Snakes In A Car

0:03 Callaroga shark media. Oh boy, a driver on a South African road captured a video of the moment a lion escaped from a truck high I am Johnny Mack with five good news stories. There was a video on social media. You see the lion riding on top of the truck after managing to escape through the roof hatch. Oh no, the truck pulled over as one does. The lion jumped from the truck started walking down the road. Ants on his event at the local animal hospital and so the line was in transit to a game farm when it escaped. The lion was still under the influence of the tranquilizer it had been given prior to transport, and it wound up just kind of chilling out under a tree. The lion has arrived at the game farm safely. Meanwhile, scientists may have saved the lives of future generations of elephants.

0:54 Immunologists in the United Kingdom have developed the first successful vaccine for EEHV, which is a deadly virus responsible for more elephant deaths than any other cause, both in captivity and in the wild. The vaccine is a two dose vaccine. The first dost has a harmless version of the virus. The second boost the immune response. Professor Falco is with the University of Surrey and says, this is a landmark moment in our work. For the first time we've shown an elephants that a vaccine can trigger the type of immune response needed to protect them against EEHV. In Australia, a man called for help but when a venomous tiger snake was crawling across his foot when he was a passenger in a car. Tanny said he was in his friend's car he felt something touch his barefoot. He told the ABC. I felt something on my feet. I looked down.

1:41 This large snake was across my feet. I yelled out to my friend to stop the car, get the dog and jump out and get me A hell of a fright. Some snake rescuers were called to the scene. They were able to remove the snake and identified it as a five foot tiger snake. Malcolm, the snakehuner, said, we've pulled snakes out of home and hidden behind furniture, but it's our first car. It was a close call. There was no hint of a snake biting. Was actually a pretty easy catch. Good news if you're an animal. In Los Angeles, the first plants were planted. The Wallace Annaberg Wildlife Crossing stretches across all ten lanes of the one oh one, giving mountain lions, coyotes, deer another wildlife a safe path between habitats and away from those pesky cars on the one oh one. The plants are grown locally from more than a million seeds. Together, they'll form a one acre greenway over the freeway. Beth is with the National Wildlife Federation and said, this is a momentous occasion. We're standing on top of the one oh one and you can hear how quiet it is. But not all as well on the California Highways, why we lay for Workshohn, Well, you see, I was on my way to work and then this California Highway Patrol told us of a berry sticky situation. You see, a truck lost its load of blueberries onto the highway. This was on southbound ninety nine near the one eighty interchange, you know the spot. The CHP shared photos of the berries on the road, as well as the sticky purple mess caused by the berries being run over by the California Department of Transportation say they were summoned to the highway to clear the jam.

3:07 And those are your five good news stories for today. I have a good one.