and on the flip side of the continent, another heavy snowmaker is affecting the northeastern u.s. and in fact, has dropped about 10 centimeters of snow for the u.s. capital. about 20 centimeters in north carolina. the system is now located here. still packing a lot of energy to cause very strong winds. probably up to 180 kilometers per hour which is as strong as a hurricane, and wiaves are going to be up to six meters at most. it's now affecting the new england states and atlantic canada with blizzard conditions, as well. within the next 24 hours things will be clearing up in the northeastern u.s., and temperatures will be gradually warming up in to the weekend. look at this. washington, d.c. is going to be 4 on wednesday for the high. jumping up to 17 degrees on your friday. warmer than average temperatures. in the mid teens finally in philadelphia on thursday, as well as friday. now finally over asia, quite settled over the northern areas of china, but air qualitywise it's not good. and in fact, air quality is at the hazardous level in the beijing area at this moment. clear weat

. >> quickly take you out to the northeastern u.s. at this point it's a full-blown nor'easter but it's offshore. boston, new york city and washington d.c. are the major cities in the northeast only get a couple of inches of snow out of this in what has been a very miserable winter across portion of the northeastern u.s. >> it's been a difficult search for survivors after a weekend landslide in the u.s. state of washington. >> and the number of those unaccounted for has gone way up. we'll have the latest on the rescue effort next. every day of the week. my dad has aor afib.brillation, he has the most common kind... ...it's not caused by a heart valve problem. dad, it says your afib puts you at 5 times greater risk of a stroke. that's why i take my warfarin every day. but it looks like maybe we should ask your doctor about pradaxa. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate)... ...was proven superior to warfarin at reducing the risk of stroke. and unlike warfarin, with no regular blood tests or dietary restrictions. he

brought about 25 centimeters for snow in parts of massachusetts, nearly 20 for many places in the northeastern u.s. and strong winds battered many areas. take a look at video from the eastern tip of massachusetts. a powerful spring storm brought fierce wind and snow to parts of massachusetts on tuesday. winds of over 120 kilometers blew the snow making travel impossible. hurricane-force winds were making high sea winds. very fierce conditions over this area. as you can see the lines are close. the dangerous winds are blowing there, up to 130 kilometer gusts are likely. so blustery conditions, blowing snow conditions will likely continue through thursday for the canadian maritimes. within the next 24 hours, things will be clearing up. however, another system is making its way towards the east. things will get quite stormy for your friday evening for the coastal areas once again. now the system is affecting the midsection of the u.s. snow for the northern areas and the wintery mix for this location and strong winds across the southern areas raising the potential for wildfires across the southern pla

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that is to try to prevent the spread of this bug and a lot of the trees in the forest of the northeastern u.s. and missed -- midwestern u.s. are ash trees so he is also a very worrisome relatively recent arrival. not all invaders, not not all an invasive species are from europe. this is a zebra muscle also very voracious feeder. it has a nasty habit as you can see at sticking to every available surface in the eating everything in the water column. all of these species were transported by the bull from somewhere very far away and when i got to a new place they didn't have any enemies so they just proliferated. they did really really well. species around the world often we do it purposefully and most of us probably have plants in our yards for example that are non-native species and many people have pets that are non-native species but even more often we do it accidentally so it's been estimated that every day in the ballast water of our supertankers we are moving around 10,000 species. this is once again strikes us as pretty ordinary. this is just the way things are bad when you think about it

see the signs do not move firewood to prevent the spread but a lot of the trees in the northeastern midwestern u.s. are ashtrays and he is a recent arrival. not all innovation -- increase the species are for a major there are some from europe also another voracious eater could stick to every available surface and eating virtually everything in the water for their role transported by people from far away they did not have enemies so they proliferated. living species around the world is something we do every day usually purposely weaselly have a plant in our yard that is a non native species and to or pets but more accidentally every day in the supertankers we are moving around 10,000 species. what strikes us as ordinary but it is something that is very new. with a terrestrial species you cannot cross an ocean or the marine species cannot across a continent. that is another way to run the ideological history so of around 250 million years ago they were joe -- look together in this giant continent called pangaea. but then they started to drift apart to form the world as we know it. in to transport th

similar story over the northeastern corner of the u.s., and eastern canada. the canadian maritimes with blizzard conditions to continue throughout your monday. temperatures for the coastal areas, not too bad. in fact 16 degrees for you, springlike conditions for washington, d.c. 12 degrees in new york, with rainy conditions on the flip side of the continent in the mid teens in san francisco with rainy weather on monday. all right, across europe, looking quite nasty over the western parts of the iberian peninsula, as well as the british isles. but in the middle of europe, quite gorgeous, sunny weather and summerlike conditions, and across the still winter is gripping western russia including moscow. snow will likely continue into your wednesday in moscow but in the middle of europe as well as western europe temperatures will be like summer and that will be continuing into the next couple of days. all right here's the extended forecast. >>> and here is our top story once again. the international court of justice has ruled that japan's whaling in the antarctic o

elsewhere it's a different from with the weather and it has been cold for many of us in the northeastern parts of the u.sast few months. in fact, four toronto it has been the coldest winter for the last 20 years. now unfortunately over the next few days it's still going to say bitterly cold and minus 2 is the top temperature on tuesday and really this time of year we should be near a positive 6. >> thank you for that, we will go further south to one of the busiest waterways in the u.s. is closed after a massive oil spill, a barge carrying 4 million crude collided with a ship in texas and cleanup started and birds in a nearby wildlife sanctuary are under threat. the threat and people living in alaska know about, it was a quarter of a century ago, the second largest oil spill happened on their shores, the exxon valdez ran aground causing the longest environmental court case in history and daniel has a report from southern alaska on the lasting effects of that spill. >> reporter: they didn't have this 25 years ago, a computer simulator to teach mariners about alaska's tricky coastal waters and the desks app