Mississippi River reaches historically low levels l ABCNL



ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee joins the show from one of the lower reaches of the river to discuss how drought affects weather and commerce. WATCH ABC News live stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Ma8oQLmSM SUBSCRIBE to ABC NEWS: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP See more at http://abcnews.go. com/ LIKE ABC News on FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/abcnews FOLLOW ABC News on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/abc #ABCNLUpdate #MississippiRiver #drought #climate #economy #GingerZee

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37 comments

  1. An act of nature is economically something you need to just suck up.
    You can't push your loss on the consumer that's not right..
    I'll hunt and scavenge what I need before I buy your out of date foods
    The company's are profiting while we die and suffer at their hands.
    Stay safe ๐Ÿ™
    Be the best you can be in everything you do in life

  2. We were warned..
    This is our families fault for abusing the planet..
    Why do we have generators.and other power sources .
    But no one recycles their own home water ๐Ÿ’ฆ ๐ŸŒŠor capture what they use anywhere?..nope we rely on (/paying people to trust for that/)..
    We aren't as smart as we think ๐Ÿค”.
    Stay safe.
    And be the best you can be in everything you do in life

  3. You mean the BLACK NILE

  4. WHEN ARE WE GOING TO LEARN MOTHER NATURE TEACHINGS?

  5. 2:20 Since when do semi-trucks get 145 Miles Per Gallon? 6.5 is the average, not 145.

  6. What if it doesn't rain?, What happens if we run out of water?. Saudi Arabia has bought farmland and is taking water from the people in surrounding areas. It should be illegal to sale LAND to a foreign country. LAND should be leased for short periods and water should be rationed. But NO FOREIGN COUNTRY SHOULD OWN ONE PIECE OF AMERICA!

  7. Trump told me that this is fake news.

  8. I say forget about the deficit and just each country feed their people.

  9. Don't blame on Biden, because Biden can't make it rain or stop hurricanes or cause tornadoes, only GOD can do that. And the companies know it makes it hard for everyone, but they still raise prices on food and there are still taxes on food. We are going to have to grow our own food, in our own yards pretty soon.

  10. Hank Williams Jr called it

  11. When republicans see this ……welp it's all Bidens fault he drained the river stole all our fish and sold it to China time to vote for trump he gone make the Mississippi river great again he gone fill it up stock it with fish and take care of us again even though we're still poor. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

  12. The earth us constantly changing! Adapt or die! Been that way for millenia! Time for change.

  13. Ships that push the barges run on diesel fuel which is at a historic high because of the failed policies of former Vice President Joe Biden, it was a long hot summer, not climate change that has river levels low, government subsidized agriculture for impractical ethanol fuels has put more burden on water levels than natural climate cycles.

  14. This reporter walking her dirty shoes on soy beans we eat

  15. Surprised we arenโ€™t cloud seeding there

  16. Great. Prices of everything are going to go up even more.

  17. We need to start working on desalination. This is wild.

  18. I think the cause being overlooked here is the explosion of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano about 10 months ago. It threw water vapor very high into the atmosphere where the vapor isn't usually found in larger quantities. I believe this caused and imbalance that has thrown our climate into a bit of chaos this year. If what I heard is true, it could be years before vapor levels high in the atmosphere normalize again.

  19. It's called mother nature and not climate change.i guess whenever it floods y'all will also call it climate change.just because my grass is turning brown because we are having a dry spell over the summer doesn't meant it's due to climate change.i simply water my grass and wait for it to rain and it always does.

  20. This is one of N.Americaโ€™s MANY SHTFs & majority of ppl here donโ€™t even see wtf is about to happen ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

    Im not into fear mongering, HOWEVER, just seriously pay attention to EVERYTHING happening all over the world & in America & tell me you shouldnโ€™t be prepping?!?!๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿฟโ€โ™€๏ธ

  21. Mean while the whole of Australia is flooding

  22. Another one of my predictions comes true. I only hope I'm wrong about the rest.

  23. At the beginning she said it has never been this low in recorded history, then at the end she said last drought was in 1988 and that we don't want to get to that bad. Huh? I don't get it. I was told climate change was going to flood the Earth because of the polar ice caps melting….

  24. Maybe check on HARP See if they are using it on the weather

  25. Well at least here in northern Wisconsin, we've had way under average rain this year, so this is what happens. Just wait until April, once our 1-3 feet of snowpack melt, it'll be full again. This is what rivers do

  26. Lets go to the sourse of the river and see. Show the hole picture

  27. Good time to clean it up.

  28. โ€ฆmeanwhile, Australia has floods.

  29. Top of mind? Why is everyone saying this now?

  30. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent now he will return soon !!! Jesus is real !! Decide this day who he is to you! โœ๏ธ

  31. Thanks for telling everyone that it's a great time to gather historical souvenirs! (By the way, trucks use diesel, not gas IDIOT.)

  32. 145 miles per gallon? I want to buy a fleet of them.

  33. Start regulating freight brokers by paying trucking companies well.

  34. It's a drought, it happens. Look at Lake Meade and Lake Powell. Tragic for sure, even catastrophic, but let's be honest about what it is. Don't allow politicians to create thousands more jobs to "study" my personal affects on this or blame my truck!

  35. Those soybeans may spoil which means a shortage of soy based products.