completely transparent with everyone involved. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. the dow opens this morning above the 17,000 mark. traders sent all three of wall street s major indices up more than 1% yesterday. that rally bolstered by strong corporate earnings. shares of companies which have lagged this year climbed. a cold front pushes showers into much of the east coast followed by cool, dry conditions. from the gulf coast up to western new york. showers around the great lakes. showers in parts of the pacific northwest and the rockies. 60s in portland, atlanta and new york. 60s in l.a. 48 in minneapolis. 51 in detroit. turn back to favorite here for us. animal stories. they re great. now a tall tale and an animal story. put it all together. this animal story involves
heard in your life. before that story, before we came to air she said, how many games in the world series? if somebody wins tonight, we go to another one? she couldn t figure out the math. bless your heart. you made it through that story i am just saying, if a woman created the world series, we wouldn t be playing seven games. we d get it done in two games or nothing. let s turn to an animal story which you are much better at. here s one we love. this is an urban animal story. can we call it that? only because it happened here in new york city. a raccoon got up a light pole and sat up there for hours. first responders got up there and got a harness around the thing. animal control officer on the ground brought it to safety. it came down. we have a video that has a lot of people talking. a woman records herself getting dozens of cat calls on the street. you ll see this in the mix. and the special song that
apparently the rehab center will keep it for a few months. the hope is they can possibly return it back into the wildlife, maybe next spring. aisle one, black bear. aisle one, black bear coming down. we have another animal story coming up. i love my animal stories. we ll get some technology here. this is no doubt my favorite story of the day. this has to do with technology for your bed. we got some new high-tech fabrics that can help you get some quality sleep. we need to see this. boy do you need it. but first, parents out of control at their son s football game. what some leagues are doing to stop the brawls and keep a winning spirit. you re watching world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by colonial penn life insurance.
on. didn t help when he took the leash off. moving on from another animal story to another animal story. i love my animal stories. we re in africa. south africa. there s a rhino that frolics around with this fuzzy little lamb. they ve become good friends. the rhino is known as little g. the lamb is lambie. little g. of orphaned. his was orphaned. his mother of killed by poachers. this wildlife preservation fund in south africa is taking it in. and then the rhino, you see a little bit tries to mimic the lamb prancing around. they ve just become good friends. super cute. and it s to raise awareness because there s more and more cases of poaching that have risen. it s a cute video. little g. rhino is little g., and the lamb is lambie. i like the names. can i call you little g? why do you want to keep
sam is the first open ly gay player but the dallas cowboy coach stressed to the press yesterday that the signing was only about football. we feel he has a chance to come in to a position we tried to address throughout training camp and compete for a spot. i am hungry to be on the team and to help the team win. sam could help the cowboys defense, which was the worst in the league last season. it is unlikely he will be moved to the active roster for the opener against san francisco. on this show we can t go that long without doing an animal story. one of these animal stories actually takes place in a zoo in israel. where we find a female baby rhino. running around with her mother. the first time a little girl rhino has been born there in more than 20 years. specialists at the zoo are psyched. female rhinos get along better. more better, much better than the older males do. the hope is that the new little one can grow up and have babies of their own. cutie pie there. act