Ok, So the Votes Are In. and First up Today We Are Taking a Look at the Big Wins Across

Scott: What is up? Today we are taking a look at what went down during Election Day yesterday. And the honey bee population has been on the decline for decades. Could some college students have the solution? That and more coming up. It is Wednesday, November 5th.I am Scott Evans and Channel One News starts right now.

Ok, so the votes are in. And first up today we are taking a look at the big wins across the country. Here's Demetrius Pipkin with the breakdown.

Demetrius: The big questionfrom yesterday’smidterm elections was which party would end up controlling the Senate, the Democrats or the Republicans?
As expected, the Republicans picked up enough of the Democrats seats to become the majority party in the Senate. This means they have more power to push through their own agenda.
And according to exit polls, voters said the issues most important are the economy, health care, illegal immigration and foreign policy.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell from Kentucky will likely become the Senate Majority Leader.

Sen. McConnell: Tonight they said we can have real change in Washington, real change.

Demetrius: He will be replacing the former Democratic Majority Leader, Harry Reid of Nevada.
In Louisiana, neither the Democratic SenatorMary Landrieu nor Republican Bill Cassidy were able to get at least50 percent of the vote. So there will be a runoff in that state on December 6th.
In the House of Representatives, the midterm election results came as no surprise. Republicans already controlled the House and voters decided they will continue to hold that majority in the House again for at least another two years.
But the American public isn't happy with the job Congress is doing. 79 percent disapprove of their work. But even though the Republicans now control both chambers of Congress, the House and the Senate, they were not able to win enough seats to get a supermajority.
This is important in the Senate because a supermajority of 60 seats is necessary to override a filibuster, which is a delay tactic that has been used a lot recently to prevent a vote on a bill.
And because of that, many experts believe that over the next two years we will see more of the same gridlock coming out of Congress, and very little actually getting done.
Scott back to you.

Scott: Thanks Pipkin.And After the break we will take a look at what a new survey is saying about careers after college.

The point of going to college for many is to get a degree that will help with landing a great job, right? Well a recent survey shows that while college grads are still more likely to get work, the type of work may not be what they had in mind.

Adelyn Maldonado got a full time job after she graduated from college with a degree in media studies. Unfortunately, it is not the job she wanted.
Adelyn: I got stuck waitressing.
Scott: She waits tables at night and during the day applies for media jobs, but nothing has come through.
Adelyn: A lot of resumes, a lot of replying online and hearing nothing back. Very discouraging after a while.
A new survey from CareerBuilder.com looked at recent college graduates with a job.
Like Adelyn, half are working in a field that does not require a degree.
Michael Erwin: Four in ten college students say that they don’t feel like college prepared them for the real world.
Scott: CareerBuilder.com’s Michael Erwin says colleges need to do more to help students prepare for a career.
Michael: Academia has to work with businesses to figure out what the curriculum should be so when these students do come out they’re able to be placed in jobs that meet their skills.
Scott: College grads are still more likely to get a job than those without degrees.
57 percent of businesses say they plan to hire college graduates this year. That’s up from 44 percent in 2010.
Michael: College grads have been told that the market is very rough but this is the first year we tell them there is hope out there.
Scott: And students with any education after high school are more likely to find jobs than students with only a high school diploma.
So where are the jobs?
According to CareerBuilder.comgraduates who majored in healthcare, science or technology were more likely to find work.
Students who applied for a job well before graduation were more successful.
And internships also gave new grads a leg up.
Adelyn: I paid a lot of money for a degree and I want to put it to use.
Scott: Adelyn is hoping to find a job in her field to help her payalmost forty thousand dollars in student loans.

And we will have more about internships on tomorrows’ show and how they can help you land that dream job.
Ok, coming up. A common insect around the world is quickly disappearing. Could a virus hold the key to saving them? We will take a look after this.

Honey bees, small insects that have a big impact.But over the last few decades their numbers have been dropping dramatically.
Now, some college students may be leading the way in bringing the bees back. And here’sMaggie Rulli with their story.

Bryan Merrill: This is a huge discovery.
Maggie: Bryan Merrill could not be more excited…
Bryan: This is a larva remains.
Maggie: …about what he and his fellow student scientists at Brigham Young University have uncovered: a way to save billions of honey bees around the world.
Bryan and his team are able to kill a deadly bacteriathat's commonly found in bees by using a virus that specifically targets the bacteria.
Bryan: This bacteria wipes out honey bees. It infects them, it makes them really, really sick and it's a huge problem with maintaining honey bee health.

Maggie: According to the research, about 3 to 15 percent of the honey bees out there are dying from the bacteria.
Bryan: It’s one piece of the puzzle of honey bees disappearing, and if we can get this figured out then it will really make the big difference."
Maggie: One piece in a much larger puzzle known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. That's when honey bees leave to pollinate crops and simply never return, leaving millions of normally buzzing hives around the world silent.
The bee population has been rapidly falling for more than twenty years. On average 30 percent of hives have been lost each winter here in the U.S.

So I suited up to investigate this strange disappearance.

Ramesh Sagili is the lead researcher at Oregon State University's Honey Bee lab.
So is this what a healthy hive looks like?

Ramesh: Oh yeah, this is a healthy hive.

Maggie: What does a hive look like when it is gone through Colony Collapse Disorder?

Ramesh: You'll not see this many bees, and in some cases, they don't literally see any bees in the hive.
Maggie: Sagili and his team point to habitat loss and disease as two possible causes. They are studying various mites and parasites. And even looking at how bees might not be getting enough food because how we farm today.
And in May, researchers at Harvard University directly linked bee deaths and Colony Collapse Disorderto the most common chemicals used by farmers to kill off bugs.
There are still a lot of questions and scientists around the world are working to find the answers.

Because the bee might seem like just a tiny insect, but without them, we wouldn't have a third of the food we eat.
Dirk Olsen: If you don't have the bees, then we don't get the production of our fruits and vegetables and feed for cattle and then that’s passed onto the consumer.

Maggie: How does bee loss in Oregon affect someone going to the grocery store all the way across the country?
Dirk: Alfalfa, which is fed to cows to produce milk. In order to get alfalfa, it has to be planted, and those seeds are pollinated by honey bees.So even a glass of milk is directly attributable to the pollination of a honey bee.
Honey bees are some of the country’s busiest workers, contributing more than 15 billion dollars to the U.S. economy with their pollination.
Dirk: We rent the bees to the farmers. Right now, we've got bees pollinating radishes, blueberries, squash, it goes on and on.

Maggie: If we lose bees, it is consumers who will feel the sting with higher prices and potentially empty grocery stores.
But there is hope. This past summer, President Obama created a special task force to combat CCD. And now thanks to Bryan and his class at BYU, at least some of the bees will be able to stay buzzing.
Sandra Burnett: We’re able to save bees. This is really big.
Maggie: Maggie Rulli, Channel One News.

Scott: To learn more about the bee Colony Collapse Disorder and how you can help, head to ChanneOne.com.
And that is going to about do it for us today. I am Scott Evans. Before you go check outone more thing.

It was kindness over competitionat a Minnesota High School cross country meet last weekend.
When runner Jessica Christoffer stumbled, two of her competitors, Tierney Winter and Kailee Kiminski, helped her over the finish line.
Tierney: We saw her fall, and it's fifty meters away from the finish and I was like, I couldn't leave her there. I wouldn't want to be left out there if it was me, so I just kind of thought of myself there too, so, just being a friend.
Scott: That act of kindness actually disqualified all three runners because of a high school league rule. But the girls say it was worth it.
Jessica: I'm really thankful for them.It means a lot to me. It means I accomplished my goal of running at state and doing well.

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