Humpback whale seen swimming in the Sacramento River

He's here. Three whale launch. We have some new video from a viewer to show you right now. This is a whale spotted in the delta. Denny Glover says he spotted this will in the Sacramento River just south of the Rio Vista Bridge while he was fishing yesterday. Thank you, Denny, for sending this to us. The Marine Mammal Center tells us this is an adult humpback whale that entered San Francisco Bay earlier this week, has continued traveling east through the bay and into the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta near Rio Vista. And you can see it's just cruising along. And so we're cruising the skies right now on KCR three whale watch from live copter three right over the delta. We're looking for that whale. We've been zooming in. We saw a couple shadowy spots that I know our photographer in the sky is seen and we zoom in and we haven't been able to spot the wheel today. No sightings of the whale have happened today. Yesterday was the last known recorded sighting, but we are flying over the water and we are looking. So here's the thing with this. These whales, uh, they're not supposed to be in the delta. Uh, they well, let's tell you about this case first and then we'll talk about that. We'll go back to live copter three. Uh, in May of 2000 and seven, a pair of whales named Delta and Don swam roughly 90 miles up the Sacramento River and they were stranded for 17 days before both the mother and the calf. They made it out again. And then people have been around since the eighties. Remember Humphrey? Yeah, the whale known as Humphrey. The whale spent several weeks in the Rio Vista area before returning through the bay to the ocean. So let's go back out to these live pictures from live copter three. The whales, they consider them wayward. They're not supposed to be in the delta. Sometimes they chase food, they get into the bay and they get their bearings off and end up going up the delta. And so we have watched these situations. We've watched boats try to get them turn around and going the right direction. We've seen these whales make it all the way up through the delta, making all the way to Sacramento and that's where they hit a roadblock. There isn't much you could do. So it becomes worrisome because the food supply starts dwindling as they get up and the goal is to get them back out into the ocean. Also, I think they kind of start losing their sense of direction, almost like, you know, uh, when, you know, for a pilot were to were to lose their sense of up and down. I think it's kind of the same sort of thing possibly, but we are on whale watch right now and we're looking for that, that hump back. Maybe it already found its way back. Let's hope, let's sure. And no one's seen the whale today. So maybe it's already on the way out and not turned around. Didn't take that. Maybe I bet you was google maps, not apple maps. That's all I'm going to say about that. Hopefully not map quest. Maybe my map quest, there