. >>> one kangaroo is definitely standing out at a zoo in poland. that's because, as you can see, she's special. with white fur and red eyes, she's a rare albino kangaroo that eluded zookeepers until she was 4 months old and started growing fur. she lives with her parents, who unlike their off spring, are traditional kangaroos. >>> in new york musicians are chopping up the competition with unusual sounds. at the annual musical fall festival an orchestra plays just one instrument, a hand saw. the unique sound comes from one of the largest saw ensembles in the world, one that earned them a world record with 53 musicians, most of them self-taught. members come from around the world to participate. >>> one family's four-legged friend rules the roost at their household in croatia. that's because nika is the pet wild boar, described as bossy and confident. she has become fast friends with the other pet in the house, the family dog. people who train boars hunt truffles have offered thousands of dollars for nika, but the family can't seem to part with their

the kangaroo was an escaped pet named eddie. vets will examine the animal before a decision is made about his future. >>> starbucks is going on strike. where coffee lovers are having to find other places to get their coffee fix. ush >>> welcome back. we're taking back another live look at the new york stock exchange where stocks are down for a second straight day. gridlock in washington has been pulling stocks lower today. the dow is down 66 points. as for the other indexes, we have nasdaq, that's up, slightly up, 1 point. s&p right now is down 2. >>> thety so ray oil refinery in -- the tesoro oil refinery has agreeed to paying a fine. the company officials say they reported many of the incidents at about 40% of the unreported incidents they say were due to paperwork errors. >>> american apparel is using a new strategy to boost its sagging sales of hoodies an t- shirt. they are teaming up with ebay to create an online store. the two say there already is a strong need for this. american apparel expects to become a multi-million d

in the giant corn dog eating contest which you ladies are going just for that. >> maybe for the kangaroos. >> maybe not for the contest. >> kristy is always trying to get us to go outside. >>> if you have always wished were you taller you might want to reconsider. >> that's right. there is good news for being short. a new study finds that tall women may face a bigger risk of cancer. researchers in oxford university say that the risk of cancer goes up 16% for every four inch increase in height. they are not sure how height is linked to cancer but they say diet, genetic factors and growth hormones determine height. >>> when this week's jefferson award winner first picked up a video camera, it changed her life. as kate kelly reports, the danville teenager is using her films now to make positive changes for others. >> reporter: 18-year-old lauren lindbergh isn't used to being on this side of the camera. though barely out of high school she made over half dozen short films and award winning documentary. >> i think i have always enjoyed being behind the camera more. i don't know what it is but

in australia, kangaroo is no match for a 94-year-old grandma.m her smackdown with a red kangaroo. her weapon -- a broom. she says she was hanging clothes when a kangaroo you showed up and knocked her down to the ground. she grabbed the broom, hit him a couple of times. she made it to the house and called police. they used pepper spray to subdue the kangaroo. mcdonald's is getting healthier. they're cutting about 20% of calories in its happy meals so there will be fewer french fries and more fruit and veggies for your kids. it will be offered in all 14,000 restaurants come next april. prices will stay the same and the meals will still include a free toy. so your kids still get that. but all this comes after several california municipalities passed laws stopping the free toy giveaways and unhealthy restaurant meals for kids. straight ahead, he's accused of making unwanted sexual advances on a teenage girl. his campaign staff says he needs psychiatric help. now today a surprise announcement from this seven-term congressman. paul steinhouser has tha

red kangaroos like this one can stand 6 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds.here a 70-year-old grandmother says she fought off a man who walked right into her house. he should be easy to track down though because he didn't bother wearing a disguise. >> this person is standing there. and i'm saying who are you? who are you? what do you want? he still is standing there. and i'm screaming at him and he is not moving. is he not doing anything. is he just there. naked. yeah. that's the part that blew me away. >> shepard: that would do it. don't see that every day. consider since he was naked, that bat must have felt nice. when last seen, he was hobbling out the door, likely with some new bruises courtesy of a very feisty grandma. and on this day in 1947, then president harry truman signed the national security act. the cold war was in full swing and many in washington were calling for something that could better coordinate various defense agencies. the national security act was the answer of the day. it spawned a new defense department, the united states air force,

. >> they are marsupials and related to combat, kangaroos. >> anything with a pouch?pretty much. >> he is operations manager at the wildlife park outside of sydney. among the wombats and wallabees, the crocks and kangaroos he introduces us to molly and pebbles and her baby jack zero. can you jack co. >> do you recognize them all. >> yes, it is funny because they sleep a long time because they are not going to give you a feedback say like a dog or cat. >> koalas can weigh up to 15 pounds, found exclusively in northeastern australia they live only about eight years in the wild, but are money to reach 22 in captivity. they are good climbers, and live in loose families. >> does the father have any child rearing responsibilities? >> no, no. the male is pretty just does the fun part, and he gets to create the baby and he is off. >> momma isn't necessarily the most devoted either. >> is she interested in the baby or does she tolerate the baby? >> well, she is probably more tolerate than complete like she doesn't dote on the babies, that is for sure. >> the word claw is said

they say it is very rare for a kangaroo to attack humans. and family said goodbye to amy winehouse, her funeral was held in london only close friends and relatives attending her father said her daughter-- his daughter recently found love she managed to beat her and drug dependency but he said she was still struggling to control her drinking. she was found dead saturday at her london home, she was 27. stay with us, more news after the break. >> this just in, an amber alert has been issued, los angeles police say three year-old girl was abducted late this morning in los angeles she is three-year- old, a black female, brown hair, brown eyes. was last seen with a rainbow colored t-shirt the suspect is a 35 year old kawana how weird. the same name as a little girl. last seen wearing a blue and white tank top we are told that she was driving a silver and white chevy malibu. that is the license plate on the screen if you have any information please call the police live in the newsroom i am grant lotus with kron4 news. >> i am kimberlee sakamoto wit

a kangaroo calf named joey will be out there. >> we're having good time.ou always hear about the disgusting things they serve at the state fair. it's like deep fried fat or something. speaking of thing uz you shouldn't eat at the state fair because it can lead to this problem, obese kids. right now t tre is an article and a bunch of parents that are protesting this. they're saying that parents who have obese children, very obese children, you've heard about this in the news, we're talking about super obese kids, should actually lose custody of those children because it is poor parenting to allow those kids to be so overweight and it's very unhealthy. they are not saying in the study what would happen to the kids after they confiscated the otherweight children. where would they go? >> education would play a big role from this for parents too. finally, i should say by the way pixar is part of the disney parent company, as well as abc news. in herriman, utah, check this out. there's a how the that's built to the exact dimensions from the house from "up!" they

>>> police officers in australia had to use pepper sprato fight off an angry kangaroo.cked a 94-year-old woman in her backyard as she went to the hospital with cuts and bruises, she told police she thought she was going to die. wildlife rangers managed to trap the male kangaroo and want to know if his injured leg had anything to do w with his rampa. no decision has yet been made about the animal's future. >>> here we go. you better hang out for this one. because it is our, what? oh, a little slow today. it's our favorite, there we go, story of the day. here we go. >> this one involves a woman from south carolina who was ticketed for having one of those, well, let's just say an ornament hanging off a trailer hitch of her pickup truck. that ornament is meant to simulate a certain male body part, use your imagination. >> very ballsy. a cop wrote her a ticket and says he was following the law. >> very specifically says you cannot have human body parts dangling from the vehicle anywhere. or attached to the vehicle. that the community as a whole e would find offensive. >> it

no, very need a way to bring the kangaroos up and down. >> i read a lot of the guys that worked under you would find some of this stuff and some of the things -- you can take that. it doesn't look like your wife. a lot of this stuff is hot. >> it is not hot. it is cool now. >> tire places are illegal. >> and what exactly does this do? >> it would make a great shoe. >> do you want to get that? >> we have a suit of armor right here. is this a midevil operator in midevil times? >> this is a company from new york. this is a miniature of the elevator action game that was used. >> there was a video game based on an elevator? >> that sounds amazingly exciting. so it would go up and down. >> this is a collection of golf balls from every elevator company. >> when i think of elevators i think of golf. >> con few shoes say elevator smells different to midget. i get that, but can you explain that to the viewers? >> i think they can get that easily. >> so this would apply to my host? >> yes. >> patrick, we are in the lounge area of the museum. apart from being super creepy, what is the purpose of

. >> big kangaroos, they can get dangerous.that can kick peek. >> jimmy: the boxing gloves, yeah. >> this guy does the same thing. he can lean back and use the big feet. but he's only a baby and he just wants to hang out. >> jimmy: and he lives in, like, in the -- like, storage container or something -- >> he's ininustralia. >> jimmy: look at how relaxed i am. >> i can pull out -- you can see his front, free-climbing -- >> jimmy: he is cute. >> look at the big back feet. those are his jumping feet. now i'm going to grab his tail. >> jimmy: let's not get crazy. >>>>ou seem petrified right now. >> jimmy: i am. i told you. not everyone is natural with animals. i'm from brooklyn and we don't have animals there. >> treat him like a raccoon. >> jimmy: i hate those. they're scary. your new show is nonanimal related. >> "expedition impossible." we have camels and donkeys and but i don't have to handle them. >> jimmy: they're not competing. >> no. it's a race across morocco. it's 13 teams of three racing across morocco. in expedition. w

if i get found guilty by the people, which is going to be a kangaroo court, i have got 15 months in thehu, which most likely i will be found guilty. and then the worst part is that they're asking the d.a. to press charges against me. if the d.a. presses charges against me, and i get convicted over there, i have another life sentence on top of the life sentence i already did, and i i'm a victim here. so, i mean, you know, it's just crazy. i don't really know what's going to happen and i'll probably be locked away a year or longer. it's very disrupting. >> do you have any razors? >> three tuna. three nachos. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> martinez, victor. >> brian modglin told us that he is trying to be a new man. but living on the sensitive need yard with child molesters is a strange twist of fate not lost on him. >> i committed my crime because i was under the impression that the man i killed was molesting my 8-year-old cousin. and then come to find out, by me testifying in court, it put me in the same situation, and the inmate population looked upon me as the same as the guy i killed.

it's like a kangaroo.t has big pouches that travelers can stuff with 22 pounds of clothes, books and even a laptop. he even stuffed his shoes in there, too. some european airlines charge passengers up to $35 to check in a bag. so if you want to avoid that fee, just think rufus roo. >> cheapskates unite. >> i checked their website. apparently it comes in child sizes, as well. [ laughter ]

kangaroos and cobras had to make room for deer and otters and the central wolf became the main attraction. still in germany starting from 1933 biology lessons in school are increased by 50% at the expense of foreign language. the official objective of this shift was to buy all of guys -- biology the earth. i bought the text books. one of them is a work that in it biology is reduced to feet genetics of greg or mental -- e --gregor mendel who discovered how carriers of certain traits belong stems or short stems or brown eyes or blue eyes are passed from one generation to another. with the business of upgrading species had a scientific basis in nazi germany he was on a postage stamp issued in 1939 and to the right were the words healthy children, happy future. i was surprised to read german students at the time were required as i was in high school to perform experiments crossing fruit flies. the red dyed ones you cross with the right side ones and hitler's ministry of education was ordered to supply sufficient quantities of fruit flies at any time. and added surprise the text books containe

. >> he called me a mop eating kangaroo. and never got past that stage. >> the closure is a sign of the expediency. he is fighting. the u.k. in the u.s. have long ago taken over. the scandal surrounding the best selling english-language newspaper can threaten them all. these companies have been falling over themselves. murdoch's people feel they boycott was next. they understand it. >> execs know better than anyone because of a public boycotts. sales have remained on the floor because of public anger over the coverage of the tragedy. they lost 75% of the readers. the readers have never come back. >> obviously, that he is the following the empire for 25 years. >> definitely, the brand has been destroyed. they decide to call it a day. it is unlikely that it will die. they will relaunch it does something else. >> >> james murdoch has been running this. the u.k. is the news corporation. he authorized payoff of to 1 million pounds for celebrities who threatened to sue. now he is saying sorry. >> there was a particular sediment th

sounds like a kangaroo court to me. i am going to continue to oppose these things. i think at a time when we are all talking about government spending less and being more sensitive, this is a good place to start and i will continue to oppose the f.a.a. re-authorization until the f.a.a. revises their deeply flawed airspace redesign plan for new york, new jersey, and philadelphia. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. petri: i continue to reserve different given the difference in time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from illinois. mr. costello: madam speaker, thank you. i would ask my friend, the chairman of the subcommittee, if he has other speakers. if he has no other speakers, i am prepared to be the last speaker on our side and yield back if there are no speakers on your side to close. mr. petri: excuse me. if you want to yield back. i was prepared to close at the very end for a minute or two. mr. costello: madam speaker, i yield myself

with the babies in the -- what am i confusing -- kangaroo? >> right on.have on tv, and this is about as big as we can get. he is a relative of the elephant. >> looks a little like a rat. >> believe it or not, the tooth structure, if you see, if he take as bite here. not so much, but in the structure, like that of an elephant. just smaller. isn't that amazing? a prominent plant throughout africa, and they like it. he decided maybe he's curious to know that your hair feels a little like -- >> okay. >> get the parrot. i want to know about this schwartz character. >> i know. good job, reno. now, reno is a double yellow from the amazon. a lot of fun with it. one time real quick. we'll wait for him to finish eating. >> hello. >> whistle. cell phone, cell phone. >> cell phone. >> e-mail. >> did you hear that? >> bob it's on vibrate. >> that was funny. >> all right. we got to run. good job. thank you. >>> next, satisfying your cravings without sacrificing your figure, but first, this is -- >> all: today on nbc. >>> whether it's chips, chocolates or ice cream, we