100 year old organ donor

0:03 Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories. This is kind of cool. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has found a way to bring the zoo to children who can't visit in person. It's the Wildlife Explorer's Channel, a twenty four hour streaming service now available in more than four hundred hospitals and medical facilities across forty eight states and twelve other countries. The Wildlife Explorer's Channel gives children access to live animal cameras, close up zoo encounters, and educational wildlife programming right from their hospital rooms. Margaret is the manager of Hematology and Oncology at Rady Children's Hospital. Margaret said, many of our patients have weakened immune systems, so they're unable to go to places like the zoo, and the channel has brought the zoo to them. It's had a huge impact on our patients. And do you recall one time there was a little girl who was about three and her mom had to go to work, and she was set because her mom had to go. But then we turned on the Zoo Channel and she just lit up. That's awesome.

0:58 A one hundred year old World World War Two veteran from Nebraska has become the oldest organ donor in US history. Doctors determined that even at one hundred years old, his liver was healthy enough to save another person's life. Dale passed away in February, and then his family learned that his liver was still viable for transplant. Officials from Live On Nebraska explained that the liver is unique among human organs because it constantly regenerates, meaning it's effective or functional. Age is often less than three years old. That made mister Steele, at age one hundred, eligible to become a donor. His son, Rogers, of the family didn't hesitate. Rogers said, we thought this is the kind of thing if he were able to be asked, he'd agree to it. I just know his response will be, well, if I can help anybody else, fine. Roger Steele was born in Nebraska in nineteen twenty five. Served in Europe during World War Two before returning home to have a long life with his wife, Doris. They were married for seventy two years.

1:50 He worked as a cattle rancher. Kyle Herbert is the president and CEO of Live On Nebraska and said One of the myths we hear out in the community is that I'm too old to be an orgon donor, might not be healthy enough to be a donor. And I think a case like this truly proves there is no age limit. This is a story about a life of service that didn't end to death. Nice job by a rancher. In Hawaii, there were chest high floodwaters in the middle of the night. Tyler and friends helped rescue fifteen horses. Tyler told Hawaii Public Radio when I got there was definitely something I'll never forget. There's nobody there. I drive up to a disaster scene that nobody knows about. Starting off alone, he showed up in his pickup truck. As he opened the paddock door, the water was already so high began filling the car. He mounted the horse he was responsible for and rode her out of the paddock.

2:34 Some other showed up with a backo to help get rid of some of the water. The group kept working until fifteen horses got out of there, while fifteen got out without any injuries. Nice job, everybody. Meanwhile, in Michigan, animal control officers were called out for a sentence they had never said before the sentence, caller has a monkey wearing a diaper that's on their porch trying to get inside their house. This was an actual report that came in in Saint Charles after a female Spighter monkey named Brazil showed up on a porch and decided to stage a home invasion. Officers arrived. By the time the officers arrived, Brazil, the monkey had already been returned to the house next door. Rachel's the director of the agency and said officers made contact with the owner and found the monkey inside, where the monkey appeared healthy, active, and well cared for. Now.

3:18 Interestingly enough, this monkey's owner is the same woman from twenty seventeen who brought a monkey into the Bay County Court facility hidden inside her purse. That monkey reportedly went through the X ray scanner with a handbag. And if you're wondering if any of this is legal, Yes, in Michigan there are apparently no state laws prohibiting monkeys as pets. I might have to start hanging out. At the Philadelphia International Airport, they set the world record involving cheese steaks. It was National Cheese Steak Day. Airport restaurants teamed up with the City of Philadelphia Department of Aviation to assemble what Guinness recognized as the world's longest line of cheese steaks. This was on the concourse between Terminals B and C and featured twelve hundred ninety one cheese steaks lined up in a single record setting stretch. Organizers use two hundred and twenty five pounds of cheese sauce, nine hundred and ninety pounds of shaved beef, and two ninety one foot long rolls to pull off the record. Kate is the chief Commercial Officer for the Department of Aviation, and Kate said in twenty twenty six, Philly's on a roll literally and figuratively, cooking and assembling the longest line of cheese steaks ever will be among many historic moments in Philadelphia this year. Congratulations and thanks to all the cheesesteak restaurants here at PHL that collaborated on this delicious record setting accomplishment.

4:33 Thanks to Guinness for acknowledging this achievement. And those are your five good news stories for today. Have an awesome day.