A pioneer here in the extreme north of siberia above the Arctic Circle hes at the front tier of Ecological Research this is. Huge. In the hour of places ive had now soup in the pope. We get a flu. Shot one more through my vishnu mogens and its in my genes. Are always new i had no notion of i want life to return here the killing of hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of this huge region resemble a biological desert complete scientists are the only species that drive their needs and let. Big hour earlier but youre a bit more but make your more call my building of all those Data Prison Camps and this Government Information of a prisoner very much. And now days a completely different tragedy is unfolding in the melting of the permafrost the vast underground in a sea and that stretches from siberia to alaska more than twenty percent of the planets land area. Most of the words of the world were into money are the only place in the world where you can actually see with your own eyes more than
so within the next couple hours, we ll see advisories stretching over a huge portion from the plains, across the great lakes and getting along the ohio river valley, kentucky included in some of the watches. the temperatures are going to be so drastically cold. these are the future forecasted windchills early tomorrow morning. negative 50 in chicago like we showed. it s not like it warms up quickly when you get into the day. we continue to march this along. stay in the negative 40 range in chicago all day long and across the region. it s cold thursday morning. drift this off to the east. it never gets down to the negative 40s. i ll leave you with this. even if you re not in the areas where you get to negative 50, this is a huge freeze. along the gulf coast, people will be waking up to freezing temperatures. it s going to be cold with hundreds of millions feeling it. shepard: adams clots, thanks. coming up, the crisis in venezuela just got worse.
county in michigan, which includes grand rapids. the was in warmed people that temperatures will drop and frostbite could set in in minutes. i want to show you the windchills. it s dropped to negative double digits in some areas. it s just going to get worse. look at st. louis in kansas city. again, they re windchill predictions. minus 20, minus 26. minneapolis, minus for 9. fargo, minus 57. green bay, minus for 1. look at chicago. minus 50 degrees, the windchill. you know, people, vodka is in the freeze tore keep it cold but doesn t freeze. some of these temperatures are so cold, it says vodka would freeze. why we re talking about that is beyond me. mike tobin, how cold is it? it s pretty cold. the bitter cold air has entered
the landscape in northern siberia as far as alaska must become step again this is still when it s a matter of restoring the original ego system has no shows to do fortunately or was it unspoiled nature regulates the temperature of the permafrost by itself being the sort of album even at forty degrees below zero on the earth s surface the temperature under the snow cover is only minus ten support at the center of this know what is an excellent insulating layer of the ground underneath doesn t freeze right much less than our pastures the animals dig for grass and trample away the snow it s like pulling your blanket off on a cold night you d be very cold it s the same thing used to pull if you resettled large populations of herds in this environment they would trample away the winter snow exposing the ground to colder temperatures and preventing the ice from melting so quickly. even small the days.
ambivalence about the questions of russia. i m thinking of your interview with dana rohrabacher and others. are you surprised that testimony like today doesn t freeze everyone in their tracks? the picture that jeremy paints is terrifying. we know it s just one more event that pushes them toward actually implementing said plan. are you surprised there isn t more of an outcry to get everyone on the same page to protect against this? rohrabacher aside, we have talked to others who are just as outraged about russia s interference and they re feeling pressure because they have a republican president right now. they have constituents to answer to. they want to put this behind them. and focus more on health care and other issues. what they don t realize is that unless they come out and fully condemn and speak out and act the way they act to us behind closed doors this problem will not go away. you even see senator john mccain i haven t seen the health care bill, but i m sure the russians