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- Thank you so much for joiningus for this first edition
of CBN Newswatch for Thursday, April 11th.
I'm Efrem Graham.
Ahead today, a majorsnowstorm hits multiple states
bringing blizzard warnings along
with freezing temperatures and high winds.
Democratic presidentialcandidate Bernie Sanders
introduces his Medicare For All bill
for a government run health care plan
that eliminates private insurance.
Our Republicans warn it means higher taxes
for the middle class.
Vice President Mike Pence responds
to Mayor Pete Buttigieg's criticism
of his Biblical beliefsabout homosexuality.
And with the Israeli elections over,
what will President Donald Trump's
Middle East peace plan bring?
Could it be dead on arrival?
All those stories and more are ahead
in this edition of CBN Newswatch.
I wanna begin, though,with a massive spring storm
barreling across the United States.
Blizzard warnings have beentriggered in at least six states
while others are experiencingterrible winds and flooding.
Jenna Browder has more on what
could be an historic weather event.
- [Jenna] This massive spring storm
has triggered blizzard warningsin at least six states,
while others are experiencinghigh winds and flooding.
- It's kind of a pain in the butt storm.
- [Jenna] From the Rockiesto the Central Plains
and Great Lakes, millions ofAmericans are in its path.
the second potential bombcyclone in less than a month.
In Colorado, freezingtemperatures and heavy snow
prompted the governor tocall in the National Guard.
Troops rescuing 75 peopleand two dogs overnight
from stranded vehiclessoutheast of Denver.
In South Dakota, more than 18inches have already fallen,
and some areas could get another foot.
Near white out conditions in Minnesota
are shutting down highways.
And in other parts of the country,
they're seeing severe flooding and wind.
This dustnado spottednear Pueblo, Colorado,
and a blowing dust warning wasissued near Lubbock, Texas,
where winds reached upto 70 miles per hour.
In the Northwest, a floodingstate of emergency in Idaho.
Near Eugene, Oregon,
the water deep enough for a boat
to glide across this highway.
And the storm is causingheadaches at airports, too.
At Denver International Airport,
about half of all flightswere canceled Wednesday.
Jenna Browder, CBN News.
- Weatherbell's ChiefMeteorologist, Joe Bastardi,
joins us now.
So Joe, this storm isbeing called historic.
Is it unusual to see a storm
this big this late in the season?
- Yes, it's unusual to see this much snow.
I mean, we have toreally confront the fact
that there's an immenseamount of cold air around,
even though the Southeasthas remained warm,
but it is a spectacularstorm where it's snowing
and there's another one coming behind it
and this one will go from theTexas Panhandle to Chicago
and the Great Lakes in a few days.
It won't have as heavy amountof snow but considering
it's going to be snowingApril 14th or 15th,
I guess it is, furtherSoutheast like that.
I mean, it's just amazingwhat's going on with all this.
We do see, every once in awhile,these wild, late winters.
Let's remember the winterof 12/13 got started slow
but it was like the Energizer bunny.
It kept going and going and going.
It even snowed into May inparts of Illinois in 2013
and actually, because of that,it snowed early in October.
You had the shortest stretch
between last snow andfirst snow in history
in some of those areas in the Midwest.
We have seen these immensecold outbreaks before.
What's unusual is the lack oftornadic activity yesterday
and I'm not lamenting it.
I'm just pointing out that usually,
storms like this have a lot of tornadoes.
But what went on with thiswas there was so much wind
with the storm in the Southern,
to the South and East of the storm,
that I think it dissipated the energy that
would have gone in to tornadoes.
In other words, theatmosphere is always trying
to balance itself out and ifyou get rid of energy one way,
you don't have the needfor it the other way.
But today, the severeweather aspect in the Midwest
has to be paid attention with this.
And then we're gonna seeit reload in Texas tomorrow
and then on, today is Thursday,so Saturday and Sunday,
we have severe weatherthat will be moving through
the Southern United Stateseven as that second snowstorm.
On the other side, it's cold,
so it snows from Amarilloto Chicago and Green Bay
and places like that over the weekend.
- Joe, we hear the term bomb cyclone.
What is that and what's it like?
- (laughing) Folks, youknow what you're doing?
You're hearing meteorologicaljargon from 50 years ago
or 40 years ago.
I was in the weather tower at Penn State;
we were always looking for bombogenisis.
Storms like this happen all the time.
In the realm of, let's say, Ijust referred to a situation,
Penn State, where I waslooking February 5th, 1976.
We had bombogenisis upthe Eastern seaboard
and we were all excitedand we got hardly any snow
where I was in State College Pennsylvania.
You look at the great blizzard of 1978
and the Central Plains, orexcuse me, the Great Lakes,
that was bombogenisis.
So you know what's going on now is some
of the lingo that us weather geeks used
to have 40, 50 years ago.
It's gettin' out thereand it's about time.
It means a rapidly developingstorm and the reason
it's rapid to developis because, remember,
what nature does is shebrings together a clash
and then spreads it out.
This storm, two or three days from now,
will be much weaker thanwhat it is right now
because nature did its bringing together
and then it'll spread back apart again.
- Many parts of the country are certainly
seeing a rough winter.
Will we have strong storms this spring?
- Well, that's aninteresting situation because
what we're gonna see hereis the core of this cold
migrates slowly Eastwardand probably the last
10 days of the month,what's left of this cold,
will be over the East.
And then we anticipateMay to be warm across much
of the United States,especially some of the areas up,
Midwest, and on into the Great Lakes.
And what I'm thinking is there's gonna be,
as far as severe weather goes,
there'll be less thanaverage tornadic activity
but more than the normal amount of rain.
It's gonna be another big growing season
for the United States, agriculturally.
Hopefully, there's not too much rain.
I don't think it'll beas bad as last year,
but ever since 2012 and allthe scary perma drought,
dust bowls coming back,predictions that there were,
the weather, as nature loves to do,
just turn the opposite way.
So I think it's gonnabe a lot of wet weather
but I think severe weather,relative to averages,
would be below normal.
But keep in mind, withthe way tornadoes are,
one just goes throughone area and everybody
thinks that it's the apocalypse.
In reality, we're supposedto have these big,
severe weather outbreaks.
And when you actuallylook at the data, Efrem--
- Yes.- Severe tornadoes,
tornadoes have been decreasing.
- Okay.
- Over the last 40 to 50 years.
- All right--
- So there's a long answer for you.
- All right, Joe, thank you so much.
We appreciate your time.
- All right, thank you.
Enjoy the weather.
It's the only weather you've got.
- Mm-hmm.
Wanna turn now to the 2020Presidential campaign.
Democrats are firing opening shots
in a new battle over health care.
Senator and White Househopeful, Bernie Sanders,
is relaunching a new bidfor his plan to eliminate
private health insurance in favor
of a single government plan.
Even some of Sander's Democratic opponents
are supporting him,
but Republicans say theplan is insanely expensive
and would mean higher taxes.
Capital Hill correspondent,Abigail Robertson,
is on the story
- Health care is a humanright, not a privilege.
- [Abigail] Today's unveiling presents
an opening volley in a new fight.
- Please do not tell us
that this is a rationalhealth care system.
- Senator Bernie Sanders' vision,
more affordable coverage that lowers
the number of uninsured Americans.
- Medicare for all is a dream.
It's called--
- But the dream comes at a price.
The safety net could provedangerously expensive.
Independent studiesestimate that over 10 years,
the plan will cost anywherefrom $25 to 35 trillion.
- Medicare for none.
- Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell,
warns it's just the latest
in a socialist bonanza.
- That price is so steep thateven left-leaning analysts
are quietly admitting that the tax burden
is virtually certain toland on the middle class.
- People are suffering.
- [Abigail] At theSanders's lift off party,
a rival for the presidential nomination.
- This has to become thenext social safety net.
It has to become something that is there
for you no matter what.
- [Abigail] Kirsten Gillibrand is one
of four Senate Democratsrunning for president,
who backs Sander's idea.
- You are creating a not for profit,
public option that is good,
high quality health care now.
- [Abigail] While under the plan,
some 180 million Americans
would lose private health insurance.
All would be covered under a public plan.
- I can't imagine how we would pull
them off of healthcare coverage that,
in most cases, they like.
- [Abigail] OtherDemocrats have backed away
from Medicare For All.
- It could be a possibility--- Right.
- In the future.
- The White House says Republicans
are working on realistic solutions.
President Donald Trump says, quote,
"A really great health care plan
"will be ready rightafter the 2020 election."
Wiki Leaks founder,
Julian Assange is inpolice custody in London.
He was arrested at theEcuadorian Embassy today
for failing to surrenderto the court in 2012.
Assange took refuge therefor the last seven years
until his asylum was revokeddue to repeated violations
to internationalconventions and daily life.
He's accused of publishing thousands
of classified militaryand diplomatic cables
through Wiki Leaks.
The arrest comes justone day after Wiki Leaks
accused Ecuador's government of quote,
"Extensive spying operation against him."
Attorney General, William Barr,
told a Senate panel Wednesday he believes
there was spying against Donald Trump's
presidential campaign in 2016 and he
wants to find out why it happened.
- You're not suggesting,though, that spying occurred?
- I don't, well,
I think there's a, spying did occur.
Yes, I think spying did occur.
I am not saying that impropersurveillance occurred.
I'm saying that I am concerned about it
and looking into it.
- Barr wants to makesure proper procedures
were handled in the originsof the Russian probe.
Robert Mueller's 22-month investigation
revealed the Trump campaign
did not collude with Russia.
Vice President, Mike Pence,
has responded to likelyDemocratic presidential candidate,
Pete Buttigieg's criticismof his Biblical beliefs
on homosexuality.
In an interview with CNBC, Pence said,
"He said some things that are critical
"of my Christian faithand about me personally.
"And he knows better.
"He knows me."
Pence and Buttigieg worked together
when Pence was governor of Indiana.
Buttigieg is the mayorof South Bend, Indiana.
Pence said he understood why Buttigieg
made his remarks because the Democrats
are moving left andcandidates are competing
to see how much more liberal each can be.
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Coming up here on CBN Newswatch,
with the Israeli election finally over,
many people are looking ahead
to President Trump's upcomingMiddle East peace plan.
We're gonna hear from a former mayor
of an Israeli town about what could happen
with that plan.
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- [Narrator] As the worldwatches from the outside.
- It's a big diplomatic tug ofwar here in the Middle East.
- [Narrator] Go inside thestory with Jerusalem Dateline.
- Israeli archeologists are talking
about a discovery thatcould change the thinking
about the Temple Mount.
- [Narrator] Join CBNJerusalem Bureau Chief,
Chris Mitchell, and getthe Biblical perspective
on the events shaping the world.
- It's what starts in Israel,
then ends up going to other places.
- [Narrator] Watch Jerusalem Dateline,
Friday night at 9:30 onthe CBN News channel.
- Orphan's Promise is committed to loving
and serving at-risk children,
to helping keep families together
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There's an old African proverb
I love that says if you wanna run fast,
run alone.
But if you wanna run far, run together.
At Orphan's Promise, we want to run far
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- With the Israeli election over,
President Donald Trumpis expected to unveil
his Middle East peace plan soon.
Some say it could bethe deal of the century,
while others fear, though,it may be nothing new,
only more of the samefailed ideas of the past.
Appearing on the CBN news program,
The Global Lane,
a former mayor of Shiloh,Israel, David Rubin,
says little is known aboutPresident Trump's plan for peace,
but he suggests ifPresident Trump proposes
dividing Jerusalem betweenthe Palestinians and the Jews,
the plan may be dead on arrival.
- Nobody really knows what to expect.
There are different possibilities.
There's talk and there are rumors
about the issue of borders,
what it's going to meanas far as borders go.
There's talk about the possibility
that many of the so-called Palestinians,
the Arab residents of Judea and Samaria,
might be made Jordanian citizens
and a question of whether they would
have to move to Jordan or not.
- Daniel Pipes recentlywrote, in a column,
mentioning the possibility of Jerusalem
serving as the capital ofboth Palestine and Israel.
Israel maintaining 10% ofthe so-called West Bank,
Judea and Samaria, andthe Palestinians 90%.
What do you think of that idea, David?
- I think it's a ridiculous idea.
That would be a non-starter,
if I ever heard a non-starter.
You're not going to have peace based
on falsehood and based on fiction
and based on lies.
There is no peace that isgoing to be accomplished
in this area without having a little bit
of Biblical, historical precedence.
And when you talk abouthistorical precedent,
and you talk about BIblical accuracy,
it's not gonna happen unless Israel
has sovereignty over allof Judea and Samaria.
Netanyahu has spoken about,
you know, he promised,right before the election,
that he's going to declare sovereignty,
Israeli sovereignty overthe Jewish communities
in Judea and Samaria.
That is a good first step.
But the ultimate stepthat's really going to work
is to declare Israeli sovereignty
over Judea and Samaria,100% of Judea and Samaria,
and if necessary,
having a path to loyal citizenship
for those Arab residentsof Judea and Samaria.
And those who don'twanna be loyal citizens,
simply giving them a stipend and moving
them over to Jordan.
It's not going to work giving them 90%
of Judea and Samaria.
- Now you can hear moreinsights from David Rubin
on tonight's edition of the Global Lane.
It is on the CBN News channel.
It begins at 9:30 Eastern.
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Still ahead, the Sea of Galilee is one
of the most famous locations
from the Biblical stories of the Gospel,
but today, that historicbody of water is in danger.
We're gonna explain why when we come back.
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- [Narrator] As the worldwatches from the outside.
- It's a big diplomatic tug ofwar here in the Middle East.
- [Narrator] Go inside thestory with Jerusalem Dateline.
- Israeli archeologists are talking
about a discovery thatcould change the thinking
about the Temple Mount.
- [Narrator] Join CBNJerusalem Bureau Chief,
Chris Mitchell, and getthe Biblical perspective
on the events shaping the world.
- It's what starts in Israel,
then ends up going to other places.
- [Narrator] Watch Jerusalem Dateline,
Friday night at 9:30 onthe CBN News channel.
- Orphan's Promise is committed to loving
and serving at-risk children,
to helping keep families together
and to creating opportunities
for strong and sustainable communities
around the world.
We're working in over 60 countries
around the world and with your help,
we can do even more.
There's an old African proverb
I love that says if you wanna run fast,
run alone.
But if you wanna run far, run together.
At Orphan's Promise, we want to run far
so we can touch thelives of as many orphaned
and vulnerable children as possible.
But we don't wanna go alone.
We're out to change the world,
one child, one family,one community at a time.
Will you join us?
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- Meet the pastors whoare preaching the gospel
in a fresh, fearless way.
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I'm Roberto Torres-Cedillo.
Join me each week for NextGen Voices,
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and watch God transform a generation.
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- The Sea of Galilee is where Jesus walked
on the water, where he calmed the storms,
and called Peter to be His disciple.
But this historic body of water
is in danger.
Over population and years of drought
are causing it to shrink.
Chris Mitchell brings us the story now
from Jerusalem.
- [Chris] More than amillion tourists visit
the Sea of Galilee each year.
But the Biblical lake is shrinking,
after several years of drought.
This is the same Sea ofGalilee that Jesus walked on.
From out on the lake,
it may look like there'splenty of water but in reality,
it's a different situation.
- There are altogether 21boats on the Sea of Galilee
and because the levelof the water is so low,
for example in Ginosar,
instead of three piers, we use only one.
- [Chris] Daniel Carmelowns two of those boats.
He operates Sea of Galilee Worship Boats
and takes Christian groups out on the lake
for a unique worship experience.
- They don't know how is theSea of Galilee when it's full.
This is the lowest that I ever saw.
In 25 years that I'mhere, this is the lowest.
- Israel's rainy seasonbegins in late October
and goes to mid-March.
After that, it doesn't rain very much.
This winter may have anabove average rainfall,
but it's still not enough.
- The lake is the mainthing that characterizes
our life here from every point of view.
Although today, unfortunately,
we cannot make our living from fishing.
- [Chris] Uzi Welish was born in a kibbutz
on the Sea of Galilee
and has lived in the area since the 1930s.
He's seen the lake atall different levels.
- When my first daughter was married,
it was 93; it was very full.
The wedding was on the lawnhere in front of my house.
You can see about 200 meters.- Okay.
- It will come up to the rocks.
The rocks were put there in the 70s
to defend from the storm.
With the storm, each storm andthe waves chopped the soil,
so they build these rocks.
- [Chris] He said trouble started
when the British built a dam in 1932.
- The moment you stopped the Jordan,
you're beginning to control.
But only in '64, they added the big pumps
that delivered the waterfrom the Sea of Galilee
to the south, or to the middle of Israel.
- [Chris] On top of that,
Israel gives Jordan 50million cubic meters of water
as part of the 1994 peace agreement
and Jordan is asking for more.
The lake has been low inthe past and recovered,
like 30 years ago when the receding waters
revealed a hidden treasure.
- This boat is reallycompletely unbelievable.
- [Chris] Dubbed the Jesus Boat,
the fishing vessel islike one Jesus' disciples
would have used.
Found in the mud on the shore,
it soon became a national sensation.
- That was reallysomething, the whole state,
a boat from 2,000 years ago.
And such a significance, itreally can be related to Jesus.
- [Chris] Treasures aside,
the Kinneret as it's called in Hebrew
or the Sea of Galilee,
used to be one of Israel'smain sources of drinking water.
- Until not so long ago,
the Sea of Galilee was oneof three main natural sources
that supplied water.
Now, it hardly supplies.
- [Chris] Growing population,increasing demand,
and a lack of rain have allcontributed to the situation.
The lake is more than 15feet below the full line.
A rainy winter would normally add
about five-and-a-half feet.
Then it begins to evaporateagain in the summer.
Due to the length of the current drought,
the Israeli water authorityhas stopped pumping
into the main water system.
- We cut down the pumping there from
about 400 million cubic metersper year to less than 30.
Nevertheless, the level of the water
of the Sea of Galileecontinues going down.
- [Chris] If the waterlevel drops too low,
the lake would becomesalty and eventually lost
as a drinking source permanently.
That's why Israel tried a unique approach.
- Israel planned and startedbuilding water carriers
that will bring water fromthe desalination plants
to the Sea of Galilee inorder to keep the level
of the water high enough in order not
to lose the Sea of Galileeas a drinking water point.
- [Chris] Schor said theycan't fill the lake completely
with desalinated water because
it would bring down the water quality.
- I do not think that youhave another lake in the world
that people fill it with manmade water
in order not to lose it.
So, we'll be pioneers about that as well.
- [Chris] Shor said onceevery 20 to 30 years,
Israel gets enough rain to fully restore
the Sea of Galilee in one seasonbut they can't count on it.
In addition to not pumping water out
and pumping desalinated waterin, Carmel had this advice.
- Pray hard for rains.
That's what we need, a lot of prayers.
Pray for rains, even when you are here.
- [Chris] Chris Mitchell,CBN News, Jerusalem.
- And we'll be right back.
Stay with us.
- [Narrator] As the worldwatches from the outside.
- It's a big diplomatic tug ofwar here in the Middle East.
- [Narrator] Go inside thestory with Jerusalem Dateline.
- Israeli archeologists are talking
about a discovery thatcould change the thinking
about the Temple Mount.
- [Narrator] Join CBNJerusalem Bureau Chief,
Chris Mitchell, and getthe Biblical perspective
on the events shaping the world.
- It's what starts in Israel,
then ends up going to other places.
- [Narrator] Watch Jerusalem Dateline,
Friday night at 9:30 onthe CBN News channel.
- Orphan's Promise is committed to loving
and serving at-risk children,
to helping keep families together
and to creating opportunities
for strong and sustainable communities
around the world.
We're working in over 60 countries
around the world and with your help,
we can do even more.
There's an old African proverb
I love that says if you wanna run fast,
run alone.
But if you wanna run far, run together.
At Orphan's Promise, we want to run far
so we can touch thelives of as many orphaned
and vulnerable children as possible.
But we don't wanna go alone.
We're out to change the world,
one child, one family,one community at a time.
Will you join us?
(lively music)
(child laughing)
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- Meet the pastors whoare preaching the gospel
in a fresh, fearless way.
(lively music)
I'm Roberto Torres-Cedillo.
Join me each week for NextGen Voices,
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and watch God transform a generation.
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- Time now for your Tuesday tweetable
and today, Thursday Thankful rather.
Today, I leave you withthis prayer of gratitude.
Father, I thank you for closed doors
and delayed opportunities.
I want only what you want for me.
Make that your prayer today and indeed,
make this a thankful Thursday.
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