Coming out of biscayne bay onto the streets until its about a foot deep. People go, oh, we broke a sewer main, or a water main broke thats not what it is, thats Sea Level Rise. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff toyota now formally admits it misled consumers and regulators over unintended acceleration problems in its cars that triggered global recalls. The auto maker agreed to pay 1. 2 billion the largest such federal penalty ever imposed on an auto company. Well take a closer look at the case right after the ne
Surprised that we have the longest coastline of any state save for alaska. And when it comes to beaches, the state of florida by far has more beaches than any other state. But because we have so much exposure to the oceans the atlantic on the east, the gulf of mexico on the west we are particularly subject to Climate Change that the earth is heating up. Now, why is the earth heating up . Well, there is the effect known as the greenhouse effect, and what this is, if you put certain gases into the atmosphere that are as a result of manmade efforts so, when we burn things like oil and coal and we dont scrub out a lot of the stuff, it goes into the atmosphere well, one of the things that goes into the atmosphere is Carbon Dioxide. And what Carbon Dioxide does is it goes up into the upper atmosphere, and it forms this greenhouse effect by creating an invisible shield that what happens when the sun rays come and strike the earth at daylight, those rays then reflect off the earths surface, an
Coming out of biscayne bay onto the streets until its about a foot deep. People go, oh, we broke a sewer main, or a water main broke thats not what it is, thats Sea Level Rise. Ifill those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff toyota now formally admits it misled consumers and regulators over unintended acceleration problems in its cars that triggered global recalls. The auto maker agreed to pay 1. 2 billion the largest such federal penalty ever imposed on an auto company. Well take a closer look at the case right after the ne
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Introduce you to the former miami dade commissioner cady. Aty sorenson [applause] thank you, dan. It is a pleasure to be with all of you this morning and especially to introduce this distinguished panel. It has been almost three years to the day since the deq visited us in miami dade county, so we nancy hereo have today. Now a recovering county commissioner i recall speaking about how miami cities are in between the biscayne bay and everglades ecosystems, and the land can only be considered high in miami but it is really see level. A more accurate way to describe these arid it is dry because we have pushed down the water level through an elaborate system of canals so that we would have land to build upon. Even though it would be hard to convince our residents even though we get 60 inches of water every year during the summer months, and that water continues to be an issue in south florida. I also spoke about how pushing billions of gallons of fresh water to make this part of florida ha