Survivors of Severe Storms Interviewed
ROSEMARY CHURCH: And warm welcome back to all our viewers here in the United States and of course all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church, let's update you on the main stories we are watching at this hour. Iraqi Prime Minister says he expects to push ISIS out of his country in 2016. The safer (ph) comes after the Iraqi army declared its liberation of the city of Ramadi. A military spokesman says troops will likely spend another two to three weeks lashing the final puppets of ISIS fighters from the city. The family of an Ohio boy shot and killed by police says the persecutors deliberately sabotage the case. A grand jury decided not to indict the officers involved in the death of Tamir Rice last year. Police say video shows Rice reaching for a pellet gun, when an officer in training shot him. Mexican authorities have the detained the so-called Affluenza teen, Ethan Couch and his mother near Puerto Vallarta. They disappeared earlier this month after police say Couch missed an appointment with his probation officer. He was sentenced to probation for a 2013 drunk driving crash that killed four people. Well, severe weather has killed at least 43 people in the U.S. in the past week and its not over yet, flash floods in Missouri have blamed for several of those death. The state governor has declared has declared a state of emergency. The National Weather Service says flooding and other dangerous trouble conditions could linger well into the weeks for many areas. Parts of West Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma are suffering on the blizzard conditions. So, let's get the latest on this very rough condition's now and our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now. And Pedram, it is disturbing when you look at this extreme weather across the country, when is there some sort of sign that things will improve?</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: In the next couple of days, we still have what is left of the storms Rosemary and then we get beyond the severe pattern. I think we've gotten mostly behind the severe pattern of the storms system. You take a look at what is transpired, just in the past several or so a days, over 69 tornadoes now reported across this region of the country and keep in mind that December average brings you summer about 24, we have six consecutive days with tornadoes that have occurred in the month of December. And that is tieing and old time record 1953 and also 1982. The last such events where we had six straight days in December with tornadoes and yes these were both El Nino's seasons and of course we know multiple EF-4 report of tornadoes, one tornado track, 145 miles on the ground, that is considered to be the longest the December track with tornado and has become the deadliest months of tornadoes for December as well in about a 60 year period. And of course the pattern is not just in the United States, you go towards the U.K. significant flooding being report across that region as well with the military personnel on the ground helping out with the evacuation procedures there. And rainfall continues to come in towards this region over the next couple of days and then you shift your cast in towards this Southern Hemisphere and go out towards Dubai, Paraguai and also on its Argentina. And the flooding, it looks something similar these parts, some of these towns that are completely submerged with about a quarter of million people being now a displaced out of their homes from the rainfall that has occurred over that region. So, I want to give you a global perspective because of course we know weather patterns are tide globally. And the sphere in (inaudible) I'm not sure if it really been disrupted and this all has something to do with El Nino, the weather pattern that warm, the water temperatures along equatorial pacific, you'll look at what transpired from the North Western United States for example in the city of Portland and Seattle all 28 days so far in the month of December. They've reported rainfall among their wettest month of December on record. The Southeast United States severe storms of course among the most for the month of December in about 60 year period when it comes to tornadoes. And then of course, all towards part of the U.K. with severe flooding across Southern portion of our planets on the South America also reporting the significant flooding and this is a great way to show you satellite imagery of some of the rivers that really been impact. I've visit the Parana River which is actually the second longest river in South America behind the Amazon, of course the river as (inaudible) south of Mediterranean Sea and also out toward Santa Fe, on its parts of Buenos Aires into Argentina. But before and after perspective shows you the water literally shrinking and extending dramatically and this is what has displayed so many people over at this portion of the world. So this is again, the global pattern that we're going to be dealing with over the next several months potentially into the middle portion of 2016. And the seas where temperatures right here around the equatorial pacific Rosemary, had a lot to do with distracting that weather pattern that we see. The last time we had an El Nino that was a bit impressive Rosemary was back in the '97, '98 year and globally when it comes to the financial impact, when it comes to food chain supply been impacted of course, the energy supply being impacted that led to about $30 billion to $45 billion in losses on a global scale. So this weather pattern shift for everyone is a costly one as well.</s>CHURCH: Yeah, the ramifications are indeed a huge aren't they? Many thanks to Pedram more chat very soon.</s>JAVAHERI: Thank you</s>CHURCH: An unrelenting banned of unusually heavy rain is causing a lot of misery in parts of the United Kingdom. British troops are helping to evacuate hundreds of people from flooded areas in Northern England and Southern Scotland. Cumbria and near by counties are among the hardest hit ITN's Damon Green reports.</s>DAMON GREEN, ITV NEWS CORRESPONDENT: The river maybe subsiding, but many parts of the City of York are still flooded, the extents of the water visible from the air. As today the engineers struggling to repair the cities failed flood defenses had to call on the aerial to deliver the cables, the generators, and the motors to get the pumps working once more. The river waters behind me a several meters above where they would normally be and the pumping station is completely surrounded by the waters on the River Foss and the River Ouse. It's only accessible by air and the only way to bring in the heavy equipment to see this, is were the Chinook helicopter. It's not just the environment agency relying on the arm forces to bail them outs, 500 soldiers are now deployed in the North of England. Today David Cameron visited them at their work in York preparing sandbags. He also visited some of the flooded streets of the city, but not everyone was pleased to see him. His started to defend his government spending on flood defenses and denied growing accusations when there's money to be spent, it's the North the loses out.</s>DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: We're here in Yorkshire for instance we spent 100 million pounds on flood defenses since I became Prime Minister, but planning to spent another 280 millions so almost three times as much. But, you know, that's of no comfort obviously to the people who been flooded here in York.</s>GREEN: Hundreds of family that have to leave their homes over the last two days, it still not certainly when they'll be able to return with more heavy rain forecast to Wednesday, no one wants to stay with the risk of more flooding is past. For those whose property has been damage by the rising water river constellation (ph) that river levels have finally starts to fall.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think their frustrating because they don't know any real information, why had to happened? And as you can see affected it all the houses of the road and, you know, we will hoping OK that it wasn't the river, wasn't really flooded but when they lift flood barrier, everything came in.</s>GREEN: The people of York continue to endure the cold, the wet, the dignity of these floods, but those who care about the city say things must change.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The city of York is a wonderful Brit City, and what you're seeing is a casting of our will and I want to say, having living in Yorkshire for 10 years, they resilient people, but we shouldn't take them for granted. Work hard just to make sure this doesn't happen again.</s>GREEN: Everyone wants to believe that this will never happen again, but that is a promise that nobody is prepared to make, Damon Green ITV News in York.</s>CHURCH: All the falling price of oil strike of the economic heart of one of the world's top producers. Saudi Arabia is preparing for a year of dramatic comebacks of announcing the biggest deficit in it history. It has revealed the 2016 budget 14 percent smaller than it was in 2015, it's finances are getting slam by low oil prices, oil revenue which makes up three quarters of the countries total revenue has fallen 23 percent that's lead to a record $98 billion deficit to help get their physical house in order. The Saudi government is considering some bold measures. It plans to privatize some sectors and it's cutting the large subsidy on domestic fuel rising local prices by 50 percent. An emotional reunion in Canada for a Syrian family starting over after a half breaking loss, the details still to come. Plus we will hear from a Harvard professor who is combining his research on human trafficking with the power of media, to help and to fight against modern day slavery, will back in a second.</s>PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METROLOGIST: Thanks for watching CNN here I'm just Pedram Javaheri here with you on Ski Watch across Europe, and here comes the next storm system from the West. It has some signs that we like to see. We see some stratocumulus clouds indicate of cooler temperature about to come in so at least you get one element needed here, to produce snow shower, we need a moisture of course and that's really have been not existing across this region. Notice, still seems some mild weather across much of the center portion of the continent to the east we bring in some cooler temperature over the next couple of days, but some of the best areas to get skiing if you have that idea. Chance to get up to this region, around Bahamas (ph), Hemsedal across part of the Scandinavia. Temperature, just cold enough to support at least some snow and of course in recent there have been plenty of it to go around. That left there's something to 50 to as high as 170 plus centimeter that's on the ground across Bahamas (ph) resorts. So here's the current forecast for the next 24 so hours and nothing in way of new additional snow coming down but still a good days in about 90 to 80 percent of these trails are open across that region of Northway and to the south we go around that portions of the elsewhere Matt and Davalos (ph). One of these areas that is really struggle to tackle into much moistures so we keep it dry, we keep it sunny (inaudible) about 70 percent of trails from under map is a matter open with over 200 centimeter of snow, they've come down. One of the areas we we're looking forward to see more snow would be around Davalos (ph). At this point looks pretty quite and take you on to the French (inaudible) looking at three with the sunny skies.