Youll be all over it for us as always, thank you so much. Monu raju in washington. Thank you for being with us on this tuesday afternoon. Getting word from the police chief there in houston, texas, the first Police Officer fatality in the storm, sergeant perez, 34 years with houston pd. Im brooke baldwin. The lead starts now. Welcome to the lead. Im Brianna Keeler in for jake tapper. Were going to begin with Breaking News in the national lead. President trump arriving in texas. He is about to get a tour of the Operations Center there after stopping in Corpus Christi today. Today there are new warnings to residents. Get out now as a levee is pushed to its limit in houston and harvey continues to relentlessly pour down on the gulf coast. Just moments ago we learned that a houston Police Officer,
sergeant steve perez, was killed in this storm drowning on his way to work on sunday. His police chief overcome with emotion as he was explaining the decision to not go in after him. It was too t
BANGKOK: Thailand plans to deploy 30 aircraft nationwide for cloud-seeding operations to induce artificial rain to battle air pollution and ease dry weather conditions in the main crop-growing areas.
under way after tornadoes sliced through the region including an ef-3 packing winds of up to 140 miles an hour. cars flipped over. livelihoods torn apart. i saw sideways rain, lights flickering. my brain went, oh, crap. reporter: this year there have been 157 tornado reports across 16 states making this the most active january on record. we ve never had a tornado like this in pasadena with this much damage. reporter: with tens of thousands without power in texas, arkansas and missouri, the winter wallop is slamming the midwest. nbc s maggie vespa is there. the snow moving into the midwest overnight making for treacherous road conditions here in indianapolis and causing air travel chaos. flight aware tracking hundreds of cancellations in chicago, dozens of delays in detroit. reporter: now the storm taking aim at the northeast where major cities like new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c. have barely seen any snow at all this winter. boston, a foot less than usual, thoug
made its way into that country. as you guys said this morning some 376,000 people are without power in nova scotia. that storm weakened to a category 2 after really having been a category 4 through much of its projection. the forecasters in canada said that they re expecting anywhere between 6 to 8-feet storm surge and they re calling for two months worth of rain making its way across the eastern part of canada. the shelters, there, they opened earlier this week, and the area there was really getting ready for this significant rainfall that was going to come with the storm. again, some of the damage that we re getting a look at from prince edward island shows some homes there without electricity. we looked at a drn there was a gas station also that was pretty that suffered some kind of damage. fiona has not been the drn has not only set its sights on eastern canada. as we know it s battered puerto
Red Balloon Rock Shelter is located at 1 200 m above mean sea level on the Waterberg Plateau, Limpopo Province. The surface of the deep, dry shelter is strewn with Iron Age ceramics of many facies, and Middle Stone Age (MSA) lithics. It may have been used as a rain-making site from the time of the first Iron Age settlement in the area. In addition to ceramics, there are many ostrich eggshell beads, some worked bone, and seeds that imply vegetation similar to the current vegetation, and the possible use of red balloon (Erythrophysa transvaalensis) seeds as beads. There was, however, probably no agropastoralist occupation within the shelter until the difaqane or just before it. A single preliminary date of 250±80 BP on charcoal from a large hearth supports an interpretation of the shelter as a Tswana rain-control site. The long hiatus between this refugium and the MSA occupation is not geologically marked. The shelter was first inhabited by people close to 100 000 years ago when stone t