This week, President Obama became the first sitting US president to visit the American arctic talking to the residents of a little village called Kotsebue. They are being threatened by the impacts of climate change right now, rising seas, disappearing land and ice. A little further north, there's another native Alaskan village where the situation is even more dangerous. The Weather Channel's Dave Malkoff reports for TODAY.Sept. 6, 2015
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