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There will be pesticides, fertilizer, and there are sewage treatment plants over top, and septic tanks and stuff in that water that you don't want to think about. and that stuff is going into lake pontchartrain, because they opened up the bonnet carre spillway, and when that gets in there, it should be brakish and salty, but now all of this is going to try to get out, and some won't make it, and i believe there is going to be an algae bloom like no other, but for the people in louisiana and that is going to be a big story. >> and we will talk about that in a matter of minutes, but in terms of ...

Spillway, those levees that you see by jackson square would have been one half of a foot higher than the water level. they had to dump the stuff into lake pontchartrain but now fish are swimming away. an algae bloom and now we've made a beautiful lake a mess again but nothing the army corps could do about it. they knew they had to do that to save new orleans again. wolf? >> all of us remember katrina not that long ago in new orleans. all right. thank you very much. let's hope for the best this time around. other news we're following including our growing power struggle in iran. it pits the pre...

Freshwater environment, so it is going to change the character of the fishing that is in lake pontchartrain, and it is also going to have some potential impact in the short term on probably the slhrimpping in the area. >> this is chad myers, will there be an algae bloom like in the past? >> well, you can anticipate that, because every time the spillway is opened, there have been some sort of algae bloom that collects on the south shore of the lake. don't know what it is going to be, but there will be some impact. >> let's move on to morganza spillway and what happens when that opens? sdwlel >>...

But going down after world war ii, to antarctica, taking 1,000 whales, southern ocean sanctuary is not a cultural thing at all. and, i think the whole world is realizing that, you know, we want an end to whaling. i think it will definitely end. the sea shepherd will go back time and time again until we make sure that we put them out economically. >> larry: what waters are you in mostly, captain? >> all the arctic oceans, the southern oceans, just the entire antarctic peninsula. >> larry: what kind of whale is it that they're getting? >> they had a self-provided quota of 995 minke whales. >> la...

Antarctic peninsula. >> larry: what type of whale is it they're getting? >> they had a self-provided quota of 995 minke whales. >> larry: what is that? >> smaller whale, distributed throughout world. when the ice melts there is an algae bloom, and the crill feed on the algae. the whales go down to feed on the crill. in short that's the biological perspective. during our winter it is summer in antarctica, the ice melts and whales migrate down there. >> larry: you saw the eye, captain watson, are whales smart? >> scientists are now discovering that whales are self-aware, sentient beings. i think...