michelle miller met with chris brann at his home last week. she's here with a story you're seeing first here on "cbs this morning." michelle, good morning. >> good morning. according to the state department last year there were more than 1400 open child abduction cases outside the u.s. 39 in brazil alone. one of those 13 is nico brann, whose mother brought him to his father is now in the fight of his life to bring his son back home to the u.s. >> so this is his room? >> it is. >> reporter: chris brann has kept his son's bedroom in houston exactly the way it was when he left. >> this is where we changed his diapers. >> reporte the day his ex-wife, marcelle, took nico too brazil for a family wedding. >> i started asking my attorneys what was going on. i got a phone call essentially that they weren't learning. >> reporter: chris learned marcelle enrolled their toddler in a brazilian school, found a new job and petitioned brazilian courts for full custody, which they granted. chris says he had no idea any of it has happening. >> it's s heart-wrenc