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Georgia. gabe? >> reporter: francis, good afternoon. we are here at noah's ark animal's sanctuary and these truly are amazing creatures. right now, there's a growing international debate over whether big game hunting should be outlawed completely. this morning, the global backlash against the killing of cecil the lion is growing. united and american airlines banning shipments of hunting trophies just hours after del the announced a similar ban. >> i don't know why anybody wants those kind of trophies. i mean i just don't. i mean if you're not going to eat it why kill it? >> reporter: zimbabwe ...

Spotlight on this issue of trophy hunting. some people are saying it must now be banned. >> david mckenzie, thank. out front tonight, corey knoll ton, a big game hunter who traveled to namibia earlier this year to hunt a black rhino paying $350,000 for that trophy hunt. corey thains thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> i want your reaction to what david and i were just talking about. what do you make of the fact that the zimbabwe government is now pointing the finger at two americans for illegal kills? >> i think they are trying to do the best due diligence they can. the spo...

Would make you put a red flag up about the safety. >> very, very impressive news dr. fauci, thanks very much. thanks for the important work you and your colleagues are doing at nih in bethesda, maryland and all of your colleagues around the word. very promising information about ebola. appreciate it very much. >> thank you, wolf. other news we're following, a minnesota dentist who killed a beloved lion named cecil while on a trophy hunt is now wanted in zimbabwe and we've learned the u.s. fish and wildlife service says a representative of the dentist has contacted them. the agency saying the...

Developing news this morning, zimbabwe officials want the u.s. to extradite the dentist who killed cecil the lion. they are calling walter james palmer a foreign poacher and they want him to face justice for his controversial and law-breaking hunt. meanwhile, a petition to extradite palmer on whitehouse.gov now has more than 170,000 signatures, well beyond the threshold needed for an official response. kevin tibbles has the latest for us. >> reporter: tamron, well the news today is that the government of zimbabwe has said that it wants to extradite dr. walter palmer for the killing of this bel...

She likes to post pictures with those dead animals on her facebook page. she's been traveling to africa with her family since she was 9 years old. and she also describes her first kill writing the first animal i ever shot was a white rhino. i got my leopard and took down a hippo to get six of the dangerous seven at the age of 14. while it is legal in these countries to trophy hunt as it is called, her page cause add uproar. there are petitions calling for facebook to take down her page. over the lion comments slamming jones calling her scum and wishing she would meet the same fate as the anima...