Im jamie colby, and today im headed to palm harbor, florida on the gulf coast, about 20 miles northwest of tampa. You know, sometimes the strange things that people inherit on this show reflect timeless american values. Sometimes, though, they tell us how much times have changed. This is one of those stories where the heir is faced with a gorillasized challenge. My name is debbie cobb. My grandmother, Anna Mae Noell, passed away in october of 2000, leaving behind her 53 primates that i had to figure out how to care for. Debbie, im jamie. Nice to meet you. Glad to meet you. You know, i see theres a lot of retirees here in florida. Yours are a pretty wild bunch. Well, you havent seen the half of it. What a beautiful place. Its a 12acre primate sanctuary, full of irresistible characters. Like pongo, a 400pound male orangutan. He really, really likes you jamie, because he doesnt just purr for anybody. [ pongo vocalizing softly ] thats purring. Thats purring. I can tell hes a flirt. Oh, a b
to get to it. you can tell me in the hall later. as mentioned tom hanks is our special guest tonight. the oscar winner who campaigned for biden and obama is here tonight. he has a new book. we re going to get into a lot more. that s tonight. we begin right now with this. you know the sound. new election votes in america. voters just went to the polls in four states and some results have some of the republicans shook again, and we all remember the fizzle of the 2022 midterms. now democrats won in several more key states, including ousting republican mayor in a conservative city in florida. last night florida democrats scored their biggest election victory in years. a stunner in jacksonville, florida, the most populous city. a democrat has flipped the mayor s office. this is really important a democrat won the mayoral seat in jacksonville, florida. it s all new. they re calling that republican loss there in the largest city in florida a stunner because the desant
[ bird caws ] im jamie colby, and today im in brooklyn, new york, on my way to meet three brothers at a selfstorage joint in historic coney island. Thats where they found their strange inheritance, left to them by a homeless relative with a big surprise under lock and key. My names seth lerner. Our second cousin, howard frank, died mysteriously in 2012. Thats when my brothers and i found out that we inherited the contents of his five Storage Units. We were shocked the first time we rolled up those doors. Hi, guys. Im jamie. Im ian. Good to meet you. Hi. Im seth. Nice to meet you both. You wrote me about a wild story about a cousin and that he left all his belongings here . His whole life is here in this storage bin. Howard rented five of these 10x15foot units. When we opened up the lockers, we actually found a place where he might have been sleeping. Wow. We didnt really know until we found this place. He never really told us. They did not need to be told back in the spring of 2012 tha
Did someone use the storm to cover up a crime . And reunited. Thousands of pets displaced in houston, the families desperately trying to get them back. Michael is there for an emotional reunion, how to keep your animal safe as Hurricane Irma approaches. We do say good morning, america. And a lot of news to get to on this wednesday morning. Were getting our first look at Hurricane Irma hitting the caribbean islands right now. One of the most powerful storms ever in the atlantic. We want to show you the image of the hurricane from space right now. There it is, it shows the eye of this now category 5 storm. It is moving toward puerto rico right now then florida, states of emergency are already declared and some cities have ordered mandatory evacuations. Officials call this a worst Case Scenario for the florida keys. As you can imagine the lines are growing in florida to get gas and many of those stations, unfortunately, are sold out. People desperate to stock up and hit the road and thats
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