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This weekend, there have been special prayers at weekend church services for the families of the 289 onboard. >> given the thousands of miles to coastline to follow from a news perspective, thank you very much for doing that for us alastair. another report of a famed african lion being slain is not true. the brother of sececil is alive and well. it dominated social media last night. kelly is following this story for us from london. kelly, with the welcome to you, how did we finally learn jericho was indeed alive and well? >> a team of researchers from oxford university have been tracking jer...

Oxford scientists studying the pride tweeted, jericho is alive and well. seen him at 7:06 zimbabwe time. he posted this picture of the healthy lion. the scientist said he was with his lionesses who had just made a kill. with cecil now gone the pride is weaker. >> the death of one male lion can cause a cascading effect which leads to other lions being killed. >> reporter: jericho and the cubs could face threats from other dominant male lions. for now the zimbabwe government is trying to protect them from hunters, banning all hunting around the park where cecil lived. >> hunting of lions, leopar...

Conservation issues raised by this story, it's also a story in decline. july 28th, 2003, thousands of hash tags for cecil the lion. we've moved on to the bachelorette. >> don't say that. having said that there was all the twitter abuzz with jericho. what happened here and what does it say about society that we looked at tweets and we said jericho's dead and confirmation is that he's not? >> there's a flip side to that too. these two lions were in the park the size of connecticut. to verify whether jericho was alive and well they had to send out rangers to physically check. so whether it's in t...

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