Big Miracle Page #3

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let's go over this one more time.

We do the Bush-Dukakis debates,

followed by voter reaction.

Do the budget deficit piece,

the S&L indictments and what?

The Anti-Drug bill, right?

That leaves us a minute

and 40 seconds to fill.

Well, did anything new

come in on the feeds?

Yeah, you got

Chrysler laying off 5,000.

A train off the tracks

in India, 60 dead.

And a bunch of whales stuck

in the ice in the North Pole.

Whales.

Brokaw's a sucker

for those stories.

Wait, wait, wait, but

show me how you got that.

It's easy.

If 26 is less or

equal to three-x plus one,

I just use the additive...

Adam, listening?

Yep.

... it also means

hot dogs.

Specifically,

Deener's Weiners.

A MacArthur Park institution

for over 50 years.

You like her.

What? No, I don't.

Well, I like her.

She's hot.

Okay, don't you

have to go?

No.

Yes, I think you do.

I think you're supposed to

be at a dance thing.

It's so boring.

It's also tradition

and your grandfather's going

to kill me if you miss it, so...

So? It's not like I'm gonna

be here when I grow up.

I don't want

to be here.

I want to be out there,

like you.

Can you believe that she was

in a tiny little news station

in Lawrence, Kansas,

like, four years ago?

Yeah, you like her.

Holy crap!

Whoa! What did I say about

the language? Holy crap!

In Northern Alaska,

winter comes very early,

and for three

California gray whales,

it may have come

too early this year.

Adam Carlson reports from the most

northern point of the United States.

I'm standing out on

this frozen landscape

where we recently discovered a

tragedy unfolding here in Barrow.

Ice is freezing

the Beaufort Sea,

more quickly than usual

for this time of year.

And three gray whales,

two adults and their baby,

are now trapped within a wall

of ice, six inches thick.

According to Pat Lafayette

of Alaska Wildlife Management,

these gray whales were to have already

begun their annual migration south.

It's a 5,000-mile journey that takes

them down the coast of North America

to a lagoon in Baja, Mexico,

where they breed.

These three whales

were certainly not expecting

to be imprisoned

in an Arctic dungeon.

A gray whale's head, unlike

the stout bowhead whale,

is too soft to

break through the ice

and it's beginning

to take its toll.

Cuts and bruises are now visible

each time the whales surface.

But for these three,

there is no choice.

It's either continue fighting to

keep the hole open, or drown.

Both experts here give the

whales a slim chance of survival.

Good morning, Greenpeace.

- Dave, those whales are dead if I don't

get some help. Okay? -

Greenpeace Headquarters,

Anchorage

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