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COMMENTS: Over the Hump
Holidays are light news days, so CBS and NBC both had an excuse to update us on the essentially frivolous fascination with the pair of humpback whales in the Sacramento River. "After going nowhere for a week they suddenly took off swimming more than 24 miles" in a single day, declared CBS' John Blackstone. "Crowds of whale watchers are delighted." They are now nearly 40 miles from the Pacific Ocean and in water that is already partly salt. NBC's George Lewis added that their injuries are thought to be caused by the blades of a ship's propeller--and warned that their route to the open ocean includes the "big ships that operate in San Francisco Bay"
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