happening? well thanks for having me back brooke. i think it s the spike in water temperatures the migration of the bait fish and sea turtles that have come into the area that s brought in a lot of sharks and the interaction is really high right now around the fourth of july because the sharks are forging the shores. a couple of things. i was talking to someone in the last hour. he s referencing a food web, the fact that you have the fish, the turt turtles. are they swimming closer to shore and, therefore, with the increase of swimmers given the fact that it s summer time it s increasing the probability? it s the combination of everything together that definitely drove the spike up. the water temperatures have been so increasingly high that the animals have been staying on the outside of that. it makes for a higher percentage of them. i thought the last time we were on we were talking about a shark migration. why specifically are they right around north carolina and the
say the chances of being bitten are near zero. but that shark migration is interesting to watch. i used to live on the island where the boy was bitten. you could sit on the beach there and actually see hundreds of sharks going by. but it s important to point out that experts say sharks are not going after people. that they just mistake did you go for a swim when those sharks not when they were out there. but other times they mistake you for a fish or something like that. by the way, the little boy who was attacked, pediatrician happened to be on the beach at the time and rushed out to give him some aid. dad says he s doing just fine. a big part of the country bracing for a blast of winter weather, even though it is spring. that means another nor easter. along the east coast. snow should start falling into the northeast tomorrow. coastal new england expected to get the brunt of it with 50 to 60-mile-an-hour wind gusts, driving blizzard conditions. can you believe this? oh,
some of these areas while this shark migration is happening? it s just sensible really. the fact is that shark attacks are very, very rare, extremely rare, maybe one in the united states every year that occurs, that results in a fa a fatality. it s extremely rare. but it s very sensible to take precautions and not be in the water when there are lots and lots of sharks around like this. jenna: we are taking a look at some of the sharks in the migration. black tips and spinners. what can you tell us about those and why they are my great nothing this way? they are relatively small sharks compared to a great white. great whites can get up to 20, 21 feet long. these sharks maximum length on these guys is probably ten feet, but normally they are only about five or six feet long. these are small sharks. the reason that they are migrating right now is because they are following the food. haiher rings, sardines, mackerel is moving up the close between in a and the bahamas and
water, we re talking thousands and thousands of sharks right now. a lifeguard supervisor says sightings like these are common, even in the thousands at this time of year. there s a shark migration with sharks moving north after spending the south winter in the south. cool to watch. no, it s not cool. you don t want to be in the water. there s like 10,000 sharks. nothing cool about that. it looks fantastic. just don t be in the water. duly warn. happening now, a state of emergency. parts of virginia pummeled by a huge winter storm, up to 20 inches of heavy, wet snow fell in some parts of the state. that caused governor bob mcdonald to declare a state of emergency and activate the national guard as well. authorities opened shelters for the 215,000 virginians who do not have power. the storm is on the move, bringing gusty winds and snow to new york city and coastal flood warning to the northeast including some areas that are still recovering from superstorm