One dogged reporter you dont have to stop. Pounding the pavement, asking people from all walks of life one simple question. What are you grateful for . But first, the nightline five. Good evening, thank you for joining us. To night at the center of a heartbreaking custody battle. On one side her adopted family, on the other her biological father who was in prison when she was born and now wants her back. Here is abcs steve olson sommy. I want to pet him. Reporter Braelynn Dalsing is like most three year olds, filled with curiosity and attached to her parents. But she has no idea about the giant legal battle swirling around her. It breaks our heart. Braelynn is the one at the middle of this. Reporter braelynn is adopted. Just a few days ago her parents were told they could be forced to give their baby girl to Andrew Meyers, her biological father. He told cbs news that braelynn belongs with him. I really think it is time that she came home to her real family. Whats his name . Reporter this little girl is now caught in the middle, in a case that could help spell out with happens to other in this same situation. Ed and Tammy Dalsing first welcomed braelynn into their lives in 2013 when she was a newborn. Brought her to our house, just a beautiful little bundle of baby. Reporter she was born in South Carolina with cocaine in her little body. So at three weeks old, the dalsings became her foster parents. We honestly thought at the beginning we were working a foster care plan to help a mother get her child back. Reporter but then her Health Issues became more serious. She needed a special helmet like this one, and as foster parents the dalsings werent allowed to make these kind of medical decisions. Her birth mother, erika keisler, was struggling with addiction and had to make a difficult choice. Probably one of the hardest choices i could imagine a mother making, and thats handing her daughter over to somebody else. Reporter to you . To us. But she knew solid trust. That we loved her and she her. So she made a sacrifice as a mother. Reporter in her new home with Seven Brothers and sisters, braelynn and her South Carolina family were clearly happy. Can you say Merry Christmas . Merry christmas. Reporter a year and a half later a letter came in the mail. Thats the worst day i can ever remember, was december 15th, and my husband called me and he told me that the Appellate Court ruled against us. And i said, what do you mean . Reporter braelynns birth father had appealed their adoption, saying only he is braelynns daddy and the girl should now be with him in virginia. Andrew meyers was in prison when she was born. According to court documents, he says he turned himself over to authorities for what were nonviolent crimes in the hope that he could serve his time and start raising his daughter. We reached out to meyers and were directed to speak with his lawyer, nathan sheldon. From the very beginning mr. Meyers had a university fie unified with his child and the child should be moved to virginia. Reporter meyers says from his prison cell he wrote to braelynn and arranged for his mother to send money. Because he was in prison, had little contact with braelynn and wasnt directly paying child support. He and the girls birth mother werent married so he had less of a claim. You have to mother your worthiness, your fitness to actually be a parent, because being a father doesnt mean just a biological relationship, but the Supreme Court says it is biology plus action. Reporter meyers now says his parental rights should never have been terminated simply because he was in jail. He was released from a virginia prison in november, and now an Appeals Court is siding with him. Ive got my life together and theres no reason she shouldnt be able to come home to me. Reporter now the dalsings could lose the baby girl theyve hi, daddy. I love you. Who is that . Daddy. Reporter for any adoptive parent, their worst fear come true. Im a 20year marine veteran and i have never cried as much as i have over this. Reporter state law does say that efforts must be made to reunite children with their biological parents. Hold your hands out like this. On top of mine, look. Reporter but braelynns biological mother firmly believes that the threeyearold should stay with the dalsings. See the sparkles . Pretty, huh . Reporter she has regular visits and has gotten close with the new parents. Who should she stay with in your opinion . The dalsings. Theyre stable, they love her. Theyre financially able to do things that my family and his family put together would never be able to do. A shot at actually being something. Reporter the dalsings believe what is good for braelynn should matter most and say they have the means provide her a beautiful life. Weve been there for her. We want the childrens best interests to be able to take precedence. Reporter they filed an appeal and lost. Now theyre taking their case to the state Supreme Court. We have no plans of stopping if it does not get corrected. Reporter youll take it all the way to the Supreme Court if you have to . It is going to take the United States Supreme Court to deny us. Reporter even if braelynns biological father wins, he still might not get custody. Down low. Reporter theres a process he will need to get through to prove to the court that he is fit to raise the child. Something else that weve heard is when you look at the life that this family is affording this child, it just seems that this situation is better for the child. Were not going to get an analysis of, you know, we can provide money versus they cant so the child should be with us. Thats not the society we live in. Are we going to look at parents and say that these they have more to support the child . This is supporting the right of poor parents to fight for and keep their children. Reporter but the dalsings say it is not about money. We want her to have a full, rich life. Weve made it available to them, that if they wanted to see her they could. Reporter braelynn has spent some time with her biological fathers mother, but the dalsings say that Andrew Meyers himself has never seen his daughter in person. Wouldnt she have to move to a different state . Different state, different people. She would wake up and not know anything. They dont even know her favorite color. I dont understand how a judge could say that these people deserve to raise braelynn. Reporter the family says that the involvement hasnt been as great as you would expect from someone who really wanted to be involved in this girls life. We completely disagree with that assessment. Reporter so for now the case is in the courts, and all the adults who love this little and braelynns birth mother just have to wait. While it is not yet clear where she will call home, it is very clear that she will be loved. 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She can take care of that for you. How . Hypnosis. Sink into the floor. Wait, wait, wait. On the face of it, get out is a low budget horror flick thats just grossed 30 million bucks its opening weekend, beating the lego batman movie. Right now it is the nations number one film in theaters. Get out sorry, man. Get out but thats just on the face of it. Bombshells social critique shouts variety. Can a film be too inflammatory for its own good, the new yorker. Too many people are getting nervous. Oh, no. It is a horror movie partly about ace rais. Telling the sorry of this the surface, and that we werent talking about. Written and directed by jordan pooel. Here is the thing, i knew that this movie would work if it ever got out. So i was just waiting, i was like, are they going to let me do this . Yeah, the very same jordan peale of key and peale fame. I want a piece of him you got your toothbrush . Check. Here is the basic premise. Do they know im black . Should they . Alison williams of girls fame plays rose, taking black boyfriend chris home for the first time. Why Alison Williams . Theres a familiarity. She seems like somebody we know. Have you been through the going to the parents house with the white girlfriend . Yes. You know, im married to chelsea p peretti, a white woman. Great stand up, brooklyn. I wrote it before i met her so i cant blame it on my she will toy with her family and imply it is them but im like, no, not true. Dont come back all boozy, man. There was a time in the past where i met a white girlfriends parents and i was nervous. Where theres fear theres a horror movie. Thats the state you want a protagonist of a horror movie to be in. Why daniel . Daniel just i mean really i mean you know the answer because youve seen the movie. I mean look at the guy. It is cool. Why you not scared of this, man . Was he actually crying . Yes. Five times in a row the guy does the scene, the tears start falling. It is the black people out here, too. It is like all missed the movement. Because they probably hypnotised. I said everyone has an opinion on interracial relationships. Yeah, the dude is a lymey like me. It is a horror film about an interracial relationship. I want to see that, what happens, howoe i go do my research. Apparently a whole bunch of brothers been missing in this suburb. I had genius prurs who got it. Among them jason blum, hailed as the new master of horror, specializes in micro budget horror flicks like the gift. There were 99 ways it could be wrong. Happily jordan peale got it right. The budget, a paltry 4 1 2 million bucks. With horror like comedy you dont need money to do it right. Jordan is first time writer and director. I believe there are a lot of similarities between scary movies and comedies, the timing of a joke and the timing of a scare, where you put it and the rhythm. The two genres hold more in common than one would think. He was completely natural. I would never know it was his my first time doing a movie. I feel we were in it together for both of our firsts. She might make no money and ruin her career. How do you sell Alison Williams on get out . It helped we were friends. She loved the script. Why horror . I think for me it is about facing miss own fair. The reason anybody watches watches horror movies is just that. I know exactly where we are now. Its success reminds me of 1999s the blair witch project made for 60 grand but grossed nearly 250 million. But get out appeals on totally another level as well. Hello. Not bad. Hey, nelson. We get to look our deepest fears straight down the barrel, laugh at them, and walk away having dealt with that. So is is it better . Wow. Is your deepest fear the ax murderer or casual racist . Look, it is a little of both. You ever play golf . Once, a few years ago. I wasnt very good. I do know tiger. Oh, thats great. Super. Gordon loves tiger. Oh, best ive ever seen, ever. Hands down. I know tiger woods. And has that kind of stuff happened to you . Oh, yeah. Does that still happen to you . Thats every day being black in this country. I think theyre trying to Say Something good, but inherent in that is a disregard for the humanity of the person. You were automatically seeing color first. It doesnt enrage me, but what it represents does. I did think, have i ever done anything like that, the tiger woods thing . Of course, as you shoo. You know what . You have and i have. My view on race is not that white people are bad. Everyone is predisposed to categorize. The way were meant to deal with that is to be woke, is to be able to acknowledge that in ourselves. So how long has this been going on, this this thing . Say someone is saying something to you and theyre trying to be welcoming but the actual impact is that it is alienating and it makes you isolated. Four months. Four months . Five months actually. Shes right, im wrong. Atta boy, better get used to say thang. The person, because they dont come from your perspective, they dont understand. It is a lack of understanding. No matter who you are, where youre from, when you step into the neattheater you are seeing world through chriss eyes. There are classic thriller twists, deeper themes and terrible horror that i will not give away. It is one of those movies i have so many questions, that now youre sitting here i dont really know what to say to you. You know, illegitimate child of Bryan Cranston and michael fasbender. Hes not wrong. All right, all right. Time to wrap things up. Are you now jordan peale, horror movie director, thats it, who you are now . Say it again. I love it. Yes, im complicated. Nick watt for nightline in los angeles. Next, watch as we chase down a news story about what is good in life by asking a simple question. What are you grateful for . Abc news nightline, brought to you by viagra. They need it. Take viagra whn ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. 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Est is back try succulent new lobster mix match vers dream can be. Theres something for everyone and everyones invited. So come in soon. And finally tonight, we live in such divisive times, so in our new series we set out to ask, what are you grateful for . Our first stop, washington d. C. s union station, one of the prettiest train stations in all of america. Good morning. Sorry, im lalt for a meeting. Good morning. A lot of people in d. C. In a hurry. You dont have to stop, ill run with you. What are you grateful for, quick question . My family and this beautiful weat what are you grateful for . My health. Friends. To be alive. My cat. I think it is time to get on the bus. Beautiful wife, a beautiful family. Im grateful that were able to travel the world. What are you grayful for . Im grateful for a free press. I like the question youre asking. How long . 32 years. How does it feel . Great. Smell that air. I am grateful for opportunities. Im also glad to be an american. Were very lucky that we live where we live. Now on the campus of howard university, youre the first in your family to go to college . Yeah. Thats something to be grateful for. Exactly. Tell me a story. A story . That speaks to your gratitude. There was a couple beindependent us, a guy goes why dont you go back to your country, theres a muslim ban for a reason. As soon as he said that, all of these people sprang up on him and said, you we dont know these strangers and they were ready to stand up for us like that. Im grateful for music. Tell me something youre grateful for. My kids. My family. The freckles. I am. You have some too. I do, i do. Its been nice to be reminded, right . Thank you so much. For all of the complications in this world, there are still things to be grateful for. Gratitude is like an ointment for the soul. So what are you grateful for . Tell us online. Our Nightline Facebook page or tweet me at byron hey, everybody, its getaway week, and today our contestants are not just playing for themselves. Theyre trying to win the money they need to send a very special person in their life on a longoverdue vacation. But dont you go anywhere, because from ballys las vegas, its time to play who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] hey, everybody, welcome to the show. Its getaway week here on millionaire. [cheers and applause] todays returning contestant came to win a trip for his mom, who worked hard to raise three kids on her own. Now hes back to add to his own bank account. From crown heights, new york, please welcome back devin landin. [cheers and applause] devin, how you doing . How you doing . So its getaway week, and you already got a trip for your mom. Yep. 5,000. Youve reached that threshold, but it was also that trip. Why did you want her to win so bad . Well, my dads a casualty of war. He died when i was seven. I have a younger brother and a younger sister. My moms worked her whole life to make sure that we had the start that we needed, and id like to just be able to give her something back. If i win a million dollars, i can give her more. [applause] and if youyoure at 5,000 now. What happens if you win a million . What would you do with that money . Id make movies. Um, right now
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