prisoners. a mother and son kidnapped by terrorists. we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. 10 million? from me? are you losing your mind? a harrowing international hostage drama. it s a big operation, it s not this ragtag group of people. anything can happen, there are no guarantees. kind of father turned negotiator help bring them home. we prepared him for the worst. i am getting so worried. a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. dateline. hello, and welcome to dateline. they were on a dream vacation when suddenly a mother, her teenage sond all kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. but the worldwide hostage drama be resolved before it was all too late? here with heart of darkness is keith morrison. they lay in wait, unseen underneath the green canopy, armed to the teeth, immersed and there to find extremist beliefs, hunting, stalking, deadly in this particula
and this is dateline. i just can t imagine to be held in captivity. dad, just send the money. that s all they want. they have an american kid. a 14-year-old kid in the middle of the jungle. they re thinking they have the jackpot. they were vacationers turned prisoners. a mother and son, kidnapped by terrorists. we need 10 million u.s. dollars for the release of your family. 10 million, from me? are you losing your mind? a harrowing international hostage drama. this is a big operation, this is not just a drag tag group of people. anything can happen, there are no guarantees. can a father to negotiator to bring them home? prepare for the worst. i m getting worried. i m getting so worried. a lot of people were praying for them. a lot of people were. hello, and welcome to dateline, they were on a dream vacation when suddenly a mother, her teenage son, and a cousin were all kidnapped by a group of men with guns wanting money and lots of it. but the wo
A look at the days news and headlines. The average now for 2018, 215,000 a month higher than it was a couple years ago. On the down side, again the number was slightly less than anticipated. Transportation and warehouse was interesting. The monthly was almost 19,000. Last month we lost 1,000 jobs there. It was one of the things that stood out to me. Bill economists and financial people can find something negative in anything. Unemployment is at 3. 9 percent. We havent seen a number like this in 18 years. The real Unemployment Number is more impressive called the u6. It takes into account people working parttime but dont want that. That number dropped from 7. 5. Thats a sharp decline in a long time. Bill 2. 7 higher wages. You want wages to go a bit higher than that. It was the expectation. Another great piece of news, people working parttime for economic reasons because they couldnt find a job, thats dropped by 176,000. 400,000 more people got a job. 100,000 people came into the workfo
look. and i stopped crying. right? and i see this woman, and i can see tears. as i got closer and closer, i realized i knew who that was. we just ran up to each other and we just hugged each other. and it was just incredible. back in lynchburg, kevin s dad, heiko, was delivering christmas turkeys to a hospital when somebody found him and gave him the news. i was so happy. [laughs] your mind gets clear again. but you don t have to be worried. and i will have my family back. it s just a great feeling. it s a great feeling. on december 14th, 2011, six months after they were taken hostage, gerfa and kevin, finally came home. returning to lynchburg, to heiko, and to your gerfa s niece, sherry. it was awesome. the first thing we did was put up christmas decorations. kevin and gerfa we re so happy.
right there looking around. it s like, i m right here. [laughs] but he just looked and i was like, you don t recognize me. [laughs] i said okay, it must be the look. and i stopped crying. right? and i see this woman, and i can see tears. as i got closer and closer, i realized i knew who that was. we just ran up to each other and we just hugged each other. and it was just incredible. back in lynchburg, kevin s dad, heiko, was delivering christmas turkeys to a hospital when somebody found him and gave him the news. i was so happy. [laughs] your mind gets clear again. but you don t have to be worried. and i will have my family back. it s just a great feeling. it s a great feeling. on december 14th, 2011, six months after they were taken hostage, gerfa and kevin, finally came home. returning to lynchburg, to