Two people died. Roads and highways are closed. Homes are without power. And travelers are【C1】____________ in Great Britain because of record rainfall. The rain set records and affected the northern part of England and Scotland. The national weather service【C2】____________ a "red" alert for rain in the area. In some areas, water reached above the doors of parked cars. Rescue workers remove【C3】____________ by boat from a flooded residential street in Carlisle, Britain December 6. The Reuters news agency says two people died because of the flooding. The head of Britain's Environment Agency called the weather "unprecedented." Most of the【C4】____________ received between 200 to 300 millimeters of rain over the weekend,【C5】____________ the U.K's National Weather Service. The weather office says【C6】____________ weather may continue into the week. 【C7】____________ rainy weather is not only affecting the northern hemisphere. The city of Chennai in southern India also received over 300 millimeters of rain in 24 hours last week. The rain【C8】____________ came at the same time world leaders are meeting in France to【C9】____________ climate change at the COP21 convention. One climate change expert from the United Kingdom's office of the World Wildlife Fund said "storm Desmond is the sort of storm that we will see more of if we fail to【C10】____________ climate change."

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bomb and gun attack Thursday in Indonesia's capital. The attack left【C1】____________ seven people dead, including a Canadian and an Indonesian. Twenty other people were【C2】. Officials said all five attackers were killed. A news agency linked to Islamic State says the attacks took place in a high-end【C3】in central Jakarta. Earlier, an Indonesian national police【C4】 said a group allied with the Islamic State was probably responsible for the attacks. The violence began with a series of【C5】 on Thursday morning. Six blasts were reported near a shopping center, hotels and embassies. Gun battles between militants and police took place【C6】_______ the day. By late afternoon, officials said the attack had ended. "This is a very popular shopping area with【C7】____________ and office buildings," said Frans Demon, an Indonesian Service reporter in Jakarta. He also said the bombs exploded not far from a United Nations office, the presidential palace and the U.S. Embassy. The embassy will【C8】____________ closed on Friday, as a precaution. The president of Indonesia called the attacks "acts of【C9】____________." He told the country not be afraid and asked for calm. In November, Indonesian officials received a【C10】___________from Islamic State about a bomb attack in Jakarta. Before Thursday's attacks, the last attack against foreigners in Jakarta was a hotel bombing in 2009.

If you're dreaming of a White Christmas, the dream may be as close as you get. It's the season for unseasonably【C1】______________ temperatures in the U.S. With 321 million people, it's the world's third most populated country. Over the weekend, 75 percent of that【C2】______________ felt temperatures greater than 60 degrees Fahrenheit. That's more like late September than mid-December. Meteo-rologists are【C3】______________ El Nino. It's a natural phenomenon caused by warm temperatures over the Pacific Ocean, and it can affect weather patterns around the world,【C4】______________ in the U.S. It's keeping cold air bottled up in the Arctic, instead of spilling south. Nearly the entire country is asking the same【C5】, where is winter? Who took it? That would be El Nino. Where is winter? That's exactly what we'd【C6】 in a very strong El Nino year. If we【C7】______________ 1982, 1997, what happened in those years, exactly this—much warmer than normal temperatures across the【C8】______________ half of the United States. Last year, Buffalo had "Snow-vember". This year, not a flake on the【C9】. And although January and February shape up the same above normal, above normal if your normal is 15, is still cold enough to make big snow. This is【C10】 an El Nino pattern, a very strong El Nino pattern. Warmer than normal across the north, cooler than normal across parts of the south, and still wetter than normal across the southwest. But where's winter? Right now, it's nowhere to be found.