door. but he s not the only celebrity sporting a shiner these days. aaron had a concert in boston this weekend and he claims he was jumped by a group of new kids on the block fans. for real. he said four guys jumped out of a chevy malibu and said this is the town of the new kids and beat him up. if true, that might be the funniest statement ever made. even the red pandas have had enough of washington, d.c.. rous rusty back in his exhibit after an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m. after an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m. after an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m. after an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m.r an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m. an escape yesterday. the year old animal first noticed missing about 8:00 a.m.. spotted shortly after in a nearby neighborhood. rusty
since 8:00 a.m. he could be sick or in hiding. or somebody could have taken him. rusty vanished from his cage at the national zoo. maybe he was stolen. listen up, everybody in the d.c. metropolitan area. have you seen a red panda? please help us find him. but maybe don t get too close if you do find him. please help us keep an eye out for rusty, but remember, red pandas are wild animals and will bite. if cornered or scared. also, they wanted to point out that rusty might be very tired because he would normally be a guy who naps during the day. also, quote, red pandas are territorial animals. it would be unusual for rusty to wander far from his home range, in this case, his exhibit. our nation s capital was on high alert, the whole city looking for rusty the red panda who basically arrived from that zoo by way of nebraska but was now missing and nobody knew where he was. he could have been taken.
last night. included that picture there. in case you had seen him, please call. animal care staff have been combing the trees around the zoo since 8:00 a.m. he could be sick or in hiding. or somebody could have taken him. rusty vanished from his cage at the national zoo. maybe he was stolen. listen up, everybody in the d.c. metropolitan area. have you seen a red panda? please help us find him. but maybe don t get too close if you do find him. please help us keep an eye out for rusty, but remember, red pandas are wild animals and will bite. if cornered or scared. also, they wanted to point out that rusty might be very tired because he would normally be a guy who naps during the day. also, quote, red pandas are territorial animals. it would be unusual for rusty to wander far from his home range, in this case, his exhibit. our nation s capital was on high alert, the whole city looking
a-twitter. before noon, the country s national zoo tweets out. we are looking for a missing red panda. wanted the less than-year-old red panda who arrived from a nebraska zoo and only one on display, three weeks ago. officials aren t sure if he was kidnapped or escaped. their inclination is to go up high into a tree. reporter: zoo officials thought rusty was still on zoo grounds. they re looking for him in the trees. good place to look. he is missing. is that what happened last night? yeah. reporter: with the search on. rusty becomes a social media darling. #rusty, #findrusty. do they look like pandas to you? no. they look like a red raccoon. reporter: smart kid. red began red pandas only share a name with giant pandas which are bears. red panda is related to raccoon, skunks and weasels. less than two hours after the first tweet, look who is spotted in someone s yard with the tweet, red panda in our neighborhood. zoo workers rush to the scene and high fives as rusty
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 washington s national zoo for several hours. he made his way into a busy neighborhood off zoo grounds before being captured safely. brandy smith, a senior zoo curator involved in the capture tells how a zoo team lured him into their grasp after surrounding him. we were able to walk up to him. we sent the keepers with which he s most familiar. so the keepers called his name. he was familiar to them. they calmed him down. we were able to approach him with a net, capture him in a net, transfer him to a crate, and then we just took him to our veterinary hospital. reporter: red pandas are listed as vulnerable with 10,000 of them or less in the world