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Joining me now is dr. brandy smith, the senior curateor at the national zoo. how did bao bao and her mother take the separation? any hesitation or was it just a natural time to do it? >> it was the natural time to do it. bao baos taken to the separation very naturally, very easily. her mother is having a little bit harder time with it. >> typical, speaking as a mother, you hate it with the kids go. but routine now, i understand bao bao is a little bit of a night owl. shes playing out there when ...

>> oh, i guess thats the only reaction you can have. >> shes a little sleepy this morning. >> meet bow bow, the national zoos baby panda. her name is chinese for precious treasure, and thats what shes become to washington and the world. she turns six months old today. and this week, we were allowed to participate in a training session. brandy smith is senior curator of mammals at the zoo. >> one of the things were trying to teach her is to come toward a target. so you call her name. you can tap ...

Normal family pets, what is the best advice for what you do in this kind of situation if this deep freeze continues? >> if you have animals that are outdoors, the best thing you can do is bring those animals inside. so if theyre regularly outdoors, bring them inside when its as cold outside. make sure that their food isnt frozen, that their water isnt frozen, that they always have access to those things. but even that theyre used to the outdoors, this temperature is just a little too cold for th...

Cold this is. global warming how over the past 30 days there have been 1,000 or so -- probably about 1,000 record highs across america. there have been half of that for record lows. so even though it feels cold, it still has been warm over the past 30 days. its global. its not where you live. i know global where you live things like you to the safeway and back thats your globe. were talking about like australia. 100 degrees. 115 down there in some spots. hot in some spots, cold in others. thats ...

Global warming? im about to talk to philippe cousteau about that. what is your sense, chad, what is going on here? >> reporter: ive heard all the chatter about global warming how cold this is. over the past 30 days there have been 1,000 or so -- probably about 1,000 record highs across america. there have been half of that for record lows. so even though it feels cold, it still has been warm over the past 30 days. its global. its not where you live. i know global where you live things like you t...

Deep freeze continues? >> if you have animals that are outdoors, the best thing you can do is bring those animals inside. so if theyre regularly outdoors, bring them inside when its as cold outside. make sure that their food isnt frozen, that their water isnt frozen, that they always have access to those things. but even that theyre used to the outdoors, this temperature is just a little too cold for them. >> and are the pandas the ones that are enjoying this the most? >> the pandas are definite...

Hours. brandy smith, a senior zoo curator tells how they lured him after surrounding him. >> we were able to walk up to him. we sent the keepers with which hes most familiar. the keepers called his name. they calmed him down, were able to approach him with a net, capture him with a net, transfer him to the crate and took him to the veterinarian facility. >> reporter: 10,000 or less are in the world. he was born in captivity. could he have survived on his own? >> the biggest danger is did he eat ...

Officials quite a scare for several hours today. they finally caught a break when a local resident spotted him, called them and tweeted a photo. but rusty had gotten more than a half a mile away and into a busy neighborhood before he was finally secured. captured, crated, on the way home. rusty the red panda, not even a year old missing from washingtons national zoo for several hours. he made his way into a busy neighborhood off zoo grounds before being captured safely. brandy smith, a senior zo...

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