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A-twitter. before noon, the country's national zoo tweets out. we are looking for a missing red panda. wanted the less than-year-old red panda who arrived from a nebraska zoo and only one on display, three weeks ago. officials aren't sure if he was kidnapped or escaped. >> their inclination is to go up high into a tree. >> reporter: zoo officials thought rusty was still on zoo grounds. >> they're looking for him in the trees. >> good place to look. >> he is missing. is that what happened last night? >> yeah. >> reporter: with the search on. rusty becomes a social media darling. #rusty, #findru...

Incident the owner put out a statement saying it is clear what killed the young woman was her error of judgment. >> reporter: 24-year-old sarah was happy and good at her job. for more than a year, she had been feeding this 10-year-old, 500-pound sumotrn tiger. but on friday afternoon, the park owner said sarah did something she's never done. >> without notifying anybody and without any warning she unlocked three locks and two bolts and opened the door and walked straight into the tigers. >> reporter: zoo workers fired shots into the air to scare the tigers. they grabbed sarah's body. she was s...

President obama is also in ohio on wednesday and virginia on thursday. sad news out of washington's national zoo. a giant panda cub born a week ago has died. zoo workers were alerted when the panda's mother made unusual distress noises to alert them this morning. now back to "caught on camera." unfortunately convenience stores can sometimes be targets. but not usually like this. >> i turn, and then there's just a car coming at me. in the dog days of the summer of 2011, it's 16-year-old sammy's last day at a temp job helping out at his father's 7-eleven in aurora, colorado. and the high sch...

start." nice to have you with us. i'm ashleigh banfield >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it's 5:00 a.m. here in the east. let's get started. attorney eric holder to be held in contempt in congress. yesterday the members of the government oversight and reform committee voted along party lines to recommend citing him for contempt for failing to turn over subpoenaed documents from the botched fast and furious gun operation, documents that are now off limits to republicans, and everyone else, because the president has invoked executive privilege to keep all of those documents now under wra...

Park following an accident. in another park, it is still okay to sled, but it is restricted to just residents which means their family and friends cannot take part in that kind of fun if they don't live there. children under 12 must also wear helmets. on the san francisco now, banana sam has been safely returned to the city zoo. police say a passerby spotted the 17-year-old squirrel monkey peeking out through some bushes at a park yesterday, one day after it was allegedly stolen. the man was able to coax the primate into a backpack apparently. the zoo workers say banana sam is doing just fin...