the a lesser facility. thank you. new this morning, an arrest warrant has been issued for a woman raising a child after taking her from a hospital. authorities are trying to track down ann petway who is on parole. petway raised carlina white who always expected she was adopted because petway could never come up with her birth certificate. white finally met her birth mother this week after more than 23 years apart. our world view this morning begins with flooding crisis in australia. an official says an inland sea will surge across the middle of the country and threaten towns in its path for ten more days. and this comes after a month of flooding. in albania, at least three people were killed after clashes outside the home of the prime
embezzlement. white was kidnapped in a new york hospital in 1987 and finally met her birth mother this past week, more than 23 years later. white eeps family members say they believe petway was the kidnapper. doctors at a texas hospital are evaluating congresswoman gabrielle giffords this morning. she arrived in houston yesterday to begin the next phase of the recovery process after she was shot in the head two weeks ago in tucson, arizona. nbc s janet chanblaine is live in tucson. good day to you. a very chilly day for you, i understand. but before arriving in houston, the congresswoman has an amazing sendoff. you re absolutely right about that, alex. we saw people lining the streets in tucson as she was going from the hospital to the airport. the doctor who traveled on that aircraft with her that said when he was with her in the ambulance going to the airport that she
petway, the woman accused of snatching carlena, when she was a baby from that hospital. they say she had been dressed as a nurse. she s not the one who raised her but she s the one who allegedly snatched her and they say she has a long rap sheet including embezzlement, forgery and theft. check this out. residents of a small town wake up to a sickening surprise. their homes, covered in a mysterious, greenish yellow goo. everyone from the federal aviation administration to birdex is launching investigations, all coming up empty, or so they would have us believe, trace gallagher! reporter: don t you love the headline, the homes, slimed with this brownish yellow goop? megyn: debbie mcmillan, our producer, told me what they believe it may be? i got a little grossed out. that s not the half of it. it happened in schneider, new york, near buffalo, and
yet. but certainly the fbi and others, the new york police department, as well as bridgeport, because she has, she grew up in the bridgeport, connecticut area and had been living there previously. everyone had been looking for her to question her after it was determined that in fact, she was not the birth mother, according to police, of the young lady who sought out her birth mother and they were reunited as we all recall, just last week. so ever since then authorities have been looking for her to question her about whether ann petway was in fact the woman who had snatched this woman from a hospital years ago, back in 1987 in new york city. right, i want to make sure that s clear. now they re able, they have an opportunity to question her in relation to that case involving a suspected kidnapping. but until then, do we know whether she could be classified as a suspect in that case? she s been identified by the fbi as a suspect in that case. however she s not been charged
which is not very good. they the yeah, i think you know, i m not a marathon expert, but yeah, they re running a little slow and there are people standing off to the side with coffee doing the old you know, it looks like they re praying. you have to move around a little just to keep yourself warm out here. it is frigid. and the problem is, when the wind really starts blowing later on, it s pretty calm right now, it s really going to hurt. the key is to be safe and bundle up and check on the kids and the elderly. and you and the crew, go just in the sat truck and warm up. to track this frigid system or to check the weather where you are, go to weather.com. jeff couldn t get out of that shot soon enough, he s like, man, i m going in. authorities are trying to track down a woman who was charged with raise ago child who was recently reunited with her lost long mother. ann petway was on parole for