[Howell:] Hundreds of volunteers plan to return to a beach in New Zealand trying to save dozens of pilot whales who beached themselves on the sand. At least 250 of whales stranded on a beach have died. Emily Cooper of TVNZ has more now on the desperate rescue effort.
[Emily Cooper, Tvnz Reporter:] A desperate and heart breaking rescue mission.
[Unidentified Female:] This is echo. Named her. Echo will survive.
[Cooper:] The hundreds of volunteers digging in at the site of a mass stranding of pilot whales.
[Unidentified Male:] Not covering the blow hole going around the dorsal fin and then just making nice move back into the water.
[Cooper:] Trying to save the animals still beached in the shallows [inaudible].
[Unidentified Female:] We're singing to her because she was whistling before when we were doing it. It's quite emotional. For me it's encouraging to see the number of people who have come out today to help. A lot of them haven't seen a whale before.
[Cooper:] The whales stranded here overnight.
[Unidentified Female:] When they said come and see the whales, we just assumed that they were near to the shore, but not stranded or beached like this.
[Unidentified Child:] Some might die.
[Cooper:] Many did die, but rescuers successfully refloated about half of the survivors.
[Unidentified Male:] We've just been sitting out on the edge of the shelf just observing, making sure that they don't come back in.
[Cooper:] For the remaining whales, a long wait for the next high tide. [on camera]:It's currently a race against time for these guys at the moment. It's low tide. It's about keeping them comfortable. Later on this evening at high tide, let's hope they'll be able to refloat.
[Unidentified Male:] The dead ones on the side was pretty heart breaking. It's an amazing thing to come out here and help these animals. The adrenaline has been keeping us afloat.
[Unidentified Female:] It is very emotional. It's very sad.
[Cooper:] An emotional time for all of those on the beach that will carry on into tomorrow.
[Howell:] Again, that report coming to us from Emily Cooper of TVNZ. For the second time in less than a week, a big snowstorm is set to hit the northeastern part of the U.S. Our meteorologist, Julie Martin is looking at the timing of this storm and how that will compare to the last one that came through Julie.
[Julie Martin, Ams Meteorologist:] Not expecting quite as much snow with this next system, George, but still New England will get hit once again. We're looking at Sunday in through Monday, and lots of folks traveling on Monday for work. You'll be impacted by those winds. Here's a recap of that last storm. It was just a couple of days ago. Perry, Maine, picked up 20 inches, about 50 centimeters of snow. Anywhere from, say, a foot to a foot and a half elsewhere. It was pretty miserable out there. Do you remember this video? Take a look at what folks were dealing with there, downed power lines and trees. This is some video coming in from the police department there in Sandwich, Massachusetts. By the way, winds on Cape Cod gusted to around 70 miles per hour, so we were dealing with hurricane force winds. We just had blizzard conditions. A real mess there in the northeast. Now we're getting ready for round two. The good news is I mentioned not going to be as big of an event. Nonetheless, still going to be an impressive storm. Taking a look here at the blue on the map. This is all a winter storm watch stretching all the way from Maine down in through Massachusetts. All the way out through upstate New York, Vermont, New Hampshire included in that. The purple here that is a winter weather advisory. That's where you are looking at the messy weather conditions on Sunday in through Monday. This is actually a blizzard watch where you see the bright green here in Northeastern Maine. White-out conditions very likely. Taking you live to the radar. You pick up a dusting of snow overnight in general. Maybe about an inch or so for folks here in Boston. Here's our setup. The low pressure rapidly moves off shore on Sunday, deepens, really gains, and then that snow machine really starts rolling in, and that is going to be the timing again. Sunday into Monday, in general looking for anywhere, say, two to six inches of snow. You see the bright purple here on the map. We'll keep you posted on that and the wind conditions as we head out into the workweek.
[Howell:] Julie, thank you so much. A star of the hit TV show "Game of Thrones" is focusing his off camera efforts on the topic of climate change. Jonathan Mann shows us the actor's mission to document some of the dramatic changes that are happening right now in Greenland.
[Unidentified Male:] Greenland, it's like a whole different world. It's like something out of a movie.
[Jonathan Mann, Cnn Correspondent:] For Danish actor, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Greenland is his family's second home. His wife grew up there. Now the "Game of Thrones" star and newly appointed U.N. goodwill ambassador is partnering with Google to document the country's changing landscape. Waldau is traveling around Greenland wearing a high-tech backpack called "The Trekker" collecting street view imagery of the country's amazing sites. From the ancient Viking ruins to these stranded icebergs called beached whales, to its geothermal hot springs.
[Unidentified Male:] What I love about Greenland, you turn a corner, you walk a few hundred yards, and you are in the middle of nowhere, and I feel small in the best sense of the word.
[Mann:] Waldau hopes his efforts and images will help people understand the drastic changes taking place in Greenland.
[Unidentified Male:] If we go and we film with the trekker a glacier and come back in five years, we'll be able to see that there's less of this ice in five years' time.
[Mann:] And by documenting Greenland's vanishing beauty helps people better understand the impact of climate change before it's too late.
[Unidentified Male:] Greenland is all untouched in a way, but if we all work together, we can preserve this beautiful wilderness that we have left.
[Mann:] Jonathan Mann, CNN.
[Howell:] Jon, thank you. Fans of the show "Saturday Night Live" are anticipating stars like Alec Baldwin to appear this weekend. All, of course, with the clear dislike of the president. A preview of what may be to come as NEWSROOM continues.