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Show Transcript I want to turn now to our next guest whose story is one of perseverance dedication working tirelessly to fulfill a dream. Nearly 30 years in the making check this out, katarina Purina has been a groundskeeper at U. C. Santa Cruz for 13 years. But her story at the university didn t start. Their katarina first enrolled at U. C. S. C. In 1994 when a family situation forced her to withdraw from the school. She wanted to go back. Life got in the way she raised her daughter found work can eventually ended up back at the university as a groundskeeper. After a decade of working there, she decided to re enroll And finish what she started despite her full time job and a fire that devastated her home. Katarina never missed a class and earned her bachelor s degree in langua
Whale Killed by Ship Fifth To Wash Up in San Francisco Waters in a Month
On 4/26/21 at 11:33 AM EDT
An endangered whale that washed up on a San Francisco shore last week probably died after being hit by a ship, researchers have concluded. It was the fifth whale death in the area in the past month.
The dead fin whale was first spotted at sea on Friday, April 23, by the U.S. Coast Guard. It landed near Fort Funston later that evening.
The cause of death was not immediately clear, but researchers from The Marine Mammal Center at the California Academy of Sciences and U.C. Santa Cruz said over the weekend the animal had suffered trauma to the neck, including bruising and bleeding to the muscle surrounding neck vertebrae, according to CBS Local.
Experts concluded Saturday that an endangered fin whale that washed ashore in San Francisco died due to injuries sustained from a ship strike. The whale carcass.
Experts believe that an endangered fin whale that washed ashore in San Francisco this weekend died due to injuries sustained from a ship strike. They said they discovered significant bruising and hemorrhaging to the muscle around the whale’s neck vertebrae.