jane: happening right now, seaworld is saying it will keep tilly, the killer whale at the theme park but hasn t decided if he would perform in front of audiences again. we re waiting to hear from officials. they will hold a news conference a little over an hour from now. on wednesday, you probably know this by now, a male orca grabbed his trainers woman there, dawn brancheau, a veteran trainer, grabbed her by her long ponytail, dragged her under water and killing her in front of a crowd. there were kids in the crowd and people were pretty horrified. this attack brought back awful memories for a woman in california, anne godsey, she was attacked by a killer whale back in the 70s. here s what she had to say. i heard about dawn being, being killed and, i realized that i had been waiting 40
years to get that phone call, that someone had died from, from this whale. and, my heart just sank, and my sympathy goes out to this family that, how devastating this is. jane: let s look forward a bit. richard ellis from the american museum of natural history in new york city and an expert on marine mammals. i can t tell you, richard, how many said to me, just like free willie but free tilly. why don t they set the huge orca, 12,000 pounds, 30 years old, back into the wild? that is one of the good questions but the answer to that probably has to do with jaws more than anything else. assuming they turned him loose, what would people think if they knew swimming offshore, wherever it was, swimming offshore was a whale that liked to kill people? that wouldn t work. they have to find some other disposition of poor old tilly. jane: what happened with