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PULLING A MAN FROM A CAN BURNING
CAR.
ELSA: SOMETHING COOL HAPPENING
ALONG THE ORANGE COUNTY KOEFRKTS
RED TUNA CRABS WASHING UP
ATTRACTING OCEAN CREATURES.
JEFF: THE CRABS ARE DRAWING
HUMPBACK WHALES CLOSER TO SHORE.
ORANGE COUNTY REPORTER STACEY
BUTLER HAS THAT STORY TONIGHT.
Reporter: TOUR RIES TAKING
PICTURES OF THEM.
KAYAKERS ARE COMPETING WITH
THEM.
TUNA CRABS ARE BACK TOSSING TO
SHORE.
FIRST IN SAN DIEGO THEN
HUNTINGTON BEACH.
NOW NEWPORT BEACH AND LAGUNA.
THERE'S WEIRD THINGS
HAPPENING WITH OUR COAST NOT
JUST THIS HARBOR, IT'S ONLY THE
PAST TWO YEARS THIS IS
HAPPENING.
Reporter: ON SHORE BIRDS
FEAST ON THE CRABS.
IN THE WATER FISH GET THEIR
FILL.
THESE GUYS WHO TRIED KAYAK
FISHING BUT RETURNED EMPTY
HANDED.
THE FISH AREN'T BITING.
SEEMS THAT THEY'RE HAVING A
FEAST OUT THERE SO WE TRIED
EVERYTHING AND NO LUCK.
LOCAL FISHING EXPERT J.D.
SAYS THE CRABS CAME IN LAST YEAR
WITH WARMER CURRENT FROM MEXICO.
THE U.S. BORDER IS HERE.
NOW AS THE WATER HEATS UP TO
64 DEGREES THE RED CRAB ARE
RESURFACE.
THEY PUSH THE WARM WATER
CLOSER TO THE BEACH.
WITH THAT WARM WATER THERE'S
BEEN UPWELLING.
HE SAYS IN THE UPWELLING IS A
MAP THAT RED CRAB SQUID AND
ANCHOVIES.
THAT EXPLAINS WHY WE SAW
HUMPBACK WHALES FEEDING NEAR
SANTA MONICA TODAY.
THEY WILL CIRCLE AND PUSH THE
BAIT INTO A BALL AND COME UP AND
AND FEED ON THEM.
EXPERTS SAY WE CAN EXPECT TO
SEE MORE RED CRABS LIKE THESE ON
ORANGE COUNTY BEACHES UNTIL A LA
NINA CURRENT SCHOOLS THE OCEAN