martha and i will see you in 11 minutes. [ male announcer ] have you heard? it's bring your happiness to work day. campbell's a smile to any monday. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do. >> gretchen: it is an incredible story. a young couple from ohio recently adopted an underweight saint bernard dog and named him hercules. they intended to nurse him back to health, then find him a permanent home. that all changed when six hours after his adoption, he lived up to his name. the dog ended up saving his owners from a burglar in the middle of the night. lee, elizabeth, and the newly adopted hero dog, hercules, join us from cincinnati. good morning. >> good morning. >> gretchen: so lee, tell me about the trail of hercules. originally you saw him at the pound and there was something about him that made you take him home. what was it? >> honestly, when we saw him there, our first instinct was his size. it's like oh, my goodness. that was an immediate, like, wow. from there, after talking with some of the people about his story from that point, how he was found over in ross county, the different coyote bites