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Exhibit. seaworld says they re not responding to critics after slumping ticket sales here. what they are doing is closing the orca show at the end of next year, then in 2017 opening an expanded what they call a more natural setting for their killer whales. depending on who you ask here, there is progress being made or not enough being done here at seaworld. what s the reaction been? reporter: it s been mixed. many people were very relieved when seaworld says it was going to immediately shut down the show starting next year. but then there was backlash and criticism because seaworld says in 2017 they re going to expand the exhibit here. seaworld for the most part has not publicly commented on this. they have declined our interview request saying that their investor statement was what was made public and in that statement they said they were just responding to visitors and what guests wanted here, but at the same time expanding, spending millions of dollars into a new exhibit here. ....
reporter: the ceo of seaworld came out in an investors conference today and said that the orca show as we know it now, the that live show will be phased out in 2016. he said they were listening not to activists but to guests. and the guests had said they wanted the orcas in a much more natural environment, they didn t like the idea the orcas doing things that look like trained tricks. they wanted to see them do things that seemed like was much more in the wild. in 2017 the new show is supposed to be in a more natural environment, heavy on information and conservation. perhaps the single biggest critic on capitol hill of seaworld is adam schiff, the congressman said today that he is somewhat skeptical of this decision by seaworld. let s take a listen. well, i m skeptical, i guess we ll see how far seaworld is willing to go. it s a positive step. it s still not going to be adequate if they re going to maintain these orcas in captivity. i would love to to see them ....
Good news to kaehler whales everywhere. seaworld is going to phase out the famous killer whale show at the san diego park by the end of next year. new orca experience will replace the attraction which has been at the center of allegations for years. john, isha, the ceo of seaworld came out in an investors conference today and said that the orca show as we know it now, that live show, will be phased out in 2016. he said they were listening not to activists but to guests and the guests have said they wanted the orcas in a much more national environment nape didn t like the idea of orcas doing trained tricks. they wanted them to do things that seemed like it was much more in the wild. in 2017 the new show is supposed to be in a natural environment, heavy on information and conservation. perhaps p single biggest critic on capitol hill is adam schiff. the congressman said today that ....
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we ll show you what they were up against, all the factors big and small that spelled the difference between life and death. also tonight as we continue to remember the victims, as they lived, not just as they died. tonight we speak to the mother of rebecca wingo. a young woman with a whole life ahead of her. she mastered mandarin by the age 20, raised two daughters, working her way through school, training to work with troubled teenagers. she joins us later. we begin with breaking news. a package from the alleged shooter found in the mail room at the university of colorado. he mailed it days before the massacre, addressing it to one of his professors at the university of colorado s campus in aurora. it arrived days before the shooting but was not discovered until monday afternoon when police found it in the mail room. they sent in the bomb squad, handled it by robot and x-rayed the parcel just in case. sources telling jo miller who joins us now that the letter inside ....