meteorologist pedram javaheri has the latest. >> good morning. eastern seaboard is active.he tropical system is here. the rainfall amounts not tremendous amounts. the winds are a concern in new jersey this afternoon. 50-mile-an-hour gusts. working up the eastern seaboard and winds gusty. rainfall totals, 1 to 2 inches. in the metro cities, less than 1 inches. you could see pockets of 2 inches of rainfall this afternoon. back to the west, cool and dry air in the inter mountain west. put it together and the wednesday forecast for 20 million people on a scale of 1 to 5, the highest risk is a 3 for areas in st. louis and memphis for severe weather. you cannot rule out isolated tornadoes and the season as we call for the month of november for severe weather. 58 tornadoes per month for november on average. not out of the woods yet. >>> pedram, thank you. russia now suspects terrorists could be responsible for blowing up a plane with 224 people on board. the new information in that investigation next. >>> russia seems to be reaching the same conclusion of the agents. the crash was

pedram javaheri joins us to talk about this. it's incredible. last week you were noting that the storm is heading to yemen and now a twin storm not too far away. >> i looked into how many tropical cyclones in that area since the 1980s, about 150, and about a dozen have worked their way to the arabian peninsula. none of them had made their way toward yemen as a hurricane strength storm. we had one last week and another one this week. pretty remarkable. it's almost like trying to make a shot in basketball from full court twice in a row. we'll break down exactly what is happening here. north somalia, top of your screen. this storm was a cat dwoir theg. if you're in tune with what happened across yemen. violence across this area, and it's disrupted communication and the electricity grid. there's only eight weather observations in the entire country, and since of them are inoperable. take a look at the pattern. made its way up to a category four last week. this particular one goes farther into the gulf. we're talking about 1-2 inches of rainfall per

let's get the latest from meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> alison and john, good morning.outheast is inundated with rainfall. the past six days, 6 inches of moisture in atlanta. you peel back the calendar, the last time atlanta did not see rainfall on the 30th of october. it has rained all but one day. the streak will come to an end on tuesday afternoon as we get into sunshine before rain showers return thursday into friday. scattered showers from the southeast out toward portions of the atlanta metro with millions under flood watches and warnings. the models push the storm system out of the area. tapping the tropical moisture. we are watching tropical depression 12 poised to become tropical storm kate. there will be heavy rainfall across caicos. look at this, boston, new york, washington, warmer than atlanta. atlanta sitting at 51 for a high temperature. >>> pedram, thanks. mystery solved in southern california. a bright light streaking across the night sky rattled nerves over the weekend. police were flooded with calls and social media flooded with media of the strange l

pedram javaheri joins us with the details. >> this study finds landmark observation that we know ourperatures on a planetary scale have increased one degree celsius. two is the important number. and that causes a widespread issues across planetary wide across major population areas. want to show you what's happened in 2015. take a look at the observation points. never before has a year ended or began at such a warm note. take a look, many of the recent warm years have come in just the past couple of years across this observation. but sea level is certainly going to be on the rise as conditions have warmed to this point. if nothing is done at this point, we make it up to about a half a meter increase in sea level conditions. if we continue to pump the greenhouse gases at the same level, observations bring the numbers up to over a meter increase over a global scale. some images to share. this particular one out of the new york city area of stock exchange. you see the bowl, the temperatures go up 2 degrees, and by the time we get up to four degrees, some of these areas subsubmerged. lon

and our meteorologist, pedram javaheri, joins us from the international weather center. to be stranded than bali. >> i was thinking that as well. this is a pretty active area of the world. we know as far as volcanic activity, this region of the world, 13,000 islands. you're talking about an hour that's comparable to the continental u.s. within these islands, there are over 150 volcanos and the density is among the highest in the world. when you consider this, every 32 kilometers is how many volcanos are lined up across the region, across the entire area. you go down for a closer perspective, you can see the smoke associated with it as it moves to the city where the volcano ash that has disrupted some of the air traffic. we want to show you why this is a serious concern. when you think about the aviation industry, we've seen this back several years ago across parts of europe. a dangerous scenario was it contains and consists of rock and glass. this gets drawn into a part of the engine. it's heated, and it melts down and becomes molten glass and exits out the backside of t