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year old's body was found in a river in nashville last month. and abc's andrea fujii has the latest. this morning we're hearing from the family of riley strain the university of missouri student whose body was found in a nashville river after a night out with fraternity brothers. >> strain had gone to several bars the night of march 8th, later seen stumbling and falling, his mother now telling news nation she got a text from him, raising concern that one of his drinks may have been spiked. >> he was drinking a rum and coke and it didn't taste good. and i said, well, you probably shouldn't drink it. then he goes, well, it tastes like barbecue. and i go, well, that sounds awful. and he said, well, it sounds good, but it's not. >> strain was missing for two weeks until his body was found in the cumberland river. his death ruled an accident, but his family says they don't believe it. when strain was found, his family says he was missing his wallet, boots and pants. despite wearing a belt. they say a preliminary autopsy also found no water in his lungs, possibly
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suggesting he may not have been alive when he entered the water. the family, now calling for a second autopsy. >> they're still telling us it's an accident. fine. show me the proof that you have that it's an accident. you know i'll accept it. >> the family is still waiting on toxicology results. andrew. rhiannon. >> all right. andrea thank you for that update. caitlin clark, fresh off of a record setting year with iowa, help the wnba break a 20 year old mark without even taking her first shot. yet more than 2.4 million viewers watched monday's draft as clark was selected first overall by indiana. that shattered the record of 600,000 that was set way back in 2004. that year, wnba all time leading scorer diana taurasi was picked number one. >> yeah, she's probably the most hyped number one pick in really any sport in recent memory. besides, like victor wembanyama comes to mind in the nba and
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lebron james. >> yeah, i think you're right. i think she's a household name at this point. >> oh absolutely. all right. coming up celebrating the 60th birthday of the ford mustang and the woman who bought the very first one. >> plus, that's why the weird effect that ax body spray has on sheep. you're watching world news now. >> helping families with mesothelioma is all we do. our firm has been offering a free book on mesothelioma for over ten years, since that time, thousands with mesothelioma have trusted us to represent them against those responsible. we have local offices throughout the us. mesothelioma really is all we do and there is no risk to you. let us put a plan in place for you and your family. call now. >> call us at 800, 306,315 or go to mso book.com. >> i love my work caring for people. i often assist women who struggle with urinary incontinence, women who have fallen trying to reach the
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believe it or not, the woman who bought the very first one is still driving it around. >> wow. >> six years ago, david muir caught up with her and we're opening up the abc news vault to august of 2018. >> was 1964, and the world was about to get its first glimpse of the never before seen ford mustang. >> coming april 17th. the unexpected. the new ford mustang soon to be revealed at the world's fair in new york. >> the mustangs had already been shipped to dealerships across america, and gail weiss was 22, teaching third grade in chicago, and she had not heard of the mustang. >> i'm gail weiss, i'm the original owner of the first mustang sold. >> it turns out gail needed a new car to get to work. >> i told the salesman that i wanted a convertible, and the salesman said, i have none on the floor. >> but waiting in the back, the new mustang. >> it had just arrived. skylight blue, hidden under a tarp. >> the salesman said, i'm really not supposed to sell it tonight.
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>> but he did. >> for $3,447.50. >> everybody was waving at me. i felt like a movie star, but it wasn't me. it was the car. >> gail still has the receipt to prove it. >> april 15th, 1964, two days before the official release, gail would marry, raise children, driving them in that mustang. she and her husband tom have kept it all these years, putting off repairs for 27 years now fully restored and worth between 350 and $450,000. still going strong in that mustang bought by a third grade teacher who needed to get to work. >> look at that. that was david muir. >> accidents happen every where and every day. sweep it up the easy way with the helio air broom. the lightweight, flexible broom that's sweeping the nation in one pass. it gets it all. watch ordinary brooms only get half the mess. but air brooms ultra flex blade is specially designed to lift and grip and
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>> she was delivered by c-section on saturday, weighing in at just over 3 pounds. park officials say her mother, luna, is recuperating from surgery and will be reunited with her baby once she's stabilized. >> these orangutans are only found on the island of borneo and are listed as critically endangered. the birth is being called a milestone in orangutan conservation efforts to see it and in the home state of two. >> all right, next to calming sheep with an ax. >> not that kind of ax, though. we are talking about the body spray for men. it has been marketed to young men to make them irresistible to the ladies, but apparently maybe there's a little bit of truth to that. >> yeah, apparently it's not just for college dorms. shepherds in england are now discovering that the spray actually masks the hormones that get the rams butting heads, and it apparently works on the girls, too. one shepherd says it encourages female sheep to mother orphaned lambs. >> yeah, well, the wall street journal reports unilever, the
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maker of ax, has declined to comment, saying only that it is not tested on animals. they're staying away from this one. >> a can of chemicals having an effect on am that good next to a tortoise enjoying a good scratch on the back? that's right. right on her shell hitting all the right spots there. the nashville zoo's beloved tortoise, coraline , recently enjoyed a good shell scratch, so i had no idea they could even feel that. >> but the zoo says that the shell is less sensitive than the skin, but turtles and tortoises actually do have nerve endings in their shells. they can actually feel all of that. which is why the little tortoise is reacting like that. >> he's reacting like a golden retriever. i don't they live for like 150 years. yeah, they can, yeah they can. and finally to a little snuggle. let's go to washington state, a little snuggle, a couple of southern sea otters got up close and personal with each other. >> look at them. this is at the point defiance zoo and aquarium
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in tacoma. there's libby there, snuggling and carrying clara around their habitat. the zoo says otters love to play with each other. >> you know, now that the weather is warming up, everybody should visit their local zoos. yeah, unfortunately, we don't really know all that much about libby and clara. they really you know, they haven't written their autobiographies quite just yet. >> you've been home run this morning, andrew. >> have you ever seen an otter at a zoo or in real life? yeah, yeah, they're very cute. they're little sea puppies, i guess. >> yeah, they're
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