KPIX CBS Evening News With Katie Couric May 11, 2011 00:57:00
The fair weather trees' gravist threat. native to indonesia, it's attacking palms around the world decimating populations from the south asia to the canary islands. to get rid of the pest, saudi arabia had to chop down and chop up infested trees. they've never been seen in the u.s. until now, in two trees in pastel and palm-draped laguna beach in southern california. >> this weevil definitely has the potential to infest and kill a lot of the palms we're looking at right here. >> reporter: just imagine if this looked like this. losing their beauty is sad enough, but palms are big business in ca...
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