A beached whale?!.....Really?

A few days ago, I opened my laptop and went to cnn.com to find news on the typhoon that had just hit Taiwan. A serious disaster such as this is huge news and I expected to see breaking news coverage all over the website, but when the page loaded the top story was of a beached whale some where in Florida I think. But this made me question if we are even biased when it comes to countries as well, as opposed to just opinions. The fact that one of our biggest news networks were covering a beached whale instead of a disaster that now has killed over 50 people is somewhat strange to me. What makes us put more importance on a whale than thousands of suffering Chinese?