good, unfortunately. john zarrella has the latest for us. reporter: ashleigh, the problem is that there s not much that these rescuers can do to try to save the whales. they get the boats around them out there. we saw this yesterday. they herd the animals, try to push them out to deeper water, keep them from coming back into the shadows. when we left there, they were in deeper water and the hope was that perhaps they would keep swimming out. but the problem was that every time they get them out a little bit, they would turn around and circle back in. of course, these animals are starting to go into distress. they ve been in these really shallow waters for more than two days now. they re not feeding, which is a difficulty, obviously. and they re just circling around out there in waters where we really can t support their body weight and everything else out there. so, time is moving on them very quickly. it s really not clear how much longer they ll be able to survive. but as a park of
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save all the whales if, any of them. ashleigh? john zarrella for us, thank you very much for that. joining us now with his expertise also featured in the movie blackfish airing on cnn. explain why any step forward the rescuers make in herding the whales in deeper just met to returning back to the scene where they could die? well i think it s important to understand that these are highly bonded. in fact, bonded for life. there s no dispersal from the family. offspring of both genders, male and female, stay with their mothers their entire lives. so it s really one, big extended family or clan of multiple generations, maybe three or four