if sunspot activity is high it means the density to have proton flow is higher. that's not actually make it hotter on earth. if it were it would be the whole earth it wouldn't be missouri or washington where i live. we do have a warming trend in the climate, but i don't think it's sunspot activity. the nuclear plants must have a continuous flow of electricity. what happened at fukushima daiichi in march of last year is their diazle generators broke down or were swamped by the tsunami. their electrical connections were swamped by the tsunami. without electricity they couldn't tell what was going on in the reactor and the spent fuel pools and they couldn't run the pumps, they couldn't move the vafls. that would be a problem if you had a blackout at an american plant. i have to thank you the 9/11 crew saying this facetiously. one of the things the nuclear plants did after 9/11 was bring in a lot more portable equipment, portable energy storage devices which might be in the form of batteries. might be in the form of compressed air tanks. they brought in hoses, diesel

you'll also find her here at the dermatologist's office with sunspots popping up she comes in to have the first when i see is the big one on my chest, a routine biopsy will show if it is cancers or not. one blistering sunburns like a told rachel can increase your risk of skin cancer by 50 percent and just five sunburns alone can increase your risk of skin cancer by 50 percent and it's alarming that one person dies of melanoma every hour and people just don't realize that. it's not the most common form of skin cancer but it is the deadliest for women between ages 25-30 cancer death. so before the age of 40 it's more likely to be women and after the age of 40 it's much more likely to be men and when it comes to tanning beds anyone younger than 18 who sits inside drives up the risk of melanoma by 75 percent. tan is radiation and inflammation, it's not healthy. that's why she focuses on the young kids that can't form safe sound habits that will protect them. they should between the hours of 10-3 protect themselves and reapply sunscreen every two hours you're supposed to put on at least 2

i believe it is related to this sunspot activity. if you could put this into perspective. >> guest: i would be careful about mixing two different ideas here. if sunspot activity is high, it means that it is not actually making it harder on earth if it did, it would not be missouri or washington where i lived. we do have a warming trend in climate, but i don't think it's due to sunspot activity. what happened in march of last year is that the diesel generators broke down or worse by the tsunami. their electrical connections were swamped him and they cannot tell what was going on in the reactor and they couldn't keep cool water on them and they couldn't run the pumps. that would be a problem if you had a blackout at american plant one of the things that the nuclear plants did after september 11 was bring in a lot more portable equipment and portable energy source devices which might be in the form of batteries and compressed air tanks and they brought in hoses, diesel pumps, and they established the ability to operate during a station'

activity. -- don't think it is sunspot activity.hat happened at fukushima daiichi in march of last year is that their diesel generators broke down, were swamped by the tsunami, electrical connections were swamped by the tsunami, and without electricity, they cannot tell what was going on in the reactor and could not keep cooling water on. that would be a problem if you had a blackout at an american plant. i have to thank muhammad attah at the 9/11 crew -- saying this facetiously, but one of the things they did after september 11 is bring in portable energy storage devices, which might be in the form of batteries, compressed air tanks. they bring in hoses, diesel pumps, and create a station to operate in a blackout. the fukushima daiichi parliamentary commission that reported last week said that it fukushima had those preparations, which we took for terrorism, not a tsunami, they might have avoided much of the damage of the accident. that is not to say that our nuclear plants or in a vulnerable, but the ability to operate and see if

at the same time sunspots and silver spring one half inch of rain. some people did get some welcome rain in other areas. as you can see, it was flooding rain. for the most part tomorrow it will be rain free. this was a very small part of the entire area. the folks in northeast washington those areas that really got flooded, it was like being under niagara falls. i will tell you more in a few minutes. >> abc 7 news is you're storm watch station. for live radar any time, click on the weather page of wjla.com. bob will be back in just a few minutes. >> in other news we are monitoring a developing story from prince george's county weird two firefighters were heard to battling a house fire. this happen unfair would road in landover hills. -- on fairwood road. heartbreak for a montgomery county mother. hours after learning her daughter was murdered. police say sarah greenhalgh was found dead after her car -- after her house caught fire. detectives believe there is far more to this story. autria spoke with her mother. >> absolutely devastated as you can a i

downtown washington sunspots' it was a smoker. that is the variable nature as we get into the summer pattern. unfortunately, we have had showers and thunderstorms in the mid part of the country has been really dry. here is some of the leftovers on the mountains of west virginia. there is another batch heading toward chicago. once again tomorrow afternoon as we go through the day, we may be seeing some afternoon showers and thundershowers. tomorrow morning when you head out, look at the morning low temperatures. imagine how he made it will be tomorrow morning. there will be some fog around, too. as we get into the afternoon the futurecast comes out. there will be some afternoon thundershowers. after today they will be variables. some of you will see some heavy showers and thundershowers. other spots, not much rain at all. temperatures to marron not above 100 degrees. -- temperatures tomorrow not above 100 degrees. finally this pattern as it has happened a few other times does relax and begin to break a bit. the weekend will be only

some have described that as sunspot.ome other areas that you thought might have reflected the data in the past that you remember able to rule out with the current round of research? >> well, the main one was a variation in the sun. there were volcanic eruptions that have affected the climate, and we see those. they're very short-living. a volcanic eruption tends to cool the planet for about three years. we were concerned about effects such as el nino and the gulf stream. those cause variations, too, and we're able to see that, but they were short lived. the remarkable thing is when we took those out, the fingerprint of solar variation was just absence. the shock to me was the carbon dioxide curve was right on. at that point, i was very surprised. i had to been, i'd like to think, coming pleatly open minded, and so when we got that fit in a relatively simple way, in way that doesn't need programs, the curve certainly matches that of carbon dioxide. at that point my opinion finally formed. >> you go on to say correlation i