radiation exposure, in new mexico. this is carlsbad here. this is the city of carlsbad, and if you go east, almost duest, go out route 62, this is the wipp, the place where the dump happened. i don t know if you can see these dots. everywhere you look? if you zoom in, every one of these has an oil derrick on it. i mean every single one of them. hundreds and hundreds. but here is this wipp where they you can see this waste plant. nuclear waste just dumbed out here, and it s a big spot. you can see all the different silos and buildings. congress authorized the facility to serve as a safe site for radio active waste disposal. this new leak is the first of
hour and they should keep cool. we ll see what happens. reporter: i can t imagine anything worse than that. nowadays there s iphones and ipads and way to distract them. thank you, katy. the weather channel s paul goodloe joins me now. i see there s your map. tell me where you re focused right now, paul. right now we re still watching the rain push across the northeast but also new england, back side though seeing snow down here where we are in atlanta on the back side of the storm system because the temperatures continue to really plummet behind this tamron. you zoom in and across lts mid-atlantic, this is the changing zone. we re seeing some freezing rain and sleet and rain changing to snow as you head through west virginia and western virginia. in new york city, a cold rain and snow not too far off to the west of you. plenty of rain through most of maine, higher elevations seeing
one of the concerns they have, they work with villagers to keep hunters and even airplanes, even a polar bear could spook them and cause a stampede. it actually can lead to the death of the younger ones that can t get out of the way. that looks like pebbles on a beach. i thought it was first. you zoom in and realize walr walruses. i m no scientist but i m taking the over on 10,000. is he making a betting game out of this. science. you know what time it is, it s time for indra petersons. keeping track of the latest forecast for us. i know you ve been happy. it has been gorgeous outside. temperatures today the same as they have been the last several days, 10, 15 degrees above normal. it will stay that way through friday. even though it s staying warm, we are going to be talking about changes. all of that thanks to not just the high pressure but notice what it behind it. we ll see a front making its way through from the midwest to the northeast. as we go through tomorrow, lo
sunnis live and portions in gray are where shia are predominant. it s a randomized distribution. if you zoom in on syria, you will see a small minority of shia who have been running the country and that is the third point. syria is the last of three great minority regimes in the middle east. the first were christians in lebanon. second sunnis of iraq and third alwhites in syria. the colonial powers favor a minority group as allies. the reason they chose a minority was obvious. that group would always need the help of an outside colonial power. so what can we draw from history about syria today? well, over the last 30 years we have seen revolts against the three minority regimes. it was a 15-year civil war that
joined up with egypt to create a new country, the united arab republic and then seceded from that republic three years later. in 1963, the baath party organized a coup and that is the beginning of the syria we now know. borders were drawn arbitrarily. that s true through much of the world. but what s more important regarding syria is that its borders contain many different communities and sects often not thought of themselves as one nation. consider the division between the shia and sunni, the two sects. they begin with a fascinating map. portions in white are where sunnis live and portions in gray are where shia are predominant. it s a randomized distribution. if you zoom in on syria, you will see a small minority of shia who have been running the