own home, in what really started as a home break-in. police confirmed just a short time ago they have found her. she s 14-year-old ayvani perez. we re told this afternoon she is doing just fine. she is being checked out. two suspects, according to fbi and police, are in custody. but as they told reporters last hour, there are additional suspects who are still as large. i must stress that this investigation is still active. we have suspects, potential suspects at large, and the information that you all are asking for would potentially jeopardize our investigation. so we ask you again to please be patient with us as we provide information to you. so here s what we do know. we do know that two men broke into the family home right around 2:00 in the morning tuesday. they demanded money. they wanted jewelry from ayvani s mother. when she couldn t give it to them, the men got violent.
and the breaking news is good news for a change. you may remember the story of the girl ayvani perez, 14-year-old girl. there was a home invasion overnight monday. early hours of tuesday morning. two men burst into the family s home. they demanded jewelry and money. the mom didn t have any. she was trying to hide the kids. these two men shot the family dog and then kidnapped ayvani perez. 14 years old. the fbi, police have been looking for her for the last couple of days. the good news, found safe, found alive. just breaking in the last few minutes. so some good news there. we re getting more details how she was found and where she was found. but that s the headline there. ayvani perez, that girl abducted during a home invasion found alive. we re going to have more at the top of the hour of that story. we keep coming back to the
was there in i confrontation, violence? i wasn t there. i ll let the fbi speak on that. what can you tell us about where she s been these 30-something hours? at somebody s home? she s been in the metro area. we ll say that. so you think she was riding around in a car the whole time? we re still interviewing an evaluating her health at this point. who from the fbi can talk to us right now? i d be remissed if i did not recognize chairman turner, chairman of the clayton county commission board. i want him to say a couple words and i ll give him the opportunity to say something. good afternoon. as the chief said, first of all, i m chairman jeff turner, chairman of the clayton county board of commissioners. as the chief said, it s a great day for law enforcement, great day for very good news for ayvani perez, the 14-year-old girl was taken from her family s home 30 hours ago. we understood her mother tried
come out in a different place? i think we would because they re heavyweights, two of the most well respected people in the fourn policy community, and both has had over 50 years of public service to the community. thanks very much, david gergen. appreciate it. that s it for me. thanks for watching. i ll be be back 5:00 p.m. eastern the situation room. newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. wolf, thank you. i m brooke baldwin. we begin today with breaking news. good news for a change. after 36 hours on edge, a teenager and her family are right now reuniting after she was kidnapped from her own home. in what started as this home break-in. lease have now just confirmed they have found 14-year-old ayvani perez. we have learned she s doing just fine. she s being checked out. police have the community to thank as well as folks helping out with social media. local, state, and federal
0 i m wolf blitzer. we begin with the breaking news. police say they have now found 14-year-old ayvani hope perez. she is alive. she was grabbed from her home by a pair of intruders early tuesday morning. martin savidge has been following the story for us in ellenwood, georgia, right outside of atlanta. martin is joining us on the phone right now. fill us in on the good news. she s okay, is that what we re hearing? it is good news is, the answer to every parent s prayer ever since she was abducted 2:15 in the morning on tuesday. the fbi is telling cnn she was found apparently she was dropped off at some point. we don t know the where and we don t know exactly when. but she was picked up by police, and they say she is fine. which means of course, she is alive and reasonably well and that she is being checked out at this particular time. and we expect that s shortly there s going to be some reunion. we re in the neighborhood here in ellenwood, the subdivision which has been rocked by a