king tides, it will be higher than this. but this is essentially showing you the places that are going to be affected first. the important thing is to keep observing what s happening, look at all the ranges and projections, and then come back to the policymakers and say here s the actions you have to take. the southeast florida climate change compact has been created to monitor and help mitigate the harsh consequences of climate change. they re not sticking their heads in the sand. they know this is a real problem. there s so much more to the story. i know we re in south florida, miami-dade, but broward county under the gun, too. all the big cities across the country that are along the shore. new orleans, tampa, ft. myers, up the east coast, all very close to the shore, the water is risin rising. when the water rises, there s more erosion, there s more higher water tables and more problems. this is not over. in fact, it s just starting. back to you. chad myers, thank you very
the president never said i m never no way going to build this pipeline. he said that there were environmental concerns and that he was putting the decision off until after the 2012 election. one of the big concerns, for example, was the routing of the pipeline through nebraska which was over some very critical water tables. now it s been rerouted. the governor of nebraska now approves of it, so the problem is these environmentalists are extremely worried that the president s attentions are divided on this. at the same time they were having this protest, the afl-cio and the american trol pe troat m institute were having a conference call about launching a propipeline campaign called we can t wait. there are two very important groups, environmentalists on one side, organized labor on the other, fighting about this. who does he like more? that s going to be a big question. there s a lot of money on both sides in terms of campaign contributions and support, but i
the henhouse essentially. so there is a lot of investment in telling people, you know not telling them anything, right? chemicals are looked at like trade secrets, so you put tons of chemicals potentially into the water table, and you re not telling them because it could help the competition. look. there are real environmental challenges with fracking. they are real. they are measurable. we are getting a handle on these, but the idea that they are infecting water tables is a bit overwrought. we ve had 40,000 fracked in the country. the epa has has found one example of some sort of water table activity in wyoming. even they re not sure about that one. it seems the water table now, a greenhouse gas effect of loose methane, that s real. in terms of water that sle coming up, recyclable water
rescuers. cats and dogs, the water just didn t discriminate. they literally left in their pajamas in bare feet grabbing whatever they could and just getting out. that s how quickly the water came in and that s how dangerous it got. we re told what happened was that a levee for the hackensack river broke around midnight last night and that s when all this water rushed in. people around here are used to flooding. this is a part of new jersey that floods every year when there s rain and the water tables start to rise. they re used to it here and could not have expected this and were not told to evacuate or were in a flood-prone zone. not like the flooding they re used to. usually they see the water table rising a little bit. this just came in like a river all of a sudden on these streets. good news is though the federal government had search and rescue crews on the ready in this part of new jersey before the storm even hit so they were able to get here relatively quick. the national guard
some levels. it will recharge the ground soil a little bit. it will bring the water tables up. and it will possibly even help boost the size of his soybean crop. but it is certainly not going to dig out the drought situation for the corn farmers, all across the midwest. however, what we re expecting from isaac, the remnants of isaac, throughout the day today in through tomorrow, those will be moving through the midwest all the way over toward the ohio valley, possibly producing some severe weather along the way. in fact, this labor day weekend cities like indianapolis have canceled the parade and some of the associated events out of fear for flooding and severe weather. so, with this could come flash flooding, but we re not expecting anything like what we saw certainly this week, the devastation there along the gulf. reporting from taylorville, indiana, i m meteorologist julie martin. alex, back to you. julie, thank you so much. new today, president obama s marking the second anniv