news4 photo journalist beth brown went to george mason university where the students are engaged in a project to help the honey bee. >> reporter: when i started the project i did not like bees. the campus. you see the big bum bees. >> call the honey bee is on decline. >> she's beautiful. >> everyone likes a clean cage. >> she's right here, she's longer, bigger than the rest. >> we have nine hives. >> throughout the semester we record each field day of what we see, how the colony is doing, if we see a queen and everything we do kind of gives us an indication on how well the colony is doing throughout the year. >> so we know that the coley actually is in good shape. >> a world without bees would mean the end lot of the fruits and the nuts that we appreciate. >> all of the peaches, all of the apples. >> a lot of our bees die mostly just from not being able to keep themselves warm in the winter. but we do have a lot of problems with things that most beekeepers do see. >> remember that? >> yeah. >> they don't sting. >> oh. >> that's why i can hold him like this. >> we're looking to expand

news4 photojournalist beth brown went to george mason where students are engaged in a project to helpthe honeybee. >> reporter: at the very start of this i am not afraid to say that i did not like bees. i was afraid of bees. >> you try to avoid them, especially when you're on campus. the big bumblebees and you see people avoiding important pollinator worldwide and it's on the decline. >> we are checking to make sure she got out of the cage. >> she's beautiful. >> everybody loves to find the queen too. that's the biggest moment of excitement. >> she's right here. she's longer. she's bigger than the rest and she is white. >> at george mason we have nine hives. >> throughout the semester we record each field day of what we see how the colony is doing, if we see a queen, if we see brood and everything we do kind of gives us an indication on how well the colony is doing throughout the year. >> so we know this colony actually is in good shape. they personal ly see. if you eat you really need to care about the bees. >> a world without bees would mean the end to a lot of the fruits and the nu

beth coast. benjamin brown, leisure cruz, shailene woodley, rosario dawson -- [cheers and applause] she's been doingreat job for us. and linda, again, linda. your mayor and i have known each other for a long time. i used to be the mayor of burlington, vermont, and i think we had some contact with back then. i want to pick up on the point that linda made, because it is maybe the most important point of the evening. that is if you accept the status quo, if you accept media's definition of what we can do and what we cannot do, i guarantee you, you will go no place. he will go no place as a country at all. our job is to think outside of the box, to think outside of the status quo, to ask the hard questions, questions like why not? [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and if we ask why not, and if we do not allow the trumps of the world to divide us up, the truth is there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: as i go around the country, i become increasingly optimistic about where we can be as a nation, and want to tell you why. a year ago, i heard from all of the pundi

brown or dead. >> different levels of health then? >> exactly. >> it's a small crew. dr. gates and myself... team members jen davidson and beth lenz, and the boat's captain. john 'lj' benson. this won't be leisurely... we're racing the elements. in the mountains overlooking the bay, a storm is threatening. it's an ominous day to go scuba diving, but science doesn't wait for perfect weather. near our dive site, beth and jen jump in with snorkel gear to help us zero in on the reef below. the event that brought us here is called bleaching. higher than normal water temperatures cause corals to expel the symbiotic plant cells which provide them food. without the algae the corals begin to starve...turning healthy brown coral, ghostly white. this year's bleaching has been so pervasive, that for only the third time in history, scientists have declared it a global event. back on board, i check out a new piece of equipment; an aquatic communication system that will let me talk underwater. jen and beth surface, confirming we're on the reef. >> directly under me. >> it's directly under her... we'll do it, because this coral is really ama