abducting her 23 years ago. ann pettway is charged with kidnapping carlina when she was just 19 days old, taking her from harlem hospital in new york city. her mother, joy, admitted the child with a high fever. i didn t have no idea during that time that someone would steal a baby. reporter: according to police, pettway took the infant to bridgeport, connecticut, raising her as if she were her own daughter. in the criminal complaint pettway all but confesses, saying she s truly sorry she took carlina after suffering several miscarriages, fearing she would never have a child of her own. miss pettway voluntarily surrendered when she learned the police were looking for her. miss pettway was and is a good mother. reporter: sensing she never knew her true identity, carlina now with a 5-year-old daughter of her own, recently went searching online. there she found a baby picture on the center for missing and exploited children website. she says, wow, that baby photo looks very close
court today with some of her old family members that live in connecticut, and he says they stand totally behind her, insist that she was and sill is a very good mother. however, the birth family of carlina white will have none of that. they said they can never forgive ann pettway for what they believe she did. they won t forgive her, and they said if she s asking for forgiveness they won t get it. they think she deserves 23 years in prison. that s the amount of time they didn t have a relationship with carlina. wow. all right, we ll stay in close touch with you, susan. susan doing some excellent reporting for us in new york. let s get to a huge, huge threat right now to stability in the middle east and the enormous stakes for the united states after unrest and the collapse of the government in tunisia. there is now lots of concern about a possible, a possible, domino effect. could important, critically important u.s. allies like egypt and jordan see their governments fall apart?
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
vowing to stand their ground. republicans say they will push for a vote to repeal the entire law but majority leader harry reid says that s not going to happen. if repeal efforts fail, republicans insist they will try to dismantle the law piece-by-piece. a vote to repeal has already passed the house. the world has been asking why former dictator jean-claude, baby doc has returned to haiti. one of his lawyers may have freud answer to cnn. he s trying to reclaim millions from a frozen bank account that belongs to a family foundation but doesn t want it for himself, he wants to use it to help rebuild haiti after the devastating earthquake there. a woman who surrendered today to the fbi in connecticut now faces federal kidnapping charges. ann pettway allegedly snatched an infant from a new york city hospital and raised the infant as her own. that girl, her name was carlina
i got in a car this morning. you didn t want to chance it. frostbite, you know? you never know. welcome back to you all. give you an update on the stories we re keeping a close eye on. one is a story everybody was talking about in the country this past week. that s the story of this 19-day-old who was take from a hospital in 1987 being he unite with her real family after all these years. now the person suspected of taking her has been arrested, expected in court today. the woman is the one believed to have raised the child all these years. her name is ann pettway. expected to face charges today in court. she s dazzling her doctors in texas. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is still in the intensive care unit in houston but doctors say she is showing surprising results after being shot in the head. she s facing six months of grueling rehabilitation. he accused shooter is expected back in court today and could face murder charges. tomorrow night is the night for president obama