again. family s ecstatic. we are happy to have their daughter home. we are planning to get some rest, planning to do what we can to make sure that she is able to get back to living a normal life. reporter: with many people anxiously awaiting for jakadrein turner to start unlocking the secrets about how she turned herself into tika cortez and ended up in colombia, her family is quickly realizing that getting back to normal won t be easy. the 15-year-old is pregnant and needs critical medical checkups there and are investigators who will spend hours asking questions about why she ran away and how she got herself deported to colombia. you know, i don t necessarily know that she really ran away from something as much as she may have ran to something. reporter: dana amess the director of the united search and response rescue team, a nonprofit group that counsels families searching for missing loved ones, ames. spent the last seven months
my son had a lot of friends back then. they all hang out together, hang out with jerry sandusky and i think you should talk to these other boys, too, not week in they would say. she pointed them in these boys direction. amir hekmati an ex-marine, born in arizona, raised in michigan. his family says the 28-year-old was arrested in august while visiting his grandmother and other relatives in iran. they say his reported confession, quote unquote, had to have been coerced. also in the news, emotional moments last night at a memorial service marking the one-year anniversary of the tucson shooting mass sack they re left six people dead. congresswoman gaby giffords, one of 13 people wounded, recited the pledge of allegiance. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. such a goose bumps moment. she, by the way is still recovering from her injuries from that incident. and the pharmaceutical company novartis is recalling several of its products bec
candidates looked to score of course some last-minute points. they took part in two debates in less than 12 hours. the person who should represent our party running against president obama is not someone who called him a remarkable leader and went to be his ambassador in china. this nation is divided, david, because of attitudes like that. [ applause ] we want someone when the time gets tough, and it will in this election, we want someone who is going to stand up and fight for the conservative principles, not bail out and not run, and not run to the left of ted kennedy. can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? you have been running consistently for years and years and years. so this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind. just level with the american people. you have been running at least since the 1990s. well, mitt romney is trying to seal the deal. he is out rallying supporters in new hampshire, trying to win over last-minute converts. cnn s j
of last year, gave authorities the fake name of tika cortez, said she was illegally there from colombia. she got herself deported and now is it back in dallas. there are still a great number of questions that remain unanswered as to how she could have fooled so many people in so many ways and her attorney says that someone will have to pay for that. make the people who are responsible pay for the civil rights violations that ms. turner has had to go through. reporter: jakadrien turner walked out of the airport here visibly emotional and overwhe overwhelmed by the attention her story has received. her mother and grandmother left without saying anything. they were very quiet. one american close to the family says all she wants to do is sit around with her family and try to reconnect after so much time. ed, thank you very much. so this next story is it about a little do you know anyone who has adopted a child
manchester tonight. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is there and so is cnn s political reporter shannon travis. good to see both of you. you look very happy. i know you ve been working your butts off, but you look lively. paul, let s start with you. there is a debate tonight, another tomorrow. why are they so important? well, listen, don. we ve seen the whole cycle of debates, they ve been so outsized in importance like we ve never seen before. the debates make and break candidates t. they broke rick perry. they ve broken herman cain and some others. well, that could happen again tonight. the other thing, don, we haven t had a debate there have been 13, but we haven t had one in almost a month. it has been a while and a lot has change. we lost michelle balk p man. rick santorum used to be off to the side. now he ll be in the middle. mitt romney is used to the scrutiny. we ll see if santorum is used to it. one more thing, when i stand next to shannon travis i make him