shep s owner is a guy from the military. his name is jerome. he was hours away from deploying overseas. he didn t have anywhere to leave his pup for months that he was going to be gone so he had to just in an emergency, posted an ad on reddit but a little while later, shep was being dropped off with a family in sacramento. the family has close ties to the military. several members are veterans. they wanted to give shep a good home while jerome is off serving our nation. that s good to help out there, last minute. it was an emergency. he didn t know what he was going to do. he didn t know what he was going to do. we should say, shep is pretty old, has a hip problem. it was good that he was able to stay at a nice home. he s in good care. when we come back, we ll find out what will it take to get michael j. fox to play marty mcfly again. also how president obama would prevent a television tragedy. the skinny next. announcer: world news now