This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Bachelor. To Tuscany, to Serody Rapalana. The Margarites

are in bloom. What is a Margarite? This is an Italian daisy. I welcome Lorenzo Fiore,

the Enzada Foundation who is in Siena to tell us the spring has arrived, plenty of rain,

then we will go to the political news in Italy. But for a moment, I want to celebrate the

daisies. Lorenzo, a very good evening to you. Tell me the daisies are a carpet all around you.

There's been very little rain in the north, but has there been adequate rainfall in Tuscany?

Good evening to you. Good evening, John. Good evening to all the

radio listeners. Yes, I'm in Siena and I had the opportunity to go with my mountain bike this

afternoon and I enjoy a beautiful landscape. All the fields very green and the only groves

have the carpet white because of the daisy, thousand and thousand of daisy. I can even tell you,

when I left Rome this morning by train, I can even see the first poppies very red and deep red,

so it's fantastic. It's a sign that let's say the land is blowing up again after the winter time.

Although the temperature here in Siena is still pretty chilly and the mountains, the upper

nines all around are white-cap. Yes, the nature is okay here. They had rain across winter time.

What we unfortunately still miss in the north of Italy, which is really a disaster, but here is a

paradise. Believe me. So the Po River Valley has not had any additional rainfall since we last

talked. Is that correct? Correct. Unfortunately, there is just a bit of rain, but I can

define few drops, nothing more than that. And so the critical situation remains on ground.

The Po River, I saw it three days ago, was really almost empty of water. I wouldn't say empty,

but the level is so low that you can really see all the pylons down to the basement.

This will increasingly become a problem that we will watch as we go forward, because the

regular pattern of rain and snow and drought around the world is shifting from California to

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