feels the same here. >> doing things are super safe, you know, life happens. >> reporter: in cincinnati, zoo officialsrescued the boy by killing the gorilla. the man in charge of philadelphia's zoo says it was the right call. >> we have ours set up in a way making it difficult for this incident to happen. >> reporter: and this is the gorilla exhibit at the philly zoo, major difference between what we saw in cincinnati, and here they are sealing the gorillas in, people could not access them if they wanted to. an inspection in 2015 found philly's main wolf enclosure was not sufficient to protect the public. the zoo immediately added extra fencing. >> they asked us to beef that up. >> reporter: when we watch the video captured in since gnatty, those in philly could not picture it happening here. >> so she's 4 years old, and i can't imagine losing sight of her for a minute. >> reporter: officials say there's nothing to worry about at the philadelphia zoo. nbc 10 news. >>> switching gears now, pennsylvania attorney general kane cancelled a news conference tomorrow to announce results of a porn e-mail inves

two days after a tyler fell into at theilla cage cincinnati zoo, officials are still defending their decision to kill the 400-pound male gorilla. activists say that video shows that he was trying to protect the child. the zoo director says not so. >> the child was at risk. his head was banging on concrete. roz: he said the animal was agitated by everything going on and there was not enough time to try a trek lies are -- when you try a tranquilizer. >> it works over a few minutes. others say cincinnati made the right call. now there are dozens of petitions online, hundreds of thousands have signed, calling for justice for the gorilla. how the parents could have let it happen and asking for the police and child protective services to investigate parents. a spokesman for the parent said, "we extend our heartfelt thanks for quick actions by the cincinnati zoo today. we know this was a difficult decision and they are grieving the loss. we hope that you will respect our privacy at this time." no indications prosecutors will pursue charges against the parents. roz plater, abc 7 news. jonatha

here is jamie yuccas. >> reporter: cincinnati zoo officials say the child climbed under the railing,ugh wires and over a wall. he ended up in the gorilla exhibit's mote, 15 feet below. the gorilla did not attack the boy, but officials felt because of the animal's massive size, it was a life threating situation. we do want to warn you that some of the video you are about to see is disturbing. >> reporter: onlookers screamed as the gorilla scooped up a 4-year-old boy and carried him through the mote of the cincinnati zoo and botanical garden gorilla exhibit saturday. the child's mother can be heard calling to her son offcamera. >> mommy loves you. i am right here. >> reporter: the boy can be heard screaming. >> the gorilla has the the child. and is dragging him around the pen. >> reporter: after ten tense minutes the zoo dangerous animal response team killed the 450 pound gorilla the child taken to the hospital and released later that night. >> they made a tough choice and the right choice. they saved that little boy's life. it could have been bad. the reason that tranquilizing was not

>>> today the director of the cincinnati zoo said officials have no choice but to kill a gorilla after a 4-year-old boy entered its exhibit saturday. the gorilla dragged the child through water and was extremely agitated. but animal rights activists are outraged. here is jamie yuccas. >> no! >> cell phone video captured the terrifying moments. the boy's mother could be heard calling to him. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. the gorilla's death caused a furious reaction of those critical of the zoo's decision to kill the 17-year-old ape. today the zoo's director said tranquilizing the animal wasn't an option. >> we did not take the shooting of the gorilla lightly. but that child's life was in danger. and people who question that, or are monday morning quarterbacks, or second-guessers don't understand that you can't take a risk with a silver back. >> wildlife expert jack hannah tells cbs he agrees 1,000% with the zoo's decision. >> they made the correct decision. thank goodness a human being is alive because the decision of the cincinnati zoo made. >> the gorilla death is sparkin

cincinnati zoo officials say harambe was agitated and disoriented after encountered a child in his enclosure saturday. >> we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly but that child's life was in danger. >> zoo director doubled down on the decision to shoot the low land gorilla. after a four year old boy climbed over a public barrier and into the guerrilla's habitat. >> people who question that don't understand that you can't take a risk with a silver back gorilla. they're very big, three times bigger than a man. six times stronger than that. >> the gore l illiads death under strewn any, more than 300,000 people have signed a petition calling for the boy's parents to be held accountable. >> the zoo isn't a babysitter. >> wildlife biologist isn't placing blame, but says the public should be more a tentative. >> we have responsibilities when we take our families, and a lot of times we get lost in our cell phone or severe picture or texting, and we're not keeping an eye on what's going on with our own children. >> the boy made his way past 3-foot fence, through additional 4 feet of plants an

a cincinnati zoo official defends the decision to kill the silver back gorilla in order to save the 3-year-old boy. and the cincinnati police had no plans to file charges against the boy's parents. nbc's blake mccoy has the latest. >> reporter: outrage over an incident at the cincinnati zoo. when a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure saturday. for ten agonizing minutes onlooks watched including the boy's mother who cried out the him. at one point the 420 male silver back named harambe dragged the boy through the water. >> mommy loves you! >> reporter: zoo officials opened fire, killing the gorilla and rescuing the boy. zookeepers defended their decision. >> naturally, we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly. but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: a fire storm, people upset that the gorilla was killed. many blame the boy's mother, who runs a day-care center. many are urging she be charged with negligence. in a facebook post, the mother defended herself. as society, we are quick to judge how a parent could take their eyes off the child. i keep a tight watch

it's a story americans cannot stop talking about and cincinnati's zoo officials defend their decision to kill an endangered silverback gorilla. we also learn cincinnati police have no plans to file charges against the parents of that boy despite the outcry they be held responsible for the gorilla's death. nbc has the latest. >> reporter: outrage over an incident at the cincinnati zoo when a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure on saturday. for 10 agonizing minutes people watched, including the boy's mother who cried out to him. at one point, the 420-pound male silver back named harambe grabbed the boy's ankle and dragged him through the water. >> i'm here here. >> reporter: zoo officials opened fire, killing the gorilla and rescuing the boy. zookeepers defended their decision. >> naturally, we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly. but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: on social media, a firestorm. people upset the gorilla killed. many blame the boy's mother who runs a daycare center. an online petition has 200,000 signatures urging she be charged with neg

. >> reporter: cincinnati zoo officials say even though the gorilla was not bothering the child, theecision was made to shoot rather than tranquilize the gorilla because they believed the child was still at risk and the tranquilizer would have taken too long. >> thank you, ron. >>> the first big weekend of the summer, vacationers got off to a gridlocked start on the garden state parkway in new jersey. one reason why? the average gallon of gas is now just $$2.32, 40 cents lower than a year ago. as marci gonzalez reports, a benefit for businesses today. >> reporter: tonight, a possle record-breaking memorial day dash to the beaches, fueled by prices like this at the pump. >> the gas prices, low, it >> reporter: as many as 34 million americans expected to drive this holiday weekend. the most in more than a decade, the last time gas prices were this low. >> the cost of traveling was just too high in recent years. but this year, thankfully, gas prices have dropped and we're able to make a trip like this. >> reporter: turner batten, taking a memorial day road trip from tampa home to charlo

tonight cincinnati zoo officials are fielding fast and furious reactions over their judgment to kill the silverback named harambe as the best choice to save a child trapped in the gorilla enclosure. a viral video captured over the holiday weekend shows the scene after a 3-year-old boy crawled and climbed into the exhibit ending up face-to-face with a massive primate. and now there's even a public call asking for the toddler's parents to be held responsible in the animal's death. >> reporter: tonight outrage over an incident at the cincinnati zoo when a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure saturday. for ten agonizing minutes onlookers watched including the boy's mother who cried out to him. >> mommy's right here. >> reporter: at one point the male silverback named harambe grabbed the boy's ankle and dragged him through the water. zoo officials opened fire killing the gorilla and rescuing the boy. today zookeepers defended their decision. >> naturally, we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly. but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: on social media, a firesto

>>> serious questions for zoo officials in cincinnati. an endangered gorilla is shot and killed to save a boy who climbed into their enclosure. we will tell you why zoo officials say that force was necessary. hard to watch. welcome back to the holiday edition of "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm alison kosik. happy memorial day. it's 30 minutes past the hour. tropical storm bonnie slammed into the carolinas wrecking the holiday weekend for many with heavy rain and widespread flooding along coastal south carolina and now bonnie is heading north. our team coverage begins with cnn's jennifer gray in south carolina. >> reporter: christine and alison, what is now left of what was tropical storm bonnie being stubborn across south carolina. stalling out leaving flooding rains across the areas in the state. sunday, portions of i-95 completely shutdown. as we know, i-95 is the major interstate that a lot of people use to get to the coast. with it memorial day, lines of traffic with people stuck in cars for hours as they slowly exited the

zoo. >> reporter: hi rick, officials say as far as they know nothing like what happened in cincinnati has ever happened at their zoo, and they look at it as a tragic cautionary tale. >> the chief operator at the philadelphia zoo was talking about the he vent that unfolded at the cincinnati zoo. a 4-year-old some how made his way into the gorilla enclosure and in contact with a 700 pound silver back but the gorilla named harambe was killed so the youngster could be retrieved. he says that reviewing security here is an always has been a resolving process. >> we constantly review our entire campus for that kind of situation and all other situations, including routine refreshing courses for the zoo's response teams. >> we reviewed protocols and procedures from everything from severe weather and chemical spill or something involving animals. we have a detailed protocol on each of those how we respond and the debate continues to rage if cincinnati zoo officials made the right decision. >> jack hanna says there was no other quhois choice. >> are you dealing with either animal or human life. that

if faced with the same decision, zoo officials said they'd make it again. cincinnati zoo officials say harambe was agitated and disoriented after he encountered a child. >> we did not take the shooting lightly, but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: on monday, zoo director thane maynard doubled down on the decision to shoot the gorilla after a 4-year-old boy climbed over a public barrier into the gorilla's habitat. >> people who question that don't understand that you can't take a risk with a silverback gorilla. they're very big. three times bigger than a man, six times stronger. >> reporter: the woman who took this video said she heard the boy and his mother arguing shortly before the incident. >> i'm going to go in. >> no, you're not. >> harambe's death is under heavy scrutiny. signed a petition calling for the boy's parents to be held accountable. >> the zoo isn't a babysitter. >> reporter: wild life biologist jeff corwin isn't playing blame but said the public needs to be more attentive. >> a lot of times we get lost on our cell phone or texting and we'

cincinnati zoo. a small boy inside an enclosure for a full ten minutes, at times seemingly protected, at others dragged and tossed around like a rag doll by a 450-pound western lowland gorilla before zoo officials made the difficult decision to put the animal down. >> we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly, but that child's life was in danger. >> i'm here to m remember that harambe lived his life in captivity and he died through no fault of his own. >> reporter: there's been a backlash on social media since the incident. more than 150,000 have signed an online petition calling for the boy's mother to face charges, but police say that won't happen, calling the situation an unfortunate accident. the family released a written statement saying we are so thankful to the lord that our child is safe. he is home and doing just fine. we extend our heartfelt thanks for the quick action of the cincinnati zoo staff. we know that this was a very difficult decision for them and that they are grieving the loss of their gorilla. the gorilla exhibit remains closed. zoo officials expect it to reopen next week. jay gray, nbc news. >> we've been asking thoyou to weigh in on this controversy. so far most o

cincinnati zoo. ron, cincinnati zoo officials are defending the difficult decision to put down harambe. ou think this zoo had any other options in rescuing the child? >> no. absolutely not. we 100% support the cincinnati zoo's decision. it was an animal we loaned to them. you can't take chances with an animal like that. at the end of the day, there is no single animal life more important than that of a human life, especially a child. >> when we think about the gorilla world exhibit at cincinnati zoo been there more than 40 years, barriers never breached before. now, we have this being the second incident in recent weeks an animal is killed after a human entered the enclosure. what do you think zoos could do better in the future to prevent the circumstances of incidents like this occurring. certainly all zoos will be re-evaluating the barriers, i can tell you that for a fact. we're doing it at zoo miami and all zoos are doing it now. at the end of the day, it's very difficult to secure owisomethin against human error or human intent. we try our best and look at our barriers and make sure

cincinnati zoo officials say they were forced to kill a gorilla. >> house prices in san francisco continue be on a tear. a look at the big board at nyse. zoo workers who killed a gorilla over the weekend to save a 4 year-old boy. ==vo== that boy somehow got through a fence and fell into the enclo >>> the different keeps getting keeper over the actions of zoo workers to kill a gorilla to save a 4-year-old boy. this video shows the silverback gorilla dragging the boy by the ankle through water right there. zoo leader are standing by the actions of workers even though the outrage continues to grow. >> naturally, we did not take the shooting lightly. that child's life was in danger. >> an online position for the mother to be charged with negligence has grown past 200,000. >>> verizon workers are returning back to work today. they reached an agreement happening over the memorial day weekend. verizon will hire more u.s. workers and give raises to current union employees. 40,000 workers have been on strike since mid april. >> verizon is on the new york stock exchange this morning. >> along with t

. >>> now to the cincinnati zoo officials' decision to shoot a gorilla who had hold of a 3-year-old who had fallen into its exhibit. >> nbc's blake mccoy reports. >> reporter: this morning zoo keepers posted a video they say shows an agitated 400-ground gorilla putting the 3-year-old's life in danger after the child fell into its enclosure at the cincinnati zoo over the weekend. the zoo's director said he made make the call to shoot the gorilla again. >> you can't take the risk with a silverback gorilla. >> reporter: anger grows towards the child mother, an online petition demanding she be charged with child neglect has more than a quarter million signatures. the mother responded, "as a so the we're quick to judge how a parent could take their eyes off their child. if anybody knows me, i keep a sharp eye on my kid." this file video shows the enclosure, a metal railing with wires underneath, 4 feet of bushes, then a 15-foot drop into the moat. that's where the boy fell in. >> the exhibit is safe and the barrier is safe. that said, any of us in this room could climb over barriers if we ch

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. >>> well, happening today, cincinnati zoo officials are expected to give new information on the incidentolving a boy who fell into a gorilla cage at the zoo. this happened saturday when the boy coming face-to-face with the 400-pound gorilla named harambe. erika gonzalez has more on what happened next. >> mommy is right here. >> reporter: cellphone video captured the frightening scene at the cincinnati zoo when a 3-year-old boy whose mother was tending to other children fell into the gorilla exhibit and was grabbed by a 400-pound silver back. witnesses were horrified. >> and people were yelling, you know there is a boy in the water, there is a boy in the water. >> reporter: the video shows the 17-year-old primate named harambe appeared to protect the boy at times. the witnesses also saw the animal drag and throw the child. the director of the zoo said the child wasn't under attack, but was in danger. >> all sorts of things could happen in a situation like that. he certainly was at risk. >> reporter: more than ten minutes after the boy fell into the enclosure, the zoo's dangerous animal re

. >>> outrage from animal activist over shooting death of a gorilla at a zoo in cincinnati. zoo officials that a four year-old boy, crawled through a barrier at the gorilla habitat and fell in the mote. workers say that a 400-pound gorilla dragged that boy, around, for ten minutes, as dozens of families looked on in horror. the 17 year-old gorilla was not attacking the boy but could have easily killed him according to zoo officials so decision was made to shoot to kill. something that they say they had to be done to save that boys life. >> decision was not made likely lowland gorillas are very endangered animals there aren't that many in captivity but it has the proper ending. >> zoo keepers were worried about the gorillas having an aggressive reacting to tranquilized while holding the boy. peta release aid statement saying this tragedy is exactly why peta urges families to stay away from any facilities that displays animals as side shows for humans to gawk ought. >>> 5:36. still ahead another person throwing his race in the white house details on the candidate, libertarians officially ch

. >> a killing of the beloved gorilla, sparking outrage days after cincinnati zoo officials shot andanimal to save a child's life. >>> hundreds of thousands of people saying should be held accountable for hack ram bay death. >> legal action even. >>> a solute to service at citizens bank park has night, last evening around 6:45. a memorial day service. how phillies honored those who sacrificed so much. >>> good day, it the is tuesday, day after memorial day, may 31st, 2016. >> people are back to work. >> they might still be driving home. >> the kids are in school so a lot of people had to come back to get kids into school. a lot of people once they are off will stay maybe through manor come home on monday, so everybody, jammed, all at once, bus stop buddy, is ready, for school, and for the sunshine today, temperatures are in the 60's and 07's, he has sun screen. we have had some cloud down to the south but good news is the rain is all gone, so we will take a look at the sun, burning through some of those clouds and it is 71 degrees in philadelphia still kind of sticky out there with 8

cincinnati zoo. today zoo officials are defending their decision to kill the animal to save the boy's life. cbs reporter on why some are questioning their actions. >> reporter: cell phone video from people visiting the cincinnati zoo show a 4-year-old boy in the gorilla world mote. the boy somehow got through a barrier and fell at least 10 feet down in to the shallow stream. that's when a 17-year-old endangered western lowland gorilla approaches the boy. at first it looks like he's being protective. then his behavior turns threatening. [ screams ] >> oh, my gosh. >> the gorilla has the child. and is dragging him around the pen. >> reporter: zoo officials removed two female gorillas from the enclosure but did not approach the gorilla for at least 10 minutes. eventually zoo president says the 400-pound gorilla became violent. >> it seemed very much by our dangerous animal response team to be a life-threatening situation so the choice was made to put down or shoot. >> reporter: the zoo said its team chose not to tranquilize the gorilla because the animal was agitated and it would have taken too

. >> quijano: today the director of the cincinnati zoo said officials had no choice but to kill a gorilla after a 4-year-old boy entered its exhibit saturday. the gil dragged the child through water and was extremely agitated. but animal rights activists are outraged. here's jamie yuccas. >> cell phone video captured the terrifying moments. (screaming) >> the gorilla has the child and is dragging him around the pen. >> reporter: the boy's mother could be heard calling to him. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. >> reporter: the gorilla's death caused a furious reaction from those critical of the zoo's decision to kill the april. thane maynard said tranquilizing wasn't an option. >> we did not take the soothing of harambe lightly, but that child's life was in danger and people who question that were our monday morning quarterbacks, and second-guessers don't understand you can't take a risk with a silverback. >> reporter: wildlife expert jack hanna tells cbs he agrees 1,000% with the zoo's decision. >> they made the correct decision. a human being is alive because of the decision the cincin

cincinnati zoo. next the drastic action zoo officials say they had to take and the social media backlash that's now following. >>> and new developments in the killing of a novato high school student. the third arrest made in the case and the charges he now faces. i have asthma...

. >>> in cincinnati, zoo officials are depending their decision to kill an endangered gorilla after asure this as and ral rights activists gathered outside the zoo on americanal day. marci gonzalez reports from cincinnati. >> reporter: growing outrage about this close encounter. those ten terrifying minutes the child spent inside the zoo exhibit, causing the endangered silverback to lose his life. >> oh, my god! oh, my god! >> reporter: the horrifying scene playing out in front of the boy's mother. >> mommy loves you! i'm right here. >> reporter: at one point, 17-year-old harambe and the 4-year-old boy appear to look at each other. >> be calm! be calm! >> reporter: then, the gorilla lifts the boy up and drags him to the other side of the moat. zoo officials making the split-second decision to take the gorilla's life. >> my heart sank. you could tell it was a high-powered rifle. >> reporter: authorities say it started when the boy crawled over the barrier, plunging into the moat. the video of the exhibit from 2014 shows the three-foot high railing that separates the crowd from the exhi

days after a young boy fell in the animal enclosure at the cincinnati zoo, and officials there forced to shoot and killed an endangered gorilla a... zoo people here in philadelphia are insuring visitor safety is their number one priority. >> first would i say don't worry, we're a very safe environment. this barrier here for example, it has got mesh on it so a kid who gets a way from their parents for a few minutes cannot get through. >> reporter: philadelphia zoo chief operating officer any baker praises his counterparts response to that difficult situation. >> this was a tragic situation and i think, cincinnati handled it very well and professionally. >> reporter: he said incident there will lead to digsal training for his team here. >> anytime something happens we all go back and look at our campus, look at our protocols, look at our training, and make sure we're doing everything that we can to create a safe environment that also supports a great guest experience. >> reporter: with more than 1.2 million visitors a year and hundreds of wild, strong, year round tenants, philadelphia z

. >>> zoo officials in cincinnati facing serious questions after they made the call to kill a gorilla to save a boy who climbed in. was the use of force necessary? what zoo officials are saying. welcome to a holiday edition of "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm alison kosik. it is monday, may 30th, memorial day. tropical storm bonnie slams into the carolinas wrecking the holiday weekend for many with heavy rain and widespread flooding along coastal south carolina. now bonnie is headed north. whose memorial day will bonnie disrupt next? we have jennifer gray in south carolina. >> reporter: this is what is left of tropical storm bonnie. practically stalling out leaving flooding rains across some areas in the state. in fact, portions of i-95 completely shutdown. that is the major interstate that a lot of people use to get to the coast. with it being memorial day, lines of traffic with people stuck in cars for hours as they slowly exited the interstate and had to detour around the flood. conditions are expected to improve over the next couple days. however, on and off showers cou

. >>> officials at the cincinnati zoo are responding to public outrage.ng the decision to kill an endangered gorilla after a young boy fell into the animal's enclosure. here's abc's elizabeth hur. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: the video is disturbing. a 4-year-old boy coming face to face with a 400 pound gorilla after somehow crossing a barrier and plunging some 15 feet into the moat. >> the barrier is adequate. we need to work that our families are safe whether you're visiting a zoo or shopping mall. >> he has fallen into the gorilla cage. >> reporter: his mother watched in horror from above until the scare ended with the zoo response team shooting and killing endangered animal named harambe. >> i wish i wasn't here right now. i really do. this is a tragedy. >> reporter: these concerned community members now want to make sure harambe is never forgotten amid growing outrage over the entire situation. >> people are out with pitchforks and torches for the poor mother. but at the same time, you know, nobody's perfect. >> reporter: the boy's mother in a now del

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zoo officials shot the animal. the boy is now out of the hospital and doing okay. jamie yuccas shows how some critics believe the boy's parents should be to blame. >> reporter: good morning. cincinnatiicials say the d the railing, through wires, and over a wall. he ended up in the exhibit's moat 15 feet below. the gorilla did not attack the boy, but officials felt because of the animal's massive size it was a life threatening situation. we want to warn you that some of the video you're about to see is disturbing. [ screams ] >> reporter: onlookers screamed as harambe scooped up a 4-year-old boy and carried him through the moat of the cincinnati zoo and botanical garden's gorilla exhibit saturday. the child was mother can be heard calling to her son off camera. >> mommy loves you. i'm right here. >> reporter: the boy can be heard screaming. [ screams ] >> the gorilla has the child and is dragging him around the pen. >> reporter: after about ten tense minutes, the zoo's dangerous animal response team killed the 450-pound gorilla.. the child was taken to the hospital and released later that night. >> made a tough choice and the right choice. they saved that little boy's life. it could

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. >>> cincinnati zoo officials say they would shoot and kill a rare gorilla all over again to save ale boy's life. the video is still terrifying to watch, right? 450-pound silverback drag that 3-year-old boy. the gorilla staff igniting a social media fire storm of parent shaming post, even death threats. one people tweeting the cincinnati "enquirer," quote, shoot the mother. another post, quote, i had much rather see her dead than the gorilla. hundreds of thousands now signing a petition calling for the parents to be criminally charged. cnn's jessica schneider is live in cincinnati with more on this. good morning, jessica. >> reporter: good morning, carol. you saw it in those comments. the debate and the controversy raging online. people are questioning the zoo's decision and the parents' action or potential inaction, but the zoo's director says he refuses to cast blame. he refuses to point fingers. and is also calling out the monday morning quarterbacks. >> we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly but that child's life was in danger arer the cincinnati zoo standing behind the

every time one of the fed officials talks, the market moves. >>> officials at the cincinnati zoo say they had no choice but to act. they are defending their call to shoot and kill a gorilla to protect a little boy. we will hear the director at the zoo next. >>> the director of the cincinnati zoo defending the decision to shoot and kill a 17-year-old gorilla after a 3-year-old boy climbed through the barrier and fell in the habitat. he said the 17-year-old gorilla harambe was dangerous. this video has been seen everywhere. the child's family released the statement thanking the zoo staff for taking quick action. jessica schneider has more. >> reporter: he said we stand by our decision and would make the same choice today. he said the monday morning quarterbacks don't understand how dangerous a silverback gorilla could be. >> we did not take the shooting of harambe lightly, naturally, but that child's life was in danger. people who question that or are monday morning quarterbacks or second guessers don't understand that you can't take a risk with a silverback gorilla. they are very big.

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jummy: backlash is growing against the cincinnati zoo after an endangered gorilla was shot and killed when slipped into its enclosure. zoo officials are defending their actions and maintain the sue is safe. some of this video may be disturbing. "screaming" the cincinnati zoo under fire, following its decision to put down her ron bay -- harambe. after authorities say a three-year-old boy climbed over a barrier and plunged 15 feet into the moat. with his mother watching in horror from above. >> this child was being dragged around. his head was banging on concrete. isand animal rights group --. if there was a public barrier on the facility, we would not be standing here. >> the zoo maintaining it was not negligent and the zoo caper finds thekeeper situation tragic for everyone. >> it was a situation where there is a strange thing here that i don't know -- what do i do? parents taking heat forne, asking they be held what happened for not maintaining control of their child. >> the exhibit is set to reopen this saturday. jummy: hate speech will be deleted from your favorite social media sites. they will review a majority of flagged cont

controversy continues this morning over the killing of an endangered gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. >> zoo officials to save the life of a child. the child climbed over a 3-foot tall railing and walked through an area of bushes 4-foot deep before plunging 15 feet into the mote. the gorilla was scene dragging the child through the water. zoo officials say they had to shoot it to save the boy. now an online petition has almost 300,000 signatures calling for the parents to be charged with neglect. wildlife experts say the zoo did the right thing because a tranquilizer could have made the animal moreç dangerous. >> if he's holding the child there an he gets popped, you wouldn't want to watch what would happen. you'd be sitting there, going why in the world did they do that? >> the boy was treated at the hospital and released the same day. we checked with the philadelphia zoo about how its animal enclosures are set up. >> that exhibit has floor to el ceiling glass. >>> an animal rescue organization is offering a $3,000 reward to fine the people who tortured and burned two dogs in delaware county. the do

investigating the parents of the 3-year-old boy dragged violently by a gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. zoo officialsnd gorilla dead to save the young boy's life after he managed to climb into the animal's pen. in a moment, i'll speak with the woman that filmed this terrifying video, but first, jessica snider is "outfront" with the new developments today. >> oh my god. >> reporter: growing outrage and blame over the killing of an endangered silver back gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. zoo keepers said they were forced to shoot 17-year-old gorilla after a 3-year-old boy slipped into its enclosure. nearly 400,000 people signed a petition demanding authorities investigate the mother for not watching her child. police have opened an investigation to see if anyone from the family should be held accountable. zoo officials say the boy was able to slip underneath a rail, climb through protective wiring and bushes and drop more than ten feet into a mote below. >> the gorilla has the child. >> reporter: for ten tense minutes, the boy was at the mercy of the 450-pound gorilla, at times being dragged and violently

he fell in after he climbed through a public barrier at the exhibit at the cincinnati zoo yesterday. my goodness. officialsay that he was with the gorilla for about 15 minutes. a special response team eventually shot and killed that gorilla because they didn't know what was going to happen. the boy was taken and is expected to recover. wow. that is scary. >>> 14 minutes after the 10:00 hour. taking a live look, the sun is out. nice blue sky. but you will have to enjoy while it lasts. tom is tracking whether rain will impact your plans to eat outside tonight and what you can expect if you have to drive to work tomorrow. ♪ stand by me vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me >>> the time 10:17. right now tropical depression bonnie is bringing heavy rain to the coast of south carolina. it made landfall just east of charleston around 8:30 this morning. up to 8 inches of rain already have fallen i

. >> now to the latest on that controversial death of a gorilla at the cincinnati zoo. zoo officialsrring their decision to kill the animal after a four-year-old boy fell into its enclosure. this as dozens of animal rights activists gathered outside the zoo for a vigil. abc's elizabeth hur is live in new york with the latest on the story. elizabeth. >> reporter: well, rick, so far nearly 200,000 people have signed an on line petition asking for the boy's parents to be held accountable. well, this as police say they don't see that happening and zoo officials maintain they were not negligent. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: the video is disturbing. a four-year-old boy coming face to face with a 400-pound gorilla after somehow crossing through a barrier and plunging some 15 feet into the moat. >> barrier is adequate. we all need to work to make sure our families and our kids are safe whether you're visiting the zoo or shopping mall. >> a child has fallen into the gorilla cage. >> reporter: his mother watched in horror from above. >> mommy lovers you. >> reporter: until the scare ended with