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Colorado potato beetle and wouldn't. actually mangas is a professor of architecture and computer aided design at the university took us in germany. by studying insects he wants to discover a new design principles to create innovative structures. thomas fi of the colorado potato beetle because it can cause serious crop damage. it also has a very hard shell. it's striking yellow and black when cases protect the sensitive hind legs which it uses to find. the wing cases must be both tough and light otherwise the beetle couldn't fly the architect is interested in the structure of these cases. they'...

Welcome back. the danger from southeast asia's super typhoon mangkhut is far from over. rescuers are searching for any survivors of a land slide in a mining town in the northern philippines. at least 36 people are feared buried under the thick mud. you can appreciate the scope of the effort there. landslides are the primary cause of fatalities in the storm in the philippines where at least 54 people are confirmed dead. the full extent of the storm's damage is still being assessed. hundreds of homes are destroyed and there is widespread crop damage from flooding. for more on the clean-up, chris...

Point, but how much damage will this do to your state? are we talking billions of dollars? and how long before life in north carolina gets back to anything close to normal? >> well, chris, to give you a comparison, matthew had about -- a little less than two years ago, we're still recovering from hurricane matthew. i think that this storm is likely going to produce impacts greater than hurricane matthew. the agriculture industry, the largest industry in our state is hard hit. we're going to have to sort out the crop damage. the floods that are going to come as you mentioned with the fema direc...

Point, but how much damage will this do to your state? are we talking billions of dollars? and how long before life in north carolina gets back to anything close to normal? >> well, chris, to give you a comparison, matthew had about -- a little less than two years ago, we're still recovering from hurricane matthew. i think that this storm is likely going to produce impacts greater than hurricane matthew. the agriculture industry, the largest industry in our state is hard hit. we're going to have to sort out the crop damage. the floods that are going to come as you mentioned with the fema direc...

Clean technology industries that favor american companies. now the president is jeopardizing that. and doing nothing to combat climate change is sure to be costly too. trillions of dollars in losses from increasing crop damage, rising floods and climate refugees. however, the paris agreement does spell yet further disaster for the coal industry. as far as fossil fuel emissions go, coal is the worst offender, but american coal was already burning out well before the u.s. signed off on paris. natural gas, while still dirty, is a cheaper and cleaner way to generate electricity. that's why the exx...