reporter: she grabbed camera and started to take stills and video, and she captured reams of fish piling up yards from her home on kent island, maryland, near chesapeake bay. they say that 2 million of one particular species died. it is 99.9% spot, which is a drum speez. reporter: and this man from the department of the environment says that the investigation is ongoing but they believe it is caused by a traumatic event called cold stress. you are looking at the juveniles of the species, the babies, and they say that the spot fish migrate out of the chesapeake bay into be the atlantic tomorrow waer water, and these babies did not make it and got caught in the sudden drop of temperatures. the water was measured in the coldest levels in years. but this comes at the same time that birds suddenly died in
enact that legislation. two mississippi sisters locked up for 16 years for an $11 armed robbery will walk free tomorrow. a corrections official says gladys and jamie scott will be released friday morning. haley barbour suspended their sentence last week on the condition that one donate a kidney to the other. a state official says it was costing $190,000 a year for jamie scott to undergo dialysis three times a week. no word on when the transplant is going to happen, but the governor says it should be scheduled with urgency. now to maryland. officials have been investigating a mass fish die-off in the chesapeake bay area. 2 million spot fish, most of them young, have been piling up on the shores. early testing suggests natural causes are at play, namely cold water stress. large winter spot kills have happened in the area at least twice before. the last one was in january of