everything was a blur. all i m thinking is, is shannon really gone? we interviewed her roommates, boyfriends, everybody is a suspect. then a phone rings. right. he says i ve kidnapped her, i have her. and we ran his criminal history. that s when all the bells went off. he pulls in, asked me to get in the car. i feel the cold blade against my neck. he carries me to the basement of his home. it was jaw-dropping! just chilling! they started digging and they found women s clothing. it was just escalating! escalating! there were so many victims, aren t there? there. were there still are. until this guy is no longer in existence. i will carry this fight! hello, and welcome to dateline! shannon melendi dreamed big. at 15, she wanted to become a supreme court justice. in college, she scored a prestigious internship at former president jimmy carter s foundation. then, suddenly she vanished! detectives had a suspect in their sights. but it would take years
she was smitten. she really went all out for him. she couldn t see the red flags. it was a heartbreaking case. i just didn t realize how much endanger she was. one of our friends actually looked him up and was like, this is not the guy that you think he is. he conned women to get what he wanted. he was good at it. he was very good at. if he had been peeking in her dorm room window. i m being blackmailed from for money. lauren kept saying, well, the police will handle it. we got the notification on our phone a second lockdown. he had been lying in wait. i was like, this isn t real. this isn t happening. how do you not recognize that this girl needs your help? what should scare every parent is that this could be going on at any campus across our country. hello and welcome to dateline . college senior lauren mccluskey was known around campus as a star athlete. but few knew that off the field, she was trapped in a abusive relationship. laure
of his home. it was jaw-dropping! just chilling! they started digging and they found women s clothing. it was just escalating! escalating! there were so many victims, aren t there? there. were there still are. until this guy is no longer in existence. i will carry this fight! hello, and welcome to hello, and welcome to dateline! shannon melendi dreamed big. at 5, she wanted to become a supreme court justice. in college, she scored as prestigious internship at the headquarters foundation. then, suddenly she vanished! detectives had a suspect in their sights. but it would take years, and the revelation of another teenager s horrific tale, to our unravel the mystery of sharon s disappearance. here s dennis murphy with shannon s story! the snapshots, the videos. they documented her life. the photographer dad, the camera professional captured every moment of his daughter s life. she loved life. she wanted to do everything! these parents did no
biden s performance in a new poll, and the majority of democrats want the party to flat out dump him and pick someone else as their 2024 nominee. there s no circling back on this. remember that? former white house press secretary says democrats are doomed if the midterms are about biden. if the election is about who s the most extreme, as we saw kevin mccarthy touch on there with marjorie taylor greene, i ll say her name, sitting on his left side, if it s a referendum on the president, they will lose, and they know that. as democrats reel from all the bad news, there s more, a top pollter predicts that the gop midterm turnout will exceed all expectations. this year our fear people won t be polled that are trump supporters because of what biden has said, apparent attacks, people coming after them. there s a hesitancy to participate. everybody w will underexpect th. thank you for joining us. i bet you have a book, don t you? his name is robert trafalgar. he s talking ab
this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up and we don t lose this many people in flooding. it is a real tough one. rescuers are working around the clock. the national guard from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia are lifting hundreds from the floodwaters. more than 600 already. washed away roads and bridges adding to the already very complicated recovery efforts. cnn s evan is at a command center for the research and rescue efforts. how are they coordinating what, is going on? reporter: well, hi, fred, when they say command center, they mean a place people gather. this is a parking lot of a shopping center here in jackson, kentucky, that is in the middle of where the floodwaters happened and behind me agencies are coming from all over the country, all over the state to work to try to help find people who might be trapped or still need help in the floodwaters and they re also working with a