Good evening. We begin with another big bulletin about the recordbreaking heat and the melting at the north pole. A new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. And it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the United States. As the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. Abc abcs meteorologist ginger zee tells us whats going on. Reporter nearly snowless in december. 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
He admitted to police he stayed on the platform watching the man get struck by the subway. The long search for two missing iowa cousins apparently ended in heartbreak. The body of two little girls have been discovered by huntersen a wooded area not far from where the cousin were last seen. 11yearold lyric cook and 9yearold Elizabeth Collins disappeared outside ride tharg bikes. Many who parade for their safe return gathered for a sad vigil last night instead. Overseas to the philippines where the death toll from a powerful storm reaches the unthinkable. 350 have been confirmed dead. Hundred more missing. 200 of the victims died in the valley alone. Including 78 villagers and soldiers swept away in a flash flood. Thats where entire families were lost. Hard to speech the little kids struggling. Extreme weather like this has some people asking whether it is the result of Climate Change. Well they also point to the melting ice at the north pole. Abc meteorologist ginger zee has more. Repor
The platform. The judge denied davis bail. He admitted to police he stayed on the platform watching the man get struck by the subway. The long search for two missing iowa cousins apparently ended in heartbreak. The body of two little girls have been discovered by huntersen a wooded area not far from where the cousin were last seen. 11yearold lyric cook and 9yearold Elizabeth Collins disappeared outside ride tharg bikes. Many who parade for their safe return gathered for a sad vigil last night instead. Overseas to the philippines where the death toll from a powerful storm reaches the unthinkable. 350 have been confirmed dead. Hundred more missing. 200 of the victims died in the valley alone. Including 78 villagers and soldiers swept away in a flash flood. Thats where entire families were lost. Hard to speech the little kids struggling. Extreme weather like this has some people asking whether it is the result of Climate Change. Well they also point to the melting ice at the north pole. A
Good evening. We begin with another big bulletin about the recordbreaking heat and the melting at the north pole. A new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. And it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the United States. As the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. Abc abcs meteorologist ginger zee tells us whats going on. Reporter nearly snowless in december. 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
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