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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. it is wednesday, october 19th. welcome to "american morning." craziest story ever. this thing you just said about wild animals on the prowl. >> just spoke to an affiliate reporter in zanesville, ohio. there are some 24 animal, things like tigers, cheetahs, cougars, giraffe, on the loose right now in ohio. they've closed schools. they have highway signs saying, if you see wild animal, please, stay in your car and call 911. they found the owner of this wild animal preserve dead, a hole in the fengs ace and cages open. >> unbelievabl...

The national anthem. well, a sophomore who took this video refused saying in her view, learning spanish has nothing to do with reciting pledges to mention or being loyal to mexico. here's her reasoning today on "fox & friends." play this. >> i felt in my heart that i knew it was wrong because, you know, this is america, and this is unconstitutional, and nobody should be doing that in the united states. i mean, in this iraq if you do the pledge of allegiance, they, like, they won't tolerate it at all, so why are we doing it here? why are we tolerating it? >> >> reporter: when she first total he...

Reciting pledges about mexico and being loyal to it had nothing to do with learning spanish. a spokesperson for the school district 10 miles north of mexico defended the assignment saying it was a requirement for upper level language classes to teach foreign culture. i feel we must discuss this in our -- >> lightning roooounnd. lightning round. >> i love that. >> kimberly, why did it have to be the anthem? why not "la bamba"? that's a terrific song. >> i thought that was the anthem. >> one of the greatest songs ever and i always wanted to learn the lyrics. was she wrong to do this? was it just...

pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypt's population. they've faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the army says some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet ...

clashes between the army and pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypt's population. they've faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the sermade some in the crowd had g...