the biggest danger is if he ate inappropriate food. reporter: bamboo or treats prepared by his keepers. for the moment, rusty has no visible signs of injury or illness. we pressed a zoo spokeswoman on another key question. how in the world do you lose a red panda, how did it happen? we don t know right now, complete honesty, we do not know. that habitat has housed red pandas several years. no one has escaped before. the habitat is constructed to keep red pandas in and people out. reporter: a possible clue, red pandas are called natural climbers, tree dwellers. could rusty have used a tree to climb out of the exhibit behind me? the team came here after he escaped and found no obvious route out, but they are not ruling it out as a possibility and one possibility could be here, the electric fence, there is a tree up there on one side of the electric fence that kind of hangs over. that could have been one of the escape routes. zoo zo officials say they ll
future, too, signing him to a reported $40 million contract extension just last year. just a blessing and hopefully i make the right decisions with it and have a great life. susan candiotti, cnn, massachusetts. still ahead in the newsroom, on the hunt for a red panda, the search that stopped d.c. in its tracks. the story of rusty next. i m part of an american success story, that starts with one of the world s most advanced distribution systems, and one of the most efficient trucking networks, with safe, experienced drivers. we work directly with manufacturers, eliminating costly markups, and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country. when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions of americans, everyday.
you will be relieved to know the little red panda is back home safe and sound. rusty the red panda went missing from the national zoo in washington, d.c. yesterday. he was eventually spotted by a family in a nearby neighborhood. the family then said, oh, i think we found rusty. zoo officials came out and rusty s back at home this morning. paula deen s sons are coming to her defense in an exclusive interview with cnn s new day, bobby and jamie dean told chris cuomo their mother is not a racist. we were raised in a family with love and of faith and a house where god lived, and neither one of our parents ever taught us to be bigoted towards any other person for any reason. this is so saddening to me, because our mother is one of the
look at surveillance cameras, do the best they can to trace his movements to trace his steps between 3:00 and 7:00 the next morning. we will not let this happen again. even though rusty shows no visible sign of illness, zoo officials say they ll keep him in the vet nair hospital for at least a few days and monitor him before placing him back in the exhibit with his female partner. rusty is safe and sound this morning. still ahead, rounds from wimbledon. rafael nadal is likely sul canning today. we ll get you a report, next. [ male announcer ] this store knows how to handle a saturday crowd.
rusty is safe and sound. the big question now is how rusty managed to run away. reporter: captured, crated, on the way home. rusty the red panda, not even a year old, missing from washington s national zoo for several hours. he made his way into a busy neighborhood off zoo grounds before being captured safely. brandi smith, a senior zoo curator involved in the capture. we were able to walk up to him. we sent the keepers, with which he s most familiar, so the keepers called his name, he was familiar to him, they calmed him down. we were able to capture him in a net, transfer him to a crate and took him to our veterinary hospital. reporter: red pandas are listed as vulnerable with 10,000 or less in the world. rusty was born in captivity. could he have survived on his own? we asked smith what dangers he faced outside the zoo.