thank you, pedram. >>> the u.s. countering russian claims its first air strikes in syria targeted isis. russia's first word about the air strikes came when a russian official appeared at the embassy in baghdad with a note to warn stay out of the syrian air space. barbara starr asked ash carter about the unusual move. >> you are dealing with the russians for years. a russian general shows up at the embassy in baghdad and apparently reads you a note saying air strikes will begin in one hour. what do you make of that? is that as secretary of defense, is that acceptable military to military relations with you and where does this leave you if you sit down and talk with the russian military about a way ahead? is this not a little bizarre? >> you are right. i have been dealing with them for a long time. this is not the behavior that we should expect professionally from russian military professionally. that's one reason why i think it is a good thing to have an avenue of communication that is less unprofessional than a drop

pedram, thank you. >>> u.s.iscovered a 225 square mile debris field in the caribbean in the search for the missing container ship. the jacksonville based ship was carrying 28 americans and 5 polish nationals on the way to puerto rico and went missing last week. crews found wood and foam and oil sheen and life jackets. still no positive confirmation it came from the ship. >> the blame is to be done on the hurricane. not the captain. the captain is looking out for his crew. >> a lot of people have changed their profile picture to mike's graduation picture. when i open my facebook page, i see my post because it is my baby's picture. it has been amazing. >> the air force and navy are now assisting the coast guard in the search which has covered more than 70,000 square nautical miles. >>> the father of the gunman who killed 9 people at the community college in oregon, the father insists he has no idea where the son got his weapons. the father refuses to comment on his son's mental state. he was shocked to learn that

pedram javaheri, thanks. >>> 35 minutes past the hour. u.s.vered a debris field in the sea in the search for the missing container ship. the ship carrying a crew of 28 americans and 5 polish nationals. it was on the way to puerto rico and went missing near the bahamas last week during hurricane joaquin. now they are finding wood and an oil sheen in the debris field, but no positive confirmation it came from the missing container ship. the air force and navy assisting the coast guard in the search. they already covered more than 70,000 square nautical miles. >>> the father of the gunman insists he has no idea where his son got the weapons. he said he was stunned to learn his son owned 13 guns. he says the guns are to blame for the massacre and asking how someone can get so many weapons so easily. >> it has to change. how can it not? even people that believe in the right to bear arms. you know, what right do you have to take people's lives? that's what guns are, the killers. it's as simple as that. it's black and white. what do you want the gun

let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri this morning. this is just the early innings of what we could endure on the east coast. >> well said, christine and boris. this is a wet forecast. category three hurricane joaquin is east of the turks and caicos. the difference this year, some are taking it to south carolina and others to massachusetts. widespread differences in the models. the european model had tremendous accuracy with super storm sandy's forecast. it was precisely on target. the vast majority of the other models want to take it to the mid-atlantic. the meteorology pattern is set up here. a negatively tilted trough. it sounds fancy with the weather pattern reaching full maturity with friday afternoon to evening. we have this pattern with tropical storms offshore. they want to draw the feature in toward the eastern seaboard. some other models want to take the storm system away from the coastline over the open waters. the national weather service wants to favor more of a coastline sunday afternoon to night. category two for north n

at this point, it looks minimal. >>> thanks, pedram.ord frost. >> not welcome. >> the faa is testing new technology to detect rogue drone flights near u.s. airports. this is designed to track the drones and forced them to land if needed. officials say the growing number of unauthorized drones in the air poses a potential safety and security risk. you will have to put your drone back in the closet. >>> look at this. that is chicago where tonight, this morning, there is joy. cubs moving on in the playoffs. they beat the pirates, 4-0 in the n.l. wild card game. fantastic. it came down to jake arrieta. he gave up four hits. he was simply awesome. there was a moment of tension there because of that. he got hit where? in the back side. it happened early as he hit two pirates batters. that was retaliation. benches cleared. obviously these teams were into the game. the first post season win since 2003. they will face the st. louis cardinals. one of the best rivalries in sports. >>> okay, then. >> it's true. it is all happening. i didn't make th

let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, guys.he forecast is improving when it comes to dry weather. the last bouts of the rain event finally culminating across the region. you think about the dam failures and the state of south carolina home to 2,400 dams. overtopping being the main concern where you typically see this with 30% of dam failures in the united states. excess rainfall and excess water get into the dam and eventually you have waters spilling the banks. if you put enough force and we had that across the region, you can cause dam failures. you have fractures that take place in the dam. a lot of dams in the united states, 75% to 80% of them are privately owned. in south carolina, 90% of the dams are privately owned. a lot of them are dated when it comes to severe weather events and dealing with the rain events. you look at the flooding. murray boulevard in charleston. the before and after. remarkable to think the amount of water that has taken over some of the landscapes in the palmetto state. >>> thank you. new developm

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let's go back to pedram. you have more on this flooding.to us about this, and i also understand you're covering the typhoon in china. >> a lot going on. incredible to think more rainfall came down in this region of france in two hours than we saw in south carolina in that amount of time. six inches in two hours. in total, 194 millimeters which is a city well known for the film festival. the images showing you the destruction. vast majority of that coming in from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. local time. not upwards of six inches or 175 millimeters that we saw across this region. how about this. we know a typhoon made land fall across southern portions of china on saturday and sunday. you see a tornado touch down with it as well. typically not strong as the ones across the united states, but as you have with the storm moving over land, the friction that takes place with the land mass interacting with the storm system, you can spot several twiste twisters. multiple fatalities over this region as well of china, and that is certainly a big story deve

let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, john and christine.roving conditions across texas. ten rivers are reporting flooding. the bulk of the moisture is moving east. the temperatures are upper 70s and working to nashville into the 50s. 40s across the midwest. finally autumn temperatures to the north. to the south, remnants of patricia is feeding into another storm system which has 10 to 20 inches of rainfall across texas. all of that moisture to the north. when you put it together, models have a good job of activity locked across the southeast. you have 10 million people under flood watches and warning this morning. you look at the widespread area in jackson and points south in mobile and pensacola with 6 to 8 inches of rainfall over the next 36 hours. the forecast has 60s in d.c. and cooling in boston with the temperature of 52 degrees. guys. >> a lot of rain. >>> we have stunning video this morning of a u.s. mission freeing hostages in iraq. wow. we are live after the break. starting now with roc® retinol. holiday season. it's up to two tim

let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good tuesday morning, john and christine.are entering a nice and dry trend on the eastern side of the country. look at the high pressure taking place. it will stay mostly sunny for the next three or four days with high pressure and temperatures warming up. you take a look at tuesday's highs up to 70 from the low 50s in new york city. chicago, unseasonably mild. 74 degrees on tuesday. by wednesday, 80 in chicago. new york city makes it up to 73. charlotte down to atlanta, temperatures on the mild side. this pattern is here to stay it with the sunshine in the forecast. in texas, it has been all about the sunshine and heat this past summer. we know some 14 million people dealing with drought across the region. 32% of the state dealing with severe drought. we are watching tropical moisture work toward south texas. look at the forecast over the next couple days. some indications put 10 inches of rainfall from points of austin to san antonio, if the tropical feature works toward the region. certainly flooding concerns here, but ben

let's bring in the meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, alison and christine. look at the cold front coming in. the shot of cold air to the northeast. it will drop the temperatures off from 15 to 20 degrees in places. starting off in the 40s in the northern new england area. 55 in new york city. we make it to 50 degrees, that is the temperature at this hour, in boston. 10 to 13 degrees below this time yesterday. the cooling trend in place. cold air settles in place from saturday into sunday. in fact, some high elevation snowfall possible. on the lighter end. some areas of new england could get in on a couple inches of snowfall saturday through sunday. scattered showers today. fast majority of the country on the dry side as the area of high pressure will come in on the dry side with temperatures in the 60s which is what we expect for this time of year. you take the high temperatures and mid-90s in little rock. significant cooling ahead of us in the coming days. >>> pedram, thank you. >> new attacks in israel. the country bolstering security. how the u.s. is gett

our meteorologist pedram javaheri is here with that. >> john and christine, good morning. yes, the cold air felt across the country. stretch of 1,100 miles from mississippi to new england certainly seeing the frost advisories and freeze warnings in place. temperatures about 10 to 13 degrees below normal. boston, 32. 45 is normal in new york. down to 36 this morning. 39 is normal this time of year. look at how quickly the cold air departs. high pressure establishes itself. we have clear nights, but clear days? warm air developing over the region. we are talking about temperatures getting up from 53 in new york to 68. we will get up to room temperature. d.c. up to the 70s in the next couple days. in the midwest, temperatures warming up. 54 yesterday in milwaukee. should be close to 70 this afternoon. chicago also warming up to 73 by this afternoon with mild air looking to settle from wednesday toward the latter portion of the week. >> pedram, thank you. >>> mexican authorities claim they are closing in on el chapo. reports say police and marines stormed a village on sunday w

i want to bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, alison and christine. look at this cold front. the first shot the two punches of cold air to the northeast. as it does, the temperatures will drop 15 to 20 degrees in a few places. in northern new england, 55. it makes it to 50 degrees. that is the temperature across boston. 10 to 13 degrees below what it is this time yesterday. the cooling trend is in place. look at the cool air. cold air settles in as we head in from saturday into sunday. in fact, some high elevation snowfall is possible. on the lighter end. some areas of northern new england could have a couple inches of snowfall saturday into sunday. scattered showers today. the vast majority on the dry side as the large area of high pressure is establishing itself. temperatures in the near 60s is what you would expect for this time of year. you take your high temperature and go up into the mid-90s in little rock. temperatures in the 60s in the northeast. significant cooling ahead of us here. >> thank you, pedram. >>> a wild night in toronto. blue jays

. >> let's go live to pedram javaheri. >> john and christine, good morning. yes, the cold air is felt across the country. a stretch of 1,100 miles from mississippi to new england seeing the frost advisories and freeze warnings in place across the region. temperatures about 10 to 13 degrees below normal. boston, 32. 45 is normal. new york city is 32. look how quickly the cold air departs. high pressure establishes itself. we have clear nights, but clear days. warm air developing over the region. we are talking about temperatures getting up quickly from 53 today in new york to 68 eventually. we get up to room temperature on wednesday afternoon. even d.c. out of the 50s into the mid-70s. in the midwest, temperatures warming up. 54 yesterday in milwaukee. should be close to 70 this afternoon. chicago also warming up to 73 by this afternoon with mild air looking to settle from wednesday to the latter portion of the week. guys. >>> pedram, thank you. big news overnight. not that. why are we showing that replay? that's dumb. that was dumb right there. there was one

pedram, thanks a lot. in the chaos of the oregon shooting, at least one shooter ran towards the danger. he took seven bullets trying to protect others in harm's way. we will share his story when we come back. >> at least one person during the chaos ran into harm's way. he confronted the shooter and tried to stop him. he's a u.s. army veteran who's being hailed a hero. >> reporter: when a gunman open fired at umpqua community colle college early thursday morning, it was a scene of chaos. but chris mintz took three bullets. >> he looked up at the gunman and said it's my son's birthday today. >> but that didn't stop the gunman from shooting h imin the back, sthom stom act, arms and legs. he was shot seven times while trying to defend his seven classmates. mince was a star at his local high school in north carolina. number 71, defensive tackle. after graduation, joining the united states army from 2004 to 2007, achieving the rank of specialist and being awarded a national defense service metada. now with two b

cnn meteorologist pedram jevehari has the latest. >>> let's show what's happening with hurricane joaquinnacing feature parked over portions of the bahamas. the good news, it's starting to trek to the north and east. unfortunately, the indirect impacts with the system toward portions of the southern u.s. going to be significant. you look at the moisture source there across areas of the state of south carolina, we think the plume of moisture essentially exiting this feature, being drawn in by an upper level storm system parked off in place will work together to bring in historic rainfall totals toward portions of the state of south carolina in the next 24 to 48 hours. again, the hurricane itself, the direct impact mainly being associated. the winds packed with it will move away from the coastline. look toward the eastern seaboard of the u.s. 30 million people underneath flood watches and flood warnings at this hour. you go in for a closer perspective, some areas we could see upwards of 10, potentially 15 inches. some model indications take us to the top of the charts, up to 20 inches. if y

. >>> and pedram joins us now.d, just because the rain has stopped doesn't mean the danger is over. >> that's such a serious note to make. it will be sunny in the afternoon in south carolina. the water will want to flow downstream. we saw this in pakistan in 2010. upstream river flooding caused problems down the river. upstream flooding in the gulf of t thailand by the sea level areas. the conditions are not going to improve in the immediate future. look at the before and after images we're getting. you see what it looked like before. look at the significant damage done to some of the property with the water coming. i often talk about getting one foot of moving water on the order of six miles per hour. the lateral force is 500 pounds. the amount of weight associated with the moving water of about 30 centimeters. portions of myrtle beach, wilmington, north carolina getting the last bout in the storm system. the drying condition pushes into this region. it looks like conditions will want to improve, and certainly fan

. >> and pedram javaheri joins us now. the landslides a big worry. when will the storm move off and when it does, where is it heading in. >> at least two days. it's slow. it's lost a lot of steering characteristics around it. it's just going to stall, and it goes toward taiwan to the north. when you measure the storm end to send, even at this hour, a shell of the former self, it measures 1,000 kilometers across. it's massive. that's the threat. that's the danger i'm concerned about when you're putting a half a meter of additional rainfall over northern portions of luzan. some of the communities not able to take on that much water and not see significant damage. take a look at the tropics. this portion of the world typically, the sub tropics toward the equator, inbetween is a hot bed for tropical activity. this is the 20 th category 4 storm in the northern hemisphere. that's a record. about one in every four named storms -- we've had 27 -- one in every four has impacted portions of luzan in one way or another so far in 2015. as the storm system meande

for more, we turn to pedram javaheri who joins us now with more.alking about? the whole area? >> for a large area, and some of the major cities as well along the persian gulf coast. an interesting study. we've seen studies when it comes to extreme weather patterns. this one took it into the middle east over portions of the arabian peninsula and analyzed the greenhouse gas concentrations that would be on the increase as they are right now. they took them up to the year 2100 with the current greenhouse gas emissions. you get the wet bulb temperature. there's a critical number you don't want to get close to. that's 95 degrees fahrenheit. with the wet bulb temperatures at these levels -- with extreme temperatures the low huldty, you sweat. you have evaporating cooling. you bring the temperatures and the humidities up, now you create an environment where the moisture just sitting on your skin. it's not ready available to evaporate because there's too much moistur in the surrounding environment. the do you want is at least at 95 fahrenheit or 35 celsius.

pedram javaheri joins us with details. what do you know?ing a statement talking about september 2015 being the single warmest month observed in our planet. and we go back to 1880 when you talk about global temperature observations. the temperatures between january and september of 2015, record values. note only parts of south america and north atlantic ocean, had temperatures that were below normal, and then you take a look at the rest of the planet above average temperatures. again, look at the 1880 observations all the way to 2015 to the end of the chart. the trend from 1984 has been up. and then you talk about this particular trend as far as the last several months. each of the last five months have been the record warmest across our planet. and the officials actually quite seriously considering that not only has this been the warmest trend since the 1880s but potentially since the year 600. a lot of people wonder how do they know what happened in 600s. well, ice core samples give us incredible data, and tree rings and ocean sediments. t

let's bring in pedram for the latest on joaquin.t. >> absolutely, and because of the amount of people in the path, it's a big story. we're calculating around 80 million people in the path of this storm. about 320 million people in the united states. that's one in every four people impacted by this. it's a big story, and this time of year, the trees have a lot of foliage. put rainfall and the trees weigh down. they can come down. millions could see power outages if it comes toward the northeast. there's a lot of elements to be seen if this takes it toward the most densely populated corner of the u.s. we know the moisture is plentiful in this region. the area indicated with the 80 million people, people are making the preparations, getting your hurricane kits in line and getting yourself ready for food and water. necessities ahead of the storm so if the storm goes in that direction, something you would expect with a storm something this menacing. 120 miles per hour winds. bahamas seeing the brunt of the storm. it's sitting there movin

to get a better sense of how this quake is affecting the area, i spoke with our meteorologist, pedramearthquake was. at the same time, it was felt by some 40 million people in several countries in the region. how is that possible? >> it's incredible. when you think about quakes, and this one was over 200 kilometers deep. when you go down that deep, tremendous pressure and heat in place. these quakes as they occur, generate enough heat to where temperature spikes beneath your feet on the order of 1,000 degrees occur in one or two seconds. that allows the rocks to become melted quickly and then you have the expansion of energy, and then you have a lot of people feeling a quake that occurred in a remote area but extremely deep. >> let's look at this. one of the great ways to understand this quake is how the plates slammed together and caused it to happen. >> absolutely. you think about this particular part of the world. the indian subcontinent is diving toward the plate. it's moving 40 millimeters a year. that's the same rate as your fingernails. these are constantly in motion. as we bri

let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> john and michelle, good morning. the last bounds of rain showers beginning to taper off. myrtle beach to wilmington getting rain showers. high pressure tries to build. we go back to a dry pattern. this does not mean the flash flooding concerns is done with. once you bring the land over the palmetto state, you look at the terrain over the region. talking about the northern portion of south carolina across the appalachian. you have the mountains up 35 feet high. you brings rivers down to the lowlands and marshy areas with the estuaries. you are talking about the waters being a major issue downstream for the communities. we will leave you with this from parts of south carolina. notice some of the areas in the low lying areas that go down the hill into the portion of the tennis court down there. the aftermath shows you the tremendous flooding that took place, especially in the low-lying areas in south carolina. >> the before and after is stunning. >>> new developments in the search for the cargo ship in the caribbean. th

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pedram javaheri joins us to talk about this. the relatives are so upset.t they knew the storm was coming. it was dangerous when they set sail. >> absolutely. i think where some of the confusion was, and you would imagine with an experienced crew, but three hours before is when it was upgraded that it would become a hurricane and track into the area the vessel would go through. it was just supposed to be a tropical storm before that. it changed quickly. but they had three hours leeway to know exactly what was going to happen, and the storm even continued to strengthen after they departed jacksonville, florida. that's what is a concern over this region. we'll show you the gps of the vessel and also what happened. at 5:00 in the morning on tuesday, they departed on the coast of florida. look at the forecast that was expected to be a tropical storm. expected to stay north of the baham bahamas. three hours after they depart, the forecast is now bumped up to a category 2, and then it remains for a couple of days and they had departed. we put the gps and the sate

pedera -- pedram javah raari is here. >> you think about this coming down in a short time period, saturdayunday, it could be devastating for a large area. we'll break down what the forecast appears to be doing over the region. we'll put the maps in motion. hurricane joaquin so powerful, weather observations across the bahamas stopped reporting conditions on the ground. the storm finally on the move, it will begin pushing away. want to show the deep fetch of motion from joaquin moving toward the state of south carolina in particular. a persistent storm system is also pushing toward the southern u.s. notice the conveyor built of moisture that literally is like an onion being peeled off, being drawn into the southeastern united states, precisely why we think the persistent event could be catastrophic as the models bring the narrow stream. some about 60 miles across or 100 kilometers across, the stretch of rainfall working this way. it will continue for a 48-hour period from, say, charleston toward columbia, south carolina, across the state capital. more than 30 million people dealing with flo

pedram javaheri is here to talk more about the situation. >> we so often talk about wind speeds.r rainfall amount. it's the water that's displaced when we talk about storm surge or the water over land are the vast majority of fatalities associated with storms. and remarkable rainfall totals among the highest we've seen from any storm around the world with this. we'll break down what's transpires. incredible the fatalities staying in the 20s. you take a look at what occurred. some of the obser vaguervationo rainfall totals in excess of 28 inches in 12 hours. this is greater amounts than we saw in the state of south carolina for that risk one in one thousand year event. that topped that in 12 hours. these rain gauges record these amounts. they're verifying those, but this would be records for the country as a whole. you look at the global records for the most rainfall ever observed from a single event in 24 hours, back to 1966, 72 inches came down with that storm in 12 hours. that particular storm brought down 45 inches which is the number that you would have to have in the united

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let's bring in pedram javaheri. >> a lot of health quality concerns over this region.00 people per year according to the world health organization lose their lives because of air quality issues and half of that is out of eastern china. i want to show you video out of this region. this is considered hazardous, and few places in our planet in europe and north america have people occurred air quality like this. you would have to be near a forest fire or an erupting volcano to get the air quality to be this high, and this is consistently what people deal with across this region of china. this is fascinating to see how the pollutants are tracked. you see the line here indicating where the pollutants are going to be the highest, and the maps are in motion. about 30,000 meters looking down. showing you the perspective of what it looks like down in the city of beijing. among the highest populated area, and the industry across the region wroorks the mountains don't help. the industry, the population density, the pollutants are trapped because of the land and little in the way o