Missing Hiker OK, Reunited With Family; Boy Gets On Plane Without Ticket; Tiger Mauls Zoo Worker
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: We have key players coming up on the show to talk strategy for both sides.</s>KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Plus comments on ESPN that many are thinking a little sexist. One analyst saying he doesn't think former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice should be -- is fit for a role in college football, on a key college football committee. Maybe he'll explain and maybe we'll talk about it.</s>MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: We'll certainly discuss. All right, first, though, let's take a look at the stories that are making news this morning. Twin U.S. military operations in Africa focusing on two high value targets into terror hot spots, the U.S. Army's Delta Force capturing one of them, al Qaeda operative Abu Anas Al Libi nabbed in a raid in Tripoli, Libya. The other focus of operation in Somalia, a foreign fighter commander for al Shabaab. Navy SEALs came under fire and withdrew before confirming if they killed their target. A partial government shutdown in day seven, House Speaker John Boehner says he will not allow a vote on a clean bill to raise the debt ceiling and says there aren't enough votes in the House to pass a clean spending bill either. President Obama says the votes are there. Some people are heading back to work though today. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel recalling 300,000 furloughed workers. An amazing story of survival, a hiker stranded for days in waist-deep snow in Washington State has now been reunited with her family. The 23-year-old Alejandro Wilson was found over the weekend after a nearly week long search. Officials say she was caught in a storm that dumped some 2 feet of snow in the area. Meantime, authorities have suspended the search for another hiker who has been missing now for more than a week in the very same area. The TSA talking changes after a 9-year-old got through airport security and on to a plane, apparently, without a ticket. TSA officials say that boy went through security in Minneapolis. During the flight to Las Vegas, the Delta crew sensed something wasn't quite right and called authorities. TSA officials say they may have to reconfigure security barriers to keep this from happening again. We'll have more on this coming up on our show. Lady luck definitely smiling on 25-year-old Aurora Gephart, she is a bartender in Springfield, Oregon. One of the regulars at the bar, usually tips her with an unplayed Keno ticket from the state lottery. It turns out that ticket was worth $17,500. She actually tried to give him the ticket back, but apparently the guy wouldn't take it. Gephart ended up giving a portion of her winnings to him saying, she just could not give him some of it. I like that. Both of them came out winners. Chris, over to you.</s>CUOMO: All right, Mich, thank you. Here are some serious questions this morning after an attack by a tiger on an Oklahoma zoo worker that nearly cost her an arm. The worker says it was her fault, we are told, for putting her hand in the tiger's enclosure when feeding it. But the incident has shined a harsh spotlight on the zoo and it turns out it's not the first time the zoo has come under fire. We are joined now by the zoo's owner, Joe Schreibvogel. He is the one in charge of everything there. Mr. Schreibvogel, thank you very much for joining us.</s>JOE SCHREIBVOGEL, GAROLD WAYNE INTERACTIVE ZOOLOGICAL PARK: Thank you.</s>CUOMO: All right, let's start here with what matters the most. How is this woman doing? We don't know her name. Can you tell us anything about her and her condition?</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: I spoke to her last night on the telephone and she is in good spirits and the medical doctors and staff there were able to repair her arm and save her arm. She is going to go through another surgery this morning. She was in hopes to be able to contact her family herself last night. That was one of her wishes was to be able to make the emergency contacts herself, that her family has been doing with a death in the family and she didn't want to add to their stress. So we respected her wishes of allowing her to make those calls. As soon as she is out of surgery this morning, I will go to the hospital and find out if she was able to make those calls, and if she was, we will be releasing her name and her statement at that time.</s>CUOMO: OK, so you say the worker blames the way she was feeding the tiger on this event. What does she say happened?</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: Well, you know, it kind of all happened all of a sudden. I was in a different area of the park when the emergency call came in and I was the first one on the scene to render emergency medical aid and at that time the main focus was to stop the bleeding and save the woman's life. So the concern about the investigation that the zoo will perform ourselves of what exactly happened actually probably won't start until later today when she is out of surgery and able to talk because at the scene, at the tiger cage, it was not as much of how it happened as much as we were concerned in saving her life.</s>CUOMO: Well the concern is obviously about whether or not the zoo is safe. You have come under fire before. Do you have a problem there in terms of safety with people working with the animals?</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: You know, this is our very first employee injury in 15 years. This is something that we had stringent protocols for and we do as extensive training as possible. Other zoos actually use some of our protocols and I would like to say that if it wasn't for our professional protocols, the emergency medical staff probably are the reason why we are dealing with an injury instead of a death here. It's no different than training somebody to get a driver's license, all the driver's license place can do is train them and if you choose to not use your blinker and cause a fatality accident, it's not the driver license's place's fault. All we can do is hire people and train people here.</s>CUOMO: But you know, Mr. Schreibvogel, that you had trouble with PITA, The Humane Society. There have been suspensions, a lot of negative attention put on the zoo for the way things were done there. Is this a reflection of what is not being done at your zoo? That's the question.</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: You know, I don't worry about what the Humane Society or PITA has to say about anything, B, they're not here, B, they know nothing about our facility, and C, I really would rather not comment on an organization that killed 87 part of the animals that they got their hand on last year while we work 24/7 to rescue animals and give up everything in our lives to keep these animals alive. So what they had to say in the press really doesn't affect anything that goes on here. People that have been here and visit to this zoo knows how nice this zoo is, how safe this zoo is. We've never had a customer injury to the point that any skin has ever been broke. This is our first incident here and we really don't even want to entertain the comments of the Humane Society or</s>PITA. CUOMO: When they put out the video there where they said they spent months there undercover and they start revealing things and you got that little kid with the baby tiger, it seems to hurt it. It will raise an alarm. You know that there's been a suspension that's a real thing. That's not an outside organization. You had to declare bankruptcy. You are asking for help paying your bills. These are all sources of concern. You must recognize that.</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: OK, well, any non-profit organization needs help paying their bills or the Humane Society of the United States would not have to raise $500 million a year for their own organization. I think that's part of being a non-profit organization as you just -- you are running on public funds. In regards to the little boy with the tiger, the tiger never broke skin on that. We have been through the investigation with the USDA in regards to their so-called six-month undercover investigation. The FBI is involved in that. There is an open FBI case for the animal terrorism act. One question is if someone was here during six months of abuse and they did not report the abuse, it must not have been that bad or they would have contacted local authorities way before six months. The only time anybody was contacted, even myself, about any abuse was when they sent out a press release to raise money for their own organization trying to get the people to believe they were going to help our animals, which they have never done.</s>CUOMO: All right, well, Mr. Schreibvogel, I appreciate you answering the allegations and giving us information about the woman involved here. We hope she is well. Please pass along our regards.</s>SCHREIBVOGEL: We appreciate the chance to get our story out and right now our main focus is trying to make sure that our staff member stays healthy. Thank you.</s>CUOMO: Agreed on that, take care, sir. Thank you -- Kate.</s>BOLDUAN: Thanks, Chris. Coming up next on NEW DAY, the government still partially shut down and still both sides are only pointing fingers at each other. We are going to talk with one man advising some of the Republican lawmakers on this budget fight, get some insight on where things go from here. Also ahead, an ESPN sports analyst, facing some pretty serious blowback for a comment he made about the role women should or should not play in college football. We're going to tell you what he said and what others are now saying about him.