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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 201... |
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 ... |
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... |
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 tha... |
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 Ce... |
What Causes Eerie Volcanic Lightning? |
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 fundi... |
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 ... |
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 prio... |
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 woul... |
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 ... |
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 h... |
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 cou... |
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 l... |
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 dir... |
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 recor... |
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 -... |
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 ... |
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. How... |
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... |
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 Amer... |
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,... |
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 mis... |
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, f... |
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 ... |
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 ... |
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 outs... |
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 K... |
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 st... |
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 t... |
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 ... |
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 Th... |
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 rig... |
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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