Meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang at Zoo Atlanta

Happening today, pandemonium is filling the atmosphere over at Zoo Atlanta as visitors will soon get to meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang for the very first time. And it has a lot of people excited, including this young lady right here. Good day's Kim Luffler, who joins us live from the zoo. Kim, good morning to you. You got the plum assignment of the day. Absolutely. I feel like I'm healing my inner child this morning, Buck. Good morning. We just wrapped up the opening ceremony. And I want to introduce you to I'm going to introduce you to Atlanta's two new resident pandas. So right here, this is Ping Ping. And, you know, he was eating some bamboo right before, or right while, rather, the opening ceremony was going on. So he's taking a little nap right now, a little post-food nap. But he is one of the two, and we're going to walk with us here. We're walking through, excuse us, folks, we're going to come through here. We are walking through the new Arthur M. Blank Panda Grove. This is also brand new, $6 million facility that is opening up. So, along with these two pandas, of course, they came here, arrived in September, and they had to undergo a quarantine period. So, that's why they haven't been out and about for people to meet. But over here, right, where did she go? Oh, she's up there now. This is Fu Shuang. She was just eating some bamboo as well. But you can see they have some interior enclosed spaces. They also have... The new exterior spaces as well. So these guys are going to be here in Atlanta for the next 10 years. Of course, in 2024, the pandas that were here did go back to China after that 25-year agreement with China did end. So really a lot of excitement here right now to have these two pandas back. Here in Atlanta, we did hear a little bit from the president and CEO of the Atlanta Zoo a little bit earlier today. We're hoping we're going to have that, some remarks from him coming up for you in our next hour. But a lot of excitement here right now. The zoo opens at 1030, so folks will be able to come and see these guys for the very first time. Buck. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang look very comfortable in their new digs, and I see you got a souvenir there. So good stuff, Kim.