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To be clear, it's on the president's terms? >> absolutely right. the president and daughter sasha went for a swim. he was in the gulf waters demonstrating to everybody that he feels like the gulf waters are safe. he was safe from the television cameras, network pools that travel around him. he had a white house photographer that took the photos for him and they were happy to have that photo. >> julie: okay, thank you very much. right now there is more than just oil threatening sea life in the gulf coast. in the florida keys in an area that has managed to escape tarballs, lion fish are causin...

They can and urging restaurants to add them to their menus. if you can't beat them, eat them. >> we believe we can minimize the population in areas that are important and keep those impacts down. i think those programs are going to be very successful in removing lion fish. >> we need tourists tomorrow to come down and the beautiful healthy releases. without the releases there is little reason for tourists to come dive with us. >> and it's unheard of not to see any lion fish. >> julie: yesterday, a bolt hit a 13-year-old boy, a lightning strike on friday the 13th. it gets weirder from there. am...

>> reporter: along the coast of florida amongst sea turtles and grouper and the fish are abundant. the might mere of bp oil never happened, the spread of the feared and poisonous lion fish has and it's causing a underwater nightmare on its own. they eat everything. they have no predators and paul just saw it first. >> it wasn't what i expected, it's very small. >> since 2000, they have exploded from a view areas to the entire caribbean and as far as north as carolinas. >> one study found one lion fish can delete the fish by 80% in just five weeks. >> local activists and the federal government ...

But it's very much like weeding a garden. you may not get rid of all of the weeds in your garden, but you don't want the weeds to overrun it east. so it's important -- either. so it's important for us to make the effort to try to reduce their numbers on the reef. rick: well, thanks for coming on and talking to us. a very interesting story, we appreciate your time. jenna, how would you prepare your lion fish? jen jon sushi? i don't know. i don't cook much. maybe that's wrong. rick: well, sushi's probably a good way to do it. jenna: the poison part of the spine though? rick: well, you want to be...

Racially-insensitive gaffe. and then teens go to china on a school band trip, get drunk, get suspended and now their parents are suing the school! one of those moms is here live. see you in eight minutes. rick: all right. we'll be watching. well, it's pretty as a butterfly and it stings like a bee, and now the government wants you to eat lion fish. these exotic sea creatures. well, they got loose from aquariums and began invading habitat along the coast and through the caribbean. now the feds have a tasty solution. if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em. helping educate consumers and developing a mark...