Imagine, your mother a fugitive, your father a stranger. Your home, your name, your past was any of it real . The first thing i felt, just pit in my stomach. I just felt like it was my fault. A mothers crime. A fathers pain. What kinds of emotions did it stir up when you would see that crib . It would just make me cry. A daughter forced to face the shattering truth. I was shocked and i was just terrified. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with finding savanna. In 20some years, will i recall how you tucked and curled against my neck and chest . Reporter a fathers love. Harris todd once tried to put it into words. In 20some years will i recall how i often held you long after you had fallen asleep, listening to you breathe . Reporter tried to express what it meant to cradle his baby daughter savanna. And you, what will you remember of these wondrous days as a baby girl along with your old father whose entire life you now are . Reporter back in 1994, harris could n
Imagine, your mother a fugitive, your father a stranger. Your home, your name, your past was any of it real . The first thing i felt, just pit in my stomach. I just felt like it was my fault. A mothers crime. A fathers pain. What kinds of emotions did it stir up when you would see that crib . It would just make me cry. A daughter forced to face the shattering truth. I was shocked and i was just terrified. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Andrea Canning with finding savanna. In 20some years, will i recall how you tucked and curled against my neck and chest . Reporter a fathers love. Harris todd once tried to put it into words. In 20some years will i recall how i often held you long after you had fallen asleep, listening to you breathe . Reporter tried to express what it meant to cradle his baby daughter savanna. And you, what will you remember of these wondrous days as a baby girl along with your old father whose entire life you now are . Reporter back in 1994, harris could n
Reporter harris thought that he could build that life with lee, but early in their relationship he noticed some problems. He said she was overly emotional and sometimes quick to anger. Still, he thought love would conquer all. I suffer from the misconception that i can fix things. That i can make things better. Reporter they married in december 1991. But within months, harris said, it became apparent that his fixing skills were no match for lees behavior. I mean, i never knew what was going to face me when i came through the door after work. And it could be nothing, and it could be nothing but screaming and yelling and throwing pots. Reporter things got so bad harris told lee he wanted a divorce. He said, lee told him that she was pregnant. Everything fell apart when she told him that she was pregnant. Reporter patty said what actually made the marriage go sour was harris refusal to have children. He wanted her to terminate the pregnancy, and that was just not an option for lee. It bro
I have the sport, including olympic hurdle champion medals at the World Championship four days before he undergoes a kidney transplant. In austria, police are trying to identify 71 bodies including four children who have suffocated in the back of a truck. In the mediterranean at least 82 have confirmed to have died and up to 100 are still missing. In a moment well hear from claudia la wenger, reporting on that ship that went down off of the lohse of libya. But certain Sonia Gallego has the latest from austria. Reporter carrying away the remains of the dead. Collected from the abandoned refrigerated lori where they died. Men, women, children, the youngest a mere toddler all enduring their last hours in barbaric, undignified circumstances. The corps were decomposing. This is how they ended their hellish journey. All of this just to escape war, desperation for themselves, for their families. Among the remains a syrian travel document was recovered. Time and again there have been cries for
Iraqi capitol. Government forces in yemen say they will soon have a new professional army. And hope for children in nigeria orphaned by the violence of boko haram. Hello, latest events around europe and its borders have highlighted its growing refugee crisis. Four people have been arrested including the owner of a truck in which the bodies of 71 refugees were found. 105 have died and 100 are still missing after a ship sank off of the libyan coast. And refugees fought for food and water in belgrade. And a Hungary Police say they arrested 21 suspected human traffickers in budapest. But we begin with this report from Barnaby Phillips in austria. Reporter we know the 71 people who were crammed into the track of the truck must have suffered an agonizing death, probably by suffocation. And the police can only look for scraps of evidence as to who they were. Translator of course we are sure that these people were refugees and more precisely probably a group of syrian refugees. Reporter austri