jack hanna is the host of the jack hanna's "into the wild" and jack hanna's "wild countdown." 9 videoe're going to show you is both graphic and disturbing. jack, i've been watching you getting very angry and animated about this all week. we now hear there's a plan for another zoo in denmark to also perform a giraffe cull is another way of putting it. we're showing what they did last time to this giraffe, feeding it to the lions and so on. what is your specific criticism of what they are doing in denmark? >> well, criticism, i couldn't even go beyond criticism. the columbus zoo, the wild, association zoo's aquariums, we don't condone this horrid act that took place over there, number one. number two, there's absolutely no reason for it. some reasons have been as you know, piers, they can't find room for it. it has to be an accredited institution. there are 220 of us over here and quite a few more in your europe. some european zoo has supported it. the columbus zoo will never work with anyone whatsoever that ever does anything like this to a living creature that god put on this earth fo

jack hanna is the director amayor tuesday at the columbus zoo, he joins me tonight.ime we speak with you it's a feel good animal story, i spoke to you earlier today and i never heard you so upset about anything. this is one of the most horrifying things you've ever heard in your entire life. >> it is. it is grotesque, abombenable. i could go on with the words, but let's let that go right now. it's unbelievable. why is that? i just heard an interview where the person said this is maybe a cultural difference. no, this isn't a cultural difference. in other countries they do have giraffes as a consumption food. but that's people who live way out in other areas. not at a zoo. you tell me why they did this, i don't think anybody can tell you why, i can't. >> you said this kept you up at night. the zoo says it was to prevent inbreeding. they do say they have a scientific reason. they need to manage the population in the right way of the giraffe at this zoo and many others. if they have too many giraffes, why do they keep bringing the genetic line. if they do have the giraff

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jack hanna joins us now by phone from jacksonville, florida. the host of jack hanna into the wild.s killing the giraffe is a possibility. it's not definite. it's about space and breeding. i think a lot of people find the fact this could happen again, they think it's shocking. >> well, you just said the word shocking. i can go worse beyond that. i've been doing shows all over the world, not just this country. i just heard about this. i drove all night because planes are cancelled. you can hear from my voice this is beyond shocking. this animal is a hybrid. i don't know how it was done. in the wild, giraffes do this breeding and animals is okay. this is not inbreeding by any means. this animal is put there. some say this is livestock. good lord put livestock here for one reason. that's the point. that's it. zoos here today almost like noah's ark. noah's ark did save all the animals. zoos today are noah's ark. we're here to teach people about overpopulation. we have problems in the world. we have an obligation to our visitor as well as to the animals mostly that we give them a good li

jack hanna is the director at the columbus zoo and joins me tonight.ou and it's a feel-good story. i have never heard you so upset about anything. you say this is one of the most horrifying things you have heard about in your entire life. >> it is. and the words -- if you don't mind, grotesque, insensitive. i can go on with the words but let's let that alone right now. i heard an interview where the person said this is a cultural difference. yes, when i go to africa they have the giraffe as a consumption food but that is out in the middle of nowhere. this is in a park where the animals are there to educate all of us about this beautiful anna or whatever animal it might be. there were hundreds of people who wanted to take this giraffe. what -- you tell me why they did this? i don't think anybody can tell you why. i can't. >> you said this kept you up at night. the zoo says it was to prevent inbreeding. they say they need to manage the population in the right way at this zoo and others in europe. >> that's exactly correct. if they have too many giraffes,

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and on the phone, jack hanna. to me about this giraffe. >> well, i know one thing, i've never said this before in my 30 years in tv, i want to have a copy of what you just said and show it to the international zoo association for 3,000 people come september. you're right on every single statement. i've done this for 40 years professionally. i spent maybe 12 hours in the last four days, i cannot get over what happened. it's beyond abominable. a perfectly healthy animal, our duty is to take an animal from birth to death and show that animal the best we can as far as where he lives in our park, educate people about what they will never see. you have to remember something, a lot of people, maybe 1/10 of 1% will see these. i want people to see what giraffes are like. we work very hard at educating folks about animals in the wild. if you tell me what anybody, anybody in the world could love something like this, this is terrible. is this the hitler of the animal world in europe? you take an animal and kill it? that's garb

. >> so we are joined now by jack hanna. you know who he is. the host of jack hannah into the wild., this seems so incredibly outrageous, killing a healthy jury aftgiraffe. doing it in front of kids. what possible justification could there be? >> i have been doing this for 40 years. i was up until 2:00 in the morning and i'm a pretty fun-going person. this is the most ab bomb inable, insensitive, ridiculous thing i have heard of. they talk about genetics. let say there was nothing wrong with him. they had too many of them. why, number one, did they keep breeding animals. that's number one. number two, i don't care if the european associates of zoos, the american association of zoos, the columbus zoo in columbus, ohio, would never, ever do anything like this even if the animal had an impure gene. yes, we do have problem with overpopulation in our zoos. what do you do? you find a home for it. right now, i and the columbus zoo, if i had to sell something, i'm not just saying this to be patted on the back. if i had to sell anything i have to get the $100,000 to ship him over to our coun

hanna carney. eight sports will be competed tomorrow and handout medals in five of the sports. reporting live in sochi, jack dolls nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. >>> here is a picture of janelle wang with colleagues from california. she is very busy, she's socializing, tweeting, blogging about her sochi experience on nbc b nbcbayarea.c nbcbayarea.com. you can find her blog at the top of the home page. follow her on twitter. >> let's bring in jeff ranieri and this is what we call weather perfect for watching the olympics. >> it will be good for that this weekend. plenty of wet weather rolling in, you guys, san raff fell, road ways slick, commuters getting through and slower. not only the wet weather but also the wind topped 45 miles per hour, the coast 35, san francisco at 28. san jose a little less but that's good enough to slow you down at 24 miles per hour and livermore at 22. let's get a scan of that doppler radar you can and you can see wide-spread coverage of rain. we expect a scenario similar to this through saturday and parts of sunday. zoom in, you know, here to the north bay and you can