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Data from three major climate-tracking groups agree: The combined land and ocean surface temperatures hit new highs this year, according to the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United Kingdom's Met Office and the World Meteorological Association.
Even with the planet gunning for new global heat records, not all regions sweltered year-round in 2014. For instance, parts of North America suffered from extreme cold in January and February. That said, there were plenty of places where heat records fell this year. Here is a look at five places that will help push 2014 into the global warming record books.
Australia: For the second year in a row, Australians saw heat records topple from the Gold Coast to the Coral Coast. The country kicked off January with an extreme heat wave; temperatures soared higher than 120 F (49 C). Heat waves in the autumn (March to May) and spring (September to November) also drove temperatures into the record books.
Eastern Pacific Ocean: Toasty temperatures developed in the eastern Pacific Ocean, despite an El Niño that never appeared. The heat was especially notable off the western coast of the United States. Fishing boats spotted species well north of their range, such as a giant ocean sunfish offshore of Alaska. For the global ocean, the September to November sea surface temperature was 1.13 F (0.63 C) above the 20th century average of 60.7 F (16.0 C), surpassing the previous record by 0.11 F (0.06 C), according to NOAA.
Siberia: Central Siberia defrosted in spring and early summer under temperatures more than 9 F (5 C) above its 1981 to 2010 average. Ice on the Ob River began to break up two weeks earlier than normal. The heat may have unleashed methane gas trapped in previously frozen permafrost, triggering underground explosions that formed spectacularly deep holes.
California: The long-running drought in California was made worse in 2014 by record heat. The first 10 months of 2014 were the warmest in California's history since 1895, further burdening the state's water demands.
Northern Europe: The same weather pattern that froze North America in early 2014 brought an unusually warm spring to countries including Denmark, Norway and Turkey. The sultry spring was the warmest in a century or more in these countries. In addition, January to October was the warmest 10-month period on record for Central England since 1659, and the warmest such period for the Netherlands since 1706.
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There's a pizza and Prosecco festival coming to Cambridge and it looks amazing!
Pizza AND Prosecco? Heaven really is a place on earth.
Lets face it, pizza and Prosecco are probably the two best things in the world, so what could be better than bringing them together for a festival based around the the ultimate food and drink duo.
The Pizza and Prosecco Festival will be stopping off at Cambridge on Friday November 24 2017 as part of its national tour of sixteen major UK cities.
Cambridge Junction will be the back drop for this glorious event which pairs the bubbly charms of Prosecco with the deliciousness of freshly baked pizza.
Upon arrival ticket holders will be presented with a Prosecco cocktail as well as their very own Pizza and Prosecco bible.
You will be able to enjoy over 20 different types of Prosecco, including a variety of sparkling cocktails, whilst you devour delicious home cooked pizza from a range of traders including; Doughboys, Ffwrnes, and The Original Goodfillas.
Prosecco will be served from The Tiny Tipple Van, ensuring that every drop is perfectly suited to every bite of cheesy goodness.
As well as all of this there will also be live music, pop sing-a-longs, and local traders who will be able to delight more than just your tastebuds in this miniature one day festival.
Pizza and Prosecco Festival goers will be able to snuggle by the heaters and under blankets as they enjoy the sounds of live music, and flowing booze.
The final furlong of tickets has just been released, and cost £15.99 each. You'd better hurry they are selling out fast!
[16:00:00] FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The government is open for business for now. But the clock is ticking. Democrats and Republicans have just 19 days to agree on a bill to fund the government past February 15th. And if they cannot, the president has threatened to use executive action to fund his border wall.
And while the U.S. government has reopened, the damage is already done. That historic shutdown cost the U.S. economy at least $6 billion, according to a new report by S&P. Standard and Poor global ratings. That is more expensive than the president's request for the border wall.
So was the shutdown all worth it? And where do things go from here? Lawmakers on both sides weighing in this morning.
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R), MAINE: Shutdowns are never good policy, ever. They are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be. We cannot have the threat of a government shutdown hanging over our people and our economy.
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), MINORITY LEADER: We all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. We all know it's a strategy the American people abhorred. And that's why the president had to cave, but we also want to make sure it never happens again, whomever is president, whomever is in Congress.
WHITFIELD: Let's check in now with CNN's White House correspondent Boris Sanchez.
So, Boris, the Trump administration not at all backing down from this threat to bypass Congress, get the president's border wall going.
BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Fred. The president is determined to get funding for his long-promised border wall. So for some time now, the White House had been looking at different avenues of securing funding for the wall. One of them would be to declare a national emergency, to get funding that way. It's an option that the president has had on the table for quite some time, but he hasn't take than step. In part because there's no guarantee that it would work. Democrats have openly said that they would challenge that attempt by the president in court.
The other avenue is essentially securing excess funds from other government agencies, forfeiture funds from the Department of Treasury, certain funds from the Department of Defense, but ultimately sources indicate that that would be just a couple of drops in the bucket that the president is asking for, for border wall funding, that $5.7 billion demand from the president. And so ultimately, for the president and his team, it's back to the drawing board and threatening yet another government shutdown.
At this point, it's unclear exactly what the president would get this time around if he were to shut down the federal government in about 19 days for the second time. Mick Mulvaney, though, the acting chief of staff, says that the president is set on getting funding for his wall no matter what it takes. Listen to this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is the president really prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks?
MICK MULVANEY, ACTING CHIEF OF STAFF: Yes, I think he actually is. Keep in mind, he's willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. He does take this very seriously. This is a serious humanitarian and security crisis. And as president of the United States, he takes the security of the nation as his highest priority. He doesn't want to shut the government down. Let's make that very clear. He doesn't want to declare a national emergency.
SANCHEZ: Now Mulvaney insisted that the president still wants $5.7 billion for wall funding. He says that border security experts have told the president that's what he needs. Though, Mulvaney did say that the president is not married to that figure. He wouldn't provide, though, any other number that the president would simply accept to allow the federal government to reopen or to continue staying open without the threat of a shutdown looming -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: Boris Sanchez at the White House, thanks so much.
All right. Long-time Trump associate Roger Stone says he's not ruling out cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. On Tuesday, Stone will be arraigned in Washington, D.C., on multiple charges, including witness tampering, lying, and obstruction.
His indictment draws a connection between him, the Trump campaign, and WikiLeaks for damaging information on the Clinton campaign. Stone denies the charges, calling them politically motivated. And now President Trump is attempting to distance himself from Stone, tweeting this in part, "Roger Stone didn't even work for me, anywhere near the election."
Stone, who has repeatedly said he would not testify against the president, now says he's open to testifying.
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC NEWS ANCHOR: Any chance you'll cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller if he asks?
ROGER STONE, FORMER TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISER: You know, that's a question I would have to -- I'd have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion. If there's wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that I know about, which I know of none, but if there is, I would certainly testify honestly. I'd also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the president. It's true that we spoke on the phone, but those communications are political in nature. They're benign. And there's certainly no conspiracy with Russia.
WHITFIELD: CNN justice correspondent Jessica Schneider joining me right now.
[16:05:02] So, Jessica, Stone continues to talk ahead of his court appearance.
JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: He does, Fredricka. It's really been a flurry of outspoken interviews for Roger Stone ever since his 6:00 a.m. arrest Friday and subsequent release on bond. But it's possible that the judge Stone will actually face in D.C. on Tuesday, her name is Amy Berman Jackson, she could possibly put an end to his interviews. That's because she's overseeing the cases of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. And she's previously put in gag orders in place on those.
So Stone, though, what -- in all these interviews, in the meantime, leaving that door open to cooperating with Robert Mueller, and also shedding a little bit of light on who that senior Trump campaign official might have been who was directed to ask Stone about any upcoming releases from WikiLeaks in July 2016.
Stone saying, sure, it could have been Rick Gates, the former deputy campaign manager to Paul Manafort, but since Rick Gates has been cooperating with Mueller for the past year since pleading guilty, Stone suggesting, well, that Gates might be feeding this information to Mueller and Stone has said that Gates might be lying since he doesn't have any recollection of any conversation with him.
Now, to note, Rick Gates' lawyers have said that he is not the senior Trump campaign official referred to in this indictment. So that's also an aside. And Stone also insisted in interviews that he has no idea who may have directed that senior Trump campaign official. So that's Stone.
But another person blasting the air waves today, person one from that indictment, Jerome Corsi. Corsi is a longtime friend and associate of Roger Stone. And during the campaign, Corsi predicted that WikiLeaks would be leaking more and more documents. And it's also alleged in the indictment that Roger Stone actually directed Corsi to get in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to get some of those e- mails.
Corsi has said he has never been in touch with Assange and instead was just a good predictor and also says that he is willing to cooperate.
JEROME CORSI, FORMER STONE ASSOCIATE: I'll be happy to testify. I suspect to be subpoenaed. And I'll let the testimony fall wherever it falls. I'm going to tell the truth to the best of my ability. Even that's hard given the amount of information and the fact that I've said from the beginning I'm not a human tape recorder. You can't push a button. And I can't recall precisely in detail granularly conversations, e-mails, events from 2016, but I'm going to do my best to tell the truth without calculation of whom it benefits or whom it detracts.
SCHNEIDER: And Jerome Corsi says he's already been talking to Mueller's team, been interviewed multiple times.
Fredricka, he says he's already sat down for 40 hours of interviews. So he's been talking to the special counsel, but Corsi and his lawyer, they do not believe that Corsi will be indicted in this -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: All right. Jessica Schneider, thank you so much in Washington.
All right. Let's talk further on this. Joining me right now, national political reporter for the "Washington Examiner" and CNN contributor, Salena Zito, and the senior editor at the "Atlantic" and CNN senior political analyst, Ron Brownstein.
Good to see you both. All right, let's begin with Russia and Roger Stone, and where this is going. Stone, you know, now saying he's open to the possibility of cooperating with the Mueller investigation, you know, and talking. He says he's willing to tell the truth and he has nothing to hide.
So, Ron, is he changing his tune, or is it just the way in which he is speaking?
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: That's really a great question. I mean, certainly the tone today was a little different than it has been. Whether it leads to anything substantive going forward, I think you'd have to be dubious. I mean, If there's anyone certainly who has signaled that they do not intend -- or in fairness to him, from his point of view that he doesn't have anything that he believes is incriminating toward the president or others in the campaign, it's Roger Stone.
I would -- I think the larger point, though, is if nothing else, over the past couple of years we have learned that we don't know what the special counsel knows. I mean, the capacity of the special counsel to surprise us has been really unbroken. And probably unprecedented for a major story in Washington in the period that I've covered national politics. And it's just very hard to predict where this is going because I think we have repeatedly, you know, seen, even as recently with the Michael Cohen story, where we're not even sure what exactly they were disputing, that the attempts from the outside to get -- you know, to understand is really like reaching into a black box. And it kind of -- it does kind of behoove everybody to kind of be patient and allow the special counsel to unfold -- unspool what they have learned.
WHITFIELD: And in recent "Washington Post" polling, you know, supports, you know, Democrats who have said they're opening a range of investigations of Trump and his campaign, you know, as it relates to the ongoing investigations, et cetera, including, you know, connections with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. However, that same poll, you know, shows that only 40 percent believe Congress should begin impeachment proceedings.
So, Salena, does that indicate that people, you know, are, indeed, willing to be patient as Ron speaks of and wait for the results of the Mueller report?
[16:10:01] SALENA ZITO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes. Yes, I think sometimes we underestimate how the willingness of people to be patient with this process. I think Mueller has shown to be very deliberate, secretive in a good way, and in terms of keeping everything, you know, close to the vest. And you know, and prosecuting or investigating this in a way that leaves no stone unturned. No pun intended about Roger Stone.
ZITO: Sorry about that. But you know, I think Ron is right. There's a lot of things you can speculate from a lot of different actors, the sort of moving parts as part of this process. But I think it behooves all of us to just sort of pay attention to the signals that Mueller does send us, and I don't know that the American people really want to have not only the Mueller investigation but a multitude of other congressional investigations.
WHITFIELD: You know, an indicator of why things changed.
WHITFIELD: In elections. So, Ron, you know, speaking of Stone turning and all that, you know, is there a scenario in which it appears as though, you know, he would be willing to kind of cut a deal, you know, with the Mueller team, given he has been so defiant but now that he says, you know, yes, I'd be willing to talk, speak honestly, you know, particularly because the prosecution rate is so high, more than 90 percent for federal prosecutions in terms of convictions.
BROWNSTEIN: Yes. Right. Well, you know, the Mike Tyson rule applies to legal proceedings as well as anything else. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. Right? So if, in fact, you are looking -- if in fact you are looking at some pretty clear -- what seemed to be some pretty clear-cut examples of misleading testimony and potential jail time for that, that can change anybody's calculus.
You know, and so we're going to have to see exactly how he responds to the pressure that the special counsel can bring. And, you know, different people have responded so far in different ways. And we're not even -- you know, we don't even know. We don't know how what Michael -- how Michael Flynn, how he's cooperated, for example, versus Paul Manafort, who seemed to be cooperating and now facing a new round of charges.
BROWNSTEIN: Then he's not. And -- but going back to Salena's point, I think your distinction there, Fred, is the right one. I mean, you know, I'm not sure that people -- people have not signed up necessarily for a big drive on impeachment or removing the president from office, but I think there's no question that they wanted more oversight, more checks and balances, and that the fundamental bet that Republicans in Congress placed over their first two years, that if they basically abandon any oversight and focus on working with the president to move forward an agenda the voters will reward them, I think that was precisely what voters rebelled against.
And I think you see will -- all indications are that you're going to see much more vigorous oversight over a variety of issues relating to the actual execution of government from the House. And that will be a very different dynamic. And we'll have to see how the president responds to it. So far his response to divided government has been more, not less chaos.
WHITFIELD: All right. We'll leave it there for now.
Ron Brownstein, Salena Zito, thanks so much, both of you. Appreciate it.
WHITFIELD: All right. Still ahead, Senator Kamala Harris about to formally kick off her presidential campaign rally in Oakland, California. You're looking at live pictures at that rally. How will she position herself in an already very crowded Democratic field?
We'll take a look and we'll take you there live, next.
[16:18:09] WHITFIELD: At any moment now, Senator Kamala Harris will appear at an official launch rally for her 2020 presidential campaign. That rally is being held in her hometown of Oakland, California.
CNN's senior national correspondent Kyung Lah is in Oakland where Harris is expected to lay out her vision for the country.
KYUNG LAH, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, we're expecting her to speak in just about 30 minutes or so. The warm-up act, if you will, that's on stage right now is a local high school band. This has been a very Oakland focused rally so far.
The crowd here has been extraordinarily diverse. This is just one section of the crowd that you can see. And in here is the Kamala Harris coalition. You can see that it is incredibly diverse. It is very representative of Oakland. But beyond just this one area, the entire park -- and this is a square that sits just outside Oakland city hall, it is completely packed. They're still working on getting people inside.
The city block surrounding this area are also completely packed with people. I've been speaking to some of the people who are waiting in the crowd. A lot of them have been lined up since 6:00 this morning just to get in. The reason they want to be here, they say, are intensely personal reasons. Many of them feel that Kamala Harris is the future, that she bears the biography who is best poised to take on Trump.
And therein lies a narrative of what we are anticipating will be the speech that she is giving to this crowd. She is going to be unabashedly populous in her campaign. I want to show you the five points that the campaign has said she will touch on in this rally speech as she kicks off her 2020 campaign.
She'll be talking about Medicare for all, a middle class tax cut, access to education, that includes universal preschool as well as debt-free college, criminal justice reform, extraordinarily important to this former prosecutor, as well as fighting climate change.
[16:20:10] I want to bring you back live out here as you look at this square. This is the city of Kamala Harris' birth. This is where she was born. This is where for many decades protest movements have been born in the city of Oakland, from the Black Panther Movement to Black Lives Matter. And this is also where she started her prosecutorial career, standing and saying she is Kamala Harris for the people.
Fredricka, that is also going to be her campaign slogan. So again we're anticipating that she'll begin speaking in about 30 minutes. She believes she will separate herself from the pack by sharing her biography and saying that she is best poised to take on Trump -- Fred.
WHITFIELD: And, Kyung, why you mentioned, you know, behind you on the stage has been, you know, a local high school band, do you have any kind of clarity on some of the speakers or who might be introducing Kamala Harris or if she's going to simply introduce herself when she comes out?
LAH: I don't know. I mean, that's basically the short answer. We simply don't know. The campaign has said that it is going to be heavily Oakland focused, that that's what she wants this to be. And that's very much in line with her campaign. That she doesn't want some, you know, fancy speaker. She doesn't want to seem that she is above this crowd. That she wants to be community based, and that is very aligned with her campaign.
WHITFIELD: All right. Kyung Lah, we'll check back with you. Thank you so much.
Of course, we'll be bringing you Senator Harris, her comments live as it happens when it begins there in Oakland.
All right. Meantime, a nationwide manhunt for a man suspected of killing five people, including his own parents. The manhunt is over. How he was caught hundreds of miles from the scene of the crime, next.
[16:26:23] WHITFIELD: The cross-country manhunt for a Louisiana murder suspect is over. Sheriff's deputies say a 21-year-old man killed five people near Baton Rouge yesterday, including his own parents.
CNN's Kaylee Hartung has been following the developments for us. So what more can you tell us about his capture?
KAYLEE HARTUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Fred. Believe it or not, this 21-year-old man in a stolen truck managed to travel about a thousand miles in a little less than 24 hours before this manhunt came to an end. And authorities say his capture was something of happenstance.
Let me tell you the story chronologically starting yesterday morning. That is when Dakota Theriot allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend, Summer Ernest, her father, and her brother. He then stole the father's truck. He'd been living at this home with this family for the last couple of weeks. He then drove to his own parents' house about 30 mile ace way. And there he shot both his mother and father in their bedroom. But before Keith Theriot, his father, died, he was able to speak with police and identify his son as the shooter.
A manhunt began, and it wasn't long before authorities realized that these two crime scenes were, in fact, linked. Authorities then they notified authorities in Richmond County, Virginia. Not to be confused with the city of Richmond. This is a more rural area in the northern neck. They alerted authorities there that Theriot had family in the area and they thought he could be heading that way.
Last night Theriot's grandmother, who lives in that area of Virginia, she was sharing that same concern, that he could be headed her way so she went to a motel. This morning, she asked authorities to go check on her house, to make sure it would be safe for her to return. And while deputies were there, Theriot drove right up into the driveway. He is said to have pointed a handgun at police. They commanded him to drop his weapon. He did, without incident. And then this 21-year-old Dakota Theriot was arrested.
Fred, he is in a Virginia jail at this time. He will be extradited back to Louisiana within the next couple of days, we expect. And then he will face charges. At least two counts of first-degree murder there.
WHITFIELD: Wow. So tragic. All right. Thank you, Kaylee. Appreciate it.
Still ahead, the field of 2020 Democratic contenders is diverse. And the crowd is still growing. And the latest person who just might consider a bid is a familiar name. Hillary Clinton. What we're learning about another possible run?
But first, here's a sneak peek of the CNN original film "THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I tell people my story, they don't believe it, but it's true.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've always thought, what would it be like if you turn the corner one day and you saw yourself?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The first time the boys met, the three together, it was a miracle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There was nothing that could keep us apart.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's when things kind of got funky.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Something was just not right.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd like to know the truth.

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