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major operation in the west bank. meantime, a terror attack in tel aviv today as police say a man drove into a crowd of pedestrians. we have the latest from the middle east. and later, a fourth of july race goes awry after the leading runner takes a wrong turn, costing her first place. we're going to speak to the race organizer about what happened. something you really have to see. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to "cnn news central." police in three major cities are spending their fourth of july investigating crime scenes. the aftermath of three mass shootings in the past 24 hours alone, in indianapolis at least one person is dead, four others injured after shots were fired at a block party last night. in philadelphia, five people are

dead, two children injured after a neighborhood shooting spree. authorities arrested a suspect they say had a bulletproof vest, an ar-15-style rifle, and a handgun. and just before midnight in fort worth, texas, a shooting left at least three people dead, eight others injured. police say they believe the violence there was related to a fourth of july celebration. i know it's hard to keep up. ed lavandera is in fort worth on that shooting. tell us what more you know, what more you're learning there from police. >> reporter: jim, you know, what has happened here in the cuomo neighborhood of southwest houston is really kind of like the schizophrenic insanity of what is happening in so many places across the country. just moments ago a neighborhood, typical fourth of july parade wound up. but more than 15 hours ago this very spot was the scene of a chaotic shooting where 11 people were shot, three of those

victims have died according to fort worth police. and they're still in the process of trying to figure out exactly who was responsible for the shooting, if there were multiple shooters involved, and what was the motive behind all of this. but it was around midnight last night when there was a street party here essentially, there were people lighting off fireworks and doing doughnuts and spinning out here in the streets. very chaotic scene. one witness said at some point they felt like things were starting to take a turn, and that's when the gunfire erupted. >> everybody was right here, and there was just popping fireworks and stuff. then there was a lot of gunfire that just started ringing out. everybody started renting everywhere. felt like it was going to get out of hand because friends tell me every year it gets out of hand. stuff always happens. >> reporter: that witness you heard from and someone else that he was with also told us they

believe they heard about 30 to 40 shots fired. they believe multiple people were firing off weapons at this point. investigators here in fort worth have not made any arrests. they have not said if it was one gunman or multiple gunmen that were at play here. an incredibly chaotic situation. and as i told you moments ago, this was also the site of a neighborhood fourth of july parade that just wrapped up. they had horses going by, a car parade, children getting candy. so it's really the polar extremes of what has happened on this fourth of july. >> goodness. memories of last year when we saw similar in highland park. i know you're there covering one shooting, but i want to ask you about what we know about the shooting in philadelphia because the circumstances there different. it appears that shooting was highly planned. >> reporter: yeah, that is very different information we're getting for that particular shooting. this according to philadelphia

police was a shooting that spanned several blocks in a neighborhood there in the city. and the suspect is a 40-year-old man who was -- carried out the attack with an ar-style assault rifle. he was wearing a bulletproof vest according to police, as well as having several magazine rounds on him. was also carrying a police radio. there were five victims in all ranging in age from 15 to 59. there was also a 13-year-old that was wounded in the attack, as well. so some really troubling details emerging from that particular attack there in philadelphia. as you mentioned, it definitely has an aura that it was much more planned, coordinated, kind of attack there. a very different attack from what happened in fort worth. >> different cities, different neighborhoods, towns, common factor the guns. ed lavandera in fort worth, thank you so much. boris? let's get perspective now with cnn law enforcement analyst charles ramsey. he was the plea commissioner in philadelphia -- police

commissioner in philadelphia. chief ramsey, first of all, happy fourth of july. we're grateful that you're sharing the holiday with us. let's start with the shooting in philadelphia, a city that you know well. police arrested this suspect, and he had a bulletproof vest, an ar-15-style rifle, a handgun, and a scanner. what does all that tell you about a possible motive? >> well, i mean, it was a planned attack. i mean, whatever his motive was, and i don't think they've found an exact motive yet, but he certainly planned the attack. he had on the bulletproof vest, multiple firearms, ammunition, and so forth. so this is something that wasn't spontaneous. that's for sure. but one thing i do want to point out, the officers there in philadelphia did an outstanding job. they took this guy into custody without firing a single shot. we spend a lot of time talking about use of force and police and especially deadly force if it's not justified. this is a situation where they very well could have used deadly force, no question about it, and

yet they didn't. and those kinds of cases usually go unnoticed by many people. >> that is a fair point. and chief, there's also a detail that stood out to me. police arrested a second person who investigators believe actually picked up a gun and returned fire. what do you make of that? >> well, i mean, they've got to sort everything out. right now you've got at least two shooters. once they really sort things out, work with the district attorney to determine whether or not that second person, why they picked up a gun, why they fired, were they a target, is there a back and forth, and then a decision will be made whether or not that person's going to be charged. right now if you have anyone who fired a shot at that particular point in time, you're going to bring them in for questioning until you sort things out. >> i'm also curious to get your perspective on the bigger picture because we have this shooting in philadelphia, the one in fort worth, texas. we're getting new details about one in indianapolis. earlier this holiday weekend there was one in baltimore.

another city that you're very familiar with, chief. why is it that there are so many shootings on this holiday weekend in particular? >> i mean, holidays during the summer in particular -- i spent 17 years as a major city chief, and you know, we always kind of dreaded the holidays only because you have a large gathering of people, and then you wind up with someone with a gun who decides to use that gun under that particular situation. and it just results in a lot of tragedy, a lot of violence. and it's just unfortunate. people need to be able to go out and just enjoy and celebrate the fourth of july or any other holiday without worrying about being a victim of a mass shooting. unfortunately that's not what's happening, it's only a little after 2:00 eastern time right now. it's not even nightfall yet, and most of the major celebrations will come this evening. so don't be surprised if there's another one. i hate to say it, but it's just a question of when and where,

not a question of if. >> yeah, sad that we have to anticipate the potential for more violence before the weekend is over. chief charles ramsey, always great to see you, sir. thanks. >> thank you. we are also watching just terrifying moments unfold across the middle east. israeli police say this terror attack in tel aviv left at least eight people injured. this is a man ramming his vehicle into pedestrians near a shopping center. you see it right there. then he got out and started stabbing people. police say an armed civilian shot and killed the attacker. hamas has now claimed responsibility, and of course this is happening as israel's military operation in the occupied west bank city of jenin is very much under way. israeli defense forces carrying out around ten air strikes and ground missions in what they call counterterrorism activities. palestinian authorities say those efforts have killed at least ten people and injured 100

more. cnn has more live from jerusalem. you were at the scene there in tel aviv earlier, what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: yeah. this happened in northwest tel aviv. usually a relatively quiet sort of suburb area of tel aviv outside of a shopping center. and we could see this truck that you can see in the cctv video still up on the pavement when we were there. the windshield smashed, most of the front bumper seemed to be taken off. the bus stop it had run into was severely damaged. and the israeli officials saying that eight people were injured as a result, one of them was critically injured. as you noted, they said an armed civilian shot and killed the attacker after he had between on his stabbing spree. the hamas militant group taking credit, saying this person is one of -- they call them their fighters. an israeli defense official telling me this person is a palestinian man from the west bank who had crossed into tel aviv. they said that he crossed over illegally. now the hamas militant group after that israeli military

operation in jenin started, they had called, made a public call for all of their members to go out and said to strike israel wherever they could. so there was sort of an anticipation that something like this could happen, and that's what we saw happen today. as for what's going on in jenin, it's going on as we speak. there are currently as i'm talking to you now heavy clashes, gunfire still being reported in jenin. we are now in hour 44 of what has become israel's largest military operation in the occupied west bank since 2002. and the israeli military saying their goal is to dismantle jenin as what they call a safe haven for militants. as you noted, the palestinian health officials are saying that at least ten people -- i believe the latest count is 11 -- have been killed. when the death toll was at ten the idf told me they believe no noncombatants had been killed yet. but they did acknowledge that civilians are amongst the more than 100 injured. this is a very extensive operation, utilizing drone air

strikes, hundreds of israeli soldiers, utilizing bulldozers to tear up roads. the israeli officials say that's because there are ieds they believe hidden under the roads. there's still heavy gun fights. for the thousands who live in this refugee camp, they've been describing it as almost a natural disaster when they look outside their windows. many of them, thousands of them have fled overnight because they are giving all the indication that this will continue now for at least another day or so. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying whoever thinks such an attack this tel aviv will deter us from continuing our fight against terrorism is mistaken, saying that they are simply unfamiliar with the spirit of the state of israel. brianna? >> we were watching this very carefully. live for us from jerusalem, thank you for the report. russia which launched its unprovoked invasion of ukraine nearly a year and a half ago is now accusing ukraine of what it calls a terror attack after it says several drones were interrupted near moscow. that forced the airport there to divert flights. we're going to be live in eastern ukraine with an update

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powdery substance tested positive for cocaine. these field tests are not conclusive, and this substance was sent in for further evaluation and testing. president biden, for his part, he was not at the white house as all of this was occurring. he was at camp david over this holiday weekend. a secret service spokesman, he says that the powdery substance was found, quote, in a work area within the west wing, but we don't know exactly what that would entail. we should note that over the holiday weekend in particular, but over any weekend you typically do have guests who are visiting the white house, sometimes getting tours of the west wing. often accompanied by white house staff. so that is a possibility here as we look at how this white powdery substance which did test positive for cocaine on a field test, how that substance was discovered here at the white house. brianna? >> all right. many questions left to be answered there. we appreciate the update on that. boris? multiple republican presidential candidates are

spending america's birthday campaigning in two critical states. ron desantis, tim scott, will hurd, and doug burgum marched in an independence day parade in new hampshire while mike pence and francis suarez are stumping in iowa. omar, what's the reception, what kind of greet regular they getting? -- greeting are they getting? >> reporter: for starters, they got a rainy greeting. right as soon as the parade started, it began to downpour, it didn't stop anybody, though, they continued to walk through, shaking hands, meeting people over the course of this parade. again, car after car, person after person walking all the way through. so all of these people are trying to make some inroads to what has been the shadow over this entire gop primary field up to this point which polling has shown is former president trump way out ahead. and along those lines, it is why

a spokesperson for a pro-desantis super pac said he feels they are way behind. that desantis is way behind president trump when it comes to the polling. but he's now -- they are trying to use that as sources have told cnn to try and light a fire in the campaign to keep moving forward and close some of that gap. obviously a lot of that work starts at events like these. >> omar jimenez live in new hampshire. i hope the rain clears up so you can catch some fireworks later, my friend. jim? those candidate hitting the trail days after the supreme court ended its term with several landmark conservative rulings in that blockbuster finale. six republican-appointed justices struck down president biden's student debt forgiveness program, limited protection for the lgbtq community, also ended

race-based affirmative action in college admissions. the rulings could have a major impact on the 2024 election. with me now alex thompson, national political reporter for "a "axios." good to have you on. it's interesting, when you look at these decisions, it strikes me that it's not a monolithic case when it comes to the political effects of this. for instance, if you look at dobbs, that had a clear effect, particularly for democratic voters. but as some of these issues it's not as unified, for instance, on the student debt forgiveness program when you look at the polling here. how are democrats looking at these decisions, and how are republicans? >> i can tell you the white house didn't have any good options here on the student loan because, you know, on one level it looks like biden might be ineffective it might look like all these people wanting relief, he was promising relief, and they don't understand why. all they know is it didn't happen. that's why you saw the white house come out swinging with a lot of things that are legally

questionable on friday, saying at least untested, saying basically, you know, we're going to keep fighting, we're going to keep fighting. what the white house doesn't really know, do voters resonate with that, say, oh, he's still fighting for student relief, i'm going to vote next time because i know he's fighting per me, or do they see a person that's ene ineffective? before this came out talking to sources that student loan relief was one of the top issues that people wrote to the president and the white house for. that was part of the reason why biden, who is a little reluctant to grant student local relief for the same reason of this polling, it's part of the reason that sort of won him over realizing this isn't just really affluent people that would be rewarded by this. this is actually a lot of people of color, lot of poor people that would be really rewarded by relief. >> how about on the other decisions? is the president's team planning to run on the decision, for instance, against affirmative action or the lgbtq decision, as well? >> i can tell you -- president

biden going back to -- you well remember 2011, 2012, on the forefront of the democratic party and lgbtq rights has been part of his brand. >> people forget he pushed obama on same-sex marriage. >> absolutely. i think you're going to see this part of a broader message of labeling republicans, you know, ultra maga, maga extremists. saw that with the controversy of a ron desantis ad this weekend. it took delight in some ways of really trying to, you know -- instead of just saying we're protecting the rights of parents, it was really like we're going to sort of bash lgbtq, and they're really going to try to label this as a maga extremist. the other stuff i'm not sure, as well. >> the republican race heating up here now. trump retaining a big lead here. but notably, and you wrote a piece about this, what's being called trump's basement campaign. of course resonating with the 2020 basement campaign for biden which trump himself criticized. is trump doing something similar this time around?

>> absolutely. basically donald trump is really not campaigning that hard. he's really taken his foot off the gas. honestly, he may not have to. all these other candidates, they have to introduce themselves to all these iowa activists. something that trump had on this do in 2015, 2016. trump has only done four events in iowa, five in new hampshire, and only three in south carolina, zero in nevada. only held two rallies all year. >> is there any new sense of whether he's going to participate in the first republican debate in august? it's coming up. >> you know, people can't decide including other campaigns as if him playing coy is just a leverage play or if it's real because i can tell you that the feelings about fox hosting the first debate and relationships between the two sides are as contentious as ever because the trump campaign is convinced that they are in the tank for ron desantis right now. >> interesting. trump using the fake news term for fox news. interestingly of late, in some of his posts. thank you so much as always. brianna? still to come, the supreme court says it will review a case

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another alleged drone attack inside of russia. the kremlin saying that russian defenses shot down four ukrainian drones that they took out electronically near moscow. this is video that shows smoke in the sky after one of the intercepts here. kyiv has not commented on these incidents. across the border, ukrainian officials reported dozens of injured civilians after a series

of russian strikes throughout the country. cnn's ben wedeman is in eastern ukraine for us. ben, what is the security situation following these drone incidents in russia? >> reporter: well, if you look at the surface, everything is back to normal. the airport where a variety of flights were diverted is back in operation. these were four drones that didn't cause any damage, didn't cause any harm to civilians. but keep in mind back in may when there was a similar incident that, of course, the russians blamed on the ukrainians in which the russians even alleged that there was an attempt to assassinate president putin there was a lot of criticism to russian defense authorities that they had allowed thesedones to get so close -- themsese drones to get close to power in russia. given that president putin is already a little off balance at

the moment as a result of the wagner mutiny, he's probably ever more concerned about his personal security after this incident and of course the mutiny itself. brianna? >> and today vladimir putin made his first appearance on the world stage since fending off this attempted insurrection. what did he say? >> reporter: he was speaking via video link to a virtual summit of the shanghai cooperation organization of which russia, china, pakistan, india, and soon iran will be members. now he thanked his fellow leaders in the organization for their support, he said, for the legitimate government of russia. then he made a rather interesting statement about his conviction that the people of russia are firmly behind him. >> translator: the russian people are consolidated as never

before. the solidarity and high responsibility for the fate of the fatherland was clearly demonstrated by russian political circles and the entire society by coming out as a united front against the attempted armed rebellion. >> reporter: what we saw was it didn't seem to be a united front. there didn't seem to be any resistance when early last saturday -- two saturdays ago in the morning in rostov at dawn, yevgeny prigozhin and his wagner mercenaries actually took over the headquarters of the southern military region of russia which coordinates military activities in ukraine. there wasn't any resistance in that city, and as the wagner mercenaries got within about 150 miles of moscow, there was some resistance by some parts of the russian security services. but by and large we did not see a lot of -- an outpouring of

opposition to wagner. in fact, when he decided to call off the mutiny and he left the headquarters of the southern military district in rostov on dawn, we saw this video of a cheering crowd, people taking selfies with him. so this doesn't really convey a message that the people of russia are so firmly behind the government in the kremlin. brianna? >> no, it does not. ben wedeman live in eastern ukraine. thank you. jim? coming up next, texas police chase down a truck speeding down the highway that ended up having undocumented migrants on board. we're going to have more on that story coming up. and one wrong turn cost this runner first place. we're going to have her story, how it happened just ahead. stay with us.

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now to the battle over guns in america. the u.s. supreme court is looking to tackle a major second amendment case in its next term. this centers on a federal law prohibiting anyone who is subject to a domestic violence restraining order from having a gun. an appeals court ruled that law is unconstitutional based on the supreme court's landmark ruling last year expanding gun rights nationwide. josh campbell has been tracking the details on this. there is real concern that this case could up-end gun laws. >> reporter: no, absolutely. and that landmark supreme court case that you mentioned from last year, what it essentially did was rule that any modern-day gun law in order for it to be constitutional, it has to have had some type of historical

equivalent. what the lower court said was because domestic abuse was not against the law at the founding of the nation, the current law that prohibits domestic abusers from owning guns is unconstitutional. as you mentioned, the high court will be taking this up. to talk about the real-world impact, i sat down with a survivor of domestic abuse. she is currently on the run from her abuser. we are protecting her identity for her own safety. she talked about the real-world stakes here and says that she fears for fellow victims of abuse. >> his anger was not controllable. >> reporter: for many victims of domestic violence, everyday life is hell on earth. >> it can be something as simple as me doing my make-up, it would be a breakdown, the fights would start. >> reporter: a young mother doesn't want to be identified because she's in hiding after fleeing years of abuse that took a potentially deadly turn. >> he started intimidating me

with his guns. i fled. that was the breaking point. >> reporter: the guns. >> the guns. yeah. >> reporter: she sought a restraining order, but proving her case was tough. a judge initially refused to grant one and denied her immediate sole custody of her child. >> i know i'm no good so i had to leave her. >> reporter: it's okay. >> i had to leave her. i had to leave her, i had to allow her to go back there. >> reporter: after repeated attempts, she got custody and a restraining order forcing the man she accused of abuse to relinquish his guns. >> the hope is them removing their guns or returning their guns, you know, will keep you safe. >> reporter: that sense of safety was shattered she says after a new controversial federal court ruling that let certain people accused of

domestic violence keep their guns. >> the fifth circuit court of appeals in texas looked at the case of a man who was challenging the federal law that bans guns for people who are subject to restraining orders. >> reporter: the court covering texas, louisiana, and mississippi, ruled that law was unconstitutional, calling it an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted. language the supreme court also used in a new york ruling last summer. >> this is strictly because domestic violence was not considered a crime by the founders. was it a law back then? does it have roots in our american history and tradition? if it wasn't, then it doesn't have to stand. >> it's devastating. >> reporter: the ruling has stunned domestic violence victim advocates like carmen mcdonald with the los angeles center for law and justice. >> it's not even logical, 230 years ago women didn't have the right to vote. slavery was legal. domestic violence laws weren't even on the book. marital rape was legal.

>> reporter: u.s. attorney general merrick garland blasted the circuit court ruling, petitioning the supreme court to decide on the case. doj telling the high court more than a million acts of domestic violence occur in the united states every year, and the presence of a firearm increases the chance that violence will escalate to homicide. on friday, the supreme court announced they will review the controversial case next term. some gun safety experts say the danger posed by abusers with guns could split the court's solid conservative majority. >> the supreme court at some point may draw a line. they have indicated some of the conservative justices that they are willing to do that. >> reporter: as a nation waits to see what the justices will do, the abuse victim we met has a grim prediction if the court allows abusers to keep their guns. >> it's a lot of blood that's going to be on their hand by doing that, a lot of blood. >> reporter: now one final point, very powerful story there obviously. but one final point that this abuse victim wanted us to tell

the public is based on her own experience -- and so many of these cases where you have an abuser with a gun who is threatening someone, it's not just a romantic partner who is threatened. in so many cases, she says, across the country there are also children involved who are living in these situations, as well. >> josh campbell, thank you for that report. jim? now some of other headlines we're watching this hour and on the topic of guns no less. a have special opening pitch during the milwaukee brewers game against the chicago cubs yesterday. mass shooting survivor coop roberts, he threw the ball alongside his family. he was paralyzed after a gunman fired into a crowd during fourth of july celebrations in highland park, illinois, just a year ago. roberts says he loves the brewers. he threw the ball to his favorite player of all, christian yelich. that's quite a moment. also, newly released police dash cam video of -- from texas shows a chaotic chase between a

state trooper and a semi-truck. officers say the driver reached speeds of 85 miles per hour, drove on the wrong side of the highway. troopers arrested the driver, and then apprehended some 12 undocumented migrants on board. and no longer a thing of science fiction. the faa just certified for testing a fully electric flying car. they're finally here. the california startup behind the vehicle says it can carry up to two people. the company plans to sell each one for -- wait for it -- $300,000. but the vehicle still needs approval from the national highway transportation -- highway traffic safety administration. little too expensive for my blood, brianna. >> little too adventurous for mine. there is major controversy in a popular fourth of july race. the annual peachtree road race in atlanta that we're talking about this morning. last year's champion was just seconds away from nabbing a repeat win when she mistakenly

followed the lead bike as it turned away from the finish line, and she went off course. here it is. >> and she's trying to get herself to the finish line. look at the moves back and forth. and tafari is now -- >> oh, no. she took that right turn. >> off course? >> it looked like she went off course. >> so she ended up finishing third. this was four seconds -- you see she managed to come back and try to come behind the first and second-place finishers, but this -- these four seconds behind the first-place finisher, that cost her $7,000 in prize money which is, of course, an expensive couple of strides and quite a disappointment not to win a race that she obviously could have. the race director of the peach tree road race is with us now. rich kennaw. rich, what a disappointment for tafari here. what went wrong? why did she go off course here?

>> yeah. big disappointment, and we're very sorry for her. she was defending champion. and with about 150 meters to go in the heat of battle, if you will, there were just a moment air lapse as i look at the video, in judgment, if you will. so she saw a police motorcycle turning off to the right, and when you're in that kind of a battle competitively i think your instincts take over, and she took that right-hand turn. and she came off course and just didn't have enough time to recover, to get back to first place. >> okay. so is that normal? should that police motorcycle have turned the way it did? does that normally happen where there is a motorcycle in front of the runners at approximately that distance ahead of them turning? and is there normally that opening in those gates? is that what it was last year when she won?

>> yeah, same exact plan that we have -- we had last year. we're in the 54th running of the peach tree. as i said, some -- won the race last year. and we go through a fair amount of conversation, we have something called a technical meeting the night fwbefore to explain the course. but we -- the organizer had to take some responsibility. and as i look at that video, you can certainly understand sort of in that moment why she made the right-hand turn. so we look forward perfection. i know she looks for perfection. she's the defending champion. she wanted to break the course record. i'm disappointed that she was unable to defend her title this year. hopefully she'll come back next year and will make sure she understand exactly where that finish line is. the frustrating part is she could see the finish line, less than 150 meters away from it. >> yeah. you can see the woman who ended up winning, amazing performance

nonetheless by her. she considers running after tafari and perhaps because she sees the person who is there with the race, the volunteer sort of saying, no, you're going the wrong way, maybe she decides this is the right way to the finish. she did say, as you mentioned the meeting night before, they didn't show us that well yesterday where the finish was. that's her quote. what's -- i know you've probably heard that. what's your reaction to her saying that? >> well, i can certainly understand her disappointment. and in the heat of that moment -- >> no, that's the winner. rich -- rich, just to be clear, that's the winner who said that. >> oh. understood. i -- i have not had a conversation with the athletes at this point. and what i guess i need to do is to spend some time looking at this video. i've looked at it about 15

times, and to be honest with you, that volunteer was trying to direct a motorcycle off the course, and the athlete and the other athletes behind her in a different direction. so i can certainly understand that confusion at that point. i think it needs to all -- to own the fact that we need to do better. >> all right. rich kennaw. thank you so much for joining us. it's heartbreaking to watch her veer off course there. what an incredible performance she had and still had in the end, finishing third. we appreciate >> thanks. jim? >> officials in california are issuing a new warning and it has to do with fireworks, nothing to do with fireworks or rip currents, but sea lions. specifically what they're calling poisoned sea lions. you'll want to hear the details just ahead. ancer is a long journey. it's overwhelming, but you just have to put your mind to it

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there are many sick sea lions. we saw a rescue of two from just here. the marine mammal care center come and put them in their truck, they take them to the center where they try to flush the toxins out of them. but that center is getting full. this has been such a spate of sea lions getting sick. why is this happening? perhaps it is an upswell of cold water full of nutrients. perhaps it's algae. and the toxins get into their brains. it causes seizures, lesions and they forget how to hunt and they either drown or beach themselves. i swim in this bay every morning and usually the sea lions are very chill, we noticed the algae. and then one sea lion bit a woman on the arm. and a couple days later, i saw a

dead sea loin floating. that's the issue. we can tell beachgoers to stay away, we can tell people not to eat shellfish, but we can't tell the sea lions not to eat the fish. once they've been rescued, we've got to keep them out of the water until the algae is gone. it could be a week, two, more. >> those poor little guys. quickly, is the algae a threat to people swimming in that water as well? >> reporter: i mean, you have to ingest a lot of it. basically just don't catch your own shellfish and eat it. you can get sick, diarrhea, vomiting and perhaps death. but humans are not the real issue here. it's the sea lions. we can't tell them not to eat the fish. that's the problem. and the dolphins. they are dying in pretty stunning numbers and in numbers that we have not seen for quite some time, jim. >> let's hope they find a way

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