for that we turn to mike hoffman. mike! let's start off crop watch in western nebraska. dwight smith send us a picture of hard red winter wheat. he says there is plenty of moisture in the area. the crop is emerging and looking good. usda says 62 percent of nebraska's winter wheat is rated good to excellent. 83 percent of what was planted has emerged. moving over to southeast south dakota... dave hoff sent us a photo of his office chair for the day. hoff posted on twitter he's seeing above average yields on his farm but not recordbreaking for now accocoing to usda, 39 percrct of corn and 90 percent of soybeans are harvested. taking a look at the weather map boy another system continuing to plague the southern plains lot^s of moisture in west texas some of that spreading eastward some of it^s coming north i^ll have the rest of my forecast coming up. still to come, we'll be analyzing the dairy sector and expansion of t t cow herd in the midwest. how's that impacting prices? plus our beef today report shows somes a slight improvement for feed lots. and this may look like jus

<mike hoffman speaks> good morning clinton. as betsy showed us northwest ohio has had abundance of moisture this year. the drought monitor shows that corner of ohio remains free and clear of drought. but it 'is' starting to creep back into the picture in north-west ohio and the southern counties. overall about 15percent of the state is abnormally dry. in july it was zero. now to the keystone state, pennsylvania's vital apple is picked. it looks like growers have had a great season. according to nass, 96-percent is rated good to excellent. and taking a look at the crop moisture you can see the dry areas continue to expand in eastern texas much of louisiana and arkansas weat areas though remain in much of the carolinas i^ll have my forecast coming up in just a few minutes if you fly a drone or uav around the farm, you may need to prepare for some new rules. the federal aviation administration says it plans to move forward with requiring registration for all drones. officials at the faa says uav's continue to violate airspace and

meteorologist mike hoffman here. mike we're kinda watching the coldest weather of the season coming from the north. but out on the west coast, maybe some rain? yea, in fact, perhaps some decent amounts in places. but not widespread at this point. and it's being caused by that area of low pressure sitting off the southwest coast over the past couple of days. it's going to finally start to move inland a little bit and it'll increase moisture over southern cali, central cali into arizona and other parts of the 4 corner region. farther east, the area of low pressure movi9ng thru the upper great lakes will cause some decent areas of showers , but you'll notice a strong cold front has almost no moisture along it. it's following an air mass that's already very dry which is probably the reason. and you can see far south florida still getting that front slipping on thru which will cause a couple spots of showers or thunderstorms perhaps as well. there's tomorrow morning, showers from the northern great lakes into new england,

agday meteorologist mike hoffman is tracking this closely for us. mike. clinton. the climate prediction center breaks-out the forecast into three categories -precipitation, temperature and drought outlook. for precipation; noaa expects wetter-than-average conditions most likely in the southern tier of the united states, from central and southern california, across texas, to florida, and up the east coast to southern new england. and drier-than-average conditions most likely for hawaii, central and western alaska, parts of the pacific northwest and northern rockies, and for areas near the great lakes and ohio valley. as far as temperature -above-average temperatures are favored across much of the west and the northern half of the contiguous united states. below-average temperatures are most likely in the southern plains and southeast. the drought outlook shows some improvement is likely in central and southern california by the end of likely across large parts of the southwest, while improvement or removal is also likely in the southern plains. however, drought is

here with meteorologist mike hoffman. we've been watching on the drought monitors, areas in texas and louisiana really dry. but do you think some hope this week. yea, we talked about this over the weekend. w wre still looking later in the week something in the western gulf. probably not a tropical system but something with a lot of moisture in it. right now though we're just seeing a few showers in the western gulf. some of those will be trickling into parts of tx the next couple of days. high pressure dominating the southeast,the ohio valley, tennessee valley most of central and southern plains keeping england to central portions of great lakes causing some scattered showers in that ara. and a fair amount of moisture in the 4 corners region as you can see. a slow moving area of low pressure continues to move thru that area, so we'll be watching that systeteas well. so let's put the maps into motion through the day tonight and into tomorrow morning, you can see the cold front by morning into central iowa. not a lot of moi

mike hoffman has those images for us, mike. good morning tyne. . 're still learning about the aftermath from the extensive flooding in south carolina earer this month. these pictures are from watts farms in williamsburg county. the area received two crops down the river. they said they've never seen anything like it, and it will still be a couple weeks until they know the extent of the damage. the south carolina "nass" office shows just 17-percent of the peanut crop is harvested. it's usually about half by now. and ron had quite the help harvesting in east central illinois last week. he told us soybean harvest is in the books for 2015. yields were pretty impressive, ranging 65 to 80 bushels per acre. and now that they're halfway done with corn, it shows just how variable the crop is this year. ron says his fields are anywhere from 144 to 225 bushels per acre. thanks, mike. a new w udy has some scieieists calling for the removal of growth promotants in the global livestock stor. a study from the proceedings of the national academy of sciences shows

with more from around the e untry country mike hoffman joins us with cropwatch. good morning clinton. at this time of year, fid fires can quickly spread out of contro we heard about a quick thinking farmer in southcentral illinois who saved the "posting" on agweb, a farmer in scott county, illinois activated the pivots using his smartphone from miles away to help knock down flames. a neighbor also arrived with a disc to cut a fire-break. that papa of illinois is considered abnormally dry on the drought monitor. also on agweb -winter wheat seed isn't getting enough moisture to germinate. we heard from a farmer in montgomery county, missouri who says after the wettest spring e er, seed wheat just is just sitting. and this scenic view comes from northern st. joseph county indiana. you can see some of the foliage is starting to turn into those ll hues. others still have plenty of green. temperatures dipped below freezing over the weekend. and taking a look at the weather map today a big dome of high pressure keeping things mostly dry from the south east to the southe

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those are the headlines...meteorologist mike hoffman joins us now with a look at next week's weather. mike. thanks, tyne, well for parts of the country it will be a little wetter week although in texas it can't be wetter than what you've seen over the past three to four days. some of this drought severe exceptional drought will probably be wiped right off the map here within a couple weeks. it usually takes a little while to get rid of severe drought, but you're just going to have so much rain, already have, and we'll get some more that we'll see some of this drought just go away by the next we show it. still severe drought out west even though there are chances of moisture coming your way as well. so let's go day by day. we'll start off on monday.l there that's system. another one, this is not the one that gave all the rain over the past especially southeast texas, parts of southern mississippi valley, as well. stalled front, carolinas, northern georgia, maybe a shower or two, maybe a shower northern michigan form a cool front and storm system coming in to the west. so washington, or

mike hoffman has our short-term forecast. mike, harvest is behind in some areas. who can play catch-up next week? thanks, tyne. well overall it's been a pretty dry season for much of the corn belt. but i think we get into a more progressive patterns as more and more areas start to get some rain, so you probably want to get things done as quicklylys you can. some of those areas could get rainater in eh week. southern mississippi valley and texas all depending on a tropical looking system on the computer models. we'll talk about that later. but the drought continues out west. and it has been getting worse in some of the southern plains. let's go day by day. as we start off on monday of this week you can see a system in the four corner region some showers and storms out that way. a few showers along the cold front in the northern plains a couple of showers in southern florida. other than that high pressure from louisiana all the way into new york and pennsylvania keeping thins dry. still pretty cold in the far northeast. by wednesday then that system moving throu the

that's it for news...meteorologist mike hoffman joins us now with the long-range forecast. mike, noaa's forecast is pretty brutal, and they're still thinking strong el nino. do you agree? thanks, tyne. i do agree with the strong el nino. but there's one other factor we still have some very warm waters in the northeast pacific and that's what brought east very cold temps the last two winters. so there could be a battle here. i'll have my forecast obviously as we head through the next few weeks. there's the troph as we start this week. another one out west. this is where that hour comes into play. you can see how it just ripples moving from west to east, each one bringing chance of showers so we increase our chance for rain as we head through the next week to 10 days. 30 day outlook for temperatures, above normal northern plains, most of the west, below normal for much of western texas and some of ht surrounding areas. also above normal in the northeast. precip over the next 30 days, northern tier of states, especially the northern great lakes far northern plains into the nor

that's it for news...meteorologist mike hoffman joins us now. mike, just amazing changes in the drought monitor this week thanks to rain in the south. is this just a glimpse into what their witner will be like? thanks, tyne. actually yes it is an el nino winter typically is a little wet through southern tier of states so we'll check that out coming up, in the meantime, this week we're going zonal at firs,first then a huge ridge builds up in the eastern part of country. several days of warmth there. there's that big troph out west producing a fair amount of moisture. that comes eastward as we head toward next weekend. so southward into four corner region. above normal southeast and the northern tier of states. as far as december is concerned, we expand that above normal area a little father south through great lakes, through northwest, below normal for the southern plains and four corner. and then on to january more of the same. we'll expand the below normal area into the southeastern part of the country. looks like a pretty cold winter for you f

mike hannah, al jazeera, west jerusalem. >> gail hoffman is the chief political correspondent from the jerusalem post and joining us live. thanks for being with us on the program. the israeli cabinet has been meeting this evening to discuss the situation. do we know what, if anything, has been decided? >> reporter: well, it looks like the decisions really were made by the prime minister and defense minister in this meeting is intended to allow right wing ministers to claim that netanyahu is not doing enough, and for him to ask them to stop being looking at by the israeli media. the people of israel are complaining that netanyahu hasn't taken enough of a hard line. there's a protest outside his office right now of protesters on the right. there were protesters outside his home yesterday from the left also urging him to take more action. so all the urging that there have been a serious military operation for wide-scale building in the west bank as a responsibility to the palestinian terror will apparently be met with a no. >> he's under pressure, as you say, by the right wingers to do mo

i'm joined by scott hoffman. why did you opt for the freezing method. how did it work? >> it's one of the safest out there. it cuts off the ground water into the excavation and it supports the soil. mike: if you are freezing the soil and somehow that is less disruptive to the neighbors around here? >> absolutely. we have additional method of support. planned operation here. with a ground freeze you would think the pipe is in the ground. turn the switch on and let it freeze. >> you can drill into it. scott, thank you. so i'm told by the engineers that this project is more than halfway complete. coming up tonight at 5:00, we will take you inside the first street tunnel. details on incredible opportunity. neighbors will have this weekend to go inside it. reporting in northwest, mike carter-conneen, abc7 news. jonathan: new at 4:00, you want to hear about lucky and scary at the same time? police look for this guy, joseph clay. they found him. now he is in big trouble. listen to this. prince george's county police say that he had a gun, pointed it, pulled the trigger at an o