Hornets, an aggressive species thats wiping out honeybees in the Pacific Northwest. Luke burbank will be telling us all about it. Reporter somewhere in these woods lurks a fearsome predator. Its isolated. Its somewhere in this area. And the race is on to find it and destroy before it can threaten americas honeybees. They are just killing machines. They have these giant mandibles that are like shark fangs and one chop it bites the head off. Wow. Later on sunday morning, tracking the asian giant hornet. From there, its on to a look at whats cooking with famed new york restaurateur danny meyer during this time of dining restrictions. With Martha Teichner, well hear him out. Im not gonna be the kind of restaurant that ive heard about that puts shower curtains between the tables. Ive literally heard about that. Covid19 forced danny meyer to close all twenty of his iconic new york restaurants and lay off more than 2000 people, so now what . There is no recovery at all unless this industry recovers. Rethinking restaurants, ahead this sunday morning. Weve got a summer song for you this morning. From none other than jimmy buffet, the first time hes sung it in public, no less. We have our tracy smith to thank. Jimmy buffett has gone from big shows for the party crowd to zoom shows for first responders. Al i wish the whole wide world would swim along we will get a little taste ourselves, coming up on sunday morning. Ted koppel looks at these United States, at an Election Year crossroads. Lee cowan tells us about the surprising number of American Homes still lacking clean, running water. David martin looks at the controversial deployment of federal agents to portland, oregon and other cities. Plus a remembrance of regis philbin. Richard schlesinger on the restroom of our postcovid future. And more on sunday morning, july 26, 2020. We will be back after this. Want restaurants to open . And schools . Want the economy to get back on track . Youre not alone. And you can help make it happen. Stay 6 feet apart. Wash your hands. Wear a mask every time you leave your home. Choose to join the fight against covid19. Do your part. Slow the spread. Pauley what could be worse than a plague of locusts . How about an invasion by so called murder hornets . Heres luke burbank. Reporter ted mcfall, of custer, washington, loves his bees. Like, really loves them. Some people love their cats. Some people love their dogs and beekeepers love their bees. Some bee colonies are a little more aggressive or a little little more cranky. Some bee colonies are faster route to store, honey. Each colony kind of has its own little personality. He and his kids even name some of the queens. Im not sure that i want to say on national tv, but some of the names are like beeyoncee, favorite one this year was queen elizabuzz. Just silly names. Which is why, it was so upsetting for him, when he found one of his favorite, most productive hives had been slaughtered. That that particular colony had a good sixty thousand bees in it. They killed all the workers, the drones, the queen. They slaughtered every last bee in the entire in the entire colony. The likely culprit . Something called the asian giant hornet which you may have also heard called, the murder hornet more on that in a minute. Whenever they find a beehive, they will slaughter all the bees, go inside the beehive and then rip out the pupa and rip out the bee larva. And then they will fly that back to their own young and feed that to their young. I mean, i know nature is violent, but thats like horrormovie violent. Yeah, it is. Total horror movie violence and its not like the bees are able to mount a defense because our western honey bee are totally helpless against this predator. Scientists think the hornets hitched a ride over to north america on a cargo ship, and chris looney is hoping they dont get too comfortable here. They have one of the more painful stings thats known to humankind. Looney is the entomologist in charge of exotic pests at the Washington State department of agriculture. Their jaw can actually can take a chunk of flesh out of a human body. Yeah. If they bite you they can take a little divot of skin out. They use those jaws most of the time for, for mashing up other bugs and turning them into the meat balls that they take back to feed their larvae. I guess youd be hard pressed to decide which youre more worried about. If one lands on you, is it going to bite me or sting me . With 5 confirmed hornets found in Washington State, looney and his colleagues are trying to figure out how they can spot underground nests to stop the hornets spread before they start reproducing in large numbers. Were experimenting right now with infrared cameras essentially to see if we can locate those nests in the ground. The nest will stay at about 87 to 90 degrees fahrenheit. So in the cool Pacific Northwest mornings, they should stand out to some degree. We are in talks right now with both researchers at university of washington to see if we might be able to use radio transmitters or radio tags as a way to follow them back to their nest. Yes, you heard that right. These hornets are so large, up to 2 ½ inches long, that you can actually attach a radio transmitter to them. To eradicate the hives, looney and his colleagues will have to wear special hornetproof suits because the hornets stingers are so long they can sting through regular bee suits. This is great. It will protect us from being stung, but you can imagine its really hard to maneuver in this. First, though, they have to find them. So theyve enlisted the help of regular folks, citizen scientists. This is trap 1535. Like emily neely, of burien, washington. To make traps with orange juice and rice wine and hang them in their backyards. Then report what they find. Washington Officials Say if you live in the state and you see a giant hornet, you should take a picture of it on their phone and submit it, but otherwise leave the insect alone, lest you end up like the people on this japanese reality show. On the subject of japan, the nickname murder hornets appears to have come from a possible mistranslation from japanese, which went viral after it was used in a New York Times article. If you talk to chris looney or any other scientists, though, theyll tell you theyre not really fans of the name. Murder hornet, it doesnt work for a couple of reasons. One of them, it exaggerates the human health risk. These are Human Health Risks like. And like i said, we dont want to be stung by one. If youre allergic to one, obviously, that can be really dangerous. And even if youre not allergic, multiple stings certainly can lead to being hospitalized and sometimes rarely even death. But it turns out its not that many people that die from this any given year in the places where its native. Fall brings the giant hornets mating season in the Pacific Northwest. Ted mcfall is doing everything he can to protect his remaining honeybees. To think theres this terrible creature in the woods thats going to come out and attack them any day. So i feel like its a bit of a race for us to find them and find their nest and destroy them before they destroy our honeybees. Whats happening here . Hes experimenting with different types of bait. This one that i am trying is cat food. Checks on his hives regularly. So all these frames are going to be full of honey in the next few weeks. And as an absolute last resort, hes even stashed one his daughters tennis rackets in bag by his traps. You know, back in high school, i had a pretty good serve. 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That summer, the Democratic Convention in chicago was all but overshadowed by pitched battles between police and antiwar demonstrators. I think our parents certainly felt that it was never gonna be the same again. And thats how i feel now. I feel great despair. Reporter Kathleen Parker would grow up to become a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist. Its across the board, where we feel that no one is really quite in charge; and how, in fact, do we wanna see someone in charge. Reporter anna quindlen, who would go on to win her own Pulitzer Prize for commentary, from a more liberal perspective than parker, was, in 1968, in high school. In addiction, counselors say all the time that people dont stop self destructive behavior until theyve hit bottom. And sometimes i wonder if this is the United States of america hitting bottom in some ways; and that therefore, what history tells us that from hitting bottom, we can only go up. Reporter he would rise to become the highest ranking officer in the u. S. Military. Our strategy to go after this army is very very simple. Reporter and, ultimately, secretary of state. At one point, colin powell was a likely republican candidate for president ; but in 1968, he was a young army major, serving in vietnam. And the country was a mess. And remember also that we were entering a period where were still in the cold war and were entering the period where we were going to have disappointments in our president and Vice President. And we had to let spiro agnew go. And then nixon went. I thought that was about the worst time in my life and in mywatching the country. But ill tell you what, the current situation, comes close to matching it. Reporter senator tom daschle represented south dakota for three terms between 1987 and 2005. For ten years, he Led Senate Democrats as both minority and Senate Majority leader. But in 1968 from the air the scene looked unreal. I was in college at the time, and it was my very first trip to washington. So i have vivid memories of seeing 14th street and the National Guard out on the streets and the burning buildings and the extraordinary chaos that was so pervasive. I think the big difference between then and now is how functional government was, even under those times, versus how dysfunctional it is today. We had a president who was not very popular, primarily because of vietnam but was an extraordinary leader on domestic issues. Now we see enormous dysfunction, almost complete paralysis, except, i would say for the four covid bills that have been passed. For the most part, congress is just not working as it should. And we have, of course, a president whos completely dysfunctional. Reporter if, in 1968, vietnam and race were the unavoidable, often unbridgeable issues, now its race and the pandemic. The rest of the world looks at us now. They used to look at us withwith envy. And now i feel as though they look at us with horror and pity for our inability to get a handle on a pandemic that we, of all countries, should have been able to fight successfully. If we cant get proper leadership at the federal level, well then, the states and the municipalities are just gonna have to do it on their own. . I ask you as someone who has spent a lifetime in governance, is that even doable . The short answer, ted, is no. I think weve seen examples of good leadership at the gubernatorial and state level; even at the local level at times. And i think they can offset some of the shortcomings of not having National Leadership. But you need a national strategy. You need national resources. You need national policy. You need some way of ensuring that the whole country at large is on the same page. Reporter tom daschle, the moderate democrat, and colin powell, the centrist republican, are relics of another political age, when compromise was rare, but still possible. Would you, would you wanna be taking over control of the government right now . I would just as soon not have to, and no ones about to ask me. But i share your view that covid is one of the worst things ive ever seen happen to the country because its not being dealt with properly. I mean, this is a disease this is the condition that is affecting every single part of the United States of america and the rest of the world for that matter. And so i believe that what we ought to be doing is having a National Plan. Not each state and each different county going about it their own way, but a National Plan executed by the federal government so that we are all doing the same thing. Its gonna take a remarkable person, leader or groups of leaders across the nation to figure out how to bring this, this every diverse country. But i still, i think ultimately, i have to be optimistic because were the United States. Right . We have to come back. When you talk about great leadership, were down to two candidates now. Do you see great leadership . So, no. I dont see dont see it yet. The president , trump, you know, has been a huge disappointment on so many fronts. But the worst, i think, is the fact that he has no qualms about saying things that are intended to disunify the country intended to antagonize certain groups, and intended to marginalize certain groups. So hes been so bad for this country and so toxic in all those ways. And we cant move forward until we are one again. So the best hope we have right now, i think, is joe biden. And thats not to endorse him as a candidate. Its just simply to point out the facts of what we have and what we have to work with going forward. Where do we go after election day, when there are gonna be tens of millions of people who say i not only dont like the way this turned out. I dont believe the way it turned out . i think that there is going to be an unparalleled pressure on National Leaders in this country, and im not talking about whoevers president of the United States. Im talking about members of the senate, governors, leaders of nonprofit and Good Government organizations to speak in some sort of nontoxic way to try to step back from the twitterverse, which, as far as im concerned has become in many ways the equivalent of writing on the walls of a public restroom, a venue in which people say things to and about people that they would never say if they were looking them in their eyes. Reporter on balance, come 2021, 2022, is this gonna be a good place to live . My two elder grandchildren are half chinese. My new grandson is a quarter black. Therefore, they look like america. And i have hopes for that america. But im not sure thats the america of 2021. But when i look at those kids, and i think of the future, i dont have any choice but to be hopeful. 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