back from the brink and that's thanks to a program involving the community in north-west mexico, david mercer visited a breeding ground to find out more. >> poir and grace in motion -- power and grace in motion. a grey whale surfaces in the baha peninsula. a people ail travels -- female travels from the antarctica to give birth. scientists have come for decades to study them. >> translation: the st. ignacio lagoon offers the ideal textures for the whale, and it's important for the young whale because fred tors don't -- predators don't enter the shallow water. >> the isolation is what kept thousands coming back. the same isolation kept the communities who lived here in poverty. because of the whales, that is starting to change. locals used to fear the whales and refer to them as devil fish. over the years more and more tourists came to see the grace and with that local attitudes began to change. fishermen like michael agular never looked back. >> many people here make their living from the wheels. men and women work as shuttle drivers, cleaners, lots of things. >> it's a relationship that mean

david mercer, a breeding ground in ba ha california. >> power and graus in motion. grey whale surfaces in the worm waters off the mexican ba ha peninsula. a chal travels here to give birth. scientists have been coming here for decades to study them. the st. ignacio lagoon offers the ideal water textures. it's important for the young whales because predators such as orc orcas and sharks don't enter the water. >> the same isolation kept the communities who lived here in poverty. because of the whales, that's starting to change. locals used to fear the whales and refer to them as devil fish. over the years more and more tourists came to see the greys and with it local attitudes began to change. fishermen have never looked back. >> translation: many people make their living from the whales. men and women work in kitchens, shuttle drivers, cleaners, lots of things. >> it's a relationship that means thousands of people are able to glimpse through a window where whales up to 15 metres long offer themselves up to be touched by human hands. for many tourists it's a once in a

david mercer, al jazeera, baja, california, mexico. >> spring is in the air. we hear there is some severe thunderstorms plaguing some parts of the country and our meteorologist is here to tell us all about it. >> right now we have severe thunderstorm warnings around tyler texas into college station. we have had multiple reports of hail falling across the area. look at the map here the temperatures, such a sharp contrast between oklahoma city down into corpus christi currently at 48 degrees, 71 in corpus christi will gain a little bit of warmth across corpus christi aiding in the instability we have in the atmosphere help to go fuel thunderstorms and those super cells actually producing hail right now across portions of texas. take a look at the radar. let me move out of the way to see really across texas. we have these super cells popping up that are capable of producing damaging winds and hail. those are the primary threats here today. heavy rain all the way toga. see just a soaking downpour. it is north of i-10. if you are traveling along i-20, i-75, you wan

david mercer has that story. >> power and grass in motion. grey whale surfaces in the warm waters off of the mexico's peninsula. >> a peopleal travelled 12,000km from the arctic to give birth. it's one of the only places on earth you see the greys swim with their new calf. scientists have been coming here for centuries to study them. >> translation: the st. ignacio lagoon offers the ideal water temperatures for the grey whale. it's important for the young whale because orcas, and large sharks, predators, don't enter the shallow water. >> the isolation and remoteness of places like this keeps the whales coming back. people here are in poverty, but because of the whales it changes. locals used to fear the whales, referring to them as devil fish. more and more are coming to see the greys and attitudes began to change. fisher me like this never looked back. >> translation: many people make their living from the whales. men and women work in kitchens as boat drivers, shuttle drivers, cleaners. a lot of thinks. >> it's a relationship that means tho

now it's back and in california it's given a boost to the local economy david mercer has more. >> power and grace in motion. grey whale in the waters off mexico. the females travelled up to 10,000km from the arctic to gi birth. this is one of the only places on earth you see the greys swim with calves. >> scientists have been coming here for decades to study them. >> translation: the st. ignacio lagoon offers ideal water textures and safety for the whel. it is important because predators don't enter the shallow water. >> the isolation and remoteness of places like this kest thousands of whales from coming back. it kept the communities who lived here in poverty. because of the whales, it is changing. >> locals used to fear the whales and referred to them as devil fish. over the years more and more tourists came so see the grace. with that local stoouds began to change. fisher many like this man have never looked back. >> many people make their living from the whales. men and women work in kitchens as boat drivers, shuttle drivers, cleaners. >> it's a relationship meaning thousands are ab