and this is dateline. i just can t imagine to be held in captivity. dad, just send the money. that s all they want. they have an american kid. a 14-year-old kid in the middle of the jungle. they re thinking they have the jackpot. they were vacationers turned prisoners. a mother and son, kidnapped by terrorists. we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. 10 million, from me? are you losing your mind? a harrowing international hostage drama. this is a big operation, this is not just a drag tag group of people. anything can happen, there are no guarantees. can a father to negotiator to bring them home? prepare for the worst. i m getting worried. i m getting so worried. a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. hello, and welcome to dateline, they were on a dream vacation when suddenly a mother, her teenage son, and a cousin were all kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. but the wo
it is the hardest part, i can t help him. i am a mother, i fix stuff. this gave me a hard feeling. i cannot fix this. i can t bring him back. he is on the ground, in front of his vehicle. something is very wrong. it was devastating when they found him. oh my god. the single dad, so passionate about helping others. he was a selfless person. he just wanted to do what he could. so dedicated to his young daughter, siena. two peas in a pod. she loved being with her dad. she was every single thing to him, every single thing. for police, a puzzle. it was such an unusual murder, with a victim who seemed to have so no enemies. then the chilling, on camera clue. there is a figure. you see someone wearing a hoodie come out from the dark. yes, you get the goose bumps, the hairs on the back of your neck. a father, dead in the garage. who was behind it? i am thinking, what? it is mind-blowing. lies, delusion, betrayal. you just don t want to believe th
now. thank you for jumping on with us, our viewers have new seen it, what was your reaction when you learned this happened? well, thank you, sandra and john. thanks for being on with us today. yeah, this is a marine corps town, we were shocked, saddened and disgusted. john: we understand the marines were on leave from camp pendleton, some teens were lighting fireworks and i don t know if it was a simple request, or if it was some sort of pointed request from the marines to stop doing it. what happened then? lay it out for us, mayor. yeah, we understand that we had some local youth gathering down at the beach for the end of the school year, you know, getting kind of excited and then they had this confrontation with the marines, we understand that they were setting off fireworks and the marines did tell them to stop. and at that point these youth really turned on the marines and started attacking them. this is completely unacceptable thankfully we have fired four more dep
Jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. Thats a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis. Well, look, its way down now. Weve now gotten control. Howard and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of Illegal Migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. When it comes to illegal migration, youve seen it come down by more than 90 , and thats because of the actions that this president has taken. Howard after the pundits pounced, Karine Jeanpierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. At this point, i dont care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.
at the rafah boarder crossing near the gaza/egyptian border. the you haven t seen this video, it came in a short while to cnn. it shows crowds running as gunfire is ringing out in the streets. meanwhile, fears of a growing escalation in the middle east are also on the broadcast this evening. an iranian drone struck a commercial ship in the indian ocean on saturday. a u.s. defense official says a fire broke out on the chemical tanker with nearly two dozen crew members on board, but no one was hurt. the strike comes as newly declassified u.s. intelligence suggests iran has been deeply involved in a series of houthi rebel attacks on ships in the red sea. we have reporters covering this. will rippley is live in tel aviv with more on the outbreak of violence at the rafah crossing, and more than gunfire, will. it seems like out-and-out chaos breaking out outside that crossing area. what can you tell us? reporter: a lot of factors lead up to this. the rafah crossing is one of the