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Weather forecasters increasingly address climate change

Even before summer began, there were extreme heat waves and new heat records throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the forecast calls for a hotter-than-normal summer in much of the U.S. Scientists say climate change is accelerating and intensifying these kinds of heat waves. It's taken a while for some TV weathermen and women to make these connections, but that's changing. Miles O'Brien reports.