Now becky quick. We begin with the weather we cant change it or improve it, though we can complain about it but as Steve Liesman found thanks to big data and supercomputers meteorologists could make predictions with greater accuracy and that could have a huge impact on local economy. Better weather is this weeks cover story. Reporter in develops companies, our smartphones warn us, but people around the globe lack even basic forecasts. But with super compute going ibm launched graph, a forecasting model. It says that graph will provide accurate forecasts not for a few places, but for the entire world. This model is named after the ancient god that ruled the super sky. It puts 12 trillion pieces of weather data every day for 26 million location around the world. The super computer is so fast, this massive model provides new forecasts every hour were getting down to kind of the Cellular Level of the thunderstorms now where we werent able to do that before and with that information we can
Has a new title this week. Political fiction author. Thanks for joining us for getting answers today. Im kristen sze. Indeed andrew yang is becoming a familiar figure in the bay area. Just last month he was here attending the premiere of the movie love in taipei. This week he has a new book out. Its a political thriller called the last election. When hes not in town right now, but joining us live to talk about his latest book and president ial politics, andrew yang. Good to see you, andrew. Good to see you, too, kristin. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. Okay. So i just checked because im like that, but this is number one right now. New release in political thriller on amazon. Did you know this . I did. Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy. Its based on my experiences running for president. I thought i could give people an inside look and also scare people a little bit. Entertain and scare because whats coming around the pike in our president ial politics may not look the way
But that was almost seven deees higher than normal. And Scientists Say its due to Climate Change. Now locals have to contend with a new danger avalanches. Our reporter went to norway to find out why the arctic is heating up faster than the rest of the world. Reporter the Svalbard Archipelago is covered with ice, snow, and glaciers as far as the eye can see. At first glance theres no obvious sign of the drastic climatic changes taking place here. But the arctic is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the earth. The appropriatelynamed isfjorden or ice fjord west of the island of spitsbergen, no longer freezes over. Now fishermen catch salmon and mackerel here in the winter. In the past they could only do that further south. Kim holmen of the norwegian polar institute, says whatever the causes, the current warming of the arctic is unprecedented. Kim we see quite a few results that point to the fact that it is unlikely that we can explain the entire warming of the last 30 yea
Little known group called donors trust, backed by the koch and others, it has also built a vast network of rightwing online Media Outlets in socalled free market think tanks. Then, brave miss world. Miss world 1998 is one of these girls. And miss world 1998 is ms. Israel. Little did anyone know that miss world had just been raped in italy. Today she is become a global advocate for victims of sexual abuse. Rape is so isolating because even if you tell people what happened, friends are free to mention it. We will speak with the director of great miss world, cecillia peck, daughter of the legendary actor gregory peck. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. United nations investigators are calling for syrian leaders suspected of murder and torture in the countrys bloody crisis to face charges at the International Criminal court. The latest findings by investigators probing the conflict accuse both sides of war cr
People will start to believe it. We want people to keep more of what they earn regardless of wherever they live. Residents in huetax states race to go prepay their property taxes for the new year. My home state of new york, people are definitely hurting. This is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. It is thursday, december 28th. 6 00 in new york. Bill weir joins me. Another big newsday. Interesting day. Former Senate Candidate and accused molester roy moore is fighting back. Hes filed a lawsuit to stop alabama from certifying today the democratic doug jones was the winner of the special senate election. Roy moores attorney alleges Election Fraud and is calling for an investigation. Youll remember moore lost to doug jones by more than 20,000 votes two weeks ago but has refused to concede. In another twist, moore said he took a polygraph test over Sexual Misconduct allegations and claims t