. >> adam ratner is with the marine mammal center. back in october of 2009, about 1700 sea lions gathered at pier 39. over the years, the numbers have really fluctuated. ratner believes the recent surge is a sign that san francisco bay is doing well. >> we get a sense of the health of the bay, the health of the sea lion population and they're coming and going. >> according to ratner, the large gathering of sea lions is temporary. >> so my guess is that this is just something happening out in the water right now, a short term phenomenon where the fish that normally would be somewhere else are coming a little bit closer, making the sea lions therefore come a little bit closer. >> and the harbor master says the colony of sea lions out here is stable. it's really hard to see how many more may be arriving, but i can tell you this. the shops and the businesses out here, they're excited about the sea lions and they're excited about all the visitors coming, hoping that the visitors will spend a little extra money. we're live in san francisco,

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are lots of animals out on the beach, and a lot of people, conservation engagement director adam ratnerey are often alone and vulnerable when they're rescued. the victims of human interaction that's both unintentional and preventable. >> people see this little pup on the beach all by itself. they think it's sick and abandoned, and they go up to try and help it and unfortunately, by getting too close to these animals, we can either be the ones to separate them from their moms, or we can cause more stress, we're looking at disturbance data from 2023 to better understand what's going on. >> giancarlo ruley and the mammal center team began crunching data from the roughly 10,000 calls they receive every year, matching the incidents to eyewitness descriptions of what happened last year alone. nearly a third of the mammals rescued were involved in a disturbance to their normal routine, and ruley says two human profiles stand out the wildlife protector, who wants to help, and the wildlife experience seeker, camera in hand. >> and with that comes then those extra steps of people just taking the

. >> conservation engagement director adam ratner says they are often alone and vulnerable when they'rethe victims of human interaction that's both unintentional and preventable. >> people see this little pup on the beach all by itself. they think it's sick and abandoned and they go up to try and help it. and unfortunately, by getting too close to these animals, we can either be the ones to separate them from their moms or we can cause more stress, we're looking at disturbance data from 2023 to better understand what's going on. >> giancarlo ruley and the mammal center team began crunching data from the roughly 10,000 calls they receive every year, matching the incidents to eyewitness descriptions of what happened last year alone. nearly a third of the mammals rescued were involved in a disturbance to their normal routine, and ruley says two human profiles stand out the wildlife protector, who wants to help, and the wildlife experience seeker, camera in hand and with that comes then those extra steps of people just taking the wrong action and getting too close. >> the other then on the

. >> conservation, engagement director adam ratner says they are often alone and vulnerable when they'reed. the victims of human interaction that's both unintentional and preventable. >> people see this little pup on the beach all by itself. they think it's sick and abandoned, and they go up to try and help it. and unfortunately, by getting too close to these animals, we can either be the ones to separate them from their moms or we can cause more stress, we're looking at disturbance data from 2023 to better understand what's going on. >> giancarlo ruley and the mammal center team began crunching data from the roughly 10,000 calls they receive every year, matching the incidents to eyewitness descriptions of what happened last year alone. nearly a third of the mammals rescued were involved in a disturbance to their normal routine, and ruley says two human profiles stand out the wildlife protector, who wants to help, and the wildlife experience seeker, camera in hand. >> and with that comes then those extra steps of people just taking the wrong action and getting too close. the other then o

. >> conservation engagement director adam ratner says they are often alone and vulnerable when they'rehe victims of human interaction that's both unintentional and preventable. >> people see this little pup on the beach all by itself. they think it's sick and abandoned, and they go up to try and help it. and unfortunately, by getting too close to these animals, we can either be the ones to separate them from their moms, or we can cause more stress, we're looking at disturbance data from 2023 to better understand what's going on. >> giancarlo ruley and the mammal center team began crunching data from the roughly 10,000 calls they receive every year, matching the incidents to eyewitness descriptions of what happened last year alone. nearly a third of the mammals rescued were involved in a disturbance to their normal routine, and ruley says two human profiles stand out the wildlife protector, who wants to help, and the wildlife experience seeker, camera in hand. >> and with that comes then those extra steps of people just taking the wrong action and getting too close. the other then on th

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. >> this is what bruce ratner said yesterday. the occupancy levels. you normally have 25% and now it is 12%. >>> take a look at shares of trump media. they have been rising since the low of $22.80 hit on april 16th. the stock closing at $46.69. the company has been campaigning against short sellers and making it difficult to loan to sellers. it may have decreased the number of shares. it may be possible a short squeeze is occurring which forces you to repurchase the shares. without that explanation, there really is none. >> probably not. it is not realistic to say it reflects poll numbers. i could make more ridiculous assertions, probably. this president is going to be worth a lot if he -- >> i'm not agreeing with you. >> we'll see. it may be technical. at this point you don't know why. >> he's on truth social now and nobody is looking what he is saying. >> you need to pay attention if he is not tweeting. remember when he tweeted as president. >> remember what happened to the value of twitter during that period? nothing. that's the whole point. when h

. >> i mean, you can't just come in and have a new shop manager after gerald ratner makes a speech and that that reputation changes, he inherited and that's what bill's treating this as he's just treating this as if he's just landed on earth in 2022. he's on about the tax burden, the tax burden is high bill to pay for the lockdown that you were all in favour of, to pay for people to sit at home and do nothing in favour of, to pay for people to rtwot home and do nothing in favour of, to pay for people to rtwot homeyoui do nothing in favour of, to pay for people to rtwot homeyou were iothing in favour of, to pay for people to rtwot homeyou were alling in favour of, to pay for people to rtwot homeyou were all in| for two years. you were all in favour that? wasn't, favour of that? i wasn't, i voted against that. how did you think that was going to paid think that was going to be paid for? to be paid for by for? it has to be paid for by higher taxes. you seem to want to lockdown how are to have the lockdown and how are you to have the lockdown and how are you pay to have the lockdown and ho