animals, especially big cats. you re going to hear from them in a moment. this is the animal that attacked her. it was an african male lion named cous cous. he was shot, killed yesterday. he lived at the sanctuary his entire life since he was a cub. when he was 3 months old, he was on the ellen degeneres show. hanson s father said cous cous was one of her favorite cats at the sanctuary. an investigation is now under way. ted rowlands joins me. i understand you have new information about how she died, ted? reporter: yeah, anderson, and why she was in that enclosure. we re getting this from dr. david hadden, the coroner here. he said according to investigators, the victim here, dianna hanson, was in the main enclosure. and it s separated, all of these enclosures are separated into large enclosures and smaller pens. according to the coroner, he said investigators say she was
seen with the stock market as well. now our fourth story outfront, deadly lion attack. tonight, investigators are trying to determine what triggered a lion to turn on dianna hanson. the 24-year-old intern was inside the lion s enclosure. she was by herself yesterday when the 4-year-old male african lion killed her. in a moment, we re going to be speaking with dianna s father. and ted rowlands has some information from the autopsy tonight. the autopsy was just released, erin, and according to the coroner, she died of a broken neck. they say that she did suffer a number of other injuries, but most of those injuries were postmortem and that her fatal injury was a broken neck. the autopsy even went on to say that the attack was very quick and that she did not suffer. so that is the cause of death and comforting news, i m sure, to her family, that according to the coroner, she likely didn t suffer in this attack for very long. yes, very comforting news for them, i am sure. now, i kn
houston, his feud with kelly clarkson and much, much more. that s tomorrow. that s all for us tonight. anderson cooper starts now. good evening, everyone. tonight, the jury has more tough questions for jodi arias. by the sound of them, it s not looking good for the defense. the latest from inside the courtroom, and nancy grace, mark geragos, and jeffrey toobin mix it up. also, my exclusive with speak court justice sonia sotomayor. she went back to the grade school that made her what she is today that now is being closed down. we ll talk to her about that, but we begin tonight with breaking news. some solace, however small, for the family of dianna hanson. a short time ago, a coroner said the 24-year-old woman died quickly after she was attacked by a 350-pound lion and she didn t suffer. she died of a broken neck and other neck injuries the preliminary autopsy shows. she was an intern at the wildcat sanctuary where she died. she was working toward a certification that would have
even with all of the changes we put in place. dr. andrew weil is a giant in holistic medicine and he s going to be outfront tomorrow. anderson cooper 360 starts right now. erin, thanks. good evening, everyone. tonight, the jury has more tough questions for jodi arias. by the sound of them, it s not looking good for the defense. the latest from inside the courtroom, and nancy grace, mark geragos, and jeffrey toobin mix it up. also, sonya sote omyer went back to the grade school that made her what she is today that now is being closed down. we ll talk to her about that, but we begin tonight with breaking news. some solace, however small, for the family of dianna hanson. a short time ago, a coroner said the 24-year-old woman died quickly after she was attacked by a 350-pound lion and she didn t suffer. she died of a broken neck and other neck injuries the preliminary autopsy shows. she was an intern at the wildcat
what that 24-year-old girl was doing inside the enclosure. how are you doing? how is everybody? how do you think we re doing? it s awful. reporter: animal sanctuary owner dale anderson kept the gates at kat haven locked thursday, a day after his 24-year-old intern was mauled to death by a lion. our whole staff is it s just it s devastating. and i m so sorry. reporter: dianna hanson had been working here for six months. her smile in these photographs seems to show what her father says was an absolute love for the job. she just loved this was her dream come true, working with big cats all day long. nothing but big cats. reporter: one of those cats was cous cous, a 350-pound, 5 1/2-year-old african lion. this is iphone video of cous cous taken by a cnn ireporter in