[inaudible conversations] [applause] this is great. We have a full house tonight. Good evening. I am Jean Mccormick and i have the honor of being the president of the institute for the United States senate. It is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight along with our special guest for this Evenings Program, katie and robin who will be coming through this door in a minute. We are doing something a little different tonight. We are really thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute, membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you who might be visiting the institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. It is truly spectacular in the way that senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate. Every day, students and adults like you and i come in and become senators for a day and try to grapple wit
Special guest for this Evenings Program, katy tur and robin young who will come through this door in a minute. We are thrilled to be joined by so Many Community leaders and we are especially excited to welcome our new members of the institute. Membership is one of the ways we make it possible to have programs like this evening. For those of you that might be visiting that institute for the first time, welcome to our replica senate chamber. Its truly spectacular in the way senator kennedy envisioned it might remind people about the Important Role of the senate and the life of our government and every day students and adults like you and i sit in those seats and they become senators for a day and actually try to grapple with the same issues and be reminded of the Important Role of participation in a democracy. We all have to be involved. Through our interactive programs like tonight our goal is to see ourselves with the new generation and they keep thinking to myself real spy or as of th
The kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the zakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelope population was left decimated. H
The kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchers are determined to find out, and our reporter inga sieg and her cameraman Axel Warnstedt joined them on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have been on the go for days, looking for saigas across the vast grasslands of the zakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass dieoff last year, the saiga antelope population was left decimated. H
Its been a year since news emerged of the agonizing deaths suffered by hundreds of thousands of saiga antelopes in the kazakhstan steppes. The cause an aggressive bacteria. That much was clear. But why was the damage so extensive . A group of researchersrs are determined to find out, and our cameraman Axel Warnstedt jnened them o on their quest. But its difficult to locate the few remaining animals. The antyn dala steppe is vast, and on top of that, saiga antelopes are very shy animals. Inga these researchers have for saigas across the vasts, log grasslands of the kazakh steppe. Steffen the greatest challenge is finding the animals, because their population is now much smaller and we dont know exactly where they are. We sigighted them when we took a count two weeks ago, but afterwards they went elsewhere and no one has seen them since then. The territory is just incredibly large. Inga the protected area is as large as france. Its like looking for a needle in a haystack. After the mass