. >> the mission is being overseen by 3 illinois natives -- jeff walk, director of science for the nature conservancy, project director bill kleiman and restoration ecologist cody considine. >> it was a vast landscape dominated by those grasses but the real diversity of the prairie was in the wild flowers the forbs the broad leaf plants and thousands of species of insects that dozens of birds and mammals and reptiles that called the prairie home, along with animals like the bison. what was once this vast landscape across much of illinois has been virtually eliminated and turned into the corn belt. >> but illinois isn't alone. since the late 1800's prairie grasslands across the united states have been steadily vanishing. >> i have heard grasslands in general referred to as the unheralded counterparts of the rain forest and grasslands have a critical role in terms of climate change as well? >> in a prairie most of that carbon is stored in the soil, so it's very secure for very long term storage as soil organic matter. >> in essence, the plants of the tall grass prairie absorb carbon dioxide

the aurora, illinois, native is busting his signature moves for a friend's video camera. >> he's goingy right into the path of traffic. >> all of a sudden, an ice cream truck comes down the street. >> next thing you know, bam. gets sidelined by the ice cream truck. >> the rapper's wrist is broken, but his ego takes the real hit. >> this ranks pretty high on the scale of dumb stunts. >> oh [ bleep ]. >>> a mountain biker pays the price for trying to pass the buck. october 2011, a 38-kilometer bike race begins across albert falls game reserve in south africa. six kilometers in, the bikers come to a clearing. lead biker spots an antelope to his right. >> he says, hey, there's a buck. and then goes back to riding. all of a sudden, the buck is like, oh, are you challenging me? >> seconds later -- >> whoa! holy cow! >> he just comes out of nowhere and smashes this guy off his bike. >> it almost looks like the buck grabs the biker, throws him down and it's just this massive crash of body and bike. >> i would say that's got to hurt. >> [ bleep ] >> the biker survives with a concussion, but has

speaker, darin lahood is a illinois native. he comes to the u.s. congress after serving four years in the illinois state senate. he was a state and federal prosecutor and assistant united states attorney and assistant state's attorney in cook county in the narcotics unit and felony prosecutor. he is known for his work fighting terrorism and making america safer. n a personal note, his dad was a former member of the house, ay lahood. and i would just like to add, i can't think of a member of the house that i love or care for more than ray lahood and i just want to say to his son, everybody keeps saying who is the new congressman? we say that's ray lahood's son. he is going to be known for a lot more than that. but what a wonderful beginning. and with that, i yield to my colleague, mr. shimkus from the state of illinois. mr. shimkus: i don't have much to add. we are glad to have darin here as a new member of the 114th congress. he is joined by his dad and we would hope he was going to be here. and we think of him as we swear in darin. darin has alread

. >> i am a native of illinois. [laughter] prof. greene: nasty politics. but he believed that he somehow could win. more's the pity. >> you said that no one ever votes for a vice presidential candidate. anyone,ion is, does beside me, ever vote against the vice presidential candidate and therefore the whole ticket. i'm thinking of mccain and palin. prof. greene: the statistics on that election show that the numbers of people who voted against mccain for palin were very small. like the nixon literature, palin herself and people who have written -- "game change" the book, make her out to be some sort of game changer. she did not lose that many votes. the answer to your question is political scientists will tell you that is the case, but if you will go on, richard nixon, sarah palin, you position your vice presidential run to have been more important than it was. >> i'm thinking of examples of iran and guatemala, in the eisenhower administration democracy is overthrown by covert operations and supporting the rise of dictatorships. what do you think would have

has that for racial and political reasons associated everything with illinois leg illegal immigrants coming in. there are lots of nativers who are american citizens. it makes sense for jeb bush to use whatever language it is he can to communicate with voters. whether it's spanish, sign language, russian, or german, it doesn't matter, you have to communicate with potential voters. they're both right for whoever it is they're trying to win with. >> let's face it, ben, you can't win an election with just white people voting for you these days, right? >> well, of course. but i think donald trump thinks i'm going to get people that are sick and tired of the average politician and, honestly, look at it so far. it's worked unbelievably well. and so his mantra is really i'm going to be non-pc on every issue. he wants blunt, straight talk. doesn't want any bs politicians come up. so at least -- ooii'll say this he's being true to who he is so far in this campaign. people are not going to like me, some aren't, but i'm going to be real and blunt and hopefully i can make up the difference. >> i'll tell you one group that knows lik