know what that number is and you've got to begin to chip away at it. >> the book will make you smart. thank you so much. that wraps it up for this show, but you can join our running conversation on facebook and twitter @ali velshi and @christine romans. we read everything you say. make sure to join us for "your $$$$$" and logon 24/7 to cnnmoney.com. have yourselves a great weekend. right now on cnn, travel trauma. >> very embarrassing and very degrading. >> new rules prompting this flight attendant to reveal having to remove and show tsa agents her prosthetic breast. i'll talk to her. murder in beverly hills. a high-profile handler to the stars shot five times just feet from where infamous mobster bugsy segal was gunned down, yards from where michael jackson died.

>> this is where they stopped and shots were fired. >> cnn investigates, and how real is reality, tv, that is. >> you know there are some people who say you guys make black people look bad. >> a real housewife of atlanta dishes all about her show, bristol palin, brandi, and more. this is everything you need to know and then some for your week ahead. good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. we start with this. scary moments tonight aboard a delta airlines jet headed from new york to moscow. delta flight 30 with 192 -- 193 passengers had to make an emergency landing at jfk airport when its left engine shut down. it happened about a mile from the airport at an altitude of about 1,500 feet. the boeing 767 dumped fuel over the atlantic before landing. passengers were booked on another jet to resume their flight to russia, and also today a delta flight departing atlanta

had to return as well. it was a boeing 767, and it's also reported an engine failure. the faa says the plane scraped its tail during landing, but no one was injured there. you know, all of this comes as we're moving into the busy thanksgiving travel week and frustration with the new rules from the transportation security administration is hitting a boiling point right now. the full body scans and aggressive patdowns have some saying enough. despite the growing backlash, don't expect the tsa to bend either. here's what agency head john pistole said on cnn's "state of the union." >> we're not changing policies, because of the risks that have been identified because of the current threat and we have a travel advisory to europe now. we know through intelligence that there are determined people, terrorists, who are trying to kill not only americans but innocent people around the world. >> pistole made that comment as we're hearing more and more accounts of alleged mistreatment at the hands of the tsa.

we've been telling you all weekend about cathy bossi, a flight attendant and cancer survivor. she says she was forced to remove her prosthetic breast and show it to a tsa agent and this happened in august before the new rules were even in place. here's what cathy told me about her ordeal. >> when i got into the body scanner the tsa agent told me to place my i.d. behind my back so they couldn't see it in the front, and when they were done screening, she told me that i didn't listen to her and that i needed to now go through a full body screening which is where i was asked to remove my prosthetic breast. >> well, the tsa did release a statement about bossi's claims. it says we will review the matter and take appropriate action, if necessary. you can hear more from cathy when show she appears on cnn "newsroom" at 3:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. oh, yeah, you can expect plenty of company if you're traveling

this holiday week. the nation's highways and airports should be packed. the weather could also be a factor. some parts of the country got socked this weekend by a blast of winter weather. our meteorologist jacqui jeras is here with your holiday travel forecast. >> reporter: hey, don, it's been pretty brutal out there especially across parts of the west where we've seen incredible amounts of snowfall into the higher elevations and valley rainfall. salt lake city and across parts of utah today. man, you've got a lot of snow. we had about a foot on the benches. two feet into the higher elevations and we're looking at a good three to six inches easy on the valley floor. things are starting to wind down tonight, but we are expecting more snow to kick up as we head through tuesday and into wednesday. this system is just the first in a series that's going to make its way across the west so expect bad travel weather all across the west, at least through wednesday morning, before things start to improve. now tomorrow, what does it look like? well, we'll be watching the midwest as well. we had hundreds of accidents in minnesota today.

we're expecting to see more snow today and freezing rain early tomorrow morning, especially in southern minnesota. places like chicago as well as milwaukee could have problems. where are we expecting the delays? could be 30 to 60 minutes in chicago. detroit and st. louis expecting delays. seattle and portland as well as salt lake city because of that snow and san francisco today wasn't too bad, but tomorrow we could see it over an hour because of low clouds. wednesday, of course, is the busiest travel day of the year oftentimes, and we're expecting to see a very powerful system in the nation's mid-sections. one of the big concerns will be wind. in addition to snow on the north side, rain to the south and maybe even some thunderstorms so definitely want to be very cautious on some of those roadways and call your carriers ahead of time, don. even, you know, volume itself can be a problem. >> advice from our meteorologist jacqui jeras, and always good advice. appreciate it. thank you very much. if you're traveling this week, you know, cnn is your holiday travel headquarters, and we have

a lot of great ways for to you stay on top of what's happening. you can log on to cnn.com/holidaytravel. can you also find us on twitter at cnn travel and check out i-report.cnn.com for pictures and for videos. we've got you covered there. hollywood murder mystery, publicist to the stars ronni chasen is laid to rest today and we're digging deeper into why and how she was gunned down in beverly hills, retracing the drive she took that fateful night. plus, i talked to a very resilient woman about how she's bounced back after losing everything, including her daughter and her home. and if you want to check out our version of "dancing with the stars", we did it last night live in the cnn newsroom. you can see the full interview and the full thing on line. go to our blog at cnn.com/don.hn seasonal flavors are here. t ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays. it's better when you add your flavor. coffee-mate. from nestle.

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movie stars, film producers, musicians and others turned out today for the funeral of murdered hollywood publicist ronni chasen. michael douglas was among those who came to pay their respects. the event was closed to the news media. chasen's death really has stunned hollywood, and to illustrate how improbable this killing was, cnn producer alan duke retraced the route taken by ronni chasen. >> this is hollywood and vine. the w hotel on the roof. there's a club, and that's where they had the after party for the premier of "burlesque." star-studded event, cher, christina aguilera and ronni chasen. this is the valet area of the w where ronni chasen would have parked and then picked up her car after the party. just turning around. >> yeah. >> thanks.

>> reporter: if someone were stalking chasen as she left this after party at the w hotel, it possibly would have been obvious. there's security cameras around here and plenty of people, and they would have had to have been lying in wait to see as she left, one would think. my guess is she would have gone on sunset boulevard immediately over here instead of hollywood boulevard, because that would already still have been closed for the premiere a few hours earlier. of course, it was about midnight, probably just after midnight when she left the w hotel. plenty of cars would have been around hollywood after midnight in this area. it's a very busy area, and actually it's not unusual for there to be violence here in this area. in fact, halloween night five people were shot within about a block and a half of where we are right now.

one of the first landmarks she would have gone by is the cnn bureau building here on sunset at cahuenga. we're still about five and a half miles away from where the shooting happened. this is the intersection where ronni chasen apparently stopped and was turning. this is the most likely place police think that the shots were fired into her car. apparently from a higher suv vehicle that was parked next to her, and after the shots were fired, apparently she continued to drive down this direction, but some distance down the road before her car actually came to a rest. she was still alive though and possibly driving, trying to get away. this is the spot that ronni chasen's car hit a utility pole. one that's now been removed. it did hold a streetlight, and it was here that paramedics found her still alive, breathing heavy, but near death. >> that was cnn's alan duke. police have no motive and no

suspects in that killing. by most perceptions she had everything, best selling books, speaking engagements and even her own tv show and her doctor's medical bills and a subprime mortgage pushed her to the brink. she bounced back and has a new book out called "peace from broken pieces, how to get through what you're going through." in tonight's "what matters" she told me how it got so dire and why she didn't give up. >> you know, i grew up in poverty. i didn't know anything about a mortgage. all i knew is i had enough money to buy a house and so i bought a house, and i did not pay attention to the details. >> absolutely -- >> you thought it would keep happening, the money would keep rolling in. >> absolutely. i thought it would keep rolling in. i would buy the house outright from the income from my show, but my show went down and then my daughter got sick. it's not that i didn't have health insurance at the time. it's that the good stuff, the

alternative care and the oxygen therapy and the acupuncture and the organic food, that's not covered by health insurance. plus, she had a mortgage. she had a car. she had a child. i had a mortgage. i had a car. you know, i had my own bills, so handling us both for 15 months before her ultimate transition wiped me out. >> you know, i've got to ask you this. so were you practicing then what you preach, because i remember you talking about -- >> absolutely. >> you talked about financial issues as well. >> listen, let me tell you something, don. do you see me? do i look fabulous. >> you look fabulous. >> nice and bright and shiny, right, because when you watch them take your child, put that child in a box and close the cover on her face and lower her down into the earth, you gotta have something else to stand on besides just looking good. yes, i do practice what i preach, and i'm not immune. the reason that i haven't lost my mind or blown my brains out is because i practice what i

preach, and when i want people to understand and what i write about in "peace from broken pieces" you is can make it through this. >> my thienks iyanla van zandt. >> times are tough but actually a pretty good time to ask for a raise. we'll tell you how to go about it next. seasonal flavors are here. ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays. it's better when you add your flavor. coffee-mate. from nestle.

tonight's installment of "mastering your money" is all about the state of your job, and we want to help you get a raise, believe it or not. our christine romans says you might have more leverage than you think. >> reporter: hey, don, that's absolutely right. nearly half of employers are worried their top talent might head for the door once the economy improves, so 31% of them say they are willing to negotiate 2011 salary increases with current employees and half of them plan to leave some negotiating room when they are extending initial offers to those new employees. we want to make sure that you're the one to get that raise, so what can you do? you've got to plan ahead, tactfully, of course, take on some more responsibilities with you please be responsible.

please don't brag. this is the most sure fire way to show your boss you're worth every penny. how do you then decide how much you should ask for? research your salary range online and with human resources. this will keep you from getting shot down from asking for a salary that's simply unreasonable. if you're offered a big bonus in lieu of a raise, bravo, first of all, but try to get that raise instead. the bonus is just a one-time incentive, but you'll see a raise reflected in every single paycheck that you cash, and it's taxed at a lower rate. hey, don't push it if you're not getting positive signals. now is not the time to really be playing hardball. be patient. be objective about your

performance, and if things aren't going your way ask to revisit the conversation later. and if it turns out a raise is just out of question for you, look at some other perks to negotiate. vacation days, flexible hours, tuition reimbursement, and, don, remember, that you have on-the-job satisfaction really at record lows, so bosses out there beware. your employee, your employee is looking on to bigger and better things so you might really want to think twice before you deny that raise if it's really a good employee. don? >> all right. thank you very much. president obama set to announce a pardon and mel gibson in a courtroom this week. those are just two stories that will be making news in the week ahead. we'll tell you what else you should expect. plus, my interview with a real housewife of atlanta. she shares some show secrets, and i ask her what she has to say to all those people who think the real housewives make black people look bad. across the country when the economy tumbled, jpmorgan chase set up new offices to work one-on-one with homeowners. since 2009, we've helped over 200,000 americans keep their homes.

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let's take a look now at what the week ahead will bring, from the white house to wall street to hollywood. these are the stories expected to grab the headlines. we begin tonight with what's on the horizon for the president. >> i'm ed henry in washington. on tuesday the president has a rare joint appearance on the road with vice president biden. they will be kokomo, indiana, because unemployment there is 12.7%, bad, but not as bad as last year, where it was almost 22% because of layoffs in the auto industry. it's gotten better because of the president's bailout of chrysler, so he wants to tout that. then wednesday he'll be pardoning not a person but a turkey. thursday, a quiet thanksgiving day at the white house with family. in washington, it's a huge holiday travel week ahead.

we'll see if the public cooperates with the tsa's body scans and new invasive pat-downs or whether protesters make thanksgiving travel an even bigger headache than usual. >> i'm paul steinhauser at the cnn political desk in washington. sarah palin is in the spotlight this week. the former governor's book titled "america by heart" hits the book shelves and the former alaska governor who was john mccain's running mate in 2008, she kicks off a book tour in phoenix on tuesday, and that book tour takes palin to iowa and south carolina, two very important states in the road for the white house. >> i'm poppy harlow in new york. looking ahead to the week on wall street, hewlett-packard reports earnings and on thursday we'll get the revised gdp figures as well as existing home figures and state by state unemployment, all very important reports. also, more key economic reports on wednesday. we'll get the latest new home figures as well as the latest reading on consumer sentiment heading right into the holiday shopping season, and the market, of course, is closed for thursday, thanksgiving, but

opens again on friday morning for a shortened trading day on black friday. we'll track all the news of the week for you on cnn money. >> i'm "showbiz tonight's" brooke anderson. here's what we're watching this week. mel gibson and his ex-girlfriend's contentious custody battle heats up this week, and christina aguilera and rihanna open the "american music awards." "showbiz tonight" is live at 5:00 p.m. herein on hln and still tv's most provocative entertainment tv show at 11:00 p.m. >> thanks, guys. now what's coming up internationally. ireland, and some people had predicted this. they knew it was coming, but they are in trouble. >> they are in trouble and their finance minister for weeks was saying we don't need a bailout. we don't need a bailout and today he came out and encouraged the government to actually sign off on one, and that will be handed down on monday, and this could mean -- i mean, part of this is to build confidence in

investors internationally and what this means in relation for the euro and the dollar will play out in the weeks to come. >> the country will need a bailout of tens of billions of euros. that is not good. not good. there is also an uproar happening in hating and it has -- in haiti, and it has to do with the cholera epidemic going on over there. >> seems like they are getting hit over and over again. they are claiming that a u.n. nepalese peacekeeper, you know, soldiers who have been stationed there brought cholera to the country. and as you would expect, this is creating a lot of chaos and uproar and this is just a week out from their slated elections and now there's talk about moving the elections back and postponing them if they can't get a grip on it. >> i believe you have video of some of that happening over in haiti. they said they thought it was nepalese soldier that did this. this is the uproar that's happening there and the violence and the burning of cars and things there. just unbelievable. the u.n. had said it doesn't matter who is to blame.

what we need to do now, the workers there, is to get it under control. we'll be watching this story. thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you so much. >> have a good week. >> you too. reality shows are all the rage from "american idol" to bristol palin's much discussed routines on "dancing with the stars." one of the original cast members of "the real housewives of atlanta" tell us the ratings are big, the drama real and a lot going on behind the scenes. >> that show is the number one show in our demographics on cable. i mean, really, and so not just to say about "the real housewives of atlanta" and their producers, any producer doing reality tv, the pressure to stay on top is there, you know. sometimes it's not even the producers. it's just the cast mates that want to give that extra because they want to stand out. >> cynthia was supposed to join us because she couldn't and she may join us next week. >> i doubt it. >> you don't think she's going to join? why not? tell me. >> i just don't think so. >> i'm listening. >> i'm no longer on the show. i'm doing movies. >> say what you want. >> i'm doing a movie.

>> you don't -- we can talk about what you're doing now but why don't you think she's going to come? >> i just don't think so. i think you're afraid to talk and afraid to talk about, you know, behind the scenes and, you know, it's politics. >> like what behind the scenes, lisa? >> listen to him, my god. i mean, you know, you're censored and get slapped on the wrist a little bit. i'll probably get slapped on the wrist, but really, what am i exposing? probably people expect reality shows, they are reality, to, you know, first and second season, yeah, the drama was real and people would always ask me. is the drama really real, are the fights real and, unfortunately, yes, and it's sad but then when the ratings become so huge, you know, the pressure to stay on top, you know, but then you have the cast mates that are willing to give that without the producers edging them on. they do it on their own. >> and there's some people who say you guys make black people look bad. >> i've heard that. >> a bad representation of black women.

>> i've heard that. >> my thing is this, five strong women, six or seven. i haven't really watched the new season. how could we possibly represent all of atlanta? >> okay. since you're not censored, when was going on this season? who really -- who really hates each other, and what about nene and the nose job and did she get lipo? >> i liked her nose before she had the nose job, i did, and if she would have consulted with me i would have told her the fine the way you are. >> the weight loss natural? >> is it natural? >> she was losing weight before she had some nips and tucks, yeah, she was. >> but she had some nips and tucks. >> yeah, but there's nothing wrong with that. i commend that. hey, you got to fix it, go ahead and do it. >> from reality to tongue in cheek, we've spent a lot of time this weekend talking about the new tsa rules at airports. "saturday night live" couldn't resist having a little fun with it last night. here's part of it. >> feeling lonely this holiday season? >> looking for a little human

interaction? >> do you want to feel contact in certain special places? >> then why not go through security at an airport. >> very funny from "saturday night live." of course, it's a serious issue, and can you check us out. we'll be reporting on it here at cnn. i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. thank you for watching. have a great week. her parents called her their angel. >> hi. >> elizabeth smart was just 14 when she vanished. snatched in the dead of the night. >> you're in your home. you're safe and somebody comes in and takes your child. our world had changed. >> the story struck fear in the

hearts of parents everywhere. who would take elizabeth? where had they taken her? and why? salt lake city eight years ago was still basking in the glory of the winter olympics when elizabeth smart was kidnapped from her very own bed to a well-to-do neighborhood here. there were few clues. she had no enemies. her family was shattered. june 5th, 2002, an emotional plea from a father in distress. >> elizabeth is the sweetest girl. she's -- she's an angel. >> hi. >> are you having fun, elizabeth? >> yeah. >> elizabeth smart, an innocent 14-year-old was taken at knifepoint from her family's home in the middle of the night. the only witness, her 9-year-old

sister mary katherine. scared, she waited two hours before running to tell her parents. a slice through the kitchen window screen confirmed their worst fear. elizabeth was gone. elizabeth's father ed called 911 and then close family. >> this is a family who really was called into action to do everything we could. we knew that time was of the essence. >> ed's brother tom, a local news photographer, helped feed the story to the media. >> ksl 5. >> a family waits in agony for any sign of their 14-year-old daughter. >> we really tried to get ed and lois out in front of the camera to personalize this to the nation. >> we'll be forever eternally indebted to you for the help that you've given us. >> so that they can feel who this little girl is and the pain of the family. >> news moved fast through this close-knit mormon community. volunteers came out by the hundreds. the search was on.

>> we want all the volunteers to know we are so thankful for you. >> as is customary in these cases, the police considered immediate family members possible suspects. >> there was a point after the initial search and the community involvement that the case turns and turns on the family. >> mm-hmm. >> you and ed in particular became suspects. >> mm-hmm. >> brought in for polygraphs, and i believe ed was first. >> yeah. he actually called me, and he said i've just been through two and a half hours of the worst hell i've ever been in, and then i went in and spent eight hours on a polygraph. >> eventually the family was cleared, and the police turned their focus elsewhere, a green saturn seen in the neighborhood two days prior belonging to brett michael edmonds. >> he's wanted for questioning. we don't consider him a suspect. >> but edmonds had no information. false leads led to false hope. ed smart needed a lifeline.

>> we've got breaking news on the elizabeth smart abduction case. >> he leaned on john walsh of "america's most wanted." >> he said be straight with me. tell me what the odds are. you're the one guy that will tell me the truth. and i said, you know what, ed? 99% of the cases i do have a very unhappy ending. you're lucky to find the remains. if you do, you're lucky if they ever catch the guy. most of the time you never get justice. >> but authorities were soon convinced they had their man. richard ricci, a hired hand who worked for three months inside the smart family home. >> and police really grab on to him. i mean, they believe he is the one. >> they do. >> why? >> well, there were a lot of reasons why. i mean, he was an ex-con. he didn't have a background that would say he was a sexual predator, but he did have -- he had robbed one of edward's best friends, come in and taken things in the middle of the night. >> did you think he did it? >> no, i didn't think he did it,

and the reason i didn't think he did it was because the only eyewitness said he didn't do it. >> that eyewitness was 9-year-old mary katherine who insisted the man who took her sister elizabeth didn't look like ricci. elizabeth's father ed didn't know what to believe. >> if it happens to be that richard is not the one, that he will please come forward and contact us. we need elizabeth back. i still feel that elizabeth is out there. >> he was in bed with me. >> ricci's wife came to his defense. >> i truly in my heart, my mind and my soul, i know that richard did not have anything to do with this and i will stand by him. >> the month after elizabeth's abduction another house was targeted. this time the home of elizabeth's two teenaged cousins. >> the residence on the virginia hills drive had been cut in similar fashion to what had been done at the elizabeth smart

residence. >> but ricci was in custody at the time so the attempted break-in, the smarts say, was brushed off as a cruel prank. right here at this state prison in utah, richard ricci was sitting behind bars in an unrelated burglary charge and parole violation. suddenly he was rushed to the hospital and died of a brain hemorrhage. the police's prime suspect was now dead. >> i think that they were absolutely convinced that richard ricci was the abductor of elizabeth and that he murdered and left her body somewhere and wherever she was, dead or alive, he took that secret with him to the grave. >> i think people thought that it was over and what we held on to was false hope and a family that wouldn't give up. you know, we had reasons for believing that it wasn't richard ricci. >> coming up, a little girl has a clue that would blow open the case. >> the big moment of this case, of course, was where mary katherine has an epiphany.

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fall 2002. five months after elizabeth smart was kidnapped from her salt lake city home she was still nowhere to be found. >> it's a dark, horrible thing. i don't know that there's too much darker than having your child being taken. >> it's hell for you. you can't sleep. you can't eat. you are waiting for every phone call. >> the steady media attention and volunteer efforts were beginning to die down. but the smart family never lost

hope. >> we still feel that elizabeth is out there. we still need each one of your help. we need you to be the eyes and ears in the neighborhood. >> they know the odds of finding their daughter alive are diminished almost down to nothing. >> i'm asking and pleading with whoever has her that i -- i would do anything to have her back in my arms. >> then, in october, an unexpected new lead. elizabeth's 9-year-old sister mary katherine who was the only witness to the abduction when a sudden flashback and was finally able to identify who took her sister, emanuel, a homeless man the smarts once hired to do odd jobs at their house. >> ed calls me up and says tom, mary katherine remembers who it is. everything changed on that day and all of a sudden we were back in high gear again.

>> ed smart called police, realizing they had been focused on the wrong guy, richard ricci. >> how did the police treat the new lead? >> they took it to the justice center. they interviewed her. they told us not to go public. they -- they said they would do whatever they could to find this guy. >> do you think they believed her? >> no, i don't. they came out and said we think richard ricci is by far the most important person in this. >> ricci had died in custody, and the smarts worried police would close the investigation. that meant the search would come to an end, leaving elizabeth and her abductor still out there. >> do you think that salt lake city police were doing enough to find elizabeth? >> i think the salt lake city police did more to find elizabeth than probably any single case they had ever had in their life, but obviously something happened there when the police -- particularly when

we found out who we thought really did do it, and they wouldn't give us the time of day. yeah, at that point we had a serious problem. >> and this is what i could remember of him. >> the smarts were desperate to keep the search alive. so they held a press conference, releasing a sketch of emanuel. a crucial tip came in. emanuel was really brian david mitchell. ed called the only person he knew could help. his new friend, john walsh. >> he said john, police want to close this case. they say richard ricci killed elizabeth, her body is buried in the desert somewhere. i don't believe that. i believe she's alive. i walked in the smarts' shoes. i knew they needed help and i knew elizabeth was rapidly becoming a poster. >> walsh put photos of mitchell on "america's most wanted," hoping to get leads from the audience. >> brian david mitchell's ex-wife calls "america's most

wanted" saying he doesn't look clean cut. he's a pedophile. i'll give you a tip. he looks like bin laden, like the taliban. he's a creeped out street preacher. that's the guy you should be looking for. >> they focused on that. >> columnist and author lee benson says mitchell was a fixture on salt lake streets, a religious zealot who considered himself a prophet. >> somewhere along the way he became this delusional person. he progressively became the jesus man, and he started doing the bizarre behavior. he moved out of his house and lived out of a trailer and put on the robes and then started to write revelations that he said he received from god. >> tom smart went looking for mitchell. the jesus man on the streets of salt lake, and what he learned from a local restaurant waitress was shocking. >> he said oh, yeah, the jesus people, joseph and mary, and she

said, yeah, i know who they are. they come in all the time, and then she stopped for a minute and then she said the last time i saw them though, there were three of them. the next day she called me at home, and she says, tom, i've been thinking about it, and she says, "i think that was elizabeth." and it was like being hit by lightning. i mean, honestly i dropped to my knees. i thought oh, my god, she's alive. >> on march 12th, days after watching "america's most wanted," anita dickerson was driving with her husband in the suburb of salt lake. she spotted brian david mitchell. >> i got out of the car, walked towards the back, as they were walking up the sidewalk, and i looked him in the face. he looked at me, and i turned around and went back to my husband. i said that's him. let me have your cell phone.

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it had been nine months since elizabeth smart disappeared from her home when police finally got a break. just days after brian mitchell's photos appeared on "america's most wanted," police received two 911 calls. the caller said they had seen mitchell on this street just outside salt lake city, and that he had been walking with a woman and a girl. police found mitchell and his wife and a girl wearing a gray wig and sunglasses. at first she denied her identity, but police knew it was elizabeth.

>> and edward calls me right after that and says tom, they have called me and asked me to come out to sandy to the police station, and he's in the car driving out there as fast as he can. and i told him, i said, ed, i think you're going to go see your daughter. and then edward calls me and says -- and he's just in tears. he says it's her, tom, you know. thank you. >> it was the moment they had hoped for all those months but never knew would come. >> and i'm so grateful for the prayers and the help and the eyes out there. it is just absolutely wonderful. >> ed called john walsh and asked him to come to utah. >> all the brothers were there and all the kids, and when she walked down those stairs, that was incredible. that was probably the best day that i've spent on this show.

♪ >> their missing angel was home again, but could home heal the nine months of hell elizabeth smart had endured? >> tonight, elizabeth smart speaks out. >> when she was ready, she braved the cameras. >> i don't try to think back. i don't try to look back. i mean, i like see my life before and then now, and i just don't -- i don't sit there and think about it. i just go on. >> her parents released a book and collaborated on a made-for-tv movie. but the most horrifying part of the story was missing. what really happened to elizabeth during her captivity? after elizabeth was kidnapped from her home in the middle of the night wearing only pajamas, she was forced at knifepoint to walk up this trail, and it was a march that would go for miles and take anywhere from three to

five hours. within a few miles of home at a makeshift campsite her abductor, brian david mitchell, handed her off to his wife, wanda barzee, who then prepared a marriage ceremony. true tv reporter jean casarez. >> wandy barzee says you take your pajamas, your underwear off or he will rip them off you. she did as she was told, put a robe on. she said wanda left. the defendant came in the tent and started to rape her. she fought and she screamed and said i'm just a little girl. >> later on mitchell used a cable to tether her between two trees and forced her to do chores. he called himself a prophet destined to take seven wives. remember that attempted break-in at home of elizabeth's cousin. turns out, elizabeth revealed in court, it was no prank. it was brian david mitchell. he continually told her that god

had spoken to him, that he was the divine prophet, the one that would have plural wives, and god had chosen her to be his first wife. >> elizabeth was paraded through the streets of salt lake veiled and robed in white. raising the question why didn't she escape? was she brainwashed? elizabeth's uncle tom smart who co-authored a book on elizabeth's kidnapping says she was just trying to survive. >> are you elizabeth, asked officer o'neill? >> and that mitchell threatened her with death after an attempted escape. >> he said if you try that again i will kill you and kill your family. >> it's not so much that she's brainwashed, it's that she has come up with a strategy to get through this. >> that's my belief. i don't believe she was ever felt like she was safe because of the violent and horrible things that she had been through and his threats. >> despite her ordeal, elizabeth was determined to face her captors in court.

>> lots of people don't have the grace. lots of people don't have the wherewithal. they don't have the loving support system that elizabeth does. she told me on many occasions i want my day in court. >> it took eight years before elizabeth smart got her day in court. the process was delayed by defense claims that mitchell was insane, not mentally fit to stand trial. >> they have delayed this. they have threatened to move it. they tested whether he's sane or insane. the man is sane. he's manipulating the system. >> the defense will try to prove otherwise. >> in the courtroom last week, elizabeth smart testified that she was raped daily, forced to drink alcohol and to look at porn. prosecutor. miss smart, when he was returning to the camp, would he scream out loud or in a loud voice i'm going to "f" your eyes out? >> yes. >> did he do that often? >> yes. >> what would happen when he

returned to the camp after saying that? >> he would rape me. >> jean casarez, who is covering the trial, was inside the courtroom when elizabeth testified. >> mitchell told her the time had come for her to engage in a new type of sexual activity with him. she said i intentionally drank as much as i could because i didn't want to know it, i didn't want to feel it. i didn't want to remember it. >> mitchell wasn't in the courtroom to hear elizabeth testify. he was forced to leave after he refused to stop singing. mitchell faces federal charges of kidnapping and transporting a minor across state lines for improper purposes. wanda barzee has already pleaded guilty to the same charges and is serving a 15-year sentence. if the jury finds mitchell guilty, he could get life behind bars. and elizabeth, now 23, could finally move on.

>> this is one of the really incredible endings. miraculous maybe. the real miracle of the thing is who she is and how she's handled it. i mean, she is one strong woman. ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] the newest seasonal flavors are here. ♪ express yourself ♪ [ female announcer ] because coffee is like the holidays. it's better when you add your flavor. coffee-mate. from nestle. had a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit, which provided for their every financial need. [ thunder rumbling ] [ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last.

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