Big Miracle Page #9

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took off.

It's Arctic-proven,

don't you know?

Colonel Boyer and Kelly

Meyers fell in love.

They got married

on August 12th, 1989.

And they spent their entire

honeymoon down in Baja,

watching the whales.

It only took

three more stations,

but Jill Jerard finally made

it to a national news network.

So, Joey,

you've denied the affair.

You say Amy Fisher

was just obsessed with you.

Mary Jo, are there doubts in

your mind about Joey's claim?

Thanks to Fred,

Wilma and Bamm-Bamm,

Greenpeace membership

increased by over 400%.

Go easy on the copy machine because,

after all, it's being

held up by duct tape.

Is everything okay?

Yeah.

I thought you were supposed to be

at a job interview in Pittsburgh.

I canceled it. I had

something else I had to do.

I don't like the robe.

Okay.

See, I knew I was going

to hurt your feelings.

No, honesty is important.

Good, because honestly,

you drive me crazy.

And...

I can't imagine

my life without you.

Adam got offers

from all over the lower 48,

but he turned them down

to stay in Anchorage.

He told me,

"The biggest stories happen

in the least likely places. "

And now, here's Sarah Heath

with tonight's sports.

Not just Iditarod

news tonight, right?

Right. There was some good

college basketball today.

I'm going to

show you highlights,

plus tell you

all about that, next.

Stay right there.

- Nathan?

- Yeah.

Me and my grandfather spend

a lot of time together now.

He and the rest of my people

never stopped laughing at the huge

fuss the crazy outsiders made.

But sometimes,

I think about the whales

and that hole in the ice

where we first found them,

and how it kept

getting bigger and bigger

until it let

the whole world in.

It happens every so often,

an animal's dilemma

captures the public imagination

and continues to hold onto it.

Those three

California gray whales

trapped in

the Arctic ice off Alaska...

We bid the value of all the

wildlife you're putting at risk.

And since you've

refused to read them,

we'll go ahead and

read them for you.

What is it that's

brought you to this site

to do all of this work?

I think it's the same

as with most people

that have a real good feeling

about whales...

I just told my wife, I said, "We

can open that hole up for them. "

Well, the purpose was

to keep the water open

and it almost looks like we've

got something else going here.

The whales seem

to really like them.

That must make you

feel very good.

Yes, it does.

Well, this whole project

is a real long shot, you know.

There's no use pretending that

this is a foregone conclusion

that we're gonna get

these guys out of here.

If the weather...

They're

spitting all over us.

You have to remember

that everything we've done,

it's been done

for the first time.

So any progress at all

is a pioneering and new area.

And there is still the worry that

the ice pack could close in

and that there would be no open

water for the whales to swim to.

Don Oliver, NBC News,

Point Barrow, Alaska.

The only

available icebreaker...

A man obviously passionate about

his role in this stirring rescue.

In his voice, this reporter

hears the unmistakable sounds

of a 40-year cold war

beginning to thaw.

So, all this is

rather interesting.

When you've seen

these magnificent animals

up close like I have, Larry,

you come to know that

indomitable American spirit

that lives within them.

Thanks very much

for joining us tonight.

We'll be back

with Arsenio Hall.

Ice is freezing

the Beaufort Sea

more quickly than usual

for this time of year.

And three gray whales,

two adults and their baby,

are now trapped in walls

of ice, six inches thick.

And I'll be back

with an exclusive report.

Time is running out for the whales

trapped in the ice in Alaska...

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