rifd /*. >> reporter: president biden, is this a rogue court? >> this is not a normal court. >> good morning, everyone. you just heard from the president of the united states, very unhappy with the supreme court's decision yesterday on affirmative action. >> very good question from our own arlette seanz. what is the question particularly on the political side everybody is thinking about now. there are real legal and policy repercussions to come. >> this is the law of the land now. it's a very different america for students and universities. the supreme court is not done yet. after the landmark decision to gut affirmative action and college admissions, the major rulings set to come down. and the school resource officer accused of hiding during the parkland school shooting is not guilty on all charges. he joins us live in a few minutes. >> and cnn rides along with animal rescue teams to save sea lions from toxic algae, wait

until you see that report. this hour of "cnn this morning" starts right now. another huge day for the country from the nation's high court. we are expecting more consequential decisions from the supreme court that could reshape america as we know it. after yesterday's ruling on affirmative action declaring race cannot be used an express factor in college admissions. it is another sweeping change from the supreme court's conservative super majority. it could have a lasting impact on the diversity of campuses across the nation for decades to come. two of the key decisions left for today are student loan relief for tens of millions of americans and there is the case of a web designer who refused to make websites for same-sex weddings. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is tracking all of it for us. a huge week for the court, for the country, and these opinions today also, either way they go, will have a huge impact.

>> yeah, exactly. we are really zoning in on the student loan debt forgiveness. the supreme court is going to decide this morning unless they dismiss it on a technical ground whether the biden administration has the authority to grant student loan forgiveness to more 40 million americans. it comes at a price tack of $400 billion. so, so far, lower courts have struck down the program. it's been on hold. if the court here today says that the challengers maybe never had the legal right to bring this lawsuit or if the court decides that the administration was in fact within its power to enact this debt relief program, millions of borrowers could have up to $20,000 in debt wiped away. i will warn that the tone of arguments really was a lot of skepticism from the conservative justices here. they were really skeptical about whether the administration even the ability to do something like this under the law with such a massive price tag, $400 billion.

and these justices also were asking questions about fairness. justice gorsuch asked how is it fair to have debt wiped away now at this point for some when others have already paid. so that is the big case we are looking at today just because of the impact of it. it will affect millions of americans, millions are in limbo right now. when this program was put on hold, 26 million people had already been approved. 16 million were still waiting. but there will be a lot of work to do if and when they approve this or strike it down. >> longstanding payment freeze put in during the pandemic is slated to end shortly as well. that factors in. before we let you go, lgbtq rightsis kas on the docket. what are we expecting out of those? >> so this is the case of a wedding website designer in colorado. she is refusing to make websites for same-sex couples. her argument is her free speech is violated by the colorado

state law that prohibits businesses from discriminating against or refusing to serve same-sex couples. her argument is i am going forced to speak in a sense by making websites for marriages i disagree with all because of her religion. there is a little bit of question in this case about her standing, her legal right to bring this, because this designer hasn't actually got her business up and running yet. she is asking for the rule before there is really anyone forcing her to make the websites. but if they do decide in favor of this wedding website designer the concern from the liberal justices is if this court sides with her, could it open the door to other creative businesses to refuse to service people they don't agree with whether on basis of religion or race or viewpoint. they worry it could open the door for a lot more discrimination. a lot riding on these two big cases that will come down today beginning at 10 armstrong. we are on the last day of the supreme court's term here.

>> thank you very much. also with us live right now lindsay peoples, cnn supreme court analyst steve and josh is back with us. lindsay, i want to start with you on this. one of the things that i think people have been trying to figure out is the polling on this is split to some degree. and while this institution is not necessarily driven by public opinion, the divide on the polling on the issue of affirmative action i think has been striking particularly in terms of how it breaks down on racial lines. people say this is how it should be expected. no, for last four, five decades of legal precedent it's been this way. >> there is division because i think affirmative action is so traditionally marketed as an issue solely about race when it is about so many things that we know has improved as far as reducing discrimination and i think the biggest issue for me as a black woman is seeing that affirmative action has really

also increased gender representation, specifically beneficial to white women the most. white women have seen an increa increase in the work force from affirmative action yet are biggest critics of affirmative action. so i think that running a publication is geared towards women of color, women in general and i think it's incredibly disheartening to see a lack of intersectional feminism and a sisterhood that begs the question and challenges what white women do with the systemic privileges they have done with it. >> fantastic publication, by the way. steve, you know, i thought your analysis on this, as always, fascinating on twitter yesterday, was really blunt. you said it's an ending without an ending. for people who looked at the roberts opinion and saw window and said this is not saying what clarence thomas wanted, which is no affirmative action, you see it differently than them.

there is no window? >> poppy, i think the window is so small as to be practically ineffective. i think there will be effort by public and private schools especially in blue states that haven't taken measures to limit these kinds of statements to have diversity statements tacked on applications. any time a school relies on those statements, any time a school says our policy is to credit those statements, they are runn afoul of chief justice roberts' opinion and opening themself up to be sued. >> how are they running afoul of the chief justice who wrote in the majority opinion, you know, this in no way prohibits people from -- we have it right there. in no way prohibits people from writing about this in essays, talking about how their race has impacted their life. >> yeah. so what is slippery about the chief justice's opinion is that

massage, is focused on the applicant. when it comes to what the university is allowed to do, you know, can the admissions office sit around and say if we see a statement that talks up the role of race in upbringing, we are going to give it extra credit in the process. that runs afoul of the rest of the chief's opinion. so part of what is so frustrating about yesterday's decision is that it walks up to line of ending affirmative action categorically, but puts admissions officers, really, poppy, a bit of a catch-22 where they can point to the passage you quote and say there is a little room for race in this context, but the more they make that overt, the more they make that categorical they are running into the other parts of the opinion. >> this is why steve is one of the leading constitutional minds in the country. he seize the black and white on the paper. >> >> it has been the issue i

have been trying to figure out too. to some degree, this was very telegraphed that it was coming if you followed conservative legal scholars who is on the court, the super majority. this was predicted and it lined up with what predictions were. my question has long been what happens next? and steve makes a fascinating point. how are admissions officers going to operate here, how do they police what this means, why would universities not want diverse student bodies and try to implement this on their own. what's your sense of how this goes. >> not only was it telegraphed here. are the supreme court reject the primary rationale that advocates of affirmative action have been offering in the last week. going back to the bakke station, you were allowed to have affirmative action for creating a diverse student body. this reparative aspect of affirmative action, there is still racism in america and advantages and disadvantages, that not only is not an argument the court accepted now, it's an

argument the court has not accepted as a rationale for affirmative action for decades. jurisprudence had this idea that programs were supposed to be temporary. floating this idea to do for 25 more years. i think people assume that the universities are going to look for wawawawa end runs around the decision. that's an option on the part of universities but they don't have do that. i think one likely future outcome here is republicans and democrats are talking about how, well, legacy admissions are so unfair. there is no law against it, but there could be a law against legacy admissions. that's something you may see bipartisan interest in washington. if you have this restriction on the playing field, there is no reason washington could do that. >> it's raising so many questions this morning, why race and not legacy -- >> because that's the law. the 14th amendment and civil rights act address discrimination on the basis of race and civil rights act on

basis of sex and certain other things. they don't address legacy admissions. that's not a reason you couldn't have a new law. >> yeah. i want to give you the final word on this because josh is right pointing to justice o'connor's majority opinion in greta versus bollinger, talked about a 25-year sunset and the powell decision and bakke talked about a diverse student body being a compelling state interest. >> the question is also, though, maybe it's not the legal question, but it's what is happening in life as was referred to in one of the dissents. i don't know as a country we have come as far as when she wrote that opinion. what does this being implemented? >> culturally, i think that it is delusional to think our country will prioritize diversity and when we, you know,

systemically have been oppressing people, we have been fighting for rights for voting, to use our voice, to be able to vote, to buy property, all these things. inclusivity people have to be active in their allyship towards this or we won't see any change. >> there is a lot more to come on this. to your point, follow steve on dwit. i learn ton. i don't learn lot from twitter these dawes but i do from steve. josh, thanks. lindsay, thanks very much. washington metro police have arrested man with nimumerous firearms and materials to make pan explosive. the arrest was made blocks from former president obama's home. taylor taranto made threats on an internet live stream and an arrest warrant related to the january 6th insurrection. joining us is john miller. scary. >> so it's an interesting also how it came together as well as

being very concerning. taylor taranto known quantity in january 6th crowd. a guy inside the capitol who was on video at the spot where ashli babbitt was shot by capitol police where they were breaking through the window has been on the radar of the fbi, joint terrorist traffic force, january 6th probe. what happened yesterday was the capitol police, seeing some of his live streams, showing he was in washington and statements that they interpret as being threatening to members of congress put out a bolo, be on the look out for this individual. if he is seen. the u.s. secret service uniform division which is on patrol in the neighborhood where former president obama lives spots him. they do the stop. his van, which he seems to he living out, is parked a short cities tans away. they look in the van. see concerning things. call the bomb squad. they have materials to make

molotov cocktails bottles, ration, fuels, handguns, rifle. they are trying to assess in the fbi investigation into him where are they, what was his bless sense there, what was the purpose of the weapons. he is from seattle living out of this van in washington and making alleged threats. this is a case that is coming together chltz we expect to learn more in his initial appearance in court later today. but there is a lot of bad signs there. >> can you give more context taranto? he has a profile. law enforcement aware of him. what do we know? >> 37 years old. was in the capitol on january 6th. has appeared on a number of videos. but he is a blogger. he is a communicator. he has interviewed on shows about free the january 6th subjects. interestingly, he was sued by the wife of a capitol police officer who died after january 6th. he was injured that day but committed suicide and they attributed that to ptsd.

her case was dismissed because she couldn't connect his specific connections to her husband's death. he has been a voice and figure in the january 6th movement, the issue about yesterday is what are the weapons for, why is he there, and why the makings of molotov cocktails. >> so many questions. john, thank you. appreciate it. the former school resource officer accused of failing to confront the mass shooter at marjorie taylor greene in parkland, florida, acquitted on all counsels. >> the defendant is not guilty. so say we all this 29th day of june, 2022. >> that former officer, scott peterson joins us live with his attorney. then it has the power to change everything. mrna has already changed how we fight virususes. it has created medicines at unprecedented speed.

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broward county, florida. verdict, count two, we, the jury find as follows as to the defendant in this case. the defendant is not guilty. >> former school resource officer scot peterson breaking down tears after being found not guilty for failing to kill the gunman who killed 17 people at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida. he faced seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjuries. prosecutors say he did nothing, taking cover for 45 minutes outside the school before the killer was apprehended. peterson's attorney argued the then-deputy didn't enter the building because he couldn't tell where the shots were coming from and he was found not guilty on all charges. joining us now is scot peterson and his attorney. scot, thank you for joining us. i want you to listen to what some of the parents said. we saw your emotional reaction.

understandable emotional reaction after the not guilty verdict was read. this is what some of the parents of those students said when they heard what happened yesterday. >> it's another failure like the system did it again and again and again. i am watching this individual crying like a victim. he signed for a job that he did not deliver. shame on him for that, too. >> deeply disappointed. all the evidence, all the video, it just shows that he valued his life over the life of the people on the third floor. >> deputy peterson and the lawyers family as they cheer this victory h, for our familie we feel he should be haunted every day by his failure to act. i know that he caused, he

contributed, i should say to the deaths of my daughter, gina, her c schoolmates and teachers. >> my scot protected his students. he saved 31 students, okay, from the shooter. that's what scot peterson should have done. >> i am interested, scot, what's your response -- i know you said you would like to meet with the families. what is your response when you hear those emotional responses? >> my heart goes out to all of the families regarding that massacre on february 14th, 2018. >> do you understand why perhaps again, you made clear you said you got your life back. your emotional response when the not guilty plea was read, do you understand why the parents may have a different perspective on

this? >> i can understand the hurt. they lost their kids on that terrible day. but i really don't -- i really don't know what i would, you know, say. i did -- i did everything the best i could. >> you have expressed a desire to meet with some of those parents, tho talk to them. you said you don't know what you would say. do you mean to the audience or them in private? is there something you'd like them to know? >> no. to them, i know exactly what i would say. i am saying here to this audience. to them, i know exactly what i'd say. >> of course, we respect that you would want to do that in private. i am interested, you know, broadly in -- you know, you have 17 people murdered that day and we saw florida enact real changes in gun laws after parkland, including red flag laws.

as someone was there, do you believe that there are more things that could be done to keep our kids safe their schools? >> i think i defer that to mark to answer to. >> yeah, i think we are missing the point. this is a man who was acquitted by a jury, who found that he was not guilty of the meritless, baseless charges brought to him that he along with numerous other deputies couldn't tell where the shots were coming from and ordered a code red and tried to save students on campus. the issue is the system worked. the system protected an officer who dedicated his life for 32 years to law enforcement and who had baseless meritless charges brought against him. he went through a living hell for four years and was finally acquitted. my heart goes out to the families. i am so sorry they went through all that. but the monster who did it is

serving a life sentence. this man did everything he could and in no way could have stopped what took place. >> i think my question was about -- i hear you, mark. my question was about having been there on such a tragic day, he has a unique perspective. scot, you have a unique perspective what it takes to keep these students safe. that's what i was trying to get at. >> okay. how about having radios that work? they gave my client a radio that was 25 to 30 years old and none of the cops on campus could communicate. how about fixing the radio system so that when information comes in to 911, it doesn't go to coral springs police department. it goes to bso. so, first responders like my client could hear in real time precisely where the shooter is located. these aren't his issues. his supervisors set him up for

failure and then held a press conference and sheriff israel threw him under the bus for his own political gain. that caused parents to be outraged, naturally, they lost their kids and they thought erroneously he could have prevented it and then charges were brought after the governor insisted that an investigation commence. this was all political. and coincidentally, i couldn't argue that in the trial. nevertheless, the jurors saw through it and saw this man, a dedicated award-winning officer who gave his heart and soul to everyone on that campus, was not not guilty of anything. >> mark, given your forceful response to this, you guys agreed to do this, i think it's entirely fair for us to show what the parents are saying. and i understand your perspective here. i guess my question would be given what the parents are saying, given the fact that this portion is done, what are your expectations of civil litigation

going forward? >> all options are on the table. we are considering everything. the most important thing is for both my client and i finally to move forward after four years of fighting charges that could have resulted in a life sentence. this man could have gone to prison for life yesterday if prosecutors had had their way. it shouldn't come down to him lucking out and connecting with a lawyer who from his core believed in his client's innocence and fought against a team of prosecutors who tried to put him in prison for the rest of his life. that should never happen to any officer anywhere. my passion is justified because no one should ever have to go through what he went through. >> scot peterson and mark eiglarsh, thank you. we have new cnn exclusive reporting about sexual assault at the coast guard academy. what was uncovered and why it took so long to come to light. that's ahead.

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edgar sisson on ♪ to a cnn exclusive. the coast guard has been hiding and damtzing investigation and report about sexual assault at its academy for years until cnn recently uncovered it. our chief investigate correspondent pamela brown joins us. what can you tell us? >> it's operation failed anchor. it uncovered a history of substantiated rapes and assaults that were ignored or covered up by high-ranking officials.

you never heard of it because no one of saw the report. it was buried. even though it was completed a few years ago. the findings were kept secret by coast guard's top leadership. get this. after all this time, the coast guard finally came forward and reported to congress this month only after cnn's investigative team asked about it. the report found dozens of cases of alleged sexual assault at the coast guard academy, even though they only looked at a limited time friem from 1988 to 2006. it said that, quote, there was a disturbing pattern of not treating reported sexual assaults as criminal matters even in cases where there was overwhelming evidence. leadership was more concerned at that time about coast guard academy reputation than about the victims of crimes members of the service and that the suspects and sometimes the victims were simply disenrolled from the academy with no investigation at all. now, if there were punishments,

some were laughable. minor things like extra homework or lower class standings. those were the, quote, unquote, punishments. even those pushed out of the academy were sometimes able to serve in the u.s. military. >> the report talks about the past. you talked to a woman who was a more recent cadet at the coast guard academy, right? >> that's right. i sat down with her this week. this is a young woman who just got her diploma last year. she says the culture has not changed. she was sexually assaulted as a cadet multiple times and she asked us to hide her identity. take a listen to what she had to say. >> i was sexually assaulted three times. the first by a superior. the second time by somebody i considered a dear friend. the third by an international cadet. was completely toxic and devastating to my sense of self, and left lifelong damages to my

physical, mental health. the coast guard academy employs reinforces and cultivates a system that thrives on the traumatic and pain of women and minorities. it's designed for their failure. >> and the coast guard investigated one of her assaults, but said that there wasn't enough evidence. >> wow. pamela, i just wonder if the coast guard is saying anything about the larger investigation now. >> so, poppy, cnn reached out repeatedly to the coast guard for answers to detailed questions but instead the coast guard reached out to congress this week, this week before the holiday, to fess up about the report that it has been hiding for five years, and the coast guard sent cnn a statement saying in part they are dedicated to addressing the needs of survivors and holding offenders accountable. we will have more throughout the day and on cnn.com in a story by

my incredible investigative colleagues working on this reporting for months. melanie hicken, blake and audrey. >> it really is remarkably important reporting. thank you. the supreme court gutting affirmative action, a move that transform college admissions across the country. we will speak to students. what does this mean for them? what's the impact in real life ahead. save up to 30% off* until july 10th. whether you're moving across totown or across the country. save up to 30% at pods.com today.

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harvard university -- and college admissions in a letter to their students, they write in the weeks and months ahead drawing on the talent and h expertise of our harvard community we will determine how to preserve our central values. the key question, how will this actually play out on college campuses for students, for high school kids. we will talk to a few key people about this. andrew and 2019 unz chapel hill grad heading to columbia law school, the son of two attorneys and he told cnn last year his

parents taught him how affirmative action helped black families prosper and testified in a lower court hearing on this case and then attended the supreme court's oral arguments. kyra graduated from uc berkeley last spring, the first in her family to finish college. she told "the new york times" about what she faced at berkeley. quote black students refer to themselves as the 1.9% share their of the student population down from the double digits just a year before the ban you feel isolated, she said. also with us janice jackson, the former chicago public schools chief. she is now the ceo of hope chicago which pays for college for thousands of chicago area students and their parents in its first year they say college enrollment for students at the schools they work with jumped 30%. here is what she told "60 minutes." >> we have to catch up. that's the bottom line.

do believe education is the single most powerful way to disrupt generational poverty. it is. >> former president obama yesterday highlighted hope chicago's work his statement after the supreme court ruling. andrew, kyra, janice, join me now. good morning. andrew, what is striking and i think important is the way that you discuss affirmative action, the role it has had in your life, and you don't shy away from the fact that you have even said i may not have been at columbia law school but for this. here's why it is so important. can you speak to the decision, andrew? >> absolutely. you know, yesterday's decision was disappointing. when i first came to unc chapel hill i was one of 11% of the campus that was african american in a state of north carolina that was 22% african american. i grown up in the south my entire life, but it wasn't until being on campus at unc that i

had witnessed my first confederate rally. it was in that context that this lawsuit was brought and it's why so many students of color like myself sought to intervene in the lawsuit so our perspective could be included in the record. >> kyrie, could you speak to your experience at berkeley? i read a little bit of what you told "the new york times" about being called the 1.9%, but also people there questioning if you should be there or if was just because of your race, which is, you know, not based on fact given race-conscious admissions have been banned there more than two decades. do you support what the court did here? >> no, absolutely not. it's already very difficult at uc berkeley and all public schools in california who have been struggling to get the numbers back up since 1996, they have to do -- they have to circumvent the laws in a way like students have to put in so

much work, students are so overworked at uc berkeley, especially black students, because they have to put in extra recruitment efforts due to prop 209 being passed banning affirmative action in 1996. so it was very difficult to even get black students to attend, and also my first year uc berkeley was rated the lowest uc for black students in, like, it was the worst through a usc study. that being my first year was a real shock to me and students were upset and we to put in even more work to make students even want to come to uc berkeley. it was very difficult and i do not agree with the ruling at all. >> justice thomas wrote in his concurring opinion while i am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race, i hold that enduring hope that this country

lifts up to its principle in declaration of independence that all men are created equal, are equal citizens and must be treated equally before the law. he sees this as finally treating black suicide equally and you say? >> the declaration of independence was written when black people were slaves. so i wouldn't necessarily take something that was written when, you know, black people weren't even allowed to have education, and that goes to show how hard black people have had it versus others. especially in this country, especially african americans in this country who have a legacy of being beaten down and having to, like, pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, for lack of better words, to even get where we are. so we need things like affirmative action to level the

playing field for us. >> and the whole case is centered around the 14th amendment and what equal protection actually is. janice, to you. the reason i really -- i am so glad you could join us this morning is because you work with the kids, the work that you do at hope chicago, i should note, obviously, something started by a friend of mine. but what you do there is send children to college for free and one of their parents. so i'm interested in what this will mean for them one year, two years, ten years down the line. >> yeah. well, make no mistake. the decision was definitely a setback f setback students and latino students across the country. at hope chicago, we introduced this as a solution to make sure and remove barriers for black and latino students and first-generation students to have access to college. this closes another door.

as kyra pointed out, you will see more students having to circumvent different processes which is another barrier towards the promise of education. i think educators and decisionmakers across this country are upset by this, but my message to folks is we have to get out here and think creatively how we don't lose the ground we made the past generation. make no mistake. there are no bright spots what happened yesterday. >> do you think you can do that? does this ruling make your job harder getting those kids into the -- >> absolutely. >> even with the window -- >> absolutely. >> that justice roberts pointed out saying you can write about it in essays, you just can't check a box. >> yeah. let's take a step back. black and latino first-generation students have always had to be twice as good and do much more to have equal access. that has been a vestige of our public education and higher ed system for entries in this country. when you continue to put laws in

place that make it more difficult, not only is it more difficult for the students and the families, it's much more difficult for the colleges who have made tremendous strides in trying to diversify their student body. this makes it harder. and you only have to look at california and look at what prop 20 9ds did. you see a complete reduction in black students in particular attending some of the most elite universities in california. we should expect to see same thing across this country. but i would also challenge people to lift up their voices and do things like what we are doing at hope chicago to remove more barriers. >> andrew, final question you to. your family -- a little background for folks. you are family is upper middle class. your father was dean at kentucky law school. it relates to what justice robert said, let's say -- talking about any student, viewpoints are close with white applicants, his parents went to harvard, he is a legacy, under your system when he checks

african american he gets a tip. that was the question that justice roberts raised. what is your reaction to that? >> well, i think first of all putting aside the fact -- sorry? >> go ahead. >> can you hear me? >> yeah. >> okay. putting aside the fact that justice roberts' comments ignore facts in this case and how unc actually uses race in the admissions process, i think it speaks to a fundamental fallacy here. you can't have a race-blind admissions process when our country itself isn't race blind. so the answer to the question is, yes. even the sons of law school deans experience racial harassment, racial hostility, and racial prejudice on a regular basis. the subject of my college admissions essay was about how throughout high school i was called an oreo. i was black on the outside and white on the inside because i got good grades in school.

that's the kind of experiences that black students need to write about. as justice sotomayor pointed out in her dissent. because of the decision, the police can consider my race when assessing my suspicion of a crime, but a college admissions officer can't consider my race when assessing my potential to contribute to a college campus. that is the tortured logic at play here. and everyone is hurt by that, not just black and brown students. everyone benefits from diverse campuses and they are under threat because of this decision. >> andrew, kyra, janice, thank you for your time. i hope you will come back. let's see how this plays out over the next few years. appreciate it. phil. a bloom of toxic algae is harming marine line on the california coast. cnn went along with rescuers who say this is unlike anything they have ever seen before. >> i just know from working in

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this morning, officials say they have received more than a thousand calls in recent weeks about hundreds of dead or sick sea mammals washing up on california shores. experts believe the cause is a growing toxic algae bloom that's poisonous for sea birds and fish and can travel up the food chain to dolphins, sea lions. david culver went to the beach with animal rescuers. >> reporter: these marine wildlife rescuers inundated with animals needing help. >> there's one sick by the beach and the tide line. >> the beach itself has been narrowing so it's a little dicey sometimes. >> reporter: we go along with wide life rescuer, adam fox, he has been saving sea lions for 15 years.

what he has seen on southern california beaches since late may is unprecedented. >> is there anyone there to potentially assist us? >> there's a life guard there. >> reporter: as we get closer, we spot one of the sea lions. >> looks like he's having a teaser right now. >> what we'll do is be very gentle with her. get those flipper pits in. and i'm going to flip her to you. 3, 2, 1. we obviously were able to rescue one. you can see behind us, another one didn't survive. it's just heartbreaking seeing this. >> the cause sits off the coast in the pacific ocean. out here, scientists say a massive bloom of toxic algae is growing, stretching some 200 miles from santa barbara south to san diego and forecasted to get worse. the ocean temperature is projected to be its warmest over the next five years. that's the recipe for these blooms to become more intense. >> reporter: smaller sea

creatures feed on the toxic algae, they are eaten by larger mammals like dolphins and sea lions. these blooms have happened before, but this year scientists warm that the concentration of toxins in this bloom forecasted in red is leading to potentially record deaths of marine life. >> experts liken this to waves of a tsunami washing over local beaches with even more sea lions and dolphins showing symptoms. >> reporter: the dolphins lifeless once they hit the shore. the sea lions beached and suffering from seizures and paralysis. >> people who have called in because they have seen animals on the beach, and they have described it as the ocean sort of coughing up death. >> i'm here to report a sea lion. >> he seems to be foaming at the mouth and looks like it's in distress. >> this one is really on his way out. his eyes are closed and just shallow breathing. it's so sad. >> reporter: all of it weighs on rescuers like adam.

>> sorry. i just know from working in the colonies how incredible the animals are, so they deserve respect. >> reporter: respect this team shows through care unloading the sea lion for dr. lauren palmer to begin treatment. dr. palmer has not had a day off in months. her desperate patients keeping her busy. >> big breath, she seems a little bit more comfortable. >> reporter: there's no guaranteed cure, the meds and flul fl fluids can shut the toxins out but off to the side we notice this pup fighting for survival. desperate for milk and mnurturig that only his mother can survive. she's sedated as her body fights off the toxins. >> she might deliver a healthy live pup but doesn't nurse, lactate, doesn't pay attention

to it. >> reporter: the marine animal care center had 40 sea lions last year. today they're caring for three times that number. >> we ordered fish for the whole year base d on what we would normally see and have gone all of it this month. >> they have had to accommodate overflow in the parking lot. >> that's put strains on our personnel. we have one veterinarian. >> reporter: is it only going to get worse? >> they used to call it an unusual mortality event. unfortunately, they no longer call them unusual because they're not. >> reporter: relentless and expected to intensify. possibly devastating generations of sea lions, like this pup, just seven days old. he may not make it. the hundreds of sea lions that are saved, unable to return home until the toxic algae clears. >> wow. david, thank you for joining us. so many people are obviously going to go to the beach this

weekend, right, witness some of this. can they do anything? >> it's really, first of all, poppy, tough to see this up close and personal. yi i didn't expect it to be that difficult to watch one of these animals in the middle of a seizure. you're right, you've got the fourth of july, fireworks, all things that are going to add to the struggle and stress on these animals. of course the biggest take away is to keep your space. that's the thing. you hear reports of people going up, getting close to animals and irritating them further. that's a big issue, and then their strain on resources and donations is something that they're heavily reliant on to continue this rescue effort. it's overwhelming. >> heartbreaking as well. david culver, great piece, great reporting, as always. thank you so much. too often the people working hard to improve the lives of others don't get the recognition or appreciation they deserve. here's where cnn heroes comes

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