the tasmania and double israel and has the strongest force of any mammal for its size. -- tasmania devil is real and has the strongest force of any mammal for its size. welcome to the fascinating world of "animal science." the land known as australia was once part of antarctica. then, about 80 million years ago australia broke away from antarctica and moved north. because it w isolated for so long, some of the world's most unique predators' involved there. animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. 150 miles south of australia's main continent lieshe island of tasmania. this is the only place in the world where you can find it the tasmania ann devil. is the size of a small ball. the large head and neck give it the strongest bike per body mass of any animal. -- strongest bite her body mass of any animal. it will eat just about anything and is a very noisy eater. >> they are known for making this loud screaming sound. they will do that to basically try to intimidate other tasmania ann devils. they eat every single part of the animal. >> these baby devils only a few months old

. >> we take you to tasmania, australia.ording to police in georgetown, they say this man committed numerous driving offenses, then when he pulled into this vacant lot, he set his car on fire. >> why would you set your own car on fire? >> people crowded around, thought it was part of a documenta documentary. there was a documentary crew in the area filming. this wasn't part of a documentary. >> are you serious. >> he won't need a car for 12 months because he's been disqualified fr youe pregnant in a remote area of afghanistan, they can't get to health care very quickly. thanks to a charity and designer, they now have a solution. they're using donkeys and specially made saddles to give these women comfortable rides. the back is an inflatable pool lounge. >> so she's in labor and heading to the hospital on a donkey? >> on a donkey. but the alternative to do this is to risk dying. apparently this part of the country is the most dangerous. >> apparently they can create their own paddles anywhere in the world without having to bu

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to see drier than normal humidity range and the wetter than normal area you're seeing is only in tasmania. for your three-day forecast you're looking at sidney well into the 30s on your monday again. so the low humidity as well as the strong winds all are a great recipe for wildfires to even rage and it's going to be very difficult for the firefighters to cope with within the next few days. now in the northern hemisphere it's very busy down here over the water with this typhoon. it's now a very strong typhoon stratus. so this morning it upgraded over the water. the water is warm. so sea surface temperature, and there's not a lot of obstacles over this open water. so it's a great recipe for this system to intensify as it moves toward the southeastern islands of japan. so we'll keep a very close eye on this. not only is it bringing strong conditions to the islands but to the pacific side of western japan where we're likely to see thunderstorms over the weekend. and the bad news is, is that over the island where the devastation is from the previous typhoon, it looks like we're going to have

the mammals are native to tasmania and the san diego zoo is the only zoo in america that has them.low and calm. >> i want to go back to the looney tune days, saturday morning, sitting there. >> i've used the tazmanian devils, i've called friends that when they're crazy. little disappointing. >>> testimony will be heard about how medical treatment and benefits have been affected by the furlough of thousands of veterans administration employees. >>> on this day in 1940 john lennon was born. and gave world wide fame as one of the fab four. tony shathoub is 60 and sharon osbourne, wife of ozzy, is 61. i'm richard . . >>> thu new this morning, the family of a woman missing since last month has more questions than answers after her body is found in the stairwell at san francisco general hospital. >>> plus, a south bay daycare remains open despite allegations of child sex abuse. we have details explaining why coming up >>> as the government shutdown enters its ninth day, the families of five soldiers killed in afghanistan will not receive guaranteed death benefits. we'll have those storie

we were touring in tasmania, little state bottom of australia.ple in it. that's where i turned 21. it was, it was, not a great birthday. >> jimmy: yeah, no. what did you do? >> we had a big party the next night in hobart, a bigger city. my band at the time put on this big party. a bit of a blur. i got to say. all i remember there was a woman, some shaving cream, and, that was about it. and, then the rest was a bit of a blur. >> jimmy: how is it going on "american idol" this seems like the worst part of taping the show you have to go to the basically convention halls and sit there and watch people butcher adele songs. yes? >> there is a lot of people doing that. it is all right. it's all right. i don't mind it. yeah, yeah, yeah. i mean because every now and then some one comes in and sings and it blows you a away. >> jimmy: harry connick jr. is the other judge are. you getting along? do you spend time together? >> we hang out when we are working. we spend all day together. and actually eat together. it's quite civil this time around. >> jimmy: it

in parts of victoria and tasmania, we've had winds. when you add on dry humidity, strong winds, hot weather and you have a recipe for this situation. this comes from newcastle. from the blue mountains, where we've had fires, 40 uncontained all aided by the tinder dry conditions. there will be some improvement in that there will be rain coming frog from that frontal system and the winds easedding down. heading through the weekend, it's likely we will find the temperatures coming up again and conditions deteriorating. we're in the area of high pressure, expecting slightly damper conditions, cooler conditions to come along heading into the early part of next week. in the meantime, still looking largely dry, still looking at a breeze there, the fires will take some time to be contained. for the time being, the east remains tinder dry. >> now police in bosnia have arrested 8serb men, accused of killing 20 muslims in the eastern town. 100,000 people were killed in the conflict. efforts to prosecute those responsible are being transferred fro