andrew schwartz, good to see you again. we were talking about what was then the snoiest december on record and then zilch. >> thank you for having me on jessica, it is the weather whiplash that we have been having that took us from amazing december and the driest periods we have ever seen. >> the amount of snow we did get. that's not going to get us out of this drought. we are nowhere near what we should have gotten. is there a chance to giver us enough of the situation we are in with this snowpack. >> the wonderful big december but since december we only had about 41 inches of snow and that's about 19% of what we would expect. so, we are quite far down as far as what we would hope to gain and it is not look like we are going to be making that up with these snowfalls. >> we saw the wildfire burned in the sierra from one side to the other. we saw a lot of ski lodges burning, we saw it right there in the ski area. is this something that could realistically going forward and impacting the sierras. >> absolutely. what's a littl

andrew schwartz. thank you for your time today. let's start by talking about this year's snow survey. how bad is it? >> it is not looking terribly hopeful, to be honest. we are 23% below average. and further, with these record temperatures we are seeing, we are looking at a snow melt completely within the next two or three weeks, unless we get a bump up in the form of note -- another snowstorm or two. >> i do not think it is in the forecast. is this an indicator of how things will go? >> well, unfortunately, that december through march. bama is where we get --. bama is where we get rain and snow. it is really not looking that we are going to be able to make up the difference unless we change drastically. the short term forecast is not looking too great. anchor: was there anything you were most surprised by or alarmed by? >> i think just the absolutely crazy weather whiplash we have seen recently. we had the second largest october here on record. and the deepest december on record here at the snow lab going back to 1970. yet, we had

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, t wheno the technology around bitcoin, they don't trust it enough to use it every day. >> gadi schwartz, good to have you here today. thanks so much. >>> up next for us, we'll catch up with a family who's inspiring america by helping others who were once in their shoes >>> a historic moment for major league baseball san francisco giants assistant coach alyssa nakken becoming the first woman ever to coach on the field during a regular season game. it happened after the first base coach was ejected from the game. nakken also the first woman to have a full-time coaching job in the mlb >>> and finally, an update on a story we first brought you in 2016 about a boston nonprofit that finds a home away from home for families of seriously ill people traveling for treatment. now the two families we met have built a bond that's inspiring america. here's kristen dahlgren >> reporter: when we first met baby oliver huffman in 2016, severe intestinal problems led to dozens of surgeries. >> i think it still can bring tears to my eyes >> reporter: his parents were living with strangers to be near his ca

all thanks to these simple trees of the sea gadi schwartz, nbc news, baja, mexico >> learned a lot there. >>> up next, we're there for the surprising and uplifting moment for a high school that's been through so much. >>> finally, some good news for the students of marjory stoneman douglas high, the florida school with a painful past. our kerry sanders reports on the surprise that was music to their ears and is inspiring america. >> reporter: how do you prove the worst day in your school's history is not who you are? teachers at marjory stoneman douglas tell students every day, never forget the 17 victims. honor their legacy by doing your very best. >> i have somebody special to introduce to you. >> reporter: today in parkland, florida, members of the marjory stoneman douglas marching band found out they're going to the biggest stage in the world. ♪ >> the stoneman douglas high school eagle regiment has been selected to represent the great state of florida and perform in new york city in the 2023 macy's thanksgiving day parade [ cheers and applause >> reporter: stoneman douglas one of on

with our series, "the new normal," as the country looks to emerge from the pandemic tonight, gadi schwartz takes us back to a california high school that we first visited last year as students race to catch up after covid derailed their education. >> reporter: in mrs. louise ollano's third period at el cerrito high school outside san francisco. >> how much is he going to get a refund of >> reporter: students learning about taxes take a quick break to teach us what life is like these days. how many of you rather be in class than on zoom pretty much everybody. some of the most drastic changes are obvious. campus covid testing, masks which were still required during our visit, cell phones that seem to be everywhere how many of you guys are having more trouble concentrating now than you did during the pandemic? >> during distance learning, there's a lot of dependence on technology i think for me personally i haven't really left that >> it feels better to be around these people instead of looking at people on screens. >> reporter: educators say that face to face instruction is critical as they

gadi schwartz, nbc news, san salvador >>> up next as we continue tonight, love and money.he new twist on an old scam in the time of cryptocurrency. test test. test. >>> we're back now with our series, crypto universe. as digital currency like bitcoin explodes, so are crimes tied to it federal authorities are now expanding their efforts to deal with it, including one scam costing americans millions here's pete williams >> reporter: steve belcher of denver recently divorced and single again found someone on a dating app who seemed like a good match after several weeks of messaging she mentioned bitcoin and a website he could use to invest in it. he didn't want to miss out on another hot prospect after failing to cash in on apple and google >> i was like, wow, if i would have got in earlier on these technologies and this business, you know, i would have done okay at this point in my life. >> reporter: so he started sending the website money and getting payouts as he watched the value of bitcoin skyrocket. he poured more and more in and the website showed his bundle ballooning

here's gadi schwartz. >> then, there are others >> reporter: from tv to social media, crypto hype is in overdrive. >> fortune favors the brave. >> reporter: beyond the celebrities and influencers, some of the biggest groups buying in are marginalized communities. >> is this a new avenue for black wealth >> reporter: often pushed away from traditional banking, excited for an alternative. >> the traditional banking system is not friendly to poor people that's simple. >> reporter: the lopez family has reason to mistrust they say they were part of the wells fargo scandal when the bank opened up accounts in customers' names without their knowledge and their parents almost lost their family home after getting locked in to a piggyback mortgage with another bank with a 12% interest rate. >> it was just getting frustrating each time. i was, like, screw it, you know check out the crypto stuff. >> reporter: after a small investment in bitcoin the twins amassed nearly $100,000 now they are bullish on the potential for others in the community. >> it saved our family. >> reporter: roughly 7.1 mill

was the people, sihanouk, the king kings over 400 of cambodia, the king from this tale by eugene schwartz explains to gerda that he is not eric the third desperate, but eric the twenty-ninth snow queen . right frederick ii in the photo sanssouci palace from the buildings we will play 600 in 2016, right in the middle of the amur , they held a russian-chinese match in this game, maybe there is no water floor. okay , that's right, ice hockey matches have been going on since then, well almost every year sergei will play 800 last years 10 the world's largest exhibition of such games are held in los angeles. let it be computer. we will play for 400. in 1945, the match for the title of the world champion in the game go, for security reasons, was decided not to be held in tokyo and moved to this city in hiroshima quite right , the game was on the day of the bombing, but it was held in the suburbs and all participants remained alive, we will play for 200 .here are the bags. here in the bag, to whom alexander is in your account 500 2.100. artyom has 3.300 you can’t bet with sergey, so artyom artyom

gadi schwartz has their story. >> reporter: they're a symbol of the season, ukrainian ester eggs calledt because of the war in ukraine, many here are now discovering special meaning in these elaborate designs, which are said to represent strength, renewal and eternal life for ina kozar and her family, things like baking sweet bread and decorating pysanka now represents comfort that's because she fled ukraine just as the bombs started to drop, making the journey with her daughters anya and sophia, crossing the border into poland, and ending up with family in pennsylvania, grateful to be alive. >> they should bring people together in hope and a bright future and the best future for ukrainians >> easter is a symbol of rebirth. we have to forget our previous plans and understand that we have to make new one and like have a new life so we can help ukraine better >> reporter: sarah bahir is an ukrainian artist and found over the pysanky for peace project. struggling to make sense of the war, she started workshops to raise money for humanitarian efforts in ukraine she calls it a labor of love

michael schwartz is another new arrival — an architect from stuttgart.f building his own german community here in hohenau. but when nobody would move with him, he decided to pack up and come alone. many people tell about vaccination, but this is not the main thing for me. i want to have blue sky. not so much clouds, cloudy, and not so much rain. and i want warm weather, and i want to do many things outside. and, of course, tax. ok, taxes. taxes is a big problem in germany. many people say in germany, we have the most taxes in the world, but the money is not put in for the people who live in germany long time. corona changed many things. 0k. over one million people lost their companies. so the pandemic, the situation with the pandemic played a role in your decision to come to... but the methods are the problem, not the pandemic or corona is not the problem, because what they do is wrong. they destroy the infrastructure. and what about the vaccination rules? what do you think? yeah, vccination is now a big, big problem, that you don't, erm, allow to critic

. >> schwartz who yesterday spoke with twitter employees along with john gagly carty. but first, dan ives of web bush telling me moments ago that in light of the breaking developments, twitter's stock will open down at the opening belmond. web bush telling fox business, quote: it's a predictable, defensive measure for the board to go down that will not be viewed positively by shareholders given the potential dilution and acquisition-unfriendly move. the board hases the back against the wall, and musk and share holders would likely challenge the merits of the poison pill in the courts. this gives the twitter board some time to now run a strategic process, dan ives says, and find another buyer outside of musk which remains a challenge although private equity likely interested, which reuters reports it is. he finishes by saying we believe musk and his team expected this poker move which will be perceived as a sign of weakness, not strength, by the street. let's bring in charlie gasparino. charlie, what's the word on the street about all of these developments? >> this is a

here's nbc's gadi schwartz >> reporter: bitcoin no all right. just cash. bitcoin? no okay bitcoin? >> no. >> no. okay bitcoin? no in surf city this is one of the major draws for tourists in this area. so far every single store we've asked, no one's accepting bitcoin. it's been seven months since the president of el salvador declared bitcoin as legal tender. >> the evolution of human kind so we're going there >> reporter: so far the first country to adopt bitcoin as currency has seen confusion, glitchy transactions, fluctuating prices that have left most salvadorians slow to adopt. as foreign investors watch the president declare a state of emergency over gangs all facing questions over human rights here the president continues to use bitcoin as a rallying cry against dependence on the dollar just put in cash put in 200 bucks across the country bitcoin atms convert into digital currency. we got our money, 2 1/2 hours later, $ 199.01. not sure where the 99 cents went but money is on our phone. >> reporter: survey shows 14% of businesses made sales with bitcoin. el salvador says any n

joining me now is nbc news correspondent gadi schwartz.katy, this is one of those solutions that's literally been hiding in plain sight. it is absolutely mind-boggling how incredible mangroves are at captuing carbon from the atmosphere. five times faster than rainfests storing up to 50 times more carbon than normal forests we see on land. he with wanted to head down to baja, mexico to see them in action firsthand. hidden along mexico's baja coast an emerald oasis, home to one of the most underappreciated organisms in the world. so everything green that we're seeing around us here, these are all mangroves? >> yes. this is one of the largest forests in mexico. >> reporter: biologist monica franco says this untouched wetland is a true ecological wonder. people that might be used to seeing mangroves, do you think they fully appreciate what they're capable of? >> no, you don't think so because they don't understand that they have all these superpowers to fight climate change. >> reporter: one superpower? the ability to capture about five times

a very well known hover law professor islander schwartz came up with the checking bond theory and he said, so what happens, for example, if a tourist, as a ticking time bomb a small nuclear bomb in times square and the bon sticking. and we only have so much time, we must torture. and then you know, the show 24 of course started every segment with that giant clock ticking away. and it kind of gave visual reality a visual imprint that resonated with this discussion of ticking time bomb. in addition to the way that it framed our reception of torture on a popular level, just among the civilians in guantanamo itself, they were getting pressure from the department of defense and they have these meetings. and in the meetings they screened the 2nd season of $24.00 and use that as a jumping off place to decide what tortures what methods they were going to propose to donald rumsfeld that they would use against the people they were holding in. guantanamo, i think was very influential on the people that i worked with. i. i know that some of the techniques that people wanted to use they had, they

wish you and your loved ones all the best that's it for "nbc nightly news" for this sunday i'm gadi schwartz. from all of us here at nbc news, we hope you have a wonderful night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

alla pugacheva you are right. if for 200 in this play by eugene schwartz the main anti-hero adviser theimself is afraid he will stop the supply of edged weapons and the neighbors will break me the snow queen. right. well, our first round is over, i'm summing it up 1.200 for pavel 400 dmitry 2.5 thousand. victor has the second round ahead. look create. see you on central television the red level of the terrorist threat has been declared. well, who and why blows up the situation in the republic? who owns the information owns the world? is it possible that elon musk, who bought the social network and wants to become the future president of the united states, or the eccentric billionaire, decided to aim for something more palm oil. now an unaffordable luxury, the people of all countries demanded to ban it, but it just ended. and now what? why the dream of healthy lifestyle fans can turn into a food apocalypse for the entire planet. this will be your central television today at 19:00. mask final tomorrow at 20:40 on ntv without treatment, the fungus can be contagious for loved ones mycoderil

the shot of the day belonged to charles schwartz old. the 2011 masters winner.k at this approach shot. in the air, on the green, and into the cup. how about that. he is tied for fourth, seventh off the lead. over to scotty scheffler. came down to earth a little bit on the back nine but still managed to hold onto the lead. the great approach on 17 sets up another birdie. scheffler finished with a 71, 3 up on cameron smith heading into the final round. as for tiger woods -- >> i couldn't get a feel. i couldn't get a feel for getting comfortable with the ball. posture, feel, right hand, my release, i couldn't find it. nothing seemed to work. even as many parts as i hit, you would think i would figure it out somewhere along the line, but it just didn't happen. >> tragic news at a florida this morning. duane haskins has passed away at the age of 24. he was struck by a vehicle early this morning. he had a standup career at ohio state, leading the buckeyes to a big ten championship and rose bowl victory during the 2018 season. he was drafted by the washington commander

you heard him there again, schwartz says. this latest round of the wet stuff could stretch the existing snow pack a little further in figure , which be good news from one weather expert to another meteorologist, roberta gonzalez , is here with the details on the next round of rain. we're expected to see how roberta great interview there, greg nice and you know the key thing i got out of that, and it's absolutely spot on is that the beneficial rains are not going to really facilitate the drought, but it definitely puts a damper on the fire season for the short term. now this month, we are going to have more rain in the month of april than we have in january. that be worried and march all combined from the system tomorrow, up to an inch, perhaps even more precipitation than another one late monday night into tuesday, another one late thursday into friday, and those are some nice rainfall totals alive, whether camera looking out towards mount diablo. 3800 ft, tall and just a few high thin clouds. some serious clouds drifting by,

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