michael elias couldn t continue. it s too much. i m done. reporter: why don t we you want to take a break. yeah, i m done. reporter: his mother, nancy, shared an audio recording from one of the last times she heard her granddaughter s voice. hello, jade? i miss you. oh, grandma loves you so much and grandma misses you every day. okay. i love you. i love you, too. bye-bye. reporter: abby boudreau, abc news, washington. it s such an interesting topic so rarely covered. abby will be on world news with a follow-up to the investigation. she ll actually be in japan as well. feel bad for those fathers. we ll see how it works out in part two. coming up next in lighter news, billy ray cyrus explains what ruined his relationship with his daughter miley. and star of modern family who admits she feels naked without any makeup. stay tuned for the skinny.
often fade into the background. japan has refused to sign the international treaty under which nations agree to return abducted children. michael elias, a former marine, thought he had the perfect family. say cheese. wow. reporter: elias first met mayumi when he was stationed in japan. they got married in the u.s. you got it? reporter: elias was later deployed to iraq, where he suffered a traumatic brain injury from an ied blast. after he came home to his family, mayumi took their two children and fled to japan. i tried to stay downstairs. as you can tell, i never come in here. never. i can t be in here. reporter: he shows us dresses jade has surely outgrown by now. it still has stains on it and everything. just leave everything the way it was. reporter: for these fathers, and hundreds like them, they say they re doing everything they can to see their children.
that involves installing some new circuit breakers and relays as well as making some wiring changes. the work takes about an hour to an hour and a half for each plane. the faa did not require the airline to do this. united is voluntarily doing the maintenance. united says only domestic flights are affected but many affected passengers say united never told them what s going on. it s nerve-racking on the parents. i m a nervous wreck already with a daughter going to new zealand. and then, you know, the stuff with the plane. makes you wonder what s going on with the planes. if there was a problem, they should have had a backup plan. reporter: an airline spokesperson confirms united discovered this problem during routine maintenance checks tuesday afternoon. they say they expect to have all of the repairs completed by wednesday afternoon. at o hare airport in chicago, john garcia for abc news. u.s. and mexican officials are investigating a deadly attack on two american law enforcem
finally in the second round of jeopardy! it was man versus machine. who won? machine kicked our butts. it was rough. watson, the computer, got 25 questions right while human champs, ken jennings and brad rutter, only got a total of five right. how does watson do it? here s david muir. let s take alternate meanings for 200, alex. reporter: call it man versus machine. superstar contestants against the supercomputer. watson was off and running. losing to him by 0.01 seconds. watson? who is michael fephelps? go again. correct. reporter: and today when we saw what makes watson tick, he s loaded with a world of data. ten refrigerator size racks of servers. when alex delivers the clue to the humans, a text of that clue is sent to watson, who searches his hard drives for the answer. a long ways since that first computer with the hard drive in the 60s could store about one
assault, logan was eventually rescued by a group of women and about 20 egyptian soldiers. she reconnected with her production team and then flew home the next day. disgraced financier bernie madoff is pointing fingers in his first interview since the collapse of his ponzi scheme. he tells the new york times many banks and hedge funds were, quote, complicit in his scheme and he says they had a willful blindness between discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other available information. he also claims his family didn t know about his ponzi scheme. well, your next trip to the mall or grocery store could take a bigger bite out of the budget. changing weather patterns, floods, and droughts around the world, are affecting prices right here at home. david wright rings up the details. reporter: those distant calamities in the news are having an impact on prices at home. droughts in china, a heat wave