if the united states invade the country even for the wrong reasons like iraq, as soon as we have troops if anybody attacks the troops it is self-defense. you have to support the troops. self-defense. we are defending ourselves. we identify with the legions in the same way i suppose the romans must have done, identify with their leaders. so self-defense now has reached the point where there is no difference between self-defense and aggression. self-defense will justify anything. it becomes meaningless. so in my book, i did my readers and the

the storm continues to build north and east as we head toward groundhog day, affecting the mid-atlantic with an icy mix on wednesday. >>> here's a look at the rest of your monday forecast. a drier day in california. thunderstorms from little rock to memphis. severe weather with 70-mile-an-hour wind and isolated tornadoes around new orleans, shreveport and jackson, mississippi. showers in the carolinas. >> 60 in atlanta. 28 here in new york. mostly 20s from the twin cities to indianapolis. zero in billings. 58 in sacramento. >>> well, novak djokovic beat andy murray in straight sets. the 23-year-old celebrated by throwing his racket and his shirt and shoes into the crowd. earlier in the day kim clijsters hoisted her trophy after beating li na for the women's title. it the first australian open win for clijsters. it was so fun to watch djokovic. he won in 2008. >> a year of surprises, too. >> to see him strip, good call. >>> we turn to an extraordinary story out of scotland where a climber literally lost his footing near the top of a mountain and then plunged 1,000 feet down. he only -- n

north america, a lot of the activity remains along the east coast. we've got this developing system that will ride up along the atlantic seaboard today, spreading rain and snow. inland areas across the mid-atlantic states, new england region will be looking at snow. another storm system comes in off the great lakes. lake effect snows will pile up for you. minus 2 in chicago. minus 1 in toronto. subfreezing temperatures across the board here. we've got 3 in new york, and only 1 for d.c. finally, getting a look at europe here. a lot of the activity is going to be located towards the south, the southern tier of europe. lots of activity in place. a couple of systems moving in toward the iberian peninsula. and that will produce some strong rains in the days to come. also right now, looking at a little bit more activity developing along southern italy and in towards greece. chances of some of strong to severe thundershowers for you tonight. otherwise, a fairly settled picture for the northern half of europe. a little bit of snow moving in toward the norway coastline, but that will be just about it. here's a look at highs. it is remaining quite low. minus

north carolina kind of area. light snow showers here expected and the much heavier stuff pushing up into the mid atlantic and thetheast. we have minus 4 in toronto. 1 in new york city and 4 degrees in washington, d.c. expect the temperatures to dip into the weekend. excuse me. as we head to the west we can see all of the warmth move in with it. 8 degrees in denver, not bad. 10 degrees in seattle and 9 expected in vancouver for your friday. all right. we go to europe, unfortunately it's not going to be a very good outlook for most of you across the continent. the good news, though is that we aren't going to see a return of the heavy snow and we've been dealing with that since late november and actually very warm, southwesterly winds pushing up through here will keep this mostly rain across the west. the heaviest of the rain will be found here across parts of iberia, spain and portugal. and by the time it moves up to central regions of the baltic states, most of this will be fairly scattered and light. the snow will be confined to northern scotland and up to scandinavia. you will see a bit of a break here before t

north carolina kind of area. light snow showers here expected and the much heavier stuff pushing up into the mid atlantic and thetheast. we have minus 4 in toronto. 1 in new york city and 4 degrees in washington, d.c. expect the temperatures to dip into the weekend. excuse me. as we head to the west we can see all of the warmth move in with it. 8 degrees in denver, not bad. 10 degrees in seattle and 9 expected in vancouver for your friday. all right. we go to europe, unfortunately it's not going to be a very good outlook for most of you across the continent. the good news, though is that we aren't going to see a return of the heavy snow and we've been dealing with that since late november and actually very warm, southwesterly winds pushing up through here will keep this mostly rain across the west. the heaviest of the rain will be found here across parts of iberia, spain and portugal. and by the time it moves up to central regions of the baltic states, most of this will be fairly scattered and light. the snow will be confined to northern scotland and up to scandinavia. you will see a bit of a break here before t