many nurses and doctors worked on carissa. but one face has always stuck with her. wbtv's sarah blake morgan has the reunion three decades in the making. >> reporter: it doesn't quite seem fair. when something so small has to fight a force so big. >> if she survived, it would be a minimum of 18 months in the hospital. don't even ask to come home before 18 months. >> reporter: more than that. carissa thornberg spent her first two years in carolinas medical center after being born with twisted intestine and further complications. >> there was not data in the world to know what her outcome at that time was going to be. >> reporter: called the miracle baby the reason she is here today? she says her nurses and one in particular. nurses were my life. and nurse barbara was always there. >> reporter: seems impossible she could remember a face she hasn't seen since she was a toddler. but she does. and monday after 28 years, carissa and nurse barbara odom reunited. >> you're almost small enough i could pick you up and hold you. >> how does this happen after three decades? >>

. >>> it was a bond formed at birth, 30 years ago carissa thornburg was sick. she stayed in carolina's nicu for the first two full years of her life. she never left the hospital. many nurses and doctors worked on her but one face always stuck with her. and we have the reunion that's been 30 years in the making. she was invited. all new at 11. >> it does not seem fair when something so small has to fight >> if she survived it would be a minimum of 18 months in the hospital. don't ask to go home before 18 months. >> she spent her first two years inside carolina's medical center after being born with a twisted intestine. >> there was not data to know what her outcome at that time was going to be. >> she was called the miracle baby and the reason she is here today, she says her nurses and one in particular. >> i never got to come home she the nurses were my life. and nurse barbara, she was always there. >> it teams impossible she could remember a face she has not seen since she was a toddler but she does. monday after 28 years, she and nurse barbara reunited. >> ar

. >> melissa mccarthy on her crazy new comedy and why she's worried carissa is moving in on her man. >> not in that dress. >> now on "extra," from universal studios hollywood, the entertainment capital of l.a. >>> welcome to "extra." i'm mario lopez. the cast of "the west wing" back together and sounding off on the real race for the white house. that's coming up. >>> also coming up, break out the sequins and fire up the we're inside dancing rehearsal. >>> but first, the latest episode of "the people versus o.j. simpson" suggests that prosecutors marcia clark and christopher darden were more than just colleagues. today, the real marcia is finally taking on one of the most salacious rumors to come out of the trial. here's jerry. >> they had o.j. simpson in their cross hairs. now as the trial of the century is reinvented as the most buzzed about tv show of the year, their relationship is under a microscocope. >> did y'all make out? >> marcia clark on ellen's witness stand, crososs-examinationed about rumors of a an undercover under the ever co-s relationship with chris darden, resurfaci

. >> carissa's inside the "dancing with the stars" premiere. >>> plus, from mean tweets to stealing kids' candy, the untold story behind kimmel's cruel pranks. >> this is the most disturbing family tradition. >> my mother hates when i tell this story, but it's true. >> now on "extra" from universal studios hollywood, the entertainment capital of l.a. >> hey, everyone. welcome to "extra." i'm mario lopez. come up, chris darden's private torment revealed. how bad it got for the o.j. simpson prosecutor as we sneak peek tonight's crime story. >>> also coming up, the "batman v. superman" premiere goes on in >>> but first, the network news teams jumping into action to cover the tragedy, and why a pop star just got a chilling warning. jerry has the latest. >> the frightening new scenes. a new deadly attack. >> an investigation rapidly unfolding. >> hollywood goes on lockdown as network news scrambles to cover the brussels terror attack. the bombings at the airport and subway system sending shock waves around the globe and across tv. the evening anchors in cuba only hours earlier for the preside

carissa kent: it takes about six slowly die underground, from starvation, suffocation, dehydration. angela: an organization called saving florida' s gopher tortoises is digging out the burrowing reptiles. they' re taking them to a safe, and new habitat in the wild. jim: a mix of sun and cloud across central florida today, a little more rain that today so far, but things are changing rapidly. tony: we are needing rain. not a complete washout, but if your going to bay hill or fdot for the flower and garden festival, you may view amber alert. a little haze, clouds of their. temperatures are comfortable in the mid-70' s. it is drive for the time being. as we put your iced the gulf of mexico, we have this orange arrow to signify the direction in which this moisture off of the gulf of mexico is heading. the cold front has not even you can see the moisture currently increasing over the next goal of mexico. from time to time, a couple showers are going to pop up. i have your one on the west side of the lake just to the west of pierson. it will be near flagler county later on. we will see ra

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carissa kent: every single one of those dots are gopher tortoise burrows. dan: the 13-acre tract on eau gallie boulevard happens to have one of the richest populations of tortoises around there might be 200 here. and they' d have been buried forever when the houses are built. >> it takes about six months to a year for them to slowly die underground, from either starvation, suffocation. dan: this tortoise is about four years old. reach breeding age. the burrows can extend 15 to 20 feet below ground. the backhoe digs carefully, exposing the top of a shell. the tortoises are on their way to a new home where they won' t , have to worry about our houses smothering theirs. >> it' s so cool. i love it. dan: in melbourne, dan billow, wesh 2 news. angela: they are adorable. a former federal air marshal is helping with racism and discrimination in the orlando field office is running for osceola county sheriff. he made headlines after becoming a whistleblower in 2010 three at he exposed how his managers at the air marshal field office in orlando had created a jeopardy

carissa a veterinary assistant founder of never stop savinging organization.alk month moreh you bot big show and how toow prepare for a disaster. >> good morning. >> good morning.>> >> very exciting for you. it is.ci this is your first show. s >>> this is the first time. >> off passion for saving forin animal. >>> yes. >> give us a little sense of thl show because i saw the trailerht and it gets pretty intense.ense you're like climbing in rubblee and in the woods. it's extremely intense.ense every situation we get into g i whether it's a fire, a flood, a tornado it's completelyom different how we approachappr finding the animals and the geag we need to use and everything.rn it's just -- it can be crazy buy it's a lot of fun and it's a i really rewarding and people nee to be out there helping theelngt animals because so many peoplepe out there helping humans, thata, kind of -- animals sort of taket a back seat.ea that's why i created never stopp saving to get out there and safd as many animals as we can.an >> and so when you're going outg into the wild, we're t

so joining me are our cnn senior international correspondent carissa ward and also cnn terror analystt to start with you. you learned about explosives used here in brussels and other connections? >> that is correct, alisyn. and the new information is that tatp, the same explosive used in the paris and brussels attacks, was discovered in that raid in paris last night, in a suburb of paris, when they arrested a known associate of el ba aoud. somebody believed to have joins isis. many other members of that network that went from belgium including al baaoud, and a direct connection to the paris attacks in that individual arrested in paris last night. the french interior minister saying he was in advanced stages of a plot to launch some kind of attack. so there does appear to be now a connection between the arrest in paris last night and the overall isis network in europe, and to the ringleader himself of the paris attacks, alisyn. >> reporter: okay, paul. a bit more information we understand you have. we've heard about the arrests in brussels last night and about the arrests in paris last

>> we have a group of storm chaser, experts in other fields, carissa, a lot of passion.ppen, that we see animals displaced in storms? >> all the time. whether fire, tornado, flood. i mean, the people panic and they have to flee so quickly. they can't bring their pets. >> just the way that things are set up, emergency services are for people. >> exactly. >> but what about the pets? >> they're always left behind. that's where we come in. >> this is the collection -- you'll see a pony, a cat, a puppy? >> ponies, horses, geese. yeah. you name it. >> a little bit of everything. >> you rescue them and try to reunite them with the families? >> always try to reunite them. >> how do you do that? >> a lot of times the owners are displaced from the homes. then we work with an malt shelters and animal control. we work together to find the owners. >> how long after a natural disaster are you on location trying to figure out what to do with the animals? >> well, we're usually on location for about seven to ten days. we're -- you know, we're working almost 24 hours a day to locate thes