Friday, January 2, 2009

"CBS Evening News" piece about "The Elephant Sanctuary"

Steve Hartman is a CBS News reporter, whose series "Assignment America" airs each Friday on "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

The following piece appeared on the January 2, 2009 newscast. It's a very beautiful story about the friendship between an elephant, and a dog, at "The Elephant Sanctuary," in Tennessee.

The video of the piece can be found at the top left of the story:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/02/assignment_america/main4696340.shtml

The web site of "The Elephant Sanctuary" is: http://www.elephants.com/.

From the web site: "The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, founded in 1995, is the nation's largest natural habitat refuge developed specifically for endangered African and Asian elephants. It operates on 2,700 acres in Hohenwald, Tennessee - 85 miles southwest of Nashville."