and america reaches farther into the unknown. we ll take a look at that. a good friday morning to you. i m craig melvin here in new york. hackers are taking credit for a interrupt of microsoft xbox. does not appear related to the original hack. this happened on the same day the controversial comedy the interview opened in select theaters. sony had said it would not release that film after threats from a group identifying itself as hackers prompted the country s largest theaters to pull it. i m joined now from los angeles by gina kim. here s the thing, man, this christmas day, timing could not have come worse, at a time when people were opening those xboxes, opening those playstations. what s the latest on this particular outage? the latest is a group called lizard skwaquad is taking responsibility for the outage on twitter, on social media at least. but that has not been confirmed. nor do we know the cause or reason. this was not the same group that attacked sony in the f
climate change, whether that made the storm bigger or changed the way it happened, but what we do know is that the sea levels are already higher than they were historically because of climate change. when there is a flood or storm surge, it s much higher than it was or would have been previously. all right. well, from the huffington post , kate shepard, thank you. appreciate it. thank you. donald sterling may have come up with an exit strategy in its battle with the nba. what does the league s top star think about it? will you help us find a new house for you and your brother?
in national monuments. those are threatened by wildfires and flooding. there are a variety of impacts across the country. they re all either caused by or exacerbated by climate change. kate, what can the government do, if anything, to protect the sites? when you think about climate change, there s always a best case scenario and worst case scenario. if we look to the end of the century, we could see something like two feet of sea level rise or something like six feet of sea level rise. that depends on what trajectory we get in terms of emissions. if we lower our emissions hopefully we can control the level in the next century. i m curious with regard to specifically say hurricane sandy and its effect on the statue of liberty. did we see a cause and effect there? well, you know, there s still a lot of scientific debate and research happening not the fact that the storm is affected by
is looking at whether the recent high number of controllers is in any way a factor. tom costello, washington. an alarming report of the long term effects of climate change spells trouble for this country s monuments and historic sites. the report called national monuments at risk details 30 of them, including the statue of liberty, may be irrepresent ran bli damaged or lost forever. there will be places that we will no longer be able to visit in the future unless we do something about this. the huffington post is joining us. welcome, kate and good morning. this threat has so far been ignored in the world of climate change assessment. do you think this gives the problem a whole new perspective knowing that there s a large sweep of literally our american history that could be lost? right. i think that s why this report is really significant, because it connects with places that people in the u.s. can visualize, they may have visited it, they know why it s important
welcome to weekends with alex witt. here s what s happening right now. we have a developing story overnight. seven people are dead, seven others wounded in drive-by shootings in southern california. it happened near the ile vista university on the santa barbara campus. the motive of the shootings are unclear. it happened around 9:30 west coast time and be continued at 9 different crime scene locations. no shots though were fired on the university s campus. the deputies approached the crashed vehicle and determined that the suspect within that vehicle was dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. a handgun was recovered from within that vehicle. again, this area is called isla vista. it is known for its parties that will turn into a spring bash that turned into a confrontation between police and the people that live in the community last month. a rough start to holiday weather. this was the scene at charlotte, north carolina. hail appeared dropping golf ball siz