11/01/2018 Newsround

Hi, I'm Ricky,

and this is Newsround.

Rescue teams are helping survivors

of the mudslides that have swept

through Santa Barbara county

in southern California in the US.

At least 17 people have died.

Emergency crews are searching

for more than a dozen

people who are missing.

Heavy rains have fallen where

wildfires burned just last month.

It caused rivers of mud

to come pouring down hills.

Chelsea drew the first leg

of their EFL Cup semi-final

with Arsenal 0-0 last night.

The new video assistant referee

system was used twice -

that's where the referee can check

on a TV screen or with a video team.

Last night's ref used it to check

penalty decisions he'd not given.

You can see the microphone he's

wearing while he asks an official

to take a look and check he made

the right call.

But he decided there

was nothing to change his mind.

Next, a Japanese astronaut has

said sorry after wrongly

claiming he'd grown an extra 9

centimetres in space!

But his body has been changing.

Here's Ayshah.

This astronaut hit the headlines

this week after saying he had

stretched a staggering nine

centimetres in space, that is the

size of an average chocolate bar!

But he has now admitted to making a

measurement mistake. He has grown

during his first and from the

International Space Station, but

only by two centimetres. It is quite

normal for astronauts because there

is zero gravity, which is the fourth

here on earth that Paul's was

downwards. Without gravity, the

bones in someone's spine can expand

and move slightly leading to a small

change in height. It doesn't hurt,

though. But don't start thinking you

can go up in space if you want to

get taller because it doesn't last

forever. Eventually you'll spying

goes back to normal when you come

back down to earth. -- your spine

goes back to normal.

Now, we're not afraid of talking

about poo here at Newsround -

but this is a stinky story,

even for us...

The beautiful evening in a quaint

English village. Well, things are

not quite as lovely as they seem,

because this lamp could soon be

powered by to. Ryan is an inventor

and he has made a special machine to

turn dog poop into power for lamps.

How does it work?

Lift up the

dispenser and grab a free bag,

however many you want, then we scoop

that into the bag and all you do is

lift up the top covering, the whole

bag, nothing is emptied, goes in

there.

Turning the handle pushes the

bag into the machine, whether poop

is broken down by and this produces

methane and carbon dioxide, which

fuels the light. The lamp is a big

hit in the village and Brian is

hoping that this machine can bring

poop power to other parts of the

country. Looks like it wasn't such a

pants idea after all!

I hope you were not having Coco Pops

this morning!

Next up, meet one of the stars

of a new BBC nature

documentary which starts tonight.

I've been taking a look.

Meet the world's smallest cat.

No, this is not a kitten, it is of

Rusty spotted cat and lives in Sri

Lanka. They weigh little more than a

bag of sugar, around 200 times

lighter than a lion. Almost fully

grown, this cat can sit in the palm

of your hand, and while he might

look cute, this furry Fala is a

pretty fierce hunter. They look

similar to their furry cousins, the

domestic house cat, but the Rusty

spotted cousin has hardly ever been

filmed like this before. It is one

of the stars in the BBC's new

wildlife documentary Big Cats. Hang

on, shouldn't they have called it

small cats?

That is it from me for now but we

are back in half an hour, see you

then.