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good evening. we begin with another big bulletin about the record-breaking heat and the melting at the north pole. a new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. and it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the united states. as the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. abc abc s meteorologist ginger zee tells us what s going on. reporter: nearly snowless in december. right now, only 7% of the united states is covered in snow. that s even less than this time last year, when 32% of the nation was laced in winter white. not enough snow means no skiing. yet. this resort in washington state has had to wait. impatiently. to get our show on the road here. reporter: less snow helped make it even warmer this past week. almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. all of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. while one week or one ....
illusive snow leopard. in one very unlikely place. the mountains of afghanistan. announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is nightline, december 5th, 2012. and good evening, i m cynthia mcfadden. we begin with breaking news in the increasingly strange case of american software multimillionaire john mcafee. wanted for questioning in the central american country of belize for his neighbor s mysterious murder. tonight, in guatemala, he was arrested for entering the country illegally. the same place where earl-year-old today, our team tracked him down for this exclusive interview. here s abc s matt gutman from g guatemala city. reporter: it is the latest in the bizarre tale of john mcafee. the software tycoon who s been on the lam for three weeks in a cat and mouse game with authorities in belize. tonight, mcafee was arrested by immigration authorities in guatemala s capital. how have y ....
the platform. the judge denied davis bail. he admitted to police he stayed on the platform watching the man get struck by the subway. the long search for two missing iowa cousins apparently ended in heartbreak. the body of two little girls have been discovered by huntersen a wooded area not far from where the cousin were last seen. 11-year-old lyric cook and 9-year-old elizabeth collins disappeared outside ride tharg bikes. many who parade for their safe return gathered for a sad vigil last night instead. overseas to the philippines where the death toll from a powerful storm reaches the unthinkable. 350 have been confirmed dead. hundred more missing. 200 of the victims died in the valley alone. including 78 villagers and soldiers swept away in a flash flood. that s where entire families were lost. hard to speech the little kids struggling. extreme weather like this has some people asking whether it is the result of climate change. well they also point to the melti ....
and boy band bust. the biggest teen stars on the planet, one direction, the wanted, justin bieber, all passed over for grammy nominations in a stunning shutout. the guys everyone wants for their boyfriend, can t win this one thing. and elizabeth starts off the morning with a ding right there. i know. i think i deserve two or three. channeling lara spencer, just back from london. everyone back at the desk right now. we re going to be helping robin trim her tree at home later today. but a lot to get to first. new reports on how close syria came to using chemical weapons this week. they actually loaded the ddly gas on to bombs, prepared for launch. and martha raddatz is going to have the latest on that. that s a frightening development, something president obama took very seriously. we have a warning this morning that all parents with infants need to here. federal authorities are taking an unprecedented move of suing the manufacturers of infant recliner, saying t ....
good evening. we begin with another big bulletin about the record-breaking heat and the melting at the north pole. a new study shows a global thaw under way, affecting everyone on the planet. and it comes today as we learn how little snow there is here in the united states. as the temperatures here keep rising and the records keep falling. abc abc s meteorologist ginger zee tells us what s going on. reporter: nearly snowless in december. right now, only 7% of the united states is covered in snow. that s even less than this time last year, when 32% of the nation was laced in winter white. not enough snow means no skiing. yet. this resort in washington state has had to wait. impatiently. to get our show on the road here. reporter: less snow helped make it even warmer this past week. almost 700 record high temperatures have been set in the past five days. all of that will contribute to 2012 likely becoming the warmest on record in the lower 48. while one week or one ....