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hello and welcome. the chief executive of tiktok has been defending the chinese—owned video—sharing app in the face of hostile questioning at a us congressional committee hearing. shou zi chew denied tiktok is a national security risk — and played down the companys connection to china. but many in congress are not convinced, as nomia iqbal reports. 150 million americans... even before he arrived, shou zi chew was on tiktok, arguing for its existence. and even before he started sp...

That can halve that time. but the other thing which we need to now do is adapt to climate change. mario carcamo, whos the head of the lab, shows me what can be done with gene editing. one of the characteristics we are looking into, into wheat is their root structure. and typically, wheat will have a very shallow structure, what we see here. but then we do have some other varieties that can go deeper, and they will be better prepare for for climate change because they will do better in the condit...

Years of development. but from now, theyll be able to use a new genetic technology in england called gene editing that can halve that time. the only thing we need to do now is adapt to climate change. mario caccamo, whos the head of the lab, shows me what could be done with gene editing. one of the characteristics we are looking into into weeds is their root structure. typically, a weed has a shallow root structure, which we see here, but we have other varieties that can go deeper and they will ...

Here and so this so longiness becomes an additional problem. these trees may be old, the root structure may go way down in there but when the ground is saturated, it loosens it up, when the trees really become susceptible to the heavy winds. >> people who get this up morning and say hey my tree didnt fall onto my garage they may have a few more days of worrying about that. well stay with you. i want to get on the phone with richard flores a resident of victoria, texas, who did not evacuate. how ...

Because a couple of years ago this hillside was on fire and the crews were filling up the helicopter buckets out of this lake which is now a dry lake bed, elizabeth lake. so this is one of the reasons why this is a powerful mudslide behind the houses, because, you know, the hillside burn didnt have any vegetation to hold on, and it has been four years, not enough rain to germinate any root structure to hold the hillsides in place. so they have that to contend with. and dump truck after dump truc...

>> reporter: already they have some problems indeed. public works officials have been working overtime making sure that storm drains are clear. they know this amount of rain thats falling is not only going to be a flood event, but also will weaken the actual root structure of trees and because the soil will be so saturated and the roots will be weakened, any gust of wind and there could be gusts up to 35 miles per hour, could cause trees to go down. bottom line, the amount of rain here expected ...