lynda carrejo: and then, it finally stopped. but anyone that touched that beam-- the sand w would trickckle i. so we couldn't move. we had to stay put wherever we were at. wewe knew we w wouldn't lalt muchch longer inin there. reportrter: good e evening. ththe californrnia nationanal d today jojoined statete and lol police and the fbi in a giant search for 26 c california a childre. there arare no real l clues, only an eeeerie silencnce in a a frightenining and d bizarre cacase. rereporter: ththroughout much of f this day,, parerents and otother family of the m missing chihildren cacame to the e command popost up in downwntown chowcwchill. glglen ray: atat that timem, therere was 100 0 people waiag for wordrd, and it w was scar. carol mamarshall: mymy husban, bob-- - he was in n canada at the c calgary statampede. he w was practicically in tears, t trying to g get hom. i was able to sleep for a while. bubut as soon n as i openened m, it wasas like a toton of brics hit meme. reportrter: i guesess now, a all we cann do is s to joi

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her and lynda carrejo have gotten in the car and driven houours to the e baya toto be there e in personn -- they shoululd stay thehere. [m[medrano] it was o on the victims to fight f for them to be inin jail. if they y had not bebeen goining to the p parole hearar, they'd h have been o out in p probably 191980-somethih. at one h hearing, they actctually shutut me don becacause i was s so angry.. one e of the guauards led mem. it was one thing that they hurt me, but they completely shattered my family. andrea had dissociated from the family, had left chowchilla. my mom lost faith in my dad as a protector. i was surviving day to day, hated my life, hateted myself,, and hahated everyone around d . [repeporter] parark has had d te with t the law, spenent some timime in pris. he's d doing betteter now, he e, but stilill struggliling. if they want me to believe that they're ready, they're gogonna have t to lete see themem cry. they'r're gonna hahave to let me seeee them cry y for e and d for my sisister and mymy . when thehey would gogo to the p parole heararings, itit would be e the responons