charge and they should. theshow is over at sea world san diego, officially ending killer whale performances today but a new orca attraction opening in the summer will be more educational and less theatrical . because that s what kids want, of course. this comesdays after sea world orlando announced the death of famed oracle whale tilikum, no word on the cause of death . i believe it was god . [applause] god showed up. he answered the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people across this land that had been praying for this country. abby: he is the voice of evangelicals, the reverend franklin graham says president-elect donald trump was put in the white house my god. franklin graham joins us now, president and ceo of america first and a really graham
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kind of turning out to be a great show. a show that s kind of complete, it doesn t it probably only only happens a few times a week. at the very end of the show, liz was working tilikum and apparently tilikum lunged out of the water at her. and i had captured tilikum coming out of the water kind of turning sideways and appeared to me to try to grab liz, and at that moment, the tape became unusable. i was just kind of basically instructed to get rid of the tape. wanting to kind of preserve the tape, i actually used the editing equipment and snipped out that little half second or second when he did that and stitched it back together so it just kind of looked like a glitch in the tape. and i m like look at this, and it s like, no, this is no longer usable. so we had to destroy the tape.
time with the other whales. it s for his own protection, you know, he gets beat up, and so by segregating him, it provides a physical barrier so the females can t kick his butt. tilikum is pretty much kept in the back, and then brought out at the very end as like the big splash. he was always happy to see you in the morning. hi. there we go. good boy. look at his choppers. maybe because he was alone. maybe because he was hungry. maybe because he liked you. who knows what was going on in his head. want to whistle? [ whistling ] yes? that was really loud. come on. he seemed to like to work. he seemed to be interested. he seemed to want to learn new things.
he arrived, i think, in 1992. i was at whale and dolphin stadium when he arrived. he s twice as large as the next animal in the facility. right at about 12,000 pounds. that s that s incredible. he looks fantastic. when tilikum arrived at seaworld, he was attacked viciously, repeatedly by katina and the others. in the wild, it s a very matriarchal society. male whales are kept at the perimeter. in captivity, animals are squeezed into very close proximity. tilikum, the poor guy is so large, he couldn t get away because he just is not as mobile relative to the smaller and more agile females. and where was he going to run? there s no place to run. i think he spent a lot of time in isolation. seaworld claims he s always with the females, but from what i saw he was mostly put with the females for breeding purposes and he didn t spend a lot of