May 14, 2026

100 year old organ donor

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Johnny Mac shares five good news stories: the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s 24/7 Wildlife Explorers Channel now streams live animal cams, zoo encounters, and educational programming to children in 400+ hospitals across 48 states and 12 countries, helping patients who can’t visit in person. A 100-year-old Nebraska WWII veteran and rancher, Roger Steele, became the oldest U.S. organ donor after his liver was deemed healthy for transplant, highlighting that age isn’t a limit. In Hawaii, Tyler and friends rescued 15 horses from chest-high overnight floodwaters without injuries. Michigan animal control responded to a report of a diaper-wearing spider monkey named Brazil trying to enter a home; it was returned next door and is legal as a pet in the state. Philadelphia International Airport set a Guinness record with 1,291 cheesesteaks lined up end-to-end.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hi there, I'm Johnny Mack with five

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good news stories. This is kind of cool. The San

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Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has found a way to bring

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the zoo to children who can't visit in person. It's

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the Wildlife Explorer's Channel, a twenty four hour streaming service

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now available in more than four hundred hospitals and medical

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facilities across forty eight states and twelve other countries. The

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Wildlife Explorer's Channel gives children access to live animal cameras,

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close up zoo encounters, and educational wildlife programming right from

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their hospital rooms. Margaret is the manager of Hematology and

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Oncology at Rady Children's Hospital. Margaret said, many of our

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patients have weakened immune systems, so they're unable to go

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to places like the zoo, and the channel has brought

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the zoo to them. It's had a huge impact on

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our patients. And do you recall one time there was

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a little girl who was about three and her mom

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had to go to work, and she was set because

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her mom had to go. But then we turned on

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the Zoo Channel and she just lit up. That's awesome.

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A one hundred year old World World War Two veteran

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from Nebraska has become the oldest organ donor in US history.

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Doctors determined that even at one hundred years old, his

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liver was healthy enough to save another person's life. Dale

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passed away in February, and then his family learned that

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his liver was still viable for transplant. Officials from Live

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On Nebraska explained that the liver is unique among human

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organs because it constantly regenerates, meaning it's effective or functional.

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Age is often less than three years old. That made

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mister Steele, at age one hundred, eligible to become a donor.

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His son, Rogers, of the family didn't hesitate. Rogers said,

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we thought this is the kind of thing if he

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were able to be asked, he'd agree to it. I

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just know his response will be, well, if I can

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help anybody else, fine. Roger Steele was born in Nebraska

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in nineteen twenty five. Served in Europe during World War

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Two before returning home to have a long life with

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his wife, Doris. They were married for seventy two years.

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He worked as a cattle rancher. Kyle Herbert is the

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president and CEO of Live On Nebraska and said One

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of the myths we hear out in the community is

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that I'm too old to be an orgon donor, might

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not be healthy enough to be a donor. And I

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think a case like this truly proves there is no

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age limit. This is a story about a life of

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service that didn't end to death. Nice job by a rancher.

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In Hawaii, there were chest high floodwaters in the middle

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of the night. Tyler and friends helped rescue fifteen horses.

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Tyler told Hawaii Public Radio when I got there was

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definitely something I'll never forget. There's nobody there. I drive

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up to a disaster scene that nobody knows about. Starting

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off alone, he showed up in his pickup truck. As

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he opened the paddock door, the water was already so

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high began filling the car. He mounted the horse he

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was responsible for and rode her out of the paddock.

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Some other showed up with a backo to help get

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rid of some of the water. The group kept working

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until fifteen horses got out of there, while fifteen got

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out without any injuries. Nice job, everybody. Meanwhile, in Michigan,

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animal control officers were called out for a sentence they

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had never said before the sentence, caller has a monkey

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wearing a diaper that's on their porch trying to get

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inside their house. This was an actual report that came

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in in Saint Charles after a female Spighter monkey named

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Brazil showed up on a porch and decided to stage

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a home invasion. Officers arrived. By the time the officers arrived, Brazil,

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the monkey had already been returned to the house next door.

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Rachel's the director of the agency and said officers made

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contact with the owner and found the monkey inside, where

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the monkey appeared healthy, active, and well cared for. Now.

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Interestingly enough, this monkey's owner is the same woman from

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twenty seventeen who brought a monkey into the Bay County

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Court facility hidden inside her purse. That monkey reportedly went

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through the X ray scanner with a handbag. And if

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you're wondering if any of this is legal, Yes, in

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Michigan there are apparently no state laws prohibiting monkeys as pets.

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I might have to start hanging out. At the Philadelphia

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International Airport, they set the world record involving cheese steaks.

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It was National Cheese Steak Day. Airport restaurants teamed up

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with the City of Philadelphia Department of Aviation to assemble

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what Guinness recognized as the world's longest line of cheese steaks.

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This was on the concourse between Terminals B and C

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and featured twelve hundred ninety one cheese steaks lined up

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in a single record setting stretch. Organizers use two hundred

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and twenty five pounds of cheese sauce, nine hundred and

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ninety pounds of shaved beef, and two ninety one foot

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long rolls to pull off the record. Kate is the

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chief Commercial Officer for the Department of Aviation, and Kate

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said in twenty twenty six, Philly's on a roll literally

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and figuratively, cooking and assembling the longest line of cheese

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steaks ever will be among many historic moments in Philadelphia

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this year. Congratulations and thanks to all the cheesesteak restaurants

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here at PHL that collaborated on this delicious record setting accomplishment.

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Thanks to Guinness for acknowledging this achievement. And those are

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your five good news stories for today. Have an awesome day.