Mane to go. he s about 500 pounds. the north africans were killed off in the wild in about the 1920s so all the ones you see are in captivity. so dale, how much food does he eat a day? about eight pounds a day. ever grab a lion by the fatail? just today. i believe he was about 350 pounds. obviously, that was a pretty happy bit of video footage there of an apparently normal lion who looked to be in a normal habitat, all beit in captivity. in terms of the intern, would you have expected somebody who was an intern to be inside the cage? you know, i really don t know the circumstances, but i can tell you that my interaction over at project survival cat haven, they have been
good evening. you re looking live at the senate floor where an extraordinary filibuster has been going now for nine hours. also much more, including our exclusive investigation of gun trafficking and my sit-down with don king, perhaps the least man you would expect to have a personal connection to hugo chavez. we begin with breaking news on that deadly lion attack in florida. a female intern was killed in a lion s cage at the project survival cat haven. the lion was shot and killed. he had been raised at the sanctuary from the age of 8 w k weeks. there s no word yet on what may have led to the attack. our thoughts and prayers go out to our friend and family and to her family at this time and this trying time. i want to bring in a man who
Around, obviously for the poor woman and also for the lion and everyone really involved. the whole thing is sad, piers. the family, the woman, the gentleman who owns that sanctuary is suffering just as much as the family. yes, we have these things happen. yes, there are people who might be in a nascar race, but again, the analogy is very simple. we will continue our work with these animals in the zoological parks accredited throughout the countries and the sanctuaries, wut them, we would not have any more lions in the wild, in a museum or a painting or movie anywhere. and jenny, a final word from you? you know, my thoughts and prayers go out to the family of this young woman, and obviously, she loved animals. and you know, a place like survival project survival s cat haven is really important. it s important for people to go there and experience and see these animals because they can t see them in the wild. when you get that experience,