captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. i m tom king in for alisyn camera at that. debt ceiling drama. we re closer to a debt ceiling deal, closer but not there yet. janet yellen gave them four more days, and we ve got a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning, can they get it done in time? plus, can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that s the question, as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not being shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and lasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than what he was running in 2015 and 2016. and i think the direction he s going with the campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. can ron desantis? here s a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you
good evening everyone. i m john king. welcome to cnn tonight. debt ceiling drama. we are closer to a deal but not there yet. the fact that janet yellen essentially gave them four more days means, well, we have a ways to go. even if they make a deal tomorrow morning can they get it done in time? plus can a trump-like candidate beat donald trump? that is the question as ron desantis gets his campaign in high gear. the florida governor not shy at all about taking on the former president, ripping him on the border of all things, calling him a big spender, and blasting his covid policies. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016. i think the direction that he is going with his campaign is the wrong direction. no other republican in the trump era has been able to walk that tight rope. the question is can ron desantis? and here is a sobering thought this memorial day weekend. whenever you go in the wate
and 2018. this marks the first ever population estimate for great white sharks in the north atlantic. scientists say while the risk of shark attacks is low, the increased presence of white sharks off of cape cod highlights the need for ongoing research and public safety initiatives. so the folks that study the sharks have a lot of sharks to study there in the cape. griff, i hear you re a friend of sharks. griff: i love seeing sharks. the study is fantastic news. it is just here in the north atlantic that the great white shark population is growing. that means conservation efforts are getting better. you ve been out on one of these expeditions where they are studying them and tagging these. what do you make of it? molly: yeah, you know, it was more than 10 years ago i had a chance to go out on a vessel with really the shark guy, the shark scientist for the northeast. he was one of the early adapters, one of the first people to continue with the shark tagging which has enabled them p
live, we have lots of sharks. you re often never more than 300 feet away from a living shark. sharks are integral to ecosystems. they re a sign of a healthy ecosystem. with that said, you don t want to be at the wrong side of a shark. the best way to avoid injury is to avoid those situations where negative encounters could happen, like going in the water at low light levels during dawn or dusk, after rainstorms, during the breeding season. if there s a big predator/prey event. john, you re talking about cape cod. i scuba dive just about every day in the summertime when i m home. there are places i would not scuba dive, especially where we get big clusters or groups of gray seals and harvest seals. the reason why our great white shark population is growing is because their buffet is all you can eat. you see the seals every time you re up there. i want to move on to another
breeding seasons. if there is a big predator prey event. you are talking about cape cod. i scuba dive just about every day in the summer time when i m home. there are places i would not scuba dive especially where we get big clusters or groups of gray seals and harbor seals. the reason why our great white shark population is growing is because their buffet is all you can eat. you see the seals every time you re up there. i want to move on to another issue you are passionate about which is the north atlantic white wahale. you say we are at the now or never moment in trying to save this species. absolutely. it is so serious. the north atlantic whale, its population, this species has begun to collapse. this year we only had 11 surviving offspring. it should be triple that. so there is a group right now,