correspondent stacy strong from our affiliate witm reports. >> 55 hours. that's how long search and rescue crews were on the ground looking in thick woods for 3-year-old casey hathaway. even more remarkable, that is how long he was outside in the elements, before being located by an emt, following a tip from a resident. >> it is zairy. listen, i'm a grown man, i would not want to go through what that child went through, and just, you know, if you put yourself out there, and close your eyes, the sounds, the fact that the weather was terrible, cold, and you're lost, and you have no idea what is going on. >> search teams led by the craven county sheriff's office were determined not to give up on the little boy. >> casey became all of our child. i think, i can say that safely for all of america. we were all following it. and he belonged to all of us. and we all wanted him back. >> and when casey finally was