Celebrities Scare on Hepatitis A; Serbia Protests Kosovo's Independence
ROBERTS: Well, you've heard of a horse of a different color, of course. But how about a panda of a different color? It's your "Hot Shot" this morning. Check out this rare red panda. An endangered species native to the Far East. It's even more rare to find one in Brooklyn, which is where this one just arrived. The newest arrival at the Prospect Park Zoo at our "Hot Shot" this morning.</s>CHETRY: How neat. They're from Katmandu, Nepal. There's a lot of them around there.</s>ROBERTS: It looks more like a raccoon, doesn't it?</s>CHETRY: I know. It looks like a kitty cat and a raccoon. But very rare and beautiful.</s>ROBERTS: Very cute. If you got a "Hot Shot," send it to us. Head to our Web site at CNN.com/am and follow the "Hot Shot" link. Well, some A-list celebrities may have reason to worry about Hepatitis A this morning. Doctors are urging everyone who attended actor Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday party in New York City to get a shot as soon as possible. According to the New York City Health Department, the bartender could have been infected and passed on Hepatitis A. Besides Kutcher and his wife Demi Moore, other celebrities at the party included Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Madonna. Fortunately for them, Hepa A is pretty easily treated. Just immunoglobulin and pretty much goes away.</s>CHETRY: Yes.</s>ROBERTS: This just shows how quickly things can be spread around.</s>CHETRY: Exactly. And that's the last thing you want to have to do after attending a birthday party. Right?</s>ROBERTS: Exactly. Yes.</s>CHETRY: Go to the doctor because of it. Well, there's a follow-up this morning from the violent chaos in Belgrade. Protesters setting fire to the U.S. Embassy, demonstrating against the U.S. support of Kosovo's independence. This morning, Russia is not ruling out the use of force to resolve tensions over Kosovo. Veronica de la Cruz has been checking out some of the i-Reports that people submitted after seeing and witnessing this violence.</s>DE LA CRUZ: Yes, you know, good morning to you. We've seen a lot of really, really dramatic images pouring in. Lots of pictures, videos. But I do want to remind you that those demonstrations did start out peacefully. We're going to start with some video captured by Enrique Roig. Take a look. We're looking at this rally in front of the parliament building. Obviously, Serbians there not happy with Kosovo's independence. That's the reason why they all gather. Serbia considers Kosovo the spiritual heartland of its state, and that is where the problem lies. So this is video from Enrique. I want to show you some pictures from Sonja (ph). A lot of people choosing to remain anonymous, only wanting to go by their first names. Not really wanting to share their full names. But this is from Sonja. Protesters there not happy with western support of Kosovo. It's obvious in the signs that these protesters are carrying. Who can rip off Kosovo from my soul? The other one saying Kosovo is my state. This is one from an I-Reporter that does wish to be anonymous. This is a shot of a rally there. You can see the fire burning in the background. What happened here is a small group of protesters broke away from this larger group, and now you can see the violence erupt. This video from Dr. Sarah Philips shows a newsstand being looted. This is all happening close to the U.S. Embassy. There are no people in that stand, but, as you can see, people there breaking in, looting. Lots of looting. Also aimed at stores carrying western brands, American brands. This is a video, the aftermath of a McDonald's store after it was looted. And now, picture from Joaquim Heinemann (ph). There you see the shattered window of a Nike store. And Joaquim (ph) reports that the damage gets worse as you get closer to the U.S. Embassy there. So again, like I said, lots of I-Reporters there wishing to remain anonymous. If you would like to send us an I-Report, share your thoughts on this. You can do so at CNN.com/ireport.</s>ROBERTS: I was there during the war in 1999. I remember that whole embassy road, shattered windows everywhere, graffiti scrawled everywhere. Almost very similar scenes that we saw there yesterday.</s>CHETRY: Yes. Very dramatic pictures of fire, and you see people standing there on the second story.</s>ROBERTS: Yes. We'll be talking with Richard Holbrook who was the guy who gave Milosevic the ultimatum to get out of Kosovo or face near bombing. Coming up in our next hour, so make sure you're around for that. Next week is a historic moment in North Korea. The New York Philharmonic Orchestra is going to perform a concert in Pyongyang. It will be broadcast live and will mark an unprecedented cultural exchange between communist North Korea and the United States. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has not said if he is going to attend. We sent AMERICAN MORNING's Alina Cho there. Her family is from South Korea. They survived the war but wondered about relatives who disappeared and have not been heard from since.</s>ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I always knew that one of my dad's uncles had disappeared during the war. He is a famous ballet dancer. My grandmother then told me that she read in the newspaper later in Seoul that he was teaching ballet in Pyongyang. So, I mean, that's extraordinary, but I just recently learned that it wasn't just one uncle. It was two. And the other one was a schoolteacher, and I don't know whether they're alive.</s>ROBERTS: Alina Cho takes us inside North Korea next week with live reports from Pyongyang. You can follow her trip and the search for her family in North Korea. Check out Alina's blog at CNN.com/am.</s>CHETRY: We miss her, but she's certainly on an incredible journey.</s>ROBERTS: Yes. Very, very personal and emotional story that she's on. Interesting.</s>CHETRY: And we're looking forward to her reports. Of course, as we said, we'll bring them to you here on AMERICAN MORNING. Meanwhile, the reaction from last night's debate coming in from the voters. We're going to have results of our debate. Dial test -- which moments connected and which ones fell flat? Also, it's a wet, snowy Friday across much of the northeast. There's snow and ice making it for a travel nightmare on the roads. Most likely for people trying to fly today as well. We're tracking all of our extreme weather ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.