you show those pictures, and it s the orange color. why does the smoke not look gray? it has everything to do with the sun. the sun contains all the colors of the rainbow, and those contain short wavelengths and some other colors contain long wavelengths. the smoke blocks the shorter wavelengths, the blues and greens, only allowing those red and orange colors to pass through. so that s why when you see the smoke it does have that red and orange hue. of course it is a lot more dramatic once we get into the evening hours and then the early morning hours when that sun angle is lower. i want to show you this is what we re dealing with when you have that smoke. as jim was talking about, you can barely make out the skyline here. visibility less than a mile, less than a mile new york right now. we ve had ground stops at various airports because of the thick smoke. and so it s basically just blanketing all of the northeast and portions of new england, and it s going to continue. we have very u
we re right behind you. with increasing sun angle. god, that s a big beauty. gigantic crater. look at the mountains going around it. my gosh, they re monsters. there s a big mother over here, too. get another picture of that big fellow. look at those craters in a row. see them going right out there? there it is. it s coming up. what? the earth. see it. yeah. beautiful. right over the lem. boy, does that ever look beautiful. apollo 11. we sure do, houston. one burn just normal at all get out and everything is looking good. it was like perfect. burn time 557. 60.9 by 169.9. that burn report was by neil armstrong. roger, we copy. the spacecraft is looking good to us on telemetry. apollo 11 on its first lunar revolution. you got a good view there,
that needs to get to the other side of that road, it is absolutely impossible. there s no way to pass that. this is just one specific road. we have already seen a number of other images not of that road but in the area. when you look at damage like this, erica, i mean, it is stunning. it is and another thing i d like to point out is that it is the middle of winter just about. and that means that the sun angle is extremely low in this part of alaska even in southern alaska. you are getting minimal daylight at this point. so that means that it s going to get dark which makes it s harder to see road impediments, areas flooded because of the damage and the aftershocks producing those waves. and when you have power outages, of course, that becomes an even bigger concern. the sun sets very, very early this time of year. here in new york it s before 5:00 so we re probably already looking at sunset in alaska within the next hour or two. i mean, imagine that. people losing their power.
department. here is the perspective. a ridge of high pressure out to the west, temps in los angeles well into the 80s the next couple of days. while on the opposite end of the perspective, 10 to 20 below average. and that pattern really short-lived here. we know the days are rather long. also the sun angle quite high as well. a mild setup as we go in towards saturday. look what lines up out there towards the northern portion of the u.s., guys that is going in from sunday into monday of next week. potentially another cold spell at that point by tax day across pars of the eastern u.s. so it looks like spring is still going to be delayed. we don t like your weather report. all right. thanks, pedram. hopefully it will be different next hour? i hope so, maybe. we ll see. pedram, thank you. still ahead here on newsroom the head of facebook on the hot seat. how will mark zuckerberg do in front of the u.s. congress? we ll take a look. en almost eveg so we know how to cover almost any
i think we ll probably be seeing especially grassy areas maybe 6 to 10 inches of snow. dana: you re saying i should not have put my snow boots up on the highest shelf. before you make those decisions, you should ask me. dana: is there another storm comeing? sunday/monday we re watching the potential for another one. the good news about march snow is the sun angle is high enough that the snow can t hang around all that long. so that s the bright side. dana: you re all welcome here. thank you very much. dana: good news or bad. a live look at the white house as we await the daily briefing. we ll bring that to you as soon as it starts. plus, all eyes on the midterms. when the balance of power could change in congress. and with so much at stake, both parties are reaching out to a critical voting block. i m proud to report hispanic unemployment now remained at or below 5% for the longest period of time ever recorded. you re doing very well. that s good.