species of bees. know, honey bees live in these massive colonies the one that was in that shed was, you know, 50, 60,000 bees they all work together as a super organism in these giant colonies it is hard to distinguish some bees from other bees to folks who might not know, which is always an important reason you should call a professional beekeeper if you think you have bees living in your home or if you have any questions about bees >> erica, if you had to describe, as you have, two heaping handfuls of bees in your hand what do they feel like does it tickle, hurt, make you nervous? >> it doesn't make me nervous. i've seen comments about how calm i am, and i think there's no other way to be when you're working alongside a colony of bees or holding them in your hand, which, you know, feels incredible to have these hundreds of thousands of tiny insects in your hand. they're all clinging to each other. it's really amazing that they let me do that you know, it feels like trust and acceptance, and i just f

the female bees kill off the male bees.— the male bees.lessons for all of _ the male bees. well, there you go. lessons for all of us - go. lessons for all of us there. philip atkinsonjoining from with all us from switzerland with all the insights that we can learn bees in the thank you for joining the thank you forjoining us on business today. stay with us on bee bee news. hello, there. in pateley bridge, north yorkshire, the cloud just a maximum afternoon high of two celsius. yes, it clouded over into the afternoon, and that's exactly what's happening. we've got showery outbreaks of rain drifting north and east. mild air for this time of year. but look at these temperatures. first thing on thursday morning, widespread double quite a misty, murky story. as we go through the day. quite a lot of cloud across the south and east, but those temperatures well above where they should be for this time of year, 12—14 degrees. of thursday into friday, accompanied by gale—force gusts of winds as the isobars squeeze together. very windy indeed on thos

i bet the bees will go for this all right. i would if i was a bee. i bet they'll come zoomin' right at those camellias when they smell this. [music] plenty of bees around here, all right. these oughta show 'em where the honey is. that smells good. it smells kinda like my grandpa's apple trees. 'cause that's exactly what this perfume is: apple blossom. bees like apple blossoms. sure, they do. hey, look. here comes one now. hey, there's lots of 'em. we better get out of here and give 'em room 'cause we don't wanna make 'em nervous. no, sir, 'cause there's nothing worser than a nervous bee. come on. i certainly appreciate your help, mr. wilson. you really hammered merivale's prices down for me. oh, i always drive a good bargain with old merivale. he's tighter than a short shoe, but he never makes a dime on me. well, you're a tough dealer. gee, your garden smells good. yes. hmm. nature's own perfume. lovely. well, thanks again. i'll be seeing you. ah, see you later, mitchell. oh, sis. oh, sis. are you home? i just got home, george. what is it? oh, come o

honey bee. >> what's good for water is great for the bees as well. >> reporter: in large part because water shed. >> reporter: a perfect area for honey bee. >> what's good for water is great for the bees as well. >> reporter: day and night, weekends too, the girls focused on just one thing.s, harvested honey. >> bees. >> you've got bees all over you. >> reporter: are we okay honey 4 g as in four girls. >> give me a fun >> yeah, we're good. >> reporter: were any of you all scared of bees. >> not really. >> reporter: before you started you were cool with them. if i get a bee inside my suit, what should i do. >> stay calm >> don't do that >> reporter: with the guidance of their ag teacher, they built the frames, maintained hives, harvested honey. >> getting to actually open the hive and learn how to extract >> reporter: in texas where cows are king, the girls entered the houston livestock show and rodeo, they won recognition, an honor that created a lot of buzz >> i'm very proud, proud of myself, and my team. without this team, i couldn't have gained leadership skills. >> reporter: you m

bee. all that and more coming up now. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today's take," with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist and tamron hall, live from >>> welcome to "today" on a snow city. it's february the 5th, 2016. two days before the super bowl. great crowd outside in this weather. i'm willie inside with natalie and al. tamron is on assignment again this morning in new hampshire. our morning jam is "september" by earth, wind and fire. we're playing it in memory of maurice white, who died wednesday at his home in los angeles at the age of 74. one of the founding members of this great band. >> he suffered from parkinson's the last two decades. they are our they were our first plaza performance in 1995. they played a number of times. this is them in 2001. >> they were like our house band here for a long time. i remember every time they came in, they'd play "september" and the crowd would always go crazy. >> terrific. >> what a great legacy. as you listen to the song, you'll p

. >>> bee falling? samantha bee begins to lose sponsors in the wake of those vulgar comments made about ivanka trump. >> do something about your dad's immigration practices you [ bleep ]. he listens to you. >> the cable comic apologizing amid calls for her show to be cancelled. >>> those stories, plus, throwing life a curve. white sox pitcher danny farquhar back to the ballpark today six weeks after an aneurysm nearly took his life. >> i'm very thankful to still be here. >>> the sweet spell of victory. the texas teen proving he has what he needs for victory. >> that is correct! e'k toim about his big night. >>> j.r. you kidding me? >> misses, rebound to the cavs. >> game one of the nba finals ends in a heartbreaking loss for the cleveland cavaliers after j.r. smith loses track of the score. >> you get the feeling j.r. smith didn't know they had the lead. >> lebron james in disbelief has cleveland fans hope the team can recover today, friday, june 1st, 2018. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" w

finally on business today, what does it take to bee a leader? or queen bees. leadership from bees.hejoined me earlier. bees have survived for millions of years but they are constantly evolving to meet the needs of the different and my call to action is for all leaders to keep evolving with new ways of working in society at the 0k. business leaders could actually lead from bees and their behaviour. thank you, thank you. i think there are three things. notice of what is happening inside a complex system. stakeholders — as we have heard on the news today already. and we cannot use old frameworks to understand a simple hierarchy of command and control. we encourage readers to stop, pause, think and understand grow with the system rather than fighting against it. sure you talk to business leaders about it. are there any other kind of direct comparisons you can could adopt in their workplace? we are not pretending everyone should work like bees but one key thing is about communication. we do know in this world we need to communicate understood about where to find flowers. and what about

hey bumble bee o busy bee. o busy bee. this year let's keep your sanity. come to the store or go online. for all your gifts, you'll be just fine. aw, you're sweet. black friday starts 6pm thursday and all day online at walmart. >>> in our special series thanks and fifg we're highlighting the life-saving work done at st. jude's children's research hospital. today we meet a young doctor at st. jude who has a very special connection to the hospital. >> it's obvious from the moment room. about. >> that he has a special way with his patients. perhaps it's because he knows all too well what they are going through. before jason decided to become a doctor, he had dreams of being a 13 years old, a star on his junior high team, that dream came to a halt. after his mother noticed some swollen lymph nodes on his neck, jason had blood work done and the results were not good. >> they said we have to go to st. jude's, so it was pretty shocking and a quick transition. my parents checked me out at school one day. that night i flew on my first airplane ride to memphis, and

we're going to talk more spelling bee. i went on wednesday, saw some of the action before the finals and spent time with the kids and boy, did we get lucky. we hung out with one of the co-champions. and it also -- coincidentally. we got lucky. >> spell coincidentally. >> i couldn't spell at all. i thought i was good until i went up against these kids. they are way smarter than adult i met. >> look forward to that. >> we'll have that. >> in the meantime. >> in the meantime we begin with the top stories. the future of the los angeles clippers. that huge lawsuit filed by owner donald sterling could it now get in the way of a record deal reached by his wife to sell that team to the former ceo of microsoft. miguel almaguer has a look. >> reporter: the team set to be sold this morning donald sterling is suing the nba for more than $1 billion. the clippers' co-owner seeking damages for antitrust and other violations. the lawsuit making headlines just as the record-setting sale price for the clippers is too. >> pay approximately 6

and we regret it. >> but it did not cancel bee's show as abc did with barr's. >> samantha bee has a job tonight. roseanne barr does not have a job. roseanne barr has shown these offensive statements. and samantha bee quite frankly has not. >> barr asked not to be compared with others who have said horrible things. i only care about apologizing for the hurt i have unwittingly and stupidly caused. >> igniting a debate about what slurs deserve more than just condemnation. >> thank you. >> president trump expecting the north korean top diplomat to hand deliver a letter to him from kim jong-un. this after another day of talks between kim's right hand man and secretary of state mike pompeo in new york city. did they bring the u.s. and north korea any closer to a summit? nbc's tracy potts is with us live from washington. good morning. >> closer, yes. done deal, no. president trump looking forward to getting the letter from kim jong-un personally hand delivered to the white house today. by his right hand man, the former spy chief, who has been in new york negotiating with our former spy chief s

. >> the national spelling bee ending in an historic eight-way tie. and the haocto-cmps are celebrating with us "today," may 31st, 2019. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with savannah guthrie andod ha kotb live from studio in rockefeller plaza. >> hi, everybody. welcome to "today." it is friday. bo f that was a spelling bee the ages. it went late into the night, the early hours. they were so good they had to say you all won. >> they ran out of words at the national spelling bee. we'll talk to all eightf the winners soon. >> they conquered the dictionary. >>> let's get to the wther and this slow rolling disaster in the midwest and south at this hour. millions at risk today as cities scramble t cope with that historic flooding. levees and dams are being pushed to the brink. kristen dahlgren joins us with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. we are just getting wordhis morning that one of the levees to our east has now breached and so the fear is that more neighborhoods are soon going to look like this. this morning two weeks of severe weat

hey bumble bee o busy bee. o busy bee. this year let's keep your sanity. come to the store or go online. for all your gifts, you'll be just fine. aw, you're sweet. black friday starts 6pm thursday and all day online at walmart. >>> let the holiday shopping rush again. flak black friday doles are all over the internet, on the radio, in your in box promising deep discounts on everything from cell phones to new cars. the deals could end up costing you more money. other to make sure you think twice before you buy is our lifestyle editor at "family magazine." good morning, ladies. >> this is all for the black shopping at end of the week. is it worth if? door busters are crazy and some people have that tradition of going every year. things aren't always as they seem. you can actually get better deals later in the year. >> what are the dream and where are they and what should you count on? >> a lot of the deals are happening -- people are buying electronics and online so the national retail federation came out with a statistic that said 57% of the people have alr

with the bee hives. hoping to control the elephant's movements by keeping the moving when the animal stay in one place too long they can inflict extensive damage but above all the conservationists say bees are the perfect way of keeping elephants away from trees when one of the big animals has ripped off that bark they can fall prey to other assailants like termites in the villages around the park people have little experience with bees many are afraid of them and attitude running to calais is working to change he plans to start keeping bees in his village and to train some of the local residents as. we've heard. from a. lot of these. producing honey about the can. go. back inside the park the conservationists have found another way of reducing elephant numbers in problem areas they've laid dry a number of watering holes that means the elephants have to keep moving to find fresh water relieving the pressure on the local ecosystem but smaller parks don't have that option so there is growing interest in th

speaking of d.n.a. a colony of bees has a queen bee male drones and female workers whether a female becomes a queen or a worker is determined by the food she gets as another not her d.n.a. . nature does have many surprises in store. so surprising the unusual role being played in the south african conservation project. in the middle of the south african bush right next to kruger national park zoo all of jests robin cook and brownie. have set up fifty beehives. the two conservationists are testing whether honeybees can protect selected trees inside the park from the park's largest residence elephants. just like people elephants don't like getting stung they have an acute sense of smell and hearing so one hint of a bee hive and they're all. and the reason we're doing that is that in our protected areas here in south africa we've got a build up of a lot. and danes are concerned over the impact that they may be having on our large tree species and so we're trying to find ways that we can mitigate the effect that elephants have on trees and thereby placing honeybees in these trees we hoping that

watching a spelling bee.tiply it by about ten. harini is going to be was. we look for that. we have a lot to get to. this morning the queen's service for thanksgiving for the platinum jubilee. the queen herself notably not attending. you can see other royal members stepping out. including the first formal jubilee appearance from harry and meghan. a lot more from london live. >> also following back here a threat of severe weather heading into the weekend. parts of florida under a tropical storm warning. >>> we begin with president biden's national address on gun violence calling on congress to act amid a string of recent mass shootings across the country. more than 230 since january 1st. we've got it all covered. we're going start with nbc's kristen welker at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. you could see the anger in the president's voice as he called on congress to pass new gun laws to. make the case the president cited data from the cdc which shows guns are now the number 1 k

bee in fifth grade. basics and moved on to more advanced words. >> erin, let me come back you to here because, how does one become a great speller how does one practice, develop these skills >> well, i have been doing this since i was in second grade. that's when i was really introduced to the whole idea of there being a national spelling bee, and i think that that was the year when i decided i want to become a great speller. so i've just worked hard and studied for the past six years and starting in march every year, after i win my state bee, i do at least 25 hours a week of study and practice >> 25 hours a week >> it takes a lot of hard work, yeah. >> i know all of you can hear me i want to ask you a question and give me a show of hands here eight co-champions wouldn't you guys have preferred to continue going? raise your hand if you would have preferred to continue until there were just two or three champions, a few more rounds show of hands. okay so, sohum, that was it you didn't want to continue goi

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with a clear division of labor nurse bees look after the larvae worker bees build the honeycomb from where else and they fly out to collect next to it to make honey as a small room these can do things they'd never be able to do on their own and. that's what our web video is all about this week. how do bees defy the wind. once a year honeybees head out to form a new colony. to rest during their search they gather under branches to huddle together. that scientists wanted to know how the honeybees swarm holds together in the wind. so in the lab they built these movable platforms to simulate winds. when the storm is shaken the bees are exposed to extreme loads especially those directly on the board. these responded by spreading out. the classic cone makes a small more stable. research has tracked the movements of individual beanies and found that they crawl in the direction of the higher load. when all the bees follow that rule the cone becomes flatter. then the colony becomes more stable and can withstand the wind smallman teligent makes for a stronger colony. butterflies and other inse

now there's a push to protect the bees.y zachry is live in west philadelphia where you might be surprised to learn hundreds of thousands of bees live. tell us more about that. >> reporter: tracey they do. we saw it for ourselves. they live atop that roof on the building behind me. this building is not unique. there are many others throughout philadelphia that have volunteered roof space to breed bees. now, demand behind the latest mission to protect the honey bees is councilman curtis jones. much of his district encompasses park space, atop a building where 500,000 bees live. this is a safe space for them to live and grow and not be exterminated like so many hives are throughout the city. bees are integral to our way of life they pollinate crops. without them, farms would not survive. why this latest push? it has to did with the president. >> referee: the united states and i'm working on that story coming up at 5:15. reporting live in west philadelphia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. >>> 4:19. let's get you up dated on the roads

. >> a bee hive cake with marzipan bees. and so much more. >> ooh.d yummy at the same time. >> ooh, cute. >> nice. >> first al has a check of our weather. >> if i'm not too busy to give that to you. >> whoo. >> sorry. wet weather in the pacific northwest. showers in the central ohio river valley. a few snow showers left over in western new york and p.a. and plenty of sunshine along the gulf coast with a lot of heat in the plains. then for tomorrow, the warmth continues there. risk of some strong storms in the mid-mississippi and ohio river valleys. clouds in the new england area. look for sunny and warm conditions through the gulf. sizzling west texas into the southwest. and the southern rockies. >> good morning. it will be a breezy and cool today. yesterday we were in the 40's. we'll make it into the 50's today. >> and that's your latest weather. >> all right, al, thanks. coming up next, love him or loathe him, the unauthorized biography of simon cowell. we've got the juicy details. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ [ female announcer ] nat

. >> we talked about your bee sting. kath got stung by a bee over the weekend. the weird thing was from the beginning of the show to the end of the show her ankle turned into like elephantitis. weird. it kept growing and getting bigger. people kept giving us ideas of what to do. you soaked your foot in pickle juice. because some lady said it worked. >> if i soaked it for two hours like she told me to do it maybe would have worked. thank you, everybody. more than -- you want to see it? it's still pretty bad. it's still pretty darn bad. i eventually -- i don't think you can tell. i eventually had to go to the doctor. i hate to do that. >> i know you do. >> i went to the doctor. i got a big ole painful shot in my buttocks. and another shot. that was like an antibiotic. then i got a huge thing of benadryl. i have to be on stuff for ten -- it's a big, big deal. >> you know why? it was hot to the touch. that usually means infection. you were woozy because of the benadryl. you're like -- >> yeah. i'm saying it again as well today. that i'm not responsible for anything

but we begin with the backlash surrounding comedian samantha bee.d apologize, sort of. nbc's craig melvin has more. >> a lot of people were offended and angry that i used an epithet

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hey bumble bee o busy bee. o busy bee. this year let's keep your sanity. come to the store or go online. for all your gifts, you'll be just fine. aw, you're sweet. black friday starts 6pm thursday in a world full of dictates and conventions, could there be another way? la vie est belle. la vie est belle, the eau de parfum, lanc me. now at macy's, >>> all right. tamron is in for carson in the original room this morning and social media buzzing over a dress this morning. what is it this time in. >> it is so funny, guys, how things go viral. so it is all about the dress. no, savannah, not that dress. i know you wanted to discuss this. >> still gold and white. >> the gold and white and blue and black. >> it's this dress that everyone is talking about. here's the back story. weather anchor spotted this look, 22.99 on amazon and share her great find in a facebook back for meteorologists, and then this happened. all across the country this is actually a collage of on air. >> i have it. >> well, that's the word on the street, and more pictures continue to pour in

a bee in the middle of october. >> in the boot. >> a bee in the boot. he had his way more than once with me, which wouldn't be a first. look at that foot. that was this morning. it looks like gangrene. no, i have gout. i have a cankle. it's this one. i could never be a weather woman. i can't do that. i have a cankle now. >> so you're taking benadryl. why hasn't it gone down? it's been since saturday. >> most people are wimps and they wouldn't come to work on monday on columbus day, but no. >> did it. so you're icing it, that's it? >> icing and benadryl. i can imagine one time i did get -- it was the day before whitney houston and bobbi brown got married, i remember this i was supposed to go the wedding the next day. cody was like 2 years old, 3. he got in a hornet's nest. i picked him up and ran him to the house protecting him like this. he didn't get not one bite, but my arms -- i looked like popeye the sailor man. >> keep taking benadryl. >> i would love to hear from everybody. not that we have an electronic person on facebook anymore. >> we're workin

the bees actually pollinate.of bees doing their pollination. they also provide, you know, apples, they pollinate for blueberries, for oranges these are really hard working little guys here and we have about a $15 billion agriculture industry that relies on bees and ultimately we have to remember that they also give us a little honey. i'm going to try this. take my glove off. wish me luck that i don't get stuck here >> oh, there we go oh, wow. >> true it >> whoa. >> he has a net on >> how are you going to do that? >> delicious >> did you, really >> very good >> yumm. i'll take some >> it's an important story >> it really is all part of this hierarchy that we need a little known fact, bears don't actually like honey. they're actually going in to get the bee larva in trees when they scoop it out, they're grabbing honey >> bee larva is not as cute. >> i don't know winnie the pooh would agree with you >> hey, i'm smarter than the average bear i hope i don't make a mistake because that would be a boo-boo. >>> hey, we h

bees. they include certain kinds of bumblebees. for example, these pollinate many crops and therefore play a key role in our food supply. in europe, 3 quarters of all cultivated plants depend, guns be used for pollination. without them fruit trees would only produce a quarter of their normal heels. incidentally, studies have shown time and again that the best pollinators are not honey bees. but while these one study looked over, 40 different prompt systems all over the world, from small scale fields to giant mano cultures comparing colonization by honey bees with that of wild insect. the result showed that the same number of flower visits by wild bees flicked a harvest twice as high as when the flowers were visited by domesticated bees. despite that, honey bees continue to draw most of our attention. once back in the hive, the neck during falling, they collect is enriched with enzymes and packed into honeycombs. the sweet result is turned into products that are thought to be good for your h

for most of us, if you get a bee sting, what you should do, this is interesting.to pick off the stinger. there's a venom sack attached to that stinger and you can keep injecting venom into your skin. >> what do you do? >> use a credit card or your fingernail with a straight end to scratch it off. >> weird. >> take a credit card with you. >> we do that! >> i never leave it at home. >> spiders, how do you know if you have been bitten by one? >> sometimes you might not know until a couple hours later. a couple spiders you need to watch out for. if you live in the midwest, you want to look out for the black widow. everyone's heard about it, but may not know what it looks like. interestingly, it's got this little shape on its body like an hourglass. >> and the red spot. >> if you get bit, what do you do? >> it will look like fangs. you may not know you were bitten. you may not have symptoms until 15 minutes or an hour later. you can have nausea, vomiting and even seizures. if you have those symptoms, see a doctor. >> you could die from one, can't you, if you are that a

. >>> well, from rodents to bees. 12 hives and 15,000 bees here that you can see.ach one of these kits right here, george mason is turning several acres of the lorton landfill into a sanctuary. and david juculver is here with the buzz. >> reporter: thousands of bees and lots of hundred. the george mason university bee initiative is buzzing. >> we are very we havelandfill. that's a great indicator our environment is in e.>>eporter: about the project back in march when the were building these. the home to thousands of bees. so some bees can be deadly if they are allergic enough. and for most of us, they are just annoying, especially when trying to enjoy the outside. but they play an important role in the circle of life. that's exactly what the project is hoping to preserve. >> bees are important because they are poll nay or thes. pollinators. the university will study the bees and honey to learn if there are negative impacts to them from the landfill. the researchers hope to university the information from the project to educate the importance of od you have been sha

that study also showed that bee venom has grown more toxic in the course of evolution. and now it's time to look at pete bogs. pete lands provide valuable habitats for rare plants and animals, and could also store in nor less amounts of c o 2. but that's not the only thing that makes them so fascinating to scientists. a well known result, meadow landscape on the baltic sea. it was an, a bulk similar to this one that insect expert to be his mind to madison station or discovery not long ago. ready ready instructions on that important i was traveling with a friend and brandenburg where i come from the choices. we often hung the beetles, then the weather was good and i saw some remains sparkling in the sun. it turned out to be a beetle. somebody took it with me when it's hans. it clearly identifying most people spacings in the field mice that were over 6000 of them in germany. but they told him we knew it was old involved, but we didn't know just highlighted us with ministry due to the low oxygen content . and the amino acids in the soil decomposition happens very slowly an

experts say about 90% of those bees unfortunately lost during the accident. a lot of bees there. >>> last month's average global temperature tied the hottest april on record four years ago. bill karins. >> yeah, these records go back to the '70s. they use satellites and estimate the global temperatures. april was either the first or second depending which agency you're going to go by. >> in the last 40 years. >> mostly because of siberia, by the way. huge heat wave. a huge portion of it, too. let's talk about yesterday in our country because we had active weather in the midwest. severe weather season. this is what you expect to see. i'm still impressed every time i see baseball-sized hail. just the stuff falling from the sky was shattering windshields. this is from naperville, illinois. we also saw a big thunderstorm that was outside of denver yesterday. denver only had a high of 73. but they've been seeing a lot of bad storms as of late. they did actually have one storm that reported a tornado with that. as far as the highs went, 70 in san diego. 71 in san f

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the result showed that the same number of flower visits by wild bees flicked a harvest twice as high as when the flowers were visited by domesticated bees. despite that honey beast continued to draw most of our attention once back in the hive, the neck during pollen bay collect is enriched with enzymes and packed into honeycombs . the sweet resolved is turned into products that are thought to be good for your health, such as honey. it's set to help with colds for sleep and blemish skin. but while these are also in focus, researchers have studied the venom may produce. it contains an anti inflammatory compound that might be useful against cancer honey bee that them also contains this compound a, but it's a fits a stronger. so it also damages healthy cells. in a wild be species of variance was found that only works on cancer cells. that study also showed that b, them has grown more toxic in the course of evolution. and now it's time to look at pete bogs. pete lands provide valuable habitats for rare plants and animals, and can also store in nor less amounts of c o 2. but that's not the

of the thous george mason university's bee initiative is, well, buzzing. get it? >> we are very happy. we lots of hives and they have shown a lot of progress at this point. >> if we have progress thriving in a facility like this in fairfax county's i-95 landfill, that's a great indicator of our environment being in good shape. >> reporter: we first told you about the project back in march todayy i ortant because they are pollinators. they are -- they are pragmatic producers. >> reporter: the university will study the bees and their honey to learn if there's negative impact on them from the landfill. they hope to use the information to educate the importance of pollinato pollinators. in fairfax, david culver, news4. >>> now, if you want to go inside the hive and search the queen bee, search bees in the nbc washington app. >>> well, it looks like a lot of you have been hearing the story about d.c.'s fat cat on our nbc washington facebook page. well, if you have had any thoughts about adopting him, you're going to nee it turns out thatn living facility. the family do

the bee gees were in a zone. >> the beatles had that, michael jackson had that, and the bee gees hadhe "saturday night fever" period. >> reporter: robin also had a successful solo career, despite his illness, gibb continued to work and give back. active in many charities, he rerecorded his 1960s hit, i've got to get a message to you, in support of british soldiers. recently gibb had composed a classical work with his son robin john. their titanic requiem was performed on the 100th anniversary of that sea disaster. but by then, gibb was too ill to attend. >> we wanted to take a moment to pause and remember -- >> reporter: at the billboard awards last night, a moment of silence. >> his voice and the music of the bee gees will live on forever. >> reporter: robin gibb died at 62. a driving force in one of pop music's biggest brandings. and besides all these bee gees songs, gibb also wrote hits for female vocalists like barbra streisand and celine dion. one british music critic says gibb was more talented than even he ever knew. lester? >> all right, jim maceda, thanks very much. it's now

they don't do that in a spelling bee. >> please spell onomotopeia. >> i have one for you.o that. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. city leaders are taking a unique approach in the fight against crime. commissioner along with stephanie rawlings-blake announced the intent to revoke a license citing two recent murders and shootings and drug activity. the possible closure is getting mixed reaction. >> getting us out here and closing it down. >> what do we do? >> officials said that the company that owns the complex has done l >> now let's look at the forecast with tony pann. >> we will continue to see period of rain as we had to the day. the heaviest stuff will be this morning. high temperatures will likely stay in the 70's. as we go through the next couple of days, to buttress the job and we will make it up to 85 on thursday -- but insurers will, and we will make up to 85 on thursday. -- temperatures will drop and we will make up 85 on thursday. >> another update at 9:25.