[siren blaring] police officer: i need traffic stopped, southbound 10. steve pyne: fire has been on earth as long as plants have been on land. police officer: follow me! follow me! steve pyne: but we get a big shift when a species arrives who can start fire at will. police officer: go, go, go, go! go south! steve pyne: i think humans have been changing the earth for a long time. police officer: come down this way! come down this way! steve pyne: we ve lost the ability to understand how fire works and how it can be used to our advantage. police officer: [indistinct] the fire has jumped the road. this is bad. steve pyne: we ve mismanaged fire. now we get fires that are really off the scale, shouldn t be here, shouldn t be behaving in this way. and now we re left with these monsters. and it is remaking the world. police officer: (voice breaking) it s all bad up here, brother. it s all bad. oh, my god. [thunder crackling] welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. scientists s
Believed to be in this situation where the ice on the ground is going to flow into the sea and theres nothing we can do to stop it at this point. Reporter eric gouth is part of a Scientific Study that is proving Antarctic Ice is on the move. This here is the object of your affection . Absolutely. Reporter hes part of the extreme ice survey that uses timelapse photography to document whats happening. Images snapped every hour and then strung together show how quickly the glaciers are flowing. These pictures arent just useful for science, they have another purpose. Much of the general public are visual learners, as am i. I think being able to see that with your own eyes is a very compelling way of communicating information. Reporter arguments over the causes of Climate Change may be raging again at home. Here suggestions of a hoax come up against some cold, hard facts. Ken taylor, the ice scientist, normally drills miles deep into the icecap for answers. Sometimes, though, theyre floatin
Deep. 200 feet wide. That issue prompted water managers to stop using the main spillway. That meant water in the that meant water in the lake. Swollen from all this winters storms. Started coming over the emergency spillway. The emergency spillway is just dirt and rocks. And with all the pressure from the water level so high. The concern. Especially yesterday. Was that the dirt and rock could collapse. And that would mean a 30 foot wall of water would come charging down this dirt hill. Some into the feather river. But tons and tons would keep coming downstream. Flooding towns as far south as marysville. 30 miles south of the lake. We are also now learning. That environmentalists raised concerns ayears ago about the stability of the emergency spillway at the oroville dam. But state officials insisted. The structure was safe. This is what the emergency spillway looks like today. Water is no longer spilling over but you can see the damage it left behind from this weekends spillover. Back
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley the president s adviser on National Security may not have much job security. Late today white house councilor Kellyanne Conway said the president had full confidence in Michael Flynn, but minutes later the white house rushed out a correction saying mr. Trump is evaluating flynn. This is all about conversations that flynn had with russias ambassador to the United States before the president was inaugurated. It can be a crime for a private citizen to negotiate with a foreign government. Heres our chief white house correspondent, Major Garrett. North korea is a big, big problem, and we will deal with that very strongly. Reporter as President Trump and canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a News Conference, National Security adviser Michael Flynn, his job hanging in the balance, joined other senior white house officials in the front row. Mr. Trump ignored shouted questions about his confidence in flynn as he left the east room.
Are reporting hundreds of them. Theyre refugees from the middle east who were legally admitted into the United States, but now they worry their legal status could be revoked. Canada has a more welcoming refugee policy. This syrian family youre seeing now crossed on saturday through the woods into quebec. The Canadian Border agency says there were 369 such refugees from the United States in november, and in december there were 591. President trump said recently that no one knows whether Climate Change is real, but hes keeping an open mind. Well, Mark Phillips has something to consider from the bottom of the world. Hes in antarctica for our climate diaries. Reporter high summer in antarctica. An explosion of life when the deep freezer warms up to become just a refrigerator, and an explosion of Scientific Research when the antarctic reveals the secrets that have been locked in its ice. Theres something going on. Theres something obviously going on. Its very clear. Reporter ken taylor runs