Right now, only 7 of the United States is covered in snow. Thats even less than this time last year, when 32 of the nation was laced in winter white. Not enough snow means no skiing. Yet. This resort in Washington State has had to wait. Impatiently. To get our show on the road here. Reporter less snow helped make it even warmer this past week. Almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. All of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. While one week or one season can not tell a climate story, a longer range report card was released by noaa today. The subject . The arctic, where records were broken this year. In 2012, there was less snow and more sea ice melting than theyve ever measured before. Satellites started measuring arctic ice in 1979. Since then, half has disappeared. And just this year, 4. 5 million square miles melted away, an area the size of the u. S. And mexico, combined. Melting on the green land ice s
Should welcome back to dateline. John Mcafees Life on the lamb ended when he suddenly pack did but this young lover in guatemala. Wanted by authorities in belize for questioning in the murder of greg faull, mcafee told reporters he was now seeking political asylum from the persecution he suffered there. The announcement created an international Media Frenzy back in the states, Faull Family believe the press was chasing the wrong story. Back to Keith Morrison with the fugitive millionaire. For weeks after the murder of greg faull, we and much of the World Press tried to find the elusive john mcafee. A spectacle which for greg Faulls Father and stepmom was pretty hard to take
When we arrived in the strip of island that was his paradise in november 2012, the american expats seem to be waiting for something to happen. Everyone knew police were searching for the man they believe knew something about the murder of Greg Faull but John Mcafee seemed to have vanished. Although it didnt mean reporters were not hearing from him. I am holed up in a place where the ive never experienced that before. Joshua davis who is writing an article about mcafee at the time was among the first to get a call. Mcafee told davis he had a young woman with them. She is quite the soldier. Samantha. Shes been with me the past couple of months
We were in one of your boats. Was he watching us and the police too hoping we might lead them to him . Can you tell us anything that will clear up questions about what happened over that course of that weekend, the one your neighbor was killed . We traveled a long way for the Phone Call and still no closer to laying eyes on him than where the belizean police. Then, days after the call, Mcafees Blog reported he had been captured in mexico. No, that turned out to be false. On december 4, 2012, nearly a month after Greg Faull was murder, mcafee announced he and his young female companion had crossed the border to guatemala. Why here