This is CBS Eye of the World. I'm John Bachelor, to Italy. Concerns about the climate in the

northern part of Italy, the manufacturing center, and also a great agricultural center

along the Po River Valley. You will recall last summer there was a severe drought. We

could see in the diminution of snowfall in the Alps that flows into Italy. But right now,

the Po River Valley is looking to be as bad as last year. I welcome Lorenzo Fiori of the

UnSalta Foundation in his drive between Genoa and Milan. He is a witness of the Po. A very

good evening to you, Lorenzo. What did you see in these last hours? What does the Po look

like? Are you expecting rain? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Good evening to all the

radio listeners. Well, if I may say I would define the situation even worse than last summer.

The Po River is more critical than the previous week. We were talking about it all the time.

And this is a very bad point. Just to tell you, the right cultivation is now the season of

rice cultivation. And rice is a very important product of the Po River Valley. It's going to be lost

almost 60 percent because all the fields are very, very, very dry and there is a need of a lot of water.

But the promising news, it's still promising, is that tomorrow we might have rain in the north of Italy,

in the air of the Po Valley. We do hope. And so we are crossing Amor Fingert and Tashwood,

let me tell you that from my window in Milan, I can see very dark gray clouds that normally are the

color of a lot of rain, likely coming in. Let's hope. Immigration, the flow of immigrants from

North Africa across the Mediterranean, very dangerous to islands off of Italy or to Italian islands.

The flow from Turkey into Greece and then over to Italy. That has been a constant challenge to the

Italian governments. And now Italy is looking for help for Tunisia about migration. Why so? What

is Tunisia represent about the migrants? Yes, I'll tell you in a while. But before that, I would like

to underline something that is very important. In the previous week, after the tragedy of

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