Knowing they spoke with their loved ones in those last moments or heard a message from their loved one in the last moment and what it must have felt like for him. Unspeakable. Rehema ellis, thank you as always. Great to see you this afternoon. We are approaching the top of the hour. You are watching msnbc reports with yasmin vossoughian. Welcome, everybody. I m yasmin vossoughian. If you are still with us, thanks for sticking with us. If you are just joining us, welcome. As our coverage of the 20th anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks continues, we are beginning this hour with a special look at the personal experiences of muslimamericans from 9/11 to now. I want to play for you more of the discussion that i had this week with a diverse group of muslimamericans. They spoke to me about how they have seen islamophobia in their own lives and how they hope to see awareness shift, an inflection point now and in the future. Let s listen. My heart just dropped and the first thou
Wrapped around her heads. It still is open, the door is open. Most people who rob a store don t kill anybody. My whole world just died right there. For months, the murder stayed cold. Didn t have witnesses, didn t have video, didn t have the any. We had everything going against us. We go down and talk to the detective, we would not let it go. Then a break. Another victim. He would duct tape me, duct tape my mouth. And she knew a secret. Could she risk revealing it? something is going to happen tonight. A killer ready to run, face to face with the one person who might be able to stop him. He just reached over the glove compartment and he pulled out a gun. And i said, please don t kill me. I m going to get out of their. Alive. Hello, and welcome to dateline. I m natalie morales. Amber belken was a force to reckon with. A pet young woman whose big dreams and drive made her seem unstoppable. Then she was found murdered. Was amber the victim of a robbery gone bad? or was this brutal crime p
Being a mom was who she was. Who would shoot crystie? what s going on here? that was our question. Police zeroed in on the men in her life. One, two, three of them. We re trying to find out who would have the motivation to do this. To help fine crystal s killer, her anguish sisters would turn amateur detectives. I couldn t even sleep. I needed an answer. That was my sister. My baby sister. The twist that stopped everyone cold. There had been another attack on another pregnant woman. She was assaulted in and her necklace. Cut who was targeting moms to be? in this lie for the next. You re going to pay for what you ve done. Wrong i couldn t believe what i was hearing. How does this happen? in the mega sprawl of los angeles county, the city of hawthorne occupies about six square miles. None of them especially glamorous. For decades, local pride centered on the beach boys. They grew up here. And quickly left. Nowadays, its tech giants like spacex with headquarters at the local airport. But
violence. the school board association compared angry parents to terrorists and asked the white house to step in. bill: kristin clark is before a senate committee today for questions. parents claim they re being treated like criminals. what has happened now is that the federal government and the national school board association has declared a war on parents. all we have done over the past year is stand up and speak up for children. it s unconscionable that the federal bureau of investigation should even spend a minute thinking about us. parents we have never atoned violence or attacked people in school board meetings. i don t know of any reported incidents where parents are attacking school board members. dana: check out the cover of today s new york post. a picture of parents with signs and protesting. the question is, are these domestic terrorists? mark meredith is live with more. the justice department says it is stepping in to protect teachers and school boar
everyone. it was the first time i ve ever had this happen. we had to stop and think whether we heard it right. hello and welcome to dateline . it s been said there is nothing more powerful than a mother s love for her child. and no greater pain than losing a child. both forces collide in a small midwestern town, when a mysterious death sparked a search for justice. it also divided a community and turned strangers into allies. the outcome left both sides reeling. here s dennis murphy with at the edge of town . yards from the chicken place is an unlikely scrap of wilderness in a southern illinois town. a thicket of vines and rumbles. acres of thorns that tear at the flush. four years, people just sped by without a second look. but something terrible happened there one cold night in the winter of 2014. that brought a stranger to town. a mother, looking for answers about her son. i knew one thing, i wasn t going to stop. no matter how painful the truth turned out to