GREG LEFEVRE, SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU CHIEF: We got a call that three gray whales were trapped in an ice floe on the northern slope of Alaska. And we thought, good heavens, what in the world is going on? And so wanted to go see this. Well, so did the rest of the world. And we spent two weeks tracking the story, the tale, if you will, of these three whales.</s>KEVIN ROCKWELL, CAMERAMAN: I was designated to be the pool camera for all the networks. One camera would fly out and land on the ice breaker and see their operation, and it was very exciting to me. All these people were out there chopping holes and doing their best to make some sort of a rescue effort. You know, it was going along and along and they were, quite frankly -- everybody was wondering, is this going to have a successful outcome? Everything wondered if they would just, suddenly, disappear because they had been struggling for days and days. After about 10 days or so, the Russians volunteered to bring one of their ice breakers in. The next day they went out and started breaking ice and they broke a channel and the whales swam off.</s>LEFEVRE: As far as we know, only two of them actually survived, as we saw them swim away. And for a lot of us who had never been to those cold nether-regions before, it was an adventure to be hold. Two weeks that I will never forget.
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