and that is what we re going to address first, after we get that stablized, then we ll move forward with the debriefing process. so we need your cooperation on some of your questions because some of the questions may impact their emotions, the way, their state of mind currently right now. so you will have to be patient with us as we proceed over the next coupl days, next couple weeks, possibly a month with this investigation. thank you. thank you. bill: so this is the new information, confirmed three are under arrest. not a single neighbor reported a problem at that home over a period of 10 years. yet police were called to the house twice for completely different matters. 10 years now of evidence to go through and transmissions and communications back and forth between police and perhaps neighbors. and an absolute mountain of he have to sort through at the moment.
family, to inform famil the media nicely that they would like us to stand back and not harass the family. you have family members who have gathered. the brother, other relatives coming in and out of the house right now. just to kind of be together. obviously the atmosphere here is joy, but at the same time a little bit of anger as the brother said to me and also a cousin. they are trying to come to grips with the reality here that the suspect had a connection with the family, something we re learning more about and we ll have much more about later on today. martha: it s something we ll learn more about that the families may have known each other to some extent. obviously it s a large family. coming to grips with the reality is the major working phrase here. there is a lot to come to grips with. bill: with us now is amanda berry s 6th grade teacher. you can imagine the teacherrer oteacher of this young child
get out. i knew she was going to be okay. martha: wow! always been a warrior. she recalls the night amanda disappeared, they walked together to the end of a parking lot and amanda continued on her own. no doubt that moment has haunted her all these years. she will be happy to see her friend again. bill: a day before she turned 17. extraordinary ending to this case in cleveland there are challenges ahead. there are big, big challenges for these three women. rick leventhal live in our new york city newsroom. these child abductions they are rare but usually do not end like this, rick. reporter: bill, when they are abductions they don t normally end well. most aren t abductions. up to 2,000 children are is reported missing every single day in the u.s. most are runways or custody disputes but some are grabbed by strangers or sexual predators. many of them are killed. there are been many inconsider edible stories survival including jaycee
she sounds as if she has taken this chance, that, you know, fell in front of her and she is grant i can to get, to make sure she does it before he gets back. almost sounds to me there is little girl in the background. sounds like there is another voice that s there with her. i ll be interested to see whether or not she brought the little girl out with her or whether or not she was inside. bill: you hear more from the neighbor. the door was open wide enough to put a hand through it. that was it. martha: and they pushed their way out. emotional reaction from the last person believed to have seen amanda berry before she disappeared. her former coworker was with her until the shift ended at burger king. she says all these years she has never lost hope. i was the last person she saw. i felt horrible because i felt it was like my fault. it i could have stopped it she would have been home. she has always been like that. always been a warrior and she fought, she fought to
roughly 00,000 children reported missing every year, only a small fraction classified child abductions by the fbi in a study completed in 2002, 99.8% of the children reported missing were located or returned home alive. the center for missing and exploited children reports there are now more than 87,000 active cases. more than 32,000 are juveniles and more than 15 thousands between 18 and 20 years old. while this particular case wound upended well there are still 87,000 families in america right now with no idea where their son or daughter is. bill: remarkable numbers. rick leventhal, thanks for that in our newsroom here in new york. reporter: sure. bill: so heartbreaking looking at that. martha: coming up we have a man who spent three decades helping people to find their missing children successfully in many cases. coming up john walsh joins us with his reaction to today s incredible story. bill: also family and friends are not only oneses who never gave up hope.