a small fraction of them are stranger danger abductions like the cleveland case, like the michaela case. sometimes i don t have anything hopeful to say. and yet i still keep reaching out to my daughter because if she is out there, she needs me to do that. her mother reaches in the only way she can, in cyberspace, on a blog called dear michaela. my heart is always waiting for you. have faith. have courage. come home. kyung lah, cnn, hayward, california. michaela s blog, when she went missing, most of us didn t have computers. thanks for watching everyone. around the world starts right after this break. [ male announcer ] zzzquil™ sleep-aid.
adults, the yellow ribbons marking the place where michalae was taken, her mother replacing the tattered and faded ones with each passing year. it s like a big hole in the center of my life. and it s impossible to get away from it. when you heard the news out of cleveland, what was your first reaction? this was like inflating the balloon so it would carry me along for a while. i put all the news on my blog because i hope that michaela would see it. i hope she would see that it s possible to get help. it s possible to get free. the cleveland story also makes others believe. michaela s mother trying to keep interest in her daughter s case alive. for every amanda, gina and michelle, there are hundreds of michaelas. law enforcement estimates about 2,000 children go missing every single day in the u.s.