In the first half, futurist Paul Guercio and physicist Dr. George Hart, who developed a software-based forecasting technology called the Merlin Project, shared their timetraks (Merlin's graphical snapshots) of the crowded field of US presidential candidates in the 2016 race. Based on a starting date (in the case of a person – their birth), the timetraks graph out periods of cyclical intervals, showing peak activity, as well as lulls. Surprisingly, most of the candidates' timetraks do not show a great deal of activity during this time frame. Hart noted that this was an unusual election cycle, a populist stage on both sides, and the end of a 72-year cycle, when there's typically a big turnover.

While Biden showed high activity spikes in the years 2007-2012, his chart is flat now, and Hillary's timetrak doesn't pick up until after 2017. Two Democrats with stronger charts in this cycle are Andrew Cuomo (who has not declared his candidacy) and Bernie Sanders, who has the highest peaks of any candidate, but perhaps is unlikely to succeed because of his 'Socialist' status, said Guercio. Carly Fiorina has the best cycle of the Republicans, which may indicate she could be the VP candidate. Both Donald Trump and particularly Jeb Bush have low activity in this cycle. Guercio predicted that Hillary will falter, and Mark O'Malley and Andrew Cuomo will be the Democratic ticket, while Hart foresees Trump and Fiorina on the Republican side.

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In the latter half, meteorologist Scott Stevens talked about winter climate patterns, the drought, climate modification, and weather anomalies. A massive El Nino season is predicted, and the North Pacific is currently exceedingly warm-- these conditions will bring a spectacular end to the California drought, with storm after storm impacting the state, he suggested. Weather manipulation can be done via several different technologies, he reported, such as through something like Project HAARP introducing pulses into the atmosphere.

Another weather modification technique involves infrasound or long frequency waves that undulate across and create tsunami-like clouds that can manufacture storms, he revealed. Stevens also cited the Orgone-- Wilhelm Reich's discovery of a water attractant. "That is why we see hundreds and hundreds of planes flying low and slow," altering the ionization of the atmosphere-- this was Reich's technique for creating either rain or drought, he said. Stevens does not see evidence for global warming, but rather that the sun is going quiet, which will lead into a cooling or ice-age period, and it appears that climate modification efforts may be trying to forestall this.

News segment guests: Jerome Corsi, Lauren Weinstein