this morning on the "today" show. >> that's all i have for her why. just listen to what she had to say to me. i will probably answer some yeses. but why? why you do this to me for 23 years? >> national correspondent susan candiotti is outside the federal courthouse in new york. susan, let's talk about the papers filed in new york. why does she say she did this? >> reporter: well, according to these court papers, she allegedly told the fbi that she snatched the baby from the hospital back in 1987 because she so badly wanted to be a mother herself because she had suffered a number of miscarriages. so the shocking thing, really, that we learned from the papers today is that, according to the fbi, she has confessed to kidnapping that baby, snatching that baby, so many years ago. and the fbi says that she said that she was sorry about it. she said that pettway is truly sorry and that she said what she