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That s how katherine reeves transforms herself from a mild-manored government employee into a backyard hero. this is the place? yes. this is my strong hive. reporter: one of thousands of city folks on a crusade to save the honeybees. you can go in once a week to check to see that the queen is laying eggs. you feed them. everybody is working, nobody is slacking off. yeah, right. no, they re always working. i m not a terribly environmentally conscious person but i awe that there was a need for people to keep bees, because there aren t any bees anymore. reporter: in recent years, bee colonies all over have been dying at staggering rates. last winter, one out of three did not make it. no one knows exactly why. parasites seem to be part of the cause. but the impact is clear. how badly has this disease hit bees in this country? it has devastated bees in ....
another hot day here in the baltimore area. you re looking at a live picture and a beautiful picture of that. we ll get some relief from the heat that is out there. widening the storm center with a look at your first forecast. we ve got the first taste of the summer relief today. most of us, at least, five degrees cooler. some of us are ten to 12 degrees cooler. that improvement should continue for the next couple of days. we have seen one storm out there. they will show it to you. they are actually moving to the south and the west. a little bit of an unusual storm direction. but moving away from the walkersville area right now. and down through the western half of frederick. and eventually, they are crossing over in the borders ask down into virginia. other than that, what we have really seen is a nice ocean boundary coming in out of the east. and they make for a much cooler day down on the eastern shore. and a somewhat cooler day around baltimore. temperatures righ ....
detailed proposal, 88 pages, $8.4 million to implement. as you guessed it, still nothing. bear in mind, it s 1500ths of a percent that bp earned in the quarter before the spill. it s about 2.5 hundredths of a percent sandra bernstein estimated the spill would cost bp. i spoke about it earlier with dr. ira lifer. dr. leifer, it s been more than three weeks since congressman ed markey asked bp to give your group the green light to do this kind of testing to measure the flow rate, to measure the impact overall of the oil on the ecosystem. you ve heard nothing from bp is my understanding. why do you think that is? i really don t know. i wish they would pick up a phone and just give me a call so i can walk them through the proposal. the experiment is very important, i ve gotten very good feedback from scientists within the government and so on. i m hoping having the full technical proposal for their consideration they ll, too, recognize its importance and actually give me ....