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Eight weeks old at an animal sanctuary attacks and killed a intern. >> gretchen: she had worked at cat haven for a few weeks. now the question that everyone is trying to answer, what provoked that attack? >> steve: we are now joined by director emeritus and friend of this program at the columbus zoo, jack hannah. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: okay. apparently what happened was for some unknown reason, these two young women were in a cage with a dangerous animal. that's not the way it's supposed to be done, is it? >> the protocol, from what i understand is as of last night, no...

Of lion no longer exists in the wild. >> the north africans were killed off in the wild about the 1920s, so all the ones you see in captivity. >> reporter: as for diana hanson it's not clear how she died but her father says big cats were her passion writing "we will miss you so much but i know that you will be happy for now, you truly are in the eternal cat haven." apparently this lion had never shown aggression toward humans in the past it makes you wonder whether or not this young woman had some kind of false sense of security while being around this lion. of course you can never let your gu...

The owner, he's gone on talk shows in the past. what we know right now is that we believe that the victim is a 26-year-old female intern at this sanctuary. >> paul, thank you very much. we appreciate it and we have a statement in from project survival cat haven. they are confirming it was an intern, age 26, who was killed today. they say their thoughts and prayers are with her family at this critical time. the lion was shot and killed for the safety protocall. that lion was raised as a cub from the age of 8 weeks old right there. i want to bring in jeff corwin, author of the book "sharks." our...

What. martha: the father of an intern who was killed by a lion at an exotic animal park said his daughter died doing what she loved. 24 years old. diana hanson was on the job just a few weeks at cat haven in central california. police believe that she entered the enclosure of a 4-year-old african lion by herself. the facility was closed at the time. there was only one other person in the park. when the officers arrived, they had to kill the animal to reach her. what a horrible story this is this morning. as we start this new hour of "america's newsroom.". welcome back, everybody. i'm martha ma...

Michelle makuloso reporter is with us tonight. you visited this big cat sanctuary for a story a couple weeks ago? >> yeah, shep. that's right. i was here a couple weeks ago doing a story about the conservation and preservation work that cat haven does for big cats in the wild. so to have something like this happen is really out of the ordinary. this place has been here for about 15 years. nothing like this has happened. now, workers tell me that that girl, who reportedly was in one of those big cages usually comes into the cage at times during feeding. now, feeding usually happens around 10:00...