late summer in barrett minnesota it is usually buzzing with activity. i think we are ready to walk down to the beehives. >> the midwest is known for the commercial bee industry. we have empty boxes not filled with honey. nothing. >> bee kooepers are witnessing an alarming problem. how many bees are we losing? >> the losses are avt ron omic am. i lost 65% of my operation last winter. we look in the ground to see if there's dead bees on the ground. most people in the u.s. would be happy staying away from the honey bee. >> they are critically important to the u.s. food supply. they provide $15 billion in revenue, and one-third relies on the industrious pollinators. the demand for pollinator crops, the fruit and vegetables, is increasing. the supply of bees is decreasing. the general term is colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon seen before, but this time it is different say the bee keepers. >> seeing a number of things that we have never seen before. bees just disappearing. >> not only disappearing, they are dying in large numbers. >> something like this,

minnesota, on the line for democrats. good morning, you are on with devlin barrett. caller: thank you for taking my call. ishink the sequestration just another example of the tea party willing to compromise national security for political reasons. and i think that the majority of people voted for certain politicians so that it would probably protect social security give us the -- affordable health care act. and the tea party is willing to the people, will of the majority of the people, to get their own way in any way that they can. i think they are willing to put our country at risk. i am wondering what you think it is going to take to stop this. terms of the fbi, i think what you hear sort of whispered quietly as they discuss this is god forbid something happens while this is going on, are we going to engage in a degree of finger-pointing about -- did budget cuts make it harder to stop this attack? that is a pretty severe scenario, frankly. but look, there is finger- pointing after almost every attack at -- that the fbi fails to stop. it is not that inconceivable that, god forbid, there is another situa