you re telling me the children are innocents, but yet, you want to keep them in there? what is the purpose for that? look hey, none of your business, you people are just so arrogant, so proud and so foolish. of course the main focus was on the children. reporter: negotiators convince koresh to release some of the kids. we got six children out the first day. he says he will release more children two by two. a total of ten children have been released from the compound. reporter: joanne veiga was just 6 years old. her mother, still in the compound. she asked david if she could go and he said he said no. because he only was going to let the children out. reporter: tonight, joanne now. she packed what little i had. she wrote a note to my sister. she said her good-byes. reporter: it was the last time she would see her mother alive.