was she really a hostage at all? the relationship was not one of kidnapper and victim. it was one of husband and wife. his prisoner or his lover? i really do love you. it sounds like a heart felt love letter. now she breaks her silence to tell her own story. will you believe her? i was fighting for my life. the devil and bobby parker. welcome to dateline. i m lester holt. it is a remarkable case. a mother who was missing for more than ten years as her family waited, wondered and hoped. she had been kidnapped she said but others believe she was captive to something else, her own dangerous emotions. which story will you believe? on april 4th, 2005 a texas county sheriff near the louisiana border heard there might be a fugitive in his area. i received a telephone call. the call led them 65 miles to a run down mobile home on a chicken farm, the home of a couple calling themselves richard and samantha. if you wanted to hide is this a good place to do it? if
not the security surrounding the tsa check points at airports around the country are going to be beefed up after what just happened at l.a.x. now one more thing i want to talk about, flight delays and cancellations. there are, of course, lots and lots of delays right now in and out of l.a.x. here at reagan and at the other washington area airports, dulles, bwi, all these airports at the moment are operating normally, no major delays or cancellations to report, but remember the longer l.a.x. is closed the greater the ripple effect will be at airports across the country. so if you re planning on traveling tonight, even if you re not going to l.a.x., if you re traveling, you ll want to check your flight status before heading to the airport. of course, we are continuing to follow all the latest developments as we learn more about the gunman. let s go to derek now who is with our security expert. ed clark is here with me now. we ve within getting to be very close friends becau
children on food stamp and 9 million elderly or seriously disabled people. local and federal officials announced they d shut down a massive drug tunnel that had an electric rail system, ventilation and hydraulic steel doors. it went from tijuana to a warehouse in san diego. i do not use crack cocaine. the mayor does appear in that video. a video of mayor rob ford has been recovered by investigators. this disturbing video of a fight between two female students gets worse when you find out the man in dark blue is also heard on the video encouraging the girls to fight. police are investigating pending an assault charge where he apparently pulled the other girl off his daughter. starting today 47 million americans will be looking at less money to help put food on their tables. that is because the federal food stamp program or system n.a.p. budget is being cut by $5 billion or s.n.a.p. budget is being cut by $5 billion. the result is just going to make it harder for
that s where it is blocked off, not allowing any cars into and out of that area. not even allowing us to one of the feeder streets leading to 374. that s why we are just now parallel with 374 on route 3. again, down here you see one of the checkpoints. this coming last night, this closure of the road coming last night after some sort of suspicious activity was spotted in the area. at that point they immediately shut down this section of route 374 asking residents last night to keep their lights on keep their doors locked to stay inside until they could get this situation all sorted out. you remember new york s governor saying yesterday it was important to follow-up on every lead no matter where it leads. and that s what they are doing at this point. checking all these cars if i had to give it an estimate in terms of how long this section of route 374 is closed i would say about four miles. and we are located just about four miles from the clinton correctional facility. in ter
mitchell the prison employee that investigators questioned after the escape. tell us the very latest on that? a couple things. as you mentioned, authorities believe she had initially planned to pick up david sweat and richard matt. but at the last minute possibly, she may have changed her mind. this is part of the investigation. she is cooperating with the investigators. also they ve taken a look at her cell phone, don. they believe that her phone was used to make several calls to people who knew richard matt. again, unclear if she made the calls or somebody else made the calls. again, this now part of this investigation. also this evening, her son coming to her defense saying there is no way his mother would do anything to cooperate with two violent criminals. she is not the kind of person that s going to risk her life or other people s lives to let these guys escape from prison. he s not the only one coming to mitchell s defense. we also spoke to two of mitchell s nei