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hi and welcome back to your world weather update. no for east asia things are lookinpret wet today. up a few showers. even in tokyo. the system is briinn lot more rain from the west, and it is going to be a wet and picture across much of japan. northern sections will be seeing snow as well. nofothe korean peninsula, southern sections were seeing a little bit of rain and snow thi. things are going to be looking a lotdryer. same goes for much of china as well. in the south this e scattered showers in place, but that is algoing to b drying out as well. now, for the philippines southern sections have bee lot . that's spreading across the country today, even northe islands picking up a couple showers throughout the day.dign manila. for bangkok. a couple thundershowers for you here. 25 inong kong and 7 in

shanghai. 5 for seoul. and 10 degrees in tokyo. with the rain this afternoon it's likely going to feel pretty chilly. and overowan, picking up quite a bit of rain here across northern ily -- or rather australia and in toward western australia here. alki at a very lows. well-developed low that is he heading in toward new zealand fit a t rain for australia, some heavy rain spots showing up across the gulf of stlienteria and also western here expecting almost 200 millimeters in the next day or so. that's a lot of rain headed your way. there is going to be those flooding concerns. so do stan the watch and watch those river levels as they could start rising. now, for new zealand two swers are headed your way, spreading a little bit more and getting quite heavy in parts of the south island here, along the coastline. picking up on some heavier downpours throughout the day.

for christchurch as well a couple scattered showers possible through tuesday. things get a ltl me aive on wednesday, especially through the morning hours. rain is possible. also gusty weather. gusts expected to hit 90 sclmz per ho kilometers per hour in the morning hours of wednesday. thhaveheosbity of causing quite a bit of damage and further destruction. also, temperatures too they're going to be cooling off tuesday night into wednesday morning. only 9 degrees for your wednesday morning low. getting a look at north america here, still looking pretty active out toward the east here. severe weathers still a threat for those of you in the deep south. so watch out. keep updated with local watches and wain. also winter storm conditions will continue across the new england states and eastern canada tonight. while out west contending with mo sw at gngo me in. so for the pacific northwest looking at ample snow, especially for those upper elevations. still on the il se.

to 6 for your high in vancouver, and the same also in seattle. a little bit of rain but we could see a little snow min in as it is getting cooler in the morning hours. up to the east 1 for toronto and 6 in new york. 9 degrees for c. so little bit cooler here. 17, meanwhile, in atlanta, and 22 degrees and pleasant in usn. all right. that's a look at your weather for now. and here is your three-day outlook. ♪ ♪

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of the california desert. and heading east from indio, on the i-10, believe me, there is a lot of open space. open space as far as the eye can see in all directions. now, we were heading out into the desert in search of jojoba, and as we took the desert center exit, that's the one with all the dead palm trees planted in a circle. and headed down highway 177 our spirits were high, because we'd heard there was lots of jojoba planted in huge fields beside the road, but boy, were we in for a shock? they're all dead. it's dry as a bone over here. there is not a speck of green anywhere in this field, and there is another one of the same size on the other side of the highway. we've got some big fields of dead jojoba,

but since this is a jojoba adventure where we're gonna find out exactly what jojoba is, what it's used for, why it's grown in the desert, we've got to find not fields of dead jojoba, but fields of live jojoba. and that's what the rest of this adventure is all about. we're going in search of green, living jojoba. i knew there had to be some live jojoba nearby. so we headed into and quickly through the town of desert center. and then we got on kaiser road and after a few miles driving through some really empty terrain, we got off kaiser road onto an even smaller road, bumped along through the dust and finally saw something off in the distance, civilization,

and what ended up being fields and fields and fields of live healthy jojoba. give us a wave, we have hit the jojoba jackpot. we've found some live people and a beautiful green living, thriving jojoba plant in the middle of a whole field of 'em, introduce yourself to everybody. >> i am donna charpied, nice to see you huell. >> nice to meet you. >> i'm larry charpied, nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, the charpieds, now you know this whole adventure, we are in search of living jojoba. so far today, we've seen a lot of dead jojoba. it's everywhere. once you start looking for it out here in the desert. bring us all up to speed on why there is so much jojoba out here in the desert. >> back in the 70s

when the government banned importation of sperm whale oil, they needed a substitute. the sperm whale oil was used in the military and nukes and nasa. so they gave a 7:1 tax incentive to have people come out and research and develop jojoba as a substitute. >> so it was all about a tax break to grow jojoba to replace the oil that they didn't wanna continue taking from sperm whales. >> that's correct. >> so what happened, all these jojoba ranches, farms, sprung up out here in the california desert? >> oh, you bet, there were jojoba farmers from chicago that were doctors, lawyers-- >> they didn't know anything about jojoba. >> knew nothing about farming nor jojoba. >> they just liked that 7:1 tax write-off. >> you bet. >> so what happened, i mean, some of these fields as far as the eye can see of jojoba? >> well, you know, what happened is they planted seed and whenever you start from seed, from a plant that's thousands of years old, it has all those

genetic variations. so you had every kinda different jojoba you could ever imagine. so in a farm, you need uniformity like your grapes, it's a same plant over and over. so there was all this mishmash, you couldn't do anything, so they basically failed. >> so all of these things went belly up because nobody knew what they were doing. >> plus they really didn't care, because like you said that 7:1 tax write-off, as soon as the plants were grown, they didn't give a darn anymore, because they made big money. >> they made the money initially off the tax write-off-- >> and the promoters, the promoters made millions of dollars. they used to fly around here in helicopters overlooking their fields. >> what do you mean the promoters? >> the people who went around saying jojoba is the savior, we're gonna be able to do all these wonderful things, which you really can do it as a renewable resource, but nobody ever thought that, you know, like a hundred years ago or hundreds of years ago, the native americans didn't go out in the desert and find corn, plant to seed and said each stalk is gonna have six ears, it had to hybridize.

what they did with jojoba is they went out there in the wild and got every-- like larry said, every mishmash that mother nature can possibly conceive and try to do it culturally and you just can't. >> mass farming, it just didn't work. >> well, you know, they could have, dr. ermanno from university of riverside was on the right track. he went out into the desert and he found plants, made cuttings from 'em and then brought 'em back and then started building off from there. though ermannos like the israelis and university of arizona, what they did is they started with a very small gene pool and then went from there. what we have done is we've taken what they had plus what we found, much broader gene pool, that's why we came up with a 62% oil content plant whereas the average in jojoba is 50. >> so there are not many, let's walk down here, because there is some beautiful jojoba here. there is not many-- there is not much jojoba being grown anymore, is there? >> no, not in california-- >> are you about the last jojoba holdouts? >> yes, we are. and this is actually a research mother block

and what we aspire to be is the nursery to supply the growers when jojoba starts going again, because it is a biodiesel. we could--if we were to revamp all of this acreage in chuckawalla valley like 6,000 acres was planted, i'll bet you within three to four years, we could run riverside county's fleet on it. >> just from the jojoba oil, because i've seen jojoba oil ingredients in shampoos and scrubs and all this kinda stuff. we're gonna talk about that in a minute. let's talk about jojoba. >> yes. >> now, there is male and there is female. >> right. >> i've done my research. is this a male or a female? >> this is a male plant. >> now, how did you-- >> now, how you can tell is that, its flowers are like little fists, you see, a bunch of little fists there. >> uh-huh. >> the female flower, which is the plant over there is a long wispy. in fact, we have a female plant right over here-- >> so this is a male and do you plant like male-female, male-female? >> no, we select our males, just as we do for the females for making it

an economically viable plant. >> uh-huh. >> so we have maybe 2% males, we have them interspersed around, and we actually will harvest the pollen and apply it ourselves instead of letting it up to mother nature. >> now, didn't you say this is old stuff, jojoba is old? >> it is so old, it is a wind pollinated plant, which indicates that it was around before insects. >> before insects-- >> isn't that incredible. >>--so it wasn't pollinated by insects, it was pollinated by the wind. >> that's correct. >> exactly. >> wow, now how much-- i got a lot of jojoba questions. >> oh--we'll try to give you the answers. >> well, how much water does it take to grow, because look how green everything is here. >> well, you know, like, today it's probably about 110 degrees. we don't irrigate in summertime. that's what's so wonderful about jojoba. it doesn't compete for water in the summertime. >> so it likes heat. >> yes, in fact, it's a taproot, gets to be up to 40 feet deep, that's how it survives in the desert heat when there is no rains and you know, when it rains in the desert, it's really fast

and it just runs off. >> yeah. >> it doesn't benefit the plant. in the wintertime, it is a complete opposite of your citrus or any other conventional food. that's when jojoba is the most active. >> wow, let's walk around here. tell me some more jojoba facts. >> it's very important to keep in mind-- going to be a biodiesel. right now, we're getting a 150 gallons per acre. the best they do with soy bean is a 100. you got to plant it every year and you gotta water it in the summertime with a broad leaf. so this uses less water, it's perennial. you don't have to plant it and we're getting more gallons per acre. >> see, i've never even thought of this. you're thinking of it as-- alternative for energy, as a fuel alternative. >> that's the whole reason why we started jojoba. cosmetics is a secondary use for jojoba. it is a renewable resource. >> oh. >> it's a biodiesel and--the reason why we sell it cosmetically is because we get $640 a gallon. no one's gonna burn that in their car. >> yeah. >> jojoba is native only to the deserts of arizona,

mexico and california. >> so this is it. >> this is it. >> this is the only place in the world. >> that's why we moved here from santa barbara almost 30 years ago. >> for jojoba? >> to study this plant. joshua tree national park, it was national monument when we moved here-- >> right over here. >> --contains jojoba everywhere. >> and we'd go, and you're not allowed to harvest or do anything to plants within the park. so they are untouched, untrampled by man, and that's where we studied a lot of jojoba at first throughout these different seasons to see how they acted. >> so you may have been some of the first people to really study it and think about it long range, rather than all these get rich quick people. i bet you, there are a lot of people watching right now who lost a lot of money in jojoba. >> i wish i-- >> when we are at the farmer's market, every time we're at the farmer's market, someone comes up to us and says, you know, back in the 70s we lost our-- in this whole thing. >> yeah. >> we've heard that a lot and you know-- and the reason why we started doing

all this studying is when we moved here, well, we didn't have water and electricity for the first 18 months, so it was just amazing, and we got jobs working heavy labor in the jojoba fiel and we were noticing-- one of the first observations we made was only half of the jojoba would have seeds on it. then we realized well, the wind was blowing that way during the window of opportunity for pollinating, >> and then we realized that, hell-- excuse me, heck-- more than half of these plants are males, aren't gonna give you any seeds whatsoever, and then we started investigating a little more and learned about cuttings, met some of the finest people involved in jojoba in universities and people from around the world. >> see, these are actually beautiful plants-- >> oh yes. >>--if you planted 'em in your yard-- >> sure. >> --i mean, they've got a nice look to 'em. >> it's a drought-tolerant evergreen shrub. i wanna make it clear though, the idea of jojoba being a biodiesel also as a small farm, small family farm, we make a nice living off growing this jojoba. we process it,

we go to the farmer's market. we have a very nice life because of it, so. >> everybody that i've told i was coming to look at jojoba, they all know the word jojoba as they say on the east coast jojoba. >> right, let's correct that. >> do you have a lot of people coming out to look at your jojoba? >> yes, we have lots of them. >> do you politely tell 'em the correct way to pronounce it? >> well, we just say the js are pronounced like an h. we don't try to embarrass people at all. it's very easy to make that mistake. >> we tell 'em at christmas we add an extra ho, it's ho ho hoba. >> so that--right away they get it. >> all right, enough of this, we've been standing out in the jojoba field and boy, it goes, how far out, how much do you have here? >> we have ten acres here. >> ten acres here, there were thousands of acres here, 20, 30, 40 years ago, but these ten acres are alive and well and we're gonna leave the-- i guess you call this the jojoba field, right? >> right.

>> and now, we're gonna go watch the jojoba harvest. you're just hitting the jojoba. do you call it jojoba bush, jojoba tree? >> well, you know, traditionally it is a bush, but we select for tree, because when you have tree shape, you get better recovery. >> what're you doing here? look at all this. >> this is to get 'em off the bush. >> get what off the bush? >> the jojoba seeds. see all these little yellow-orange things, the brown things on it. >> oh these. >> yeah. >> these are jojoba seeds. is that what jojoba comes from? >> that's how jojoba comes from. >> now, you're raking it. >> right. we windrow it on the side of each plant. >> so you just rake--the seeds right out from underneath the jojoba that you've just knocked off it.

now, we're scooping up the seeds and dirt and rock and everything else and puttin' them in, what do you call these, larry? >> these are just screens that we made, we use the old biwall or t-tape. and it just keeps them together. >> what are you shaking? >> this is the seeds with twigs, rocks, debris. >> uh-huh. >> and we'll separate these later when we get up. >> so this is pretty basic stuff and what--donna, what are you standing by, waiting to do? >> well, now what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna trample on all of these things and get some of the hulls, get some of the big stuff broken up, then i'm gonna shake it again, get all of the excess dust and a little gravel out, pulling out as many twigs and the large rocks as i can and then deposit it into our hopper over there. >> so this is--you've got a little assembly line thing-- >> absolutely, absolutely. >>--going here. but you've really got to shake it down. >> oh yeah, absolutely. >> and then what do you do with it? >> then you wanna get these big rocks off and i take it over here

and pour it inside here. >> oh, look. you got a whole little-- but this is a whole little harvest thing going here. >> absolutely. >> and it's electric. you don't smell it, you don't hear it, it's just very cool to have electric instead of a tractor or a car or truck. >> oh, that's electric. >> correct. >> well there is electricity in the air too. there is a lot of excitement going on. >> yes, there is. >> there is a lot of heat going on--- >> lot of heat. >>--too. you have to get used to the heat when you do this, don't you? >> oh! absolutely. this is much better as a winter sport than a summer sport. [laughter] >> but you kinda do it year around. >> absolutely. keeps us out of trouble, huell. >> boy, look at this. and you just-- you have to do this and this is basically the old-fashion way, up one row and down another,

this just goes on and on and on. >> that's perpetual motion. we do have big harvesters over there, that we've made vacuum shakers and all that, but it's just so noisy and so dirty-- it's much nicer this way. >> yeah, this is the way-- >> it gives 100% recovery. >> yeah, this is the way they used to do it. when i say, they used to do it, how long have they been harvesting jojoba? >> for as long as it's been alive, i believe. >> thousands of years. >> i believe so. we know the native americans, they used it to make bread, they used the oil for their hair. they made coffee with the meal after they pressed it, and they also would take jojoba seed, which contains simmondsin, which is an appetite suppressant so when they went from blythe to coachella, they would eat these seeds, because on the 100-mile trek, instead take food that would-- the animals would wanna get, or whatever, you know. >> can you eat one of these? >> this has got the skin on it, right? >> uh-huh. >> and so we got a machine that will break and blow

that off-- >> now, can i eat this? >> --and it's ready to go, >> what does that taste like? >> tastes like maybe a hazelnut, little bit bitter, very hard. >> but, the native americans ate these. >> absolutely. >> i've never heard of eating jojoba before. >> man, you've gotta get-- get up to speed on this one. >> wow, i'm getting up to speed, i'm trying. i just ate my first jojoba-- what do you call 'em, nut? >> seed, whatever. >> seed-- >> you know what? >>--they're good. >> they're delicious. >> we eat 'em all the time. they remind me of a filbert. >> yeah-- and once you start eating jojoba seeds, you are truly a jojoba witness. >> [laughter] >> our first bad jojoba joke. >> okay, we've left the field and here's the next step, larry. we're watching. you got the machinery going. >> this is how we separate most of the debris, these little twigs, stuff like that. >> so, you're just pouring

all of that stuff that donna has been jumping up and down on in the screen. >> do you wanna mask? >> look at all this over here. this is--what is this? >> this is just the trash basically. it holds leaves, twigs, you know-- >> i got you. boy, this is an old timey machine. >> it was handmade. >> oh, standing underneath the-- >> [laughter] >> standing underneath the blower. all right, let's see what we've got here. we're gonna take that. >> but first i gotta blow it again, there is still a lot of debris. there was so much debris the first time. so i put it through twice. >> there are rocks in here. >> yeah. >> look at all these rocks. >> so you've got rocky soil out here. >> yeah, if we don't make it on jojoba, we can always go into the mining of rocks, huh. >> okay, now we've left the machine. we've put it through a second time and what are we doing? oh, donna's taken over. donna, what are doing? >> now, what i'm gonna do is, i'm gonna dump this bucket into this trough of water.

>> look at this, we've got a trough of water here. >> and what's gonna happen is, all the stones are gonna sink, the seeds are gonna float and then i'm gonna put 'em on the drying screen. >> here, hold this a minute, i'm doing it for you. how do i do it? just pour it out? >> just pour it right in there, perfect, perfect huell. oh there, you'd make a wonderful jojoba farmer, huell. >> so look, the seeds float to the surface, >> the rocks stay at the bottom. this is... >> this is simplistic. >> it ain't rocket surgery, but it works. >> exactly. >> wow. >> and what i'm doing right now is i'm just trying to get those seeds that got stuck underneath the rock here. >> rocks, boy, you've learned all the tricks of the trade. >> now, this is a good summer sport. it's nice and wet now. you gotta see what i'm gonna do here is i'm gonna pick up all of these seeds and i'm gonna take 'em over to this table right behind you-- >> don't drop any of them. >> oh, no. we're just gonna stick 'em

right there for now. >> do you spread 'em out? >> sure. >> oh yeah. >> oh, look here are your dry ones. >> right, exactly. >> over here. >> you have to let 'em dry a day, because they're wet now, and they'd be too soft when we put 'em through the huller, it breaks them. >> look at the color of these things. they're almost purple, aren't they? >> well, you know, these are--kinda old. when they had first come out, they're reddish and then as the sun gets on 'em you could see, some of these are just barely coming out. >> yeah, look at these over here, the ones that are still wet. boy, this is so beautiful and to think that this is where the jojoba oil comes from. no