Download April 11, 2016

Students: This is Mrs. Irwin's seventh-grade English class from Scott City, Kansas, and
Channel One News starts right now!
Arielle: Thanks to Mrs. Irwin's class for starting off our week. Now let's take a look at
headlines. And first up, we head to Brussels, Belgium, the site of last month's terror
attack that targeted the airport and subway.
Now, nearly a month later, the frantic search for a suspect seen in airport video is finally
over. Belgian prosecutors finally have the so-called “man in the hat.” They say he is
Mohamed Abrini, one of the terror suspects rounded up in raids in Brussels on Friday.
Authorities say Abrini admitted that he is the person in surveillance video seen next to
the suicide bombers in the Brussels airport. Abrini is also linked to the Paris attacks last
November. He was caught on a gas station security camera with terror suspect Salah
Abdeslam two days before the coordinated attacks in the French capital.
Abrini is one of four men charged in Belgium Saturday with participating in terrorist
attacks. Thirty-two people died last month at the airport and at a Brussels subway
station. Belgian police carried out more raids over the weekend as they look for
additional suspects.
Over the weekend: a historic visit in the country of Japan. Secretary of State John Kerry
arrived in the Asian country to meet with foreign ministers, and he became the first
secretary of state to visit Hiroshima, the site of the world's first nuclear bombing.
The secretary of state arrived in Japan on Sunday to attend the annual meeting of G7
foreign ministers. Upon landing he was greeted by U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy
and Japanese officials. The meetings are being hosted in Hiroshima, Japan, the first
populated city in the world to suffer a nuclear bomb attack over 70 years ago.
Near the end of World War II, the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and then
Nagasaki, Japan, a few days later, killing more than 140,000. Today the focus of the G7
meetings is about to how to build a world without nuclear weapons. Secretary Kerry
became the highest ranking U.S. official ever to attend a memorial service at the
Hiroshima Peace Park.
Moving on to the country of India, more than 100 people were killed in a massive fire
that broke out in a temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala. The fire started
yesterday morning. A spark during a fireworks display ignited a separate batch of
fireworks that had been stored in the temple for the Hindu New Year coming this
Thursday.
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Thousands of people were at the temple around 3 a.m. celebrating a festival when the
flames erupted. Ambulances arrived, but the blaze spread within minutes, trapping
hundreds inside the building. Most of the deaths occurred when the building where the
fireworks were stored collapsed. Another 400 people were injured in the disaster.
All right, that is a wrap of headlines. Coming up: From tornadoes to hurricanes to floods,
we get an up-close and personal look with extreme weather in our Climate Change
series.
Arielle: Today we continue our Climate Change series, but now it is getting a little
extreme. Each year weather, water and climate events cause about 650 deaths and
$15 billion in damage in the U.S. — some pretty alarming numbers. Keith Kocinski
travels across the country to check out climate change's impact with some crazy
weather.
Keith: Alaska 2014 — kids had their winter fun in gravel instead of snow.
Boston 2015 — the city was blasted by four blizzards in one month, busting the
snowiest record and burying parts of the city under six feet of snow.
New York City this past Christmas — people wore T-shirts instead of winter coats.
Feeling the whiplash? Well, this extreme, unpredictable weather could become the
norm.
Sarah Cohen: Climate change is causing a lot of unfortunate, disastrous impacts around
the world.
Keith: A report studied 28 extreme weather events like droughts, heat waves, floods and
wildfires around the world in 2014. Half were found to be made worse in part by climate
change. Scientists say climate change doesn't create weather events but intensifies
them.
Some people say, “Well, how can the planet be warming? We had such a cold winter.”
What do you say to that?
Deke Arndt: That is an easy thing to misunderstand. The weather in your backyard for a
short period of time isn't necessarily going on around the world all the time.
Keith: Several recent studies suggest that melting ice in the Arctic is changing water
currents, which in turn is changing the jet stream — that is the river of strong air
currents that circle the globe. Researchers say the jet stream in the Northern
Hemisphere is slowing down, leaving weather events in places longer, and becoming
wavier, making weather less predictable.
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Dave Robinson: Everything slows, and with it weather patterns persist over areas for
longer periods of times. That could make a wet situation dangerously wet. It could make
a heat wave dangerously long.
Keith: Longer, hotter stretches — deeper freezes — more rain- and snowfall totals.
Scientists say the hotter the globe gets, the more extreme the weather.
With climate change, do we expect to see an increase in extreme weather across the
country and across the world?
Arndt: The weather that we experience is still governed and will still be governed by the
same physics that kind of governs our weather now. The role that climate change will
play in big weather events like this is how often do the ingredients come together and in
what ways and at what times of the year, what times of day. You know, those are the
types of changes that we are likely to see.
Keith: It is how those ingredients come together that makes it tough to predict. The way
scientists put it, there is a confidence scale. There is a high confidence that climate
change affects extreme hot and cold temps, like the heat wave in India last year that
has been blamed for thousands of deaths.
There is medium confidence that climate change is linked to more rain and snow and
severe droughts, like the mega drought in California. And on the lower end of the
confidence scale: hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes, meaning there is less evidence
there is a clear link to climate change.
Arndt: Climate change won't change the ingredients that come together to make
hurricanes, but it may change how often they come together, when they come together,
where they come together.
Climate change is already bringing more episodes of big heat, which is very dangerous
in the summer, and big rain, which can produce the flash flooding, which are consistent
killers in the United States. So those are two facets; there are many kind of facets to
climate change, but those are two facets from an extreme weather standpoint that we
need to keep an eye on.
Keith: And over the next few days, we will show you how scientists are keeping their
eye on extreme weather and meet people already feeling the impact. Keith Kocinski,
Channel One News.
Arielle: And to learn more about climate change, check out our Extreme Weather
Simulator, where you can intensify tornadoes, create a winter blizzard or even program
cyclones. It is all on ChannelOne.com.
All right, after the break: one lost pup that is seeing the stars.
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Arielle: Tom is here with me now with a pretty interesting story about a lost toy's bizarre
trip.
Tom: Yeah, Arielle, one furry mascot made a long journey into space, but he never
returned. And now social media is asking the world to help look for Sam the stuffed dog.
The last time anyone saw Sam the stuffed dog was Tuesday, just before he sailed
15 miles into the atmosphere attached to a helium balloon and a GoPro camera. Sam is
the mascot for the Midland Hotel in Morecambe, England, named after a real English
sheepdog that belonged to a previous hotel owner.
As part of a science project, kids at a local school made a miniature version of Sam light
enough to go into space. But somehow he broke loose.
Ben Berry: I was horrified when Sam wasn't on the payload when we received it. We
knew where it was because we tracked it by GPS, and we get there, and Sam is no
longer there.
Tom: Now the children hope to find Sam.
John Luca: He's so important because he went into space.
Teacher: We really would like our Sam back; he's the most important thing.
Berry: As soon as the kids knew that Sam was missing, they really wanted to get
involved, and they actually came up with some missing posters with Sam the dog, and
they've got them all up over the town.
Tom: The search has spread worldwide through social media and the #FindSam.
Berry: Now, I promised that Sam would come back safe, so it's really important that we
get Sam back as soon as we can.
Tom: Tom Hanson, Channel One News.
Arielle: A reward is being offered for whoever finds and returns Sam: a free night’s stay,
including meals, at the Midland Hotel. I really hope they find him. It kind of reminds me
of the movie “Toy Story.”
All right, guys, that is it for today, but we will see you right back here tomorrow.
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