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The Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park shared the precious picture of the marabou stork hiding out from the storm on Facebook Thursday night. The zoo said all storks were placed in the restrooms for safety this weekend, adding that other mammals and birds were also taken inside where they were given free range to frolic - and poop - where they pleased. The zoo's venomous snakes were 'double contained' for safety and baby alligators were placed in tubs full of water to wait out the storm.

The comedian has used a poem to reveal more details of the New York encounter which she first disclosed on Twitter, speaking of Ivanka's beauty and her husband Jared Kushner's charm. In her poem, titled '8 million to one', Rosie O'Donnell reveals that the encounter with Ivanka on Wednesday was on her first outing since the presidential debate on September 26. O'Donnell says in the poem she has been suffering from depression, which 'clings' to her and causes her to stay in bed for days at a time. But then Nobu Fifty Seven, an upscale Manhattan restaurant, O'Donnell reveals how she did not recognize Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. When O'Donnell's dining companion told her who it was, she wanted to leave but eventually introduced herself to them and they talked for four minutes. She says Ivanka was 'absurdly kind' and Jared had a 'calming charm', while her own voice was 'shaky' and 'quiet'.

Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin (pictured, right) has been accused of referring to a key pro-Israel lobby as 'that crowd' in an exchange of emails. She was referring to the American Israel Public Affairs Council. The email exchange with one of Bill Clinton's aides will coming as an embarrassment to the Democratic nominee, who hopes to count on millions of Jewish votes. Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, said it was 'appalling'. He claimed Abedin's family, including her mother Saleha (pictured, left, with Hillary Clinton) had links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Abedin's mother publishes a journal (inset) which in 2002 printed an article which blamed the U.S. for 9/11.

Brittanee Marie Drexel, 17 (inset), traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, from Rochester, New York, with some friends without telling her parents, and disappeared without a trace on April 25, 2009. This past summer, the FBI revealed that Drexel had been raped, murdered and left in an alligator pit about an hour from the hotel in McClellanville, where she is believed to have been held in a house for at least three days. On Friday, Dawn and Chad Drexel appeared on Dr. Phil (main), sharing for the first-time information they have received about what happened to their daughter. No charges have ever been filed and the body has never been found.

As thousands of people across Florida seek shelter from Hurricane Matthew, some brave - or stupid - residents have opted to party and even surf as the deadly storm hit US shores. People across the state held 'Hurricane Parties' (top right) at home, while others hit the beach in bikinis (left) or took their dogs for a walk just meters from the wild waves. Another person was seen doing a front-flip into the ocean (bottom right) in Palm Beach. Another Floridian to stay at home and try to ride out the Category 4 storm was rapper Vanilla Ice, who live tweeted his experience. 'This is crazy- riding the storm here in Palm Beach...  #HurricaneMatthew is pounding Palm Beach right now. Flooding and debris flying everywhere,' he wrote shortly before 10:30pm. Forecasters also warn Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion, as well as the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, could find themselves right in the path of Hurricane Matthew. The storm officially started pelted Florida in the early hours of Friday morning, with more than 100,000 already without power. Two million people across the Southeast were warned to flee inland as tens of millions along 500 miles of coastline battened down the hatches.

This is the incredible moment NOAA pilots flew directly into the eye of Hurricane Matthew on Friday off the coast of Florida. Captain Tim Gallagher, who is highly experienced in flying into dangerous weather as a pilot for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, set off with his crew to assess the storm. The aircraft can be seen shaking violently in the video, filmed from inside the cockpit, but the pilots remain calm.

The 15-year-old cancer patient who dueted with Florence & The Machine in a viral video earlier this year has died. Karinya Chen, who battled bone cancer for five years, passed away in Austin, Texas. She touched millions of people around the world when she perfectly harmonized with the British Grammy-winning band while lying in her hospice ward in May. Just five days before her death on Saturday, she spoke with remarkable strength as she contemplated her disease. She said: 'I think the biggest thing is not to worry and fear.... You just have to remember that there's always tomorrow and if you take it one day at a time and just tell yourself don't worry and don't take things for granted and tell yourself that you are loved and you are blessed then it makes it a lot easier to fight.'

One US man got a massive beating after dressing up as a creepy clown and trying to scare a group of friends in a car. Footage of the incident shows the clown, holding some balloons, walk close to a car where a number of men were hanging out (left). One of the men gets out of the car with what appears to be a baseball bat and whams the clown on the side of the knee (center). The clown falls to the ground - and two men join in, pummeling him down with punches (right). The incident was yet one more in a series of creepy clown sightings across the United States, which has caused a wave of hysteria. Even the White House weighed on the phenomenon, saying the sinister sightings that have led to about a dozen arrests should be taken seriously.

The website Awkward Family photos has released its first book about childhood -Everything Is Awkward - featuring snaps of youngsters that have gone VERY wrong. Highlights include a family snap that initially seems mundane until you spot the terrifying clown (left); a youngster who didn't want to be a cowboy (right) and another who almost kicked his mother in the mouth as he was dangled upside down on the beach (inset)

JonBenet Ramsey's brother has sued a forensic pathologist, Dr Werner Spitz, who went on TV in Detroit and accused him of murdering the six-year-old in Colorado in 1996. Burke Ramsey was interviewed last month on the TV show Dr Phil. On it he Dr Phil asked him what he would say to people who think he killed JonBenet and he replied: 'I don't know what to say to that, because I know that's not what happened...Look at the evidence or the lack thereof.'

Amy Schumer is considering buying a $15million property on New York's Upper West Side. The Beaux Arts brownstone overlooking the Hudson River has eight fireplaces and an elevator! Amy recently took a tour of the swanky nine-bedroom pad, which was originally owned by a silk merchant. However Schumer - who is known for her salty stand-up - kept things casual by showing up in her running clothes.

The fight - part of which was captured on camera - erupted moments after Jeremy Lee, 16 (inset right), and Jacob Barnes, 23 (inset left), were arraigned in connection with 29-year-old Amanda Lynn Benton's (top right) death. The two are accused of beating Benton - a mother-of-four who was five months pregnant - to death in the early hours of September 26, before dumping her body in an abandoned house in Detroit and setting it on fire. However the two families came to blows after words were exchanged as they were exiting the courthouse (main), the Detroit Free Press reported.

Heartrending footage shows a mother and calf humpback whale swimming in shallow water off North Stradbroke Island in Queensland, Australia, before the adult became stuck. The calf could be seen circling and nudging her 'distressed' mother, who was splashing her tail trying to free herself.

A photograph of a man, now 75, on his wedding day in 1961, pictured left, looks so like actor Matt Damon, 45, pictured right with his wife Luciana Barroso, that he has been described as his doppelganger. The black and white photo shows him with his late wife, who passed away last year. It was shared online by his son who wrote: 'I think my dad looks like Matt Damon'.

The ex-cop, identified as Douglas Balogh, was caught on a home security system shooting the American bulldog on Bader Avenue in Cleveland on Wednesday morning (main). Balogh's attorney claims the dog, named Sadie (top right), had escaped from its yard and was attacking his dog. Generally, force against animals in the street is seen as justified if the animals attack, Fox 8 Cleveland reported. However, according to Sadie's owner, Megan Jackson (bottom right), Balogh didn't just shoot once - he kept shooting until the dog was dead.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Klomphan Khiewwan, 21 got the shock of her life when she awoke to find her beloved pooch Fino head first in the jaws of an enormous snake. The dog was wrapped in tight coils and she could only watch as the 6m serpent devoured him. She said she'd heard loud noises from the dog earlier that evening while she was trying to sleep upstairs but she hadn't thought to check on her canine pal. Thai volunteers arrived at her home with snake-catching equipment but it was too late.

The legendary actor's son Stephen, 24, is a transgender activist and poet. Beatty called him a 'revolutionary' and a 'genius' in his first in-depth interview in 25 years. Beatty also discussed meeting Monroe for the first time on the night before her death at a Malibu house party. He recalled watching her drink champagne and noticed she was already tipsy before the sun set. The Bonnie & Clyde star's interview comes on the heels of his return to the big screen after more than a decade.

The undersea explorer who discovered the Whydah Gally, the first authenticated pirate shipwreck in North America, believes he's found where the ship's legendary treasure lies after more than 30 years of poking around the murky waters off Cape Cod. Barry Clifford says his expedition recently located a large metallic mass that he's convinced represents most if not all of the 400,000 coins and other riches believed to be contained on the ship.
'We think we might be at the end of the rainbow,' Clifford said in the recently opened Whydah Pirate Museum on Cape Cod, where many of the expedition's finds are now showcased.

Lisa Wilson, 65, from Oxford, Mississippi, arrived at the show wearing an over-sized sweatshirt and minimal make-up. She emerged from her make-over looking elegant and glamorous in a fitted black suit. She looked so different that her daughter Lisa claimed not to recognize her mother, who has three children and four grandchildren.

A  Florida-based man named Cory found himself talking to a suspicious profile on Facebook recently, discovering it to be a scam for money. Instead of blocking the account, he decided to trick the scammer into discussing strange topics and more in exchange for the supposed money. The resulting conversation is going viral on Imgur.

Lindsay Murray, 35, from near Toronto, Canada, said she has been taking 'last photos' of her husband Jason, 39, pictured with their four children, for nearly ten years - the duration of his time in the police force. She shared her latest picture on Facebook in an emotional account of what it is like to be married to a policeman in which she encouraged others to share their 'last photos'. The post has been liked more than 13,000 times and attracted hundreds of comments.

The clip, filmed in Russia, shows a lorry travelling along a rural highway. The vehicle can then be seen dramatically swerving out of the path of a pedestrian standing in the road. The walker, wearing a long white coat with a black hat, then ambles onto the side of the road and out of the view of the camera. The video uploader wrote: 'This video has been hailed as proof of teleportation.' The uploader added: 'Some people think the photos depict an instance in which time travel or teleportation was caught on tape.'

Off Kauai's north shore in Hanalei, the six bedroom main house first built in 1915 by sugar plantation executive Hans Peter Fayé has had a third of it's original listing price shaved from the price tag. Now on the market for $19.5million, the historic home, along with two acres of beachfront Hawaii real estate could be yours, along with bragging rights that you live in the Pretty Woman's former digs.

Police say that 18-year-old Scott Carrabine (top right) grabbed a machete when a man came onto his property in Brunswick Hills and challenged him to a fight. The alleged trespasser has been identified as 21-year-old Josh Patron (bottom right), who was accompanied by a friend, Bret Cumbee, 19. Cumbee filmed the two fighting and streamed the video on Facebook Live (main). Investigators said Carrabine struck Patron with the machete as the two men struggled for control of the weapon. Police said that, instead of breaking up the fight, Cumbee continued to record.

EXCLUSIVE: MailOnline bore witness to the kind bloodthirsty voodoo rituals used to trick thousands of Nigerian women into prostitution in Europe. 'Defy the shrine and it will come and kill you,' said High Priest Godspower Ojoduma after forcing a woman to swear an oath to ancient slave god Ayelala. Gangs then smuggle the brainwashed women into Europe with the promise of jobs in hair salons, before forcing them to work as prostitutes. Such is the fear that voodoo inspires that many of the victims prefer to remain in sex slavery rather than disobey.

These pictures have all been submitted as part of this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards and after more than 2,200 entries, the shortlist of 40 has been finalised by the judges. Each one will be gunning for seven different categories at the awards, which also promotes conservation. The amazing images range from laughing lions to headless penguins and everything in between.

Swedish couple, Nicklas, 29 and Elin, 23, were filming their morning snorkeling trip in Hanuama Bay, Hawaii, when the eel turned tail and headed directly for them. The octopus made a frantic getaway leaving a cloud of ink and one tentacle in the jaws of the predator. But as they started to turn away from the scene the angry eel launched a new attack. The pair caught the incredible scenes on their underwater camera.

This video shows the adorable moment a dog rushes over to protect a baby after the poodle's owners turn on a hairdryer. The fluffy puppy is seen dashing over to sit next to the baby girl whenever the dryer is switched on, resting her head on the young girl's lap. Professional dog groomer Alyssa Bitante, from New Jersey, and her partner are seen turning the loud device on and off, with the pet running between the baby and them as they do so.

A large number of earthworms reportedly invaded a school in Taiwan yesterday, shocking local residents. Video clips have emerged online showing countless worms crawling on the running track before a brave worker scrapped them to the middle of the ground. The incident took place at the Hualien Vocational High School in Hualian city, eastern Taiwan, in the morning of October 6, the videos' uploaders claimed.

After years of emotional eating, Candice Williams, 31, a customer service worker from North Carolina, was a size 34 (UK 38) - so big she couldn't squeeze behind school desks, into plane seats or onto theme park rides, left. When she became so heavy that her weight didn't register on bathroom scales, she vowed to change. Since then, she has lost 280lbs (20 stone), right, through healthy eating and exercise alone - but has been left with a huge apron of excess flesh, inset. 'If I do a headstand, my entire body droops and sags,' said Candice.

The amazing clip, believed to have been filmed in South Korea, begins with the sugar glider preparing to jump as the woman extends her hand. The black and white critter throws itself from the top of a door and soars through the air before making a perfect landing. The footage has been viewed more than 22 million times since being posted on social media three days ago.

A woman's fitness fail ended up with funny results. Alexandra Knowles posted a video on Instagram in 2014 showing her attempting a burpee in July of that year. However, it seems she may not have checked the height of a ceiling lamp before trying out the move. While jumping in the air, Knowles hit her head on the lamp and ended up on the ground. Her Instagram page indicates that she is based in Canada.

Unnerving footage from Iceland shows a low-flying passenger plane flying through a thunderstorm and being struck by a massive bolt of lightning as shocked onlookers film the drama. The plane appears to be trying to gain altitude and avoid the worst of the storm, but the electrical bolt strikes the plane before it can escape the violent weather.

The thrillseekers, filmed in Orlando, were recorded on camera last Saturday. The terrified female rider shuts her eyes tightly as the slingshot fires into the air before the pair make some amusing facial expressions. At the end of the ride she finally concedes: 'That was pretty cool.'