g. phillips hospital.ain that? >> i explain that as that's completely consistent with somebody trying to secret the truth about the genesis of baby diane. what's really telling about it is culturally and historically in st. louis city hospital number 1 was exclusively a white hospital. and homer g. phillips hospital was regarded and nationally recognized as the black hospital. if you were black and of course zella was and is, and her daughter is black zella lived in the shadow of the hospital she had two babies before baby diane. >> are you making be accusations that this was a baby stealing operation? >> i'm alleging that zella had her baby at homer g. phillips. she was told her baby had died. her baby was taken away for testing and never brought back, zella went on grieving, there was a witness that was present at the time she delivered baby diane. she wasn't present at the delivery but worked at homer g. phillips during the sometime that zella was in the hospital. we thu she lived in the area we know th

g. phillips hospital. trying to identify adoption records from centuries ago. >> seeing her mother for the first time over skype is raising hope for similar reunions. >> when i saw her moving and her mannerism and everything, i said that's me. that is me! >> reporter: medical staff at homer g. phillips told her her premature baby died the shortly after birth 50 years ago. >> back then, doctors and nurses were held with such high esteem, you believed it. and mine was believable because i was so early. >> reporter: earlier this week price's attorney filed a petition to unseal her adoption papers. albert watkins says she was stolen. >> there is a rule out there that says you can't traffic in human babies. you don't need a policeman to explain that to you. you can't take a baby from a mom. >> since then dozens of people have contacted watkins office hoping they too may find long lost family members. maria gallagher thought her step mom lost five babies at homer g. phillips. >> were you suspicious? >> i always

g. phillips.others and others have come forward to be told by nurses their children died and not given death certificates and not allowed to see their babies afterwards. >> they told me my daughter had died after i delivered her and i really felt that she had not died because i heard her cry and i also seen her mom. >> i heard her cry. and then they -- i looked up and they said here is your baby and they were standing at the foot of the bed with the baby wrapped unand we have to take and -- and we have to take and put her on the machine and they were gone. >> did you ever see her again? >> no. >> i was told that i didn't need to have a baby and my parents didn't need another mouth to feed. >> when asked for release.hospital records -- >> why do you think they lied to you at the hospital? >> because there were black families that wants to have children and couldn't have children and they marketed to the families that couldn't have them. >> i was associated at homer phillips hospitals from 1960 thro

g. phillips hospital in st. louis and gave birth to a baby girl she named janine. >> i heard her cry they they held her up at the end of the bed at the end of me so i could see her. >> but minutes later they delivered devastating news. >> they said your baby is dead, she's not dead, i felt she wasn't dead. >> her story was similar to zela price, who recently reunited with her daughter. >> we received a call from france this one is from stockton california, st. charles, missouri. >> her attorney says he has received 70 calls from women as far away as france with stories strikingly similar to prices. he wants accountability. >> it remains my strong opinion that what happened to zela jackson price and her baby 50 years ago could not have happened without criminality having occurred. period. >> reporter: the city's health department has stepped in setting up a hot line so people can request records from the hospital that closed in 1969. despite evidence price's child might have been taken illegally. >> shouldn't tha

g. phillips hospital.s and at least 70 others who gave birth between 1955 and 1972 have now come forward to say they were also told by nurses their children died, but they were not given death certificates and not allowed to see their babies afterwards. >> they told me that my daughter had died after i delivered her, and i really felt that she had not died, because i heard her cry and i also seen her move. >> i heard her cry, and then they, i looked up and they said here's your baby, and they were standing at the foot of the bed with the baby wrapped up, and we got to take her to put her on the machine, and she was gone. >> reporter: did you ever see her again? >> no, never. >> the nurse told me i was too young to have a baby, that my parents did not need to have another mouth to feed. >> reporter: an attorney is now investigating. asking the city to release records from the former city-owned hospital. the common theory as to what may have happened here? why do you think they lied to you at the hospital? >

g. phillips hospital. >> they say your baby's dead. my baby's not dead. i just, you know, just felt in my heart that she was not dead, and then when someone i think it was a nurse she said you were too young to have a baby anyway, you know, and that your parents, just another mouth for them would have to feed. >> the hospital was closed in 1979. stewart came forward after another woman zella jackson price was reunited with her daughter after thinking she was dead after 49 years. her attorney joins us this morning. good morning and thanks for being with us. you've been really leading the charge on these case. i understand you now have dozens of women coming forward. what are some of the stories they're telling you? >> the stories from these women who have called in volumes that have been increasing as the news has gotten out these stories all have particular nuances and similarities which led me to conclude very early on that we were not dealing with people who were trying to jump on the bus after an accident to make sure that they, too had a personal inju

g. phillips hospital in st. louis where gilmore was born said the premature baby died hours after birth. >> back then, doctors and nurses was held in such high esteem, if they said something and with compassion they said it in, you believed it, and mine was believable because i was so early. >> monday, st. louis attorney albert walkins filed this petition in st. louis circuit court to open gilmore's adoption records. gilmore was stolen, he said. >> there's a simple law out there that says you can't traffic in human beaks. you can't steal a baby from has mama and you don't have to be taught that or go to law school or have a policeman explain that to you. you can't take a baby from a mom. >> siblings and children who think they, too, may have been victims of child trafficking at homer g. phillips filled out applications for state records. 67-year-old brenda stewart said she was told her baby girl died shortly after her birth in 1964. >> i never did get a chance to see her my parents never did. i never got a chanc

the staff at homer g phillips hospital in st.ouis where gilmore was born said the premature baby died hours after birth. >> back then doctors and nurses was held in such high esteem if they made something, you believed it. and mine was believable because i was so early. >> reporter: monday a st. louis attorney filed this petition to open gilmore's adoption records. >> it was a simple little law that says you can't traffic in human babies. and you don't have to go to law school for that you can't take a baby from a mom. >> reporter: mothers, siblings and children who they may have been victims of child trafficking filled out applications for state records. this 67-year-old was also told her baby died in 1964. >> i never got a chance to see her. i never got a chance to touch her. >> reporter: this 49 year old says her story of her adoption has always been sketchy. >> she tells me a story, and then she takes it back and then she says she didn't say it. so i don't know what is what. >> reporter: watkins says birth and death records s

g. phillips hospital in st. louis. >> they said it with compassion and you believed it. and mine was believable because i was so early. >> monday, st. louis attorney albert watkins filed this petition in st. louis speaker. watkins said gilmore was stolen. >> there is a simple little law out there that you can't steal babies. you don't need a policeman to explain that from you. you can't take a baby from a mom. >> in watkins courtroom women who feel they might have been victims of child stealing, filled out applications. her birth in 1964. >> i never did get a chance to see her i never got a chance to touch her. >> 49-year-old pam wood said the story of her adoption has always been sketchy. >> my mother gave me story and she takes it back and then she'll say she didn't say it. so i'm kind of like in between don't know what is what, you know. >> reporter: while the hospital has been closed for 36 years, watkins says birth and death records still exist and if there's trafficking the city could be accountable. price says no amount of money will compensate her or her daughter

g. phillips hospital. how seriously are the police taking this? >> the police do their job. the police are not the one who is are initiating this investigation. the overwhelming response from the public, the inquiry from federal authorities and the very fact from a political standpoint in missouri there is a great deal of sensitivity right now especially about making sure that there is--there is an opportunity for these women during the waning years of their lives to garner answers to a life-long question. some of them have lived a half century or more with this gnawing feeling that they're without their child. that gnawing feel something not born of innocence, it's born of fact. >> he filed a petition in st. louis circuit court seeking access to court files and adoption records from the hospital. there. >>> is more tragic news from nepal. another deadly earthquake shook that country today just as it's trying to recover from a deadly quake from two weeks ago. dozens killed, a thousand people injured. the epicenter was between kathmandu the capital and mt. everest. tremors we

g. phillips hospital was the black hospital, and they had a white hospital and a black hospital, and everyto the hospital, 15, 16, 17, 18, and they were young and very alone, and when they started to call in to zella jackson price and to subsequently, us, the stories that were related had key similarities and nuances which indicated that they were -- they had experienced something that zella jackson price had as well, and with zella jackson price, we had her baby, though. >> most of the births were in the 1950s to 1960s and all african-american, and these were all poor and young moms. you are in indianapolis because you believe you have a lead there. what is that, and can you help us understand what evidence might there still be to move this forward? >> sure. the evidence procurement process is going to be challenging, but it's not going to be so daunting that we can't get it done. the hospital itself is closed. >> right. >> it was owned and operated by the city of st. louis, and the records retention protocol with that hospital is something that is problematic. the city of st. louis is gi

g. phillips closed at a hospital 36 years ago but decades before that was a hospital that served mostly poor blacks here in st. louis. brenda stewart was an unwe had teen to came to the hospital to deliver a baby girl in june of 1964 but shortly after that baby was born, she was told it died. >> she came out i seen her move. she cried. they held her up at the end of the bed so i mean, were, you know, at the end of me, so i could see her. i seen her and then they took her over to the table and they started suctioning her out. they wrapped her in a blanket and once they wrapped her in the blanket, they went out the door. >> stewart is searching for records that will prove that her daughter is still alive and she is convinced that she is. al jazeera, st. louis. >> we'll have more of the interview with brenda tonight at 8:00 p.m. easter. >> finding survivors in nepal looking for heart beat, the new technology helping rescue workers find residents trapped under the rubble. stay tuned. >> on to the tech beat this morning. in disasters like the earthquake in nepal locating survivors is as time

g. phillips. a d.n.a. test convinced jackson her daughter was alive. >> it came back 99.997, glory! i said that's my baby! >> the story has stunned and rivetted st. louis. >> we've got st. louis we received a call yesterday from france this one's from stock to know california, st. charles missouri. >> her attorney has received more than 70 calls this week from women as far away as france with stories strikingly similar to price's. he wants accountability. >> it remains my strong opinion that what happened to stiller jackson price an her baby 50 years ago could not have happened without criminality having occurred. period. >> the city's health department has stepped in, setting up a hot line so people can request records from the hospital that closed in 1979. acting director melba moore said her department hasn't started an investigation into the former hospital yet despite evidence price's child might have been taken illegally. >> shouldn't that prompt and investigation, just that one person? >> that warrants some additional investigation, yes to look for what -- the missing pieces,

g. phillips hospital. >> do you believe this was a conspiracy of several people at the hospital?ve been done without a very coordinated set of steps and undertakings by more than one person in a position of authority. not just with the hospital. but with the city. >> so, where do you go from here? we only have 30 seconds. what do you do now with these records that are going to come out? >> we need to get a hold of the records from city hospital, number one. if my client had her baby there. there has to be a lot of records. we want them. the city is in possession of them. they have not produced them. they have all the forms necessary. we want the police reports. my client abandoned this baby, why wasn't she arrested? high-profile, easy to find and they had her address. >> we'll see what happens. attorney al watkins, thank you so much. thank you for appriseapprise pd. the next hour of "new day" begins after this quick break. stay close. it's tough being cooped uputal it gets a little stale. when dad opens up the window, what's the first thing he does? the tobin stance spring is in

g. tower, vice chairman. phillip hart, walter hugging son, bob morgan, gary hart howard baker, barry goldwater, mac mathias and richard. >> liker. and as staff, bill miller, fritz schwartz, kurt smothers -- who i don't think is here. how did you get a committee like that? and my answer is, mike mansfield. he wanted this to succeed. and he wanted to set up a committee that he thought could go through this huge, explosive hearing, this process, and do what he knew would have to be done to work together and sustain bipartisanship. and that worked. this committee was working together. there was a single staff. we didn't have a republican staff and a democratic staff. bill miller came off the staff of -- >> senator cooper. >> john sherman cooper, one of the saints of the senate and also a republican. and he had enormous prestige in that senate as a gifted staff member. and he was able, he knew exactly what had to be done. he was an old hand. and then i think you'd have to say that the executive branch -- maybe with a litt

g. tower vice chairman. phillip hart, walter hugging son, bob morgan, gary hart, howard baker barry goldwater, mac mathias and richard. >> liker. and as staff bill miller fritz schwartz, kurt smothers -- who i don't think is here. how did you get a committee like that? and my answer is mike mansfield. he wanted this to succeed. and he wanted to set up a committee that he thought could go through this huge, explosive hearing this process, and do what he knew would have to be done to work together and sustain bipartisanship. and that worked. this committee was working together. there was a single staff. we didn't have a republican staff and a democratic staff. bill miller came off the staff of -- >> senator cooper. >> john sherman cooper one of the saints of the senate and also a republican. and he had enormous prestige in that senate as a gifted staff member. and he was able he knew exactly what had to be done. he was an old hand. and then i think you'd have to say that the executive branch -- maybe with a little tim