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Bill: a new deputy chief operating officer has been named to our parent news corps, james murdock was previously the head of sky broadcasting in britain and prior to that, chairman and ceo of the company's european and asian operations. so congratulations! martha: this is a major story that caught my attention this morning. a whale that killed its trainer, you all remember this story, is now reclaiming its star role in a sea world show that starts today. can you believe this? it has been just over a year since two year old dawn brandshaw died before a crowd during a show at the attraction. til...

Isolated area, i guess, has not participated in the show since that horrible day at sea world, but now they say you know what, it's time to get tilikum back in action. phil keating is live in south florida on this. why on earth would they put this animal back in front of a crowd, phil? >> reporter: martha, sea world orlando is not commenting on why now, however, it's clear that sea world always intended to return tilikum, that massive 12,300-pound orca back to the public stage to three performances today, the first time, of course, since last february's deadly accident when he yanked his train...

People over the years. he's about 30 years old. in those years of captivity, they've always been crnt yl. it's so massive, it's twice as large as the other orcas at sea world, it's primarily used to splash the crowd and this is in defiance, somewhat, of what some federal regulators wanted. osha issued a citation saying that sea world exposed its trainer to danger by not adequately its trainers that are recommended, that trainers never again be exposed to tilikum but for the past year they have been, but sea world says they have trained tilikum to stay away from people and they use massive exte...